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Delvis said:
k :(

Surprised about the goblets...Would have thought the lunges would be the same as well.
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Lunges aren't so bad, especially with the wieghts are on either side to help balance me out.

My back doesn't even like side bends with light weight :( Will be working on all of those though.
 
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icecold said:
How upright are you with goblets? Surely with an upright torso and good bracing you can remove almost all sheer on the spine?
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The problem is getting into that Proper upright position given that the weight tries to pull you forward, that alone puts the strain on it.

There's a reason I started with 2kg dumbells just for the shoulder press, it's damn hard to do anything really.

Goblets make is extremely hard, harder than any of the other standing work I've tried. The other problem is just lifting the weight into position, my legs have gained a lot of strength, but my back is still lagging behind terribly.

Once I start with them and lunges/split squats I'll be start with some very light dumbbells again and I'll have to see if I can slowly get my back into working with them at high weights.
 
LiE said:
Unless you can walk into the gym tomorrow and pull 200, I wouldn't use that for your program. In fact, it's best to be on the conservative side. I would use 180. Yes leave 1 in the tank, but that should mean you're still hitting the numbers I mentioned before. For example I managed 10 last night for my 2nd week squats, and could have dug in for perhaps 1 or 2 more.

You need to have some slack in the program so you can hit these numbers, otherwise you'll stall quickly.

5 reps in week 1 is pretty bad, 10-11, or 12 if you're going all guns.

If you look at your spreadsheet you should see your calculated RM (from the + sets you do) to be around or above your RM you entered for the program.

For example 155 x 5 is a calculate RM of 174, yet you are using 200.

My week 1 I did 175 x 10 which is a caculated RM of 233, and I'm using 230 for my program.
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This has just confirmed to me I'm doing 5/3/1 right. I thought it was a bit light to begin with pulling out 10~ reps. But it seems that is what its meant for :)
 
Begbie said:
This has just confirmed to me I'm doing 5/3/1 right. I thought it was a bit light to begin with pulling out 10~ reps. But it seems that is what its meant for :)
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im pulling up my 1rm calc for each weight to give me a target on the all outs, making sure i get the reps, so for example i got a week one bench coming up where 3rd set is 110kg if i pull out 10 then the real max calcs as 147 which is just a little over my actual 1rm
 
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Djdom56 said:
Ha ha, thanks guys.

Hopefully it'll stay that sexy as the weights go up. I think it's 3 weeks untill the comp now so not long to get my squattin' ass in gear :).
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Just watched the vid as I was at work before

Just pure awesome man. Love the shouting haha, excellent place to train :)
 
Hi Guys, following a meeting yesterday with a proposed sponsor i asked for a breakdown of nutritional breakdown for some of their products. This is prior to me making any commitments etc.

They have a large range of products, but here is two breakdowns of protein based products!

This is a product with a 6 different proteins and have been informed a "distinct" amino acid profile.

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Another product is 4in1 - a Caesin style product

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This is what i have just been sent - verdict?
 
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The 2nd one looks ok, the first one looks very much like a lets stick a bit of everything in so we can claim it's a superduper blend of everything.
 
My verdict is why are you asking for those details before agreeing to model for them?!

Business is business, most of this stuff is generally the same. So bend over and learn to earn the money :p
 
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