*** The 2013 Gym Rats Thread ***

I've been in London this week (until Thursday next week) and have been out for a lot of drinking and dining... despite being strict during the day, looks like I have to do the damn CBL prep-phase again, noooooo!

I did however go to an LA Fitness gym. Which was terrible. The ceiling was too short and I pressed the plates on the bar through the ceiling cover o_O

If only I was shorter. Oh wait that would be terrible.
 
Skeptic said:
Dat feel when you pinch your hands on a 25kg :/
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Got my finger trapped between a 25 and the wall the other week. It's still quite bruised...

Nitefly said:
I've been in London this week (until Thursday next week) and have been out for a lot of drinking and dining... despite being strict during the day, looks like I have to do the damn CBL prep-phase again, noooooo!

I did however go to an LA Fitness gym. Which was terrible. The ceiling was too short and I pressed the plates on the bar through the ceiling cover o_O

If only I was shorter. Oh wait that would be terrible.
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What are you 6ft? That's shockingly poor xD

kd
 
King Damager said:
Got my finger trapped between a 25 and the wall the other week. It's still quite bruised...




kd
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I dropped a 20kg on my foot from about 3feet, I was in pain with it for about 2 months till it healed.
I then went and did this and the pain returned, only this week has it stopped hurting again and that game was at the start of Feb.
 
icecold said:
True story.

I think that BBing can be just as hard (in different ways) compared to powerlifting, but the stresses in powerlifting (or just strength training) lead to a different type of accumulated fatigue.
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See the way i see low rep work is that i can either lift it or i cant. Ill put in 100% effort of course, 110% even. But its either going up or it isnt, theres no willpower required in my mind. With rep work im feeling sick and lacking oxygen at 6-8 reps and probs got 2-6 reps left to go. Its almost never a question of can i do them its a question of do i have the steel and determination to push through the intense pain and oxygen depletion to succeed?

I never get this in anything under 3 reps its either easy (by which i mean i lift it, however shakily and slow) or i fail. There is no real time for the dread and the sickness and the loathing and self doubt to set in.

Just a mindset thing.
 
no there isnt, its either going up or it isnt. Psyching yourself up is just trying to exorcise your inner phaggot pussy. I dont need to do that because im not afraid of the weight.

And Matt, O2 demands go up vastly with mass, and no disrespect but ive got a bit more of it.
 
LiE said:
Now you're just being silly.
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I agree with him tbh. I never hold myself back from a lift. If I fail, it's 'cause I don't have the strength to get it up, be it 'cause of the activity I've had during the day or food intake etc; but it's never because I didn't psyche myself up before the lift!
 
I can tell you that there's a massive difference between a psyched and non-psyched lift. I'm not saying it allows you to lift more than you normally could be it certainly helps with the near max/max lifts.
 
LiE said:
I can tell you that there's a massive difference between a psyched and non-psyched lift. I'm not saying it allows you to lift more than you normally could be it certainly helps with the near max/max lifts.
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Agreed.

At the very least, I get a lot out of being focussed.

Everyone is different, but its verifiable that working with your own systems make you stronger.
 
Possibly, but it could also be that your training allows you to be focussed enough.

For example, I can bench with very little thought. The same goes for the majority of my higher rep (more than 6) work and all of my assistance exercises, and perhaps interestingly all speed work. Anything approaching maximal lower rep work sees me get significant differnces out of taking time for mental rehersal/focus/psyche up.
 
I don't know about anyone else, but I definitely get that adrenaline fight or flight feel with weights that I can tell are very heavy for me for example 1RM weights. It's that threat feeling, that this thing actually might do you quite a lot of damage if mishandled. I've never got that from higher reps, even if I'm burning like fuark and struggling/failing lots of reps towards the end of sets. It's like the difference between having to fight off a million budgies and having to wrestle with a hungry crocodile.
 
icecold said:
Possibly, but it could also be that your training allows you to be focussed enough.

For example, I can bench with very little thought. The same goes for the majority of my higher rep (more than 6) work and all of my assistance exercises, and perhaps interestingly all speed work. Anything approaching maximal lower rep work sees me get significant differnces out of taking time for mental rehersal/focus/psyche up.
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Would agree with this.

I don't lye under the bar feeling/thinking the same as I do when it's 120KG instead of 60KG.

That said I don't 'over psych' myself either. I stay calm but take a little longer to mentally prepare.

If I don't focus on my technique & form for bigger & heavier lifts (where it really matters) then it makes them unnecessarily more difficult, personally.
 
This thread has turned very bb'ers vs power lifters.

Really though we all lift. Ultimate determination and effort required are down to the lifter. Both can be as hard or as easy as the lifter wants, which in turn effects the results.

Both types of lifting provide different results that will fatigue the body/mind in different ways, also both need different stimulus toget the job done. A bb'er will never have to psyche them selfs up to hit a 10 rep set, on the flip side a power lifter shouldn't have to achieve "the pump" to know they have had a satisfying workout.

Circles and triangle people, lets stop trying to compare the two, or make out that one is bigger/better/harder then the other :(
 
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