*** The 2015 Gym Rats Thread ***

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Rusty_Noob said:
A guy who lifts, plays football, joined a corporate netball league and cycles like a boss! (and frequently dislocates his shoulder too apparently)
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Until you can do it while asleep, I feel I still hold the crown for the most snapped shoulders ;):D
 
Rusty_Noob said:
A guy who lifts, plays football, joined a corporate netball league and cycles like a boss! (and frequently dislocates his shoulder too apparently)
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Plays football is actually worse than playing netball. At least a guy playing netball is slightly ironic, but playing football is an open statement of "fairy-ness."

:D ;)
 
Now we've got the fairy bashing out the way, on a slightly more serious note wait and see what the specialist says but if they recommend surgery have a good think about it as it's the sort of thing that if it doesn't go quite right can leave your shoulders in an even worse state.
It's why I refused it on the basis that they couldn't actually tell me what was wrong before hand.
 
reiyushin said:
551.76 wilks points for Wei Ling Chen .... :eek:


I'd need a 900 total to achieve that. Only 205 KG to go :p
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When weightlifters decide to compete in powerlifting...

Also RIP Jonnie Candito's foot. Certainly a practical lesson in why you have to be careful with where your feet are in sumo when, especially when you're dropping 306kg. :eek:
 
Somnambulist said:
When weightlifters decide to compete in powerlifting...

Also RIP Jonnie Candito's foot. Certainly a practical lesson in why you have to be careful with where your feet are in sumo when, especially when you're dropping 306kg. :eek:
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lol WTF I just saw him doing sumo deadlifts in one of his new vids and I thought he was going to drop it on his foot. Maybe I have...THE GIFT!
 
Gives him a chance to do a bench specialisation cycle and get it up as it's easily his weakest lift, although just adopting a 'lol 2" ROM' set-up would add quite a few more kgs on the bar too.
 
Lesson learned yesterday - never forget your headphones to the gym, especially a busy gym (looking at you, pure gym!). Dude bros have advised me that I'm cutting all wrong and need to a) cut out all carbs from my diet except from weekends b) add in some crazy hiit training.

I have looked into carb cycling, lean gains and IF and to be fair it looks far too much for me to get on with. Surely a moderate calorie deficit with careful monitoring and adjustment should be sufficient to loose the belly flab? (I have added some low intensity cardio too)
 
Yes. There is no need to do anything fancy diet-wise to get lean other than a sufficient deficit (with sufficient protein in conjunction with maintaining training intensity to minimise LBM loss). It's only when you want to get unhealthily/unsustainably lean (aka contest lean) and are down to the stores of stubborn fat that more involved protocols become relevant, which will never be an issue for 99% of people.
 
Thanks... I've just tried a "0" carb day so far and at 1450 calories or so I am starving. Not sure why so many fitness youtubers mention these complicated diets though... Anyways from tomorrow its back on the 145g of carbs :)
 
What Somnambulist said.

Don't over complicate things, just crack on with a deficit, sufficient protein and as many g of carbs/fat as you prefer. :)
 
The Chemist said:
Thanks... I've just tried a "0" carb day so far and at 1450 calories or so I am starving. Not sure why so many fitness youtubers mention these complicated diets though... Anyways from tomorrow its back on the 145g of carbs :)
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Because the truth is boring - there's no magic method. There's no money or publicity to be made from telling people to just eat less though, which is why there's a constant stream of methods that vary from silly to harmful to make money out of you being in a deficit; eBooks, meal replacement shakes, supplements that don't do much, joining pyramid schemes etc.
 
PermaChanged said:
I was playing netball :eek:

I was playing GS, our GA took a shot but missed, I jumped to get the rebound but the ball was slightly behind me, just threw my arm up and backwards and it popped out again :mad: Another trip to A&E, more morphine and a dose of general anesthetic and here I am, back to where I was at the beginning of March. Got an appointment booked with the specialist on Monday, hoping it can be investigated further this time with an MRI and possible surgery to stop it happening.
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Being referred to a surgeon straight away due to how soon after my last dislocation this has occurred, and also because it dislocated without any trauma or weight being exerted on the shoulder, purely my own movement. Most likely have some keyhole surgery and rotator cuff repair.
 
2 weeks in the Alps paddling, drinking and eating, first day back yesterday, 120kg deadlift at 3" deficit for 2 good reps and a third one that stalled at the knees, yay! 300kg total by end of summer looks possible.

...followed by 3x10 split squats with 32kg. The DOMS didn't even have the decency to wait for this morning :eek:
 
PermaChanged said:
Being referred to a surgeon straight away due to how soon after my last dislocation this has occurred, and also because it dislocated without any trauma or weight being exerted on the shoulder, purely my own movement. Most likely have some keyhole surgery and rotator cuff repair.
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Good to get it sorted as soon as possible! Hope it goes well!

shroomz said:
2 weeks in the Alps paddling, drinking and eating, first day back yesterday, 120kg deadlift at 3" deficit for 2 good reps and a third one that stalled at the knees, yay! 300kg total by end of summer looks possible.

...followed by 3x10 split squats with 32kg. The DOMS didn't even have the decency to wait for this morning :eek:
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Out of curiousity, what are you trying to achieve with deficit deadlifts?
 
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