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Just been back to the gym after a 3 week break!! I have last so much strength, its really annoying. Gone down from 25kg to 20 kg db's on chest press i dare to think how weak everything else has gone!! I am also going to a new gym with no mirrors so it might take some getting used to.
 
richard104 said:
Just been back to the gym after a 3 week break!! I have last so much strength, its really annoying. Gone down from 25kg to 20 kg db's on chest press i dare to think how weak everything else has gone!!
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I wouldn't worry about it. As long as you ate well you should regain what strength you lost in no time.

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I am also going to a new gym with no mirrors so it might take some getting used to.
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Think your self lucky. That's my idea of gym heaven.
 
Ive just started doing regular 3sessions a week at the gym now.. Although ive been going since september last year im basically starting again as a beginner, before i wasnt going in any order really...

Ive started doing that 3day split that is on Gordys sticky 1st.... Started that today, but the last 2 weeks been going 3days a week and getting myself bed in again..

Looking forward to progressing properly :p
 
How many of you train with a gym partner? How did you get to know him/her?

I'm thinking of quitting my 'gym' as I was going with a mate who dropped out after going on holiday and after another one of my mates signed up, he went for a total of almost 2 months then hasn't been since he lost his job. He sat on his backside for 4 weeks and now he has a new job he isn't interested in the gym at all anymore, £50 a month being sapped out his pay for nothing, and he's always moaning he's skint! :/

I've got another mate who goes to a proper gym rather than a poncy health centre and he's quite well in with the owner of the gym who often spots and pushes my mate to the limit. I want in on this to get some motivation and help my gains, plus if I have my mate or the owner to spot me incase it goes Pete Tong. You can see the difference on my mates physique over the past 9 months, pretty impressive to be fair and if I show similar gains over the next year I'd be well happy.

Do you reckon it's worth badgering my mate to have a few sessions with him to see if I can get 'in' with the owner as well?
 
Without a doubt :)

I've got a couple of training partners and we train in my garage, without a doubt helps having someone there for certain lifts.
 
I hope to have the capital in a few years to be able to have my own gym at home, must be so much easier than trekking to a gym all the time?

Do you charge your mates to use your equipment??
 
No, they've chipped in for some of the stuff, bought bars and plates etc. I like it though because it's just you using the equipment, no waiting around or anything like that.

It's good training at home but i'll be joining a new JJB gym when it opens as I want to make use of a few machines for a while.
 
I can get some if you want?

It's cold (or stupid hot depending on the weather) and dirty but has the bare essentials.

Power rack with dipping and chin up bars
Barbells
EZ Bar
Dumbbells
Bench (A bit poop, could do with a new one)
 
My calories were a little too low for quite a while and recently i've upped them along with trying a couple of new supplements and it's really helped. It's like i've rebounded from under-eating for ages.

A few weeks ago I was flat DB pressing 20KG :)

Cheers guys :D
 
richard104 said:
Just been back to the gym after a 3 week break!! I have last so much strength, its really annoying. Gone down from 25kg to 20 kg db's on chest press i dare to think how weak everything else has gone!!
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Me too mate, killed me getting back into it last week.
But this week, i did shoulders yesterday and my strength was almost back up to normal again. Managed dumbbell laterals with the 15kg's and i'm pretty darned strict with them. 17.5kg is usually the heaviest i go.

Ya know from reading these posts isn't is crazy how some folk are super strong on a certain exercise, yet sadly lacking strength in other, often similar exercises. Obviously we all have our 'ego' exercises that we use to make ourselves feel good. Me for eg, decline barbell is my strongest lift. I kind of suck at flat dumbbell pressing; partly because i dislocated my shoulder and thus one shoulder dips lower than the other when dumbbell pressing. Its also partly out of not being good at the exercise, or not being used to it i suppose (from lack of practice, lol).
usually though i make a concerted effort to improve on the exercises i'm crap at.
 
The general consensus is that DB pressing is actually safer and typically causes less injuries, but everyone's different and I can see what this might cause you some problems.

My legs is very weak now, I haven't been able to squat/deadlift properly for a long time because i'm on rehab from a back injury :(
 
Back again :)

Hi Guys, good to see so many people getting into training and good to see how some people have progressed :cool:

After god knows how long out of the gym/training in general over the past few weeks I've got myself back into the habit again \o/

At the moment all I'm doing is CV/fat burning and general strengthening of stabilising muscles 3 times a week to make sure that when I hit the weights I can keep the form correctly and then the weights will fly up again :)

My main focus with that at the moment is strengthening my lower back/glutes and stretching my hip flexors out so that I can squat properly again and streching my front delts, traps and pecs whilst strengthening my Rhomboids/rear delts to help keep my shoulder girdle solid as thats what caused my shoulder problem in the first place :/

Has anyone got any good exercises that they can recommend for rear delts etc that will allow me to build up slowly and not encourage the bigger muscles to take over - I know about bent over rows/dumbell rows/lateral raises etc but at the minute the backs of my shoulders are too weak to take any kind of heavy weight without my technique going out the window and bigger muscles coming into play?

It feels good to be back and I think its the right time to start getting back into it again, although this time through bitter experience and reflection, I wont be overtraining.

Remember kids, overtraining isnt big or isnt clever, it pushes you to make mistakes, and when it comes to the weights, mistakes mean bodily parts going ping :P
 
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