OCUK Body Builders: Post your Pics!

theleg · 2 May 2007 at 16:35

Ste99 said:
Hi there.

Good to see the baldy numbers rising :cool:

harris1986 · 2 May 2007 at 18:12

that's what we call a gym monkey

someone who does too much chest and not enough back (you have all seen them, they spend 45 mins on bench), and they end up with their shoulders coming forward giving them really bad posture like a monkey

Styles · 2 May 2007 at 18:41

harris1986 said:
that's what we call a gym monkey someone who does too much chest and not enough back (you have all seen them, they spend 45 mins on bench), and they end up with their shoulders coming forward giving them really bad posture like a monkey

Who are you talking about here?

Styles · 2 May 2007 at 18:42

EDIT: re-post

Skull · 2 May 2007 at 20:01

Hi everybody! My name is Jake and today at the gym I learned how to flex my traps.

:rolleyes:

Ste99 · 2 May 2007 at 21:18

Skull said:
Hi everybody! My name is Jake and today at the gym I learned how to flex my traps.

Flex those traps!

Morba · 2 May 2007 at 22:07

digitalwolf said:
Morba, how the hell have you got your traps to pop up that much lol!

cleanbluesky said:
Hunched shoulders I'm betting. Look in the mirror, put your shoulders at normal height. Then lower your shoulders a bit and look again.

cleanbluesky said:
Yeah, he has large traps but his posture looks a little unnatural as well. I'm not saying he has weedy traps, drops his shoulders and *boom* - I'm saying he has large traps that are made more prominent by dropping his shoulders...

I'm sure he could confirm on deny rather than we speculate

cbs is completely correct, its all in the 'pose'. drop the shoulder and roll them forwards :]

Morba · 2 May 2007 at 22:09

Ste99 said:
Hi there.

:O !!!!

i see what you mean

Morba · 2 May 2007 at 22:31

sunama said:
Now someone like Morba who is not lean should be able to lift those poundages with ease. But Im sure if he went on a leaning out phase and got "ripped", he would lose a big percentage of his power output.

I didnt realise that there were so many people who actually have goals when going to the gym. Normally I see people in the gym who just chat and treat the whole thing as a place to socialise and attempt to look cool, dress up in trendy gear, do their hair up, attract women/men, etc. and whose post workout drink is alcohol in a bar with their mates. There are very few people who take 'The Gym' seriously.

I agree with the comment about me and if i leaned up. althought it shouldnt drop too much if done right

as for seeing people with goals in the gym, it depends on what time you go. generally the men in my gym from 4-7ish are generally the type who are happy doing curls and some bench press. you will never have a problem getting near one of the squat racks (which are so versatile!). these people seem to be there more for the social aspect with friends (there are a few which clearly have goals tho).
Go to my gym after 7.30 and you will see the people who have goals, there is less chatter around the weights area and lots more work (not just weight) going on.

Skull · 2 May 2007 at 22:35

Ste99 said:
Flex those traps!

HOW

Styles · 2 May 2007 at 22:37

People who go to the gym just to curl and bench wind me up a whole lot. I see no reason why a workout should take longer than 45 mins (1 Hour at absolute max) and then you've got all the time in world to chill out and chat to the people you meet there.

I don't see the point in paying £40 odd a month to waste time and chat. But then again, I'm dedicated to what I do and get p***** off if people stop me doing what I need to do.

theleg · 2 May 2007 at 23:33

It doesnt really bother me...Id rather the benches were blocked by people socialising than someone actually using them seriously..I can ask the social people if i can use it while theyre chatting...Cant do that if the guy is serious.

Lead_Head · 3 May 2007 at 19:21

Keep this thread active and I'll be back in a couple of months

sunama · 3 May 2007 at 23:23

Balddog said:
It doesnt really bother me...Id rather the benches were blocked by people socialising than someone actually using them seriously..I can ask the social people if i can use it while theyre chatting...Cant do that if the guy is serious.

Doesnt work that way unfortunately. The guys are chatting and working out in between. So if you ask them if they are finished, they reply, "No, another few sets to go." A serious guy will usually whip through his sets within 10 mins or so and move onto the next exercise. The "socialisers" take longer.

theleg · 4 May 2007 at 00:36

sunama said:
Doesnt work that way unfortunately. The guys are chatting and working out in between. So if you ask them if they are finished, they reply, "No, another few sets to go." A serious guy will usually whip through his sets within 10 mins or so and move onto the next exercise. The "socialisers" take longer.

Works that way for me :dunno: Be more assertive...If they arent using the bench tell them to step off.

kefkef · 4 May 2007 at 01:14

Lead_Head said:
Keep this thread active and I'll be back in a couple of months

Me too. Took some before pictures last week, not been to the gym properly for a long time (read 4yrs!!). Nearly finished the home gym in the garage now, so hopefully 3months of solid training and eating should see me right. Only slight problem i might have is a kidney infection that has knocked me on my ass this week (god i've never known such pain!) and i need a recurring epigastric hernia repair doing, but hopefully putting that off until august (as i will need at least 2 weeks off after so may as well hope for some good weather!).

This leg press people keep talking about, is it the 45'ish degree angle sled thing? i always seemed to find that really easy, but found squatting really hard, could never get anywhere neasr the same type of weight on a squat as a press! (could do 24 x 20kg plates on the sled and only ever 100kg on an Olympic bar squat)

Richdog · 4 May 2007 at 07:43

sunama said:
Doesnt work that way unfortunately. The guys are chatting and working out in between. So if you ask them if they are finished, they reply, "No, another few sets to go." A serious guy will usually whip through his sets within 10 mins or so and move onto the next exercise. The "socialisers" take longer.

Get a member of staff then... at the end of the day nothings going to kick off if you be more firm with them... it's a gym and people value their membership too much to start any grief.

alexakasloth · 4 May 2007 at 08:28

kefkef said:
This leg press people keep talking about, is it the 45'ish degree angle sled thing? i always seemed to find that really easy, but found squatting really hard, could never get anywhere neasr the same type of weight on a squat as a press! (could do 24 x 20kg plates on the sled and only ever 100kg on an Olympic bar squat)

Think most people are talking about this type:

http://www.exrx.net/WeightExercises/Quadriceps/SL45LegPress.html

Most people can do a lot more on there than on their squat

megatron · 4 May 2007 at 14:58

About flexing your traps: u have to raise your shoulder blades, lift and separate to be exact. I believe the muscle contracting to do this is your traps, hence flexed traps.

As far as not being able to flex a pose for a photo, its just as ridiculous as saying that none of us are body builders cause we dont weight 18 stone and 4% bodyfat, with a Mr. Olympia title.

I had some guy in my gym interupt me while I was doing a set of bicept curls and started to put collars on my bar. I thanked him as if he was a simpleton and later came to the conclusion it was a jibe.

Reminds me of a time when I was in Maidstone YMCA, and this "trainer" guy said to this 20 yr old female who was doing power lifting techniques, that she should use a collar. Her Dad got just a bit irrate, and said he'd been doing it for 25 years and never had a weight slide off.

Morba · 5 May 2007 at 00:08

$loth said:
Think most people are talking about this type:

http://www.exrx.net/WeightExercises/Quadriceps/SL45LegPress.html

Most people can do a lot more on there than on their squat

indeed, that is the main one seen in gyms.

most people can do more on the leg press.
its worth remembering a small thing, squat weight does not include your own body weight, which of course you are still squatting.