OcUK Health Seekers: Post your progress pics

wedgie · 19 Apr 2012 at 14:52

icecold said:
They also make you worse at stuff.

Good luck lifting heavy with gloves on.

Finally, a practical reason

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If at some point they do become a hindrance then they will obviously have to go.

tom_e · 19 Apr 2012 at 14:53

The misses said to me the other week, "You're going to have to stop lifting weights" After a death stare that could have killed at 100 paces she said "Or we could just get you some nice hand moisturiser".
Women :rolleyes:

icecold · 19 Apr 2012 at 15:05

wedgie said:
Finally, a practical reason .

If at some point they do become a hindrance then they will obviously have to go.

They'll be hindering you already

Your hands aren't going to turn into crocodile skin.

wedgie · 19 Apr 2012 at 15:13

icecold said:
They'll be hindering you already

Your hands aren't going to turn into crocodile skin.

If they are then it's not to the amount that it overshadows the damage my hands take without gloves, not even close at this moment in time.

I don't lift anywhere close to heavy at the moment, yet my hands still show signs of wear and tear even with wearing the gloves.

icecold · 19 Apr 2012 at 15:21

Either:

1) your equipment is made of sand paper
2) you're holding things incorrectly (pretty common)
3) your hands are made out of cotton wool
4) you need to man up

wedgie · 19 Apr 2012 at 15:23

1 and 2 - Nope.

3 - Yes.

4 - Remains to be seen

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stiv121 · 19 Apr 2012 at 15:25

Just get some chalk instead of gloves. It may not seem it but it was a massive difference moving from gloves to chalk

/real men use chalk

wedgie · 19 Apr 2012 at 15:27

I've not seen a single person using chalk at my gym so I'd be very surprised if it's allowed.

Delvis · 19 Apr 2012 at 15:32

wedgie said:
I've not seen a single person using chalk at my gym so I'd be very surprised if it's allowed.

Liquid chalk is your friend

wedgie · 19 Apr 2012 at 15:38

I may have a look up on chalk and hand moisturiser etc. To be completely honest, as much as I've been trying to learn about weight training over the last 6 or so months, hands is the one area I've not even bothered to read up on at all. My view has always been I know my hands will take a battering without gloves, so I'm wearing them and that's that.

stiv121 · 19 Apr 2012 at 15:41

I use liquid chalk which I got from myprotein for £4 or somthing and its great and mess free unlike the powder, seen some right idiot's that use it like there in a sandpit resulting in it getting eveywhere

I remember one time when someone dropped a 35kg dumbbell from around 1m onto their tub of chalk and there was a big cloud

Delvis · 19 Apr 2012 at 15:51

stiv121 said:
I remember one time when somone droped a 35kg dumbell from around 1m onto their tub of chalk and there was a big cloud

Genuine giggle from me

craarc · 19 Apr 2012 at 15:53

gloves will just stop you getting a proper bar grip especially when deadliftting or power cleans etc wont take long to toughen up your skin a bit a calouses popping of here and there are par for the course gloves are a pain

another pet hate is when you see people trying to lift heavy in trainers or soft soled shoes running shoes and weightlifting do not go together no support and no stability its not a fashion show get in lift heavy get out

benny89 · 19 Apr 2012 at 16:06

well after reading through the forums for a few years now especially this thread I have decided its time to make a few posts

Delvis · 19 Apr 2012 at 16:11

So...Do you train? Or are you wanting advice on where to go next?

wedgie · 19 Apr 2012 at 16:16

That's some crazy genetics if he doesn't train

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Time for a spot of cutting I would say, pretty much where I'll be in a few weeks, the flab is definately catching up with me.

Delvis · 19 Apr 2012 at 16:17

wedgie said:
That's some crazy genetics if he doesn't train .

Time for a spot of cutting I would say, pretty much where I'll be in a few weeks, the flab is definately catching up with me.

Oh I'm presuming he does yes

Just wanted to know what he wants to be doing from now onwards really

wedgie · 19 Apr 2012 at 16:18

I want his traps if he doesn't, infact I'll take them either way

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benny89 · 19 Apr 2012 at 16:20

Delvis said:
So...Do you train? Or are you wanting advice on where to go next?

sorry I guess I should have wrote that I have been very lazily training for the last couple of months at home,also trying to gain weight something that I find very hard to do (I am currently just under 75kg and this time last year i was 64kg)

I did have a go at the 5x5 lifts but I became very lazy and now I am no where near my best on the bench/overhead press but strangely my chicken legs haven't lost any strength.

so basically this post is to show you guys and me what kind of progress I will be making once I resume

Delvis · 19 Apr 2012 at 16:24

benny89 said:
sorry I guess I should have wrote that I have been very lazily training for the last couple of months at home,also trying to gain weight something that I find very hard to do.

I did have a go at the 5x5 lifts but I became very lazy and now I am no where near my best on the bench/overhead press but strangely my chicken legs haven't lost any strength.

so basically this post is to show you guys and me what kind of progress I will be making once I resume

That's cool

Get yourself down with a diet plan, and a weights routine to follow, and changes will come

You appear to have a pretty decent base to be entirely honest, a bit of work and it'll go far.