*** The 2010 Gym Rats Thread ***

18th June

Squat :: 85kg 5,5,5 (Didnt actually feel all that great. Didnt do my 5 mins on the x-trainer warmup)
OHP :: 42.5kg 4,4,4 (Time for a deload)
BoR 54kg 5,5,5 (These are getting hard now)

My diet has sucked these past couple of days. I'm just not eating enough. I think I need to dream up some fatty sauces to get the calories down a bit more easily.
 
My ironmind dipping belt finally arrived! I say finally, but it was delivered just 8 days after ordering, which I thought for a California-Thailand delivery is pretty damn good!

I don't have any weights but the thing looks good, you can tell it's very well made. I tried it on and had my 50kg girlfriend stand on/in the loop for a while. It's so much nicer having the weight spread out, rather than using an actual jeans belt! Can't wait to blast out some 300kg dips.

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Finally got the last thing I need for my home workouts, I found it just randomly browsing the web, it's basically like those chinning bars you hang in your doorway, but this 1 is made for doing dips on, and it actually is pretty good, I'm impressed and see no damage to the door, so good points thus far. So if anyone works out at home and feels like they're missing dips out from their core exercises I'd pick 1 up (Also doubles up as a chinning bar if you put it higher in your doorway)

http://www.dipsbar.co.uk/
 
What? A smith machine witha bar that, when resting on the hooks or lifted off them can hold hundreds of kilograms of weight, can't hold an 80kg guy doing some pullups? Were you taking the pullups from a jumping run up and doing a flip out of them for every rep?
 
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Skull said:
My ironmind dipping belt finally arrived! I say finally, but it was delivered just 8 days after ordering, which I thought for a California-Thailand delivery is pretty damn good!

I don't have any weights but the thing looks good, you can tell it's very well made. I tried it on and had my 50kg girlfriend stand on/in the loop for a while. It's so much nicer having the weight spread out, rather than using an actual jeans belt! Can't wait to blast out some 300kg dips.

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Wait... is that a painted finger nail? :o
 
Ok guys I am going away in September, now I do weights 5/6 times a week working 2 key muscle groups a week and do legs twice, Friday and Tuesday.

I am looking to loose the gut, well the sticking out bit haha!!!!


Would 30 mins of cardio after each session hamper my muscle growth?
 
Skull said:
What? A smith machine witha bar that, when resting on the hooks or lifted off them can hold hundreds of kilograms of weight, can't hold an 80kg guy doing some pullups? Were you taking the pullups from a jumping run up and doing a flip out of them for every rep?
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Seeing some of the form in that gym, its a possibility it was used for running jumps :rolleyes:. They said its because all the weight was in the centre of the bar :o
 
Which again seems weird because if someone was squating heavy weight, you'd have xxx kg of weight in the centre of the circular bar, just in the reverse direction. People shrug big weights on smith machines etc.

Anyway, it's a shame they're banning you! One idea is that you could do pullups on the very thick metal frame at the top of the smith machine.
 
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Which again seems weird because if someone was squating heavy weight, you'd have xxx kg of weight in the centre of the circular bar, just in the reverse direction. People shrug big weights on smith machines etc.

Anyway, it's a shame they're banning you! One idea is that you could do pullups on the very thick metal frame at the top of the smith machine.
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Well the plates are at the far end of the bar, so I kinda see where they're coming from. I could do them on the metal frame I suppose but gripping that for reps is hard, could also put a hammer grip bar on top of it and do hammer chins but I think I'll just use the pulley :p.
 
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I'd think Skull was right here, if someone doing chins at the centre of the bar is enough to cause problems with it then I'd have to question whether it is suitable for commercial use. However them's the rules so I guess you've either got to abide by them or just not get caught.
 
I'd be asking to cancel my membership if sufficient facilites aren't supplied for me to do something as simple & safe as chin ups.

Not able to do them hanging from your cable cross over? or if it doesnt have handles, the horizontal bar across the top?

If the people that worked in and ran gyms (who have enough authority/power over what equipment is purchased) actually used & trained in them, we might actually have some properly equipped gyms.
 
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