*** The 2010 Gym Rats Thread ***

Skull said:
You should have just stared at him silently, and without breaking eye contact added 70kg to the bar and picked it up, staring. Staring.
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chrisgt said:
Should've pretended you were Romanian and didn't speak any English...
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BennyC said:
No no no. What you should have done was put 4 plates aside on and then deadlifted it up and asked him to hold it for you for a second.

Or snatch 180KG and then throw it at him whilst shouting 'CATCH!'
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Haha I think Skull and Chris have great Ideas. 180kg isn't too tough for me. :p
I'm seriously going to do that staring and lifting thing next time.

Although Benny these guys' plates are made to make them feel good. The 20kg plates are 9cm thick, 9CM!!! ( so 4 plates is only 180kg aswell :D )

What the hell is that for, if not to make them feel like they're lifting oh so much. :p

Hell their 10kg plate is bigger than the 25kg we have in the other gym, their bars' handles are also only 2.5cm thick. it's really weird holding something that easily.

Next time though I'll staring blankly and deadlift more :p
 
BennyC said:
Sounds interesting.

The few times I have done push/pull or upper/lower hypertrophy/strength splits I really enjoyed being able to give each exercise my best efforts.
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It's a bit of an adaptation. Actually in spite of my love for volume I reckon this may be quite fun.

So it goes:

2 weeks @ 2x15 for each exercise
2 weeks @ 2x10 for each exercise
2 weeks @ 2x5 for each exercise
2 weeks @ 2x5 for each exercise (or maybe do negs only)

Although it's not a lot of volume it's a regular bashing for each body part, the science adds up. I'll be going for a minimum of 2s negs.

As I said, I'd add a 4th work out to do my power lifting exercises as I can't live without those! :D

Workout 1 Workout 2
Exercise Reps Exercise Reps
Squat 2x15 Leg Press 2x15
Leg Curl 2x15 SLDLs 2x15
Bench 2x15 Dips 2x15
Chin (NG) 2x15 BORs 2x15
Delts (side) 2x15 Delts (Rear) 2x15
Shrugs 2x15 Shrugs 2x15
Tris 2x15 Tris 2x15
Bis 2x15 Bis 2x15
Calves 2x15 Calves 2x15


I alternate between both. Still tweaking it a little. That's why I've added my deadlift, powerclean etc... day as it doesn't have anything fun like that in it.

I've worked out my 15RM, 10RM and 5RM by just giving it a go - so the numbers are going to clock up in terms of tonnage!

The 15 rep sessions will be around 14 Tonnes
10 rep = 15 Tonnes
5 rep = 12 Tonnes

Just did that quickly, might have got the figures a little wrong - but it seems about right.

I'll be alternating the grip on exercises as they alternate throughout the week. i.e. NG chins and WG chins, pronated/supinated BORs etc...

It'll be fun - I can see it getting quite tough too.
 
I'm on my second week of HST as well, thought it was going to be a bit too easy at first but damn it gets fairly serious doing squats, deadlifts, benchpresses, chin ups and dips all in one session.
chrisgt said:
Should've pretended you were Romanian and didn't speak any English...
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Now that may turn out to be a handy trick. :D

What's rather sad is that I was probably the only person doing deadlifts in the Romanian gyms I've been, bunch of bicep monkeys I tell you. :(
 
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Decided to go heavy on chest today, was going "Lighter" being on the pred as it weakened my bones as had so many pains, but trained quite heavy but bumped it up a notch as feeling better, only 2 weeks left on pred then fingers crossed it dnt flare up again! But anyway:

Incline Barbell Bench - 60k warmup x2, 100kg for 10, 120kg for 8, 130kg for 6 (1 assisted).
Incline dumbbell flyes - 25kg for 8, 30kg for 8, 35kg for 8 (1 assisted)
Skullcrushers - 30kg for 8, 40kg for 8.

Was a decent session tho! back tomorrow...
 
Back to a US base for me; so much joy in calculating lbs to kg in the gym. As if I haven't got enough on in life, I am now faced with this ordeal! Oh my days! ;) I've been ill again this past week (that's twice in the past 2 months) and it really takes it out of my strength. Been feeling so weak, think I need to man tfu.
 
Quad & Glute DOMS today require me to use the arms on my chair to stand up and then feels like I've got two steaks slapping about on my quads with each step and golf balls under my glutes.
 
I had a play with the tyre and log on sunday.

Jesus, 30 minutes of flipping, log C+P and then log lunges and I was dead. Sometimes we used to do it for 2 hours + :o
 
am changing to 12/10/8 reps for a month to keep it interesting (from 8/8/8)

Does this split look OK? Have changed it up a little...

Mon - Chest/Tri
Tue - Back/Bi
Wed - Rest
Thurs - Shoulder + Ab + Cardio
Fri - Legs (fancied giving them an entire day to give them a battering ^^)
Sat/Sun - Rest/Cardio

I was stuffing my face with food for about 6 weeks, I did put on some size, and a bunch of strength, but looking at my with my top off it's clear i've gained BF% with the excess of food, so am going to slow it down a bit.

Also, doing tri's after chest, was doing about 60/70% of the weight i'd normally lift (obviouslly cause of chest before hand...!), not utilising my tri's to their full potential after chest, would it affect anything in terms of mass/strength gain? Probably a silly question, but just for peace of mind...

Cheers :D


Oh and thanks for reccomending the unbranded protein on MyProtein peeps, appreciated, it's so cheap compared to highstreet!
 
If you are going to train your tri's specifically....I would move them to be honest.

You're going to be working your chest (And tri's anyway) thus knackering your tri's a bit...THEN training your tri's 'inefficiently' due to the chest work prior.

I can't remember the exact reasoning behind it, or the fancy words...but i'd try and move them.

Same with the back, what exercises are you doing on the back? Bent over rows or anything? Which then uses the Bi's anyway ;)

Oh and thanks for reccomending the unbranded protein on MyProtein peeps, appreciated, it's so cheap compared to highstreet!
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It's cheaper, tastes just as nice, and probably has just as much protein content :) All because it doesn't have some blokes face planted on it! ;) Been using it since i asked on here.
 
wow, quick responses! :D

Cheers guys, this is why i love this sports section!!!

I'll continue with the original split for this week and go with the following next week;

Chest/Bi
Legs
Rest
Back/Tri
Shoulder/Ab/Cardio
Rest
Rest

A bit out of the norm for me in terms of a split, if anyone has reccomendations, highly welcomed!

p.s. any shoulder progress delvis?
 
TommyV said:
wow, quick responses! :D

Cheers guys, this is why i love this sports section!!!

I'll continue with the original split for this week and go with the following next week;

Chest/Bi
Legs
Rest
Back/Tri
Shoulder/Ab/Cardio
Rest
Rest

A bit out of the norm for me in terms of a split, if anyone has reccomendations, highly welcomed!

p.s. any shoulder progress delvis?
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See how it goes for a few weeks, if you are hurting tooo much after the tri day to do shoulder for instance, mix it up, can never get a routine down stright away :)

Shoulder....heh....Still a bit odd, can feel it niggling slightely now while i'm typing...i just want to get back to doing stuff! Feel so bleh...Although I have 'toned' (sorry) our a bit actually...quite funny.

Tried contacting the hosp all day yesterday with no answer on their phones! Bloody ridiculous :(
 
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