*** The 2010 Gym Rats Thread ***

So a friend of mine got on the treadmill last night. It started acting funny and he fell off it, got flung to the back and up against a press machine behind him. He got stuck between that and the treadmill which proceeded to run and skin his knees off. Hilarious... but Ouch!!
 
N19h7m4r3 said:
Back on track to reach and surpass FF and Benny :D :p
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Hold your horses sunshine :p

I'll be deadlifting again after about 3-4 months off. Have been SLDL'ing though but not proper deadlifts as such. Still plenty of other back & leg work.

Always come back stronger too :cool:

Hopefully I'll be a couple of paces ahead of where I was come December ;)

Best of luck though :) Great feeling to pull 200KG, even greater to pull it for reps :D

I want 5 plates by June next year. +15KG and it'd be nice if I could make do with not needing to use any straps! Forearms are coming along well with the use of some thick handles and chalk.

Looking foward to next summer for the strongman meet actually.
 
How on earth do all of you lift heavy weights ive been doing weight training for just over a year and my 1xPB is:
Barbell bench press 65kg
deadlift 145kg

As you can see theres quite a big difference between the 2 thats cause my chest,triceps and biceps seem to be my weakest areas.
I go gym 4 times a week and so far this year i havent missed a single session. Im eating all the right foods thanks to my instructor and some helpful post from freefaller and the gang.
It may sound like im not training my upper body enough but i think i am most of my exercises the weights eventually go up but when it comes to benching it grinds to a halt near enough.
My instructor tells me just to get someone to spot for you as that will help, so ive just started doing that now im getting the full sets out. Im currently doing a strength program and ive got to do 5x5 of BB benchpress, by myself i could do a full set then i would be doing 3-4 reps by the time i got to the 3rd set.
 
bakes0310 said:
How on earth do all of you lift heavy weights ive been doing weight training for just over a year and my 1xPB is:
Barbell bench press 65kg
deadlift 145kg

As you can see theres quite a big difference between the 2 thats cause my chest,triceps and biceps seem to be my weakest areas.
I go gym 4 times a week and so far this year i havent missed a single session. Im eating all the right foods thanks to my instructor and some helpful post from freefaller and the gang.
It may sound like im not training my upper body enough but i think i am most of my exercises the weights eventually go up but when it comes to benching it grinds to a halt near enough.
My instructor tells me just to get someone to spot for you as that will help, so ive just started doing that now im getting the full sets out. Im currently doing a strength program and ive got to do 5x5 of BB benchpress, by myself i could do a full set then i would be doing 3-4 reps by the time i got to the 3rd set.
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What are your working weights? 5x5 of what?
 
bakes0310 said:
How on earth do all of you lift heavy weights ive been doing weight training for just over a year and my 1xPB is:
Barbell bench press 65kg
deadlift 145kg

As you can see theres quite a big difference between the 2 thats cause my chest,triceps and biceps seem to be my weakest areas.
I go gym 4 times a week and so far this year i havent missed a single session. Im eating all the right foods thanks to my instructor and some helpful post from freefaller and the gang.
It may sound like im not training my upper body enough but i think i am most of my exercises the weights eventually go up but when it comes to benching it grinds to a halt near enough.
My instructor tells me just to get someone to spot for you as that will help, so ive just started doing that now im getting the full sets out. Im currently doing a strength program and ive got to do 5x5 of BB benchpress, by myself i could do a full set then i would be doing 3-4 reps by the time i got to the 3rd set.
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That ratio between bench and deadlifts look about right to me. :)

Don't worry about benching big numbers - just keep training. It'll come in time.
 
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