*** The 2010 Gym Rats Thread ***

[Psycho Sonny]

Ive been stuck on the same weight for the barbell bench press for about over a month now any ideas how to get it to go up? My DB bench press slowly goes up along with other chest exercises, but just not that one.

The same has happened to me. My 1RM for flat bb bench has been the same for almost a year now, whereas my incline and decline dumbbell presses are both going up steadily. Doesn't make any sense!

what weight are you guys stuck on?

bakes - lower it by 5kg and do 5 sets of 5 reps with 90 second breaks.
mansize - lower it by 10kg and do 5 sets of 5 reps with 90 second breaks.

if you cant do a full 5,5,5,5,5 and end up with 5,5,4,4,3. that means the weight is too high for you. thats why your not progressing. lower the weight and start again.

if you can do the full 5 sets of 5 with 90 second breaks, try your limit again after at least 2 days of rest, you should be able to break it, if not then you have hit a plateau. use a smith machine or leverage machine for a month or two in order to break through this limit.

 

[Mansize_tissue]

100kg for me, go figure! It's probably a mental thing. I'll give what you said a go when I switch back to barbell training, cheers for the tip. Right now I'm really digging dumbbell training and I'm making good progress, might as well get all the gains I can until I hit another wall!

 

[Psycho Sonny]

100kg for me, go figure! It's probably a mental thing. I'll give what you said a go when I switch back to barbell training, cheers for the tip. Right now I'm really digging dumbbell training and I'm making good progress, might as well get all the gains I can until I hit another wall!

1 rep max isnt really good for gains. i never do a set with less than 5 reps if i can help it. if you cant do 5 reps it means the weight is too high.

start from 90kg's and try to aim for a minimum of 5 reps on a set or 5x5.

 

[MoNkeE]

Well I had a **** day last night This is my 2nd week of having to do Mon, Tues, Wed and Thurs as I've been busy on Fri eve and the weekend. But now I've really run out of steam, still been having back DOMs which affected my shoulder workout yesterday, didn't lift as heavy as I did the week before, which sucked a bit.

Also, when doing my dumbell bench press last night, was pushing 20kg dumbells (what is amazing is that I remember barely being able to do 12kg about 4 months ago!) and extended my arm, locked my elbow, held it then started coming back down. Or at least that's what I intended; my left shoulder/upper arm just locked and I couldn't move it at all which was quite un-nerving. Quickly ditched the right dumbell and focused on my left and trying to figure out WTF my arm was doing! Soon realised my shoulder was locked and all I could do was move my elbow, so tried wiggling it to see if something would click and let my arm move again. My arm then gave way and I dropped the 20kg dumbell right on my chest, that hurt a tad

Funnily enough, stretched it out for a couple of minutes and continued my routine whilst being bare careful. Completely fine, and no more pain. Hurts a bit this morning, feels like I've had a really bad cramp in the muscle, with DOMs on top! I'm not doing this 4 day spread on a Mon - Thurs ever again.

 

[BennyC]

4 days back to back is quite taxing. I used to do Tues-Fri with cardio on Monday and then deadlifts on a Saturday.

Ouch about the elbow. That's why people say not to lock out completely/at all!

 

[Delvis]

Christ mate...Be careful! Anything mroe than that you could crack a damn rib!

If you know your arm locks up, try not extending it fully to lock out?

 

[MoNkeE]

Oh it's never been a problem before, and it's not my elbow, it's the top of my arm/shoulder area. I can only assume it's been relatively pumped from Monday's back workout still (pull ups and chin ups wouldve worked it), so perhaps I strained it a bit doing my bench? And yes, I did a warmup set of 20 reps when I started bench, and had already completed two proper sets when it occured! I was very thankful there wasn't a serious injury out of it, trust me!

Yeah, 4 days back to back isn't advisable by me either. Unfortunately I'm away on Friday straight after work and not back until Sunday evening, so didn't see any other way round. But not going to do it again, I'm shattered and achey, and knowingly overtraining. Roll on next week and a bit of normality to my schedule

On a plus side, doing military shoulder press and Arnold presses last night for my shoulders...... Discovered that when you're at the top of your movement, you can proper squeeze your shoulders up a couple of inches as well. Really taxes them that little bit more and feels great!

 

[Walkerie]

Just thought id let you know as this got posted on muscletalk last night.

http://www.westingourmet.co.uk/chicken-breast-fillets.html

Ordered this straight away after some very good testimonials from the forums itself, probably saved over half if not more from shopping here. Also theres a free shipping code if anyone needs it.

 

[tom_e]

Just thought id let you know as this got posted on muscletalk last night.

http://www.westingourmet.co.uk/chicken-breast-fillets.html

Ordered this straight away after some very good testimonials from the forums itself, probably saved over half if not more from shopping here. Also theres a free shipping code if anyone needs it.

I seen this over on MT looks like a good deal if you dont have a decent local butcher especially with the free shipping code, just a pitty we dont have a proper freezer in here yet

 

[LiE]

Just thought id let you know as this got posted on muscletalk last night.

http://www.westingourmet.co.uk/chicken-breast-fillets.html

Ordered this straight away after some very good testimonials from the forums itself, probably saved over half if not more from shopping here. Also theres a free shipping code if anyone needs it.

I'd be interested. I'm currently buying 2KG of chicken a week from Asda for £13.50, so this seems like a good deal, especially as the quality is there.

 

[Psycho Sonny]

Just thought id let you know as this got posted on muscletalk last night.

http://www.westingourmet.co.uk/chicken-breast-fillets.html

Ordered this straight away after some very good testimonials from the forums itself, probably saved over half if not more from shopping here. Also theres a free shipping code if anyone needs it.

lol tbh, if i was going to do something like this i would order through my restaurants suppliers.

i can get a big box of chicken legs for £5, probably 10kg.

or chicken goujons (just as good as fillets once you cut the fatty bits off) for round about £2.40 per kg. also when you cut the fatty bits off, it has chicken in it as well, which you can then mince up to make kebabs or samosas.

you guys could try the butchers department in costco or makro and see what their prices are, will probably be miles cheaper than this place.

 

[Buffman]

I'd be interested. I'm currently buying 2KG of chicken a week from Asda for £13.50, so this seems like a good deal, especially as the quality is there.

you can get 1kg of chicken for £4.50 in farmfoods (albeit water added etc).

 

[Walkerie]

lol tbh, if i was going to do something like this i would order through my restaurants suppliers.

i can get a big box of chicken legs for £5, probably 10kg.

or chicken goujons (just as good as fillets once you cut the fatty bits off) for round about £2.40 per kg. also when you cut the fatty bits off, it has chicken in it as well, which you can then mince up to make kebabs or samosas.

you guys could try the butchers department in costco or makro and see what their prices are, will probably be miles cheaper than this place.

Yeah cause all of us have restaurant suppliers on tab, also I doubt you can get it that much better cheaper.

 

[Delvis]

well, link didnt work, but id love to buy copious amounts of chicken

I still need to get a cheap supply Just cant justify the spending atm...hopefully ill get some kind of a raise sooner or later

 

[BennyC]

Cooked chickens on the cheap when the supermarket is closing. Job done.

 

[Psycho Sonny]

Yeah cause all of us have restaurant suppliers on tab, also I doubt you can get it that much better cheaper.

thats why at the end i said try the butchers department in costco and makro, because you wont have access to my suppliers

its £6 a kg, im paying less than £2.50 a kg, im sure costco and makro will be cheaper than £6 a kg.

 

[Walkerie]

thats why at the end i said try the butchers department in costco and makro, because you wont have access to my suppliers

I doubt many of us have our own businesses either to be able to go into marko.

 

[Psycho Sonny]

I doubt many of us have our own businesses either to be able to go into marko.

if you know somebody who has their own business then borrow their card, honestly, im trying to save you money here, stop being so pedantic. if you dont like my advice, ignore it.

 

[TommyV]

Cooked chickens on the cheap when the supermarket is closing. Job done.

This, it goes insta-half price in tesco after about 7pm or something, whenever the cooked chicken/meat counter is closing, i got a whole cooked chicken for £1.75 or something a few weeks ago

Also managed to pick up 14 slices of cooked roast chicken from the where they take fresh cuts, original price was £3.50, ended up paying 35p (yes, £0.35) for the lot (reduced section ***!)








Did legs on tuesday and had planned on doing back today w/ deadlifts included, my glutes are still sore, should i jump straight in or wait another day and do the dead lifts seperately tomorrow?

 

[Buffman]

calling OCuk gym rats back day tommorow morning (9am deadlifts ). If I can do a working set at 145x5rep max how should I pyramid up to a 1 rep max?

Did legs on tuesday and had planned on doing back today w/ deadlifts included, my glutes are still sore, should i jump straight in or wait another day and do the dead lifts seperately tomorrow?

I've got the same thing (normally do legs on monday) but I'm gunning right for it tomorrow.

edit: Actually misread. If your back days today, just do them today