*** The 2010 Gym Rats Thread ***

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Just FYI of others:

Natural set yoghurt
Frozen or fresh blueberries
Frozen or fresh raspberries / or fruits of the forrest
Banana
Apple
Oats
Whole milk
Cinnamon
Whey (optional)

Blend!

Delicious! :cool:
 
Lots of each! Lol!

1/2 tub yoghurt.
1 apple
1 banana
A good Handful of each berries
A good covering of cinnamon
Add milk to get consistency you want b
Similar with oats but always start off with a good handful.

Just play with the measures. Too thick add more
Milk, too thin add more oats and yoghurt. :)
 
Sod it... I'm going to give HST a go. It's not my style of training, but I've done a lot of strength stuff, and whilst I want to progress, I thought I'd give this a god - a new type of training won't do me any harm. :)
 
Yeah I'll let you know. Doing a rolling split... i.e. 1 day on 1 day off etc... However, I may interrupt the program with a day of powerlifting (HC2PP, PP, Powercleans, Deads). It's going to be interesting doing 10 exercises in a session but it'll be interesting. It's going to be 8 weeks long altogether. It'll be interesting how I get on. I've modified the exercises to suit me.
 
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.
 
B1C3P said:
Tbh I only really do incline movements at the moment as my middle/lower overpower my upper chest size wise. So just trying to add more mass onto the upper chest. Im just picky lol.

Not done flat bench in a LONG time lol.
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I just don't bench really anymore. I'm just being pedantic, but you do know there is no "upper" or "lower" pec right? :) I find doing a lot of heavy shoulder work and dips tends to target the chest in such a way that a bit of DB work or flies covers the rest. Each to their own though! I've never been able to do 45 degree @ 120kg! In fact I struggled at 100kg! But I hate bench so I tend not to do much of it.
 
B1C3P said:
IMO there is an upper and lower, chest has seperations, every muscle has seperations. Thats like saying theres no upper abs or lower abs, or theres no upper back or lower back or whatever really. So many ways to hit the muscle so many different fibers...

Really what a lot do is in incline movements is incorporate the front delt so the upper chest isn't taking into full effect. People with a lagging upper chest you can tell as their pecs tend to "sag".

On incline movements you'd be surprised how much an incline you actually need, people over-exagerrate way to much and therefore incorporate the front delt etc... a slight incline maybe 30 degree max is ok.
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There is no upper abs - it's one muscle dude. And nowt wrong with an opinion, just don't get it mixed up with fact.

Ah I thought you meant a proper 45 degree incline, but yes it does put more effort on the shoulders at that angle.

You don't need to do incline though, dips and flies target the chest if you want shape - however i agree for strength a good barbell incline helps.
 
B1C3P said:
And chances are you can do the weight, you just don't want to. Something called "hidden" strength, big big believer in all of it. Many people get to the zone where it hurts or it's heavy and they say NO because they don't like the pain...

Someone to push you helps greatly, for example without my training partner I reckon leg day would be a mess. He helps push me on leaps and bounds, shouts and swears at me, slaps me etc. So that 10 reps I do on the squat and I think thats me done suddenly becomes 15 reps.

But unfortunatly a lot of people don't have the luck of training in a proper bbing gym or having an ace training partner so don't have someone there to motivate them etc... fitness gyms are garbage negative atmosphere.
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I know all about the mental/psychological sides of training. :)

I just have no inclination for benching. :)

You're right though having a good training partner does help - however I'm good at motivating myself, which is something I'm lucky for. :)
 
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