*** The 2011 Gym Rats Thread ***

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Psycho Sonny said:
what gym you train at?

i used to go to virgin active in finnieston.
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Glasgow uni gym, its ram packed 90% of the time (bar holidays) but it's got all the equipment I could ask for really. Plus at £40 a year it'll do me :p

Edit: Also yesterday at the gym I must have done something to my shoulder, it's been clicking like mad all day and felt a bit iffy opening doors and such (not painful, just clicking out of place =/)
 
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The Craig said:
Glasgow uni gym, its ram packed 90% of the time (bar holidays) but it's got all the equipment I could ask for really. Plus at £40 a year it'll do me :p
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wow i think virgin active was about £35 a month or something, but it was huge and you were usually guaranteed a go on anything you wanted.

can anyone join that gym or do you have to be a student? not for me, i train at home, but someone i know, i know caley gym is open to all.
 
Do any of you guys who train at home have matting /floor protection around your weights area?

I think it's time for something under my weights :D I am doing most stuff in the living room so it's not really doing the underlay or carpet much good, I had to drop 155KG from a squat when I got stuck under the bar so it's got me a little concerned and I'm looking to protect the floor and weights if possible.
 
Yeah you may want some matting :). There are a variety of different types, some places are ridiculously expensive though. I believe there are some DIY type things you can do and improvise some for a lot cheaper :)
 
T1Cybernetic said:
Do any of you guys who train at home have matting /floor protection around your weights area?

I think it's time for something under my weights :D I am doing most stuff in the living room so it's not really doing the underlay or carpet much good, I had to drop 155KG from a squat when I got stuck under the bar so it's got me a little concerned and I'm looking to protect the floor and weights if possible.
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get this stuff

http://www.endurancemats.com/product_info.php?cPath=2&products_id=9

stay away from eva and other foam type mats, you need rubber.

these are the same as gym mats but the lines, or marks on them may be of a different style, gym mats are usually over double the price though for the exact same thing. i bought 2 gym mats and it cost me £140 ish, i wish i knew about equestrian mats before i did, and i would have gotten 4 mats for the price of 2, in the future i will be looking to add to the 2 i have, i reckon i need a minimum of 6 more altogether, but may decide just to mat the whole gym.

these arent suitable to be moved about though, they are extremely heavy and will take 2 people to handle it as it flops about.

so i suggest moving the gym out of the living room or convert the living room into a gym.
 
Got back from gym, did 2 hours, was busy but plenty of girls in skin tight jogging pants

Was rowing and the water fountain is right in front of it, when they bent over dat ass

Did 45 circuit on weights, 15 min on rower and 5 lengths of pool.
 
Andr3w said:
ERRR you will have probably cracked the concrete :p
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Oh god don't you say that too, I've had enough grief from a friend who was in the house at the time :D It felt like the walls were going to come crashing down.
And there is no way I'm ripping up the carpet furniture to check for cracks! So as long as I don't fall through the floor unexpected then I'm not going to worry :p
 
Think I might have damaged my rotator cuff :eek:
Though it's probably been damaged over time due to sleeping on my side, really starting to get annoying.

Gonna try not sleeping on my side as much and hopefully that should help, and im guessing seeing a doctor won't help that much.
 
Can anyone help with my routine, I am wanting to focus a bit more on getting bigger shoulders. I also want more pull-ups and dips in but at the moment I tend to split my days up into one compound exercise as I can tire myself out real quick as I don't get my main meal until after the gym.

Currently my 3 day split goes roughly:

Leg day: Squats! followed by leg curl then calf raises. This is my most straight-forward day and I'm pretty much in a routine of doing that and can do it quick. I guess I could go on to do some upper-body stuff after this... but what?

Back day: Deadlifts! I just do as many tri and back exercises after this as I can think of, bent-over rows, kickbacks, one-armed BORs, skull-crushers, hyper-extensions, lat pulldowns... I guess pull-ups should go in here and replace lat pulldowns now that I can do them... also dips as it's also my tricep day but they're both big exercises so think this might be a lot to do on one day now..

Chest day: Bench! Tend to do bicep and upper-body stuff on this day, I'm rubbish at bench so this is really my loosest day where I just do what I can muster...
 
So you work your triceps/biceps twice a week and do no shoulder isolation? Strong split. Have a look at the sticky for an example guide. my favourite exercises being heavy shoulder presses/arnold press and lateral raises.
 
RIZZEE said:
Think I might have damaged my rotator cuff :eek:
Though it's probably been damaged over time due to sleeping on my side, really starting to get annoying.

Gonna try not sleeping on my side as much and hopefully that should help, and im guessing seeing a doctor won't help that much.
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I don't work my shoulders, not specifically had a few problems years ago doing that, the movement is unnatural, especially the weight machines, just hear my shoulder click click :eek:

Warm is the best thing, few stretches, 10-15 mins on rower, everyone I have seen in gym just go straight onto weights.

:confused: :eek:
 
The Craig said:
So you work your triceps/biceps twice a week and do no shoulder isolation? Strong split. Have a look at the sticky for an example guide. my favourite exercises being heavy shoulder presses/arnold press and lateral raises.
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No only work biceps and triceps once a week but try to seperate biceps and triceps onto different days, I shouldn't be hitting them twice?

I'll need to look up the arnold press!

How would shoulder isolation work then? Does that mean do it on a seperate day?

Off to the sticky for a refresh now... :D
 
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