*** The 2011 Gym Rats Thread ***

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BennyC said:
If you're benching with your shoulders and performing back exercises with primarily your biceps this might be why.

I'd re-evaluate your form. Can you actually feel your exercises targeting the correct muscles?

I get hardly any shoulder pump from chest, it's all boobies for me they blow up like balloons. Likewise with my lats.
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This is where I am a little odd. I can do back exercises (take lat pull down) and feel my tris (yes, not bi's) burn during the exercise, but the doms and post workout pump is all lats.
My first thought is always 'this feels wrong' but afterwards it feels right haha
 
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B1C3P said:
Thought I'd give every 1 a little update on my condition. Recently came off the prednisone, stomach seems "fine" and thats in quotations as im hoping it stays this way... Suffering from severe anxiety and apparantly im deeply depressed and I've been reffered for the 3rd time to a psychiatrist lol...

But anyway, currently on a cytoxic cancer drug as it supposably helps the colitis issue, however it's jacked my liver enzymes up so they are testing me for hepatitis now pmsl.

Testosterone has officially plummeted even further into the depths of hell, dropped from 7.2 down to 5.5, which god damn sucks because lifes a nightmare i've never been so lethargic in my life, 24/7 I feel like a train wreck, I could sleep 20 hours wake up and still feel like a recovering alcoholic... endoencrologist said he didn't want to put me on trt due to fertility issues... said possibly try HCG but then decides to go on holiday for 3 weeks and leave me in the dark LOL!.... typical nhs.

As for the gym related issue, my gains have slowed to a halt... infact i'd be inclined to say i've lost size and strength has dropped. But it's not so much that, it's so much the problem is im struggling to do gym workouts just because feel so lazy don't want to lift weight etc and get a tickling feeling when tryna lift weight.

So the ones who said im genetically gifted, it appears not... thats 1 year with low testosterone but the latest drop has really knocked me for 6...
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You'll bounce back hopefully fella. And you are still gifted imo :P
If anything this shows more that you are, which also makes me sure that you will come back from it :)
 
to be fair my chest is a big weak point in terms of size. my size comes from my back more than my chest :D

I agree that you are possibly doing too much, especially if you are going to the point that after first couple of exercises you cant really carry on with pressing.

simplify your routine and concentrate on the form and feel of each rep, lowering the weight you are lifting can help for sure (was spotting a guy doing db bench last night, he was lifting the wrong weight and was unsteady and needing me more than himself to complete a few reps).

icecold is right in regards to the weight that you are lifting. Intensity is key, not the amount you are lifting :)


and yes, get those legs working :P
 
LiE said:
Anyone tried training each body part twice a week for size?
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yep. its not as hard as people think tbh. I wouldnt say do 2 full on body part sessions a week, but take your normal single session and split it over the week.

So for back as an example:

Normal session:
deads
powercleans
chins
BORs

spread over 2 sessions:

S1: deads & lat pull down
S2: chins, BORs and powercleans

over 3:

s1: deads
s2: chins and BORs
s3: pull downs and power cleans


If anything, doing the work over 2 sessions is a good idea, you have more energy to complete the exercise when you come to it.
 
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