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Skillmister · 5 May 2011 at 16:21

I could barely get out of bed from yesterdays deadlifts

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shifty_uk · 5 May 2011 at 16:26

Feeling the burn and pump from pushing yourself hard on leg day = Godlike.
Stumbling down the stairs and limping out the gym = Proud.
Vomiting like a baby, every single piece of food/drink you had that day and ending up with a gaping throat = Enough to put the weakest off!

As I just demonstrated

Man, I feel awful! Two years of training now and I still haven't got the hang of quad/leg days!

Which reminds me, I'll finally get some new pictures up tomorrow. It's been a while.

N19h7m4r3 · 5 May 2011 at 18:00

Ugh!

I the squat bar rolled forward a bit today on my last set, took a bit of skin off my lower neck.

Not nearly as bad as what the bloody powerlifting belt did to my sides though.
Looks like someone was beating my with sticks till i was a bloody mess there.

Huge bloody bruises that are really puffy, running all the way from the sides above my hips to nearly the centre front.

I was focussing so much on squeezing out those reps on below parrallel wide stance squats I never even felt the belt dig in, in the slightest.

My neck and sides were on fire in the shower and then I put on aloe vera hahaha.
Silly belt haha.

regulus · 5 May 2011 at 19:09

Annihilated my back and biceps tonight. Blew it into orbit and back. Had the biggest and fattest whey/glutamine/creatine drink afterwards I've ever had. Girlfriend is frying the biggest steak I've ever seen and shovel full of greens. Jumping in bed at 8pm for a full 11 hour sleep. I swear my biceps and lats will be bigger tomorrow when I get up

franco_22 · 5 May 2011 at 23:09

So I just did my first gym session today

, yay. Squats ,Deadlifts, Bench press, feel really sore and I am eating like an African child, just literally cant stop eating :|, anyway, I been reading this thread a lot and notice a lot of people complaining about people doing curls in the squat rack xD

Today when I got there the gym instructor actually had moved a bench to the inside of the squat rack where he was showing this guy how to do inclined press or something, I thought that was really funny considering how much it annoys people here LOL

tom_e · 5 May 2011 at 23:13

franco_22 said:
So I just did my first gym session today , yay. Squats ,Deadlifts, Bench press, feel really sore and I am eating like an African child, just literally cant stop eating :|, anyway, I been reading this thread a lot and notice a lot of people complaining about people doing curls in the squat rack xD

Today when I got there the gym instructor actually had moved a bench to the inside of the squat rack where he was showing this guy how to do inclined press or something, I thought that was really funny considering how much it annoys people here LOL

I wouldn't be bothered with someone using the rack for that as it's useful if you don't have a spotter, but there's no need for a spotter while curling

Clum · 5 May 2011 at 23:32

franco_22 said:
So I just did my first gym session today , yay.

Every time a man says "Yay" his muscles gets smaller

franco_22 · 5 May 2011 at 23:59

Clum said:
Every time a man says "Yay" his muscles gets smaller

I don't have any muscles yet

, I can barely squat more then 50KGs, bench 40 and dead lift about 50 too. Embarrassing I know, I'm going at like 9-10.30pm until I can actually lift some proper weight lol

Mansize_tissue · 6 May 2011 at 00:53

franco_22 said:
I don't have any muscles yet , I can barely squat more then 50KGs, bench 40 and dead lift about 50 too. Embarrassing I know, I'm going at like 9-10.30pm until I can actually lift some proper weight lol

That's better than most when they're just starting out. The numbers will shoot up in no time.

'Wes · 6 May 2011 at 08:38

It's not about how much you can lift, it's about how you lift.

MoNkeE · 6 May 2011 at 08:53

I can't tell if you've intentionally got that the wrong way round or not...........

Skillmister · 6 May 2011 at 09:15

MoNkeE said:
I can't tell if you've intentionally got that the wrong way round or not...........

I think both are meant to be 'lift'

Thats more than i could lift when i started franco, by far

LiE · 6 May 2011 at 09:30

My weight has been increasing nicely since christmas. I imagine I'm carrying some water but still, I look as lean as ever. My goal was 13st but I think I'll aim to go over that just to account for water retention. I put a lot of the gain down to not training my legs as hard/consistently as I have been.

12/12/2010 12st 2lbs
13/02/2011 12st 5lbs
19/03/2011 12st 7lbs
08/04/2011 12st 9lbs
06/05/2011 12st 12lbs

'Wes · 6 May 2011 at 09:54

MoNkeE said:
I can't tell if you've intentionally got that the wrong way round or not...........

Skillmister said:
I think both are meant to be 'lift'

Thats more than i could lift when i started franco, by far

Yeah, they are.

Morba · 6 May 2011 at 10:03

franco_22 said:
So I just did my first gym session today , yay. Squats ,Deadlifts, Bench press, feel really sore and I am eating like an African child, just literally cant stop eating :|, anyway, I been reading this thread a lot and notice a lot of people complaining about people doing curls in the squat rack xD

Today when I got there the gym instructor actually had moved a bench to the inside of the squat rack where he was showing this guy how to do inclined press or something, I thought that was really funny considering how much it annoys people here LOL

Using a rack for safety when pressing of anything worthwhile is an obvious good idea. Doing barbell curls in a squat rack is completely different

N19h7m4r3 · 6 May 2011 at 10:30

Morba said:
Using a rack for safety when pressing of anything worthwhile is an obvious good idea. Doing barbell curls in a squat rack is completely different

I say burn everyone that curls in the squat rack!

shifty_uk · 6 May 2011 at 10:39

I've curled in the squat rack a few times *runs*

Only because the place was practically empty.

Skillmister · 6 May 2011 at 10:40

Next time the gyms empty im gonna curl in the squat rack

Maybe some kickbacks aswell?

while drinking my proteinz

N19h7m4r3 · 6 May 2011 at 10:42

Skillmister said:
Next time the gyms empty im gonna curl in the squat rack

Maybe some kickbacks aswell?

while drinking my proteinz

oh dear god! NO!

I hate seeing people do exactly that. It's even worse when they spend over an hour in there just doing curls and kick backs, then go get a refil for another shake.

franco_22 · 6 May 2011 at 10:50

N19h7m4r3 said:
oh dear god! NO!

I hate seeing people do exactly that. It's even worse when they spend over an hour in there just doing curls and kick backs, then go get a refil for another shake.

"but bro, they need to take their creatine, so they can get jacked and look like Taylor Lautner"

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