*** The 2011 Gym Rats Thread ***

[icecold]

Hi Guys,

Morba, not being funny have you injured yourself? Your squat weight seems very low...

I tried my 220kgx5 deadlift the other day got 3 and the 4th one slipped off the metal hook strap, but my 3 went up very quickly and very easily, the 4th just kept slipping and i was trying to stop the weights from spinning (thus causing the bar to roll over the hooks, its amazing how near 500lb manages to roll uphill so easily lol).

I will upload to Youtube later if i can and re-post with it here

Also i'm having serious jip on my knee joints from doing dips, i load a tri bar
-(II)- <-- That shape up with about 200lb then have a 30kg dumbell on top of it and it sits on my legs, did this for about 3months and knees are very sore. Looks like i'ma have to start squatting again pronto!

Nice deadlifting

HST is getting serious, on 10 reps for two weeks and the weights are going to get big.

Squats were 2x10x160kg, which was a pb and supposed to be the lightest day

SLDL was 2x10x150kg, again a pb.

Just hope I don't break!

 

[Morba]

Hi Guys,

Morba, not being funny have you injured yourself? Your squat weight seems very low...

Nah, just not really touched any weights in a few months now and my legs get tired from all the swimming i'm doing. So it was just some light work to get the muscles used to being stressed again under load

It will be a while before I get back to lifting anything really heavy tbh, thats not in my current goals but will be eventually

 

[Delvis]

Hi guys

So to get me back in to the swing of things, shall I stick to Gordys routine or make something else up?

Gordys:
Monday – Chest/Shoulders/Triceps
Wednesday – Back/Biceps
Friday – Legs/Abs

I was intending to do back with Legs? Or would this not be recommended?

Any info appreciated

 

[willems]

Hi guys

So to get me back in to the swing of things, shall I stick to Gordys routine or make something else up?

Gordys:
Monday – Chest/Shoulders/Triceps
Wednesday – Back/Biceps
Friday – Legs/Abs

I was intending to do back with Legs? Or would this not be recommended?

Any info appreciated

squats and deadlifts on the same day will be tough and may limit the weight you lift on the exercise you do second. up to you though

 

[MoNkeE]

Deads and squats isn't recommended in the same session

 

[Delvis]

squats and deadlifts on the same day will be tough and may limit the weight you lift on the exercise you do second. up to you though

Deads and squats isn't recommended in the same session

Meh, figured my legs would be used on both...I dunno.

Any recommendations then?

Or just stick with Gordys for now?

 

[Morba]

To throw a spanner in the works. The strongest deadlifter in the world does deads after....... squats!

 

[Delvis]

To throw a spanner in the works. The strongest deadlifter in the world does deads after....... squats!

Yeah...I used to do it, purely because I'd be working my legs twice a week if back / legs was separate?

 

[Morba]

Yeah...I used to do it, purely because I'd be working my legs twice a week if back / legs was separate?

Kinda yes kinda no. Personally I prefer to seperate them, I can see the benefit of doing them in the same session though.

 

[Delvis]

Kinda yes kinda no. Personally I prefer to seperate them, I can see the benefit of doing them in the same session though.

So, out of interest whats your split consist of?

I can try doing them separately and see how things go. However should I leave shoulders on chest days?

 

[GAC]

felt a bit under par today but still managed to have a ok session even if some tool was smoking near the entrance to the gym and stunk the place out

hack sqaut machine.
3x8x50kg's

bench press. slowly getting closer to 100, may have crack at it in two weeks once iv worked this weekend out of the system

8x80kg's
7x90kg's
7x80kg's
6x70kg's

deadlifts. felt good even though i did start to leave puddles after the first set, give it another week to get comfy and work up a 4th set and then il start to move it up again.

3x8x100kg's

and a quick 10 mins on the cross trainer. now time to prepare for the quest for booze.

 

[Morba]

So, out of interest whats your split consist of?

I can try doing them separately and see how things go. However should I leave shoulders on chest days?

At the moment I don't have one

Again, I see the benefit to doing shoulders on same day as chest, but personally I rarely did that myself. My old general routine was :

chest & bi's
back & tri's
legs & shoulders

 

[GarethSouthgate]

Legs feel like jelly after my session earlier!

One question I do have:

When people post up what weight they are lifting, do they include the bar?

Whenever I say I'm lifting say 40 kg, I mean 40 kg of weights added to the barbell, so is that actually 60kg? As mentioned earlier I'm not really fussed about trying to lift the biggest weights on Earth (for now anyway!) but it'd be nice to confirm what's what. Thinking about it, it makes sense to add the bar because that's the total weight I'm lifting.

 

[blairw]

I always state weight including bar

 

[Morba]

Always include the bar and if its not an olympic bar say so, as that means its significantly lighter.

 

[Delvis]

At the moment I don't have one

Again, I see the benefit to doing shoulders on same day as chest, but personally I rarely did that myself. My old general routine was :

chest & bi's
back & tri's
legs & shoulders

Cheers, i'll give it a shot anyway

I have a weird feeling that if I work my chest too much i'll do my shoulders in if I work them as well....Especially if I do chest-flys

 

[Delvis]

Always include the bar and if its not an olympic bar say so, as that means its significantly lighter.

That's a point...I think I'm using Oly bars tonight...I'm scared ...

be lifting the bar by itself

 

[Morba]

Cheers, i'll give it a shot anyway

I have a weird feeling that if I work my chest too much i'll do my shoulders in if I work them as well....Especially if I do chest-flys

Yeah, that was always my thoughts. Also then throwing in tris is a killer on the tris

 

[blairw]

By the end of my chest routine my tri's are feeling it soo much that any attempt to work them is pretty frutiless. I work them on back day and blast the bi's quckily on chest days.

 

[GarethSouthgate]

I see.

So that means that today I was squatting 60 kg not 40 kg! Fair bit of difference there! I think at my 'peak' a few years ago I was squatting around 80 kg. Some way to go before I get back to that then...60 feels tough enough!