*** The 2011 Gym Rats Thread ***

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Haha nice story. It's always nice when people congratulate you on your lifting or seem impressed. I've had a small audience when DL'ing. Had a small audience for bench yesterday. Not massive lifts by any means but for gym they're rare. I think I had about 8 people watching me squat last year when I boosted 140KG off the oly bench and walked back with it for 5 deep reps. Had someone come up after who was a total bicep monkey ask 'how long it took me to get to that weight'.

Funny you should say that as I think, providing I have no shoulder or wrist injuries, that I may well be finishing on nearer to 45/50KG. I'll try and get a friend to film it should one be around at the time!
 
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Seeing as my gym is the college one we mostly have girls in it and bicep/chest boys.

The college "beast" is a pure bicep and chest guy. It's forearms ar bigger than his calves :/

Just be careful with dipping and heavy weights. You have to just go to a 90degree angle with your arms otherwise you'll quickly shift the weight onto your shoulders. Which while being unprepaired for that weight could quickly get hurt.

Even I feel a quick pinch if I go even 1cm to low.

On the different note, I've not trained my chest since November/early December and my Biceps only twice. Haha I should really get to them.

But I find with dips and standing military barbell presses ( i come down to touch my chest ) My chest get's a damn good bashing. And my biceps are mostly done while doing pullups and upright rows.

Oh speaking of pullups, yesterday i use'd the pulldown machine for the first time in nearly a year. It's good. Isolates the lats really well. I still like my pull ups though :)
 
I am ashamed to say the first time I ever heard of Jack La Lanne was on a QVC channel, advertising a smoothie maker. Amazing what he accomplished in his time going by this thread.
 
Just got back from the gym and had a shower.

For the first time in a while I had the usual 'time to put shampoo on my head, omfg I can't lift my arms above my shoulders so I had to move my head towards to arms to wash my hair :p

I was going chest today so not really sure why my shoulders/arms are so dead! Guess they must be really weak!
 
ordered 3 MP protein samples form Myprotein, one of them says BBE 11/2010, and another one BBE 02/2011.

I know that one of them is technically ok since we're 5 days before February:rolleyes: but the other one 3 months out of date?!:confused:
 
I have some myprotein milk protein from around a year ago thats on its use by date soon. I can't bring myself to drink it, its that terrible, it may be a long time before it gets used :p.
 
Originally posted by TANK:
SkScotchegg must you use "Lol" so frequently all the time, I found that more annoying than your strange attitude towards advise to be honest
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You have to laugh when people say things which aren't true. I don't really know why you found the need to write that tank but am sure you had some sort of urge to join in and couldn't help yourself. At the end of the day to me, like most things in life, its black and white, I asked a question, but instead of answering my initial question a few people decided to take it upon themselves to tell me I was doing something wrong, it wasn't advice. I don't see it that way anyway. If you read everything I wrote and everything they wrote and you think it was advice then fair do's, I guess our opinions differ on what advice really is.

Also for me that whole argument in the end, I just thought to myself these guys are just arguing for the sake of arguing and just talking rubbish on an online forum for no good reason. I thought the whole thing was quite immature but I am used to these sort of people especially on this forum, it's always had a bad reputation for argumentative people that are kind of up themselves.

But in all honestly it's my fault for posting here when I already knew the risks. You can't simply ask a question and get a response, on this forum it usually ends in an argument. But when you got 5 people saying stuff which isn't true and all taking a stand point and one point of view, then any human being is going to stand up for themselves and reply to their post and say his/her side. Which is what I've done.

I don't think there's anything left to say on the matter.
 
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