*** The 2011 Gym Rats Thread ***

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so after pushing my heaviest squats yet on sunday, my adductors are still sore and tight today.

anybody got anything i can loosen them up at home with? hardest ball i have is a tennis ball :(
 
Love goblet or DB front squats - great for getting depth, core work, and as part of a complex.

Quite funny, today I went up to 100kg for PC2PP - and the looks I was getting from the bicep monkies was hilarious! Clearly not many people do powerlifting or similar sort of exercises there... Then did some chins with 20kg, and again, people stopped - one even asked... "why are you doing that with so much weight?!" LOLOLOL! Oh and this classic, "why are you going so low for squats?" - I just answered "because otherwise it's not a squat..." deadpan. :D

Like the gym though, good equipment and well maintained.
 
It's a shame someone doesn't teach the bicep monkeys a thing or 2 about proper training. I had hope today, when I saw the bicep monkeys in the squat rack with a belt on. The guy stepped up to the bar and began to shoulder press... one day they will do a leg exercise.
 
I am seriously bewildered by the sheer amount of gym-goers who have absolutely no clue what they're doing. Do they not do even an ounce of research into something they're spending a relatively large portion of their week doing?
 
Been a really frustrating two weeks for me, i had intended to start going to the gym around the sixth, but a mixture of helping to look after a sick child who is clingy when he isn't well, erratic gym opening times and a ***** work schedule, it's been practically impossible for me to get to the gym.

Morning comes i'm going, even if it leave me knackered and puking i'm pulling myself there at opening after probably minimal sleep.

Today was infuriating to the max at work and i have so much anger for fuel, actually looking forward to it, not even bothered if people laugh at how little i may be able to lift. :cool:
 
fen739 said:
Cheers man. Reckon I should take a rest day from complexes tomorrow (still doing the PLP + Mwod) or is OK to be doing all this with no rest?
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Take it slowly for the time being, complexes plus plyo work is pretty intense so every other day is fine. As you know, PLP and the mwod stuff is designed to be done every day.
Saytan said:
so after pushing my heaviest squats yet on sunday, my adductors are still sore and tight today.

anybody got anything i can loosen them up at home with? hardest ball i have is a tennis ball :(
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Adductors are very hard to get to for soft tissue work. The best way I've found is to do some "tack and floss"ing. If you have a band use it, but otherwise just tie or wrap something around your upper leg fairly tightly. Then do air squats, side lunges (feet wide and pointing forwards), and hamstring stretches. If things get tingly or numb unwrap and shake everything around. Once you've cleared out one are, shift your tacking device lower/higher depending on what still hurts.
Freefaller said:
Love goblet or DB front squats - great for getting depth, core work, and as part of a complex.

Quite funny, today I went up to 100kg for PC2PP - and the looks I was getting from the bicep monkies was hilarious! Clearly not many people do powerlifting or similar sort of exercises there... Then did some chins with 20kg, and again, people stopped - one even asked... "why are you doing that with so much weight?!" LOLOLOL! Oh and this classic, "why are you going so low for squats?" - I just answered "because otherwise it's not a squat..." deadpan. :D

Like the gym though, good equipment and well maintained.
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Hit my goal weight for the year this morning, 79.4. Was aiming for 80 by the end of the year :D. IIRC started the year at 107/108 so pretty much bang on 1lb a week, gonna re-evaluate after the holidays and decide what to do for Q1 2012!
 
Was ill Monday night (after gym which is funny) which meant Tuesday was a right off. Lack of food and water on Tuesday means today is a right off also, though I managed to get into work :/

So much for a solid week before Christmas :(
 
Has anybody else got a really sore elbow after doing skullcrushers? The pain won't go away now and on my current strengh training routine it flares up when I do:

shoulder press
bench press
chin ups
pull ups

I've been taking flameout (fish oil), mega cissus & now glucosamine but I fear the only real cure is resting (i.e. not going gym :o) which I wanted to avoid if at all possible :p
 
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