*** The 2012 Gym Rats Thread ***

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MoNkeE said:
Glad you didn't take it the wrong way mate, as I do find your lifting impressive :cool:

BTW, where do you buy your food from, do you bulk buy to keep it cheaper?
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Castell Howell Cash and Carry in Carmarthen m8, 5kg chicken breast (skinned and boned) is £20 compared to £35 for same amount of tesco value breast. Ill be honest im pretty bad at bulk buyiong normally, its something i know i need to get into to keep the diet on point, if i cook up my meals on a sunday i will stay on course for the week. Otherwise i just find myself missing meals or eating inappropriately
 
Delvis said:
Not yet, recovering my back a bit more first as it can aggravate the lower back with poor form.

I'd love to just go in and deadlift the night away :( Sadly not...Oh well, not going to stop me :)
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When i started out lifting i always made a big thing of core work very heavy weighted sit ups, hyperextensions and good mornings. I think this has helped give me the strong and durable lower back for heavy lifts. When you are back on stream try to focus heavily on lower back work so many people with weak and injury prone backs just plain avoid lower back work which compounds the issue
 
Damn, that's exceptional mate. Not even sure I've got anywhere local I could get that sort of discount with, would be brilliant.

I just cook tomorrow's meals while I'm cooking tonight's tea :) Stick it all in the oven at the same time, take it out, eat my dinner, then portion out tomorrow's meals afterwards. Bish bash bosh.
 
Ultra_Extreme said:
When i started out lifting i always made a big thing of core work very heavy weighted sit ups, hyperextensions and good mornings. I think this has helped give me the strong and durable lower back for heavy lifts. When you are back on stream try to focus heavily on lower back work so many people with weak and injury prone backs just plain avoid lower back work which compounds the issue
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Indeed, my core work was neglected prior to the injury, which didn't help much at all.

Core work is comething I've begun to incorporate more now. So much so I'm going to have a separate day for it pretty much
 
Been mixing up weight vs reps ratio a bit to try and increase cardiovascular wellbeing in general at the moment. So smashed out 8x4@140kg DL with max 2min break between sets.

Why does it feel so utterly horrible when you get knackered? Genuine quesiton, is it the cortisol, is it the lactic acid or other toxin?
 
stress + pain m8, think about how much more annoying dropping something is when you have like toothache or something. Pain from the lactic acid coupled with high cortisol levels is just plain horrible. Deadlifting especially so as its so incredibly compound
 
I know this isn't the supps thread but you could try taking things like Rodiola Rosea or Phosphatydil Serine which will lower your cortisol levels slightly. I find that they work ok without being too aggressive.
 
Bit of a hybrid back and shoulders session today as only 2 days at the gym this week

Deadlifts
60x5 80x5
100x5
110x5
120x5 belt + mixed grip from here
130x4
130x3 Unbelted for back to back set comparisons
140x1
Was feeling good with the belt so went for it
150x1

Overhead press
20x7 30x6 40x6 50x5 55x4

Lat pulldowns and seated shoulder press as well

Feels good to be back in the gym even though I only missed 3 sessions lol
 
Did some back and biceps work today:

Wide-grip BW pull ups: +10kg x8, +10kg x6 BW x6;
Oly Deadlifts: 95kgx8, 105kgx8 (mixed grip), 105kgx8 (mixed grip).
Oly BORs: 60kgx8, 60kgx8, 60kgx8;
Seated Lever Rows: 70kgx8, 70kgx8, 70kgx8;
Oly EZ-bar Preacher Curls: 26.5kgx8, 26.5kgx8, 26.5kgx8.

Overall not a bad session, but I forgot how poor I am at the wide-grip pullups..but since I haven't done them for like 6-9 months, it was probably a good idea to do some, on reflection.

Oh dear...I just realised that I have done Rear delt work on two consecutive days - it looks like the lever rows do rear delts...and I did some seated BO DB rows yesterday as part of my shoulders workout :o **** I think I'm going to do the rear delt work on back day, and stop with the seated BO DB rows on Shoulders day.

Going to be legs tomorrow morning, should be good.

Kind regards,

David
 
Shoulders and upper back tonight. Had to use the smith machine, which I hate with a passion, because the end of one of the barbells has fallen off and no one's bothered to fix it :o

SM Seated Shoulder Press
60 x 5
70 x 5
80 x 5
90 x 5
100 x 5
110 x 3
120 x 3
130 x 1
140 x 0

Inverted Rows
BW x 3 x 10

Hammer Grip Chin Ups
BW x 6
BW x 5
BW x 4
BW x 4
BW x 4
 
Did my back session last night. Pretty good, lack of deads are making me saaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaad.

I need to figure out how to do pull ups somewhere...either at the gym or at home.

Will update the log later hopefully
 
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