*** The 2012 Gym Rats Thread ***

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Went up the gym last night to do some deadlifts. Not good after doing maxes on sat and sqwats n hams on tues.
Anyway, didnt lift anything heavy, but did do 180x9 at some considerable speed which shocked the hell out of me! good fun

also stupidly agreed to race to 300 with another bloke there (who just before squats was doing 250+ squats). End of year is the time frame lol. This gonna be interesting!
 
LiE said:
I use 100g lean mince for my burgers.

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What the ****ing **** are you doing to that poor bottle! Turn it over, it lives on it's lid you fewl :P
 
^ Ha ha :p

My favourite thing to do with sweet potatoes is mash them, then add some chilli (real ones!) with some lemon juice. It wins every time ;). If you can't be bothered just put some sweet chilli sauce in, it's also very tastey :)
 
LiE said:
Don't think I'll ever get tired of this combo. So damn tasty.

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Fail sauce.

Venison & Onion burgers tonight in fresh baps with some nice salad and fresh wedges with rosmary and peri peri mayo.

**** the gym, I'm eating tonight, having a fine beer with the football and hitting it tomorrow :D
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Coming from which direction? Filton can be a nightmare.
If your coming from cribs direction then better to head back road past stokers and round to parkway the back way.
 
4th time in the gym. Body has got used to doing exercise again (although dealing with things much more difficult than 16kg kettbells!). Today the oly bar suddenly felt somewhat lighter compared to the first three times in the gym. Guess I'm getting stronger!

Deadlifted my bodyweight today, quite pleased considering. Think my hamstrings aren't up to par and are the weak link though - stupid office monkey hams grrr.

Squats... initially was doing high bar because it's a little easier to nail form wise, but I know I should be doing low bar. Low bar set up felt all weird, need to work on how I set it up.

Also Leangains continues to prove easy to execute. <3'ing I.F.
 
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Today I completed my beginners climbing course at Big Rock Climbing Centre in Milton Keynes today.

Great workout though. I can do the 5-5+ grade routes without stopping, which I am pleased with. However, right at the end, I had to settle for the 3+ grade route because I was too tired by then.

The hardest route was the 6+ white route, but I had to stop on the penultimate hold (this was quite early on) because I couldn't get the reach, plus I was so close. Very gutting.

I do think I'm quite the natural climber; but I do wonder if the gym work I have done has helped, it probably has. Plus I only weigh 77kg and I'm 5'10 so reaching each hold is pretty easy.

So once my course is finished, I plan to have a routine as follows:

Tuesday - Social climb
Wednesday - Chest/Triceps
Thursday - Back/Biceps
Friday - CV
Saturday - Legs/Shoulders

Instead of doing legs and shoulders on different days, I'm going to combine them into one day. Allowing me to have two full rest days.

In regard to the climbing, I plan to keep at it - I'll do the lead climbing course eventually and start doing climbing outdoors.

I fully intend to still do weight-lifting because eventually my upper body and lower body strength will reach a plateau where the climbing is concerned.

David
 
I would be suprised if you could do GHR's on either of those. They appear to be for hyper back extensions which are very different in relative body positions.

If you want to do GHR's just load up a barbell with enough weight to stop it moving, or pull it up against a rack so it won't move, throw a sissy pad on it and away you go.
 
I've seen people doing GHR's on the lat pulldown machine (trapping their feet where your legs would go) and stacking stuff on the floor high enough that they can push themselves back up off it. Also yeah, if your hams are holding your big lifts back, GHRs will help, from what I've read. Very hard to do though!
 
I personally use a squat rack, catch bar on the lowest hole and a matt on the floor and sissy pad on the catch bar. Ankles under the catch bar and away I go :)
 
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