*** The 2012 Gym Rats Thread ***

[Xire]

Thanks for the tips guys....like I said gym noob.

*squats his way to bed*

 

[Freefaller]

This is the only way imo, the other way just puts too much strain on your wrists.

I find that too.

However, you can goose neck straps in the middle of the bar and use a front squat grip by holding / wrapping the straps on your hands to hold the bar in place. It's tricky, but works well.

http://thedriveforstrength.blogspot.co.uk/2012/08/using-straps-on-front-squat-to-fix-your.html

 

[Morba]

Mock meet today.

S: 165kg Season PB
B: 110kg PB
D: 210kg PB

Total: 485kg PB

Good work fella

 

[Chris1712]

9".

Is that to the bottom of the bar? Might start deadlifting from one plate high then, should bring it to about 8.5".

 

[Fireskull]

Managed to rep a few 60KG OHP last night, happy with that, next week going to go for 50-55-60kg for sets and see how I go...

 

[icecold]

Is that to the bottom of the bar? Might start deadlifting from one plate high then, should bring it to about 8.5".

To the centre. Normal plates are 18".

 

[Morba]

Is that to the bottom of the bar? Might start deadlifting from one plate high then, should bring it to about 8.5".

Stop being gay and just lift the damn weight

 

[Chris1712]

Agreed.

 

[Freefaller]

****ing busy in the gym today... lots of brocep curlers showing off to their chavvy girlfriends who incidental wear totally inappropriate clothing for the gym. They're not even "take a second look" attractive, and just attention seeking "bend over everywhere attention whore mother****ers".

Grrrr.

Still got 230 on deads - a bit messy on form, but happy nonetheless. Strength is coming back.

I'm working on a new routine. it'll be a hybrid westside barbell based programme as I love volume, but still focussing on strength. I may even start a log!

 

[Djdom56]

****ing busy in the gym today... lots of brocep curlers showing off to their chavvy girlfriends who incidental wear totally inappropriate clothing for the gym. They're not even "take a second look" attractive, and just attention seeking "bend over everywhere attention whore mother****ers".

Grrrr.

Still got 230 on deads - a bit messy on form, but happy nonetheless. Strength is coming back.

I'm working on a new routine. it'll be a hybrid westside barbell based programme as I love volume, but still focussing on strength. I may even start a log!

Nice work on the deads. How did it feel going up, grim and awful or just one of those slow reps?

Definitely in on you having a log, guaranteed good read .

 

[Freefaller]

A little messy, but slow and meaningful.

 

[KiNgPiN83]

Any early morning weight lifters about? For the last month or so i've been going at 6:15 in the morning and its a pretty new thing for me. (Always used to train in the evenings...) I try and destroy some Wheetabix around 15-30 minutes before i go but could anyone recommend anything better/something that will give me energy quicker? My lifts are progressing well but i was just curious..

 

[Temi_D]

**** 5 reps, gonna try progressing with 3's for a while.

Squat:
60x5
100x5
130x3
150x1
160x1
170x3x2 (PB)

Bench:
60x5
70x3
80x2
92.5x4f
92.5x3f (fuuuuuck)
80x5 (paused close-grip)
75x11 (PB)(normal bench)

Wide-grip Pull-ups:
BWx7

[youtube ]VF7cxP5bEkg[/youtube]

Nice squating, you seem to set new PBs each time

[youtube ]o6P6GNzog-I[/youtube]

Mock meet today.

S: 165kg Season PB
B: 110kg PB
D: 210kg PB

Total: 485kg PB

More coming on friday .


Also didn't notice the training log section and got very confused for a few minutes.

/facepalm




SMed, they look easy! Nice work man!

deadlift looked too easy

 

[Kimi]

Just broke my squat record

60x10
75x8
80x5
90x5
100x5

First triple figure squat... oh baby

 

[Skillmister]

Dear Guinness Record Keepers,
You've been duped. Or maybe you just made a bad judgment call. Either way, the mistake is yours, and you're going to have to live with it for all of 2013, at least. By anointing Moustafa Ismail the possessor of the world's largest biceps you've discredited your Book of World Records and cast doubt on the veracity of everything inside of it.

When I was a kid, the Guinness Book was my bible. I was always fascinated by Extremes—the biggest and tallest, fastest and heaviest, richest and oldest—and your annual tome fed my hunger for such knowledge. I would read it cover to cover many times over throughout the 70's and 80's. I'd toss around names like Robert Earl Hughes, Robert Pershing Wadlow and Lucia Zarate with such regularity an outsider might have thought I was referring to beloved family members. As the world's heaviest, tallest and shortest persons, they were held in nearly such estimation by my younger self.

Based on the sober explanation of the Guinness standards in the front of your book, I knew with absolute certainty that every single record within its pages was unimpeachable. Anyway, what would be the point of having a book of world records if the criteria wasn't drum-tight? I mean, if that were the case, the man you list as having the world's largest biceps could actually have arms full of a synthetic compound encasing rather modest biceps. Oh, wait…
I won't get into the technical details of what's going on with Mr. Ismail's arms, and I'm not about to malign him for a personal decision that affects only him. This was your doing. You're the ones I'm calling out for a poor decision. I will direct you, however, to search any of a number of bodybuilding forums for the word "synthol" for examples of dozens of men with arms that look identical to Mr. Ismail's. There's a telltale look to injected arms: a smooth, bloated appearance with zero separation between biceps and triceps, upper arms disproportionately larger than forearms, and no difference in shape between a relaxed and flexed arm. That's because you can't flex oil.

Now, if you put a caveat in your book explaining that your criteria is merely the largest arm (not biceps), artificially inflated or not, then you may have a contender in Mr. Ismail. However, I would guess that the pendulous arms of the world's heaviest living human being, 1400-pound Manuel Uribe's, might stretch the tape further than Moustafa Ismail's. You might want to check on that.

If you're interested in verifying that the man you named as having the biggest biceps in the world (as you once, correctly, listed Arnold Schwarzenegger as having) actually has the world's largest muscular arms, I will personally foot the bill to have a medical evaluation performed that would determine their composition. If I'm wrong in my belief, and they are entirely muscle—all 31" of them—I will give Mr. Ismail $1000 for his troubles and donate $1000 to the charity of your choice. If I'm right though, and Mr. Ismail's arms are a combination of muscle and additives designed to increase their volume (force-fed flesh, if you will), I ask that you donate $1000 to my favorite charity and award the title to any one of a number of professional bodybuilders in contention for having the largest muscular arms in the world. I can help direct you to my top candidates.

By the way, years ago I remember seeing a man dressed as Uncle Sam walking stiff-legged in a 4th of July parade who had to be 10' tall, at least. You guys need to track him down. He HAS to be the world's tallest man!

Sincerely, Shawn Perine Editor-in-Chief Muscle & Fitness

http://www.muscleandfitness.com/fea...e-guinness-largest-biceps-world-record-holder

 

[Ultra_Extreme]

http://www.muscleandfitness.com/fea...e-guinness-largest-biceps-world-record-holder

neat little peice, if a bit hammy, i was disgusted by the record too, its ignorant, he was on morning TV FFS they were asking hiw what exercises to do to have big arms and afterwards they actually WARNED PEOPLE OFF doing too much exercise if they were disgusted by his arms, i was in shock.

 

[Delvis]

Just broke my squat record

60x10
75x8
80x5
90x5
100x5

First triple figure squat... oh baby

Firs triple figure? So you've not done a 100kg single?

Good work though mate, going to be an awesome feeling when I hit triple figures on squats

 

[Delvis]

http://www.muscleandfitness.com/fea...e-guinness-largest-biceps-world-record-holder

I'm glad it's been 'noticed'. Annoying as some kids will see that now in the Guinness book actually think its fact

 

[Begbie]

****ing busy in the gym today... lots of brocep curlers showing off to their chavvy girlfriends who incidental wear totally inappropriate clothing for the gym. They're not even "take a second look" attractive, and just attention seeking "bend over everywhere attention whore mother****ers".

Grrrr.

Still got 230 on deads - a bit messy on form, but happy nonetheless. Strength is coming back.

I'm working on a new routine. it'll be a hybrid westside barbell based programme as I love volume, but still focussing on strength. I may even start a log!

You so know, you wan't a log.

 

[Kimi]

Firs triple figure? So you've not done a 100kg single?

Good work though mate, going to be an awesome feeling when I hit triple figures on squats

No, id not tried because i was always worried about my right knee(long story) bur yesterday i was angry so thought, id smash some weigths to get rid of my energy, bing, new pb.