*** The 2013 Gym Rats Thread ***

toxic said:
ye cola....loosk fine. Drops the carrots for greens, have rice at lunchtime (more) and potatoe at nights. On non traiing days i would maybe ditch the carbs at evening meal and have some green salad and add some fats equal to the carb intake. Im also not sure about weetabix though...lol. Oats would be my first choice, but maybe weetabix ok, not sure. At the end of the day its about cals out v's cals in. If you a big lad..then 2000ish should make u loose weight. But you might need more for your workout days depending on how hard you train. Im a shortass :) 75Kg ish and would struggle with just 2000 per day on training days personally, not the 1st week...but after a week or two. You can offet the avergae by having slightly more in traing days and less on rest days.

edit..you could probably do with a little more fats, nuts, peanut buter, oilve oil etc. 30ish is toooo low
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Hi Toxic, I'll have all my potatoes with my dinnertime then, I struggle with having Oats on the morning reason why i have Weetabix lol, That's why i put eggs/oats with some mornings instead.
I have some natural peanut butter from MP which i will take as well then to up the fat intake.

I'm not that big i have a very fast motabalism, I used to drink 5-6 cans (hence the username :p )of coke daily and eat domino's, McDonalds etc daily and i only weighed 11 stone lol

Thanks for the advice mate
 
CocaCola said:
Hi Toxic, I'll have all my potatoes with my dinnertime then, I struggle with having Oats on the morning reason why i have Weetabix lol, That's why i put eggs/oats with some mornings instead.
I have some natural peanut butter from MP which i will take as well then to up the fat intake.

I'm not that big i have a very fast motabalism, I used to drink 5-6 cans (hence the username :p )of coke daily and eat domino's, McDonalds etc daily and i only weighed 11 stone lol

Thanks for the advice mate
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well if thats the case...stick to what u have down and see how you get on. On non training days I would ditch a little of the carbs and protein (you probably dont require more than 200 protein, unless u already bigggg!) and add in fats. Junk food and sugars is the main no-go area, real foods and keeping an eye on calorie intake is where its at :)
 
Got an 85KG bench today but I'm not counting it, in my opinion I didn't go down far enough. Was an inch maybe an inch and a half off chest.

Syla5 said:
You will get past it, maybe review how your hitting your bench training, chest is in I the hardest areas to develop so expect progress there to be slower. Also 3-4 months in the gym is no time at all, so don't let it mentally affect you because bench is getting harder. Your not even close to the hard times :)
Consistency is key, if you keep smashing away every week, and pay attention to your shortfalls you will do well. 99% of people would be over the moon to have your lifts after 3 months.
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Freefaller said:
You're either in it for years or not at all.
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Cheers Syla, yeah I'm in it for the long haul because ultimately I'm not happy with my body anyway so I plan to do this till I can't, not just to look good but actually lifting makes me feel good! It's just when I'm benching specifically it feels like I'm not actually hitting my chest as much as say when I'm doing dips or dumb bell chest press. So possibly my technique is wrong.
 
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icecold said:
I'll only feel content when I have lifted 300kg, either from the floor or on my back.

This is madness, but it makes sense to me.
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Not madness :)
I'd love 300/200/300 and tbh don't see it being impossible.
Coupled with 150kg overhead and I think that's a good standard :)

If I had some bench lessons to learn how to get power through my legs and a decent arch I think I'd improve my PB pretty quickly. Add in some specific bench training and it would fly up :)

Hardest one for me atm would be a 300 squat, that's furthest away.
 
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Morba said:
Not madness :)
I'd love 300/200/300 and tbh don't see it being impossible.
Coupled with 150kg overhead and I think that's a good standard :)

If I had some bench lessons to learn how to get power through my legs and a decent arch I think I'd improve my PB pretty quickly. Add in some specific bench training and it would fly up :)

Hardest one for me atm would be a 300 squat, that's furthest away.
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Surely you've got to be close to peaking out near a 300 pull? And your bench can't be that far off, given that I don't see you ever post bench training and you PB'd recently :p

This year Morba, go get it done :mad:;)
 
Yeah I think 300 pull this year will happen :D
I think if max DL came up in a comp is pull 260 at least, it would be the kick up the bum to actually try something heavy lol.
250 squat is doable this year for sure.

A few people have mentioned I should consider a PL meet to force my maxes up (still training for high weight but for reps) and tbh it is tempting!
Few friends were trying to get me up to the bpc season opener at genesis, but they are all on cycle and moving silly numbers lol
 
kcon1 said:
Anyone got any tips on keeping my chest up when deadlifting? Also should I try to be looking up or should I keep my head neutral with my spine?
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As long as its not at an extreme angle and remains fixed throughout the lift your pretty much ok.

Begbie said:
Always neutral with your spine.
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There is so much conflicting advise around the head/neck positioning while deadlifting. Just keeping it fixed and not extremes fine.
 
Doms log has extensive training rehabilitation I think (not knee injury), and somone else has messed up their back right now (forgotten username).

Delvis and skillmister, oh and ff like to complain about their shoulders...

kd
 
Took a full six weeks off squats after an over exuberant session just after Christmas. First proper session since then today. Legs feel goooooood! Happily I don't think it'll take too long to get back to where I was before I crocked my back. I had some people look at my squats (nohomo) and it seems that I'm leaning forward towards the bottom of the squat and pushing my hips forward trying to haul the weight up. This makes sense as to why my back went pop. Just need to concentrate on technique. Any tips for getting good depth without hinging at my hips and leaning forward? My initial reaction is don't go so low, but I realise that is blasphemy round here.

EDIT: didn't see the above posts about taking time off. I'm almost certain I slipped a disc a while ago, I aggravated that just after Christmas (sitting and turning in bed = shooting pains down left leg and back pain). I can't stress enough that if you've done yourself a real mischief and activities in day to day life are causing pain you should stop training and seek advice. I've not done a proper legs session for six weeks, but after two weeks I felt good enough to get on the treadmill. Go slowly, the whole reason I injured myself is that I didn't unload my weights after a short break from the gym due to holidays. I will be more careful this time. I suppose there's the argument that you can train other areas, but if you're doing compound exercises this makes everything a bit more tricky. Be sensible, if it hurts, stop. If you feel like starting again start with the lightest possible weights or the lowest resistance. No matter who you speak to over the web or on the phone, they cannot assess your injury without seeing you in person.
 
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Never had anything that stops me from training, although lower back issue at the moment has stopped me from squatting and deadlifting for the last month or so. Can't even work on mobility at the moment as one of my legs is out of commission.
 
The flipside to the above (safe advice is always to stop) is that gentle exercise and strengthening collateral muscles can aid minor injury. This probably more applies to fatties with chronic knee and back pain where weight loss is also a big factor.
 
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