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Skillmister · 17 Jan 2013 at 11:46

Syla5 said:
Delvis gone full Delvis again! you cannot upright row in a smith machine, unless your hanging upside down from the top of the frame. Its a press otherwise

You just went full delvis, perhaps even further.

Skillmister · 17 Jan 2013 at 11:47

Chris1712 said:
I've never seen curls in the squat rack, but I have seen tricep kickbacks - leaning on a bench, in the squat rack :|.

An old classic from me

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Delvis · 17 Jan 2013 at 11:54

Syla5 · 17 Jan 2013 at 11:57

damn hahaha

I guess this puts me in 1st place for the 2013 delvis award currently

LiE · 17 Jan 2013 at 12:00

Never go full Delvis.

mrthingyx · 17 Jan 2013 at 12:00

Or we could get a new adjective added to the SA Lexicon?

Djdom56 · 17 Jan 2013 at 12:29

Delvis said:
http://i.imgur.com/IMXQo.jpg[IMG][/QUOTE]

HAHA!

Literally loled at that :D.

Just missed my 220kgx2 DL yesterday and in doing so almost snapped my **** up. Had to lie down for a bit after but all is fine now it seems. Phew.

LiE · 17 Jan 2013 at 12:35

Close call Dom, don't want to be out of action for the comp.

KiNgPiN83 · 17 Jan 2013 at 13:13

Syla5 said:
I did 2 days of low carbs until the evening, then i did full prep in 6 days (one of which included a few drinks on new years eve). I did 3 heavy training sessions and at the end of each i did Hiit for 10 mins. I was able to track my transition through the prep phase quite easily.
If you do your HiiT seperatly then you will defo have no problems at all speeding up the prep.

Cheers dude!

I'm going to start my first session tonight in this horrific weather and see what happens. :eek:

Brrrrr I'll keep an eye out for the stages to see where I'm at.

Cristian · 17 Jan 2013 at 13:30

Skillmister said:
An old classic from me

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What I've noticed is that there's always some skinny runt doing this with a maximum of 5kg on each side of the olympic bar.

Last week there were 2 of these taking turns and one of them said to the other "Curling in the squat rack - like a boss" as I went to get some plates. It took a great deal of control not to slap him with the 25 kg plate I had in my hand.

mrthingyx · 17 Jan 2013 at 13:38

Cristian said:
What I've noticed is that there's always some skinny runt doing this with a maximum of 5kg on each side of the olympic bar.

Last week there were 2 of these taking turns and one of them said to the other "Curling in the squat rack - like a boss" as I went to get some plates. It took a great deal of control not to slap him with the 25 kg plate I had in my hand.

25kg plate is assualt: the 20kg one is fine, however.

Mercifully, this sort of thing isn't too prevalent in our gym as the coaches are on-site almost full-time and invite phaggots to programme-speccing and coaching sessions. However, there are the odd few, like the guy wearing gloves to squat and the other guy wearing a belt for hip-assisted pendulum bicep curlz.

MoNkeE · 17 Jan 2013 at 13:42

Haha, hip-assisted pendulum bicep curlz, I love it

icecold · 17 Jan 2013 at 13:50

Steedie said:
27 today goodnight sweet test levels

Pretty much have to start TRT now

Matutu · 17 Jan 2013 at 14:00

Cristian said:
What I've noticed is that there's always some skinny runt doing this with a maximum of 5kg on each side of the olympic bar.

Last week there were 2 of these taking turns and one of them said to the other "Curling in the squat rack - like a boss" as I went to get some plates. It took a great deal of control not to slap him with the 25 kg plate I had in my hand.

Have to start somewhere! Although I admit at this time of the year when you know 80% will not be returning in a few weeks!

MoNkeE · 17 Jan 2013 at 14:05

Yes but there's no need to use an oly bar for curls at that weight

icecold · 17 Jan 2013 at 14:08

'Wes said:
What? It's a good exercise, hit's my lateral delts hard.

'Wes said:
Just read an article on it with a tendon getting worn down and snapping, think i'll switch to Military Press then.

Strong.

Also, facepulls.

Delvis said:

Post of the year.

RoboCod · 17 Jan 2013 at 14:15

mrthingyx said:
Those of us past 30, however, just don't care.

Yeah, you get to 30 and get excited about weight gains, only to find it's your gut going southwards

mrthingyx said:
Or we could get a new adjective added to the SA Lexicon?

Gone Sylas then

RoboCod · 17 Jan 2013 at 14:17

Funnily enough I have been doing upright rows for a few weeks and today I have a lingering pain in my left shoulder that isn't DOMS or anything positive feeling. It seems more internal, like joint or tendon/ligament. Perhaps swap out for another exercise?

dod · 17 Jan 2013 at 14:19

Cristian said:
I thought test was already getting lower at 25? 27... must mean there is no other option then.

There's still plenty of test left here in late 40's I'll have you know

icecold · 17 Jan 2013 at 14:25

Captain Planet said:
Funnily enough I have been doing upright rows for a few weeks and today I have a lingering pain in my left shoulder that isn't DOMS or anything positive feeling. It seems more internal, like joint or tendon/ligament. Perhaps swap out for another exercise?

Yes, you done snapped all your **** up, son.

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