*** The 2015 Gym Rats Thread ***

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grudas said:
I know right! I was like "you wot m9!! how did I manage that??" but yeah old BMXing injuries = my ankles roll super easy.. I was getting of the dip rack and landed at an angle :(
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My ankles are crappy for doing that too. I'll get it randomly when I'm walking sometimes (thankfully rarely). Thankfully I've never had it when squatting/etc.
 
shroomz said:
*raises hand* me three :(
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Aye, I'll join this club too.

Always my left ankle, sometimes rolls for absolute no reason.

However when I'm lifting its actually the stronger of my ankles, stays planted with no wobbling at all where as my right is all over the shop.
 
mrthingyx said:
Local weightlifting club or Crossfit box. Former is better and potentially cheaper, but Crossfit is seemingly everywhere and therefore more readily available (even if standard may be lower).

Unless you are looking to take them seriously, Crossfit is fine enough to get you started... Even if it does mean doing Crossfit. ;)
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At £65/month for my local crossfit club I think ill try and find a weightlifting club nearby!
 
blairw said:
Where in NI are you? I can make some recommendations for some good quality CF boxes as some friends have trained there. Some of them may also run barbell / weightlifting clubs as well
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Bangor, crossfit is most likely out of my budget at the minute though!
 
On a slightly more positive note to my car getting dented in the motors forum, at least my body fat % seems to be dropping!

3 weeks in at the gym and I've dropped 3.28% from 25.8% to 22.52%

Lost 2.31kg in fat from 18.68 to 16.37
Gained 2.61kg in muscle from 53.72 to 56.33

So now I've managed to move up the BF% scale form 'Very Poor' to "Poor', yay?! :D
 
mrthingyx said:
75kg is good work! :)

You probably lose the bar backwards because your drive isn't vertical enough (i.e. you rock forward onto your toes too quickly; your second pull isn't "up," all sorts of things) so the bar swings out in front.. and then behind in a loop. Being 'highly mobile' doesn't really have much to do with it, I'm afraid. :)
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Yeah, I'm very aware that I'm rushing to get under the bar which means an early second pull and probably causing the bar to move away from me. AS you say, it's arcing rather than moving vertically.

I'll get there.

In other news did the powerlift total today. 95 bench, 140 squat, 160 dl. 5kg off 400 club, gutted. My deadlift is so poor, sad times. Only one way to fix that. Moar deads! Got 165 about 2 inches off the ground.
 
UberTiger said:
On a slightly more positive note to my car getting dented in the motors forum, at least my body fat % seems to be dropping!

3 weeks in at the gym and I've dropped 3.28% from 25.8% to 22.52%

Lost 2.31kg in fat from 18.68 to 16.37
Gained 2.61kg in muscle from 53.72 to 56.33

So now I've managed to move up the BF% scale form 'Very Poor' to "Poor', yay?! :D
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How do you measure the amount of fat lost and muscle gained?
 
The chap at the gym does a body composition on me. Only take him a few minutes to measure the fat at various points on my body using some callipers, then he pops it into a spreadsheet along with my weight, which churns out the numbers :)

Edit: The amount lost and gained is of course just the difference between my body comp today and the figures from the one 3 weeks ago
 
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Hit a 105kg squat that wasn't too grindy even on the back of no sleep and my pattern being a bit off, makes 110kg seem pretty feasible although I tend not to test 1RMs just singles till the bar speed goes AWOL. Crept up to about 63kg now I'm being a little less of a poo-say about shovelling food in my face.

Only a couple more weeks of short-shifts though which means this upper/lower split will be coming to an end soon and I'll be back to scratching my head how to program effectively, although the first couple of weeks will be de-loady anyway. Need to make it, brah.
 
UberTiger said:
The chap at the gym does a body composition on me. Only take him a few minutes to measure the fat at various points on my body using some callipers, then he pops it into a spreadsheet along with my weight, which churns out the numbers :)

Edit: The amount lost and gained is of course just the difference between my body comp today and the figures from the one 3 weeks ago
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Ah thanks, I was curious about the % of muscle gained as I haven't seen it displayed like that before.
 
It would be very approximate because the muscle growth more likely greater muscle glycogen and associated perfusion - probably not structural growth.

Irrelevant, really, because your fat is falling which is always so awesome. :cool:
 
Yeah, even if it isn't an exact science, it's a quantifiable figure that's giving me the motivation to stay on track, which is the main thing :)

Going to try and cut out alcohol for September to see how that impacts my progress. Hopefully it will allow me to keep making progress. Finding it hard though! Trying to drink green tea in the evening instead, it's not quite the same.
 
First session since the summer strongman meet today, I could almost feel the doms kicking in before I'd even finished squatting.
The next 48 hours are not going to be happy times :o
 
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