*** The 2016 Gym Rats Thread ***

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shroomz said:
Halp, I feel like I'm regressing by training only twice a week now and (moderately) cycling two other days rather than 4 days lifting! Is this true?
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Depending on your routine, this can happen as your muscles are not getting the same stimulus.

However, if you structure your routine correctly, it SHOULDN'T happen - you should just get stronger more slowly. :)
 
mrkambo said:
Just wondering how you guys document your workouts, i've tried all sorts of apps and excel spreadsheets, and i find it very cumbersome, i would like some kind of digital method or am i best sticking to pen and paper?
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Start a log on here and you'll also get help/advice when needed.
 
Not sure if I'm just not giving it enough of a chance to see but I basically butchered one you posted somewhere else a while back. No rack or flooring so I'm doing BSS twice a week, and deadlifting twice a week (once traditional, once RDL) with dumbells for most of the upper body stuff

Looks like this:

Day 1:

- BSS (8 reps * 3 sets)
- RDL (going snatch grip from next week) (10*3)
- db bench s/s with pull up negs (10*3)
- cable skullcrushers, db external rotations, lateral raises (10*3)
- hollow rocks

Day 2:

- deadlifts (5*4)
- split squats (10*3)
- single arm row or barbell BOR ss/w dumbbell press (8*3)
- hollow rocks
 
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My cardio and overhead stuff are a lot harder than I would like. Methinks I should do more of them. For example, after the supersets, I just sit down and try to catch my breath, and overhead has gone down
 
Oh yeah, I mean overhead press when I say db press, so only once a week, except I alternate overhead with barbell and with dumbells (not through choice, I sometimes work out using my flatmates stuff at home and he only has a barbell plus some weights)... Not a very good description sorry :(...
 
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So how often do you do this? Really with a two day split, you would do it like this:
Monday : Workout A
Tuesday : Rest/Whatever
Wednesday : Workout B
Thursday : Rest/Whatever
Friday : Workout C

And alternatively on the second week.
 
More like
Monday: Workout a
Tuesday: Road cycle ~20 miles
Wednesday: Workout b
Thursday: mtb ~12 miles
Friday: Rest
Hillwalking / cycling / rest days over the weekend. Sometimes Tuesday and Wednesday get swapped about.
 
Kris_90 said:
Start a log on here and you'll also get help/advice when needed.
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I was thinking about starting a log, might have to look into it.

But i downloaded and setup 'Strong' ready for leg day tomorrow, today is 'rest day' ill see how it works, if it does what i want it to do, ill happily purchase the full version and setup my routines to it
 
Just adding as I follow strongman a lot. Earlier this evening Eddie Hall pulled a 500kg deadlift!

Plenty of footage on the net. It looked to me there was another 5-10kg there easily. This may very well be the last 100kg milestone we ever see a human reach.
 
Statically he is immense. Nobody will come close to him for some time in my opinion.

You just know how bada55 the lift is when puffs of chalk come out from his grip on the lift lol. Who would have thought that 4-5yrs ago deadlift was by far his weakest discipline!

I honestly expected Benni to have had a crack at it but from what I hear he waved it :confused:
 
The 500 was unreal, a truly monstrous feat of strength..


Beni did have a crack at it, got it almost to his knees. Pritchett appeared to pull a hamstring on his attempt.
 
I heard different on Benni.

Was funny was just reading some of the comments on Brian Shaws drop-out video lol

"I can promise you nobody will get 500kg an inch off the floor"
"Nobody can live that much"
"He wont get that its a 35kg jump and he only just lifted that 465kg"

Hehe tremendous lift. Silenced all the naysayers
 
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