*** The 2016 Gym Rats Thread ***

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SMN said:
Anyone here have young kids (i.e. < 1?) I have a 3 week old who like all newborns likes to wake every 2 hours. I've found my strength quite diminished since having less sleep / a poorer quality of sleep, wondering what others did to help mitigate this? Or is the answer 'try and find time for a nap'? :)
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How about just enjoy your newborn and worry about getting swole in a few months time?!
 
SMN said:
Anyone here have young kids (i.e. < 1?) I have a 3 week old who like all newborns likes to wake every 2 hours. I've found my strength quite diminished since having less sleep / a poorer quality of sleep, wondering what others did to help mitigate this? Or is the answer 'try and find time for a nap'? :)
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As already posted, your kid is young once: you can get swole at any time.
 
Pigeon_Killer said:
Clarence is a carrot munching vegan who doesn't eat a lot of fruit, does very little streching/mobility work and rarely deadlifts :eek:

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Well, Clarence has blown up in the last couple of years after already being elite/advanced... it wasn't just switching to tofu!

The other stuff isn't surprising - once your body is comfortable and strong in certain positions keeping the ability to hit those positions is much easier than all the work required to get there in the first place, and if you have the mobility/flexibility required for your sport there's little point using up valuable time working on increasing that further. Deadlifts are just reaaaaaally slow first pulls so competitive WL'ers with all the flat-back pulling they do tend to have respectable DL numbers without actively training the lift, and the ones that don't compete for whatever reason but do throw it into their training (like Clarence and Klokov) would make good PL'ers if they were that way inclined.
 
mrthingyx said:
63kg... That would make your friend a lady (also her name, but I am trying to pretend you were trying to pretend that you were hiding it)...

Does she also bench more than you?
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Ha, I haven't deadlifted for 6 months, just RDLs and SDLs, so I'll pretend I'm not sure if her 1RM is more than mine despite her weighing a couple of KG less than me! She's built for it though (long arms, short torso - not built to squat or bench though!) and trains it pretty frequently (obviousy really given her training is completely PL-focused).

Her bench 1RM is like 52.5kg or something so there's no chance of her ever catching me up there!

EDIT - she's competed at a few of the same comps as Reiyushin #trufax
 
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I have some vids of her deadlifts but since she's got a private account I've not posted them anywhere.

Needless to say she'll be a real contender if she keeps going the way she is!
Roughly 350 wilks with 1 year of training is pretty rare :)
 
So after missing my max lift yesterday (tried to increase by 5kg) do I:

a) take a week off and try again
b) redo the 4 weeks with my current/old max

Thing is, I was finding the 4 weeks very manageable with my current/old max. Maybe I just had an off day?

I have increased my squat by 10kg this month, so was surprised to make no progress with my deadlift yesterday.
 
Not knowing anything about your programme or strength training in general, I'd recommend resuming the programme and don't waste a week by chasing Pee Bees. If it was an off day, you'll only find your next test will improve by more than 5kg.
 
reiyushin said:
I have some vids of her deadlifts but since she's got a private account I've not posted them anywhere.

Needless to say she'll be a real contender if she keeps going the way she is!
Roughly 350 wilks with 1 year of training is pretty rare :)
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Yeah her progress doesn't seem to be slowing down! She competes pretty frequently and every time there's some sort of lift PR or total PR. I did actually tell her when she'd only been doing it a little while she should get you to coach her but it was only semi-serious back then and she was training herself, where as now she's well and truly got the bug. Small world!
 
Is there such a thing as knee sleeve that doesn't roll down your leg after the first rep? I have tried knee wraps but they just become a mess after a short while and have to do a whole rewrap again which is a pain.

Looking at Amazon, Nordic Lifting, Rehband, Abco, etc seem popular. Are they any good or just overpriced crossfit fad?
 
neoboy said:
Is there such a thing as knee sleeve that doesn't roll down your leg after the first rep? I have tried knee wraps but they just become a mess after a short while and have to do a whole rewrap again which is a pain.

Looking at Amazon, Nordic Lifting, Rehband, Abco, etc seem popular. Are they any good or just overpriced crossfit fad?
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I've got a pair of Rehband Original's and they're awesome.

Mine are reasonably tight so provide a lot of stability around the knee, give me a little bit more out of the hole for squats and keep my knees nice and warm in the winter.

All of the above would depend on what size you purchase though.
 
Well I've had two surgeries on my left knee including an ACL reconstruction a year and a half ago so that knee will never quite be the same and every little helps. I have a hinged Shock Doctor knee brace but it's not very practical, comfortable and can't even get a full bend for a squat with the hinges anyway. Also feel a little silly wearing it due to the size.

Actually just nabbed a XXL Rehband 5mm for £7ish on Amazon warehouse after the 20% off offer that's on there. Another XXL left for a tenner so be around £8 with the discount if anyone is that size.
 
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