*** The 2017 Gym Rats Thread ***

My shoulder is fried, my quad is fried. Time for a 2 1/2 break (by far the longest for a year!) - I will focus on stretching and mobility whilst away. Hopefully this quad pain then goes away. Have had it before, but not this bad. At least it healed quickly last time.
 
mrthingyx said:
Congratulations on turning it all around. :)

Crossfit is not great for getting jacked unless you are eating truly huge amounts of food... and even then it is dependent on a lot of things. As it stands, your heavy routine is not conducive to swolification, either, because of its frequency and intensity. We had a guy on here a while ago (who might still be lurking) who shrunk down massively and then wanted to get stacked... all whilst doing outdoor swimming. I think he had to load up with around 5000 calories a day to put on weight VERY slowly, but it worked.

Better to start off on Stronglifts (or use your OTroutine... which might not be great) and use the Crossfit gym to learn how to perform the Olympic lifts (and not do Crossfit).
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I'd second this - definitely use the opportunity to work with someone you know and are comfortable with to explore the option of Olympic weightlifting, or even crossfit. Crossfit itself isn't likely to lead to getting jacked as such but it may well equip you with the knowledge and environment you need to make changes. It really depends on the gym you attend as well, where I go is very barbell focuses and the "crossfit" element is mainly a short sharp finisher most of the time to get the heart rate up.
 
CaptainRAVE said:
My shoulder is fried, my quad is fried. Time for a 2 1/2 break (by far the longest for a year!) - I will focus on stretching and mobility whilst away. Hopefully this quad pain then goes away. Have had it before, but not this bad. At least it healed quickly last time.
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Use the honeymoon to perfect lifting mobility through inventive use of... err... positioning.
 
Tempted to buy a Ski Erg for cardio at home. Anyone got much experience with them?

Rowers are causing my hip issues to flare up and I figure Ski erg will have less of a bunching up motion in my hip.

£630 I probably shouldn't be spending now but a cardio machine at home would be a big help when I'm not at work (with a gym).
 
Cardio machine for home when you're tight on funds = a breeze block, the stairs or maybe a skipping rope :D

Or 2 of the red bands and a pullup bar :)
 
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I did it again, private haha

I upload them in parts, and stitch it on youtube, must inherit the 'private' tag as I don't want the video's individually.

Also news; shoes :p

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I feel that powerlifting shoes would fix my poor ankle mobility as I still struggle with ending up putting too much pressure on my toes but really would like to fix that rather than rely on shoes. That or cheapskate with 1.25kg plates under my heels :p
 
Maybe you've tried this already but if not you could give it a go.

Perform your warmups with your toes off the ground, keep them pointed up as far as you can and feel the balls of your foot on the floor.
Now drive your feet apart (spread the floor) and this will help keep tension in your hips whilst giving a little more space for you to sit into.

If it's really bad then go back to step 1, BW squats with hands between your legs, then hands on your head, then holding a KB between legs etc....
 
I do goblet squats every morning to wake up the body and those are good, just when I slap weight on that things get messy. Think I'll just reduce the weight to 25kg plate a side and work those until I feel happy.

I could just be very critical of course as I'm really aware of everything that can go wrong from toes to butt winking and ending up doing Good Mornings more than squatting. Should just record myself but I go during quite busy times so will feel like a **** :p
 
So ran a squat session today post Smolov. Managed to hit a 155kg but think I could have had more if I hadn't been upping the increments so slowly. Did my warm ups and then started - 135kg, 140kg, 145kg, 147.5kg, 150kg, 152.5kg and then then 155kg.

Pretty happy with that, and the pizza was good too. Will try a 160kg on Wednesday.
 
What were the numbers before Smolov?

I've only been able to hit the gym twice this week and looks like I won't be able to do much next week either. At least I'm giving some niggling pains in the body time to heal, tendon inside the elbow is still very painful.
 
I estimated a 1rm of 140kg to base the programming off. Whether that was correct I'm not sure as I hadn't tried a 1rm in quite some time - as in not once since Feb 2015 due to injuries / surgeries.
 
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