* The 2017 Gym Rats Thread *

Freefaller · 22 Jan 2017 at 21:39

Safety squat bar squats are pretty humbling

neoboy · 23 Jan 2017 at 01:35

First squats of the year today funny enough, boy does your body forget quickly how not to hurt from them.

PermaChanged · 23 Jan 2017 at 09:13

Grace is done at 60kg right? Might be a challenge to put 60kg above my head 30 times but I'll give it a whirl tomorrow morning

Freefaller · 23 Jan 2017 at 09:59

Yup. I did it ages ago in about 3 and half minutes. Not fun.

wozza2k · 24 Jan 2017 at 09:23

What is this Grace everyone is talking about? I seem to have missed something

tom_e · 24 Jan 2017 at 09:25

wozza2k said:
What is this Grace everyone is talking about? I seem to have missed something

https://wodwell.com/wod/grace/

shroomz · 24 Jan 2017 at 13:22

neoboy said:
First squats of the year today funny enough, boy does your body forget quickly how not to hurt from them.

Amen, I had my first day back on the block reiyushin posted last August last night after a couple of months faffing about, front squats (still in smith machine) have left me with mega quad DOMS, walking with stiff legs all day today

wozza2k · 24 Jan 2017 at 14:01

tom_e said:
https://wodwell.com/wod/grace/

Crossfit. Out.

neoboy · 24 Jan 2017 at 15:59

shroomz said:
Amen, I had my first day back on the block reiyushin posted last August last night after a couple of months faffing about, front squats (still in smith machine) have left me with mega quad DOMS, walking with stiff legs all day today

Always the second day that it really hits me, i.e. today! That'll teach me to go on such long benders over Christmas

MikeTheNative · 24 Jan 2017 at 16:55

wozza2k said:
Crossfit. Out.

That's all I saw and then quickly closed the page, I think I've got lucky and no one saw me.

CaptainRAVE · 24 Jan 2017 at 17:03

shroomz said:
Amen, I had my first day back on the block reiyushin posted last August last night after a couple of months faffing about, front squats (still in smith machine) have left me with mega quad DOMS, walking with stiff legs all day today

Equally, it is amazing how your body adapts. I can actually walk after the sessions 4-5 months in. Mega DOMS after many of the first sessions.

Glad I wasn't the only one who saw cross fit and bolted

fredwi · 24 Jan 2017 at 17:07

Had a health check at the gym traded 1% of fat for some gains not too bad since I only really started to put some effort in before Christmas

PermaChanged · 24 Jan 2017 at 17:18

MikeTheNative said:
That's all I saw and then quickly closed the page, I think I've got lucky and no one saw me.

I thought you were our resident cardio enthusiast, what's not to like about a 30 rep HIIT training session!?

shroomz · 24 Jan 2017 at 20:25

CaptainRAVE said:
Equally, it is amazing how your body adapts. I can actually walk after the sessions 4-5 months in. Mega DOMS after many of the first sessions.

Glad I wasn't the only one who saw cross fit and bolted

Heh, that can't come too soon, deadlifts day today and now my entire posterior chain is fried. Compressing the workouts into three days as I'm away for a long weekend coming up.
E: the DOMS doesn't even have the decency to wait til tomorrow

MikeTheNative · 24 Jan 2017 at 20:37

PermaChanged said:
I thought you were our resident cardio enthusiast, what's not to like about a 30 rep HIIT training session!?

I do cardio but draw the line at crossfit, I have friends I'd like to keep.

Has anyone seen that jawersize thing on Facebook? That's a parody isn't it? I don't believe it's real. My gym has got some 1.25 kg plates which is great for 5x5 progression but that look so dam ridiculous when doing squats and deadlifts.

CaptainRAVE · 24 Jan 2017 at 20:47

MikeTheNative said:
I do cardio but draw the line at crossfit, I have friends I'd like to keep. Has anyone seen that jawersize thing on Facebook? That's a parody isn't it? I don't believe it's real. My gym has got some 1.25 kg plates which is great for 5x5 progression but that look so dam ridiculous when doing squats and deadlifts.

I think anyone using the 1.25s look like they know what they are doing. I swear by those things!

neoboy · 25 Jan 2017 at 03:03

I just can't to this day get over the crossfit pull ups.

MikeTheNative · 27 Jan 2017 at 09:29

neoboy said:
I just can't to this day get over the crossfit pull ups.

'Pull ups' is being nice to what is basically flopping fish. Guy in the gym doing dumbell press superset with 5 sets of dumbells, it's fine mate the rest of us don't want to use them.

CaptainRAVE · 27 Jan 2017 at 09:43

Have come down with a cold

- the squat session last night didn't help. Don't think I will be working on my chest today or deadlifting tomorrow

GSVBagpuss · 27 Jan 2017 at 13:00

Do or do not. There is no cold

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