TL Health and Fitness Initiative 2011 - Page 103

On February 28 2011 19:58 Necosarius wrote:


That clean was sexy :3

Out of curiosity, how did you start your training? Did you walk in to an oly lifting club and started throw weights right away or was you put on a program or something? Did you do any training before you started oly lifting?

On February 27 2011 18:15 RosaParksStoleMySeat wrote:


Why not go to school on Friday too? I mean, going to the gym isn't really convenient for anybody. I have to ride my bike 15 minutes one way, which isn't so bad, but the time does add up.

Today's workout was pretty beastly for me. At 90kg body weight:

Squat: 105kgx5x3 (olympic style with the depth and back position; gonna work my way up with this type of squat now).
Bench: 90kgx5x3 (easy)
Dead: 160kgx5x1 (hard)
Dip: 13.5kgx5x2

I can deadlift 2x BW now, which feels pretty awesome. It's probably my favorite exercise besides bench press, just because everyone fucking loves the bench press.



They were hitting parallel every time ... parallel and lower = legit.

On February 28 2011 18:43 nataziel wrote:
Fuck. Just failed squats @ 75kg for the third time, time to deload. I failed my Bench press, overhead press and dead lifts last time I did them too . I think once I deload my squats everything should sort itself out because these squats are fucking killing me and making every workout soooo draining, with less effort in squats I'll have more energy for the rest of my workout. On the plus side I can now hang power clean correctly so 40kg actually felt easier than 37.5kg. And I made my 8.75kg chinups 3x5 despite a sore left arm which I hope comes good before I next have to OHP =/

I was kinda pissed that I had to deload, but now that I think about it, I feel like it's a blessing. It's soooo crushing to fail every 5x5 twice before I make it JUST to the next level of weight. Hopefully this'll push me through the plateau I seem to have hit

On February 28 2011 03:55 JeeJee wrote:
sore or tired, frawress?
if it's soreness, that's fine when you're starting to lift, it'll go away eventually (i think took me 4 workouts or so). then again, this depends on the volume you're doing as well. but for 3x5 i didn't really get sore after the 'initiation period'
if you're tired after your warmups, you're probably warming up too much
iirc your worksets were at 45? if so, then 20, 30, 40 1x5 is a little much for warmup i think. there's some SS formula or something, but i usually wing it using these guidelines
-4 sets of warmups, 5,5,3,2 reps each
-start around half workset weight and go up to like 80-90%
so you'd be something like 20x5, 20x5, 30x3, 40x2 -> worksets 45x5x3


edit: oh yeah, took last week off weights completely for my trip to states. was 4 months in a row of not missing any workout so i guess it can't hurt to have a little break, although i still feel quite guilty. can't wait to hit the weights tomorrow

On March 01 2011 00:05 AoN.DimSum wrote:
I was reading a newsletter from my uni bashing low carb diets, aimed at the atkins diet. http://pcrm.org/health/reports/highprotein_registry.html

Is it the no carb intake that makes it so bad?

On February 28 2011 22:16 Zafrumi wrote:
are you eating and sleeping enough? keep at it!

had a pretty tough workout today.
squat 3x5x110kg
press 3x5x55kg
deadlift 1x5x130kg

relieved that I managed to get three sets across on the squat since I went 5x3x5x107.5kg on friday last week. booyah!

On March 01 2011 09:21 decafchicken wrote:
Had my first actual snatch workout in like 10 days. Got up to 90kg really solid without pain...although i'm kinda feelin it in my shoulders now so i'm gonna roll them out with a softball asap and take some motrin. Did some light clean and jerks up to 100kg but didn't feel like going past that and finished up with some triples at squats 315/365/385

On the downside, the freshman football team was being taught how to do squats/bench/deadlifts.
Apparently the proper way to teach squats is to load up these 5'6 120 pound kids with 145 on the bar, give them a pelt + bar pad and have them do box squats 1/4 of the way down while keeping the weight on their toes. I'm going to be having words with this coach soon. Also i may or may not have a pregnancy to deal with! (leaning heavily towards "not pregnant" on this one, but can't be entirely sure till blood test tomorrow T_T)

On March 01 2011 05:48 eshlow wrote:


http://www.nutritionjrnl.com/article/PIIS0899900710002893/fulltext

This report counteracts all of that.


Basically, when you take a population that eats crappy foods, and start to put them on a low carb high protein high fat diet it depends on a lot of factors.

If the fats are from TERRIBLE sources (e.g. processed vegetable/seed oils = lots of polyunsat omega 6, trans fats, etc) from processed foods you'll see worsening of symptoms.

If the fats are good, omega 3s, animal fats, butter, etc. you'll generally see improvement of symptoms.


Again, look at this starch restricted, high saturated fat diet in people with a high degree of atheroschlerosis (heart disease):

http://www.mayoclinicproceedings.com/content/78/11/1331.short

Improvement of all cardiovascular risk factors, no worsening of symptoms


No carb intake doesn't mean much... just for the body you'll be burning more fat as fuel, and the liver will kick in with gluconeogenesis for maintenance of glucose levels in the bloodstream.

No more no less