TL Health and Fitness Initiative 2012 - Page 301

On August 09 2012 05:49 Froadac wrote:

Heck, it's a pain for SS

On August 09 2012 09:08 Catch wrote:


I believe you can just tag things and make them a custom entry. Not too sure about this since I haven't had to do it. You can also save routines so you don't have to go through and find the same thing every time. I'm not in olympic lifting, so I don't know how bad it is for that, but I actually like fitocracy lol

On August 09 2012 09:51 decafchicken wrote:
@Phyre

I'd recommend doing both. I focused a lot on my clean at first a lot and then it took a while for my jerk to catch up. You can do jerk work off the rack but it will be a pain till you learn how to do repeat jerks and basically kill all the nerve endings in your collar bone lol.




Its high variety and # of sets (low reps per set) make it a pain in the ass. As well as the various exercises (snatch pull + snatch+overhead squat, etc)

On August 09 2012 12:13 MeShiet wrote:
@phyre112, the funniest part about learning the cnj is discovering whether you have imbalances between your left and right shoulder size. My left anterior deltoid was both weaker and smaller than my right so whenever i racked the bar at first, it'd dig into my left clavicle but my right one would be just fine. Now I have a ridiculous callus and permanent bruise there.

On August 09 2012 17:30 zatic wrote:
Well, there is a thread now http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=359197 Thanks phyre!

I had still hoped to bring more people to fitocracy, because as you say I really don't recognize many from this thread .. But to each his own I guess

On August 09 2012 12:43 phyre112 wrote:


I've been front squatting long enough to know that; I have to push just a little bit harder with my left shoulder, but I've done enough dumbbell pressing/incline pressing that there isn't much difference between the two anymore.


Several hours later edit, but I don't want to double post:

Just drank a whole bunch of gin (in place of the muscle relaxers that I don't have) and, rather than foam rolling my hip I took a metal dumbbell handle and ATTACKED that shit. I haven't been able to fully extend my leg in two days, but that felt amazing. Better than sex, by miles. I can tell that my SI joint is not yet back in place, because there's still some pain deep in the hip, but it's no longer radiating into the hamstring and up the spine - I can bend at the hips (lowering my back) and I can straighten my entire right leg now without shouting. I never thought to create muscle relaxation before foam rolling, and it only just hit me how to get more pressure on the spot than a foam roller allows (5lb metal stick ftw).

I'm going to go do some more work on this. Hopefully the pain goes away and the joint pops back in. MAGIC I SAY!

On August 09 2012 12:13 MeShiet wrote:
@phyre112, the funniest part about learning the cnj is discovering whether you have imbalances between your left and right shoulder size. My left anterior deltoid was both weaker and smaller than my right so whenever i racked the bar at first, it'd dig into my left clavicle but my right one would be just fine. Now I have a ridiculous callus and permanent bruise there.

On August 09 2012 02:55 mordek wrote:

Let us know if the chiro helps. I'm starting a glute-specific routine specifically for strengthening the posterior sling etc. and hopefully that solves the chronic SI pain. Might help if that's what it is for you?

On August 09 2012 22:00 SoleSteeler wrote:
Can anyone recommend some stretches/exercises or whatever for improving hamstring mobility? I'd like to be able to touch my toes without bending my knees and do a proper, comfortable third world squat.

On August 09 2012 09:59 phyre112 wrote:




@catch, I've used routines for mple things, like when I was doing smolov, or my push/pull split. The site is well set up for doing something like that, but their app is terrible, so I would get home and forget if I'd done 6 or 7 reps on a particular set, or "did I make all the reps on my third or fifth set of press" and I found that the farther I got in lifting, the more erratic my training began, and the more inferior fitocracy was to a simple notebook.

If you're doing oly lifting, it's more that they just don't have half the lifts you'll be doing. There is no option to mark something as a "snatch pull" and there's really not something similar in there that you can log it as for giggles. If you're doing a complex of two or more partials, forget it. Again, it's inferior to a notebook - and the social aspect feels forced to the extent that I much prefer a separate thread here in TLHF.

@decaf, thanks. Will get right to work smashing my collar bone into dust and doing extra jerks out of the rack, even if it will take forever.