EPTTL Health and Fitness Initiative 2013 - Page 51
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Deadeight
United Kingdom1629 Posts
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Najda
United States3765 Posts
On March 30 2013 10:49 Deadeight wrote: Bloody hell, 66 and 73 at 6'4? Were you ill? Some people are just skinny  When I was in highschool I was 5'9 and could fit through a pooltriangle. I think I weighed 110-120 | ||
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selboN
United States2523 Posts
On March 30 2013 11:30 Najda wrote: Some people are just skinny When I was in highschool I was 5'9 and could fit through a pooltriangle. I think I weighed 110-120 Ex skinny kid checking in, 6ft 140lbs in high school. | ||
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feanor1
United States1899 Posts
On March 30 2013 13:10 selboN wrote: Ex skinny kid checking in, 6ft 140lbs in high school. I was 6'4" 160 when I graduated. 6'6" 205 now. Eat more, lift more. I am still trying to put another 20lbs on over the next year. | ||
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decafchicken
United States20058 Posts
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ShadowDrgn
United States2497 Posts
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phyre112
United States3090 Posts
On March 30 2013 10:49 Deadeight wrote: Bloody hell, 66 and 73 at 6'4? Were you ill? I weighed around 62kg @ 193cm for all of high school and my first year of university - the 5 years I was done growing before I found TLHF and started lifting. | ||
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Recognizable
Netherlands1552 Posts
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Thor.Rush
Sweden702 Posts
http://www.muscleandstrength.com/articles/truth-rep-ranges-muscle-growth | ||
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Adel
Belgium86 Posts
On March 30 2013 17:29 Recognizable wrote: First time I followed a serious program. My own commentary I wrote after the workout: "More reps and heavier weights for everything." I barely feel a thing and went way past what was recommended :/ Anyway, I have noticed that my sleep is much better after going to the gym regularly. I naturally wake up around 7 AM when I go to bed at 12 PM or so. I can suddenly do with an hour less, oddly enough. Another thing. What is more efficient? heavier weights and less reps or more reps and lighter weights? This monday the gym is closed ffs! Now I have to wait until tuesday. Screws up my program a bit :/ Rep range depends on your goals, afaik. But I started bench pressing with dropsets, last week. Works great. Instead of doing, say, 10 reps @ 55kgs, I do 4 reps @ 60kg and then immediately after 6 more reps @ 50kg. Even if I wanted to, I wouldn't be able to go further @ 60kg. Maybe one more rep before muscle failure, and even that, I'm not sure, then I go for the reps @ 50. Feels great. | ||
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Recognizable
Netherlands1552 Posts
On March 30 2013 21:24 Thor.Rush wrote: Interesting article on rep ranges: http://www.muscleandstrength.com/articles/truth-rep-ranges-muscle-growth Thanks for this. I'll just continue with doing a medium amount of repitions, maybe mix it up a bit but I don't think it matters much at all at my ''level''. The biggest thing is if I am pushing myself each time to go a little bit further/more weight. | ||
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sc4k
United Kingdom5454 Posts
On March 30 2013 21:24 Thor.Rush wrote: Interesting article on rep ranges: http://www.muscleandstrength.com/articles/truth-rep-ranges-muscle-growth This is great. THere is a guy at my gym and who is ripped and ridiculously strong (insanely strong for his weight) and he devised a training regime without doing any studying. And it includes basically a perfect mix of all three rep ranges, he did it intuitively. Fair play to him. | ||
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Deadeight
United Kingdom1629 Posts
On March 30 2013 11:30 Najda wrote: Some people are just skinny When I was in highschool I was 5'9 and could fit through a pooltriangle. I think I weighed 110-120 That's incredible. | ||
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Najda
United States3765 Posts
I guess incredible is one word for it. | ||
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Seth_
Belgium184 Posts
On January 04 2013 00:47 Seth_ wrote:Seth_ Age: 23 || Height: 176 cm || Weight: 74 kg Starting Date: 01/01/13 Goal Date: 01/04/13 - Squat 100 => 115 - Deadlift 110 => 125 - Bench 55 => 65 - Press 30 => 35 - Clean 40 => 55 - Chin-up 2 => 5 3 month progress update (weight at 75 kg) - Squat 100 => 107.5 (goal 115) My squat pretty much hasn't improved in the last 4 months or so, although it was quite ahead of the curve 6 months ago. getting to 150 in a year seems difficult now. - Deadlift 110 => 130 (goal 125) I had some trouble with 115 but otherwise went up by 2.5 kg every time. Failed 132.5 for 3 workouts though so I should deload next week. - Bench 55 => 65 (goal 65) Had some trouble going over 60, but I'm happy I reached my goal. Also my arms are getting bigger. - Press 30 => 40 (goal 35) This was a cautious goals since my press didn't improve at all before that. I'm happy I've made a lot of progress since and I think I can keep going. - Clean 40 => 65 (goal 55) Didn't really (power) clean much. I've done 70 already for a set of 3. - Chin-up 2 => 5 (goal 5) The first few work-outs weren't easy, doing 5x1 and 10 x negatives. Now I can do 5-4-3 I will need to look for a different program though. I'm not doing the constant weight increases that SS plans for anymore (I've been increasing the reps to 3x7 before increasing the weight for the upper body exercises). As of this week my linear gains have stopped even in the deadlift and I'm going to start a cut in a couple of weeks. (is this the correct thread for advice on this?) | ||
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Adel
Belgium86 Posts
How are you training your squat and deadlift? Short sets with heavy weights, or longer sets with lighter weights? Could you go into more detail (exact number of sets, reps and weights)? I see you're Belgian too, where are you from?  | ||
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Seth_
Belgium184 Posts
I hit 100 kg squat at the end of november 2012, stalled at 105. Then stalled again at 105 a month later so I added pause squats after the working sets as well as trying a single or double of a higher weight anyway. example of my second to last squat workout 2x5xbar 5x50 4x70 2x90 3x5x107,5 the last one was ... 2x90 2x110 2x5x100 Everything from 100 upwards just feels so hard to squat. Deadlifts are simple: 5x70 4x90 2x110 5x130, increase by 2,5 everytime. Unfortunately I didn't reach 5 reps at 132,5 in my last 3 workouts. I'm studying in Ghent. | ||
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Adel
Belgium86 Posts
That's what I did when I hit a plateau on my bench presses (at 50kgs, I couldn't go over 4-8x50 in one set, and I went 1-2 reps lower per set). I removed 10kgs, and worked my way up to 4x15x40kg, it allowed me to start making linear gains once more. You should try that too, it works pretty well on almost everyone that hits a plateau (and if you're doing high reps/"light" load and hit a plateau, try heavy load for low reps). You planning on going to Fibo-Power? | ||
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Cambium
United States16368 Posts
i can squat 150, but 100 will still *feel* heavy have confidence, and don't be afraid to fall onto the support bars. just keep on upping those plates if you manage your 3x5s what's the worst that could happen anyway: Firing squad? The fucking bodybuilders making fun of you from the safety of the dumbbell rack? Loss of wages? | ||
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decafchicken
United States20058 Posts
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