On January 16 2014 04:27 Osmoses wrote: Was approached by the gymbro I've previously mentioned (helped me rehab my knee, found out later he's a personal trainer/rehab gymnast whatsitscalled) today as I was doing deadlifts. He was worried about my lower back and asked if it would be alright for him to give me some pointers. I happily accepted because as it happens, I'm worried about my lower back too. I've been lifting for over two years and I'm still not happy with my form.
So he had me lower my weights down to babby and he coached for free for an hour. Quite the bro-move, abd I immediately noticed improvement, so I decided it was once again time to hire a personal trainer. Thank God for disposable income.
I made sure to ask him about his lifts this time, and they are twice that of mine so I should be in good hands.
I'm available for hire. I hope flight and accomodations are included in your disposable income
Just because it's disposable don't mean I wanna spend any more than I absolutely have to. I also need money for women, beer and meat. And a bigger apartment where I can ravage said women and store my beer and meat. After that I'll get a new car.
Is it helpful in anyway? First time I saw someone with it I thought it was incredibly retarded, but, I was wondering not about using it in the gym, but instead to gain (some) conditioning the 4-8 hours I spend seated in front of the comp every day.
wait wait wait, Supple Leopard was written by eshlow? .. time to order the book.
hey guys, i was wondering if it is time to move to another program, i have been doing SL for 5 months, and i really liked it, i started to stale in some lifts but nothing serious yet, i still want to focus on strenght if its possible, i have read about some other programs like ice cream 5x5 but i want to keep it simple, can you recommend me some other program so i can start some research about the exercises?
On January 16 2014 12:02 Topin wrote: wait wait wait, Supple Leopard was written by eshlow? .. time to order the book.
hey guys, i was wondering if it is time to move to another program, i have been doing SL for 5 months, and i really liked it, i started to stale in some lifts but nothing serious yet, i still want to focus on strenght if its possible, i have read about some other programs like ice cream 5x5 but i want to keep it simple, can you recommend me some other program so i can start some research about the exercises?
Texas Method and Madcow's are both good beginner/intermediate programs. I think 5/3/1 progresses way too slowly for someone who's only been lifting for 5 months. It's much better suited for advanced lifters. You can also look into more exercise-specific programs like Coan-Philipi and Smolov if there's a specific lift you want to focus on (because it's a weakness or you just like it, whatever).
I think as you get more advanced you need to start doing more, not less. Also, as you get more advanced, you need to start learning to program by yourself and auto regulate. Strength training is more of an art than a science (always wanted to say that). An intermediate step is finding out where your current weaknesses are (need more muscle, need more flexibility, need more practice on the main lifts, etc) and find a program that suits those needs.
I would strongly suggest some sort of classic powerlifting mass building routine (main lift followed by 2-3 assistance exercises) or switch to oly lifting style training entirely.
Yeah, I need to get bigger because I feel like at my current size, I won't gain much more strength. Bench stalled out at 270 and I lost 10lb since then which didn't help. Right now I'm bringing up my squat with smolov base mesocycle with 5lb weekly jumps and doing dragon boat training for upper body so hopefully I can put on some mass and work up to 400lb squat and 300lb bench by end of 2014
Also, totally agree with having to start doing more as you progress. My bench was stalled at 255 until I started doing coan's bench program and I hit 270 in a couple of months. My squat was stuck at 315 for an entire year until I started doing smolov and hit 335 in a month. I can't DL frequently due to back injury but at least that's at a respectable 385. I assume it'll go up along with my squat
Waste of a week... been sick as hell since Sunday... still sick. Vitamin D bombing and antibiotics (antibiotics doing well). The air quality in Seoul is shitttttttttttttttttttttttt the past few days... I think it's making me worse. >_< I haven't been sick for more than say, 2-3 days in a long, long time...
[x] quit fapping [x] quit dota [x] quit hearthstone [x] give in college assignments [x] dont smoke (currently 2 days smoking out of 38 days) [x] start running again (after wrecking shins) [x] start gym again (after 30 days noshow) [x] eat & sleep really well
general aims:
- get lifts back - study time daily - get a job - mobility for squat & front squat - stay away from risk factors eg cocacola which makes me go hyper and smoke, gaming which fucks my back and willpower
longterm aims:
bp 100kg ohp 60kg dl 160kg sq 90kg perfect form pu 5 rep perfect form pc 80kg
ps mp3player makes running 10x better!! get one! and makes 1hr20 bus rides bearable
I'm at ~193lbs right now, up from ~160 this time last year, feel better than I have since highschool. Hell probably even better than I did in hs (hi shitty teenage diet.) I want to gain the last few lbs to 200, thus far have done it completely clean gaining very little fat. (I dunno how much exactly I gained if any, but it's not much.) Eating is becoming a chore and a half, and kinda expensive, maybe I just need to get used to it.
After I hit 200, I want to cut, go on Paleo and reduce my consumption slightly to lose some bf%. Probably start a bit of cardio too since I have been neglecting it for a while now. I want to get real abs, not the ones I have now where you can kinda see the top 4 but around the belly button is a little fat covering the rest.
Training goals --
Be able to do at least 1 muscle-up (not sure if this is reasonable for the time period, have been neglecting chin ups as well.)
Squat- I'd like to get it to at least match my pr bench ~120kg. My left knee has always been shit, I sprained it in October making it much worse and had to go on some anti inflammatory meds to let it heal, then doctor cleared me for squatting so have been working on rehabing it the last month or so. Going very well so far, feels better than it has since I was a kid! Right now staying on lower weight and practicing form while my left leg catches up to the right.
So I found a Coan bench program calculator and it seems like it's way too easy to begin, am I missing something. If it's shut up and follow the program I'm game just don't want to screw it up.
On January 17 2014 00:53 mordek wrote: So I found a Coan bench program calculator and it seems like it's way too easy to begin, am I missing something. If it's shut up and follow the program I'm game just don't want to screw it up.
If your bench isn't that high, it isn't worth using. It's a program for people who are plateauing and a small % gain over 12 weeks is significant. Going from 200 -> 220 is 10% but not that significant for 12 weeks whereas 300->330 would be much more significant. (Rough numbers, nut sure what that exact program is designed to do).
Reaggravated the pulled something-or-other in my upper back going for a deadlift today. Can't lean forward or turn my neck. More upset that I missed the deadlift than anything else.
Weight gain progress is going well. Back up to 190, which is faster than I wanted, but I'm figuring the extra 2 lbs is water. We'll see how things continue to go!
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