As in my hands are sliding to a wider grip. Say I begin and my index finger is on the ring on the bar. After a few reps my hands start sliding out wider... until say, my hand is completely past the ring on the bar...I should have mentioned my hands, sorry.

Osmoses

Sweden5302 Posts

January 27 2014 13:06 GMT

#343

Sounds like pretty dangerous amounts of handsweat. Or a shitty bar. Chalk I guess, or closer grip.

mordek

United States12705 Posts

January 27 2014 13:33 GMT

#344

Seriously, is there no knurling on the bar? Chalk seems like the easiest solution if there aren't better bars :\

SoleSteeler

Canada5458 Posts

January 27 2014 14:05 GMT

#345

The bar is pretty smooth. There is knurling though yes... So it's not just...me? Hmm.

Najda

United States3765 Posts

January 27 2014 14:11 GMT

#346

It's still weird for your hands to slide outwards, there shouldn't really be much force in that direction.

mordek

United States12705 Posts

January 27 2014 14:12 GMT

#347

Pulling the bar apart is a pretty common cue though.

Najda

United States3765 Posts

January 27 2014 15:09 GMT

#348

On January 27 2014 23:12 mordek wrote:
Pulling the bar apart is a pretty common cue though.

I thought it was more trying to bend the bar, which seems like it'd make it harder for your hands to slip.

mordek

United States12705 Posts

January 27 2014 15:10 GMT

#349

On January 28 2014 00:09 Najda wrote:

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I thought it was more trying to bend the bar, which seems like it'd make it harder for your hands to slip.

Those are both helpful cues

It's similar to splitting the earth for squatting. You still want to torque your feet (breaking the bar) of course.

Having some issues with deep squats. In my constant struggle to figure out my SI issues I'm pretty sure deep squats are what aggravate it. Need to look into some pelvic tilt control stuff or something... deadlift, ghr, leg press are no problem but if I squat full range of motion with just the bar or try a snatch it's gg for the rest of the day. Also getting some posterior lateral knee pain in my reconstructed acl knee. pretty sure it's where I had meniscus dmg :\ also only hurts in deep flexion.

Osmoses

Sweden5302 Posts

January 27 2014 20:31 GMT

#350

Alright so here's my progress in terms of weightloss. I started out in the fall of 2010, weighing in at about 108kg. I don't have a shirtless picture from that time but I was obviously fatty-fat-fat. I dicked around in the gym not knowing wtf I was doing and lost a couple kilos, but it wasn't until I discovered leangains somewhere around 2011-2012 that I learned about real lifting, barbell lifting, deadlifts squats etc, and a bunch of shit about carbs, fats and proteins.

I believe I was at around 102kg when I started out properly, but in about 5-6 months I had lost 12kg down to 90kg. I was impatient, I raced the last couple of kilos, and by the end I was completely fed up with eating nothing and seeing all my precious lifts drop. So, I went on a dirty bulk. About a month into it I screwed up both my arms somehow (something to do with the way I twisted them up when doing lowbar squats). This meant I could basically only squat, but I kept on with the dirty bulk anyway because big macs are fucking delicious.

This is me around November 2012, something like 104kg shortly before I achieved 3x5x100kg in squats:

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At the start of 2013 I went something like "fucking hell, goddamnit" and started slowly dieting again. I took it real easy this time in order to not burn myself out, so I still ate shitty foods, I just cut down on the amounts. That summer I looked alright, somewhere around 92-93kg I think, and I was focusing on other stuff, because it was summer and summer is awesome. So I gained a couple kilograms back up to about 97-98kg until somewhere around september where I started to half-ass diet again down to 92kg, just in time for christmas and new years and om nom nom I fucking love chocolate back up to 96kg.

I've set one goal in stone for myself since a couple years back however, and that is to not enter my thirties without a sixpack. My birthday is in june, and this is what I look like right now, 88kg after about a month of serious dieting:

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I'm gonna enter my thirties with a sixpack, goddamnit, and I'm never taking it off. Never again dirty bulk.

I'll post another update on my birthday =)

mordek

United States12705 Posts

January 27 2014 20:44 GMT

#351

Nice progress Osmoses, keep at it! You can really tell the difference between pictures.

autoexec

United States530 Posts

January 27 2014 21:54 GMT

#352

Shitty lifting today cause I only got 4 hours of sleep

Oh and I showed a picture of Klokov to some females today and they said they preferred skinny people like zac efron. WTF IS WRONG WITH PEOPLE?

mordek

United States12705 Posts

January 27 2014 22:17 GMT

#353

Obviously too much for them to handle, I wouldn't worry about it

In all honesty he is just a bear of a man. It's impressive but it's not like I'd pick that physique over all others. It's more like I'll shoot for that and end up at Zac Efron levels lol.

MtlGuitarist97

United States1539 Posts

January 27 2014 22:18 GMT

#354

In all fairness, Zac Efron's not *that* small. I personally think that Liu Xiaojun or Rich Froning have better physiques, but a lot of people will disagree with me.

But physique is all down to preference. What some people think is ideal, others think is awful. Which is why if you just train for yourself and what makes you happy, you can never go wrong

Najda

United States3765 Posts

January 27 2014 22:34 GMT

#355

On January 28 2014 06:54 autoexec wrote:
Shitty lifting today cause I only got 4 hours of sleep

Oh and I showed a picture of Klokov to some females today and they said they preferred skinny people like zac efron. WTF IS WRONG WITH PEOPLE?

Not really surprised, Klokov is big to the point of it being intimidating/unrelatable. I'd be more surprised if they said that about someone with a physique like Lu Xiaojun.

decafchicken

United States20154 Posts

January 27 2014 22:43 GMT

#356

On January 28 2014 06:54 autoexec wrote:
Shitty lifting today cause I only got 4 hours of sleep

Oh and I showed a picture of Klokov to some females today and they said they preferred skinny people like zac efron. WTF IS WRONG WITH PEOPLE?

Have you seen klokov's wife? Alpha bear man did well for himself. Those girls are just lying to themselves obv. They might be overestimating him, he's probably around ~110kg which is smaller than anyone you'd really consider freakish looking in the NFL or WWE

autoexec

United States530 Posts

January 27 2014 22:57 GMT

#357

On January 28 2014 07:34 Najda wrote:

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Not really surprised, Klokov is big to the point of it being intimidating/unrelatable. I'd be more surprised if they said that about someone with a physique like Lu Xiaojun.

Immediately showed them Lu Xiaojun after that. Said the same thing...

And yes, Klokov's wife is very beautiful

MtlGuitarist97

United States1539 Posts

January 27 2014 22:59 GMT

#358

On January 28 2014 07:57 autoexec wrote:

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Immediately showed them Lu Xiaojun after that. Said the same thing...

And yes, Klokov's wife is very beautiful

Proceed to show them decaf and if they say the same thing then they just don't know what true godliness is

GoTuNk!

Chile4591 Posts

January 27 2014 23:42 GMT

#359

Girls also say the like nice guys that respect them.

So had to take a week off (T_T) to study for my grade exam (and get drunk 3 days in a row afterwards)

Will get back to oly lifting for a month or so untill I have to prepare for my next meet if my shoulder allows.

Clean up to 85kg, FS 100x3x3 lol. Clean felt super easy but the jerk was off (jerked up to 70 only)

Najda

United States3765 Posts

January 27 2014 23:44 GMT

#360

On January 28 2014 07:57 autoexec wrote:

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Immediately showed them Lu Xiaojun after that. Said the same thing...

And yes, Klokov's wife is very beautiful

I honestly think they have a skewed perception then considering Zac Effron is probably about the same weight as Lu Xiaojun. I realize we probably all have a bias here towards wanting to think girls find more muscular men attractive, but I don't think I'm biased in saying that.

Although if they actually prefer skinnier guys like Zac Efron then I'm in luck because that's essentially my bodytype already.