Teamliquid Health and Fitness Initiative for 2014 - Page 34

On February 28 2014 23:27 Najda wrote:


Honestly what do you expect from the general population who browses AdviceAnimals.

My favorite quote/saying (and I really wish I could find the source) is something like "Find what everyone is doing, and do the exact opposite." and it applies to so many areas of life. The road less walked is very often the better one, because if what everyone was doing was the best way then everyone would be getting the results.

On March 01 2014 09:29 Volband wrote:
Haven't posted here in a while, because I did not want to until I got through the 60 kg threshold. This wednesday I weighed 60,7, so my initial goal is accomplished, but I won't set anything new for me, aside from trying to hold my weight.

I cheated a bit, buying 2x1kg of calorie shake; I was 57,7 when first bought it, and the 60,7 was the day after I finished the second 1kg, so I'll be curious how much can I maintain by Monday. Now, before you judge, I've been getting a tooth of mine pulled every 2 weeks (and will be for at least 2 more times), which meant for 2 days I could only ate like a slice of bread in 2 hours with some painkillers. Also, if your main extra calories are from milk and cheese, then you are also fucked for at least a week. I eat more now, though I'm pretty much switching between the same 2-3 foods with snacks (chips, peanut) and the occasional bananas. I thought I touched God's leg, when I saw that 100g mayonnaise has like 600+ calories in it, too bad I wasn't told that mayonnaise sucks ass.

People say my face got bigger (I can't see it and don't know if I should be happy with it, haha), and my arms and chest are drastically different, howewer my belly got bigger. My trainer said if I dare to start with the "I should lose some weight" talk he'd kill me, but how am I gonna burn the fat from there?! It's nice that my stomach aches from situps, but it does stuff under the fat, so it doesn't really help. I can't really see my back, and wouldn't even know what to look for there, so I'm just gonna assume it looks good, and the same goes for my legs, except I can see them. They are definetly there, but that's all.

As for the main exercises and where I am with them:
Bench press: 6x45, but I'm confiden I could do 47,5 by Monday.
Squat: 5x60; I can feel I could do more, but it's still the most terryfying exercise for me. I failed benching one, and I had no one to spot, so I had to roll it over me, but it was nothing compared to the one time I wasn't concentraing enough during squatting, lost form, and the weight almost twisted my right arm. Jesus, that hurt, but I managed to not to drop it, and put the weight back. Now I use those metal pipes, so in theory if I were to drop the weight, they would stop it, but that doesn't really make me comfortable. People don't really spot for squats there (most of the squatters are on the smith machine anyway), and I wouldn't drag 2 people to me to stop and stare every time I decide to squat. So yeah, I'm not quite sure how to move up yet.
Deadlift: 5x60 - that' around the most I can do 5 with, but my problem here is that it's killing my hands. I switched grip, and it helped at 40, but now it sucks again. I don't know if buying a glove would worth it. I mean, I don't want to look like an idiot, who buys a glove just to look professional, when I just wanted to ease the pain, but at the end it would hurt all the same, haha.

That's all the heavylifting I do. The bench press and squat are done 98% of the times, sometimes I leave out deadlift due to time constraints.

My newest misery is that the side of my lower arms are hurting like hell; it feels like there's an extra bone in there that just wouldn't move, so if I try to lift my arms, it says "fuck you". The coach said I stressed it too much, but I don't do any heavy activities besides working out 3 times a week, so I don't know. And guess what's the only exercise it hinders greatly: biceps curls. I had to skip it for like a month due to my injury, and now this. I should do another biceps exercise...

Aaaaand big guys are indeed helpful and friendly. The other day I was told that my deadlift form is nice. Hah! It was nice to know I'm murdering my hands for a reason. Also, the coach praised the source where I got the idea to squat and deadlift from, so that's for you guys! He said newcomers usually not willing to do these. I tried to convince my cousin to do squats, but he's already amused by his upper body, and I can't really say why should he do them. He rather took up two other leg exercises, even though he read it himself squats are good, I told him you (experienced) guys said it's good, and the coach said it's good. To be honest, I don't know why it's good either, because all I've experienced since heavy squatting is that I can't walk (no joke, I'm literally unable to walk fast longer than like 35-40 seconds, then my legs just paralyze on the middle of the street), but I #believe.

And if you brought up the girls... I know I'm there to do the exercises, and there are a million posters on the wall that says shut the fuck up and train, but the majority of the girls are wearing asstight leggings and some T-shirt that's barely not pierced by their boobs. And they do the exercises with 0 plus weights. Come ON. I'm trying to relax between sets, and then I can't look anywhere, cuz I either see bottoms, tits, or the previous two in one of the mirrors. The only exceptions are some of the mature women, and the girls who trying to lose weight. I never saw a girl doing bench for example, though I'm not quite sure what chest exercises would do for them... still, it's annoying that most of them don't do anything. Oh, and don't get me started with the exercises you only see done by girls. Like that one where they sit in, and spread their legs. Good fucking luck resting between benches.

On March 01 2014 09:36 IgnE wrote:


Yeah the general public commonly holds onto erroneous beliefs born of misunderstanding. For example, look at this topical Slate article:

http://www.slate.com/blogs/browbeat/2013/08/15/orange_is_the_new_black_on_road_less_traveled_show_gets_robert_frost_poem.html

On March 01 2014 12:14 FFGenerations wrote:
if your grip is weak then it helps if you think of the deadlift as a grip exercise. strong grip is awesome, so feel happy to be training it when you deadlift. (dont fuck around with different grips or gloves)

build up a good base strength before worrying about cutting. say like, "i will not worry about cutting weight until next february"

for biceps/arms you really want to start doing pullups (not chinups) as soon as possible

as your self respect and confidence grows, you will be less infatuated with other people/women around you

On March 01 2014 10:02 phyre112 wrote:
@volband, don't worry on the "belly fat" you can cut it later when you learn how to eat & maintain a decent bodyweight. Just keep lifting, and lifting heavier. Eat more protein. If you've got crap like teeth pulling going on, then just do what you can, no one will judge you for it except yourself.

Are you doing your curls with a barbell? I like hammer curls the most, and EZ bar curls MAYBE when it comes to working biceps. Anything else, in my experience just ends up with stress injuries after a couple weeks. Also when I'm having problems anywhere around my elbows (especially triceps) reverse curls with an ezbar seem to help me sort it out. See if you can do those for like 3x10 at the end of 1 or 2 workouts/week. For girls in the gym.... eh. Do your thing let them do theirs. Like you said you can't help but see it, but just focus on your own workout and get shit done!

On March 01 2014 19:55 Volband wrote:

The problem is that it erases my skin under my middle-, ring- and little finger and/or makes it hard there, like I've been working on a construction site. By other grip I meant the one that's even suggested as an alternative in the deadlift training videos, so nothing experimental.

Next february?:D I was hoping I could do sth with it by summer.

On March 01 2014 19:55 Volband wrote:

I've tried it with everything, with different barbells, with dumbbells (not the hammer curls though) so after 2 months of training I'm still at the low end with biceps weights.