Weighed in at 228 lolz, hopefully drops a bit through the week
The fuck you doing crossfit for? Have we lost the DECAFO!??!
It's not crossfit...it's high intensity interval circuit cross training to get in shape for rugby...at a crossfit gym. My form is too good for anything I do to be called crossfit ^_^ Two of the rugby guys on my team opened up an xfit so we do team conditioning workouts there. Also, part of my brain may have been injured along with my PCL. Nobody knows.
Yesterday PM Clean pull to top of thigh + Power Clean + Jerk - Tons of reps from 70-105 then some back off doubles around 80 FULL FRONT SQUATS WHEEEE - 5x3 @ 20kg (lolololol) FULL SNATCH WHEEE - 1x1 @ 20kg. Suck it, PCL #dontbescaredyourwholelife #comebacksupplements
On February 05 2015 08:00 zatic wrote: I am on my 20th day of skiing and I had zero soreness ever anywhere while everyone else is crying. Thank you squats (and widowmakers).
On February 05 2015 03:59 mordek wrote: If I'm getting a sticking point on deadlift about an inch or two off the ground, does that indicate I should work on deficit deadlifts? Going to revisit and focus on great technique but I was annoyed to get my max off the ground but no more than a few inches off the ground twice last session. Might just be my hammies being weaklings
You can try deficit deadlifts to increase your speed of the floor and rush trough the sticking point, or slightly heavier partial deadlifts from your sticking point (this might actually be harder than regular at first lol)
I'll give both of those a try, thanks!
Might also be worth taking a look at your mechanics and playing around with different starting postitions and different degrees of knee vs hip extension. Sure there's a "right" way to do the lift that is going to be safest for a beginner, but there's also a "right for you" based on your proportions and strengths that you can start trying to figure out once you've been lifting a while.
On February 05 2015 08:00 zatic wrote: I am on my 20th day of skiing and I had zero soreness ever anywhere while everyone else is crying. Thank you squats (and widowmakers).
Did some power cleans and power jerks this morning...my right shoulder is a wreck on jerks and my left on snatches. I think I'm just going to cut out weighted jerks/snatches for the next ~month. I need to get my form down, whenever my torso leans forward with weight overhead, I end up internally rotating my shoulders too much. This was fine for a few years but overuse + rugby have made this impossible to continue. Just going to do soft tissue work, rehab type stuff on my rotators, pressing, and light weight work on technique and positioning. Need to get some massages too, my subscaps and traps are just an insane mess.
I've been doing Stronglifts 5x5 for a while now, and it's going quite well. Barbell rowing is hard to do properly I find, but I'm learning. :p
I've been doing a little bit of isolation work on the side and while this has been a problem in the past, it's obviously not helped by the 5x5 workout, so I'll ask here.
My left arm is a decent amount weaker than my right arm. I can do a good 4-5 reps more on my right arm than my left when I do curls or flyes, it's pretty weird. I suppose because my arms are both not that big right now it's not even visible, but I expect I should really get this straight or it might become a big issue later. Any tips on getting my arms on the same level?
It's probably an activation issue with your nervous system, not a structural issue with the muscles. It will clear up over time as you continue lifting weights and develop a better mind-muscle connection.
On February 07 2015 10:21 IgnE wrote: It's probably an activation issue with your nervous system, not a structural issue with the muscles. It will clear up over time as you continue lifting weights and develop a better mind-muscle connection.
^ I don't know what the science is, but when I started out I had a similar issue (though not as pronounced). It just evened itself out over time.
Hmm, felt like I was making some progress with farva's split (no fault placed on the routine) but the 1 month progress pic looks pretty much the same. It's not a bad thing but I like progress for the sake of progress and I was really looking forward to posting about it, thought it was going to be noticeable. Going to stick with it but shift more time/energy towards endurance stuff by cutting a few lifts out. We'll see how it goes.
Not a ton. But I was doing a lot more hypertrophy stuff than I was. I literally had trouble spotting anything different. In my mind I was looking different but the picture tells me otherwise! Might have just been the time / difference in pump etc. It was probably silly to expect at this stage in my lifting life. I was also planning on transitioning away for the "bulk" stuff because I need to run a half and tough mudder in the near future so was hoping to have a little more at this point.
If I drop my calories intake by 300-400 a day but eat enough protein, do I lose fat without losing the muscles I gained over winter?
Also, if I bulked up in winter but have some belly fat (which I always had since 14, 25 now) and let's say I bench pressed 100, now that I cut should I limit myself to 100 or drop lower? I suppose since I'm cutting it makes no sense to push my limits and increase my maximum but rather I should keep it, right?
On February 10 2015 01:56 SoSexy wrote: If I drop my calories intake by 300-400 a day but eat enough protein, do I lose fat without losing the muscles I gained over winter?
Also, if I bulked up in winter but have some belly fat (which I always had since 14, 25 now) and let's say I bench pressed 100, now that I cut should I limit myself to 100 or drop lower? I suppose since I'm cutting it makes no sense to push my limits and increase my maximum but rather I should keep it, right?
You lose both, but you lose a greater proportion of fat than muscle. Depending on where you're starting from, it goes two ways - either you start to see how much muscle you've actually accumulated, it surprises you, and you feel good, or you start to realize exactly how much fat you had, you get tiny, and you get discouraged. Either way, don't let it stop you. I can safely say from experience that floating around maintenance calories and never committing to a cut or a bulk is the fastest route to making absolutely no progress whatsoever.
You may need to decrease volume or frequency as you get to the later stages of a cut, but you should attempt to keep intensity as high as possible. If your volume or frequency are taking BIG hits, you may be eating to little, especially too little carbohydrates.
Any of you more diet-savvy people have any thoughts on this? One of my clients had her metabolism tested (i didn't even know you could do this) and had this question:
What would my fitness friends say about a RMA that shows my body burning 87% carbs/13% fat as opposed to the 'optimum' 80% fat/20% carbs? A problem? Not a problem? Indicative of anything performance or recovery wise?
On February 10 2015 01:56 SoSexy wrote: If I drop my calories intake by 300-400 a day but eat enough protein, do I lose fat without losing the muscles I gained over winter?
Also, if I bulked up in winter but have some belly fat (which I always had since 14, 25 now) and let's say I bench pressed 100, now that I cut should I limit myself to 100 or drop lower? I suppose since I'm cutting it makes no sense to push my limits and increase my maximum but rather I should keep it, right?
I dropped my caloric intake a few months back (started last May) and increased my protein intake to support my gym work, and basically I went from 185lbs to 155lbs (in October) and pretty much dropped mostly fat. Taking BCAAs and other support amino acids helped, in my opinion. Now I'm up to about 160-165lbs after going to a more normal caloric intake while maintaining a higher protein intake.
So I think you do lose a little muscle, but overall a lot more fat if you are active. That being said, it sucked balls to do that phase. Doing a bulk and cut might be more reasonable. The reason is because when I was cutting, it was very hard to find energy to work out and do my normal work in one day. So for your second question, I would say to expect a lack of energy to push your limit. You may be able to bench press 100, but don't expect to do it for as many reps.
I'm much happier now at a reasonable caloric intake while working out hard than when I was cutting and working out hard. But I will admit, it was a nice feeling to have everyone notice my 30lb weight loss in about 5 months.
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