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but qualified for the American Open finals in December. All in all pretty happy considering my shoulder has barely been functioning the past couple weeks and I had a pretty epic save on my 165kg jerk to post a total.TeamLiquid Health and Fitness Initiative For 2023 - Page 206
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decafchicken
United States20105 Posts
but qualified for the American Open finals in December. All in all pretty happy considering my shoulder has barely been functioning the past couple weeks and I had a pretty epic save on my 165kg jerk to post a total. | ||
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mordek
United States12705 Posts
Squat 405 (PR) Bench 225 (obviously lagging and I could've possibly done more but I injure myself benching every time I push it) Dead 405 (PR) About time really and it felt good to feel good lifting heavy  | ||
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decafchicken
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mordek
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FFGenerations
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1) went to a big chain gym in a city, Gold's Gym. (the other big chain is Anytime Fitness, i think...not sure if there're others). it was $25 just to have 1 session. i was too tired to bother for that sort of price so left. think the monthly price was about $110 (or more). 2) went to the local gym (a medium-small complex with big swimming pool) to look around. they have about 5 machines (leg press, lat pulldown bar, some weird side push thing, you know the sort). no pullup bar, but the chief trainer showed me that you can rig one out of the lat pulldown if you know the trick. thank god. the heaviest dumbell is 10kg but there's a screw-end dumbell so i can build my own one with the handful of weights there. no bench, no rack. 3) attached to the above complex is a separately-advertised 'personal trainer' program. the guy owns a room next door with his own squat rack/bench/weights. it's about $124 for 16 seventy-minute sessions. you need him to accompany you. standard is 2x a week, i said i might be interested in 3x. that'd be ~4 weeks for ~$100 i guess. but 70 minute sessions is a little short, and having a guy stand there with me all the time? he sorta hinted that maybe i'm better off at the above complex gym instead, and I agree, i don't want to have to be phoning this guy to re-arrange one of my 16 meet-up sessions all the time. 4) went to the other 'local' gym. it's a big complex in an industrial park about 20 mins bike ride away. went on monday at first, but of course gyms aren't open in japan on mondays, duh. also gyms in japan don't tend to open before 10am. like, if you try to visit a gym before 10am, expect it to be closed, afaik. it's like expecting to be able to buy size 12 shoes or an XL sized jacket (japan XL, not american XL) within an entire town. expect to simply not find any, unless you're paying mid-high range prices. anyway, i went back there today because it's not a monday. forgot my gym shoes but they had rental ones, thank god. i don't think 'training in your socks' is a thing in japan, afaik they will just say 'no.' gym just isn't really a thing there, so anything out of the ordinary is definitely not going to be permitted. the girls got the chief guy to come out to me. he showed me that you pay for membership via a vending machine at the door. you put in money and get a ticket, take the ticket back to the girls, pay for rental shoes, take your shoes to the shoes locker, give the key back to the girls, who give you another locker key, go to the changing rooms where you put your other stuff in a locker, then he led me through to the gym part of the complex. there were, i think, 3 machines, and 5 treadmills, and a mat. that was it. i really expected a bench and rack there, it's a huge complex in an industrial park, called a fitness park, and the other local gym woman seemed pretty sure it had more facilities than them. there were zero free weights. the man with me then spend about 5 minutes trying to explain something to me, i couldn't understand at first. turns out that he was trying to explain that the rule of the gym is that you need to be able to read japanese so you can read the safety instructions on the side of the 3 little machines. i'm literally talking a push machine, a lat pulldown, and something else i didn't even bother to look what it was. finally i understood that he was trying to ask if i had a japanese friend who could come and read the instructions on the side of the machines for me. it was so laughable. he then led me back to the locker to get my stuff, trade the key, get my shoes, get a refund for my ticket and for the shoe rental, and off i went back home. that is my experience with japanese gyms so far. it's kinda sad. the kids are all very sporty (they're forced to all do 1 sporting club after school every single day, at my school), but working people do not gym it seems, or maybe some of them run. the working hours in japan are said to be really retarded (like finish at 7pm), and afterwards - i have been told - cannot confirm - the culture is to go to a bar/restaurant after work every single day with friends or coworkers, then just go home late. i don't know to what extent that is the case, but i'll find out eventually. maybe going to my new gym (when i can get some money out to sub to it) will show me what sort of people go there after work reposted at http://www.teamliquid.net/blogs/533081-gym-in-japan | ||
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GoTuNk!
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FFGenerations
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phyre112
United States3090 Posts
On April 19 2018 23:25 FFGenerations wrote: nearest chain gym is an hour by bus Crossfit box =/= chain gym. | ||
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Jerubaal
United States7684 Posts
On April 19 2018 21:25 GoTuNk! wrote: Find a Crossfit Gym, there must be at least one nearby. See if you can work a deal to train by yourself, most owners will be ok with that if you don't look like you will hurt urself. He looks like he'd hurt himself. JK JK. I've been doing the Mutant Strength Program for about 14 weeks now and I've been super exhausted since Easter (not in the gym, just in general), even though I've been getting plenty of sleep. I stopped lifting since Monday and I've felt a lot better. It just goes to show that you have a limit. I'll try to get back on it next week. | ||
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FFGenerations
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AoN.DimSum
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phyre112
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For reference, last time I tested maxes I hit singles at 415/270/455 back in early november. I lost a lot of strength immediately after that by cutting - end of January I missed a 345 single squat multiple training sessions in a row, but it looks like I'm back. Looking good for my meet coming up may 12th. Competing at just a bit over the cap on the 220 class (I'm 220-225 most days with 0 intention of cutting any time soon) and feeling good about it, still very underweight for powerlifting though and looking to be a 242 come January. I have a bit of a volume taper with some higher intensity weights the next two weeks, and then some easy days leading into the competition. I'd like to open at 385/260/455 (174/118/206 kg) for an 1100 lb total (498kg) the way things are feeling right now, and hopefully total over 1200 (544kg) by the time everything is wrapped up. Would especially like to get a 500+ lb deadlift out of the way - I'm positive I have it if everything goes right, possibly even as a second attempt, just haven't worked at that kind of intensity level in quite a bit of time, so can't say if I'll hold up to singles the way I "should" | ||
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FFGenerations
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On April 21 2018 16:18 AoN.DimSum wrote: What type of lifting do you do in the gym? Crossfit gyms are really expensive in Japan from what I heard. Also I missed out on going to Japan last year to cover Junior worlds .i just wanna look decent and not have a heart attack , i'll get by on leg press (never done it before! exciting!!), pullups, pushups, some dumbell work, ab work, and running ^-^ can't fucking go until my bank transfer works tho, and banks are closed in japan every weekend after friday 10am (wut) (and bank transfers take 4-8 days apparently anyway..........duh (my bank estimated 24 hours, gj with that one)) | ||
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FFGenerations
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it's the japanese version of cheese n mash/jacket potato much healthier tho :D it's basically candy soup ![[image loading]](https://i.imgur.com/pWSMiF9.jpg) | ||
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Malinor
Germany4732 Posts
Weigh in at 113.4 kg, which is definitely too high again... well. Squat went ok, 190, 200, 205. My condition definitely cost me 5-10kg,.. my completely rested lower back just felt like shit from the start. I know I was good for 215. Bench was good: 115, 125, 132.5. I don't think the flu affected me here, you don't need much lower back involvement when benching. By that time I was totally exhausted and finished with an easy 125kg Deadlift and called it a day. I believe that was a smart decision. 7/7 is nice, but my Wilks still sucks. I need to tighten up my diet again and learn how to Sumo Deadlift. I just don't recover well from Conventional Deadlifts (again a lower back issue) and cannot train them with the needed volume to progress. Next competition is in August. I hope I will be back healthy and in good shape. | ||
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mordek
United States12705 Posts
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IgnE
United States7681 Posts
On May 08 2018 19:12 FFGenerations wrote: rice and soggy fried eggs (in butter) it's the japanese version of cheese n mash/jacket potato much healthier tho :D it's basically candy soup gross dude | ||
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phyre112
United States3090 Posts
On May 08 2018 19:12 FFGenerations wrote: rice and soggy fried eggs (in butter) it's the japanese version of cheese n mash/jacket potato much healthier tho :D it's basically candy soup I dont think there's ever a time to be excited about using the word "soggy" when referring to food. On May 08 2018 20:05 Malinor wrote: I had a Powerlifting meet this weekend. I was really sick with the Flu, that didn't help at all. But I needed the competition to qualify for nationals. Weigh in at 113.4 kg, which is definitely too high again... well. Squat went ok, 190, 200, 205. My condition definitely cost me 5-10kg,.. my completely rested lower back just felt like shit from the start. I know I was good for 215. Bench was good: 115, 125, 132.5. I don't think the flu affected me here, you don't need much lower back involvement when benching. By that time I was totally exhausted and finished with an easy 125kg Deadlift and called it a day. I believe that was a smart decision. 7/7 is nice, but my Wilks still sucks. I need to tighten up my diet again and learn how to Sumo Deadlift. I just don't recover well from Conventional Deadlifts (again a lower back issue) and cannot train them with the needed volume to progress. Next competition is in August. I hope I will be back healthy and in good shape. sucks to get sick going into comp. Was that deadlift a typo for 225, or did you basically put up a token lift? I'm hoping to total similarly (560kg) if i go 9/9 on saturday, at 100kg bw. Race you to a 400 wilks. now to august is plenty of time to learn sumo. Good luck with it! | ||
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Malinor
Germany4732 Posts
400 Wilks is the goal, 670 total@105 . I am gonna let someone do my programming for me now, I am Bad at doing this for myself. On the other hand I am coaching that very talented girl, she did 376 Wilks After only 8 months of serious POwerlifting Training. Working with her is tons of fun, so that lifted my Spirits. | ||
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