TL Health and Fitness Initiative 2010 - Page 101

eshlow: back is bugging me again during flexion What should i do? Stretches and such? Keep/stop deadlifting (back doesnt hurt while doing squats/deads)? See a chiropractor?

On August 09 2010 08:57 ret wrote:
after 5 days in budapest doing nothing but walk/swim/party on very little sleep, i got home on saturday and hit the gym on sunday working my legs/core and i played tennis for 2,5 hrs in the afternoon..

then for the first time ever i fainted around 11.30 pm, i was talking to 2 friends (we smoked a joint as well..), got dizzy for a few minutes and then it was just like boom, some1 just turned the lights off. I was out for 5-10 seconds then i heard my friends shouting my name and pulling me up, after that they gave me a candy bar, im fine now but i was slightly dizzy/off for an hour or 2, fucking weird experience it was just like falling asleep, not really unpleasent at all

I ate plenty of food during the day as well..

guess my body is under a lot of stress from losing weight and so much exercize..

should I consider resting more or is just something innocent?

ill meet up with a doctor so he can check me out just to make sure..

On August 08 2010 23:56 AoN.DimSum wrote:
wtf? how do you guys lift with a hangover? i remember i tried once, i couldnt even warmup on snatch. I missed on like 50. Then my coach just told me to go home lol

On August 09 2010 14:53 decafchicken wrote:


idk its usually crappy but after a good sweat i feel a lot better

On August 09 2010 23:16 unknown.sam wrote:

endorphins ftw


went with moderate/light weights on bench press today. my left shoulder kinda got hurt. not the sharp pain during the exercise but more of a dull pain after the 2nd set. proly due to my awful form. i felt so uncoordinated benching T_T

btw from what i've read about benching, they say you have to push your back into the bench rather than pushing the weight off your chest.

so my question is, should i still be able to feel like may back is digging into the bench even if í'm only benching an empty bar? or is this only possible when the weights get heavy??

On August 10 2010 09:30 decafchicken wrote:
I'm in complete beast mode right now.
Took a full serving of jack3d this time and had a steady elevated state of energy for my whole 2 hour workout.
Maxed out at 445. Got a shitty rep(only have a vid of this one ) the first time so i did another and got parallel but my back was BARELY stuck and my spotter gave me a tap and i shot up through it. i'm calling it good lol :D
Was still feel great so i put on 455 with wraps + belt and got two solid reps rofl. I think i could get ~465 if i was competing. Which puts me competative at the like 170 class rofl.
My buddy had some wrist wraps so i realized what an idiot i was for not running to the store immediately and buying some. i repped 5x5 at 205 pretty easily. even did a set of 4 at 225. Wrist didn't feel awesome but definitely manageable with the wraps. Then did a bunch of pull ups (got a set of 15, new pr )
Then i was still feeling great so i did 3 intervals balls to the wall and then 3x70m sprints. My speed and conditioning feel better than i ever have.
I will be thoroughly disappointed if i dont literally dominate everyone at my rugby tournament on saturday. This week will take forever.
Deadlifting heavy ending up at my old max on wednesday, then maxing out hopefully 485 next monday.

edit: as a bonus my back feels the best it has in a couple weeks.

On August 10 2010 10:08 kainzero wrote:


On the plus side, deadlifted 315x1x5 yesterday. Didn't think I could do it, but I pulled through in the clutch and felt really good afterward. For me the hardest part about deadlifting is the liftoff...