TL Health and Fitness Initiative 2010 - Page 203

On December 12 2010 05:44 sJarl wrote:
On a side note: how many of you do specific work for the rotator cuff?

On December 12 2010 05:54 travis wrote:
u know the weirdest thing is that i can just act like im chewing food and it won't necessarily cramp up

but as soon as i even fucking take a tiny bit of real food it cramps up immediately




well, maybe it's passed now. *tries to eat his food*


edit: no it hasn't. i just picked up my plate of food and fucking LOOKED AT IT and my jaw started cramping

wtf is going on?? this is the weirdest shit in the world

On December 12 2010 05:45 travis wrote:
lately ive been getting cramps in my jaw

Increase freq is only a problem if there's increased workload.

Soemthing like SS where you're 3x a week with only 3-4 exercises per workout is fairly easy to recover from.

4-5x a week full body is less likely to recover from unelss you have good conditioning level.

Again, I have no clue what you're actually doing so its hard to say. If you're on some sort of split would say just to drop it and go with a full body routine 3x a week.

Symptoms associated with TMJ disorders may be:
Biting or chewing difficulty or discomfort
Clicking, popping, or grating sound when opening or closing the mouth
Dull, aching pain in the face
Earache (particularly in the morning)
Headache (particularly in the morning)
Hearing loss
Migraine (particularly in the morning)
Jaw pain or tenderness of the jaw
Reduced ability to open or close the mouth
Tinnitus
Neck and shoulder pain

On December 12 2010 07:32 Sinep wrote:


I posted my workouts/exercise splits, so I'm not sure what you mean by having no clue what I'm doing.
Is it actually realistic to be able to do, for example, deadlift, bench, squats and chinups all on the same day, 3x a week and be able to regularly increase weights? I've been working out for ~2years where I've been benching regularly (squats and deadlift were added to my workout after the summer this year) so can I really expect a sort of "novice effect" that's seen in SS doing this?

On December 12 2010 07:37 BcGladiator wrote:
Hey Travis, just did some brief research (aka googling) and came to a page on temporomandibular joint disorder on wikipedia.

+ Show Spoiler +

Now I'm not a doctor or an expert by any stretch of the imagination, but here is something that does explain the symptoms, and you can also check if you have any of the other symptoms associated with said disorder.

If lifts squat/DL aren't above 1.5-1.75x bodyweight you can do linear progression. bench about 1.25-1.5x

On December 12 2010 18:02 RosaParksStoleMySeat wrote:


I think that novice status is more about experience on linear progression programs.

There are going to be genetic freaks who start out with a 300 pound x5 squat, and then move up to a 500 pound squat over the course of a few months. They were already strong--as strong as people typically get after about 5 months of SS--but they were still novices due to the fact that they had not ever been on a linear progression program before.

On December 12 2010 20:13 Sinep wrote:
When you say lift x1.25 is that 1RM or 5RM you count?

On December 12 2010 20:21 unknown.sam wrote:
^ with these ratios i believe it's at least 1RM.