I started downing half a gallon of whole milk a day to dedicate myself completely to this bulk. All four of my lifts (squat, press, bench, dead) are starting to slow down, and I've already had to reset two of them. I'm hoping to squeeze at least another 60 pounds out of the squat, bench, and dead, but I know that's optimistic for my bench.
Someone asked me earlier why my chin-ups were so much stronger than my pull-ups. I think it's the bicep involvement; I've always had pretty strong biceps. On the other hand, I'd never really trained my lats before this, which would make my pull-ups the weaker of the two.
From Monday I'm starting week six. I feel good going into it; my squat form improved dramatically after the 10% reset, and I'm sure my overhead press will do the same. I'm most looking forward to chin-ups though. They've become my favorite exercise.
so, eshlow, there is a part of my body that is chronically tight but i don't really know how to stretch it it's on the outside of my left leg, next to my knee god, i don't know how to describe it but if i sit like this:
except with my legs farther out(but feet still together), and lean forward at all, it REALLY feels tight and bad on my left leg. kind of on the bottom, on the outside, around the area of the knee i think it's related to the big tendon(is that a tendon or a bone? i think it's a tendon) that runs down my leg
i also feel it in other stretches such as pigeon pose
but none of them actually feel like they stretch it, they just feel like they make it uncomfortable
On July 24 2010 23:29 RosaParksStoleMySeat wrote: Someone asked me earlier why my chin-ups were so much stronger than my pull-ups. I think it's the bicep involvement; I've always had pretty strong biceps. On the other hand, I'd never really trained my lats before this, which would make my pull-ups the weaker of the two.
I had the same problem after training for a while. My chin-ups were so much better than my pull-ups, but for me it was because my forearms would die almost immediately when I did pull-ups, even when during deadlifts and the like my forearms were perfectly fine. I just dedicated myself to getting better and greasing the groove and my pull-ups have gone up so much over the past month or two.
On July 25 2010 07:30 travis wrote: so, eshlow, there is a part of my body that is chronically tight but i don't really know how to stretch it it's on the outside of my left leg, next to my knee god, i don't know how to describe it but if i sit like this:
except with my legs farther out(but feet still together), and lean forward at all, it REALLY feels tight and bad on my left leg. kind of on the bottom, on the outside, around the area of the knee i think it's related to the big tendon(is that a tendon or a bone? i think it's a tendon) that runs down my leg
i also feel it in other stretches such as pigeon pose
but none of them actually feel like they stretch it, they just feel like they make it uncomfortable
i wish i could describe this better
Stretch/foam roll your glutes and tensor fasciae latae + IT band
Can also use a tennis ball or lacrosse to hit up those specific muscles/connective tissues
The "tendon" you're feeling is the IT band coming from your hip all the way down and crossing the tibiofemoral joint to insert down there.
On July 25 2010 07:35 sva wrote: I'd love to just gain weight.
I'm 5'7 130pounds 5.5% body fat I'd like to gain 5-10 pounds.
On July 24 2010 23:29 RosaParksStoleMySeat wrote: Someone asked me earlier why my chin-ups were so much stronger than my pull-ups. I think it's the bicep involvement; I've always had pretty strong biceps. On the other hand, I'd never really trained my lats before this, which would make my pull-ups the weaker of the two.
I had the same problem after training for a while. My chin-ups were so much better than my pull-ups, but for me it was because my forearms would die almost immediately when I did pull-ups, even when during deadlifts and the like my forearms were perfectly fine. I just dedicated myself to getting better and greasing the groove and my pull-ups have gone up so much over the past month or two.
Yeah, I started really bad at both. When I first started training, I had 1-2 chin-ups and .5 pull-ups in me fully rested. Now I can bust out 10 unassisted unkipped chin-ups and probably around 5-6 unassisted pull-ups. They're the exercises which have developed the most for me, and they're the ones I look forward to most when I hit the gym.
This is kind of why I don't like Wednesdays . Instead of pull-ups and chin-ups, I do deadlifts. The Wednesdays on which I do squats, presses, and deads are particularly boring for me.
On July 25 2010 13:44 travis wrote: ok thanks eshlow i don't have a foam roller sadly i prolly do have a tennis ball somewhere though, i guess i could use that
what do you think of these stretches? i know that the 3rd one he does really does seem to hit a lot of areas thare probably good for me
On July 25 2010 13:57 AoN.DimSum wrote: I hurt this part of my hand over two weeks ago. My coach told me to get it checked out. (bad use of paint i know)
Would you recommend anything to help recovery? I been icing and using some heat with ibuprofen.
I'd get it checked. That's pretty vague picture?
What movements hurt?
Anything over on the thumb side generally isn't good ebcause it doesn't get a lot of blood supply so it heals slower or may not heal well.
Probably a good idea to get it checked out by a professional
So I've been doing the ss for olympic lifters program (2 days of just the competition lifts, 2 days of 5x3 low-bar squat+pressing motion+pulling motion) and my knees hurt basically fucking always. Usually when I get into training it stops but immediately afterword I feel like they'll implode. I also do 25-30 hours of fairly physical labor per week which is definitely not helping recovery. Is there anything I can do to make my knees not constantly hurting that doesn't involve taking 4 ibuprofen per day? I did 20 snatches in about 45 minutes and I feel like dying just standing up and air-squatting.
On July 25 2010 16:47 Drowsy wrote: So I've been doing the ss for olympic lifters program (2 days of just the competition lifts, 2 days of 5x3 low-bar squat+pressing motion+pulling motion) and my knees hurt basically fucking always. Usually when I get into training it stops but immediately afterword I feel like they'll implode. I also do 25-30 hours of fairly physical labor per week which is definitely not helping recovery. Is there anything I can do to make my knees not constantly hurting that doesn't involve taking 4 ibuprofen per day? I did 20 snatches in about 45 minutes and I feel like dying just standing up and air-squatting.
Too much volume man...
You're going to have to cut back lifting because of your manual labor-ish job in the first place.. and then trying to add extra volume on top of that is suicide.
I'd take a break for atl east a week, and then work back into it slowly... not so much volume either.
This stayfitbug site actually really bugs me. I haven't found much useful stuff in there, and everything is explained in 200-300 words, so it tells you nothing actually.
Ok, I just browsed through deerrreas posting history and in 10 out of 11 posts he links to this site. Pretty sure this is just advertising. I'll report this and see what the mods think.
I just realize now that the linked articles often don't have anything to do with the question (YOGA LEADS TO BETTER SEX GOGOGO).
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. Instead of pull-ups and chin-ups, I do deadlifts. The Wednesdays on which I do squats, presses, and deads are particularly boring for me.
