i always find the descent on squats way more difficult and terrifying than standing up. those last couple degrees around parallel are often where my mind goes haywire.
― goole, Saturday, 27 October 2012 19:02 (eleven years ago) link
Sounds like maybe a hamstring problem - either strength or flexibility? Hard to say without seeing what you're doing but my unprofessional internet suggestion would be glute ham raises.
― strike curious poses, Saturday, 27 October 2012 19:18 (eleven years ago) link
probably a little of both
― Online Webinar Event for Dads (harbl), Saturday, 27 October 2012 19:21 (eleven years ago) link
no i mean mentally
― goole, Saturday, 27 October 2012 19:22 (eleven years ago) link
sounds like a mindstring problem
― --bob marley (lag∞n), Saturday, 27 October 2012 19:30 (eleven years ago) link
You could try lighter bottom position squats - where you start with the bar on the safeties and squat it up - to get more confident in/out of the hole.
― strike curious poses, Saturday, 27 October 2012 19:38 (eleven years ago) link
i was referring to my problem being probably a little bit of both strength and flexibilityi wish i could do box squats but i need a box
― Online Webinar Event for Dads (harbl), Saturday, 27 October 2012 19:50 (eleven years ago) link
Okay I'll stop posting unsolicited advice. But re getting sw0le:
http://articles.elitefts.com/training-articles/twelve-steps-to-getting-big/
― strike curious poses, Saturday, 27 October 2012 20:02 (eleven years ago) link
man that is exactly the type of advice I want more of
― iatee, Saturday, 27 October 2012 20:05 (eleven years ago) link
lool that is awful
― caek, Saturday, 27 October 2012 20:08 (eleven years ago) link
“When was the last time you ate an entire carton of eggs?”
hah
― --bob marley (lag∞n), Saturday, 27 October 2012 20:10 (eleven years ago) link
Dave Tate:
There was a time at the Old Westside gym where I couldn't gain weight to save my fucking life.
There was this dude who trained there who could just put on weight like fucking magic. He'd go from 198 to 308 and then to 275 and back down to 198. And he was never fat. It was amazing.
I finally asked him one day how he did it.
"You mean I never told you the secret to gaining weight? Come outside and I'll fill you in."
Now remember, we're at Westside Barbell. And this guy wants to go outside to talk so no one else can hear. Think about that for a minute. What the hell is he going to tell me? This must be some serious shit if we have to go outside, I thought.
So we get outside and he starts talking.
"For breakfast you need to eat four of those breakfast sandwiches from McDonalds. I don't care which ones you get, but make sure to get four. Order four hash browns, too. Now grab two packs of mayonnaise and put them on the hash browns and then slip them into the sandwiches. Squish that shit down and eat. That's your breakfast."
At this point I'm thinking this guy is nuts. But he's completely serious.
"For lunch you're gonna eat Chinese food. Now I don't want you eating that crappy stuff. You wanna get the stuff with MSG. None of that non-MSG bullshit. I don't care what you eat but you have to sit down and eat for at least 45 minutes straight. You can't let go of the fork. Eat until your eyes swell up and become slits and you start to look like the woman behind the counter."
"For dinner you're gonna order an extra-large pizza with everything on it. Literally everything. If you don't like sardines, don't put 'em on, but anything else that you like you have to load it on there. After you pay the delivery guy, I want you to take the pie to your coffee table, open that fucker up, and grab a bottle of oil. It can be olive oil, canola oil, whatever. Anything but motor oil. And I want you to pour that shit over the pie until half of the bottle is gone. Just soak the shit out of it."
"Now before you lay into it, I want you to sit on your couch and just stare at that fucker. I want you to understand that that pizza right there is keeping you from your goals."
This guy is in a zen-like state when he's talking about this.
"Now you're on the clock," he continues. "After 20 minutes your brain is going to tell you you're full. Don't listen to that shit. You have to try and eat as much of the pizza as you can before that 20-minute mark. Double up pieces if you have to. I'm telling you now, you're going to get three or four pieces in and you're gonna want to quit. You fucking can't quit. You have to sit on that couch until every piece is done.
And if you can't finish it, don't you ever come back to me and tell me you can't gain weight. 'Cause I'm gonna tell you that you don't give a fuck about getting bigger and you don't care how much you lift!"
Did I do it? Hell yeah. Started the next day and did it for two months. Went from 260 pounds to 297 pounds. And I didn't get much fatter. One of the hardest things I've ever done in my life, though.
― strike curious poses, Saturday, 27 October 2012 20:12 (eleven years ago) link
I want you to understand that that pizza right there is keeping you from your goals.
― caek, Saturday, 27 October 2012 20:15 (eleven years ago) link
pouring oil all over the pizza really puts it over the top
― --bob marley (lag∞n), Saturday, 27 October 2012 20:15 (eleven years ago) link
i'm gonna try some of this stuff, just to see
― Online Webinar Event for Dads (harbl), Saturday, 27 October 2012 20:20 (eleven years ago) link
im willing to eat ice cream and pizza, tho i must warn you i have tried it before
― --bob marley (lag∞n), Saturday, 27 October 2012 20:21 (eleven years ago) link
I decided a couple months ago to try to put on weight, and just following this sort of advice - eat as many calories as possible while lifting heavy. I've been going for four big meals a day, plus a couple of protein shakes. I haven't weighed myself but I've gotten substantially bigger - mostly muscle, but also getting a gut. Also, I can no longer walk up the stairs to my second storey office without getting out of breath, so I am reluctantly accepting that I need to start doing some cardio.
― strike curious poses, Saturday, 27 October 2012 20:23 (eleven years ago) link
12) Eat barbeque sauce. If you have a penis, you should be using barbeque sauce. End of discussion. Vinaigrette and balsamic are for women.
― Online Webinar Event for Dads (harbl), Saturday, 27 October 2012 20:28 (eleven years ago) link
have penis: use barbecue sauce. got it.
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 27 October 2012 20:38 (eleven years ago) link
mental note: get penis.
quietly confident that if i followed weird dude's plan i would throw up seven or eight times a day.
― Perfect Chicken Forever (Merdeyeux), Saturday, 27 October 2012 20:46 (eleven years ago) link
maybe i am naturally unsw0le. :(
― Perfect Chicken Forever (Merdeyeux), Saturday, 27 October 2012 20:47 (eleven years ago) link
Powerlifter diets sound even worse than bodybuilding diets in their own way. BB diet is going to make you salivate at anything with some seasoning, but PL diets seem designed to make you hate yourself.
― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Saturday, 27 October 2012 21:13 (eleven years ago) link
Eat until your eyes swell up and become slits and you start to look like the woman behind the counter
― Nilmar Honorato da Silva, Saturday, 27 October 2012 21:16 (eleven years ago) link
i would maybe like to have a diet where i eat tons of junk food but i dont want to get sw0le or really lift heavy things tbh, lifting kinda heavy things is ok
― --bob marley (lag∞n), Saturday, 27 October 2012 21:18 (eleven years ago) link
kinda heavy like turkey legs + beef ribs
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 27 October 2012 21:30 (eleven years ago) link
exactly
― --bob marley (lag∞n), Saturday, 27 October 2012 21:34 (eleven years ago) link
*hi five*
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 27 October 2012 21:38 (eleven years ago) link
CoreyPosted October 23, 2012 at 10:54 AM
Awesome! Epic! Beards! Vikings! Bacon! Swole! 8,000 calories a day! GOMAD! Maple syrup bacon omelet!
Did the Swole Patrol write this? This kind of humor needs to die.
― goole, Sunday, 28 October 2012 18:47 (eleven years ago) link
my commitment to getting swole ends at those crazy diets, im sorry to say. besides, i've decided being a strong as fuck wiry mofo is equally desirable.
― ryan, Sunday, 28 October 2012 19:08 (eleven years ago) link
i tried to do glute-ham raises in the thing but it hurts the front of my legs so bad i had to stop. it was already as high as it could go, maybe there's something else i didn't see to adjust though. what i did do was barbell glute bridges. it's fun to hump the air in the squat rack.
― Online Webinar Event for Dads (harbl), Monday, 29 October 2012 15:38 (eleven years ago) link
look i'm an amateur know-nothing but i'm really suspicious of isolation or remedial exercises now. the solution to problems in squat is more squat
― goole, Monday, 29 October 2012 15:45 (eleven years ago) link
i did squats first!
― Online Webinar Event for Dads (harbl), Monday, 29 October 2012 15:45 (eleven years ago) link
i know!!
that was a belated reply to my thing upthread
― goole, Monday, 29 October 2012 15:48 (eleven years ago) link
i am having starting strength delivered to my job and now i'm afraid my office will blow away and i'll never get it!
― Online Webinar Event for Dads (harbl), Monday, 29 October 2012 15:52 (eleven years ago) link
everyone on body building.com has a bodyspace profile.do people actually do that???
― homosexual II, Monday, 29 October 2012 15:59 (eleven years ago) link
i guess they are into building not getting swole
― caek, Monday, 29 October 2012 16:05 (eleven years ago) link
wtf is bodyspace
― Online Webinar Event for Dads (harbl), Monday, 29 October 2012 16:31 (eleven years ago) link
myspace for juicers? idk
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 29 October 2012 16:36 (eleven years ago) link
its social networking for people into body building... ha!
― homosexual II, Monday, 29 October 2012 16:37 (eleven years ago) link
gruntbook
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 29 October 2012 16:39 (eleven years ago) link
Checked out the gym after all (thanks for the push, harbl). They have 45-min 'orientation sessions' available in the 'strength and conditioning centre'. Only the 'SCC' (strength and conditioning?) ones are available as women-only sessions, the others are available as co-ed. Why would whatever 'TRX core training' and 'Field House Circuit' are be unavailable as women-only sessions?
TRX Core Training SCC Circuit Field House Circuit
― ljubljana, Monday, 29 October 2012 20:41 (eleven years ago) link
trx is doing bodyweight exercises while hanging on a strap. kinda weird. you should do the scc orientation, they probably show you where all the weights are to get you on the path to becoming sw0le.
― Online Webinar Event for Dads (harbl), Monday, 29 October 2012 20:44 (eleven years ago) link
thanks, I will check it out.
― ljubljana, Monday, 29 October 2012 21:26 (eleven years ago) link
TRX is fun, enhances or mitigates body weight workouts, it's mildly popular generally so that classes tend to be coed.
Pole fitness, otoh, obviously has women only classes and a body weight component.
― seandalai lama (Leee), Monday, 29 October 2012 22:14 (eleven years ago) link
Avoid TRX at all costs that shit will get u crazy strong and lean but not sw0le
― all yoga attacks are fire based (rogermexico.), Tuesday, 30 October 2012 01:31 (eleven years ago) link
Am I kicked off this thread if I'm happy with crazy strong and lean but not sw0le?
― ljubljana, Tuesday, 30 October 2012 02:04 (eleven years ago) link
The advantage to using free weights over something like TRX (or other bodyweight stuff) is that to get stronger you need the exercise to get progressively more challenging in a structured way. This is easy if you can add small weights to the bar each time but with bodyweight stuff you will either need to keep adding more reps indefinitely or perform increasingly difficult variations of the movement, which can be really complicated and difficult.
― strike curious poses, Tuesday, 30 October 2012 11:39 (eleven years ago) link
i don't think you should avoid it but this is a thread about lifting heavy weights because it is fun
― Online Webinar Event for Dads (harbl), Tuesday, 30 October 2012 13:38 (eleven years ago) link
i am never actually going to look sw0le
― Online Webinar Event for Dads (harbl), Tuesday, 30 October 2012 13:39 (eleven years ago) link