thread of getting sw0le

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.

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.

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

i did squats first!

i know!!

that was a belated reply to my thing upthread

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!

everyone on body building.com has a bodyspace profile.
do people actually do that???

i guess they are into building not getting swole

wtf is bodyspace

myspace for juicers? idk

its social networking for people into body building... ha!

gruntbook

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

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.

thanks, I will check it out.

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.

Avoid TRX at all costs that shit will get u crazy strong and lean but not sw0le

Am I kicked off this thread if I'm happy with crazy strong and lean but not sw0le?

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.

i don't think you should avoid it but this is a thread about lifting heavy weights because it is fun

i am never actually going to look sw0le

I've enjoyed the TRX that I've done.

TRX does offer variable resistance -- just change the load angle -- but it's inexact and does max out (albeit in some pretty challenging places). Great full-body/core workout. Just more Tarzan than Conan.

Does anyone here compete? I'm thinking about trying my first powerlifting meet mid next year. I wouldn't be putting up spectacular numbers or anything but it seems like it would be fun.

TS: Tarzan vs. Conan

man i wouldn't even dream of competing!

Lol the only competition I daydream about is for crossword puzzles.

Would general fitness talk be appropriate here, or should someone start a new fitness fascist thread?

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, October 29, 2012 3:38 PM (5 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i never had a knack for ghrs. and you should probably keep at em. but stiff leg deadlifts: it's a different exercise and you're moving in a different way but a good supplement on days when you want to light up your posterior chain. light light is key at the start. feel what muscles are firing when you do it, feel what's sore the next day.

i know it's broscience but i find deadlifting every week is way too taxing on my cns. my recovery is way too slow and it fucks up my week. but i can build my deadlift with stiff leg deadlifts and heavy rack pulls (sometimes good mornings although i know they might have been discredited and will fuck up your lower back and i don't let anyone see me do them). i can come back from weeks of not deadlifting in the conventional way and hit PRs.

walking lunges with barbells is another ham killer for me.
box jumps.
sprinting, fuck yeah, just pull all that power from your posterior chain.

what i do instead of using ghrs :%

Good mornings are the shit! Discredited how?

starting strength came in the mail yesterday

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, October 30, 2012 7:39 AM (4 days ago) Bookmark

great post/dn combo

Good mornings are the shit! Discredited how?

http://www.askthetrainer.com/top-5-worst-exercises/

discredited by the american college of sports medicine, internet broscientists, fat guys at my gym, other pussies.

<3 broscience

That article's basically just saying if you do them with bad form or more weight than you can handle they will hurt you, which is true but not exactly a devastating critique. Louie Simmons is pro-GM and I really enjoy doing them, that's good enough for me.

I mean, I'm not trying to have an argument and I know you said you do these anyway, just saying.

TOP 5 WORST EXERCISES, even if it says you can do them with proper form ain't exactly a ringing endorsement. i was just making reference to the fact that i always come across people saying they're responsible for horrifying lower back injuries, and i've been told face-to-face by guys at the gym not to do them.

but we're on the same page, bro! it's a great exercise and a great posterior chain builder.

Sweet christmas, I lost 5-10 lb. in a month. /sonotsw0le
Being injured sucks! >.<

Good mornings famously the exercise with which Bruce Lee fucked up his back

agh i'm in stallsville. a few days of getting bad sleep and forgetting my afternoon trail mix, maybe.

always been super jealous of people that fight to gain weight. i've been as high as 280 without trying and have to keep my diet painfully strict to maintain weight + slowly gain lean muscle.

i know lots of people that tnation reps/who write for tnation have been mentioned here but i wanted to mention it because despite the near omnipresent pimping of their supplements it's a great site, esp for diet stuff, old school getting sw0le advice

carlos ‏@famouscrab
yeah i got a gym membership. its called life. watch me lift this big ass rock. now im gonna do 20 reps of pretending im a beautiful bird

i did second day of starting strength today. i was so afraid of bench press before so i stuck with dumbbells. last time i tried to really bench press was in college and i couldn't do the bar for more than a few reps. so i did my first warm-up sets with the bar and the first one i was like lol what a joke. it was like lifting a broomstick over my head. i did my work sets at 65 lbs! i am proud. standing presses are hard for me though. also i deadlifted 135 for the first time, doing work sets also. his example says do one set of 5 for work sets. there are 7 warm-up sets. yes it takes a long time in the gym but it's fun.

after watching a bunch of videos i'm not too worried about leaning forward at the bottom of my squat anymore. it's a consequence of sticking my butt out which i think is ok and it's not like i get stuck there. it just feels exaggerated but i don't think it looks that way.

also a trainer ran over and "helped" me put the 45 lb plate on the bar i was thinking i just picked 125 lbs up off the ground 10 seconds ago i don't think i need help?

sorry i mean 5 warm-up sets

last time i tried to really bench press was in college and i couldn't do the bar for more than a few reps. so i did my first warm-up sets with the bar and the first one i was like lol what a joke. it was like lifting a broomstick over my head. i did my work sets at 65 lbs! i am proud.

hi5!!

re: the trainer: i think that's called 'flirting' but idk

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