thread of getting sw0le

Crimped Hair ‏@DinkMagic
shyah.. I work out and stuff.. im a big bro and stuff ha ha but like.. only sarcastic *does dozens of extremely heavy squants and dead lift*

squanto

my tiny plates came. i haven't gymmed since monday and i'm not today. i worked late all week and i got so tired.

box squats ftw! love'em

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/19/health/teenage-boys-worried-about-body-image-take-risks.html

he started lifting weights for two hours a day, six days a week.

too much, bro

Tina
Idaho

hello everyone,
I am a firm believer in holistic medicine and the power of yoga and it is my personal belief that one can attain strength and health through these two things my son, however, does not think similarly. he is on a work-out program called "starting lifts" that is extremely dangerous: they use a barbell with very heavy weights and then do excercises that can destroy the back and knees (for example, one he calls the deathlift) well, I am unable to convince him to stop this crazy program. my problem is I caught him taking the steroid "creatine" yesterday after his work-out. I snatched the container away from him and told his father later that evening, who agreed with me that we had to stage an intervention. I honestly do not know what I should do next. does he have to be sent to a rehabilitation center? I am not familiar with steroids and how abusers make recovery.
thank you very much,
Tina

the deathlift is p bad for you iirc

anyone know of any good paleo blogs or sites with good recipes? ??

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z3TQajOXSeA

Paleo diet thread here, may have more info.

Paleo diet

a series of events have derailed my plans and i have to travel for thanksgiving. i'm going to have to resume next sunday and try not to feel guilty about it. i was doing a good job since august so i shouldn't get too weak, right?

i love to deathlift

get some good recovery time in and eat a bunch of food. when next week comes around you'll be ready to hit it hard

i'm ready. it's been almost two weeks. i didn't eat as much protein and i felt tired and now i feel fat. i gotta clean a bunch of stuff and get less st1ff. i drove 7 hours yesterday and my butt and knees hurt. then i can go.

getting enough sleep is impt, and i never do

that sucked. i had been doing such a good job before. i shouldn't be allowed to take that much time off.

10kg deadlift pr yesterday, feeling pretty sw0le

"Fitspo":

http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_mbsbtyHGRD1rx7gjso1_500.gif

i am trying to learn the press (not that way ^) how rippetoe says to do it. it's awkward. also i am weak. i like to bench press though.

i am still in stallsville but my rows are improving. PR 3x5 @ 167.5! but i'm going to re-do because of shaky form.

love standing shoulder press. not sure how rippetoe says to do it. i usually use a standard barbell not an olympic bar, and never in a rack. clean the weight off the floor to wresting on collarbones, then adjust my grip/shoulder position/hand position. hands wider than shoulders, elbows pointed at the floor. as i get up to higher weights, i use some leg drive to get it up and don't come down as far. toss bar to ground like a badass after finished.

i usually do fairly low weight front db raises to follow and that's it. cannonball delts + sikc trapz + upper body power.

using leg drive turns it into a push press, so not really a strict press at that point - but not an uncommon way to eek out a few last reps either, as "cheating" is possibly better than quitting. Personally the leg drive doesn't do much for me because what I struggle with the most is the lockout.

Rippetoe's press technique, in the latest version of SS, involves leaning back at the hips with a tight trunk (no lower back arch), and pushing hips back and torso/head forward as you lift the bar explosively. I've see it critiqued as something that works better for max effort lifts but not high reps. I try to use it when I'm having trouble grinding out the last few reps. I love the overhead press, but it is one of the most difficult of the main compound lifts for me. I found more success using a closer grip as well as thumbless "suicide" grip.

Bear in mind with the technique Rippetoe favors that at no point should the knees be bent.

I missed a workout last week due to the Holiday, jumped right back into it on Saturday and it seemed especially difficult. I am still pretty sore. Definitely gaining strength, as I was able to up my weights and I was able to do more pushups!

my overhead press is dreadful

my overhead press is so much better then it was 6 months ago. i attribute it to handstand push-ups because i hardly seem to work presses into my routine.

1RM of 200lb on the squat last night. oof.

1RM of 220 deadlift

5 set max of (embarrassingly small weight) on bench.

a good night.

nice!

been doing a fun warm up routine

load the bar with a weight you can use for all 5 movements - i usually go through two sets 65# and 95#

5 x rdl
5 x Hang Clean
5 x push jerk
5 x front squat
5 x rows

without setting the bar down in between.

i deadlifted 150 lbs 5 times and bench pressed 67 lbs 5 times 3 times. i am still pretty bad at squats but my technique is not necessarily correlated with weight going up, which i guess is a good sign.

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-FliZY2DTd44/ULa88dJyTpI/AAAAAAAAA_4/jEAZWpAdbO0/s1600/Marilyn+lifts.jpg

back squat 1RM PR - 225#

nice

i taught someone about goblet squats in the gym today

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=mK_1EPdM70k

oope embed
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mK_1EPdM70k

i haven't been too consistent. a lot of working. i wanted to go 12 times between thanksgiving and xmas and it looks like i will only manage 10. i did deadlift 165 today, but bench press is barely improving at all :(

I have to go to Sri Lanka and then I come back and don't have a full time job and am gonna get swOle-ish before I go to a tiny town in Mexico where there is no gym. If I do SS stuff for like 9 weeks and then don't have access to weights, wtf do I do next??? I guess bodystrength stuff but oh my god toooooo complicated.

I got a jump rope, does that help, I guess not for swoleness

you'll have to make your own weights out of rocks i guess, or be a cardio queen. i hate the idea of bodyweight stuff but just me personally. there is a lot of stuff i am too weak or inflexible to do lol

i am travelling for basically all of december and january. feeling doughy already. all i manage is burpees.

i am dreading the gym tonight

weights is no prob. but god i hate cardio.

i skipped warming up today because i only like the treadmill by the wall so i can put all my stuff (notebook, fractional plates, longsleeve shirt) down between the treadmill and the wall. i try not to do that all the time but it was ok. i am not a cardio hater but i hate the treadmill a lot. i haven't been running much at all and i have a 5k jan 1. oh well!

also the treadmills have tvs that only get a few channels and one of them seems to be constantly playing guy fieri!

it's like, CNBC, food network, HGTV, MSNBC and something else

ugh there is this one guy always there at the same time as me who does innocuous thing that makes me irrationally angry: come to weight room, load barbell with 130 pounds of weights, do a few sets of bench presses without warming up at all, get up, don't wipe down the bench, don't put the weights back

also chinese kid who tried to help me take the weights he left on it off before who does swiss ball crunches while looking at iphone

those are the characters. the only person i like is girl who takes the squat rack for a long time, she's nice

oh yeah also huge guy who does various different kinds of rows only

everyone who squats at my gym is cool, i.e. only me and some girls.