nice
― before and after broscience (goole), Monday, 3 December 2012 21:49 (eleven years ago) link
i taught someone about goblet squats in the gym today
― Online Webinar Event for Dads (harbl), Tuesday, 4 December 2012 00:19 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=mK_1EPdM70k
― Online Webinar Event for Dads (harbl), Sunday, 9 December 2012 16:01 (eleven years ago) link
oope embedhttps://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 :(
― Online Webinar Event for Dads (harbl), Wednesday, 12 December 2012 23:55 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― quincie, Thursday, 13 December 2012 00:32 (eleven years ago) link
I got a jump rope, does that help, I guess not for swoleness
― quincie, Thursday, 13 December 2012 00:33 (eleven years ago) link
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
― Online Webinar Event for Dads (harbl), Thursday, 13 December 2012 00:55 (eleven years ago) link
i am travelling for basically all of december and january. feeling doughy already. all i manage is burpees.
― caek, Thursday, 13 December 2012 01:02 (eleven years ago) link
i am dreading the gym tonight
weights is no prob. but god i hate cardio.
― homosexual II, Thursday, 13 December 2012 01:33 (eleven years ago) link
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!
― Online Webinar Event for Dads (harbl), Thursday, 13 December 2012 01:35 (eleven years ago) link
also the treadmills have tvs that only get a few channels and one of them seems to be constantly playing guy fieri!
― Online Webinar Event for Dads (harbl), Thursday, 13 December 2012 01:36 (eleven years ago) link
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
― Online Webinar Event for Dads (harbl), Thursday, 13 December 2012 01:39 (eleven years ago) link
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
― Online Webinar Event for Dads (harbl), Thursday, 13 December 2012 01:40 (eleven years ago) link
those are the characters. the only person i like is girl who takes the squat rack for a long time, she's nice
― Online Webinar Event for Dads (harbl), Thursday, 13 December 2012 01:41 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― caek, Thursday, 13 December 2012 01:48 (eleven years ago) link
that patrick bateman guy i mentioned upthread never came back
― Online Webinar Event for Dads (harbl), Wednesday, December 12, 2012 8:40 PM (11 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
sorry I won't look at my iphone anymore
― 乒乓, Thursday, 13 December 2012 01:52 (eleven years ago) link
also stop doing sets of 20 bench presses with heavy weights where i think you are going to hurt yourself because your feet are on the bench and the bar is tilting like you loaded it unevenly
― Online Webinar Event for Dads (harbl), Thursday, 13 December 2012 01:54 (eleven years ago) link
I can take it
― 乒乓, Thursday, 13 December 2012 01:55 (eleven years ago) link
It's our Shaolin training.
― I was in this prematureleee air-conditioned supermarket (Leee), Thursday, 13 December 2012 01:58 (eleven years ago) link
oh i got some characters at my Y but i've outlasted most of them, ha ha ha.
there's a young dude who seems to do different kinds of curls for 3 hours.
there's another thick-necked young dude who stomps around in aggro mode the whole time. does sets of 10-12 as fast as possible and is not grunting but ROARING on the last couple.
there used to be a crew of cool strong-ass women who'd deadlift and squat but i've missed them for a while i guess
― before and after broscience (goole), Thursday, 13 December 2012 02:53 (eleven years ago) link
hit two PRs tonight!!
squat 3x5 @ 235bench 3x5 @ 157.5
...and rows that kind of went nowhere after that.
― before and after broscience (goole), Friday, 14 December 2012 03:08 (eleven years ago) link
one worry: i was in an old rack with no mirror. but it felt plenty low.
― before and after broscience (goole), Friday, 14 December 2012 03:14 (eleven years ago) link
hey I haven't been posting here but I have been reading and benefitting.I've did four weeks on Escalated Density Training followed by two on Power To The People (plan explained here http://www.bodybuilding.com/fun/mahler72.htm ). I am big and strong
― men, ugh (flamboyant goon tie included), Friday, 14 December 2012 05:35 (eleven years ago) link
Personal point of pride: yesterday I capably did a set of six full-length neutral grip chin-ups with a 40 pound weight on my feet, yeehaw
― men, ugh (flamboyant goon tie included), Friday, 14 December 2012 05:37 (eleven years ago) link
yesterday i drank 12 beers
― caek, Friday, 14 December 2012 14:50 (eleven years ago) link
i have these pants i really like a lot but i can't run in them because they fall down, so when i wear them i don't warm up. therefore i can't squat good. so i just did many lighter squats. it's mentally difficult now because i know i'm going to be away from the gym for 5 days next week and i remember how bad that made me stiffen up after thanksgiving. i think january will be a good month though.
― Online Webinar Event for Dads (harbl), Tuesday, 18 December 2012 00:11 (eleven years ago) link
the huge row guy was there again with his gf, who never does anything at all except kick really high, and he tried to teach her how to do deadlifts and she just stood by the bar he set down for her and changed the tv to real housewives of something. i wanted to smash her YARGHHHHHH
― Online Webinar Event for Dads (harbl), Tuesday, 18 December 2012 00:13 (eleven years ago) link
i'm starting to work on chin-ups now. i can do 0.
Are free weights the only true weights?
― ljubljana, Sunday, 23 December 2012 16:51 (eleven years ago) link
I'm working on chin-ups, too, starting with the weight-assist machine, b/c when I installed the bar at home and tried, I could do 0. Humbling.
Pissed b/c I lost my training log that contained my first two months worth of workouts, plus starting measurements, body fat, and weight. :(
― (*・_・)ノ⌒ ☆ (Je55e), Sunday, 23 December 2012 19:09 (eleven years ago) link
I wonder if I could do a pull up. I haven't tried in years. Probably not. Je55e, I'm coming by your place to try.
― Jeff, Sunday, 23 December 2012 20:40 (eleven years ago) link
got a bad cold this week and was only able to exercise on monday. i can't stop coughing for long enough to do anything. after xmas i will be free of travel and hopefully of colds, so i give up for now
― Online Webinar Event for Dads (harbl), Monday, 24 December 2012 01:09 (eleven years ago) link
ljubljana idk what you mean by that question except are you asking about machines?
― Online Webinar Event for Dads (harbl), Monday, 24 December 2012 01:10 (eleven years ago) link
je55e fwiw ime the weight assist machine doesn't actually translate that well to real chinups/pullups. given u have a bar you may better off doing jumping chins and going slow on the negative.
― sug life (rogermexico.), Monday, 24 December 2012 01:51 (eleven years ago) link
xp yeah, just whether it's worth bothering with them.
― ljubljana, Monday, 24 December 2012 08:16 (eleven years ago) link
harbl: have you had any trouble eating? I've had a cold this week as well, and have had a hard time getting myself to eat much of anything, since I have no appetite, energy (duh) or sense of taste. Judging by the bathroom scale, I've dropped somewhere between 2 and 3 kgs this week, despite forcing myself to eat when I really, really didnt't want to, and drinking just ridiculous amounts of water. Hopefully most of it is water-weight and will pack back on really quickly, but I can't help but think of that hideous comic of some guy's gainz putting on a coat and leaving. I'm not looking forward to my next trip to the gym, which seems like it might be possible in two or three days. My last session, just before I really got sick, was just horrible.
I started doing chins a couple of weeks ago, with "neutral grip", which is where your palms face each other rather than towards you or away from you. I can do, uh, four. First time I managed three, so hey, progress! A trainer at my gym recommended I do two sets of max repetitions, then one set of inverted chins. That's apparently supposed to be much easier, but I'll be damned if I didn't find it to be nearly as tough. I tried to boost myself up by jumping, which might not have been the best way of going about it -- but I'm not about to go find something to climb up on.
Meanwhile, shoveling snow is way easier this year than last year. Woohoo!
― Øystein, Monday, 24 December 2012 13:01 (eleven years ago) link
Come on over, Jeff.
The weight assist machine gave a jump start to being able to do a single chin-up without its assistance. I can do 2 or 3 now.
I weigh 186, so I guess it shouldn't be a surprise that it's hard to do them.
― (*・_・)ノ⌒ ☆ (Je55e), Monday, 24 December 2012 18:35 (eleven years ago) link
I had done some deltoid damage doing benches a couple months back ... was worried about being able to carry through with any presses or benches without making it worse. Decided to return to proper Rippetoe-approved form and review all the literature, follow through with all the warmup sets, etc. to see if I could put myself in the hands of the master and get back into the game after months of just winging it/phoning it in. Astonished when halfway through the warmup sets any pain or discomfort vanished. Religious experience.
― Brakhage, Tuesday, 25 December 2012 01:34 (eleven years ago) link
i'm back but weaker and fatter after things slowed down in november. i kept eating the same huge amounts. great job.
― veryupsetmom (harbl), Thursday, 3 January 2013 22:37 (eleven years ago) link
Signed up for a four-session women-only intro to weights starting mid-Jan. Machines + free weights.
― ljubljana, Thursday, 3 January 2013 23:16 (eleven years ago) link
good! let thread know how it goes
― veryupsetmom (harbl), Thursday, 3 January 2013 23:39 (eleven years ago) link
yes, do!
i lost weight and got weaker over the holiday. looking back i spent more time in my car or sitting in my apartment than drinking.
― goole, Thursday, 3 January 2013 23:45 (eleven years ago) link
er, or eating
― goole, Thursday, 3 January 2013 23:46 (eleven years ago) link
ime if you can make it through the holidays remotely sw0le then you stay sw0le through anything
― een, Friday, 4 January 2013 02:50 (eleven years ago) link
can^
Not looking so sw#le after schmas and new year's but reps don't lie, I'm lifting and pulling what I was two weeks ago, I'm sure that heaven is just a pull-up away
― friday goodness thank it's (flamboyant goon tie included), Friday, 4 January 2013 03:25 (eleven years ago) link