thread of getting sw0le

I'm starting to use spreadsheet calculators, but do people actually sit around with their phones calculating at the gym?

Man, I totally need a gym buddy. It'd make things like rests and letting him/her work in easier/more comfortable

http://i.imgur.com/1m65nFK.jpg

wtf, guess he must've been in a wheelchair or something. That's way beyond "skipping leg day" and well into atrophy.

Looks shopped

finishing up that squat program and maxing out this week did front squat and got a 25 lb PR@ #260 !!

whoa man damn

i reckon i'll get into squats after the first year of lifting

I feel like I'm really lagging with squats- I don't know what my max is or how to find out without potentially killing myself, but right now I'm doing 3 sets of 8 at 110, 110 and 120 each, at a body weight of a little under 190, which I understand is pretty subpar.

If you can use a squat rack that has safety bars you can max out with minimal risk (bad for not withstanding) . If you fail just sit that thing down and you're good.

i pulled a muscle in my lower back/upper butt zone a while ago and then aggravated it later. so i've been doing kind of a light versh of one of the starting strength workouts:

A:
goblet squat 3x12
dumbbell overhead press 3x10
one-armed deadlift 3x12

B:
goblet squat 3x12
weighted push-up 3x10
back extension 3x10
pullup 2xF (usually ~4)

weights all between 25 and 45

i pulled it benching, fyi ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

i've messed my back up benching in the past too. for me i'm pretty weak at bench press for my size anyways. I think it's just one of the lifts that most guys do a lot growing up through sports or whatever but i never really lifted much at all until the last few years.

one-armed deadlift ? i'm gonna try those.

i worry about not being able to get the bar up on the last rep and getting trapped too much to do my real max so usually stick to the chest press and (less so) pectoral machine

sometimes apparently called the "suitcase deadlift" lel

i do them alternating hands so it's kind of 3x(2x6)

did y'all see this?

http://the-toast.net/2014/06/24/beauty-tips-classic-hollywood/

lol

i am SICK of DUDES in the GYM

DUDES gettin PUMPED UP

yeah dude god

got a new favorite crazy guy whose possible mental off-ness will probably preclude him being a regular -- don't mean to shame here but i have noticed that men (always) with outsize gym personal habits don't have much month-over-month staying power (with some exceptions, sadly)

i say mental off-ness cos i really can't imagine doing what he does while being fully attached to consensus reality. older guy, white, 50s, wears a skully. he does a few reps of something or other, often isolation work on machines, and then strides over to the mirror and admires either his stomach (by lifting shirt up to nipples) or his legs (by lifting the legs of his shorts up to his crotch. he's not in great shape.

one day i also saw him get up out of his machine, walk to an open area and do a couple really rickety-looking karate spin kicks, complete with HI YA! sounds. the first time i figured it was a one-off thing out of excitement at being so alive, but he just kind of kept doing them whenever.

that's amazing

sorry i'll try and save the karate kicks for home. should have said hi to me at least goole

I wish I shared your optimism about gym weirdos' staying power. My gym is frequented by the worst fucking grunter of all time- and not just grunts, either, he's expanded his repertoire to moans, barks, and full-on Pacinoriffic HOOAHs, and pulls out one of them when exhaling on EVERY REP of EVERY EXERCISE. Even his warmup sets.

Also, just had my first (supervised) indoor climb session today and holy shit, so fun! I'm going back next week to get my belaying certification (and as often as I can in the interim) and I'm thinking about taking their short bouldering class to have something to do without a belaying partner.

the most insane gymdude at my uni gym is this guy who always has headphones and raps really loudly and quickly like bizzy bone, does a few rabbit-quick reps with shitty form slamming the weights as loudly as possible, and doesn't clean the machines or put anything back once he's done. fucking asshole.

xp you're in for a world of awesome times and friendly gym folks

the other day there was a guy on the treadmill watching tennis and saying "C'MON SON!" periodically. he doesn't bother me though. it's the guys that hog the bench press.

and how is it that people don't put plates back? why would a rack have like 100 2.5s, 10 5s, no 10s, no 25s, then on the bottom in this order 10, 25, 45, 45, 45 on one side. wtf is that. every time i use it i rearrange everything like a mom.

i don't blame you but it kills me that you're enabling this inexcusable foolishness

every time i use it i rearrange everything like a mom.

― flatizza (harbl), Wednesday, September 3, 2014 8:52 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

omg i do this all the time

had another interaction a long while ago that kind of stuck with me.

it was later at night and it was just me and this other dude. i hadn't seen him before, he did not seem very experienced, was not particularly strong, and his whole mien suggested he wasn't psyched to be down there anyway. he was just kind of shuffling from spot to spot, trying this and that.

this was during a period where, i gather, a faction of this Y's patrons had successfully prevented the administration from replacing the broken radio receiver; silence being preferable to some than the threat of the station being changed from 90s, 2k and today to something harder. so it was dead quiet.

we happened to come up to the rack at the same time with some plates, and he was juuust about to put a 25 on the 45 peg that i needed, so i said, in as neutral a tone of voice as possible, "no, that one goes on the other side". i think he just mouthed "ah" and then craned it around to where it belonged, looking a little more defeated.

thing is, this whole time, the guy had been whistling, quietly. on and off, idly. the same 8-note figure. mozart i think? not eine kleine nachtmusik but something equally elemental. something from the magic flute? i knew i recognized it. only, i only realized i recognized it after i realized i had also started to idly whistle it too. as soon as i realized it i realized i had no idea how long i'd been doing it, before or after the plate incident or what.

i never saw the guy again. he probably thought the psychotic mimicking whistler scold was too much. or, that the place was a dump.

I FINALLY NAILED MY SQUAT FORM OMGGGGG victoryyyyy

:D

yeaaaaahhhhh

http://joyalface.files.wordpress.com/2013/01/20130108-104554.jpg

i haven't nailed mine but i only go to the gym like once a week now so i'm happy to just be there doing everything wrong

today i took the day off to go to the dentist and i went to the gym and this guy i have seen there a bunch was doing what he always does, taking ALL the 45 lb plates and putting them on the leg press and never leg pressing. i wonder what people in the gym think of me though. why are her legs too long for her body and why is she always deadlifting i guess.

because deadlifts are awesome, i would assume

And if you're narrow and wobbly like me they are waaay the hell easier to go up on than squats

I had a two-hour belaying certification class yesterday, I get tested for permission to use the belaying equipment tomorrow, and (hopefully) take a bouldering class next week! Also got a cheap pull-up bar off of amazon to practice with, and jesus christ, pull-ups as a full-grown adult are way harder than they were during the Presidential Physical Fitness Test

fourth session with personal trainer yesterday afternoon. my legs are killing me. is that normal? front of thighs hurt and kind of feel wooden and stiff. wincing when walking up stairs. not a sharp pain, just sore.

perfectly normal, perfectly healthy, weakness leaving the body iirc.

can barely afford food atm so haven't been making it into the gym at all. :C

today i saw two people who needed help and i didn't help them like a sad fat gamerish guy who was trying to use too big of dumbbells i wanted to be like hey, use 10 lbs, no one cares. but i didn't. i could have helped him have an epiphany.

might've scared him away from the gym altogether really

Seems any time I try get on a regular strengthening program, I get a case of tendonitis some place -- currently I've got it in both elbows. Am I just not meant to be swole?

i'm finally squatting low and driving through my heels and the outside of my feet, not sure why it took like 2 years to figure that out

the muscle i pulled in my back is still a little twingey even after more than 2 mo. i think i'm gonna try to see an orthopedist :<