thread of getting sw0le

i relate to this article http://mobile.nytimes.com/2014/02/12/sports/olympics/chasing-gold-and-jeans-that-fit.html

It's also incredible how sharp your mind gets in the last 4 hours of a 24 hour fast. Good creative flow and clarity.

funny thing to post right after yom kippur! i myself was marveling earlier today at how sludgy and destroyed my mind and body feel in the last 4 hours of a 24 hour fast.

do he got booty? xp

duh yeah

sw0le ilxors! I need your advice. person i know who is p gym intensive has started subcutaneous peptide use and, well, frankly I don't like it v much at all. however, I never go near a gym, and know nothing about the subject. what i've seen on the web I've just found confusing - pages on medical uses, athletic cheating, and a cacophony of bodybuilding 'how to' stuff. he says it's legal and the combination he uses safe, as it only takes effect when human growth hormone is produced. I know f' all about this, or intensive gym culture, and don't want to start an ill-informed conversation, as I think it's likely to turn into an argument, but equally i don't necessarily trust his judgment in this particular area and want to be able to test it out. he's not a professional athlete. there are body image issues. what's the general feeling here? it's fine? it's not at all good? it depends on what and when and how? certainly no worse than all that alcohol you put inside you son and i don't see you getting all hand-wringy about that?

and is there a good online place to go?

i have no idea what subcutaneous peptide is but i don't like the sound of it at all

for all the bullshit with "paleo" etc there's something to the idea of just eating food and doing work and getting strong. love yourself ppl!

yes, completely agree goole - i don't think there's much 'paleo' about that tbh, it seems like a decent and healthy way to go about it, just don't feel that argument's going to wash unfortunately.

i could look it all up myself, but is your friend injecting shit?

subcutaneously, yes. which is just... it's just a terrible terrible look at the very least, but within a subset of the intensive gym/body look world, you can find an awful lot of stuff that legitimises it and i think that's part of the problem here. unfortunately from 'inside' that world, the opinion of people outside that world lacks validity, and so it's difficult to have a meaningful discussion.

Your online choices are either going to be rah-rah steroid forums or everyone else who thinks it's an incredibly bad idea to inject gray-market shit into your body. Pretty much going with the masses there.

that's p much it milo, yep. :(

IMO, if it were even moderately safe and effective, you'd have a million clinics popping up to do it like there are for low testosterone.

i have no idea what subcutaneous peptide is but i don't like the sound of it at all

for all the bullshit with "paleo" etc there's something to the idea of just eating food and doing work and getting strong. love yourself ppl!

― goole, Wednesday, October 8, 2014 2:42 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

the only thing i inject is food into my mouth!

Paleo sounds more legit than subcutaneous peptide (?) as the former is just eating vegetables and meat. I have been doing stronglifts with the "starter" weight and while it is a bit easy i am working on my form and am excited to see how strong i get. I generally eat a caloric deficit if i am not drinking very often (low appetite side effect of medication) so it will be interesting to see how my physique reacts to this program.

Trying to eat more protein and whole vegetables though and make baked goods and bread a smaller component of my diet

I'm feeling guilty as hell about cutting workouts with my trainer to once a week. :(

lagoon, what's your leg exercise regime?

running mostly, i do some kettle bell swings, and various running type activities like plyo and intervals and hill intervals etc, i just have naturally grostequely robust legs tho

oh i use the foam roller sometimes too, which is nice

8 pull ups in one set today (pr) getting so swol

freakin rad

i've been really taking some breaks this summer/fall. i'll start again when i turn 30 in 10 days. all these obligations stress me out.

hb!

8 pull ups in one set today (pr) getting so swol

― lag∞n, Saturday, October 18, 2014 5:40 PM (3 weeks ago)

dude i suck at pull ups. i barely managed a set of 4 straight the other day . need to work on these

pull ups are weirdly satisfying. wish i had a bar in my apt where i could do a few here and there. lifetime goal of mine to be able to do 4x10 of them.

I'm still working on the assisted pullup machine- 2 sets of 10 with an 80 pound assist, which I know is pretty fucking sad. But! Doing that (also posterior chain stuff like deadlifts) has helped immensely with bouldering, and after the huge initial difficulty curve I'm starting to slowly make my way up the grades (my current best is a V2-).

not braggin except braggin that i'm on 3x5 pullups with 17.5kg hangin off my feetses

yeah ugh my pullup game is probably so ugly rn, not sure i can even do one :(

ryan
Posted: November 12, 2014 at 3:42:34 PM
pull ups are weirdly satisfying. wish i had a bar in my apt where i could do a few here and there. lifetime goal of mine to be able to do 4x10 of them.

get one! they make them now so u dont have to permanently install just put it up when u want to get ripped then put it away

(•̪●) (carne asada)
Posted: November 12, 2014 at 3:36:32 PM
dude i suck at pull ups. i barely managed a set of 4 straight the other day . need to work on these

thats not bad at all!

TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand)
Posted: November 12, 2014 at 4:22:43 PM
not braggin except braggin that i'm on 3x5 pullups with 17.5kg hangin off my feetses

sick r u doing the extra weight instead of more reps to get swole or what

You guys are caterpillar (Telephone thing)
Posted: November 12, 2014 at 3:55:39 PM
I'm still working on the assisted pullup machine- 2 sets of 10 with an 80 pound assist, which I know is pretty fucking sad. But! Doing that (also posterior chain stuff like deadlifts) has helped immensely with bouldering, and after the huge initial difficulty curve I'm starting to slowly make my way up the grades (my current best is a V2-).

ya assists r v helpful i did them just w my foot on a chair at home at first

great pull up talk folks!

yeah ugh my pullup game is probably so ugly rn, not sure i can even do one :(

― een, Wednesday, November 12, 2014 4:23 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

start with assisted ones and youll get over the bar in no time!

could always start with chinups (palms in) which are "easier" but i've never looked into why heh

greater emphasis on arm muscles rather than the lats which are usually weaker? idk

i could google pullup vs chinup (and did! once) but i don't feel like wading thru the broscience right now

fwiw i think rippetoe says there's no functional difference over time

i do both also neutral grip

Neutral grip pull-ups are easiest for me and they're the least likely to cause elbow or shoulder pain IIRC

ya my wrist gets a lil weird from chin ups sometimes

man i used to be a pullup machine 8[

rip

i can do one overhand or two underhand ;_;

according to training for the new alpinism doing weighted one-rep pullups for a while will up yr pullup game more than anything

that book btw i think is a p dece 'basic fitness' plan even if you are not into climbing. alpinism is just walking a lot and swinging tools and imo is a better benchmark for fitness than dumb ol olympic lifting (said by someone that only squatted with a bar less than a week ago)

steve house is an actual human monster btw

have been mostly doing body weight exercises (pushups, pull-ups, dips, some yoga stuff) and biking every day but haven't touched a weight in like two months. i dunno how to start again.

just pick some up i guess?

alpinism is just walking a lot and swinging tools

― gbx, Wednesday, November 12, 2014 10:17 PM (16 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

but what is the new alpinism

le nouveau alpinisme

the new alpinism is talking about it a lot

sick i love the future