thread of getting sw0le

it was this. the woman has no head, first of all. second of all, his advice is stupid and her squats are therefore stupid
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SIzuKTn4GQI

30DayButtTransformation.com sounds good though

just add a little bit of clay to yr butt every day no one will notice they will think u got a hair cut

I went back to the gym on Monday after two weeks off (trip to Portland for thanksgiving, post-travel jetlag/cold/studying for exams/paper writing) and oh god I have totally lost it

I've been doing squats as three sets of ten, a 45 lb bar +55, +65, and +75, but I was only able to get through two sets of ten at +50. My legs (weirdly, my hamstrings, not quads) were killing me for days afterward, and have only now stopped screaming at me. I'm honestly worried- squats are the only big barbell movement in my current routine (I try to sneak in a separate day for deadlifts if I can fit it into my schedule, but can't always make that happen) and I'm kind of freaking out that I won't be able to get back to where I was next week, or even relatively quickly :(

I tried to do a Turkish get up with too much weight for my left hand (right was fine) and nearly had an incident tho.
― gbx, Thursday, December 11, 2014 6:03 PM (39 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
been saying this exercise is a deathtrap
― lag∞n, Thursday, December 11, 2014 6:45

the sketchy element of them is what makes it kinda fun imo.

TThing: don't think you have much to worry about. Two weeks is way too short to really make much difference, I think, unless you were sitting still and eating nothing but rice cakes. DOMs always seems to reappear when I've not used certain muscles in a little while. Nature's way of shaming you for acting like a weakling who Doesn't Even Lift, or something. (insert inspirational Bruce Lee macro here)

Squat video was the best. Had me laughing out loud when he had her show off how going below parallel made her lose form cuz of inflexibility. There's no way her back-bending there was because of inflexibility; she probably simply didn't know how to squat, and Mr Spikybleach clearly wasn't going to teach her.
But I guess it's jerks like that that are the reason why almost every squatter at my gym is a half- or quarter-squatting dinkus.

http://i.imgur.com/3M0l4uP.png

lol

http://i.imgur.com/dIC3CQK.jpg

Had me laughing out loud when he had her show off how going below parallel made her lose form cuz of inflexibility.

had me laughing out loud at the holding graphic tbh, A+ clickability bad-squat dudes

http://forum.bodybuilding.com/showthread.php?t=107926751

just found this guy's website, looks intersting

http://gregnuckols.com/2014/06/16/the-best-exercises/

You ran Starting Strength or the Texas Method or 5/3/1 and thought it was the best thing since sliced bread? Cool. I tried and absolutely loathed all three.

Most of the time, my personal programming revolves around constantly setting 3-10 rep max PRs on bunches of variations of each lift, followed by completely spontaneous accessory exercises based on what I think I need and what sounds like a good time. Some people think that sounds like a lot of fun, but others go insane without being able to gauge progress and improvements week to week. But honestly, if I started with a program that was the same week to week except for the fact that the bar was 5 pounds heavier, I’d have been bored to tears and probably would have never fallen in love with the sport of powerlifting.

But, the thing is, neither approach is inherently better or worse than the other. It’s about finding what you enjoy doing and what you can stick with long-term. Physiologically there’s a lot of wiggle room for most of us – until you’re approaching your genetic ceiling, you can make progress doing something that’s not “optimal” (also, “optimal” doesn’t really exist in the real world, but that’s another rant). The key is to find something you can stick with for years and be consistent doing. An added bonus is that if someone enjoys the program they’re on, they’ll probably give it more effort and see better results. A “meh” program you give 100% to will typically give you better results than a great program you half ass.

So will I recommend some of the more vanilla programs to someone who likes predictability and being able to gauge progress week to week? Sure thing. They’d go crazy trying to train the way I do.

Have I written programs with crazy amounts of variety for people who have a long history of program hopping because they (like me) get bored from doing the same thing for too long? You betcha. A lot of the self-proclaimed “hardgainers” I’ve worked with turned out to have quite an easy time gaining size and strength… just not with sets of 5 at 80-85% of their max – a level of volume and intensity that works well for most and (wrongly, in my opinion) consequently gets preached as the single “best” thing to do, especially for beginners.

just started 5/3/1 but like he said i enjoy gauging my progress regularly so i like it. But i can see where the routine week in and week out could get boring.

same dude's other site

http://www.strengtheory.com/2014/04/21/making-your-novice-strength-training-routine-more-effective-two-quick-tips/

i might start playing around with some of these ideas? idk. i'm also considering adding some dreaded cardio.

do the cardio

lil bit of HIIT on a bike or a row machine to finish up, that's the plan

i hate it so much tho

u shd run, if a person cant run the most natural of human movements can they really be said to be in shape, makes u think

also run outside, run away from the gym

i'll show your mom the most natural of human movements

wow rude

sry :/

i really don't like running tho, and don't have the shoes or the climate at hand to make it happen

i always used to do 2000m on the rowing machine at the end

it was death

haha jk, u can run in any conditions tho i do, its good its natural its free xp

u can run to the gym, lift things, run home, its good

when i did the loop in prospect part i wld stop at the chin up bar each lap

ideally u wld get to the point where u just run then when you are feeling very powerful u punch a tree

in bangkok in the park they have these huge weights stations that are open to the public and u can just go lift in the park for free i guess its pretty chill

Cool ways to do cardio: swim

swimming is very cool, i love how relaxed it makes yr body feel after, getting dece technique takes some work tho

swimming then sit in sauna for a while after my lord beautiful

I never learned to properly swim so the only way I can go for forward without causing giant splashes everywhere is a leisurely backstroke. :(

take a swimming lesson if u want to

im not good at swimming but a swimming coach told me, just in casual convo, that the key to the crawl is that yr abdomen generates most of yr propulsion and the idea is to kinda knife through the water, what that means is you want yr torso to be alternating between posistions perpendicular to the bottom of the pool, you dont want to be lying on yr belly at all, you are basically flipping yr torso back and forth and that torque is where ur moving from

I'm with g∞le,in that I hate most cardio, the only other cardio I like is basketball

But that goes against the phiosohpy "youodn't play basketball to get in shape you get in shape to play bball"

O well

i have a love hate relationship with the rower but that's where i get most my cardio.

basketball is great exercise! only downside is its kinda easy to coast when u get tired, but if u go out there and give it 110% its ideal

yeah if it's full court you could definitely count that as some serious cardio

like hundreds of shuttle sprints

even half court, its more the jumping quick movements than the running per say, the running is good tho

btw americans approach to fitness is so classically dysfunctionally american, 90% of people get none then the other 10% are obsessed with the technicality of it, compulisvely plan and become psudeo experts, completely buy into false binaries like cardio/strength, pick sides, say things like "i hate cardio", drive to the gym

true i just need to move back to a better climate so i can do stuff outside year around .

It's like a mini interval workout, playing bball

Love jogging, I'm happy to say, though I'm always in that squeeze of wondering if I should focus more on one and the other. Running cuts into my gainz, but lifting makes it harder to run a lot. Distance running + squatz = ;_;
(Mind, I came to lifting from running. I joined a gym in the winter, because I found running on slippery roads to be too difficult. Found spinning & treadmills too gruesome to stick to, so started lifting.)

I only live 2 km from my gym, so jogging there is a decent warmup.

i took the day off to go to the dentist. i haven't been to the gym in 2015. i don't feel bad about it. i'm going to go today. i agree with that guy goole c&ped. i am often too tired to be always improving (i mean not improving generally, but improving on like one metric) and doing the same thing. it makes me more stressed. i do better to do more random stuff. partially. i mean i always love deadlifts.

running is great btw. i never go in the winter though. never home when it's light out and i have a problem with tripping and falling on sidewalks. so i can't really run at night.

My favorite exercise lately has been hitting a giant tire with a sledgehammer. It feels great and makes a satisfying sound and hits all the muscle groups. But this week my gym filled the tire with some sort of balloon-like inflated tarp. Now all the force that used to go into the tire shoots straight back through my body, and kills my lower back.

I kinda wanna pop that balloon? I miss the old tire.

pop it imo

That's all the go ahead I need. I'm sure it's there to reduce noise, but to my ears it makes the noise sound even worse, kind of like a sickly thump. I miss the big, resounding boom.

Wear some gloves and go at it

I could see if gloves help, but the pain goes through my whole body, not really the hands.

I do wanna figure something out, because the tire is my favorite exercise. Seven months ago I got an AC joint shoulder injury, and it's been slow recovery. I had to cut out most of the exercises I liked (bench presses, push ups, planks, dips, etc.) and in addition to finding exercises that I can do pain free it's been a challenge just finding exercises that keep the gym interesting, since so much is off limits.