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nice job man! Especially for double overhand, although I still say you got to drop that soon and start doing mixed grip or if you must double overhand you need to learn hook grip. good luck next week with the 1 RMs
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I has a new trick:
Also, I might not be maxing deadlifts this weekend because I broke the sleeve on my olympic bar... piece of junk. I'm trying to find a new one on craigslist.
1 arm pullup is seriously impressive. I know I can't do that. Is there any trick to that? I can do about 20-25 normal pullups, but I cant 1 arm pullup. I noticed you are technically doing 1 arm chinups, is it easier that way? Also had a deadlift party yesterday afternoon 5 singles with 485, I don't usually do singles so I don't know if its a PR persay but I am counting it.
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Thats sick. So much weight.
You can get to 1 arm chins (I guess it is a chin) just by doing weighted pull-ups/chins. I've been doing weighted pull-ups in the 6 rep range once a week to get there.
Anyone can do them. As you can see I have about the worst possible body-type for bodyweight feats (tall and heavy).
completes chinup, looks off into the sunset like nothing happened.
Anybody know good stretching routines? I'm trying focus mostly on my legs. I'm not very flexible at all, cant even do a proper L-sit or that deep of a squat, and I want to improve my mobility a bit.
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if you want more than just standard hamstring stretches and quad stretches
http://www.elitefitness.com/forum/we...-a-631289.html
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So finally met up with a guy from craigslist for a $60 bar... old asian guy who's most likely selling his kid's stuff. The guy's got a jankey, bolted olympic bar (what I was expecting) but also a fat powerlifting bar right next to it. Definitely grabbed the powerlifting bar. Stoked.
Hey guys,
Im trying to get in the best shape of my life by august of this year. Ive been working out for the past two months and im 16 years old. Ive gone from 175 to 183 but I have probably the worst diet out of anyone on here. Luckily I play hockey every single day and that keeps me from getting fat. Im playing junior hockey tier 3 which is really good for my age. Im 6'2 and I want to get to about 190 pure muscle though. I know i need to start eating alot better and running alot more but any other tips for cutting fat and gaining muscle weight?
Thanks
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i'll tell everyone on here a great cutting routine i just discovered. its called severe strep throat combined with nonstop diarrhea. laid in bed from saturday to tuesday eating nothing (because it felt like swallowing razor blades everytime i tried) with nothing but frequent trips to the bathroom and armageddon like chills and sweats to occupy my time.
12 pounds in 3 days. beat that hydroxycut
I would not worry about your 3 lb loss with 9 lb of water loss from dehydration just got buy some gatorade or pedialyte and carb up.
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not enough info and somewhat unrealistic goals
what is your current routine and diet? How extreme are you willing to go? Also running will not be a key player in body composition, unless you just need better cardio for hockey.
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monday i do biceps and back and forearm, tuesday triceps and chest, wednesday legs, thursday is mondays and friday is tuesdays. Each day I run a mile when i wake up, go to school, then hockey pratice, then workout. My diet consists of breakfast lunch and dinner. Usually a protein shake in the morning or ceral. Lunch is alot of snacks and a sandwhich, and dinner is what eva mommy cooks. I also do ab circuits at the end of every workout.
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It takes a long time to gain muscle. You'll probably see more gains in the long-run if you do a strength cycle first meaning 4-6 rep range on multi-joint movements (bench, overhead press, rows, chins, squats, deads, power-cleans). This will also stimulate your appetite way more than an isolation program. If you still want to do isolation/splits after you hit some reasonable strength goals then you'll probably find it easier to swell up targeted muscle groups fast when you can move more weight.
Speaking of which,
I'm just about at my strength goals that I set a year ago and I've finally thought about what I'm going to do after I hit my last DL goal. Rather than immediately saying I'm going to DL 5 plates next, I think I've decided to give my joints a rest for a bit and experiment with an increased rep-range all around and maybe try to get bigger. I'm already starting to shift my 4x4 sets into 6x6(+) and getting some good-old-fashioned pump that I haven't felt in awhile. That's what I really miss about the college bro-workouts.
Hockey is about explosive strength and speed anyway, bulking up may slow you down.
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Ryan, first off, worry less about your bis/tris/ and forearms and more about compound exercises. Focusing on curls and forearm exercises are a massive waste of time if you are trying to bulk up quickly. Look into the rippetoe 3x5 or something else like that.
Don't forget to rest, especially with the larger muscle groups. More isn't better when it comes to strength.
have had some good works out recently highlights are 475x5 deadlift which should put me at a 545 max although realistically probably more like 530 since I deadlift sumo and a 355x3 squat, 335x5 squat and 315x8 squat. Hoping to hit 4 plate squat very soon. Shoulder still hasn't healed though so no bench PRs for the time being.
Anyone else logging some PRs recently? Castertown you get that 4 plate deadlift?
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I hit 395 and then was kind of pooped. Went for 405 but it didn't pull. Still happy with the PR though. I'm gonna try to get some extra reps on 365+ for a couple more weeks and try it again. I think I'm raising my hips too fast on really heavy stuff. I have a long torso and its hard to keep from slouching / having my upper body fall behind during the lift.
Been hitting the lats
youve also been takin scissors to your dance marathon shirt. tisk tisk
and why are you still wearing an XS VIP band? unless the picture was taken that night, thats freshman shit bro.
nice lats *licks lips*
The picture was taken that night. I'm doing a pullup outside munchies 420 haha. It was during gator stompin Thursday night that's actually what the shirt is.
hey man I know a chick that goes to UF, you should frack her
Just graduated. MoVing back to so Fla. Missed opportunity.
Anybody have a really general hypertrophy template that works? Something like a split with
Mon - vertical push/pull
Tues - squat, DL
Thurs - horizontal push/pull
Fri - squat, Romanian DL
Like I mentioned earlier, I'm serious about doing a traditional "8-12 rep" program (minus the DL of course) for a cycle before I go back to strength, but I'm really out of the loop when it comes to higher rep stuff. Is there like a Starting Strength for higher rep/hypertrophy stuff?
this program mixes strength training with hypertrophy and its pretty popular
http://www.simplyshredded.com/mega-f...ated-2011.html
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That looks like just the thing. The only other one I found that looked decent was HST
Its for sure that after I get my hypertrophy fix for a few weeks I'm going back to a bare bones strength cycle again. I do love my heavy ass weight. I just need a break.
I would only do HST if you are cutting and trying to spend less time in the gym. Otherwise it is a fairly silly routine. I almost guarantee you will lose strength on it. I know multiple people who have done it and their results were all about the same. I think it would be a great program for someone just getting started who is kinda husky though.
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What do you think about Boring But Big? Seems like another way to keep my strength up while still doing more volume...
never done it, but it looks like its just 5 sets of 10 on big lifts plus accessory work? That should be a good way to take a break from heavy lifting while building some mass to come back stronger. The only thing I might not do 5 sets of 10 for would be deadlifts 3 sets of 5-8 I would think would be sufficient on deadlifts.
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Lately my left shoulder has been bothering me when I lift. It's not my rotater cuff, it's sort of a "bad" soreness only in the front. It seems to hurt the most when I do the initial lifting of the barbell for chest exercises. I also feel it in a bad way some during shoulder day but seems to be worse on chest day. I don't want to take it easy because I only got about one more month of hitting the gym hard until I do my annual summer slacking, but I don't want to really injure myself either.
Has this happened to any of you studs? Advice?
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ive been dealing with it for about 2 years now. i dont know what it is but it sounds the exact same as yours. i just dealwithit.gif
you are probably gripping too wide, flaring you elbows too much and touching too high on your chest for barbell bench. Try pinky on the rings (Assuming standard power bar), bring barbell to nipples or lower and allow your elbows to tuck a bit at the bottom of the bench. (tuck means bring towards your sides, whereas flare would be to have them at a 90 degree angle from sides)
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Down to 200lbs. A mix of heavy weight lifting and extreme cardio/conditioning has caused a huge cut in fat and water weight and an increase in muscle mass. Just in time for the summer whoo hooo.
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