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The official gym & weightlifting thread! rep #2

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#801
i_got_a_mohawk said:
Deadlifts, squats and barbell rows are good for working the back.

Even though this may seem counter-intuative, you might find better results by following a simpler program :)

I spent a lot of years doing bits and bobs but only started making decent progress with a decent program.
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I know what you're saying, I find that true for a lot of people, but I'm not one of them. I have to work every muscle and work it hard to get growth.

My fight is in September and I started serious training a month ago and feel so much healthier now than I ever have.
 
#802
i_got_a_mohawk said:
Even though this may seem counter-intuative, you might find better results by following a simpler program :)

I spent a lot of years doing bits and bobs but only started making decent progress with a decent program.
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At least when it came to my abs, I got the best results by exercising them as a specific group only once a week and by doing a lot of cardio. The worst results I got was when I was exercising them every day and was doing virtually no cardio.
 
#803
Here are some back exercises for you:

Upper back:
Barbell shrugs, Pullups, Chinups, power cleans, Face-pulls,

Lats:
Rows (seated, bent-over, inverted (hanging from a bar with your feet elevated or on the ground)
deadilfts (the lats do an awful lot of work in a good deadlifting session!)

Lower back: good mornings, reverse hypers, squats (all varieties - low bar back squat, high bar olympic style, front squats, overhead squats, deadlifts).

Also good for the lower back - plank holds.

I've found the best situp to be the Roman Chair Situp - I can always feel it in my lower back when done. I just need a roman chair in my garage now!

Hope this helps!
 
#804
I just started p90x over again, as well as working 9-5. It kinda sucks, I want to keep with it, but by the time i get home its 6pm, and im beat from work the last thing I want to do is work out. How do you guys do it? I really wana stick at it this time, but I know its gonna be tough especially because of my job which im standing all day at. Any words of advice or encouragement would be appreciated. I've fallen off the wagon twice already in the past. :(
 
#805
Linas said:
I just started p90x over again, as well as working 9-5. It kinda sucks, I want to keep with it, but by the time i get home its 6pm, and im beat from work the last thing I want to do is work out. How do you guys do it? I really wana stick at it this time, but I know its gonna be tough especially because of my job which im standing all day at. Any words of advice or encouragement would be appreciated. I've fallen off the wagon twice already in the past. :(
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You have to want to train more than not training. If this means waking up an hour earlier to train before work - that is one way to get it done. Or going to work earlier / coming home earlier. (that is what I am doing today!)
 
#807
I was watching an interview with Raven's line backer Ray Lewis, and he said that as a teenager he used this method to workout:

Using a deck of cards, he assigned a value to each card. The numbers were obvious. 1 = 1, 2 = 2, etc... the face cards were assigned progressively higher numbers, with the joker representing the number 50.

He would shuffle the deck and randomly draw a card. The entire deck was used for one exercise at a time. If he was doing push ups, he would draw every card (after working up to that) and do the number that was drawn. Eg: he draws the 7 of spades and is doing crunches. He then does seven crunches. He draws another card and repeats the process for the entire deck.

Sounds like a cool and cheap way to get in shape. Or a good way to get a kid into working out by making it a game of sorts...
 
#808
Linas said:
I just started p90x over again, as well as working 9-5. It kinda sucks, I want to keep with it, but by the time i get home its 6pm, and im beat from work the last thing I want to do is work out. How do you guys do it? I really wana stick at it this time, but I know its gonna be tough especially because of my job which im standing all day at. Any words of advice or encouragement would be appreciated. I've fallen off the wagon twice already in the past. :(
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Just force it for the first couple of weeks, by the time it becomes habit, you'll be fine.

I'm regularly working 8 til 7 atm, needing to get more gym time in, but have fallen out of the routine, nightmare :(
 
#809
i_got_a_mohawk said:
Just force it for the first couple of weeks, by the time it becomes habit, you'll be fine.

I'm regularly working 8 til 7 atm, needing to get more gym time in, but have fallen out of the routine, nightmare :(
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+1 to this. The key is to make it into a habit. After awhile you will actually have to force yourself to take a break from working out (hard to believe but true).

I also found that in the beginning when I forced myself to workout my diet would fall in line b/c I didn't want to spin my wheels in the gym. It was the days that I blew off a workout that I was more likely to eat garbage.
 
#810
Linas said:
I just started p90x over again, as well as working 9-5. It kinda sucks, I want to keep with it, but by the time i get home its 6pm, and im beat from work the last thing I want to do is work out. How do you guys do it? I really wana stick at it this time, but I know its gonna be tough especially because of my job which im standing all day at. Any words of advice or encouragement would be appreciated. I've fallen off the wagon twice already in the past. :(
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This might come off a bit cheesy but I think Nike said it best when they said "Just Do It". No matter how tired you are, just work through it. That feeling you get when you finish the routine is FAR better than the feeling you get the day after you skipped out on one. Besides, you'll get used to it like said above.

Maybe I'm speaking out of line since I don't stand all day (desk job here), but I'm also a 9-5'er (8-6 is the new 9-5. lol), but my morning commute is a killer so I stick to evening time for gym. Sometimes that means getting home at 7PM, eat, rest a bit, and going to the gym at 9PM, get home around 10:30PM, shower and go straight to sleep.

I'm not trying to show off by telling you my schedule, I just want to emphasize that even with all of that, that feeling I described above has been worth it. Also, I'm ashamed to say this on TB, but my bass playing time has taken a hit as a result. :ninja:
 
#811
After 2 months without lifting due to physical therapy and traveling I finally made it back in today and suffice it to say I am VERY happy with the results. I didn't do any dead lifts today but I did do squats and bench and my numbers are very promising:

DL: ---
Squat: 3x6 205, 1RM 255
Bench: 3x10 165, 1RM 205
Lat Pulldown: 3x10 205, 1RM 245

So while my squat numbers went down (like I was expecting them to) my bench and lat pulldowns actually went up. I also expect my DLs to go down, but I'm ecstatic that I finally passed the 1.5 body weight mark on my lats. Hopefully I can join the 2 plate bench club by the end of the month :D
 
#812
Congrats on getting back in there. You can definitely make the 2 plate bench club by the end of the month!

I really needed to see some of these inspirations in here today. Today is squatting, light deadlifts, shrugs, and curls. I've been struggling in higher rep sets with squats - not a physical issue, but completely a mental issue. Time to HTFU.

My current numbers are:
Bench: 195lb for 4 sets of 8, 2RM = 230
Deadlift: 355 for a double, double overhand grip (first time!)
Squat: 315 for 3 sets of 8
Shrugs: 225 for 4 sets of 12 (this will go up soon)
Barbell Curl (strict): 95lb for 4 sets of 6
Front deltoid raise (strict): 25lbs each arm
Single DB press: 53lbs for 4 sets of 5
 
#817
Linas said:
I just started p90x over again, as well as working 9-5. It kinda sucks, I want to keep with it, but by the time i get home its 6pm, and im beat from work the last thing I want to do is work out. How do you guys do it? I really wana stick at it this time, but I know its gonna be tough especially because of my job which im standing all day at. Any words of advice or encouragement would be appreciated. I've fallen off the wagon twice already in the past. :(
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Just keep at it. After 2 or 3 weeks it'll become habit and you'll begin feeling physically bad for missing a workout - like you'll actually begin feeling sick.
 
#818
I have been lifting with very light weights for the last few years. I am at an age where I think maintaining muscle tone, and avoiding injury make more sense than trying to get stronger.

I have pretty much given up on bench pressing because it bothers my shoulders too much. I use various machines to work my chest. I use machines for my legs also instead of squats.

The two body parts where I use traditional lifts are military and shoulder presses for my shoulders and upper pecs, and I have recently gotten back into deadlifts for my back. Today, I actually increased my deadlifts today from the minimum of 135 to 225 lbs. I could feel the difference, but it was no strain at all. I don't think I will ever deadlift 515 like I did 10-20 years ago, but I can see me getting to deadlifting around 225 - 250 lbs. again. Even if I am in AARP, it doesn't hurt to keep a little strength.:)
 
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