Man i can't wait till i move so i can set my punching bag,speed bag,treadmill and weight bench back up in my house.Looking at all my shyt in storage got me 
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Brehs, I'm finally back into the game
A year ago I was attempting to work up to a 2X bodyweight max squat, using the 5X5 program. My max was 265 @160lbs, so I was still 55 lbs short. At that time, I got a severe strain on my hip adductor muscle and I stopped squatting heavy and switched to 15 rep sets. It took 6 months to recover the injury. Once I fully recovered, I no longer had access to a squat rack
Well, I now have access to a squat rack and I'm back squatting heavy @157 lbs single digit bodyfat I just hit a new PR of 275 lbs.
I'm on my way back
Maybe I will finally be able to hit that 315....gonna be tough though considering I'm trying to stay below 12% BF permanently
Don't EVER doubt the cereal diet brehs
Your loss
I'm rewarding myself with 16 bowls today
. Got my gallon of milk and my spread of 5 different cereals lined up ready to go
A year ago I was attempting to work up to a 2X bodyweight max squat, using the 5X5 program. My max was 265 @160lbs, so I was still 55 lbs short. At that time, I got a severe strain on my hip adductor muscle and I stopped squatting heavy and switched to 15 rep sets. It took 6 months to recover the injury. Once I fully recovered, I no longer had access to a squat rack
Well, I now have access to a squat rack and I'm back squatting heavy @157 lbs single digit bodyfat I just hit a new PR of 275 lbs.
I'm on my way back
Maybe I will finally be able to hit that 315....gonna be tough though considering I'm trying to stay below 12% BF permanently
Don't EVER doubt the cereal diet brehs
Your loss
I'm rewarding myself with 16 bowls today
. Got my gallon of milk and my spread of 5 different cereals lined up ready to go
Adam3000
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Tried to do 2 full gym sessions today (lower morning, upper evening)
Never. Again.
Did heavy squats this morning. Not much volume, just high intensity.
Came in for upper body workout tonight feeling decent, high on caffeine and fueled. Started out fine with some heavy dumbbells and dips. Moved onto 5 rep pullups, first set dropped down from the bar and instantly felt like I was gonna pass out
Sat around for 5 minutes trying to get my bearings back. Reduced weight and went up for a 9 rep set. Dropped down and started walking sideways because my head felt like a helium balloon
Called it quits, drove 10 minutes home scared as fukk that I was gonna pass out and crash
If I ever do 2 workouts again I'm going strictly light work for session two
Never. Again.
Did heavy squats this morning. Not much volume, just high intensity.
Came in for upper body workout tonight feeling decent, high on caffeine and fueled. Started out fine with some heavy dumbbells and dips. Moved onto 5 rep pullups, first set dropped down from the bar and instantly felt like I was gonna pass out
Sat around for 5 minutes trying to get my bearings back. Reduced weight and went up for a 9 rep set. Dropped down and started walking sideways because my head felt like a helium balloon
Called it quits, drove 10 minutes home scared as fukk that I was gonna pass out and crash
If I ever do 2 workouts again I'm going strictly light work for session two
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The LeBron James of Weightlifting
America has become a weakling in the world of weightlifting, but 15-year-old prodigy C.J. Cummings could help change that
ENLARGE
At the weightlifting nationals this month, C.J. Cummings, a 15-year-old from South Carolina, turned in a record-breaking performance. Photo: LiftingLife
By
Kevin Helliker
Aug. 23, 2015 7:03 p.m. ET
11 COMMENTS
American men haven’t won an Olympic weightlifting medal since the 1984 Games, when the sport’s longtime behemoth, the Soviet Union, stayed home.
But a 15-year-old boy in small-town South Carolina is raising hopes for an American weightlifting renaissance. His name is C.J. Cummings, and at the 2015 USA Weightlifting National Championships this month in Dallas, he set a national record. In a sport where athletes typically peak in their mid to late 20s, this teenager lifted more than any American grown-up in his weight class had ever achieved.
“In 37 years of coaching, I’ve never seen anything like this kid,” said Dennis Snethen, coach of the U.S. team at the Beijing Olympics and a former longtime top executive of USA Weightlifting. “He’s the Michael Jordan of weightlifting in America.”
That praise may sound faint, considering America’s lack of stature in the sport: Its last two Olympic medals, awarded to women, came at Sydney 2000.
But as a youth, Cummings is becoming a force on the international stage. At the junior worlds this June in Poland, Cummings competed as a 15-year-old against athletes as old as 20 and finished fourth in the clean and jerk and seventh overall. At the nationals this month, his clean and jerk of 175 kilograms (about 386 pounds) broke not only the American national senior record but also exceeded by two kilograms the international youth record in his weight class (69 kilograms, or about 152 pounds). That record was unofficial, because it didn’t occur at an international meet. But even on an unofficial basis, it tops anything any American weightlifter has accomplished in decades.
A high-school sophomore in Beaufort, S.C., Cummings lives with his parents, trains an hour or two a day and studies enough to make the honor roll occasionally. When asked if he hopes to travel with the U.S. team to next year’s Rio Olympics, he didn’t hesitate. “Yes, sir,” he said.
The second half of that response pleased his mother, Savasah Cummings, more than the first. “We’ve always told our children that manners will take you farther than money,” she said.
Cummings belongs to a burgeoning force of Olympic-style weightlifters in the U.S. At USA Weightlifting, the sport’s national governing body, membership has jumped to more than 22,000 from only 9,000 in 2012, said Michael Massik, its chief executive. A decade ago, it barely stood at 5,000. “We’re seeing that kind of phenomenal growth in all categories—youth, junior and senior,” Massik said.
In weight rooms across America, a cultural shift is taking place. For a long time, the weight room has been the province of power lifters, not Olympic-style lifters. For power lifters, the measure of an athlete is how much he can bench press—something not included in Olympic competitions.
Olympians execute the snatch and clean and jerk, movements arguably requiring more overall athleticism. During the clean and jerk, for instance, the athlete lifts a barbell off the floor and ultimately overhead, requiring balance and full-body strength, and particularly powerful legs.
ENLARGE
Cummings, right, with his coach Ray Jones at a CrossFit in Beaufort, S.C. The growing popularity of Olympic-style lifting may be attributable to the rise of CrossFit. Photo: Stephen B. Morton/Washington Post/Getty Images
The rising popularity of these lifts may be partly attributable to the popularity of CrossFit, which emphasizes Olympic-style lifting. A Brooklyn, N.Y., program called CrossFit Virtuosity offers a class called Olympic Weightlifting. “We place a heavy emphasis on Olympic Weightlifting due to the sport’s unique ability to develop an athlete’s explosive power, control of external objects and mastery of critical motor recruitment patterns,” says the CrossFit Virtuosity website.
Actually, this trend represents a return to an age when Olympic-style lifting was prevalent in American weight rooms. In the history of the modern Olympics, dating to 1896, America ranks third in medals behind China and the Soviet Union/Russia.
Now, American weightlifting leaders are hoping for a return to those glory days. Only three U.S. weightlifters qualified for the London Games, compared with 10 for China. So the first step is for the U.S. team to do well at the IWF World Weightlifting Championship in Houston in November. “We anticipate sending more people to Rio than we did to London,” said USA Weightlifting’s Massik.
ENLARGE
Though just 15, Cummings is hopeful of making it to Rio next year. Photo: Stephen B. Morton/The Washington Post/Getty Images
It remains to be seen whether Cummings will be one of them. To make the cut, an athlete must be ranked high internationally in his weight class, and to get there the teenager must continue to execute eye-popping lifts, starting with a meet next month in Mexico.
His coach, Rayford Jones, won’t entertain any talk of Cummings ending America’s weightlifting medal drought in Rio. “This is a 15-year-old boy, and we’re going slow and steady,” Jones said. “But you give this boy four years beyond Rio, you talk about the Tokyo Olympics, well, now that’s a real opportunity.”
Write to Kevin Helliker at kevin.helliker@wsj.com
The LeBron James of Weightlifting
America has become a weakling in the world of weightlifting, but 15-year-old prodigy C.J. Cummings could help change that
At the weightlifting nationals this month, C.J. Cummings, a 15-year-old from South Carolina, turned in a record-breaking performance. Photo: LiftingLife
By
Kevin Helliker
Aug. 23, 2015 7:03 p.m. ET
11 COMMENTS
American men haven’t won an Olympic weightlifting medal since the 1984 Games, when the sport’s longtime behemoth, the Soviet Union, stayed home.
But a 15-year-old boy in small-town South Carolina is raising hopes for an American weightlifting renaissance. His name is C.J. Cummings, and at the 2015 USA Weightlifting National Championships this month in Dallas, he set a national record. In a sport where athletes typically peak in their mid to late 20s, this teenager lifted more than any American grown-up in his weight class had ever achieved.
“In 37 years of coaching, I’ve never seen anything like this kid,” said Dennis Snethen, coach of the U.S. team at the Beijing Olympics and a former longtime top executive of USA Weightlifting. “He’s the Michael Jordan of weightlifting in America.”
That praise may sound faint, considering America’s lack of stature in the sport: Its last two Olympic medals, awarded to women, came at Sydney 2000.
But as a youth, Cummings is becoming a force on the international stage. At the junior worlds this June in Poland, Cummings competed as a 15-year-old against athletes as old as 20 and finished fourth in the clean and jerk and seventh overall. At the nationals this month, his clean and jerk of 175 kilograms (about 386 pounds) broke not only the American national senior record but also exceeded by two kilograms the international youth record in his weight class (69 kilograms, or about 152 pounds). That record was unofficial, because it didn’t occur at an international meet. But even on an unofficial basis, it tops anything any American weightlifter has accomplished in decades.
A high-school sophomore in Beaufort, S.C., Cummings lives with his parents, trains an hour or two a day and studies enough to make the honor roll occasionally. When asked if he hopes to travel with the U.S. team to next year’s Rio Olympics, he didn’t hesitate. “Yes, sir,” he said.
The second half of that response pleased his mother, Savasah Cummings, more than the first. “We’ve always told our children that manners will take you farther than money,” she said.
Cummings belongs to a burgeoning force of Olympic-style weightlifters in the U.S. At USA Weightlifting, the sport’s national governing body, membership has jumped to more than 22,000 from only 9,000 in 2012, said Michael Massik, its chief executive. A decade ago, it barely stood at 5,000. “We’re seeing that kind of phenomenal growth in all categories—youth, junior and senior,” Massik said.
In weight rooms across America, a cultural shift is taking place. For a long time, the weight room has been the province of power lifters, not Olympic-style lifters. For power lifters, the measure of an athlete is how much he can bench press—something not included in Olympic competitions.
Olympians execute the snatch and clean and jerk, movements arguably requiring more overall athleticism. During the clean and jerk, for instance, the athlete lifts a barbell off the floor and ultimately overhead, requiring balance and full-body strength, and particularly powerful legs.
Cummings, right, with his coach Ray Jones at a CrossFit in Beaufort, S.C. The growing popularity of Olympic-style lifting may be attributable to the rise of CrossFit. Photo: Stephen B. Morton/Washington Post/Getty Images
The rising popularity of these lifts may be partly attributable to the popularity of CrossFit, which emphasizes Olympic-style lifting. A Brooklyn, N.Y., program called CrossFit Virtuosity offers a class called Olympic Weightlifting. “We place a heavy emphasis on Olympic Weightlifting due to the sport’s unique ability to develop an athlete’s explosive power, control of external objects and mastery of critical motor recruitment patterns,” says the CrossFit Virtuosity website.
Actually, this trend represents a return to an age when Olympic-style lifting was prevalent in American weight rooms. In the history of the modern Olympics, dating to 1896, America ranks third in medals behind China and the Soviet Union/Russia.
Now, American weightlifting leaders are hoping for a return to those glory days. Only three U.S. weightlifters qualified for the London Games, compared with 10 for China. So the first step is for the U.S. team to do well at the IWF World Weightlifting Championship in Houston in November. “We anticipate sending more people to Rio than we did to London,” said USA Weightlifting’s Massik.
Though just 15, Cummings is hopeful of making it to Rio next year. Photo: Stephen B. Morton/The Washington Post/Getty Images
It remains to be seen whether Cummings will be one of them. To make the cut, an athlete must be ranked high internationally in his weight class, and to get there the teenager must continue to execute eye-popping lifts, starting with a meet next month in Mexico.
His coach, Rayford Jones, won’t entertain any talk of Cummings ending America’s weightlifting medal drought in Rio. “This is a 15-year-old boy, and we’re going slow and steady,” Jones said. “But you give this boy four years beyond Rio, you talk about the Tokyo Olympics, well, now that’s a real opportunity.”
Write to Kevin Helliker at kevin.helliker@wsj.com
The LeBron James of Weightlifting
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Yesterday did 4 x 6 front squats with the trainer. 135,185,205,225 as the weights. shyt doing 225 was a struggle considering the highest I did before was 190 on a 3 x 10.
Now I'm gonna take 2 weeks off from the gym and 3 weeks off from lifting to just give my body a reset. This should be interesting.
Now I'm gonna take 2 weeks off from the gym and 3 weeks off from lifting to just give my body a reset. This should be interesting.
So brehs I've incorporated knuckle pushups into my life anytime I get angry/stressed (I have my own office at work) and after about a month my knuckles are starting to calcify, should this help with my punch @krackdagawd @patscorpio
V neck joints are panty droppers especially if you have big deltsHave received a lot of comments and random body touches from women whilst wearing them joints. Copped the XL from this brand Alpha-Beta and those joints fit perfect. At first I felt uncomfortable because I grew up wearing mad baggy shirts, but then my ex (a bad foreign joint) was like "you are crazy, those fit you perfect, they make you look even more attractive."
I was sold.
Yup...i always felt doing them made my punches heavier...plus the calluses I got from doing them are like my badge of honor
Had two instances that made me a believer recently
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I've pretty much always done my pushups that way
I think it isolates your triceps a lil better? IDK it just seems more fulfilling to me than a normal pushup. And word to pat these calcified knucks are gonna be war scars