Essential Random Gym Thoughts Revisited...

[jilla82]

Anyone know the rep range fighters (the ones that lift) normally stay around?


Im seriously thinking of getting into Jiujitsu & a little boxing.
I like the idea of working out for a specific task.

 

[Serious]

Run outside at 9am in the heat and humidity, brehs. NEVER again. The shower after that run though

 

[Serious]

A gym-attending coworker of mine who is kind of thirsty but plays it off like she is looking for the right guy () was unloading boxes with me a couple weeks ago, I was getting a bit of a pump and she looks at my arms and says "I like your veins"

She wasn't even being sarcastic either. She only sees me in longer-sleeved t-shirts and my wrists and forearms aren't jacked so I don't look like I lift with the wrong type of t-shirt cut....but once she saw that pump going she was getting

I could have hit a long time ago....but, you know, monogomy and shyt . Get married brehs.

Be faithful brehs...

 

[Serious]

Time to carb up. Low carbing is just shytty. Takes all the glycogen out your muscles so you wind up looking fatter at a lower weight

I've been telling these lames for years

 

[Adam3000]

Squat rack was occupied today so I decided to finally test my deadlift limits (never done it before from a fresh start)

After warm up, did singles at 225, 275, and 295 which is the highest I have hit yet.

Added 10 lbs per attempt and kept doing singles. Threw on straps at 315 because I was not interested in working on grip strength.

Hit 335

Only made one attempt at 345 and missed, didn't give it a second try. At least now I now what to work for, I'm going to start up bi-weekly deadlift max sessions.

Not bad considering I have deadlifted less than 10 times in my life and never really put any effort into improving it.

Officially have hit my base strength goals for the 3 major power lifts
1X BW Bench
1.5X BW Squat
2X BW Deadlift

Not sure I have the dedication to get up to 1.5, 2, 2.5 though . Especially in bench press. I'm about sick of bulk/cut cycles and am thinking about moving to 10%BF year-round by the end of the year. Anybody here get significantly stronger when not on a bulking cycle?

 

[The ADD]

Squat rack was occupied today so I decided to finally test my deadlift limits (never done it before from a fresh start)

After warm up, did singles at 225, 275, and 295 which is the highest I have hit yet.

Added 10 lbs per attempt and kept doing singles. Threw on straps at 315 because I was not interested in working on grip strength.

Hit 335

Only made one attempt at 345 and missed, didn't give it a second try. At least now I now what to work for, I'm going to start up bi-weekly deadlift max sessions.

Not bad considering I have deadlifted less than 10 times in my life and never really put any effort into improving it.

Officially have hit my base strength goals for the 3 major power lifts
1X BW Bench
1.5X BW Squat
2X BW Deadlift

Not sure I have the dedication to get up to 1.5, 2, 2.5 though . Especially in bench press. I'm about sick of bulk/cut cycles and am thinking about moving to 10%BF year-round by the end of the year. Anybody here get significantly stronger when not on a bulking cycle?

You got more than 335 potential with that many singles

 

[Adam3000]

You got more than 335 potential with that many singles

True, but I wanted to get a general idea of my max so I could start a 5/3/1 type of structure for my bi-weekly training. (Not the actual 5/3/1 program, just something with that general philosophy)

So for week 1, I will set 335 as my base. After warmup, I will do:

5 reps at 75% (250)
3 reps at 85% (285)
1 rep at 95% (315)

2 weeks later when I do my next session, I am going to add 10 lbs to my max for calculations So my routine will then be:

5 reps at 260
3 reps at 295
1 rep at 330

I will be interested to see how long I can keep this up for, a beginner may find his progression is fairly linear but now at 2X my bodyweight I'm sure I will stall at some point early.

 

[Son_brohan]

Pulled my ham. And right when i was getting back in shape after surgery.

Fail to learn from your mistakes, brehs

 

[BLAZO da GAWD]

Lost 5 lbs during my 4 day detox. Only consumed veggie/fruit juices (kale, spinach, carrots, banana, apple, blackberry, blueberry), lemon water, and one muffin.

 

[The ADD]

Lost 5 lbs during my 4 day detox. Only consumed veggie/fruit juices (kale, spinach, carrots, banana, apple, blackberry, blueberry), lemon water, and one muffin.

Think it worked?

 

[BLAZO da GAWD]

Think it worked?

Well...I did lose 5lbs...

 

[The ADD]

Well...I did lose 5lbs...

 

[puppetmaster]

Bo Dallas from the WWE almost got me a trip to snap city today.

I went for a 205 seated OHP which is a PR. It unracked well, came down smooth. Got to about my forehead and all of a sudden I swear it weighed 405. Total grinder, I hear that goofy b*stard in my head go "it's ok if you fail big guy, next time you just gotta BOLIEVE" completed it barely but I started laughing outloud and almost failed the lift with no spotter, that woulda been bad.

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I watch too much wrestling.

 

[semtex]

Bought two bags of brown rice today. Already well stocked on oats. Hope my body accepts my apology for not learning my lesson back in 2011

 

[BLAZO da GAWD]

Bought two bags of brown rice today. Already well stocked on oats. Hope my body accepts my apology for not learning my lesson back in 2011

You bulking?