Darth Biscuit
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This made me laugh. Agreed... when I'm going all the time I don't want to stop... when I get out of the gym for a week or two, I don't want to go back. PSC, today is chest day for me and I'm gonna try your reverse pyramid thingy... any other tips? How many sets do you do?
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In general, the majority of most gym users gym etiquette is non-existent.
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Yeah, I can see how a good warm-up is key... Be easy to get hurt going heavy right of the bat.
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Might have to try that for a week... I'm on my heavy phase right now anyway.
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No, I've never tried that then. Would be an interesting change up though. I may have to work that in.
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I'm trying to get my head around what you're saying... Do you mean you start at a weight and go up in weight, down in reps? Or are you going down in weight and down in reps? Let me tell you what I was doing two years ago before my surgery and had the most strength gains ever... I had a partner and we would do like 3 exercises per workout. Chest day we would do like, incline bench barbell, flat bench dumbbell and decline bench barbell... 8 sets each... starting at lilke 60% max for 10... 70% for 8, 80% for 6 and 90% for 4 and then back down just the same down to 50% as many as you could do. That is an awesome workout, but you really need a spotter/partner when doing this due to the potential for failure in the later sets. I currently don't have a partner... I rely on some friends in the gym to spot, but that kind of sucks b/c you have to always hunt people down. Anyway I went from benching around 245 to 300 in about a month... I increased all my lifts during that time period. It has helped me to this day and I'd like to run that again if I could get a steady partner.
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My goals are pretty much what they have been... keep losing and put on more muscle... I'm pretty happy where I'm at now, I just want to keep the motivation to stay in the gym and do at least as much or hopefully more than I've been doing. I do want to get back to playing golf... I went from once a week to once a month here lately... it's just been too damn cold. I hate playing when it's below 50. It's just not fun. My wife has made a commitment to get in the gym at least 3 days a week... she's unhappy with the weight she's at... and she's not "fat" by any means, but she still has that extra 10 lbs mostly in her waist that she's very unhappy with. She asked me to give her an honest opinion the other day so I did... I told her she doesn't try hard enough. If we were still 25, she could lose it easily, but going to the gym once a week on average just isn't cutting it. She needs to walk more, go to the gym more and just do more... I'm almost 40 and she'll be 42 this year and it's tough to keep it off unless you work at it. Currently I just switched back from my high rep/lower weight, more cardio phase to my less rep/higher weight back on creatine phase. We'll see how that goes... my fuging right elbow is still aggravating me... must be some tendonitis or something. Oh yeah, and I got some of that greek yogurt PSC suggested and am eating it before my workout... it's not great, but tolerable.
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Holy poo this thread is 400 pages...
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I'll get some and try it again. I do eat yogurt in the afternoon sometimes as a snack.
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Brilliant plan there PN... What brand?
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I hear you REALLY like bananas... I've tried that greek yogurt and it's not for me. I've done really well over the holidays working out... only missed yesterday and even then we went for a nice walk with the dogs. Haven't over-eaten either.
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What is this PM about?
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From about late October until first of December, I was on creatine and taking a pre... I've tried several and honestly most of them your body gets used to pretty quickly... The best one I've tried is probably 1.M.R. Weirdly, for about two weeks AFTER I got off creatine, I was stronger than when I was on it...
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I'm the same way on both counts... I love that post workout feeling and if I miss a day, even a scheduled day off, I don't feel right. I'm totally addicted to working out.
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Yeah, unless I really go nuts on one specific thing now, I rarely get sore anymore. Sometimes my chest will still get sore after chest day, but its not bad. I suspect when I get back to more lifting vs more aerobic stuff and especially if I start going really heavy which is the plan.
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I was gonna bump this today anyway... Thanks PSC. How's everyone doing? Despite my hurt arm and back, I've been going consistently still... Even on days I don't feel like it... Been doing more cardio than lifting lately, gonna switch back to more lifting in about two weeks.
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He's at the Mayan temple right now...
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