Huddle Workout Warriors

[bleys]

U taking those post workout?

They should all be good together.

 

no, just working out and eating right up until now..  although UPS just came to do the door with my weight gainer and I'll get those in the mail next week.

 

pretty solid deal I couldn't pass up..  $70 including shipping for all 3..  leucine (400grams), arginine/ornithine (250 tabs), and 1000g of creatine..

[88 Bronco]

Now that the app is up and running I can share without tech issues. To the left is this time last year. The work was put in last September until now.

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And the one on the far right is taken at a really good camera angle. (I did not pose for either of these. I hate taking pictures)

 

My wife loved what you did with Hootie and the Blowfish.

 

Seriously, you're doing good.

[Dpantherman]

You look like Darius Rucker in the left pic.

Waiting on my royalty check

[Dpantherman]

that won't happen, she's tied up.. like, literally.. I can hold a phone up to her ear though?

Leave us be man

[BuffaloBills62]

Sorry you lousy Panthers kids I've been busy.  I don't want to reveal much about myself - just not my thing, but I am a farmer with a full time job, as well.  I stay pretty busy when I do my 110 minute 6 day a week workout plan.  (30 cardio, 60 lift, 8 min core, 2 min calves, 10 min stretching/plyo ).

 

Form issues?

I would not say form.  I worked out with some 19 yr olds Thursday on the shoulders and really noticed it.  It being what I had noticed the week before when I went back to the basics.  I am 32 and I put them to shame - a couple of former high school wrestlers, felt good.  Anyway, I think it was a rhythm issue if that makes sense.  Instead of just the drop it down and throw it up movement that is so easy to fall back in to I worked on slower movement and firing of each muscle as I rose and fell.

 

I have a killer shoulder workout program - I killed those boys.

 

Oh if you follow P90X like you should, it is no joke for sure.  People on here have had great success with it.

 

Crossfit same way, but it's like a damned cult.

 

 

Cat and I have discussed this before... I've had people make fun of me bc I go to the gym everyday or give you a "back handed" compliment about working out so much, fug them.  

I mentioned Crossfit here a while back.  Charlotte has one of the best Crossfits in the state.  Coach A is fantastic - he actually played for the Fins at Safety (iirc) for a while.  An NCSU graduate in Livestock Sciences and played football there, too.

 

They are not like a lot of the wannabe Xfits that don't pay attention to form or the workout.  They preach the form and they know their stuff.

 

At yoga last night my instructor had us focus on legs and hips. She kept coming around and adjusting my hips into some incredible awkward position.  

I haven't been this sore in ages, I just finished Insanity and never was close to be as sore as I am today.  

I really, really want to get in to Yoga.  I live in no-where NC with maybe 2 yoga studios here.  My gym used to offer it but no longer does.  In Davidson County NC there really isn't much of an option and I'd feel like a big creep ogre goon dragging my knuckles in to a yoga studio.

 

Plus, I fart a lot.

 

Now that the app is up and running I can share without tech issues. To the left is this time last year. The work was put in last September until now.
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And the one on the far right is taken at a really good camera angle. (I did not pose for either of these. I hate taking pictures)

Hit those incline benches, bro.  It'll fill in that pec head.  Also get some oblique workout in - it'll chisel those abs out.

 

Looks great, though.  Keep up the good work.

 

anyone have experience with taking arginine and ornithine together along with leucine?  reviews seem to be really positive.  

What experience would you like to know about?  I know a lot about the subject.

Arginine can be very scary for people with high sensitivities to it.  Even those without can experience bad things with it.  For example, with me, if I work out too hard I will blow up blood vessels.  When I do dragon flags in my workout and have taken arginine based pre workouts (like C4) I will get blotches across my face, shoulders and upper back where I am straining to get my 3sets of 20 in.  When I work arms my arms will some times look bruised the next morning.  It really gets that blood going.

 

Ornithine is beneficial, but like Argenine is not one that is going to develop the skeletal muscles as much as it will improve performance.  I hope that makes sense but if not what I am trying to say is; Ornithine and arginine are used to induce the muscles ability to absorb the oxygen basically (arginine) and induce the muscle to recover by forcing out nitrogen (ornithine). 

 

I will have to check with some people to see what the best options are but I do know from experience and knowledge that buying premixed BCAA's is better then mixing them on your own.  Pre workouts aside, which usually are more placebo then bonafide actual improving agents often do have BCAA's, thoguh.  C4 has the arginine in it and Alanine. Both thin the blood out and combined with the niacin can make you look orange and blotchy.

 

A few products I can recommend for good BCAA's in good supplementation:

GNC Pro Performance Amplified Ripped - a good combination of BCAA's, CLA, that is stimulant free with some water displacement agents

Inner Armour Casein - amino acid enhanced casein protein great to take before bed as keep metabolism up

twin labs amino fuel - a simple mans premixed amino acid pill that has worthwhile ingredients that helps you avoid having to buy it all separately.  it is reasonably priced, as well.

 

I want you to look in to Threonine

 

The best preworkout combo I can tell you from experience with is nearly a fatal one.  Craze (now illegal, though), mixed with Endothil, mixed with C4.  You will get 5 to 10% more weight (based on your max) on your sets with endothil alone.  But, take some milk thistle and glutathiamine to protect your liver and not fug yourself up.

no, just working out and eating right up until now..  although UPS just came to do the door with my weight gainer and I'll get those in the mail next week.

 

pretty solid deal I couldn't pass up..  $70 including shipping for all 3..  leucine (400grams), arginine/ornithine (250 tabs), and 1000g of creatine..

The creatine is something you need to be careful with taking as it can hold you back over time if you do not the proper things while taking it.

 

I can write more about this if you'd like but am feeling lazy after going thru all that above.  Let me know if you care enough to have me give you more info, of if any of you silly Panthers fans care tto know, that is.

[88 Bronco]

I hate it, but I think I need a recovery week. A few muscles are sore and not like DOMS or anything.

[BuffaloBills62]

I hate it, but I think I need a recovery week. A few muscles are sore and not like DOMS or anything.

 

What is the indication?  Muscles?  Fatigue?  Joints sore?

 

How long has it been since your last rest?

 

 

 

I probably need one, too.  I will likely just do a 15 minute cardio machine warm up and stretch with light plyometric work to keep things working and then some sauna-ing.   I just hate taking it because I need to be able to move it.  But, I went hard last week and if I am going to take one I need to do it this week.

[88 Bronco]

My calves, collarbone, lower back have been sore for the last week or so. I haven't missed a gym day in about 6 weeks and haven't had a recovery week in since December. I go to the gym 6 days a week, sometimes 7. I have 3 days of weight training and 3 to 4 of cardio. 

[Joscott]

I'm testing my arm out tomorrow after a week off. It has been feeling better but I don't know how it will react during back day.

[Doyle]

I just got done with an 8 mile run. I think I'm going to try for 10 next weekend.

[88 Bronco]

Day one of not going to the gym sucks.

[BuffaloBills62]

Day one of not going to the gym sucks.

 

Mine is closed today because that chump Jesus doing his Zombie thing.

[Cat]

Mine is closed today because that chump Jesus doing his Zombie thing.

 

He got jewed

 

 

I did Max Plyo and ate candy and drank some wine before heading to the in laws : (

[BuffaloBills62]

I'm testing my arm out tomorrow after a week off. It has been feeling better but I don't know how it will react during back day.

 

I thought I'd add that I recently was reading a paper on sports therapy and recovery.  I wish I would have saved it.

 

The article spoke about how ice baths and icing muscles post work out, during recovery or injury.  The results were pretty stunning.  I remember back in my day (I am 32) in high school and college a cold bath tub with jets was the norm.  The temps were supposed to be under 40 degrees and no lower then 34.  You'd sit in there 15-20 minutes and feel great afterward.  However, new research is showing that the same benefit will be found by using 60 degree water for the same duration.  The physical effects will feel different, obviously, but the effectiveness to recovery and tissue regeneration was no less then the 34-40F bath.

 

Further it spoke about recovering injuries and how new methods are showing that for most common injuries ice alone is not as effective as a full recovery program.  Sports therapists are now promoting deep muscle stimulation thru vibratory and deep muscle stimulation.  What was once best thought to help align and retain muscles to traditional placement is now being studied to show the benefit of the vital skeletal muscles deeper beneath the tissue where bloodflow can be reduced.

 

Joints were brought up slightly in this study and it was mentioned that the issue is and always has been tissue regrowth and stimulation of the area thru therapy that generally includes heat treatments and proper posture of the joint to allow for maximum blood flow since the actual joint receives very little bloodflow to help heal.

 

Yeah, it was basically about influencing bloodflow to the body can improve performance.  I had been researching iron supplementation for joint recovery and stumbled on it.