Huddle Workout Warriors

[Darth Biscuit]

Badass 77 year old grandma powerlifter...

 

https://www.yahoo.com/health/this-77-year-old-grandma-can-deadlift-215-pounds-104096786097.html

[BuffaloBills62]

 

 

I am tempted to add front squats to balance out my back squats.  I have never done them before.  How much weight should I reasonably expect to be able to do? Half of my back squat?

What Chime said.  Start light, work on that form.  Do it a few times a week with an empty bar and work up to weight.  Just don't attempt this on the Smith Machine, it will mess your form up for everything.

 

If you can get to half your body weight in a month you're on the right path.

 

Calves are basically pure genetics and you can't make them bigger without site injections or whatever.

 

This is accepted in the BB community. 

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I'm going to need some evidence to back this up. It sounds like some rumor that guys who hate leg day made up

Its not made up, it's like the forearms and necks.  Those muscles are used so often and so thick and dense that they do not respond well.  If you want bigger calf muscles or a bigger neck you have to work them daily and at least 5 times a week.  Your forearms are little more lucky.  You're working them out at least twice if you're doing back and arms in your workout regime.  Adding just one exercise to them will improve a lot.

 

There are some very effective and simple calf exercises you can do, though.  The easiest is just dumbbell calf raises on a 45 plate.  Put your toes on a 45lbs. and a dumbbell on your knee to do your calf raises.

 

With the thick and dense muscles you have to work them out until exertion.  The bad part - if you work your legs out a lot, including running, your glutes will end up this way.

 

[Ja Rhule]

PS: Electro's horse is actually very fuged up name if ayone knows the story behind it...

[Darth Biscuit]

PS: Electro's horse is actually very fuged up name if ayone knows the story behind it...

 

Fiz gonna Fiz

[Chimera]

PS: Electro's horse is actually very fuged up name if ayone knows the story behind it...

it's good bait, though

[Chimera]

So today I worked out with a friend; did his workout. It was tri and thigh day for him. Everything superset:

 

4 x 12 neutral grip pull up & 4 x 12 hanging dips

 

4 x 12 skull crushers & 4 x 30 hammer curls

 

4 x 12 overhead tricep extension & 4 x 12 reverse curls (both on cable machine)

 

then immediately we went to 8 rep pyramids, up and down twice, with reverse curls (again) and standing tricep push downs.

 

yes, i know someone will come along and say that this workout isn't much. but this tricep workout, mind you, was after my own upper body workout yesterday and i posted that my right tricep felt like it was ripping itself off my humerus.

 

 

just wanted to say i can't hang with that ish right now

 

 

 

[the butch]

 

4 x 12 skull crushers & 4 x 30 hammer curls

 

 

If you don't mind me asking, what weight did you use for the hammer curls?  Did you feel a good burn afterwards?  I ask because I'm looking to up my reps on all upper body so I don't get too big in contrast with my lower half.  120 hammer curls seems excessive, though.  Did you decrease the weight at any point?

[Chimera]

If you don't mind me asking, what weight did you use for the hammer curls?  Did you feel a good burn afterwards?  I ask because I'm looking to up my reps on all upper body so I don't get too big in contrast with my lower half.  120 hammer curls seems excessive, though.  Did you decrease the weight at any point?

I thought the whole workout being 48 reps of everything was excessive.

 

I didn't go heavy... started with 20s, did two sets then went to 25s for two sets. I was pretty well spent after pull ups and dips.

[electro's horse]

95k power ******.

 

[BuffaloBills62]

So today I worked out with a friend; did his workout. It was tri and thigh day for him. Everything superset:

 

4 x 12 neutral grip pull up & 4 x 12 hanging dips

 

4 x 12 skull crushers & 4 x 30 hammer curls

 

4 x 12 overhead tricep extension & 4 x 12 reverse curls (both on cable machine)

 

then immediately we went to 8 rep pyramids, up and down twice, with reverse curls (again) and standing tricep push downs.

 

yes, i know someone will come along and say that this workout isn't much. but this tricep workout, mind you, was after my own upper body workout yesterday and i posted that my right tricep felt like it was ripping itself off my humerus.

 

 

just wanted to say i can't hang with that ish right now

I can't ever get a response out of my tri's.  My problem is that I use my arms and shoulders so often that I cannot get development there. I will try this in the next week or two.

 

Is there anything you can recommend to add to it or take away from it?

 

95k power ******.

 

nice.

[Chimera]

I can't ever get a response out of my tri's.  My problem is that I use my arms and shoulders so often that I cannot get development there. I will try this in the next week or two.

 

Is there anything you can recommend to add to it or take away from it?

 

 

 

 

Well the guy I worked out with is a body builder with 20+ inch arms, so his workout is more along his goals of mass and power. I mean, he was doing 165 lb skull crushers on his second set. F that noise.

 

The biggest thing I would have done differently is balance it a little more - that workout was a whole lot of isolation, which I'm not really used to doing. Usually if I do triceps, I will do biceps at the same time. My tris are a little sore today (and look huge right now, but that won't last another day) but my lats are incredibly stiff. Maybe do a light set of lat pulls to warm those up before doing this workout.

 

[BuffaloBills62]

Well the guy I worked out with is a body builder with 20+ inch arms, so his workout is more along his goals of mass and power. I mean, he was doing 165 lb skull crushers on his second set. F that noise.

 

The biggest thing I would have done differently is balance it a little more - that workout was a whole lot of isolation, which I'm not really used to doing. Usually if I do triceps, I will do biceps at the same time. My tris are a little sore today (and look huge right now, but that won't last another day) but my lats are incredibly stiff. Maybe do a light set of lat pulls to warm those up before doing this workout.

 

Thanks.   I hate to admit it but I pretty much stopped working out my arms weekly because it did not accomplish anything.  I would have to work the crap out of them which hurt my professional life and they'd be too tore up to even pick up a hammer.

 

Just curious, is the body builder guy a legit lean body builder or just a big hoss with a belly type of a body builder? 

[Chimera]

Thanks.   I hate to admit it but I pretty much stopped working out my arms weekly because it did not accomplish anything.  I would have to work the crap out of them which hurt my professional life and they'd be too tore up to even pick up a hammer.

 

Just curious, is the body builder guy a legit lean body builder or just a big hoss with a belly type of a body builder? 

 

no, he's a legit gym rat, been in the gym since he could walk. he did steroid cycles in the past when he did competitions, been clean about 10 years or so now. nowhere near as big or as cut as he once was, but definitely does not have a meat n taters build.

[Ja Rhule]

So I did my lower body after 10 days off... I can barely walk... My legs and my ass are in agony. I also feel fatigue... I might of pushed myself little too hard last night.