Also, 45kg squats and 40kg bench press felt a bit difficult this morning.
I am so weak.
And, yes, I realise I'm just talking to myself in here now.
Also, 45kg squats and 40kg bench press felt a bit difficult this morning.
I am so weak.
And, yes, I realise I'm just talking to myself in here now.
Your feet should be 'pointing out to the sides'. What do you mean?
He said they should be pointing straight forward.
40kg bench is standard if you've just started out.
Chest and back today after two days of being on the sauce. Think I'll weigh myself.
Yeah, I know. It's not the weight still being quite light that's bothering me it's that I was starting to find it quite difficult today already. Whereas throughout the last two weeks I've found everything fairly easy.Originally Posted by Manc
It's inevitable that you will have disappointing days. The more consistent you are with your nutrition and rest, the less they will pop up.
I suppose whatever works works, but most people have their feet out to some extent. I've just tried it in the kitchen with my toes straight forward and my legs force them out at the bottom of the movement (which feels unbalanced). How wide is your stance?
Pretty wide. I can't really go any narrower though as I just feel unbalanced then.
Just tried some bodyweight squats with my feet pointing forward and it feels weird around the knees so I don't think I'll bother with that. My feet naturally point outwards a bit anyway.
I started out doing it with my feet straight and just put the resulting knee pain down to it being new and hard. I only realised when I was trying to stretch my knees a bit and noticed I naturally flared my feet out doing so.
Those first few months of cluelessness.
That 'gym friend' just wanted to shag you. Like the first 'gym friend' I made, who quickly went from giving small advice to asking which kind of underwear I wore.
It was in the changing rooms he started talking to me.
He had his top off as well and he said he'd been training for a about a year when I asked him how long he'd been at it. He looked terrible if he's been doing it for a year. He just looked like a normal bloke. Not huge, not really much visible muscle and he wasn't ripped or anything either.
What small talk did you have in the shower?
We didn't talk, we just fucked.
I seem to need an awful lot of sleep the night of a workout. I couldn't get up this morning and ended up getting about 12 hours. Why do I need so much sleep?
Because you're a lazy cunt. Also your muscles need to rebuild themselves.
I know the first part.
I also know the second part, I'm just surprised at how tired I find myself afterwards.
Yep, especially at the first stages of working out you have literally knackered yourself. Shows you've had a good session.
And you're a lazy student bum.
Oh, I see. Nothing to worry about then? I thought maybe I wasn't eating enough or something (doubt it, fat bastard lol).
I don't feel that exhausted straight after the workout though so it seemed a bit odd that I'm proper knackered later.
Overhead press is a right bitch. 30kg was a struggle this morning.
This page is pretty decent for giving a ballpark of how shit/good you are at a particular lift.
Those are one rep maximums as well, so 30 x 5 isn't that bad.
30 at 5x5
I suppose that's not too bad then.
3 rest days in the last week seems to have done me the world of good. Strength is peaking
What does knackered literally mean?
I see lots of places seem to recommend multivitamins as well? Does anyone take them? Are they really necessary?
They're just good to take anyway, although it took me too long to realise that supermarket tramp ones have the same stuff in as expensive brand name ones.
I suppose. Assuming they're cheap enough they can't really do any harm.
Anything else? I saw fish oil recommended too? Creatine? Might just get some steroids and get swole.
Just lift heavy shit mate, no need to buy into the whole 'scene.'
Creatine is apparently one of the safest supplements, but be careful/ask your doctor/research thoroughly etc if you are on medication.
Fish oil is good for memory. I haven't heard how it can help with gymming?
Isn't fish oil just another good thing to use generally? It probably is with my bollocks diet. I use creatine, but I don't know whether it's worth bothering with straight off the bat. Maybe give it a few months whilst you can still recover quickly with your 'newb gains'.
Your body is actually physically tired and broken down from working the muscles.
Was worried about stalling on the overhead press this morning as it was a bit difficult last time but I didn't.
There's a guy who looks like a hench Andy Samberg. He's nearly always there around the same time as me. He wears one of those narrow vest things (singlet? or does that include shorts too?) and does lots of grunting. He's ripped and all but, like, shut up.
Have a word with him.
Failed at 35kg on the overhead press this morning. Could only manage 4 in the third set then the app said to rest for 5 minutes and I managed 5 in again in the last two.
Need to order some more whey soon too. The strawberry one was quite nice but I'd like a change. What other flavours are good?
Can't go wrong with chocolate.
Yeah, went for some chocolate smooth and another bag of the natural strawberry. 1kg of each. Only £11.05 a kilo today.
How many do you normally take a day? I've been having two but I might add another one.
Stick to two. I used to have one with breakfast and one post workout.
When do we get a shirtless mugshot Boyd?
Give me a year.
I'll mark it on my calendar.
You do that.
What a great lifting weak.
Squat 90kg
Bench 80kg
Shoulder Press 60kg
All without niggles. My body seems to be comfortable at 80kg, all the while losing body fat and gaining slight muscle.
60 kilo shoulder press is fucking crazy. Do you just walk around with balloon shoulders, Superman?
It's far from crazy.
For what you squat and bench press it's impressive!
That shoulder press is completely out of kilter. Just really impressive for what your other lifts are.
I do 5x5 on clean and press and I struggle with much above 52.5kg.
Military press and I'm looking at 45-50kg. All the while I can knock out reps of 100kg on bench.
Maybe my shoulders are just disproportionally weak.
For a bit of context, I've only recently started to squat again after an injury and my bench was/is woeful.
I'll take the praise though.
Suppose it's the wrong time of year to try and get myself into going into the gym and losing weight/getting stronger.
Switched jobs 6 months back from scaffolding to lorry driving and I've put on close to 17lbs....
So going to post in here and the fat fuckers thread to see if I can keep myself motivated.
Found a workout plan I liked the sound of Ice cream fitness 5x5😊
Workout A
Squat
Bench
Row
Shrugs
Tri extensions
Curls
Good mornings
Cable crunches
Workout B
Squat
Deadlifts
Press
Rows
Close grip bench
Curls
Cable crunches
Compounds 5x5 accessory 8x3.
Recommends adding 5lbs of weight on the main three lifts everytime I complete the 5x5
Freudian slip there. You know you can lift a lot more than that.
Did 5x5 on 140kg deadlift today and then had to go sit in the changing rooms so the world would stop spinning.
Then walked home.
I hate being weak and tired all the time.
The myprotein natural vanilla flavour is fucking rank. So glad I only got one of the single serving sample packets.
First session of the gym out the way kept everything light
Squats 60kg
Bench 60kg
Rows 60kg
My legs feel like they have been run over by a train rest of my body is fine though.
Posting Permissions
Reply With Quote
