The Official Gym & Fitness Thread

Made it to the gym this morning for legs. Legs in the morning are probably gonna have to be a 2 scoop workout. I can usually rep out 15+ reps of 225 on squats, but getting more that 7-8 was a struggle this morning...that was also the first thing I did, so I wasn't really warmed up...also had to use ON Platinum Pre b/c I left good ol Hyde at work. Platinum Pre sucks.

squats: 4 sets
feet low leg press: 4 sets
leg extensions: 3 sets
seated leg curls: 4 sets
leg high leg press: 3 sets
calves and abs

Also, look what came in:



Shit's pretty damn good. I can't tell a difference from ON.

Good man. There are plenty of good chest workouts you can do without a bench: pec dec, chest dips, svend press, db bench/flys, etc.

 

Wild wing

 

banana creme

I think I solved my foamy casein problem btw. Last night I tried adding a little water and mixing, adding a little more and mixing, repeat, repeat. It was smooth like a wendy's frosty

 

Ahh. Well I wouldn't have had time for that anyways. Lol

 

wing bar fool already ready.

 

I only get 30 minutes for lunch. I know y'all were gone longer than that.

 

So I've got a dilemma. Deadlifted yesterday and pulled 225x12 no problem, could've gotten like 14-15 if I wanted to. So I put 275 on the bar, couldn't budge it. Idk if it's because of fatigue or what, but I thought I gave myself ample resting time. I was unbelievably pissed.

 

I told you I'm bad at the phone...I will look once I get out of work.

 

I always do squats first, with plenty of warm up sets, because I have been under the impression that the first lift is when you are the strongest. I will have to try it a little deeper in my leg day and see if there is a difference.

 

That's weird. How long did you rest?

 

2 minutes, maybe 3.

 

That's usually plenty of rest as long as it wasn't "max effort" lifting. I would think fatigue, if only because the math just doesn't make sense that you could break the bar off of the floor 12 times at 225, but not even once at 275. It's either fatigue or your weak point is breaking the bar off of the floor. If you try resting a little longer and it still doesn't work, I would try some deficit DLs to work on that part of the lift.

 

Same. I think it was just because it was like 6:15 am and I was still dragging ass.

 

Oooh, I haven't done deficits in a long time.

 

Sounds like fatigue I guess but really weird that you couldn't do even 1 with only 50lbs more after doing 12. I usually do a warm-up set around 10-12 reps and then get to work with my 8 or less rep-sets. Did you do any other work before this or was this all you had done before you tuckered out?

 

I had done bent over barbell rows and single arm rows with an anchored barbell.

 

I don't normally do deficits nor would I necessarily recommend them to anyone unless they're really having trouble with breaking the floor. A lot of "pro" programs have them in there though. I don't think that's your issue, nor am I an expert by any means.

My sticking point is usually right below the knees.

 

Breaking the floor is my biggest issue, I think because it's all legs at that point

 

If 275 is to much to get why not do some linear progression? Instead of going to 275, do 250. When 250 gives you no problems then try 275 or even 260.
On a positive highlight of my life, I pulled 620 yesterday for a pr which felt pretty good so then I bumped it to 635 and got that too. I think I'm gonna try 650 next month. Fresh I think I can get it.

 

My boss is a early morning gym dude and saw me in there squatting this morning. I just saw him again and he said, "damn boy, I didn't realize you had them fat boy legs!" I wanted to kiss him.

Y u no like deficit dls? They're my favorite hamstring exercise (deficit Romanian dls, that is.)

Fuuuuuck, that's a lot of weight!