The Official Gym & Fitness Thread

Fallen off the deep end today with emotional eating lol fuck.

 

Well did you at least eat something awesome? Make it worth it if you’re going to cheat. Haha

 

https://youtu.be/3il_dh_m2F8

 

Brown Santa delivered...

 

Well yesterday I benched 355 and deadlifted 500. Came in and weighed 213.6, way to low. Don’t know if my home scale and the scale gym was off but I was right around 218/219 all week.

The top guy in my class benched 430 under 220lb bw and the top deadlifter pulled 585 at 200lb bw. Wound up 4th in the class. Not bad for not strictly powerlifting ever and focusing on pt tests for my job.

 

Question for those that prep your meals a week at a time.

Do you freeze your meals or do you keep the entire weeks worth of food in the fridge until you need them?

 

Fridge. Everything I cook is fine for 6-7 days. Anything longer than that things get suspect

 

Same, between me and the wife’s food, we usually cook up chicken/beef and rice/potatoes and that’ll last 3-4 days. Fridge works up to about a week.

 

Appreciate it fellas. I usually keep mine in the fridge for up to 5 days but wanted to check and see if I’m living on the edge or not.

 

Maxxing out alone is scary. I did what I could without getting stuck or dropping weight.

Age:25
Weight- little heavy now due to bad diet so 190

All alone. No spotter

Bench- 285
Squat- 315
Deadlift- 385

 

Assuming you’re squatting in a rack, the Only lift you need a spotter on in bench. The safety bars are there for a reason for squats. Use them.

 

Still scary to fall in a gym full of people lol

 

Those are rookie numbers

 

Wait. The gym is full of people...but you’re all alone with no spot?

 

I’m a rookie fam! I’m such a newb I’m still trying to figure out if I want to cut or bulk lmao

 

Yea. I’m not a social person. Anxiety kinda thing.

 

Nah. I’ve done it many times. So has everyone else in the gym if they’ve ever really lifted. It’s no big deal. Dump it on the bars and take your lumps. It happens.

 

I just posted recently but, update and to contribute:

In June of last year, at 6'1" just turned 38, I weighed 167lbs, started on creatine and whey and serious lifting. Now, April 1st, I'm at 184.5 lbs. The before pic is March 2018 at the beach, the after pic is a couple days ago.

I'm happy enough with my progress, but I wish I'd focused on real lifting with better exercises early on. I didn't know my elbow from my backside, kinda, and while I did good volume, most of my routines were so-so or crap, also bodybuilder with little strength training.

Around late Sept I learned what DLs and squats were good for and why I should be doing them. Had only DBs available at the time so started REAL light (not a single barbell at this community gym). Also eliminated some dumb exercises that were hurting my shoulder.

This year I started tracking macros for the first time (my food overall is very healthy and always has been, but not perfect and not enough), and 2 weeks ago I got a better gym membership and under a barbell for the first time since my early 20's, so my numbers are very unimpressive,

DL: 295 (e1rm, I did 275 a few times and ran a few online calcs)
S: 235 (225x2)
B: 195 (175x something)

I could probably have halfway decent numbers if I'd done better exercises from the start, but heck, I'm relatively uninjured and now know a lot about lifting and fitness.

I'm currently doing the Bridge, by Barbell medicine. Good stuff and they seem to know what they're talking about. I recommend it.

 

Yep. I've done this, but not a dump, on the safeties.

 

You're off to a great start! Best thing here is counting your macros. Keep that going and you will see sustained continuous improvement. Don't get wrapped up in the powerlifting numbers. If you want to build them, do it. If not, don't. I don't keep track of them anymore and ever since I stopped caring about how much weight I can move I am relatively injury free and my progress has sky rocketed.