The Official Gym & Fitness Thread

My understanding was that if the bar goes too much more than 1 bar length below nipple level then your jacking your shoulders and you lose chest power.
So in essence it shouldn’t go to diaphragm level or below.

The bar should go over your face then come down to nipple level then back up towards your face.

So creeping towards the feet on the decent is correct, not on the accent. Which sounds like the latter would just lead to failure and a broken waist at 300lbs LOL

 

My form breaks down on the ascent under heavy weight. I let the bar creep towards my feet instead of pressing it back up towards the rack.

 

Thats interesting because I think more people are weaker as they get the bar further away.
You must have a strong lower chest lol

 

I don’t think I do at all. I can’t get the bar up when I lose my path.

What happens is when I stall on the press up (i.e. going for a PR), instead of keeping my line the bar path creeps towards my feet while I’m straining and I end up failing the rep. That’s where my form breaks down and I need to work on keeping that line.

Clear as mud...I know.

 

Ahh, got it.

Hmm, maybe you need a bit better leg drive to get you over that form break?

 

I'm working on activating the leg drive more on the descent. One thing I've learned in getting serious about weights and working with a trainer is that it is so much more than just pushing and pulling weight.

 

Yes... because contrary to popular belief, bench press is a glute exercise.

 

Wouldn't difficulty at the top be a pecs (only) thing? Maybe floor press with as much weight as you can stack on there, push it to lockout every time, to focus on strengthening that part? I thought I saw/read this somewhere. Can't remember exactly now.

 

I don't mean that leg drive may not help. But from the point of view of what you could focus on to strengthen that part.

 

Been doing solid the last 3 months on 2500-2800 cals per day. Gained about 3lbs so far (goal is to pretty much recomp as much as I can) but holy hell the last week I feel like I’m starving to death! I have been probably over consuming by 300-400 cals more than that per day.

All I can think about right now is egg and brisket samiches.

Weirdest part... I’ve lost a pound this week eating more XD.
WTF?

 

There is an app you can use that will track your barbell path. It is called 'Iron Path'. Record any movement from the side and make sure the plate is fully in frame for the whole lift. You pull the video in to the app and it lets you highlight the plate and it will track it's motion with a line and you can see how far you deviate from your path. You may feel one thing, but play it back and realize it wasn't that bad...or it was way worse

 

Your metabolism has caught on to your shenanigans! lol

 

Apparently!

 

Lol

 

The body is strange... I've been weighing myself more often now and have found I often times weigh more in the morning than at night... And when I feel like I am 300 pounds I usually weigh less than when I feel like I weigh 100 lol...

 

Waaa

 

Really? Interesting. I've weighed as much as 3.5 lbs more in the evening than in the morning. But I don't check very often. Morning is my comparison time, at likely my lightest weight of the day (most **** out, least water/food in).

 

Well its strange how random changes seems to be too.

Now I may be eating a bit too little because my energy at the gym is better lately so more energy = more cals burned.

 

Depends on everything what activity, water, food and if you made a BM yet.

 

Yeah, for sure. Habits would change this for every person.