The Official Gym & Fitness Thread

I talked about creatine with my dad a lot when I started getting more serious about being in shape... (He's a M.D with a background in research biochem)
The principles behind it are pretty sound, adding to your body's creatine supply gives you more energy for that last push

with my experience with it (however limited it may be) has been pretty positive if you don't take too much of it in a cycle, and stick to cycles with it. loading it just causes you to hold more water.
When I started taking it, I would gain 5-8 lbs per cycle, but my weight would settle at 4-5 lbs once I lost the water weight. I definately saw improvements with strength.

I'm actually in the same boat as you now, trying to gain a little weight back but keeping my APFT (earlier posts in this thread) talked to some people, I'm starting a small supplement of kre-alkalyn with crossfit... next test is friday so we'll see how it goes

 

Is a liver support a good thing in general when takin lots of supplements?

 

I do amino acids when I wake up, hemo rage for pre, Amino acids while working out, mass gainer after, carnivore as a snack, and carbogain and casein protein before bed.

 

I just finished my first round of N'sane preworkout shake and Krealkalyn for hydration and lost 30 lbs and I am twice as strong before i took it.

 

Pics or GTFO

 

so its been about a year since i started lifting, ive learned sooo much. i think im really understanding how to work out and hoe to get big, before i couldnt squat, bench or do anything worth squat, in one year ive seen serious strength gains. keep in mind im a little guy...
before and now
bench-135 maybe 1x with help- 225 1x
squat-around 135 a few times- im doing 275 8x
deadlift- 225
t-bar row- 200lbs 6x

i'm pretty proud of myself, i havent gained the weight ive wanted too, but i think that will come with time, also i used to over work my body by working out every single day, now im only in the gym 3-4 days a weel and maybe 45 mins at a time.

end of my story just thought i wanted to share since its been about a year


oh yeah ive learned a lot from you guys too, especially Aaron for being a long distance workout buddy (no homo) haha

 

any one ever try the ray lewis work out?

its pretty intense heres how it goes...

so u get a deck of cards, shuffle if u want... flip the first card and if its a 2-10 u do push ups for what ever number is on that card (ie. u pick a 6 u do 6 pushups)

for face cards you do 10 push ups if its an ace u do 25 and the joker u do 50

sounds easy right? well....do the deck once then shuffle and do it again but do it with sit-ups....trust me its a good way to get ripped quick, but when i would do the sit-ups i would do different ab workouts, not just sit-ups

 

^aaron has done that

 

i didnt read through the thread to check if any one did

 

I don't know if he posted, he was just telling me about it the other day

 

oh ok yea its hard, gets me huffing and puffing lol

 

I didn't quite do it like this, but I did do the deck of death.

I made each suit a different exercise and the number was how many times you do that exercise. For clubs I did 30 seconds of heavy bag work and for spades I did 30 second planks. Hearts was 16 lb wall balls and diamonds were push ups. Jokers I rested for 1 min.

 

never heard of ny of those workouts lol but i like to keep it simple

 

Heavy bag work is punching a bag. Planks are a core workout.

Planks


Wall Balls
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zeaHC3CNBrA