The Official Gym & Fitness Thread

What is your staple back exercise?

 

Deadlifts and pull ups are all ya need!.......rows kick ass too!

 

Nice work ruben, your arms and delts tho, grew way faster, Also what do you do for lats?

 

rows for the hoes!!!!!!

 

I would say the 15-20 rep circuit training. Deadlifts I do even though I'm not very good at them.

Yeah, I need help on my deads. I feel awkward when I do them.

Thanks, arms have always been easy to grow for me. (And I train them once a week)

For Lats I do pull-ups, single handed pull downs, pull downs. And some pull down machine.

 

Bjj?

 

Brazilian jiu jitsu

 

^^oh that's cool. I always wanted to try fighting.

 

Ive been doing BJJ for about 6 months. Love it. Thinking about entering come comps. Just got my second stripe white belt.

 

BJJ, a sport where a small dude can kicks big dudes ass lol i got tapped out a couple times doing BJJ, only trained a couple times for fun but man that stuff is crazy good for cardio.

 

Shit 15-20 reps? sounds like you are doing cardio lol gotta stick to mid rep range hypertrophy man 8-10 reps

start on rack pull first, ways easier to get that muscle memory

you are a lucky dude, even if i train arms they don't grow, so i gave up lol no more arm days

Hmm interesting, i do big heavy movements for lats, like T bar rows, Bent over barbell rows and dumbbell rows.

 

I just received my elevation mask today in the mail. It can range from 3000 ft to 18,000 ft in elevation. I have it set to 6000 ft right now. My cardiovascular strength is severely lacking and I hope this can help me get over my cardio platue.

 

that stuff is hard core man, i've even heard of runners sleeping in vacuum tanks to bring up their blood oxygen levels, crazy stuff.

 

I have been doing 8-10 range for a while. Didn't really see to much progress. Just trying something new that was shown to me by a competitive BB.

I've never done a rack pull before. I'll have to try it. I do other workouts too but I think the dumbbell rows etc. don't isolate the lats. At least I don't think.

 

Arnold and kai greene thinks otherwise. your lats goes down your back, there is no better exercise to bring thickness and width than some heavy rows.

 

I feel like I'm sucking a thick milkshake through a straw right now even though its set at 6000 ft. I live right at sea level so this will definitely be a benefit to my training. I won't be hitting the gym with this thing any time soon. Just gonna use it any time I'm at home for about a month, then start doing at home exercises with it.

With the sheeple in society today, if I go for a run or to the gym with it, they'll probably call the cops.

 

lol that sounds terrible. almost sounds like an asthma attack

 

Back day is my favorite day. My new back day looks like this

Chest support row
15 reps 45lbs
8 reps 90lbs
5 reps 135lbs
10 reps 45lbs

Deadlift
135x12
225x10
315x5
225 to failure

Weight pull ups
35lb dumbell
3 sets of 8

Pull-Overs
Vary between heavy low reps and high reps

Seated Row
4 sets of 165x10

i am open to constructive criticism

 

^^^ intense...
Chest day is my fav; I use to pound it in the gym before, but now most of my spare time goes to studying. I still hold couple state records and my high school bench records

 

looks solid to me man, lucky for me we have a pull over machine in my gym cuz im always afraid that imma drop the dumbbell on my face.