The Official Gym & Fitness Thread

6'5" and 190lb but don't let your age be an excuse there are multiple 50+ year olds at my gym men and woman. Shit 2 of the men are stronger then me.

 

i know that feels, my deadlift is not very strong but i know my back and core is capable of pulling at least 495, but my grips gives out around 475 and just can't hold any longer, im gonna incorporate an accesory day into my split just to workout grips strength, lockouts, pause work ect ect.

 

I'm now trying to only use my grips on the heaviest set to see if that will increase my grip

 

Damn all you guys have cheap ass gym fees. The gym I use for free charges the members 100 a month, 120 for a family I know its cause where I live, but fuck that.

 

Exactly, the wife is 51 and always gets comments on how strong she is from the big dudes.

I'm 44 and do pretty good, but lately my rotator cuff in my left shoulder is fucked up

Plenty of older guys who are stronger and a lot more buff than me.

 

Yeah, some of our biggest dudes here are 40+

This is what I imagine 6'5", 190 lbs to look like:



I'd hate to see the bulking food bill of someone that tall!

Fuuuuuuuck...where do you live, the damn Hamptons?! I've heard of Crossfit charging that much, but most Crossfitters are idiots and will pay that...I've never heard of a regualr gym being that high!

 

i got my membership for 24 through costco so it ended up being 15 dollars a month, but i recently visited a strength gym in my town, small private gym, owner is the president for norcal powerlifting, i was super interested to join until i heard it cost 180 a month to train there.

 

Hey, at least he was there to support you and get your picture

 

LOL to that pic.

I live in Los Gatos, which is in the south bay area of california, next to silicon valley. This place is home to tons of rich fucktards. The gym is a 1/4 mile from the Lamborghini and Aston Martin dealerships.

I grew up here and bought my house for cheap from my folks, otherwise I would have said fuck off a long time ago.

 

Lol I always get a laugh when myfitnesspal tells me that my protein is high in protein.

 

So I never posted a pic of the Vegas results and how good the wifey looked especially after Sean's suggestion of eating a glazed donut right before going on stage.

There was a bit of a panic as she tried loading differently with rice and chicken (someone she knows advice). She almost immediately went flat and abandoned that whole deal and went back to what she knew worked.......really sugary stuff, like a starbucks chai. Fortunately the change was made in enough time and she was back to feeling like, "Fuck, it feels like my muscles are bursting out of my skin!"

In the end she took first in the masters women's physique and first in the open women's physique for her class. In a close decision she barely missed winning the overall.



Thats the masters class, she's in the middle as first, girl on left of her is second, girl on right of her is third, etc.

 

Well, today is my last day at the gym and my friends decided to take every fucking weight in the gym and put it on something. It seriously took me 20 mins to clean it up haha

 

Hahahaha that is great. I like how they put weight on the bench even though there was weight already on it with a clip too.

 

I pay 90$ a month up here for the gym. Stupid Alaska. Beats dealing with the one on base though.

 

Yeah, they got me pretty good. What's bad is I was so mentally checked out that I didn't even notice them doing it. I'm gonna miss working there, but now it's time to go make some real cheese with my degree for the next few months until I start law school

 

Didn't lift at all yesterday, but I did legs Tuesday and my quads are so sore. I love it! My quads never get sore anymore. I did squats and just started at 135 and did as many reps as possible and added 30 lbs each set until I got to where I could only do 3-4 reps. It was different, but it got me sore!

squats: 135x25, 150x15, 165x14, 180x12, 195x10, 210x8, 225x6, 240x3

Gonna do upper B today w/ some cardio. What do you gym bros think is better on a cut, HIIT or LISS or a combination of both? My plan is to do 3-4 cardio sessions a week.

don't wanna do HIIT after a workout because of glycogen crap. I read a few articles saying that post-workout HIIT is bad because your glycogen stores are empty from your lifting session, so your HIIT will be fueled by muscle. I don't wanna do pre-workout HIIT because I don't want my lifting session to suffer.

So, I was thinking about lifting in the morning and just going back to the gym at night or on a 5th day to get at least 1 HIIT session in per week and just do like 15 mins of LISS post-workout 2-3 times a week. I know most folks recommend to do LISS for like 30-45 mins, but I don't have the attention span for that shit.

So, my week would look something like this:

Mon: upper a (morning), HIIT (evening)
Tue: lower a, LISS (all in the morning)
Wed: off
Thur: upper b (morning), HIIT (evening)
Fri: lower b, LISS (all in the morning)
Sat: off
Sun: off

 

Asked a guy why he and the guy he was training was wearing a belt to do lat pulldowns and cable curls today. He thought I was serious

 

Damn those are some old as benches/machines haha. I just switched from a $25/month one room place to an unbelievably nice $40/month place my wife goes to. I liked my old place, but it didn't have any childcare (needed for my 4 year old) and was pretty bare bones for any extra amenities (pool, hot tub, steam room). Plus the new place definitely has a TON of eye candy, which never hurts IMO.

 

lol let me guess it was one of those cheap volero ones or one of them fabulous nike belts