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Roids are the only thing that works. A big reason they are illegal is that they work. The reason none of the so-called test boosters aren't banned or illegal is that they absolutely do nothing. If your natural levels of testosterone are low then first make sure you get enough basic nutrition. The best supplement to get the 'natural levels'up is combination of zinc, magnesium & B6 in a tablet, if you are deficient in these nutrients. Cenovis brand is $7 for 100 at the local coles. There is some evidence behind this suppliment. Some of the 'test boosters ' contain zinc and that's about the only scientifically proven part of the formula that will help. But, again it's a rip off when a $7 bottle of Zinc tablets will do the same job. Work harder in the Gym and eat. If you don't do that right even roids are a waste of money.

Percentages don't matter anyway. If you are happy with the lean you are then it's all good. Being 'ripped' is a relative term. eating chips ,drinking pints and still having visible 8 pack abbs means more hard work...ha ha..

Routine isn't great but, without knowing your goals which way to fix it could be different answers. For a start doing triceps and biceps on the same day isn't a good idea. It's counter productive to a point. Post what your goal is and I'm sure people can chime in to help.

You have more lean mass in the 91kg photo. You have gained a few kgs of muscle. Your weight may increase a little at this point while you continue to gain more lean mass. You will continue to look less fat though. So forget the weight measuring thing. You could do with a fair bit more lean mass to help, thats going to add some weight you really want. Just enjoy keeping an eye on the flab as it burns away.

Birds, his description of where the pain is ,when it occurred and his trouble with clicking and pain in assisted press movements is sufficient to indicate possible rotator cuff injury. Due to the nature of this injury pain measurement by the patient has no real bearing on their ability to manage the damage if they continue to train. We must be careful as 'testing the grounds' in so far as continuing with weights, with rotator cuff and many other skeletal/muscular injuries causes further degeneration. The advice is harmful to people. If he has this injury, a mild case may require a 4 week or more recovery. These injuries can take even longer to heal, setting you back over 6 months is not uncommon. Many muscular injuries are self managed by people where they ideally could be fixed before becoming permanent. The gym is a place where bad attitudes keep surgeons in good money. In terms of " not every joint pain means an horrific and chronic injury is on the way if you don't stop the exercise...it can be a matter of conditioning and sometimes you can get past it while the body does it's thing." Joint pain isn't serious when the Doc/physio says so and clears you to go hit the weights. I'd like it to be something less sinister for his sake. I'd love to be wrong. But, I am pretty certain about this one.

Birds, it would be good for him to get qualified advice on his injury (which he still has if he's in pain). I'm not pretending to be a physio or a doctor. But, I am suggesting expert advice is the way to go for injuries. We should support this notion first. At the very least look the injury up, if there are concerns about wasting money on consults. Speaking from my own experience with it, rotator cuff injuries may not present painfully. They can continue to increase in trauma without noticeable symptom as well, this is a fact of them. However, if there is even slight pain then there is a sure fire marker for the injury to continue to increase. Therapy will not involve pain like this to treat the injury. My 2c

One big factor to being successful in the gym. Attitude. Attitude to your body needs to be right. In the gym you inflict controlled damage the body. The word is 'controlled'. Right now your attitude is not in line with that. You are pushing through an injury, a weakness in the muscle that is taking control away from other movements it's involved in for stability. That injury you have is rotator cuff. It's not getting better. I won't without help. If you are unlucky , the next time it goes you will need surgery. Keep this up and it WILL go again. The reason physios see so many guys like you is that you don't have the attitude right and when thats out you don't listen to the body. It's a critical skill. Listening to the body also improves the focus in a workout. There is no sporting title at stake for you. Why permanently stuff your shoulder?

Barbell rows. If you feel the muscles being worked that you are targeting stick with that. Dropping the weight for good form is a win. Personally I prefer one arm dumbbell rows. Good form will allow a slightly better ROM . Also, with a manageable weight you can focus on getting angles that are more natural for the body mechanics. Always start them with the weakest arm. Abbs. Posture is the first thing. Stand up straight , imagine you are pulled up by a rope attached through the top of your head. Some of the 'gut' will disappear. Poor posture does wonders. Work on sitting up straight and standing straight, it will workout the core. When you start out you won't be able to maintain posture for long before you fatigue believe it or not. Over time it will become normal. Core strength. The Abbs are a bunch of muscles including ones you can't see. They also work with your back muscles. Your abb workout is not building any extra strength, just muscle endurance. However growing the abbs alot will cause them to stick out more too, although you will need to grow them alot for that. Power lifters and body builders can have a muscle tummy look depending on genetics. This is not your problem. Perhaps you are still fatter than you think.People carry fat differently. Lean is a relative term. Being skinny isn't ripped. You may carry some pudding in the middle over the top of the abbs as a layer. I have lots of developed abb muscle from back in the day. I can see most of it, including all the little muscles of the obliques without flexing. However , in my view I am far from the 'lean' physique I had. I've got some pudding on the lower part of the obliques and over the top of the abbs. Lastly, the technique for shifting it is simple but, not easy. Shifting the last of the abb fat is all diet. Mostly , what you can't eat or drink.

a physio is a good idea. Go there with some requirements ; 1) manage the present injury /soreness. 2) get a set of recovery and strength movements for that arm. You likely have underlying muscle / tendon weakness from the damage you sustained from the accident. Recovery to 'normal function' so you can do office work etc. doesn't reveal the strength differences between the two arms. My guess is you are experiencing tendonitis from exceeding what that arm can handle by giving it the same loads and work that your good arm is doing when doing weights. This makes perfect sense. What you can do is focus on movements for wrist and grip strengthening for that arm, once it's not sore. This will see you right in a few months. The good arm will not be doing anything while you are training the strength back into the bad one. the goal is to have an equal strength in both (bad arm is playing catch up). So don't do things like bicep curls and other movements that will load the forearm muscles until you have it right. If there is no permanent damage to tendons in the arm , then there should be a good chance you will be back to normal in no time.

Training was much more in cardio in my 20's. At 30 I did some very heavy training / power lifting in conjunction with plyometrics and sprints (struggled with technique). Though the weights sessions were very short , the weights were stupidly heavy. 235kg on the bar (whatever that weighs) for squats 6 reps. 520kgs on hack squat machine. 520kg donkey calf machine. 740kg leg presses. In terms of training load. The heavy weights load the hell out of your heart in terms of blood pressure when lifting. Started as an idea of getting into sprinting (100m) for a laugh but, due to life work and family (4 kids) it derailed. tried getting back into weights a year or so back. Put on lots of muscle and lots of strength and then got sick lost a fair whack of weight and stopped, habit broken. At almost 40 , Trying to back into it at the moment (3 weeks ago) with a couple of really small workouts a week (2-3 per week) to see if I can get back into the habit. Interesting thing is that for almost 10 yrs I still looked like I worked out (even though I was doing nothing) based on the weight training I did back in the day and not too much beer and chips in the diet.

I can think of two things that might cause this. * Weak shoulder girdle supporting muscles / rotator cuff. * You could be doing bench press to close to the shoulders workout. All the pressing movements use the shoulders a lot. A decent break of days between shoulders and benching is usually helpful. Place them as far apart in training days as you can for your week. Doing them on the same day is going to cause this also.

Like I said rotator cuff injury. You are only going to make it worse. There are lots of other sympathetic injuries you can develop once you have this injury. Leave the shoulders alone mate , till a physio says you are right to get back into anything thats using them. The machine shoulder press and all that gaff needs to be left alone for you. Till you fix the injury. Then you need to strengthen the rotator cuff muscles. Clicking is something a good physio will diagnose. My guess is one of the shoulders is being pulled forward by tightness in the front delt/chest muscle connection point. You will have a big knot there most likely. Lots of causes sometimes bad posture , things like sitting at a desk / using a computer mouse and slouching. You can test the shoulder injury by getting someone to press a thumb into the muscles in between and around your shoulder blade on the sore side. Go to a physio. It won't get better by itself, just worse. If you start developing your shoulder girdle strength first and continue to keep it up. You will find bench and other pressing movements will have a much higher potential and a lower risk of injury. My tip is leave the whole bench press and bicep/tricep curl stuff for when you are strong in the shoulders,back, core and legs.

You have a rotator cuff injury. It's still there. It won't go away by itself. Next time will be much worse. Stop the workouts and go to a physio. Look up stretches and exercises for rotator cuff injury and start doing some. My tip is leave the bench press alone til you have some decent shoulder girdle strength. Get this happening and there will be less risk and better lifting. If you have any clicking in the shoulder at any time. It's not good for you to workout. Muscle soreness is not a good indicator for over or under-training by itself sometimes but, mechanical noise in the shoulder isn't a good thing. Grinding away will often result in calcification spurs requiring surgery. If you can live with it, turf the isolation arm workout in terms of bicep curl and tricep. The compound movements will take care of these. They can cause issues again without foundational strength for some people. You sound like one of them as pain in the forearms you describe sounds alot like tendonitis. Don't worry the guns will still grow. But, if you can't be motivated without the gun workout then keep them in but, to a minimum. Looking at your workout you don't have enough balance in the muscle development. Where is your back workout? You need a tad more there, it's a big group of muscles too. You also need some abdominal strength stuff ideally also. Foundation are the bits that help stop the injuries when they are nice and strong. Back / abbs Shoulders Legs hope you sort the shoulder soon mate.

I reckon broken is the way to go for bragging rights. Get the fracture right and the swelling will get you 21 inch guns in no time ! Refuse to get them in plaster so you can show them off at the beach. With a generous amount of fake tan and a pack of oxycodone you can wow them all. Or become a huge fatty and end up so that no one can tell where your torso ends and the arms begin. 30 inch blubber guns FTW ! But the stats for chest and legs will be killer too as well !

Blended products usually don't name the grams or ratios of included ingredients, be good if they did. You can bet on the WPI and hydrolysed protein content being some 'dust' sprinkled into the container ha ha.... If you want to save some money and leave the ingredients pure with no fillers than this joint is good. www.professionalwhey.com.au At least you can control what you are mixing up. Bulk prices are good. Sources of the product named and you can buy ingredients pure. Delivery and service excellent. WPC , micelar casein, Creatine and beta-alanine are the supps I would recommend for best value. But, they sell lots of other supps.

If you want to feel better it won't hurt doing a little cardio and my guess is your diet is shite also. But, you can be unfit fatty and squat half a mountain if you have the muscles for it. Question is ; What are the squats about? Do you want to get big strong legs from them? If so then the 10 reps range is too many for a start, if you are an unfit fatty then running 50m could kill you ha ha... 2-6 reps mate . Assuming you have had some 'good' squat coaching. If not then pay for some, well spent money. 2-6 reps is good news for the lactic spew. You can also take big huge rests between sets and let the heart rate get back to rest. However long that is. If you are fit then not long and if not then a couple of sets could take a long time ha ha... Supplement wise.. Creatine is helpful for a few reasons and will give you some more reps and assist recovery too. Beyond that the other supplement is Beta-Alanine. Beta-Alanine helps increase the production of carnosine and buffers muscle acidity. But, you know what.. if your diet is full of crap and you are as you say totally unfit then forget buying them till you do the basics. Good Diet is 80% of the battle anyway.

Ha ha... do the supporting muscles right , provided you are a tad heavier than 40kgs(well alot more ha ha.)then 130kg isn't a problem safely. The range of motion is less for a lanky character. Longer forearms sometimes means having the bar sit a hair off the chest isn't a good thing. If thats the genetics you have then you may not be able to 'compete' in bench power lifting but, you still may move some very heavy weights safely. Static holds for bench work quite well for most people, with a little less shoulder risk. Due to large weight need spotters for it. But, bench press is all about being a hero and getting shoulder surgery or a torn pec ha ha....

ha ha... yep smashing heavy weights early on is no good. Not only can form suffer and injuries from that are common enough but, also unlike the muscles the tendon attachment points take longer to grow strength. Muscle strength can multiply beyond their capability. As a thought to consider and I'm not sure what your weights background was previously.. you could keep bench press out of the picture early on till the shoulder girdle muscles are very strong. Ditto for the bicep and tricep stuff. Compound movements will develop them early and with good strength proportion. Bench press is a rotator cuff destroyer for people with tiny shoulders and big triceps (actually a cuff destroyer period. Having a good base for it will see you lifting lots of weight later on and buddies at the gym wondering why you all of a sudden are benching much more and not hitting a wall at 130-140kg or whatever it usually is for you. Back / abbs / shoulders / legs are all the majority of physios income. The weights blokes going in are usually back and shoulder issues (rotator cuff). The first few months are the biggest challenge, keep it fun and regardless of how efficient or not the program is you will build a good habit that can be changed down the track to whatever.

Looks fine to start with as long as you find it enjoyable and interesting. That's the key for starting out. Boring = no motivation. 2hrs will get you fitness and cardio improvements if not anything else. If you haven't done much weights for a while muscles will grow for a bit regardless. There are much faster ways to do this if that's actually your goal but, being motivated early on matters so whatever works go for it. The higher rep / lighter weight is good for learning form too (practice makes perfect). It's actually not a bad idea for any beginner or starting back from a long break. At some point you need to drop the total number reps and activities each day/workout. As mentioned , there is a lot of over-training potentially in that workout if muscle growth is in mind. You actually don't need to do much at all to begin getting size/strength gains. Keep the BCAA's, creatine & protien ( 70gms cut to 40gms post workout ,if that's the pure protein content of the powder) and I'd suggest give some Beta-Alanine a try later. Get rid of the Jack3D and test-boosters bolocks and save your money for the car mods like you know you should ha ha... Best basic hormone food is Zinc/magnesium/B6 coupled with the good quality protein sources and diet its all you need. $7 buys a bottle of 100 Cenovis brand from the supermarket. It works, plenty of proven research unfortunately the bottle doesn't have a big ZMA on it with some huge roid bloke posing. You can always print a sticker out for the bottle with the money you save. It also doesn't need estrogen blockers. Hope the training goes well mate.

If driven hard things wear but, thats normal for anything. Very reliable. There are a few things that go wrong that are common to the car. The issues are well known and aren't hideous to fix cost or time wise. I use mine for work and clock plenty of kms on it without trouble. The service message is an easy reset. Just hold the button on the washer stalk as you turn on the ignition. Then press the odo reset and your done.

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Good cars. Go around corners and brake very well. Mine has a Group N ecu and an exhaust. Has done 14.2 1/4 mile at the motorplex. 6-ish L / 100km. Fun to drive , even around town. For the dollars they are good value performance. Being a very light car, relative cheap tyre and brake costs for track day use.

RS Clio 172 isn't bad. They are in the price range.Fun to drive Mine has a Group N ecu and an exhaust. 14.2 sec 1/4 mile at the drags , 6.5L/100kms , goes around corners and stops very well. Take it to a track day and due to it's light weight the wear and tear is minimal on tyres and brakes. No police attention, high safety rating to boot and plenty of laughs from making sceptical passengers poo themselves at the suprising accelleration , braking and cornering.

That's my old car ! Can't believe it's been 5yrs since I had it up here on the forums for sale. I still miss this one The original motor clicked over 240,000kms before the idler pulley seized as the car was being parked. So valves will be bent in the old motors head. Worth grabbing the old engine so as to have matching numbers. The dodgy on the paint code may have something to do with the owner previous to me having a this car and a silver one. The silver one had a black paint code from memory. Is the new motor a reconditioned one Frank? Someone buying this car will certainly be getting a nice GTR. Having owned a few , this one is my favorite.

Hey not attempting to point out anything for the sake of being nasty, my appologies if it came off that way. I am encouraging actions that avoid paying huge fines , losing the use of your car and potentially killing or injuring people.Not that it may matter but, you can use less fuel too.The down sides are being 2-5 mins later to destinations in metro and 30min later in country areas. We have a limited number of choices in the situation. The cheap and easy way is to follow the law (even if it doesn't 'seem' right to you) and action your freedom to lobby your representatives to change it and vote that way if given the chance. Sounds like you have awesome BBQs.