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After seeing some people putting so much into rehab only to end up pissing their injury off again the next time they push it with deadlifts or something (sounds like you ) I'm NOT going down that route. I know how awesome deadlifts and squats are, but if I'm trading having to work a bit harder with other exercises for the possibility of crippling myself again, then that's a good trade for me. I WILL NOT deal with that pain any further, so rather than try to fix it in such a way that I can continue deadlifting, I'm just not deadlifting any more. Done.

Yeah, at the end there I was suggesting that lag will have a lot to do with poor trap speeds even if you're "supposed" to run X-mph with whatever power level you have. This brings us back to the ideology that it is NOT your peak power that will determine things like ET and trap speed, but area under the curve.

Perhaps you're reading the context wrongly hahaha

So black and white you're still suggesting that reputable tuners as mentioned previously are fudging their numbers in order to make customers happy. That's it. If someone with a HG turbo pulled 300rwkw on Trent's dyno (as Stao and others have done many times), they should absolutely run 120mph. If they don't (which they aren't), then they don't have 300rwkw - correct? I'm not picking on anyone in particular here, nor am I suggesting that those of you questioning these trap speeds and power figures are actually suggesting reputable tuners are fudging figures. What I'm trying to get at here is that this "proven" correlation between power figures and trap speeds is not the be-all-end-all decider. Example: put a T51 onto a CA18DET, and tune it appropriately to make 300rwkw. Take this car to the drags. Pull your 120mph.

http://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/food/busting-common-nutrition-myths/story-fneuz8zj-1226611849627

http://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/food/busting-common-nutrition-myths/story-fneuz8zj-1226611849627 News.com.au chimes in with a very interesting and informative read for once. f**k you homos, my way looks like it wasn't nearly as bad as I was being led to believe it was.

This. Also yep was her and definitely looked good. *runs and hides from Birds*

Oats are the bomb, it's just the unfortunate slow digestion and feeling of the sitting in your stomach for ages that I don't like that much...I hate doing anything at all when I feel full haha

I've eaten one banana so far today, and have a second sitting here on my desk waiting for me.

ok some updates since it's been a while haha (including copypasta)... ok so over the last 2 months or so I've been on the seefood diet (yeah yeah, we all love that pun don't we?). Went from 74.5kg lean-ish up to ~80kg with a noticeable increase in body fat and bloating/water retention. Pretty much went down the path of a very average quality bulk lol. Was both to gain a decent amount of muscle mass as quickly as I could (fat gain along the way wasn't too concerning) while increasing strength much more easily thanks to calorie overload. No pictures just yet since f**k that I look like ass right now haha. I've all but ceased squatting and deadlifting indefinitely. Lower back pains that feel like extreme muscle pump/cramping have returned, but this time instead of attempting to rectify the cause (undoubtedly form problems) I'm just cutting them out. I'm tired of being in pain as I'm sure many like Tolga can agree, and since I'm not competitively powerlifting I figure I can get just as good results in line with my goals from various other exercises. It's a shame, coz deadlifts and squats truly are two of the three exercises that should form the base of any lifting routine However I'm happy to have managed a 175kg deadlift at 73kg bodyweight making for a 2.4:1 ratio, which while compared to the numbers the PTC boys throw up might not be much at all, for an uncoached lifter like myself making do with commercial gym equipment has to be said isn't all that bad. Major increases in lifts: Leg press has gone from 240kg 4x 5-8 reps up to 280kg 4x 12 reps and finishing with 300kg 2x 8 reps. Left calf muscle injury has hindered this recently. Weighted dips have gone from 20kg 3x 8 reps up to 30kg 4x 10-12 reps Bodyweight dips have gone from 3x 12-15 reps up to 4x 18-25 reps Incline dumbbell press has gone from 28kg 4x 5 reps up to 32kg 5x 7-11 reps Flat dumbbell press has gone from 36kg 3x 5 reps up to 40kg 4x 7-11 reps Bodyweight pull ups has gone from 3x 7-12 reps up to 4x 8-14 reps Weird pin-loaded row machine (not cable) has gone from 54 3x 10 reps up to 80 4x 12-15 reps Seated cable row has gone from 77 3x 8-12 reps up to 87 4x 8-14 reps

I managed to continue gaining muscle mass slowly while burning off fat, but given I was already decently average to low BF% to begin with it still took long enough to pull off that I wouldn't so much specifically aim for it to begin with - particularly if you're already a bit bigger than average (I'd always thought you were a scrawny f**ker Boz goes hand in hand with chubby chasing, no? lol) ok so over the last 2 months or so I've been on the seefood diet (yeah yeah, we all love that pun don't we?). Went from 74.5kg lean-ish up to ~80kg with a noticeable increase in body fat and bloating/water retention. Pretty much went down the path of a very average quality bulk lol. Was both to gain a decent amount of muscle mass as quickly as I could (fat gain along the way wasn't too concerning) while increasing strength much more easily thanks to calorie overload. Will put more info into build thread to safe off-topic shit in this thread.

Tell me if I'm wrong, but isn't this constant whinging about lack of trap speeds to back up the power figures nothing more than calling out the operators of any dyno a Hypergear turbo has made said power figures on for bullshitting their figures? To me, all I've been reading here is people constantly suggesting tuners like Trent from STATUS/Chequered tuning are falsifying their power figures whenever a car running a Hypergear turbo is on the dyno. That's what this bickering is translating into. Like I said, tell me I'm wrong.

Skateboard squatter wut?

Sounds interesting...I have a theory I pulled from nowhere haha

LOOOOOOOOL just lost my shit at my desk

Living in QBN and working in Bruce, I'm fairly pigeonholed into grabbing this off you on Friday night or something similar lol.

I want a banana

Nah mate I train at Anytime Fitness haha, commercial gym in all its glory! I'm more speaking for the girls on here.

I've simply given up on deadlifts indefinitely. I'm not a power lifter, I give no f**ks for them if it's just going to consistently end in crippling pain. Sure, it's more than likely just incorrect form - but what it breaks down to is it being easier to just not do them any more lol.

That's exactly where I get my crippling muscle cramps occasionally from deadlifts...

challenge for the ladies? I don't know many girls who can squat their own body weight for reps

Gotta grab mine off you some time Eiji! Not sure when though lol, perhaps this coming Friday?

That is nice

Not everything can be prescribed though.

I never actually thought my dips were THAT low haha...now you've got me thinking I am going too deep