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What about GTS-T owners? If you have GTST-1 I'll give you $4,000 for them.

Dat Final Inspection perfection

>wake up >say a little prayer for you >put on make up

>woke up >got myself a gun

Oh there you are. No Loopy in my collection. Even checked under Loop But google reveals that I do like pleasant melodies from 2:51 onwards http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LhMDtQn0EEk

You haven't listened though dude...we keep telling you...do MORE. You're overthinking it. It doesn't matter where you add the extra weight or the extra set or the extra rep. If you've done more in that session then that's more than last. If you've done two warm up sets instead of one, that's still more. If you've done two max sets instead of one, that's still more. If you've added 1kg to your 56th set out of 100...more. If you can't do more, eat and rest more. Go read Leesh's build thread. Compare each exercise with the same exercise in the next session. She will do anywhere from 5 sets up to 8, 1 rep up to 10. It's all over the place, because I've been coaching her and teaching her to increase anything she can wherever she can. Sometimes I tell her to remove a warm up set and substitute with another working set, sometimes I tell her to remove a working set to increase performance on max sets so she's doing less sets and more reps of higher weights. Sometimes I add an extra set to push through a plateau. It's all over the place because the OCD numbers don't matter, the extra exerted effort does. Check out her lat pulldown in particular. She's doing 65kg on that, which is outright more than a lot of guys do in commercial gyms (let alone relative to bodyweight), and she's still a newbie with lots of room to go. The sets and reps are all over the place, but you'll notice a pattern in this exercise - that max weight number keeps going up and up.

15 13 12 11 (5 minute rest) 13 I find this exercise interesting, because it's the only exercise I do where I shoot for maximum resistance straight up, without a warm up. I guess this is because of the static resistance level, but I sometimes contemplate whether I should do a few reps as a warm up and then go hard, or keep doing what I'm doing. Either way it's been working, as I've been able to up the reps in the first set by 1 each week. This should theoretically bring the reps of the second set up with it, and so on, as my muscles adapt to higher numbers and follow up sets stay relative. Same way 1RM training increases volume, I guess. So the important thing here, is being able to get that "1 set max" up. 20+ would be a nice place to be, for the short term. Maybe then I'll look at weighted pullups.

I bag Facebook too, all the time.

Drink drivers still lose their licence for a set period too; the immobiliser only comes after the person has got their licence to drive back afaik. I do agree that something similar should be put in the cars of people coming off suspensions for ridiculous offenses, like 40km/h+ over. Really though, if the government wanted to stamp out excessive speeding, we would have cars from factory/import fitted with speed governors that maxed the vehicle speed out at the highest post speed on Victorian roads (110). Want to stamp out speeding altogether? Then you have a system of speed signs that transmit a signal to governors, altering the maximum speed the vehicle can do on that section of road and thereby making speeding impossible. Or you could make the fines ridiculous, like $1000 for 0-10km/h over...then watch everyone stay at least 5 under the speed limit at all times. Bit like littering fines in Singapore. Will it ever happen? No. Because governments, particularly Victorian, want you to speed. Revenue projections are made based on estimations of issuing fines. Budgets depend on people breaking the law. It would be shooting a big hole in the proverbial foot for a government to spend money on losing money.

>wake up >hope that other people give a f**k what I did today if I use greater than signs as dot points

Increase weight and do a 4th set for as many reps as you can. Or do a 4th set of the same weight for as many as you can do. There's no exact equation for it, just do MORE of something heavy. Come back next time and magically discover your 7-8th rep on the 3rd set!

Hah...I always cop shit at restaurants for ordering a chocolate milkshake with lunch/dinner. Waitress inevitably laughs; friends ask if I'm 8 years old before ordering their beers*... Just part of the lifestyle, I guess. *then complain they aren't getting anywhere with gym or can't lose their gut

1,000 to 2! Don't know anyone who has died because of someone else's steroid use. Alcohol and driving... Alcohol ruins families. It is only legal for three reasons: tax, longstanding societal traditions/rights/laws, and death/destruction being so slow and steady that it can't be blamed directly - which is what makes it so deadly. One of my favourite films, Warrior, has a very realistic sub plot revolving around alcoholism being responsible for an entire estranged family. Seen it happen time and time again in real life. Smoking and gambling are the same. The latter tears families apart and is so unregulated it's not funny. Do I think they should all be legal? Yes, people should have the choice and freedom IMO. But I also think PEDs should be legal and somewhat regulated, like alcohol is. Hard to judge what substance would be more harmful if both were given equal widespread use, but alcohol is definitely more harmful. My $3.50

lol I don't let females jab me with needles anymore, they miss heaps. Previous GP I had managed to draw from my forearm muscle = bruised forearm for 6 weeks.

Hello? Is it me you're looking for? I can see your classified But the role's not advertised

Used to not like needles until I got super sick and just didn't give a f**k anymore cause there are much worse things. Last blood test was cool to watch...love how they let the blood trickle/syphon out rather than draw it. Fills up so quick! My doctor is gun too, so farking quick at jabbing you and dude prescribes you anyhing you want.

If they don't make their target weights, they do extra reps and sets on lower weights, thus always lifting more each session. As far as not making PBs every week without gear...lol. I was adding 5kg a session (that's twice a week) to my deadlift 1RM before I stopped training it. The increments don't have to be huge; add 500 gram plates to each side if you have to. And if you can't do that, then do more reps and sets on a lower weight, so you can't say you've gone backwards. Eat and rest enough, and train this way, and plateaus become a thing of the past.

Fezza had me jaw on the floor...I found childhood Birds lol The others are motorbikes so you might not appreciate them as much, fking awesome bikes though. Nice guy and loves his Toyotas!

You seen Damien's toy collection?

Dunno about you Dave, but bar above my midfoot is against my shin! Martin Nyugen was wearing shin guards in one of the PTC vids so there's absolutely nothing wrong with having the bar travel in close proximity with your shins. Leesh, you don't have to drag the bar up your shins so hard it hurts. Putting weight of the bar against them = bruises. It need only be close or only just touching skin as it travels up. I don't think you should be focusing on this part of the lift other than when setting up. Focus on lifting it, the proximity to your body will come automatically.

Dropped 86 off to Final Inspection for some factory paint correction and protection. Someone has to pay their bills now that Pat's gone.

Again, you miss important details like the inclusion of it being the hardest movement at the same time. Listen

I did not tell Leesh to continue doing exercise if it hurts, I'm the first to say stop if something feel right. When I told Leesh not to worry and to keep deadlifting, that was based on videos I saw where her form was fine - no knee hitting, just a bit of back rounding, nothing worrying, only because she was lifting heavy. Again, she takes things a bit out of context and often neglects to mention the full story behind it. I actually believe it is the step back to lighter weight that is causing her to squat the weight up. The heavier weight at least forced her to straighten her legs first just to get the weight up, because her back was stronger than her legs. Upping weight isn't exactly a good way to teach someone deadlift form, but I'm fairly sure her step back to lighter weight caused the issue. I agree with rev, you are overthinking the movement Leesh. Deadlift is simultaneously the easiest and hardest movement in the gym. - Start with the bar up against your shins - Bend down with straight arms and grip the bar tightly - Push you chest out and shoulders back (scapular retraction) - Brace core / straighten lower back (this will automatically dip your hips) - Lift and lockout

Feel like I stated the obvious over and over in that tl;dr, but it really is that simple. I remember being taught this shit in less scientific terms as a kid - pretty sure everyone else was too, cept the fat kids with shitty parents - I don't know why people find it hard to do as adults? Discipline? Fair enough, that's tough. But getting your head around the fact an ice cream will make you fat and lean chicken/tuna + veggies will get you ripped isn't hard. I feel like people use lack of understanding / overconplicating things as an excuse for shitty diets and poor performance, when they KNOW what is good and bad for their goals. Or they want to have their cake and eat it too. It requires some dedication; requires you to tell people to F off when they try to make you eat a slice of cake to make themselves feel better about it.