Gym And Supplement Discussion

[No Crust Racing]

Poor Birds

Aren't there some gloves you could be modelling or something? It's coming into winter now, time to get those assets out of storage.

[Birds]

All I hear is whinging about techniques and width of equipment. At least you can move both your arms and do the friggen exercise. If I could do dips between two shopping trolleys with a couple of retards holding them in place I would.

[No Crust Racing]

lol yeah I feel ya, it sucks to be injured.

Which is why I'd rather avoid potential pitfalls and end up a bitter twisted individual like you are fast becoming

[TTT]

fyi - your barbell and weights are "standard" size.

however the actual standard plate size is "olympic"

Hope that confuses you more

[No Crust Racing]

So from that I assume my barbell will not fit the rack and I'll need an Olympic bar.

Are they bigger diameter, meaning new plates for me?

[TTT]

yes and yes

an olympic bar is 7', 20kg, bearing collars and takes olympic plates (the big hole ones)

standard bar is the stuff you have.

they also make an olympic ladies bar which is 6' and 15kg. the collars are shorter and the gap between the collars is the same as the 7' ones.

just incase you want the lady version.

Sell your shit on ebay, add some more money to your funds and get a cage/bar and plates package like this..

http://www.cyber-market.com.au/cyberfit-power-rack-100kg-olympic-weight-flat-bench-p-591.html

More than you'll need for a while.. and you can always buy more plates as needed.

or if you want to retain your plates you could get something like this..

http://www.gymdirect.com.au/item/5-Package-Deal-_-BPR02-Power-Rack-with-high-low-pulley--+-FD3-flat-bench-+-100kg-barbell-dumbell-set-$865/109.htm

[No Crust Racing]

That second one, is that just using a longer standard bar to clear the rack?

In which case, couldn't I just buy that bar and acheive the same result?

[TTT]

a girl like you can do whatever she likes.

[No Crust Racing]

Just trying to follow your logic on buying an entire kit if there's an option to just buy a longer standard bar. Doesn't seem like there is any unless the goal is to ultimately move to Olympic gear.

[Dani Boi]

You can buy a standard 7ft barbell that will support 150kg and fit standard weight plate holes for about $70.

[No Crust Racing]

Sounds like the plan to me.

Hopefully I can get it in a choice of colours to match my handbag and shoes.

[SRS13]

Fark TTT - you are on fire. Give the guy a break lol

[No Crust Racing]

Lol don't mind him, just the roids speaking I'd say.

[Birds]

I know when it's Tolga and when it's the foam roller talking.

[Birds]

So I have a new attitude towards this shoulder injury. I thought f**k it...I'm gonna come out the other side of this thing with a positive: huge f**k off legs. Time to make up for the years of neglecting legs in favour of upper body.

So until the physio gives me the all clear on upper body movements, I'm gonna smash the shit out of legs 3-4 times a week. This will involve:

Squats

Squats

Leg press

Hamstring curls

Calf raises

Possibly more squats

Legs progress shot from me.

Congratulations dude, you're my motivation to put some serious size on my legs over the next 8 weeks or so.

[SRS13]

Exactly!!!

I can't do chest so have trained legs twice this week. Tonight was shoulders and traps but before that did 10mins on the bike as warm up and then 5 sets of squats.

Want my legs to get heaps bigger and stronger in the next month.

[No Crust Racing]

Good goals for sure, I hope to join in when my ankle is a bit more robust.

[Birds]

Fark that session felt good. Hamstring curl smashed my hamstrings in a way that deadlifts can't. And it'll be good to balance out legs with some calf work for aesthetics

Satisfaction at the end almost makes up for no upper body work during the session. More energy for squats too, which I normally save for the end of the session.

[God_speed]

Sounds good Birds. Hope it all goes well for you mate. An old PT mate of mine stuffed a tendon in his wrist (forget the exact injury but basically sheared off the bone I believe) but it was depressing the number of exercises that ruled out. He found ways to use wraps or particular machines to work around it as much as possible until it healed up completely

With legs being such a big muscle group too I think it should help burn the calories up

I've always had decent upper legs, they would be my best body part. Have never had to do too much to them to maintain volume and they respond well for me. Whereas back , shoulders etc I seem to need to work continually to maintain any size. I'm going to focus on the calves a lot more and hope for some sort of development there. apparently for some people it doesn't seem to matter what you do they just wont respond.

[numleg]

Advice/help from those in the know please.

I have a fairly noticeable size difference between legs due to an old knee injury and would like some guidance as to how to even them up. I have full range of movement but the injured knee isn't as stable as my good knee.

My lower body workout currently consist of the following once a week: Walking lunges, Squats (parallel), Deadlifts, Hamstring curls, calf raises, single leg dead lifts and jumping squats.

Try to do cardio twice a week, HIIT resistance circuit, HIIT on rowing machine/stationary cycle, if I have time XC mountain biking. Also do two upper body days a week, a three day split works best for me so I can keep workouts short after a long day at work. No training Sunday/Monday.

Some people tell me to do single leg exercises and do more reps for the weak leg, others say start with weak leg and only do the same amount of reps for both sides. Other people insist I should keep doing what I’m already doing and just concentrate on driving with the weaker leg more.

I train for general health and to blow off steam after a 13+ hr shifts.

I do need to have a reco at some point but time, money and rehab process put me off the idea while it mostly works ok.

If anyone can help me out that would be great as it's really starting to shit me.

EDIT: I just worked it out MORE SQUATS!

Edited April 12, 2013 by numleg