What Are Your Gym/Fitness/Routine Moans?
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The gym being full of kids that think it's beneath them to wipe down the equipment.
Disgusting, entitled, disease ridden, workshy, ignorant
s.
They weren't even exercising. They just seemed to think it was a jolly good wheeze to put the treadmills on max speed and incline, then stand on the edge while staring at their fking mobile phones....
The sooner January is over, the better.
Disgusting, entitled, disease ridden, workshy, ignorant
s.They weren't even exercising. They just seemed to think it was a jolly good wheeze to put the treadmills on max speed and incline, then stand on the edge while staring at their f
king mobile phones....The sooner January is over, the better.
Just started at a fairly hardcore BB/powerlifting gym. It is differently annoying from a mainstream gym, but still annoying.
Big BB types taking up most of the space between equipment and chatting while they rest 10 minutes between giant sets of isolation exercises.
Powerlifters spending an hour in the squat rack to get 5 total reps in. I may be exaggerating here.
Not all annoyances at the gym are due to people being newbies or idiots. Gyms are usually quite annoying unless fairly empty.
Big BB types taking up most of the space between equipment and chatting while they rest 10 minutes between giant sets of isolation exercises.
Powerlifters spending an hour in the squat rack to get 5 total reps in. I may be exaggerating here.
Not all annoyances at the gym are due to people being newbies or idiots. Gyms are usually quite annoying unless fairly empty.
Today... my moan is: why can even twangy teenagers deadlift more than me?
Posted by my gym... alright, it's not exactly the smoothest performance, but I can't lift 185kg! And I'm a mountain compared to him!
https://www.facebook.com/AnytimeFitnessChelmsford/...
I hit a deadlift plateau about 18 months ago, and just can't budge it. I've never done 'half' a deadlift; I build up and just suddenly reach a point where the kit is glued to the ground. Won't budge by 1mm.
6'3"; 100kg +/-3kg. And strong legs! I can't see any reason why my 1RM isn't 2x bodyweight.
*sigh*
Posted by my gym... alright, it's not exactly the smoothest performance, but I can't lift 185kg! And I'm a mountain compared to him!
https://www.facebook.com/AnytimeFitnessChelmsford/...
I hit a deadlift plateau about 18 months ago, and just can't budge it. I've never done 'half' a deadlift; I build up and just suddenly reach a point where the kit is glued to the ground. Won't budge by 1mm.
6'3"; 100kg +/-3kg. And strong legs! I can't see any reason why my 1RM isn't 2x bodyweight.
*sigh*
V8mate said:
Today... my moan is: why can even twangy teenagers deadlift more than me?
Posted by my gym... alright, it's not exactly the smoothest performance, but I can't lift 185kg! And I'm a mountain compared to him!
https://www.facebook.com/AnytimeFitnessChelmsford/...
I hit a deadlift plateau about 18 months ago, and just can't budge it. I've never done 'half' a deadlift; I build up and just suddenly reach a point where the kit is glued to the ground. Won't budge by 1mm.
6'3"; 100kg +/-3kg. And strong legs! I can't see any reason why my 1RM isn't 2x bodyweight.
*sigh*
Confidence / stupidity / youth.Posted by my gym... alright, it's not exactly the smoothest performance, but I can't lift 185kg! And I'm a mountain compared to him!
https://www.facebook.com/AnytimeFitnessChelmsford/...
I hit a deadlift plateau about 18 months ago, and just can't budge it. I've never done 'half' a deadlift; I build up and just suddenly reach a point where the kit is glued to the ground. Won't budge by 1mm.
6'3"; 100kg +/-3kg. And strong legs! I can't see any reason why my 1RM isn't 2x bodyweight.
*sigh*
A 20 year old me, given my muscle mass, would deadlift a lot more. He wouldn’t hold back or even know the risks of hitching and jerking like a fish.
Halb said:
v8mate, try a deadlift routine, from here.
https://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&...
There's only one! https://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&...
Looks ok though - albeit it's a once a week thing.
Since Christmas, I'm doing deads twice a week, as the intro to other session, i.e. I'll deadlift, then do my chest day. Then, 3 days later, I'll deadlift again, and then go into my shoulder day (or whatever).
V8mate said:
There's only one!
Looks ok though - albeit it's a once a week thing.
Since Christmas, I'm doing deads twice a week, as the intro to other session, i.e. I'll deadlift, then do my chest day. Then, 3 days later, I'll deadlift again, and then go into my shoulder day (or whatever).
Deadlifting twice a week probably is not optimal. You’d get more out doing more assistance / hypertrophy training, rather than frying your CNS.Looks ok though - albeit it's a once a week thing.
Since Christmas, I'm doing deads twice a week, as the intro to other session, i.e. I'll deadlift, then do my chest day. Then, 3 days later, I'll deadlift again, and then go into my shoulder day (or whatever).
Anyway, off-thread.
ORD said:
Deadlifting twice a week probably is not optimal. You’d get more out doing more assistance / hypertrophy training, rather than frying your CNS.
Anyway, off-thread.
Not quite, theres squat programmes out there that have you squatting 4x a week for 12 weeks and it works.Anyway, off-thread.
V8Mate just doesnt know how to train properly, f
king newbieORD said:
Deadlifting twice a week probably is not optimal. You’d get more out doing more assistance / hypertrophy training, rather than frying your CNS.
Anyway, off-thread.
That's a myth- if you watch you're loading then it's not an issue- I've done it 3 times a week no problem, in fact it gave me a PB over 10 weeks (along with squatting and benching 3x per week)Anyway, off-thread.
No CNS's were fried
lemmingjames said:
ORD said:
Deadlifting twice a week probably is not optimal. You’d get more out doing more assistance / hypertrophy training, rather than frying your CNS.
Anyway, off-thread.
Not quite, theres squat programmes out there that have you squatting 4x a week for 12 weeks and it works.Anyway, off-thread.
V8Mate just doesnt know how to train properly, f
king newbieked and I want to save them so that at the very least I can do some leisure cycling in the summer. Deadlifts aside, all leg exercise at the moment is solely a by-product of cardio activity (cross trainer etc) didelydoo said:
ORD said:
Deadlifting twice a week probably is not optimal. You’d get more out doing more assistance / hypertrophy training, rather than frying your CNS.
Anyway, off-thread.
That's a myth- if you watch you're loading then it's not an issue- I've done it 3 times a week no problem, in fact it gave me a PB over 10 weeks (along with squatting and benching 3x per week)Anyway, off-thread.
No CNS's were fried
Deadlifting is usually seen as very different from squatting when it comes to frequency.I have deadlifted twice per week, rather than once, and it did nothing for me at all apart from smooth out my form a bit. For my money, once you are deadlifting light, you would be better off doing assistance work instead (as deadlifts are suited more to strength than hypertrophy). Others have different views.
Can I suggest a halfway house of sorts?
Pull from the floor at the beginning of the week, and pull from the rack at the end of the week. Rinse and repeat for a period of time.
Edit: beyond the fundamentals, it's REALLY easy to get trapped into thinking in terms of absolutes when it comes to the question of how one should train.
The truth is, everyone is different; some subtly so, others not so subtly. So what works for one person may not work for a another.
...and to answer your predicament V8 - you're probably just not training hard enough
Pull from the floor at the beginning of the week, and pull from the rack at the end of the week. Rinse and repeat for a period of time.
Edit: beyond the fundamentals, it's REALLY easy to get trapped into thinking in terms of absolutes when it comes to the question of how one should train.
The truth is, everyone is different; some subtly so, others not so subtly. So what works for one person may not work for a another.
...and to answer your predicament V8 - you're probably just not training hard enough
Edited by TheJimi on Friday 12th January 14:19
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