First night in the gym tonight...

[Pull_T]

First night in about a year :woot: :woot:

Already have 24 hours of healthy eating behind me. i'm not officially staring until next Monday though with the pics and weigh ins and shit.

[mikester]

Where are you working out?

[Kris]

whoo-hoo!

[Wraab Wall]

:cool:

[Wraab Wall]

Oh and I guess it's time for me to cut off the weight/fat I "put" on as part of a bet. :sqnteek:

[Stevo Stitches]

It's about time you joined us professional bodybuilders.

-Odor


:D

[Wraab Wall]

^ haha!

[Pull_T]

Where are you working out?
At my complex.

They have a really :tits: facility for an apartment building. DBs, benches, Olyimpic bars and even a cage and hack squat machine believe it or not.

I might end up joining the Y again, but I will wait and see how I like this setup. If anything, once I get back to pulling and squatting big, i will not have enough plates I don't think.

[Euro-Man]

It's about time you joined us professional bodybuilders.

-Odor


:D


:spit:



:werd: Come bulk with your comrades! :needy:

[Pull_T]

I've *been* bulking :(

[Rabid Ocelot]

Where are you working out?

Why, do you intend to join him? :mhihi:

[mikester]

Why, do you intend to join him? :mhihi:

If he was working out near work, which is near my work, I was thinking about it. :o

[Adam_Schwartz]

Good job dude. Your apt's gym sounds nice - can't beat not having to shell out extra dough for a membership.

[Adam_Schwartz]

Why, do you intend to join him? :mhihi:

Are you still getting up at 5:00 am to go workout?

[Rabid Ocelot]

Are you still getting up at 5:00 am to go workout?
6:30 usually if not I go at night.

[Drew]

It's about time you joined us professional bodybuilders.

-Odor


:D
:bowrofl: :bowrofl:

good luck todd

[Brian]

good for hue mike :thumbsup:

[Pull_T]

Good job dude. Your apt's gym sounds nice - can't beat not having to shell out extra dough for a membership.
Yeah...I might have to shell out anyway...at least to work legs. Either that or just buy like four more plates and keep them in the apt's gym. How much would four plates cost?

Anyways...i am fucking sore and hurting today. What I did was more or less a full upperbody workout where I'd do like 4 sets for say chest (2 real light and stretching and 2 at workable weights) then do biceps, etc. Nothing scientific, i just wanted to get my joints and muscles used to actually working. I figure I will do this 3x a week (rotating between upper/lower) for 2 weeks or so until i start into the usual 3 or 4 day full body splits. It's what I did last time and I figure i don't need to get hurt.

[Adam_Schwartz]

Yeah...I might have to shell out anyway...at least to work legs. Either that or just buy like four more plates and keep them in the apt's gym. How much would four plates cost?

Anyways...i am fucking sore and hurting today. What I did was more or less a full upperbody workout where I'd do like 4 sets for say chest (2 real light and stretching and 2 at workable weights) then do biceps, etc. Nothing scientific, i just wanted to get my joints and muscles used to actually working. I figure I will do this 3x a week (rotating between upper/lower) for 2 weeks or so until i start into the usual 3 or 4 day full body splits. It's what I did last time and I figure i don't need to get hurt.

I know DBs cost 50 cts/lb on average, so you might have to drop around $100 for 4 plates?

Good job though man, you'll be a pro BB like Odor in no time.

[Adam_Schwartz]

6:30 usually if not I go at night.

Good for you Arab

[Pull_T]

I know DBs cost 50 cts/lb on average, so you might have to drop around $100 for 4 plates?

Good job though man, you'll be a pro BB like Odor in no time.
I am not lean enough to look studly like Odor.

I just wanna pull 3x bodyweight someday. If you can do that, you are a strong mother by anyone's definition.

[Wraab Wall]

I am not lean enough to look studly like Odor.

I just wanna pull 3x bodyweight someday. If you can do that, you are a strong mother by anyone's definition.


:werd: especially when it's so rare to find guys that do 2 x's

[Brian]

what good is it if you are too lazy to even move your own shit? :mhihi:

[Wraab Wall]

what good is it if you are too lazy to even move your own shit? :mhihi:


I can pull your arm off and beat you with it. :dunno:

[Pull_T]

:werd: especially when it's so rare to find guys that do 2 x's
Or rare to find guys that even deadlift or powerlift. lol



I was up to 2.6x when I stopped working out (450 @ 175)

Seeing as how I a so heavy right now, it'll be a little bit till I get back to 2x.

[Adam_Schwartz]

I am at 5x and that is just on warm up

[Pull_T]

I am at 5x and that is just on warm up
You are mocking me. :(

[Stevo Stitches]

My gym is funny as hell. I went last night and there were about five dudes lined up infront of the mirror doing various bicep exercises. There are two squat decks and I've never seen anyone go near it. Abercrombie dudes in muscle t's working out there arms. :gheyfight

[mikester]

My gym is funny as hell. I went last night and there were about five dudes lined up infront of the mirror doing various bicep exercises. There are two squat decks and I've never seen anyone go near it. Abercrombie dudes in muscle t's working out there arms. :gheyfight

Isn't that the case at every gym? :sqnteek:

[Wraab Wall]

Isn't that the case at every gym? :sqnteek:


no. try going to a real gym. :sqnteek:

[Drew]

that's how it is at the gym i lift at while i'm at school

i just found this gym back home where they actually have chains on/by the squat rack and you have to apply to be able to work out there :wired:

i guess it's where all the gearheads and crazy fuckers lift around here

[Stevo Stitches]

Our gym at school was pretty cool. All the equipments was old and worn out but they had pretty much everything. It got way too packed though.
They opened up the gym that the athletes used after 9 PM and they had like six squat decks and those rubber weights for clean n jerk. Also had a lot of old school machines that you don't see anymore, like the machine that works your neck that wrestlers use. I just went in there to act like I was an athlete. :hay:

[Stevo Stitches]

I meant squat RACKS. :redface: :ivan:

[Wraab Wall]

no. try going to a real gym. :sqnteek:


:word:

the gym I go to when I get ready to compete is pretty old school. I still go to it from time to time, but mostly when I'm really training.

It has a lot of guys that are roided up and actually lift. :wired: But that also means a bunch of a-holes that love to admire themselves in the mirror. :uhh: The only good thing is that I use to train with a IFBB pro bodybuilder, so I earned a little respect even if I'm one of the few natural guys in there. :fruit:

[Rabid Ocelot]

Smashed my pinky between two 45lb plates. :rant:

Freakin nail is going to fall off. :(

[Pull_T]

I meant squat RACKS. :redface: :ivan:
So you've never been in one then? ;)

[Adam_Schwartz]

Our gym at school was pretty cool. All the equipments was old and worn out but they had pretty much everything. It got way too packed though.
They opened up the gym that the athletes used after 9 PM and they had like six squat decks and those rubber weights for clean n jerk. Also had a lot of old school machines that you don't see anymore, like the machine that works your neck that wrestlers use. I just went in there to act like I was an athlete. :hay:

At my old gym, Costa's, they had a neck machine and these PLers used it often. Dudes had like 18"+ necks and were 5' 8". I miss that gym because it had some serious lifters in there. The Bally I go to has some true lifters in there, but people tend to use the squat racks more for bicep curls than anything else.

[Euro-Man]

:wired: I think I might join a cardinal fitness gym next to my house. I tried them out today in the morning, and I really liked the place. Relatively small, clean, and they seem to have so much more stuff than ballys (like chains / belts / various bars for pulldowns).

Unfortunatelly the ballys I usually work out at near my work will be a little out of the way when I move to the new office. :( Hell, I even had my own dazz werking out with me. :mhihi:

Funny story today. I remember you fuckers talking about working out after secks... :paranoid: Well, it seemed funny at the time. It's not so funny now. :0uch: I was freakin' beat. :cry: This gym also confoosed me with their tric. pulldown machine. At ballys I'm normally able to do 140lbs, and here it seems I'm only able to do hald the weight... something about the cables and how they are set up on that fucker. :sqnteek:

[Wraab Wall]

how's it going mandrink?

[Wraab Wall]

:wired: I think I might join a cardinal fitness gym next to my house. I tried them out today in the morning, and I really liked the place. Relatively small, clean, and they seem to have so much more stuff than ballys (like chains / belts / various bars for pulldowns).

Unfortunatelly the ballys I usually work out at near my work will be a little out of the way when I move to the new office. :( Hell, I even had my own dazz werking out with me. :mhihi:

Funny story today. I remember you fuckers talking about working out after secks... :paranoid: Well, it seemed funny at the time. It's not so funny now. :0uch: I was freakin' beat. :cry: This gym also confoosed me with their tric. pulldown machine. At ballys I'm normally able to do 140lbs, and here it seems I'm only able to do hald the weight... something about the cables and how they are set up on that fucker. :sqnteek:

Please never call your self a bodybuilder again. :lol:

[Euro-Man]

Please never call your self a bodybuilder again. :lol:

Dude, this is the last time you can call me for advice. It's been getting ridicockulous. :uhh:

[Stevo Stitches]

Present here, orneriness is...

[Pull_T]

how's it going mandrink?
Not too bad.

Been doing "half body" routine every three days (upper/legs), just to work some soreness and get muscles used to working. I figure another week or so and I will begin the "proper" 4x splits like I did before.

Eating it going better, too. I already am sleeping and feeling better in general.

[Wraab Wall]

Dude, this is the last time you can call me for advice. It's been getting ridicockulous. :uhh:


:uhh:

[Wraab Wall]

Not too bad.

Been doing "half body" routine every three days (upper/legs), just to work some soreness and get muscles used to working. I figure another week or so and I will begin the "proper" 4x splits like I did before.

Eating it going better, too. I already am sleeping and feeling better in general.


Good to hear Toad. :bigok:

[Rabid Ocelot]

Im in a slump. Im eating better but I are not teh motivated to go to the gym and when I do go I find that it's a very half ass workout.

Thinking about getting someone to work out with to help motivate me, is this a good idea?

[Wraab Wall]

Im in a slump. Im eating better but I are not teh motivated to go to the gym and when I do go I find that it's a very half ass workout.

Thinking about getting someone to work out with to help motivate me, is this a good idea?


Yes and no. It always comes down to you making yourself go workout and push yourself. Nobody can change that part.

[Rabid Ocelot]

Your honesty is too brutal for me. Can I have my answers sugar coated from now on.

[Wraab Wall]

Sorry - it's a blessing and a curse.

A workout partner will make you ripped and good looking!

[Rabid Ocelot]

Im willing to own up to the longest yard

[Euro-Man]

:werd: to my fellow professional bodybuilders.

:mhihi:

I can't give you an answer, D... because for me it's all a part of my routine now. I feel weird if I don't go, and I'm so used to it by now - I look forward to the whole thing. :wired:

[Wraab Wall]

:werd: to my fellow professional bodybuilders.

:mhihi:

I can't give you an answer, D... because for me it's all a part of my routine now. I feel weird if I don't go, and I'm so used to it by now - I look forward to the whole thing. :wired:


please stop refeing to yourself as *.bodybuilder until you don't complain about 315 on *partial* deadlifts. :lol:

[Pull_T]

315 on partials?

http://www.pirkkola.fi/pekka/misc/lolympics.gif

[Wraab Wall]

Hey toad - how long do you think the apt. gym will last for you?

[Pull_T]

Hey toad - how long do you think the apt. gym will last for you?


Honestly, I can do about everything I need except legs, and even then, I could just go buy 2 plates (The apt gym has 6 plates) and use them.

Or heck, I could just load it up with 25s and 10s if I really needed weight. I'd never really need more unless I was maxing though.

I am gonna keep using this one for now. It's not at all what you think of when you think of "Apartment Complex Gym"

(Plus, all the hotties here are young broads in my complex and not 40yo trophy MILFs like the Y)

[Wraab Wall]

:cool:

I know you aren't a gym retard, so thier gym must pretty decent. :thumbsup:

[Pull_T]

:cool:

I know you aren't a gym retard, so thier gym must pretty decent. :thumbsup:
Well, it's not ideal.

- DBs only go to 75 (not that I need more right now, but I will)

- no leg press (only hack machine)

- no bicep machine...I have pronation, supination troubles in my left arm, so DBs and BBs...even EZ-curl bars do no suit me very well...I like to use the machine where the hand holds twist.


And the other aspect is "environment", it's a carpeted, "nice" place....not really somewhere that chalking up the hands and thighs and ripping off big deadlifts is the norm....but then again, neither was the Y.

I'll have to find strong reasons to not use it though...a one minute "commute" to the gym is nice.

[Euro-Man]

please stop refeing to yourself as *.bodybuilder :


:rofl: As if the way I use the term isn't humorous enuff. :uhh:

[Wraab Wall]

:rofl: As if the way I use the term isn't humorous enuff. :uhh:


:hug:

[Euro-Man]

:hug:


:sqnteek: :hug:


:paranoid:

[Stevo Stitches]

I just realized there are a lot of homos at my gym. I looked in the cardio room to check out the girls doing cardio kick boxing and more than half the people were dudes. :barf: A lot of colorful bandanas, tank tops and short shorts. :gheyfight
I come downstairs and 8 out of 10 people are infront of the mirror working out their arms. :lol:
:snipe:

[Stevo Stitches]

AW got rid of the Sports & Fitness Forum. :snicker:

http://www.sas.upenn.edu/~anshah/images/fatbastard.jpg

[Wraab Wall]

:rofl:

[Simmster]

:hahano:

[Throtex]

AW got rid of the Sports & Fitness Forum. :snicker:
Speaking of AW ... JC made a funny:
http://www.acuraworld.com/forums/showthread.php?t=58220

:mhihi:

[Rabid Ocelot]

The best part is when leslie posts a news link and no one responds to it, so she has to. :lol:

[Pull_T]

The best part is when leslie posts a news link and no one responds to it, so she has to. :lol:
http://www.acuraworld.com/forums/showthread.php?p=920167#post920167

[Wraab Wall]

:rofl:

[Wraab Wall]

AW got rid of the Sports & Fitness Forum. :snicker:


It's kind of sad - since there was actually some good info in there. :sqnteek:

[Pull_T]

It's kind of sad - since there was actually some good info in there. :sqnteek:
So the psts are gone?

How gay. I go back there to reference old threads all the time. :(

[Wraab Wall]

So the psts are gone?

How gay. I go back there to reference old threads all the time. :(


It's not anywhere that we can see it. :werd:

[Throtex]

How gay.
I think you mean 'happy'.

[Wraab Wall]

I think you mean 'happy'.


Easy there Sky less 100

[Euro-Man]

It's a pity there's so little discussion here in this s&f. :(

[Wraab Wall]

No one asks much of anything here. :dunno:

Maybe I shared too much nah ledge with ya'll? :(

[Euro-Man]

Well, I really have nothing to ask. :lol: I'm following the 12 week program and just doing step by step whatever they say to do. :wired:

It's week 7 and I did notice strength gains, and I think some size, too. :dunno: I'm around 203 or 205 lbs right now. I'm hoping I can get to 210 by the time I'm done with this.

[Wraab Wall]

Well if there is nothing to ask, then there won't be a lot of posting. :sqnteek:

I'm not gonna just start posting random crap about this or that. People that have questions, will ask me. Except drew - I think I pissed him off since he is still waiting for that excel spreadsheet that I sent once and never again. :lol: :(

But I am thinking of getting my certification - so I can go make some extra $ under the table. Plus it might motivate me to get my butt back in shape.

[Pull_T]

Don't worry Ralb.

There'll be plenty of hand holding once I get going on a regimen.

[Wraab Wall]

Don't worry Ralb.

There'll be plenty of hand holding once I get going on a regimen.


:hatt:

Like I said - I need to get myself back into 100% - when I'm focused I'm much more "vocal"

[Stevo Stitches]

There was almost a fight at the gym today. It was hilarious. Some dude that looked like the Joe Millionaire was hogging the bench. He left his notebook there and dissappeared for like 5 min.

Some other dude that looked like Ahmet Zappa went towards the bench and the other dude came back telling him that he was still using it. Ahmet Zappa made some wise ass comment, and Joe Millionaire was like "Well, if you asked f in' nicely maybe I would've let you work in!!" :gheyfight
They were both wearing gloves and muscle T w/ no sleeves. :hay:

http://www.ctv.ca/archives/CTVNews/images/20030218/joe_millionaire_jackson_specials_030218/160_cp_joe_millionaire.jpg

VS.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/7/7f/Ahmet_Zappa_promo.jpg

[Pull_T]

There was almost a fight at the gym today. It was hilarious. Some dude that looked like the Joe Millionaire was hogging the bench. He left his notebook there and dissappeared for like 5 min.

Some other dude that looked like Ahmet Zappa went towards the bench and the other dude came back telling him that he was still using it. Ahmet Zappa made some wise ass comment, and Joe Millionaire was like "Well, if you asked f in' nicely maybe I would've let you work in!!" :gheyfight
They were both wearing gloves and muscle T w/ no sleeves. :hay:

http://www.ctv.ca/archives/CTVNews/images/20030218/joe_millionaire_jackson_specials_030218/160_cp_joe_millionaire.jpg

VS.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/7/7f/Ahmet_Zappa_promo.jpg
Yeah, when that happens I normally just whip my dong out and it diffuses the whole situation because everyone is simply so awestruck.