The Fitness Thread

[Kruppes_Mule]

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New to the site, but I am a gym fiend...a fat one right now, but I love lifting, used to swim and play rugby in college. Coached both sports post college and now have a desk job that feeds me awesome food.

5'10" 205 lbs. 36" waist. trying to get back down to 175-180, but unsure if its even possible anymore.

bench 265 x 6, squat 425 x5, deadlift 385 x 4.


Arkuski:

Interval train, get on a track or treadmill, jog 1:00, max sprint 30 secs. rinse and repeat for 12 min or longer. Your over time your jog will get much faster as will your sprint.

Reach:
i suggest reverse pyramidding your sets for a month or so. Start at max weight, go 8 reps or to failure. Drop 10 lbs, go 8-12, etc. Go 90secs-120secs in between sets. If you ever get past 12 reps on one of your lower weight sets, you are ready to bump up. I feel like the 215-225 mark is a hurdle for a lot of people I know. I think a lot of it is mental, but don't be afraid to decrease your reps at a higher weight for a week or so in order to bump up.

[clintonabler]

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Money is gone nothing is gone, Health is gone everything is gone.So for good health do exercise regularly and eat good, healthy and fresh food regularly and avoid smoking and drinking.

[Senip]

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This is more or less a desperate cry for help, but can anybody here run a 200 under 25? I'm slow as balls and I need to get faster.

Practice sprints.

[Senip]

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215x7

I usually push my bench to 8 reps and then immediately up the weight, at which point I'll drop to 6-7 reps and continue again from there. Been locked out at barely making 7 reps on 215 for a month now despite progressing pretty much everywhere else. I tried moving to 220 at one point but that didn't help any. Reps went down, and when I went back to 215 I was still stuck.

I'm up for trying anything, so it's worth a shot. Might just drop it and substitute another exercise for awhile too (decline bench maybe?)

Whenever I hit a wall like that, I go do different exercises for a few weeks, go back and hit it again. usually a little weaker at first, but then it explodes.

[kmay]

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This is more or less a desperate cry for help, but can anybody here run a 200 under 25? I'm slow as balls and I need to get faster.

plyometrics?

[Reach]

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Whenever I hit a wall like that, I go do different exercises for a few weeks, go back and hit it again. usually a little weaker at first, but then it explodes.

That's what I'm thinking, but not sure what I should substitute.

My chest usually involves 3x flat BB bench, 3x incline DB, 3x hammer press, 3x machine flyes. Switched those to cable crossovers the other week. Hitting chest and shoulders tomorrow so I'll see how it goes, if still stalled at 7 reps I'll have to make some changes for a few weeks.

[Senip]

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Do some DB flat bench then.

[A2P]

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not really some crazy fitness stat, but I've lost 7 pounds from Sunday as a result of walking at a brisk pace for at least a mile every day. woo!

[d4u7211]

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not really some crazy fitness stat, but I've lost 7 pounds from Sunday as a result of walking at a brisk pace for at least a mile every day. woo!

[SCWolf]

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not really some crazy fitness stat, but I've lost 7 pounds from Sunday as a result of walking at a brisk pace for at least a mile every day. woo!

[Reincarnate]

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Figured I may as well ask here.

So I screwed up my back somehow. I don't even know how I screwed it up -- I was putting on my coat and it just sort of happened out of the blue, and it's been hurting like hell since Thursday (I had to take off work because I couldn't walk/sit comfortably and actually couldn't take full breaths without pain, and I was hobbling around like an old man clutching his back / couldn't stand up straight. I can walk/breathe/straighten up now but it's still painful to move around).

It's this pain between the lower-ish area of the left shoulderblade and the spine. It only hurts when I move. I'm worried that something else is wrong because it's still hurting and it's now Saturday morning. Then again I have no idea is this is normal for a pulled back muscle.

[kmay]

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slipped disc? pinched nerve?

[Reincarnate]

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I don't know how to tell. I don't think it's a pinched nerve because it's not shooting pain/numbness/"zings" to some other place on my body. It's just localized pain in that general area of the back.

[kmay]

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I believe a slipped disc, the pain travels down the leg as well, and has a feeling of numbness. my ex had a slipped disc and complained of having his shin feel numb

[Reincarnate]

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http://www.ehow.com/facts_5007338_lo...ed-muscle.html

Might just be a pulled muscle. :/ Silly that it kicks in just because of a fscking coat. I had lifted a plasma TV earlier this week but I am not sure if that's what ultimately led to this happening (most likely bad posture).