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Chief McHeath posted:I opened the gym this morning and one of the bench barbells still had weights on it. A 45+25 on one side and 45+10+10+5 on the other, but there were three other 25s on the racks on the same bench??? *X-Files theme plays*
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Sounds like anarchy to me.
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Jan 11, 2018 13:02
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It's like when you see a car double parked with a bunch of empty spots around it like wtf u doin mate but then you take a second and think maybe all the spots had cars in them when he went to park and had to park like that
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Yeah but 45+25 weighs more than 45+10+10+5 that person will have no gains.
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Chief McHeath posted:Yeah but 45+25 weighs more than 45+10+10+5 that person will have no gains. What
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Jan 11, 2018 14:51
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It's plate math brother, a 25 weighs more than two tens and a five because it's bigger.
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Ok so I got the blackout curtains up. Seems to be helping, I'm waking up at 5:30 am instead of 4:30 (I fall asleep around 10:30 pm most nights). How can I minimize the light leakage around the top and sides of the curtains? I'm thinking about getting some velcro tape to stick the curtains to the wall, and another curtain panel to cut up to throw over the tops. I'm not sure if velcro tape is going to hold up to repeated uses though, or if it's gonna mess up my wall. I need something that can be opened during the day and closed again at night. I can't do the vampire life thing.
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Jan 11, 2018 15:16
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Weak magnets. Sow one to the curtain and use mounting tape on the other. Use as many as needed. You can get a pack of magnets at any hard ware store.
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Killing Loaf posted:Ok so I got the blackout curtains up. Seems to be helping, I'm waking up at 5:30 am instead of 4:30 (I fall asleep around 10:30 pm most nights). How can I minimize the light leakage around the top and sides of the curtains? I'm thinking about getting some velcro tape to stick the curtains to the wall, and another curtain panel to cut up to throw over the tops. Turn your house so it's not facing the sunrise.
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I don't care about aesthetics (or opening the window) so I straight up duck taped the curtains to the wall. Velcro tape or command strips will look cleaner, and command strip won't damage the paint although they are more l8kely to come off after a while.
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nooneofconsequence posted:post the pics Cool, lets go for it. During a good back workout the other day, I got some blood flowing.  I'll throw up some Abs and quads shots when I get on a roll. I've been going to my local gold's for over a year. On a whim today I decided to try the Mega-Gold's 10 mins away. Holy crap, I've never been so satisfied with such a huge space, wide range of equipment, and most importantly - no ones in there at 11am! Few stats - 6ft 2in. barefoot, 210lbs, maybe something like 16% bodyfat. Dennis McClaren fucked around with this message at 19:12 on Jan 11, 2018 |
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Jan 11, 2018 19:09
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Thick. Solid. Tight.
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KyloWinter posted:Thick. Solid. Tight. a good salami
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Killing Loaf posted:Ok so I got the blackout curtains up. Seems to be helping, I'm waking up at 5:30 am instead of 4:30 (I fall asleep around 10:30 pm most nights). How can I minimize the light leakage around the top and sides of the curtains? I'm thinking about getting some velcro tape to stick the curtains to the wall, and another curtain panel to cut up to throw over the tops. Wet some tin foil and stick it to the glass. Used to do this on ships when i was on night watchkeeping. It also reflects the sunlight which helps keep heat down inside as well.
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My gym just replaced all the bars with brand new bars. Usually I wouldn't complain about an upgrade, except the knurling on these bars cut my belly open while I was switching from bench to bent-over rows. Dunno what use knurling is in the center of a bar. Guess I'm going to get leathery-rear end hands now.
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Rodenthar Drothman posted:Dunno what use knurling is in the center of a bar.
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I had a raz on a texas deadlift bar the other day. RIP hands
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saw a dude rockin leather gardening gloves yesterday swag
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Chinatown posted:saw a dude rockin leather gardening gloves yesterday They started showing up about a month ago. I think they actually stopped showing up already, but it's hard to tell. Gloves in general are a lifting abomination, but wearing them for things that wouldn't do a drat thing to your hands is even worse.
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Khorne posted:What is with all the skinny fat nerdos wearing gloves while doing 20lb lat pulldowns and that awkward machine that's for "abs" but really you're just cheating with a ton of other muscles and wasting your time. SON, THAT AIN'T GONNA MESS WITH YOUR HANDS. My gym has a little section of machines for circuit training just to the side of the weight room. There's this one guy who wears massive gloves and never leaves the circuit machines. I've seen him around for months and he's literally never picked up a weight. He's not even old or horribly out of shape. Just, like what are you doing with your time, man... His hands must be perfect, though.
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nooneofconsequence posted:My gym has a little section of machines for circuit training just to the side of the weight room. There's this one guy who wears massive gloves and never leaves the circuit machines. I've seen him around for months and he's literally never picked up a weight. He's not even old or horribly out of shape. Just, like what are you doing with your time, man... His hands must be perfect, though. my gym (Crunch) has like 20 machines that youre supposed to do a 30 min cycle or whatever. I use a few of the leg ones.
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There was a guy at my old gym who was a time capsule of the 80s gym days. Well built from years of tricep pulldowns and smiths machine shrugs. Wore like street sharks tshirts with the sleeves cut off and had leather riggers gloves with all the fingets cut off. He looked like a caricature of randy savage
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Sludge Tank posted:There was a guy at my old gym who was a time capsule of the 80s gym days. Well built from years of tricep pulldowns and smiths machine shrugs. Wore like street sharks tshirts with the sleeves cut off and had leather riggers gloves with all the fingets cut off. He looked like a caricature of randy savage Did you hear him mutter "oh yeah" under his breath at any time?
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Did heavy squats for the first time after 2 months and now I'm starting to have quad DOMS ten hours in. This is my penance
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Rodenthar Drothman posted:My gym just replaced all the bars with brand new bars. Usually I wouldn't complain about an upgrade, except the knurling on these bars cut my belly open while I was switching from bench to bent-over rows. Dunno what use knurling is in the center of a bar. That's squat knurling so it grips your back better. Also great for building up bitchin back calluses
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UnfurledSails posted:Did heavy squats for the first time after 2 months and now I'm starting to have quad DOMS ten hours in. This is my penance Have a great week! I took three weeks off and did squats and added isolation isolation work (which I rarely do) on Saturday and today was the first day I was able to walk mostly right.
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Acelerion posted:That's squat knurling so it grips your back better. Also great for building up bitchin back calluses Aaah.
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Ugh! I'm starting to look around for another gym and there is a new one that really piqued my interest. It has deadlift platforms and seperate squatting cages plus a "functiona training" area with prowler sleds, battleropes etc.. Plus it is more than half as cheap than the one I'm going right now. But I really worry that since it's right next to the trainstation and being pretty darn cheap that it will be full as gently caress during 4-7pm when all the office drones head home... I think I'll wait until February to check it out when all the new years people are properly gone to make an assessment.
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Just pay for like a day pass for a week or 2 and see how busy it is. i think i've got a cold coming cause im all blocked up and bench press SUCKED today. Squats + deadlifts were okay though
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Khorne posted:What is with all the skinny fat nerdos wearing gloves while doing 20lb lat pulldowns and that awkward machine that's for "abs" but really you're just cheating with a ton of other muscles and wasting your time. SON, THAT AIN'T GONNA MESS WITH YOUR HANDS. Round my areas it's the leathery tanned middle aged people wearing gloves and those tiny lifting belts permanent cinced to keep their guts tucked away
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MikeCrotch posted:Round my areas it's the leathery tanned middle aged people wearing gloves and those tiny lifting belts permanent cinced to keep their guts tucked away I've also seen him, on occasion, once or twice, do barbell rows. Which is a legitimate exercise that you could develop calluses from.
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nooneofconsequence posted:My gym has a little section of machines for circuit training just to the side of the weight room. There's this one guy who wears massive gloves and never leaves the circuit machines. I've seen him around for months and he's literally never picked up a weight. He's not even old or horribly out of shape. Just, like what are you doing with your time, man... His hands must be perfect, though. Some of us are hand models. Gotta keep the goods fresh 
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Thanks for the kind words and support my dudes. I love nothing more than the gym. For better or worse. I went in to do back today. Got a nice satisfying Lat pump going on. 4x 25 pullups 4x Bent over Rows 4x Close grip lat pulldown
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It happened. It was the first time I've seen it at the gym I've been working/working out at since July. I had to wait for a dude to finish his last three sets of curls in the squat rack. Then when I finished my squats, two dudes took it to do curls. Gotta get those arms yolked for the weekend.
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nice fro
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Okay yeah it was leg day today. I can see how these will give me a big awesome hump between my shoulderblades.
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Chinatown posted:nice fro I used to write down and record everything. Every weight of every set, how many reps I got, I timed my rest between sets, I timed my rest between exercises. Gradually I realized all this was holding me back from my potential, and I have a much more enjoyable time today. I just go in there and hit what needs to be done.  \Arnold is not impressed with my guns.
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i go to a 24 hour gym here in london, and i usually get there around midnight-ish. at this point there is no staff around at all (the gym has weird sci-fi pods you have to key a code into to get in) so all the most depraved exercise sickos use this time to do their hideous forbidden exercises. i'm a qualified as a PT (but don't work as one atm) and i've been lifting for 12 or so years now (with a couple of years absence in that 12 where i got hosed up by doing salmon ladders with undiagnosed hypermobile shoulders then sank into a deep depression). i see a lot of weird poo poo and the gym is always a nightmarish mess. one of the main fixtures is a guy i call dr dickstare. he's a fairly skinny build with decent glamour muscles, always wears a camo tank top, lifting belt, and these loose blue shorts. i call him dr dickstare because he rolls his shorts (which are knee length) aaaall the way up into a weird baggy diaper sort of formation, then aggressively stares at his own groin while working out. he does smith machine squats, and then aside from that all he does is a shitload of like various delt exercises. some which i've never seen anyone else do. his shoulders click nightmarishly as he does them, and as someone who has suffered with a lot of shoulder problems it makes me incredibly uncomfortable. he smells disgusting, i don't think he washes his outfit ever, and instead of wearing gloves he holds two little sponges in the palms of his hands as he lifts. i imagine they are by this point saturated in staph and hep c, so i hate to use anything he's been on. he's attracted a couple of hangers-on with his weird exercises, and the three of them look like the turkish or iranian versions of mac, dennis, and charlie from always sunny. i have plenty more stories, and some photos of random stuff ive seen around the gym (benches left in weird positions, a powerade bottle with cum in it)
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