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kitaristi0, sorry about the edit and break from tradition. tsearcher edit.



I think it's already January in the land of the free and home of the brave as well so there can be no time zone complaints.

Let the Gubernator lead the way for the new year.

Again: Happy and successful 2010 everyone, inside and outside the gym!

Goal:
-Gain 10 lbs to achieve "overweight" status on the BMI scale

This inspired me to calculate my BMI for the first time in years. I'm officially overweight at an estimated 17% bf.

Use FFMI instead. Fat Free Mass Index.

I thought this sounded interesting at first but all the site does is calculate your LBM and assign a number to it. IOW it just restates your LBM. What's the point?


Edit: the site I refer to is this: http://www.naturalphysiques.com/tools.php?itemid=28.

The FFMI is the BMI adjusted for body fat %. A FFMI of 25 at a BF% of 5 is considered empirically as pretty close to the genetic limit.

Good luck with your goals guys!

Happy New Year!

Lolol@myself.

Why the F is the December Bitches thread locked??? Oh....

Where the F is the January Bitches thread? Oh.....

FWIW I wasn't always a big fan of the "xxxxxx bitches" title. I like to see new and creative LC titles.

title should still have the month in it somewhere imo.

if any of you read the starting strength boards, do you also hate the nisora idiot?

lol total fail on my workout today. (alcohol ldo)
On the plus side somebody asked me if I was on steroids yesterday (I'm not hooge just making progress fast)

Currently I do high-bar back squats. I'm currently pretty close to intermediate as determined by SS. I've been having this sharp pain in my elbow-wrist joints on my left hand. I determined it was due to my poor carry on the squat. I decided to reset my squats and try to fix it as best as possible and also convert over to low-bar as well during the reset period.

I went today and had terrible problems with my squat grip. First off, I can't even get the bar on my traps and hold the bar without some considerable stretching. When I do, I have extremely bent wrists and it's very apparent that a significant portion of the weight is going to be absorbed by my palms. I've tried a wider grip, and it seems almost like a grip that would extend to the edge of the rack might possibly work, but when I do this the bar doesn't sit comfortably in my hand and my hands go numb pretty quickly.

I've also tried using my regular grip but trying to roll my hands over the top more, but a similar numbness quickly occurs (and it's not stable because it's not really in my hand).

Anyways, I've read that shoulder dislocates are supposed to be helpful here and I have been doing them for a while now with some minor improvement. I also do a doorway stretch for my chest as well. Any advice on exercises to do, things to try, etc?

Your whole setup is ****ed. Do you own SS?

I don't understand why you are putting a lot of stress on your wrists with a high bar position.

Me neither. Unless hes forcing his elbows under really hard or something.

Arnold looks great, but we should also have a representative of strength to help lead the way for the new year:

title sucks

you're getting weird replies because you said "on my traps" when talking about the low bar position. also because you're talking about switching to low bar squats because of problems much more commonly associated with low bar than high bar squats.

anyway, i've found that i really have to get my shoulder blades and the surrounding back musculature really loose to get a good grip. not so much my pecs and shoulders. a stretch that works for me is putting one arm up where it would be in a high bar squat position and then doing a doorway stretch placing the meat of my forearm on the wall.

static stretching before lifting? beware of mike robertson coming into this thread and blasting you.

i might be wrong, but only the broomstick dislocations in magnificent mobility do anything for the upper back. there's likely some better stuff in assess and correct or whatever it's called.

to be serious i'd actually like to get some upper back mobility work in as well, my grip is wider than I'd like it to be. And squatting first makes pressing hard due to all the wear and tear on shoulders/back. I'll try the stretch you mentioned next time.

Windmills.

Smiley mentioned something about LBBS before pressing being contraindicated, and he has a point. Then again if you can get in a proper position to finger blast yourself from behind the back, it likely don't matter.

Right, I want to work up to low bar squats but right now even to get into any sort of high-bar position is a real struggle, much less a correct one. I shouldn't have even mentioned the low-bar actually. It almost seems like I've lost flexibility, even though it's more likely I had this poor grip all along and the weight never got significant enough until now.

I'll check out Assess and Correct, thanks, and use that stretch.

yea buddy