not as bad as fish oil burps imo

I didn't read it, but I assume this thread will answer your question.
http://board.crossfit.com/showthread.php?t=12365

edit: that thread is really old so just check amazon for "bumper plates". If you are using them just for getting warmups to the right height and not for dropping the bar then you can get away with cheaper plates that might bend under more strenuous use.

0.625 on each side, so 1.25 total, yeah, especially on "lighter" exercises like overhead presses as opposed to squats.

I pay a little extra for "enteric coated" fish oil pills. It doesn't get absorbed til its out of your stomach, so no more heartburn / burps

Hmmm, and I thought the 2.5lb jumps were slow.

I think 1.25 increases are great for women/girls. I train a few HS girls every year and being able to load at 1.25 intervals makes things much easier. When you're benching 200 and an increase to 205, that isn't that big of an increase, but 70 to 75 that is a pretty big increase.

+1. also, girls almost never eat enough of a surplus to make a 5 lbs jump anyway.

Ya, I wanted as small of increments as possible.

The reasoning is (and I'm probably just being paranoid) but I lift at 2 different places and *think* the weights are different there. I lift at my university gym or at my friends place who built his own lifting platform etc.

The general consensus is that the bars at the gym are "light", but at the same time, for heavier exercises, the weights seem more similar to at my friends house. Ie. on a warmup set of OHP it feels much easier at the gym, but say I deadlift at his place, and if I did worksets of OHP at his house, then the university, then his house of X, X+10, X+10(since I think the bars are about 5 pounds light) this would feel fine, but if I did Y,Y+10,Y+10 on deadlift, the 2nd workout feels much tougher than the others.

Anyways, long story short in my head the bars at the gym are about 90% the weight of the bars at my friends house, and the weights at my friends place are about 99% the weight of the weights at the gym. I'm gonna bring in a scale just to verify if I'm crazy or not but in this situation if I do figure out there is a small discrepancy, I'd like to have a wider variety of options to correct it.

Yeah those small plate are pretty sweet. I think soulman was grinding out 1.25 pound increases on the press for a while, so they are def handy to have. I was using mine today.

And I think there has been a few stories of people finding out weight are dif, even in the same gym.

Do you guys count the collars on the bar? They weigh more than the washers...

I'm starting SS again soon and I think I understand the workout fairly well but I'm a diet noob. I'm early 30's, 5'8" and ~180lbs. I carry too much weight in the midsection and I'm weak as hell. I'm assuming the SS routine is where I should start, but what do I do for diet? In my mind, a fit 165-170lbs would be a desirable goal. Is there a specific "diet" I should go after? Or a certain cal/day I should shoot for with a certain amount of protein? There is so much diet info/misinfo out there that I'm completely lost on what to do. Halp plz.

I have these coming in the mail tomorrow. Will give a mini reveiw in my log when i use them next week

http://www.pendlaybarbell.com/petepl.html

Don't worry so much about hitting a certain weight. If you were to stay 180, or even gain 5-10 pounds, while doing SS I can all but guarantee you will prefer how you look after 3-4 months. At that point, if you think you are carrying too much fat then you can worry about dieting.

what are the benefits to taking less time between sets? the only downside that i know of for taking less time is that you may not completely recover and therefore fail a set that you would normally complete with more rest time, but other than this are there any other downsides?

I posted a request for a form check on my squad earlier itt. I originally ment to post the third set as i think form is considerably worse then the first two. There are some obvious issue even for me. Missing depth, ****ty bar path, knees cave in on the last two reps. Anymore hints for me?

Set3

Polka - Can't really tell much about knee cave from that angle. I don't think depth is much of an issue, either. I do think the bar just looks really loose on your back though. It really shouldn't be bobbing from side to side or floating around like it is in the video.

Take video from 45 degrees behind you and directly behind you as well. I don't know why the bar moves forward as you descend but maybe some other angle will shed some more light.

Cheers , help is really appreciated. Going to take a new vid tommorow.

Are micro-plates worth buying when I could alternatively switch to weekly 2.5kg progression instead? To buy the plates to allow 1.25kg progression will cost me about £40. I'm not sure it's worth the money.

Prophet... Almost certainly not worth it... buy some chain and wrap that around the end of the bar. Add more collars. Those little weighted ankle straps?

yo bro, who cares, it's the dudes last rep.

what do you do normally between lifting days on SS program? cardio/core/isolation exercises?

M - Squat, Bench, Deadlift
Tu - ??
W - Squat, Press, Power Clean
Th - ??
F - Squat, Bench, Deadlift
Sat - ??
Sun - ??

and after you finish the big 3 for each day, should you do other weight training? or is it alright to get some cardio in? or is it mostly dependent on your body type, etc?

thanks in advance for any help

I play with myself quite often.

No but seriously, they're off days for a reason.

Light cardio isn't a big deal, but once the weight starts getting heavy any more than that will start affecting your recovery.

As far as after the 3 major lifts, early on you'd probably just want to stick to that, but as you go you can start adding in accessory stuff, but I'd add it in slowly so you don't hurt your recovery through too much work.

Light cardio after the workout is probably fine though.

One negative aspect that I've heard is that creatine increases the likeliness of hair loss (due to increased testostorone), and I'm already starting to thin out up there (plus I'm taking other meds that supposedly cause hair loss).

Aside from that, I don't really care about how it effects my kidneys (I'm only thinking in terms of pure vanity).

Anyways, should I take creatine, is it effective? Testimonials, again I don't care if it messes up my kidneys.

tsearcher with the ninja-move. i was going to troll this one.

no, creatine has nothing to do with testosterone levels.

creatine can lead to serious cramping, so drink more water.

i dont care if i ruins my kidneys. i dont care if i damages my heart. i dont care if it facilitates catastrophic muscle tears.

Form question for squats:

So if you were quite strict on form, say you worked out directly under the supervision of Rippetoe, would you not allow yourself to move up on squats if you had a small (but definitely noticeable) amount of knee caving on your last rep or two?

I might just be rationalizing but I feel like I'm in an awkward spot where I'd have to drop like 40 pounds from a weight that is not very hard for me in the first place in order to really have no knee caving.

Also I'm still dieting so not sure it would even accomplish anything (since I'm not sure I can even strengthen my adductors or whatever).