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Originally Posted by Melkerson
I don't know shiet about BBing, but you look jacked AF. Couple of questions
1. To me it seems your physique is clearly better than everyone pictured. Correct?
2. Lots of non-Chinese bros in the pic. Where do the natives train?
1. yes obv
2. They train here. There is no "foreigner gym". We just invaded the place for one night. It's a small gym so they never have more than 10-15 people there. EVeryone in my foreigner social circle either works a higher level and more time consuming 55+ hour per week job like myself or has wife/kids or both, so we don't get a lot of opportunities to meet and socialize. Friday nights we usually meet at this gym 2-3x/mo.
BBing gym with ostensibly bbing equipment but to be frank most of the machines look cool and still ****ing suck. They are powerlifters except one of the guys with tons of tats (the non-bald one) also bodybuilds. He hasn't done a show yet and was around 87kg at 6'1.5 last cut and still had a few kgs to lose to be stage lean. In these pics he's 105kg. Still using that polish coach I didn't like working with. He's making crazy fast progress and works super hard and is probably no more than 2-3 years behind me rn. They're all doing a meet next weekend in our city which I'm obviously sitting out. Powerlifting is kinda stupid and I'm sad it was the dominant fitness modality here for years but glad it isn't anymore. I mean it doesn't have to be lame, but athletes and judges turned it into a lame sport. If it were atg high bar squats, no fancy belts/wraps/sleeves, no sumo, no turbo arching, and no fatness it'd be a cool sport tbh.
Legs last night
Hamstring curls: 47.5kgx17, 12, 9
Leg extensions: 4 sets of 20 various weights
Paused SLDL toes elevated: 120kgx12, 9, 7
high and wide leg press: 3ppsx25, 20, 15
I don't like the high+wide leg press; didn't feel it in my glutes and hamstrings like I wanted. Just felt like a shitty version of regular leg press. I'll try the front foot elevated split squats again; I think the weird ball pain was from pants I was wearing and maybe it'll feel fine with shorts.
I couldn't get my glutes as engaged on these SLDLs at this weight, felt lower back taking over and my lower back is sore today. My lower back never got sore when I was doing 100kg for super high reps. Maybe I just bump up to 102.5kg or 105kg and continue the very high reps. My erectors are really overdeveloped overall because my deadlift style was basically 0 glutes 70% erectors 30% hamstrings.