wow is it hard to eat 450-500g of semi-clean carbs in a day

don't mess with a guy who eats solid food at the gym though

you know someone is hardcore, or just doesn't give a ****, when they enter the weight room and pull out a sandwich and munch on it between sets

the only person I've seen do this was this enormous, overweight 320+ pound guy at the health club. He had this gigantic bag full of who knows what and every few minutes would dip into it and pull out a random item of food (a pre-wrapped sandwich, bag of doritos, apple) and devour it while chugging gatoreade. He was explosively repping 275 raw on the bench press

Yeah, he was pretty hyoooj. He was also spruking cross-fit to one of the PTs who was like "huh?"

This.

fknrofl that is awesome.

yeah lol

it reminded me of the scene in "End of Days", at the beginning. Arnold's partner wakes him up and Arnold is making breakfast as he talks to him. Arnold pours an entire bottle of pepto bismol into a blender, then goes into the fridge and starts scooping leftovers from a carton of chinese food in. Then he looks at the floor, bends down and picks up a piece of pizza, inspects it, finds it satisfactory, and throws it into the blender and blends everything and chugs it

HYAHCHACHAHCHAHC

I hate putting cooked meat into fitday.

Um, gloves?

They don't make you a pansy. People that call others pansies for wearing gloves are d-bags imo. They are worn for grip obv. Do baseball players call each other pansies for wearing batting gloves? Do golfers call each other pansies when they wear a glove? Football players?

I really have never understood this taboo. Yes it's oh so manly to have bleeding callouses and tears in your hands at the gym. GTFO of my gym with your Hepatitis infesting all of the dumbells and barbells.

/rant

I make a point of smearing my barbell with at least two bodily fluids during any given training session

Your own?

I'm not picky.

fknrofl

In other news...

The half man, half beast I saw in the gym last work out doing the 30kg db row/burpee/clean/press things was back again today (funny, cause I was at a different location, i think he's following me...) and yet again confirmed he is more beast than man...

He must be doing some kind of cf workout... he did about a billion rounds of pullup/airsquat/pushups... in fact, I did squats, military press and some benchpress with a mate and he was doing pullups/squats/pushups the whole time... then while I was doing powercleans, he was doing rounds of running and clean/press at 60kg.

In other news...

So I was working out with a mate, he's been working out for a couple of years and is a beast in the upper body but does nothing for his lower body. He is about 80kg, can bench 100kg but squat 90kg... you get the idea.

Anyway... he was doing incline bench presses and I figured I would have a go. I liked 'em, I seemed to feel my chest muscles doing more than what it does when I do a regular bench. Are they good to do...?

Also!

09/06 I weighed 171lbs, today I weighed 180.

Yes, I am a beast.

Also... my mate was trying to get me to do these things (probably leg extensions...?) where I sit on the machine and hook my legs under this bar and push/lift them straight... whatever... my knee hurt. so he tried to get me to do them where i like face down on some machine and do a pretty similar exercise... and my knee still hurt... is this bad?

also (last post i swear...) my mate was doing these things (calf raises...?) where he sat on this little thing and puts weights on top and just pushes off his toes... nfi if they are good or whatever, but omg it looks hilarious, kinda like this:

Huh?

-Mike

OK lol, "beast" might be going too far, but 1.25x BW bench is pretty good to me.

incline db or bb bench press is a pretty good exercise to alternate in or just use as assistance on top of benching.

the leg extensions and calf raises are pretty much useless unless you are a bodybuilder, and the leg extensions can be rough on the knee joint. From what I hear for calves you really have to torture your calves to get any growth unless you've got the genetics.

if the other leg exercise was lying leg curls, those are a pretty decent hamstring exercise but not necessary by any means.

hrmmm, ok cool, i might start putting some incline bench in then, seems fun.

i've kinda got this rough plan of gaining weight/strength for the next month or two, then come the new year i want to work more on getting faster with about 2 months before rugby starts. good general plan? would that be a good time to start doing more hamstring/calf workouts?

the hamstring and calf workouts via stuff like leg curls and calf raises are going to do very little for your athletic performance

You get the best bang for your buck for overall speed-strength from sprints and plyometric movements, and squats and other movement-specific training. I'm no sports training expert so I'll let others elaborate.

before I sleep, today I put down:

breakfast
4 eggs
2 slices ezekiel bread
ketchip
banana
apple
glass milk

pwo:
gatoreade bottle

lunch:
3 bowls of pasta/marinara
2 burgers
slice pizza
orange
apple

rest of day:
entire pot of whole grain pasta mixed w/ ground beef
apple
mashed sweetpotato bowl mixed w/blueberries and cranberries and almonds
slice of bread with pb and j
6g fish oil

I didn't count calories but I was probably a little under the desired carbs and a little over on the fat due to eating eggs early in the day and other such errors. Could have been cleaner and better but I'll survive

holla

ok, thats good, cause they were pretty un-fun exercises.

i'm thinking dragging a tire looks fun/easy/practical.

rofl, nice jeff. but needs more milk imo. ^_<

also, just had my first mango for the season. omg hot secks.

snitch,
keep on squatting or start if you aren't, instead of doing hamstring isolation work. Deads/stiff leg dl/cleans/rdl's/squats/lunges/gluteham raises are all better than that leg curl. Pick from one or more of those options.

Have tried those numerous time. Standard leather gloves that cutoff halfway up the fingers. I sweat so much that once the gloves get soaked they don't provide any help.

They would probably be adequate in my facility had A/C but it doesn't. Getting close to the time of the year anyway that should make sweating less of an issue.

Tape job the other day has seemed to provide best solution for the time.

1.25xBW bench is pretty trivial.

Crossfit Blackbox TR:

Reserved a spot for 10am saturday, which was probably unwise considering friday night was a reunion of sorts which leads to issues of alcohol and sleep deprivation. Anyway, I woke up, popped some caffeine, a lil protein shake and and went to the midtown spot.

There were three other guys in the class; all seemed reasonably in-shape. Instructor was cool.

Quick summary of the class:

> What is crossfit/why/who does it/ what does it do, etc
> Other promotional stuff
> GPP/Intensity/Power
> 3-sentence nutrition guidelines

Movements (more on these later)
> The squat
> The push up
> Knees-to elbows (on pullup bar)

Workout:
10 mins
5 Knees-to-elbows
10 Pushups
15 Squats
Max rounds.

The movement clinics were pretty nicely done. How NOT to squat was shown. Basic movement dysfunction was addressed (partial reps, knee breaks, hip freeze, knees buckling). Medicine ball was used to "keep you honest."

Learnt something interesting about hip-flexor recruitment during the squat. Apparently this is more relevant with explosive BW squats than with heavy loaded back-squats. The drill was to lie on your back, curl your ankle towards your chest and have someone offer resistance while you recruit your hip flexors to draw the knees to your chest. This is then used to "pull" you into the bottom position in the squat.

Pushups were pretty standard. True form v other random stuff was explained. Shoulders should be "active." Neck should not be tilted forward, nor extended back too far for maximum power production.

We got a "rhabdo" warning, which was pretty interesting. Instructor claimed that crossfit has been known to induce rhabdo in 15 mins.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhabdomyolysis

Another soundbite was on 300 the movie. He said crossfit was used (semi-true?) and no juice. This has been debated.
http://www.gymjones.com/knowledge.php?id=36

Definitely a productive saturday morning.