Good advice.

Squat form question:

The first week I had trouble walking down stairs as per usual when I do squats after a long rest. But now when I do them I feel sore in my quads but feel nothing in my hammies. Possible indication my form isn't correct, i.e. overemphasizing my quads?

yes, i imagine so. like i said in parlay's log, i used to feel squats in my quads until i started actually getting my knees out.

i never took any video from a good angle when i was using ****ty technique. this is the best i can do. check out my right knee here (you can kind of see the caving): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Tc7K2okEj0

compared to my right knee here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7dOBNA0o3ZI

look at the distance between my knees at the bottom, too. there's probably an additional 6" clear between them.

I've been working on my squat form lately and I'm starting to get crazy sore in my Hams, so yes, methinks your form suxxorz.

Yeah, but if he's getting lipo that's entirely different than getting a tuck or something to fix loose skin amirite? Or will the lipo fix that? I dunno.

When I do squats I just make sure I go ass to grass, squeeze my cheeks on the way up, and drive through your heels like they are pistons rocketing you up. Then do like 2 seconds down, pause 2 seconds at the bottom (all the way down), rinse and repeat.

When I see guys who are doing unbelievable amounts of weight but like not even bending their knees I laugh.

FWIW I am not even doing squats now because I am on a ranch with no gym nearby so I do plyometric box jumps or just jump up and down/run/wind sprints.

The doctor said that the lipo she's doing has some chance of fixing it the skin because of some new procedure/machine. And since it's a much less invasive and drastic procdedure I think it's good to give it a try before going whole hog on the tuck. Usually when they do tucks they start off by lipoing anyways.

I have a friend who did the lipo+tummy tuck with the same doc and he's really happy with the results. Total transformation for him. He used to be 350lbs though and he's shorter than me so there was no question he needed both lipo and a tuck. He was around 220 at the time he did it but very strong cause he'd been lifting for a few years.

Damn, my lower back is feeling tight/sore after yesterday's workout (where I tried DL for the first time).

Praying to god it's just DOMS and not a sign I hurt myself again. It felt ok yesterday.

Just make sure you don't end up looking like Tara Reid.

4/9

squat
3x5x45

press
3x5x35

rack chins
5, 4, 3


Back is still sore from friday's session but getting better. I didn't feel any pain as long as I kept everything locked down tight and maintained good form. Still crossing my fingers this is a short-term setback and not a sign of re-injury. I'm going to lay off any form of deadlifts and just sub in chins or pull-ups.

My lipo is set for tomorrow morning. I'll post before/after pics.

Did that guy used to be really fat?

Operation went fine. The doctor removed about 2L of fat from my upper and lower stomach and my flanks. I'm wearing compression trousers right now with maxi pads over the holes cause the fluid hasn't completely drained yet. Doesn't feel very painful, more like I'm bruised from a fall or something. The trousers are obviously designed for ladies cause they have frills lol. And I have to wear them for the next 4 weeks . It's scissor time imo.

I'm going to take a week off working out because of the operation and also cause my back felt absolutely thrashed yesterday evening after my workout. I was really worried I had aggrevated my injury, but today it felt better so I'm hoping a weeks rest and then staying away from the deadlift will put me back on track.

Are you going to have before and after picks? Im interested to see the difference and how well it works.

Most likely, yes. I just need to the get the 'before' pics that my doc took. And I need to wait 4-6 weeks for the final results to come in for the 'after' (swelling and skin "regrafting" and stuff).

If the 'after' doesn't look good then I probably won't post them cause I'll look like a fool having spent so much $$$ on something so vain that didn't work.

lol yea I hear ya.

Took the compression suit off for the first time yesterday and got a much needed shower.

I'm pretty swollen and I have 4 holes in me. One on each side, one above the navel and one below. Results look ok right now, should get better when the swelling goes down and the skin has evened out.

4/9
First workout since my surgery and also first workout in Thailand.

squat
3x5x40

bench
3x5x40

Jumping pullups
4, 3, 2

Back seems to have recovered since I tweaked it. I'ma skip deadlifts and cleans for now and just do pullups. I know its not the same, but I'm really weak in pullups and they're safe for the back so I think they'll be good for me.

I resetted the bench because of the pause in training. I didn't reset the squat cause I couldn't remember what I was squatting last time, but I probably won't plateau there for a while cause the weight is so low so whatever.

[QUOTE=Wolfram;13386209]28/9
Last workout's date should have been 26/9 obv.

squat
3x5x45

press
3x5x35 - Slight twinge in lower back in the press extension. If I focus really hard on tightening my girdle then it doesn't happen.

Jumping pullups
5, 4, 4 - last rep was done on a lower bar cause the grip on the high one was horrible. I probably wouldn't have gottone 4 reps on the higher bar.

30/9

squat
3x5x50

bench
3x5x45

Jumping pullups
5*, 3, 2, 1, 1, 1 - The only flat bench in the gym was occupied so I decided to do my pullups first but after the first set it was free so I grabbed it before someone else would. Afterwards the pullups were a ton harder and I didn't feel satisfied with doing 3, 2, 1 so I did some extra singles.

From you mentioning thailand, I'm going to guess you had this done over there? Interested to hear about the recovery process/how you feel it went as far as overseas medical procedures. Used the hospital once when I was over there for something minor and was amazing, hoping to hear the same about larger scale surgery.

No, I did the surgery in Iceland because of insurance considerations. I flew to Thailand one week after the operation.

The recovery was pretty straight forward. I woke up after the procedure in a compression "suit" and have to wear that for 4 weeks. This will help the skin rebond. I was sore over most of the abdomen but nothing really bad. More like having fallen down the stairs and gotten a bad bruise.

The soreness went away pretty quickly but I became quite swollen, to a point where my waist was actually bigger than before. That happens to everybody and a lot of people get disappointed with the results at first but you don't really see them until after 6-8 weeks when the swelling finally disappears.

I'm still wearing the suit 3 weeks after the operation, day and night. I'll start removing it before I go to bed this week and then slowly wean myself off it.

2/10

squat
3x5x54

press
3x5x46.5

Jumping pullups
10, 7, 5 - New gym with a much lower bar, but I still can't do dead hangs.

They didn't have regular clips, only these monstrous powerlifting clips which I guesstimated weighed about 2kg. That explains the weird numbers for the squat and the press (I was planning to do 55 and 47.5 respectively).

6/10
My lifting buddy convinced me to delay the monday workout one day and do tue, thu, sat instead. I said ok but then today he had girl troubles and couldn't go so I said **** him and went alone.

squat
2x5x59, 1x2x59 - Felt a sharp pain in the lower back during the second rep of the 3rd set so I stopped there.

bench
3x5x49

Jumping pullups
5, 5, 4 - tried to make these harder by jumping less and pulling more.

Regarding the back pain I would go as per normal and if I experience any pain warming up I would quit squatting for a bit try to diagnose and do some rehab stuff. If no pain then just stick it out. Thats my approach anyways.

Starting again after a long break.

5/1

squat
3x5x40 - Gonna take it slow on the squats because of my ****ty back.

bench
3x5x50 - Felt easy. Adding 5kg next time.

Jumping pull-ups/negatives
7, 5, 3 - Complete abortions. Not even close to completing one dead hang.

7/1

squat
3x5x45

press
3x5x35 - There's no pins on the outside of the only cage in the gym, and no squat rack either, so I have to do these from the floor. I'm just praying that cleaning the weight from the floor won't **** up my back.

Jumping pull-ups/negatives
6, 5, 4 - Massive doms in my lats while doing these. I'm starting to hate this exercise cause I feel like I'm just half-assing it every time. Also, the pullup station is on the middle of the floor of the gym so everyone gets to marvel at my weakness.