The Weight Lifting/Gym Thread

Atavachron wrote: ^ I'm really sorry you're having a hard time, I hope you find some relief.   I am 48 and though I've been doing martial arts for 20 years, I only started training heavy with weights about two years ago.   I think it was my pent-up enthusiasm to build muscle that got me through, so my attitude was one of 'I don't care if I get sore of if it takes years to see real results'.   I figured why not; I've got the time and drive, I might as well focus and see what I can do.   In that way sometimes age and experience trumps youth and quick recovery.

I've been getting a lot out of my home workouts lately. Lots of deadlifts with the olympic bar, did some lat and side raises the other day with plate weights, and of course using the lat pull-down machine :)

Atavachron wrote: Doing elevated push-ups with my fists touching ... oh my friggin' god that's hard.   Then the same thing but using the PefectPushups; I lower myself almost all the way to the floor.   Not only is it incredibly hard but the burden is on the forearms which is great since I rarely get a chance to work them.   If you want a brutally difficult challenge, try them, you'll be amazed how hard it is.

Great to see this thread still going, guys :)

Military presses last night combined with forward vertical raises and shoulder side-lifts, great upper body workout.   Sore today.

I plan on lifting a rather large sandwich later... to continue my bulking

Has it really been that long since someone posted in this thread? (I guess most proggers leave the exercises to their ears...)
Been going at it for the last 2+ months after having accumulated a rather substantial tummy-pouch over the winter. Cycling, walking and generally just moving my ass from pæace to place instead of just becoming one with the sofa. I have additionally been doing push ups with my school pack on (inside I load some 37 pounds of weight) - shifting my grip with each set. Also doing combined movements with the weights. Fx doing a regular standing bicep curl and then continuing overhead into a shoulder press. Extremely tough but at least my arms have grown much longer... Add to that: pull ups, chin ups, crunches (Lord how I hate them!!!), back crunches as well as dumb bell pullovers and a shoulder thang I haven't got a name for.
My left leg is still renovering from an irritated nerve, which effectively means no real leg work until...yeah exactly. I do cycle quite a bit though and keep trying something a little more audacious whenever I feel my leg is getting better...and then it usually goes tits up and I have to start from scratch again. Now I am just going to wait until it feels tip top instead of forcing/willing it.

Anyway it all sums up to me being some 14-15 kilos lighter than I was during Christmas - and I am remarkably more muscular now. I did however get a shock here earlier in the week after stepping out of the shower. I thought I'd put on a few kilos because my belly fat was extremely jiggly and pasty. Turns out that just before you lose fat it actually pumps up with water, so what looks like added fat really is quite the opposite. Today I saw myself in the mirror and it truly looked like I'd dropped 8 kilos in two days. Just goes to show that your body can be irritatingly untruthful.