The Weight Training Thread

[Roboklopp]

Lot of joint rotations & stretching. Particularly when training squats or deads.

Volume & weight of lighter sets varies in which rep range I am doing but for the big squat it was:

8x60
3x100
1x120
(All full - arse to heels & paused)
Then standard squat slightly below parallel -
140
150
160
170.

So very low volumes when that heavy- everything up to 160 was still a warm-up really.

[Roboklopp]

Come to think of it, my squat warm up is always pretty similar up to 120k, whether I go light (ie 120k x10-12 for 3 sets, medium or heavy).

[Fosterbloke]

I subbed back squats for goblet squats today. My bar rack is too low for me but I really wanted to do squats. Felt good!

[Roboklopp]

Aye, I don't really do front squats (or such variations thereof) cos I'm already quad dominant, but they are defo a fantastic excercise. Will hit your core hard too.

[Roboklopp]

Oooosht.

200 kilo deadlift- 2 reps. PB.

Ooosht.

[EwarWoo]

Finally - if we have a fire around here you can carry ceej out.

[Roboklopp]

Don't be ridiculous, I'm not Geoff Capes.




Plus I don't touch the gingers. Best just to roll him out like a giant snowball.

[Roboklopp]

No one is that arsed but new 5 rep PB On deads of 190K. (30st). Oooosht.

[Pablo]

No one is that arsed but new 5 rep PB On deads of 190K. (30st). Oooosht.

That's brilliant, well done.

As most people know on here I've always been a runner. But I started lifting back in December. I've been in the gym 4/5 days a week since then and bulked up considerably.

I've only just started deadlifting very recently though. I am doing sets of 100kg at the moment. It's definitely the exercising where you get the biggest buzz. The feeling of lifting all that weight. I can see why people get addicted

[Fosterbloke]

I did my first clean and jerks today! Started off with an empty 8kg barbell to understand the form and worked my way up a little to 15kg of weight. Not big numbers but the trainer was more interested in me getting the movement right. I didn't do the over head part of it though.

[Roboklopp]

Aye, if you're clean & jerking properly defo need get the form right. I went back & did some Olympic lifting training & found I was cleaning all wrong & had drop the weights down hugely. Then the class folded.

Ace Pobs, 100K is no mean feat after such a short time. How you finding the extra weight/ demand on your legs for running?

[Pablo]

Aye, if you're clean & jerking properly defo need get the form right. I went back & did some Olympic lifting training & found I was cleaning all wrong & had drop the weights down hugely. Then the class folded.

Ace Pobs, 100K is no mean feat after such a short time. How you finding the extra weight/ demand on your legs for running?

I'm still running pretty well to be honest! I run to and from the gym most days, it's only about 3km in total though. Running with a pump on the way home feels odd though

Leg day again today:

Squats (4 sets x 10)
Dead-lifts (4 sets x 10)
Leg Press (4 sets x 15)
Quad extensions (4 sets x Failure)
Hamstring curls (4 sets x Failure)
Dumbbell Lunges (4 sets)

How is that for a leg workout? I'm formulating this from a compilation of YouTube videos but that seems to be a decent enough leg workout right?

[RedReet]

6 weeks exactly until holiday, really need to step it up at the gym. In as bad a shape as I've been in years. Have to shift nearly 1.5 stone.

[Roboklopp]

That's ****loads Pobs, more than enough. Generally I do fairly low volumes of lower body stuff. One squat day, one dead day. Not usually owt aside from that (unless you count calf raises which I occasionally do).

[Ams12]

The Weight Training Thread

I'm still running pretty well to be honest! I run to and from the gym most days, it's only about 3km in total though. Running with a pump on the way home feels odd though

Leg day again today:

Squats (4 sets x 10)
Dead-lifts (4 sets x 10)
Leg Press (4 sets x 15)
Quad extensions (4 sets x Failure)
Hamstring curls (4 sets x Failure)
Dumbbell Lunges (4 sets)

How is that for a leg workout? I'm formulating this from a compilation of YouTube videos but that seems to be a decent enough leg workout right?

I'd take the deadlifts out (to put less stress on your lower back over the workout) and keep the hammy curls to about 6-8 reps as hammys respond best to heavier loads and lower reps but otherwise a decent enough routine