This is what climbers use. It’s very clean! But sometimes the liquid gets solid in the bottle and it’s a bit annoying ahah
Right now I’m using the Viva Fortis one, and it is so much stickier and efficient than the first price one I tried first
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Does it make a mess or ruin your bag/ clothes?
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Not at all, it never spilled off in like 3 years, it gets off clothes super easily, like you just brush it off with your hand it goes away
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Ideal - thanks!
You can always add a little isopropyl alcohol to the bottle.
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Thanks for the suggestion!
Conjugate Bodybuilding - Day 7 - 30/07
Nice session despite everything. After the first set of military press I was pondering. Quite depressed during the first aprt of the workout, been listening to a lot of depressing music, and also was tired as fuck from all these last few days final fuckeries, and probably the substances wearing off and the following dopamine crash. I decided to go all out and suck it up.
Filled my belly full of air, put on a belt and went at it full-on, grunting. Did the 3 sets with 6 reps and it was much easier, but I’ve always known my abs were a power leak on the press. The following sets of machine chest press were all RPE 10 as well. I waited as much as I needed, sometimes 4 minutes I didn’t care, just decided to crush it.
Lost a strap (I’m maaaaaad) so I did the rows with the hook grip lol and really they felt super easy today, despite heavier! Same for the triceps extensions! Much easier! And I never used 18 on those! Stocked!
Now I’m starting again, being serious on the diet and sleep again. And yeah I really need some sleep. Hyped to crush it and keep progressing (probably not so much since I’ll be in a deficit)
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Conjugate Bodybuilding - Day 8 - 31/07
So this left me a husk of a man. I did less work than last time but I think I was just too tired, and my mental wasn’t there. It’s okay now, I can recover.
On the first set of deads I thought I had used 120 but my friend was passing by and counted the weight and I was like whattt? So I went heavier. Used a slightly narrower stance, and higher hips (like Bret Contreras deadlifts) and it was okay. My left foot has a valgus (collapses outwards) so it usually brings me knee pain when doing sumo, but this this it was okay, even though i was looking at it go outwards and I couldn’t correct it 
Had more in the tank, and did it without straps ahah, but I feel not everything is perfect (like I’m not perfectly symetrical)
After that I had no energy, I forgot again my intra! Legs were really burning during the last exercises, and I only did 3 instead of 4 sets because I was dead. That’s okay, I can focus on recovering, and from now on sessions will be easier, or at least a bit less volume
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Hey good to see sumo didn’t hurt! Think you’ll keep them long term? For a first try (in a while) they sounded quite positive.
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As a climber I disagree.
It has some utility, but if you are doing a long sport climb you’re going to want a chalk bag with traditional chalk to chalk back up. No way in hell you’re going to use liquid chalk midwall if you have the choice thereby making the exception when climbing above water (if you fall, you go in the drink, so then one can have liquid chalk inside the chalk bag and kind of squirt it out onto your hand).
I don’t mind a base coat of liquid chalk on which to apply regular chalk though.
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I never did actual climbing, so I can only attest to my usage in the gym, to which it is good enough ahahah
Well i tried several things. From the floor I tried going hips low and really focusing on the glutes, but it was super hard and slooow. i rose up my hips and used a bit more back, and really it was easy. So yeah I’ll do it again, but I feel I first need to adress my legs imbalances. Sometimes I very slightly shift on a side (I mean the bar)
I think this is why I sometimes have low back pain/soreness, especially on the left side: my hips and lower back take some heat for my weaker legs
So I’ll shall embrace lunges, BSS and unilateral machines.
But I could see myself sumo 200 kgs from the floor right now without too much trouble
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Post vids for roast
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Alright I’ll sneak in some sumos tomorrow
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I just like clipping things on the outside of my gym bag, so the liquid chalk looks good
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Conjugate Bodybuilding - Day 9 - 03/08
Let’s start with the videos:
Zercher 140
Sumo 160
Sumo 180
Conventional 180
Alright, so appart from 2 weeks ago where I deadlifted 160 for my shrugs, I had not deadlifted over 3 plates in a year (perhaps I did a bit more on some RDL sometimes?)
Really took my time to unrack and put myself in position for the zerchers, because the bar can move around and fuck everything very easily. Slow controlled descent felt really goodd! I hope I was deep enough, I always fear to go too deep on zerchers because I hit my legs with my elbows. Honestly the 140 felt good, I had more in the tank.
So I tried sumo, did 60 kgs, then 100, 140, 160, 180. Afterwards I wanted to try my conventional to see how it would compare, and directly tried 180. Honestly I’m just happy that my back stayed flat and rigid the whole time. Less fear from that. Read something from squat university along the likes of “your back should not hurt after squat or deads. Sore, yes. If you warm-up and the pain is gone, then it was soreness”. Ahah. Anyway, conventional felt more stable, but slower. I tried to go to the bar only when I was ready to lift it.
Afterwards, nothing much to say. Only did one set of upper-back deads. Figured the maxes were enough to compensate for a set ahah, and since I don’t have straps, holding the bar this long in hook grip can be quite hurtful. Had to wait a solid 15 mins for the leg press ughhhh
My calves felt super weak today! And I saw a super fit, true athlete kind of girl at the gym today. So they exist?
But the session left me quite neurally drained I would say. So I ate an irresponsible amount of tuna and fries, and a shitload of mayonaise. Meh that’s okay, I can’t go from super slacking diet to super clean in a day. Had no cravings the rest of the day.
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Nicely done
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Issa not bad.
I’d work on opening up at the hips more. Fundamentally this is what truely distinguishes sumo fro conventional. U can stand wide and still pull “conventional” which doesn’t get u the advantages or sumo and retains the disadvantages of conventional plus a few more lie ur Knees may get messed up if ur not coordinating opening at the hips with the knee/feet angle
Another thing would be a more deliberate wedging in pf the hips while keeping hips relatively high (as per above/ the vid), pulling off the slack/tensioning and it’s kinda a similar cue. This all happens before u initiate the pull and can be brief but is useful in that in puts you in good positions with full body tension to start the lift off vs a jerky energy inefficient start with hips shooting up pr something like that
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Yeah this is going to need practice. It’s exactly like in the video, when I tried to follow regular sumo cues I would end up in a horrible position
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I was gonna say - his sumo is a conventional. His 180 conventional looked much better than his conventional. If you don’t have the hip mobility for sumo, it’s a disaster. He’s doing EXACTLY what I was doing for a while, the problem is that the high hip start position combined with the wide stance wreaks havoc on the SI joints, adductors and hip flexors.
Or at least mine.
But aside from that - looking strong and cut @aldebaran!
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As @flappinit said one can’t exactly force a good position. You get in the optimal position for you: ur leverages flexibility and strength. Should always be somewhat comfy. Considering ur start point u may not end up looking like the cheatiest sumo pullers around but positioning improves a lot with time and consistency with training the movement. Every time u do the movement is a full ROM weighted stretch which is literally how permanent mobility improvements is built. Over time ur comfy ROM will increase and u can keep pushing into it if u wish but there’s no requirement to take it to the max. A mobility routine before u lift (after and on off days too but less beneficial) can help but like i said just doing the movement well will get u plenty of gains in that department. Can link u some quick drills if ur interested.
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