[quote]LiveFromThe781 wrote:
how the hell are you so lean?[/quote]
Diet, I guess. Even though I am in college, I don’t drink or party…I never have. I read some where that if you put on too much weight that you can actually increase the ‘number’ of fat cells that you have in your body. So if you go into a ‘bulking’ phase, you may get bigger, but you will increase the number of fat cells if you push it too far. The problem is, you can only decerase the size, not get rid of them.
If this is true, I’m sure it is one of the reasons staying lean is easy for me.
Also, since I don’t even attempt cardio I’m guessing all my fat loss has to come from moving the weights.
If you think the issue is the recovery, maybe take them out of your routine for a couple weeks and ease them back into another day of your training…?
Btw, 130lbs attached for dips, very nice dude!
You seem to be intelligent and well read on training and eating…so I can assume that your technique is good. So it’s probably not your form for the dips. But I know for myself that if my grip isn’t rock solid for every rep my elbows have to deal with a awkward transfer in forces.
where is most of the tightness with your triceps?
I’m going to take a stab at why this might be happening…
I don’t have much thickness around my joints, and sometimes doing a lot of dips and skull crushers makes me sore where my triceps meet my elbow. The feeling is similar to the pain I felt when I had tendonitis in my mid-teens.
I would say take a couple weeks of the dips and try doing bench dips instead and a couple sets of skull crushers on top of that and see how that treats you.
I could be way off, cause you seem to have good thickness around your elbow, but it appears that you’re wrists are smaller than some of the other large guys. Is it possible you REALLY built up the mass around your elbows and the pain you’re feeling is the connective tissue?
[quote]VON_Ballack wrote:
Btw, 130lbs attached for dips, very nice dude!
You seem to be intelligent and well read on training and eating…so I can assume that your technique is good. So it’s probably not your form for the dips. But I know for myself that if my grip isn’t rock solid for every rep my elbows have to deal with a awkward transfer in forces.
I thought about this as well, but when I am doing doing the dips I have to slowly let go off the bars to give my triceps time to ‘unflex’. Otherwise it feels like they are locked tight if I just jump off the bars and it hurts like hell.
where is most of the tightness with your triceps?
The tightness is in the middle of the triceps, not really near the joint.
I’m going to take a stab at why this might be happening…
I don’t have much thickness around my joints, and sometimes doing a lot of dips and skull crushers makes me sore where my triceps meet my elbow. The feeling is similar to the pain I felt when I had tendonitis in my mid-teens.
On skull crushers,I did incline skull crushers last night, it hurt near the elbow. I was doing 45s on each side so I’m just going to give it time to allow my body to adjust to that weight.
I would say take a couple weeks of the dips and try doing bench dips instead and a couple sets of skull crushers on top of that and see how that treats you.
I could be way off, cause you seem to have good thickness around your elbow, but it appears that you’re wrists are smaller than some of the other large guys. Is it possible you REALLY built up the mass around your elbows and the pain you’re feeling is the connective tissue?
I thought of that too, I guess if it is connective tissue, I will need to take it slow and make sure the tendons are fully recovered and make sure I’m taking a Glucosomine and Chondrotin supp. Sound good?
[quote]Knight33 wrote:
VON_Ballack wrote:
looking great man!
I think it was already mentioned earlier but try close-grip bench press and dips for your triceps. That’s the only area where you’re really “lagging”, if you can even call it that… anyways I find these exercises work really well for me. And the close-grip benching could help bring you closer to your benching goals.
Interesting diet btw, I’m going to think about tweaking some of my meals now!
I do have a question about the dips though, and please forgive me for being stupid but I have to ask just to make sure nothing it up.
I use to dip like no tomorrow and my triceps never got sore or even tight. Even when I was dipping with 130 attached to me, my triceps felt fine.
Now when I do it though, the pain during each rep is intense as hell and it feels like my triceps are super tight while doing the exercies.
So my question is, can you think of any reason why this would happen, meaning that now the triceps have become really tight when in the past I had no problem?
(My guess is this: since I am focusing on bench (its on Tues), my arms are not completely recovered friday so that is why they are still tight as hell) Sound good?[/quote]
i got that once!? i never get sore triceps (or doms anywhere for that matter) but one day i said screw it and went for 9x3 dips at 150x3 (3 sets) 140x3(6 sets) and 100x10 (last set) fuck was i sore the next day! good buzz. . . but i did the exact same the week after and NO pain . . . weird! just an observation dunno if this fits in here to be honest ah well
[quote]Transform wrote:
Looking absolutely great and a very impressive deadlift.
Stunned you are only 165lbs at 5’10’', you look at least 180-190lbs[/quote]
Thanks. I’m busting my butt but at this point it feels like I am hitting a brick wall in my training. I have been pushing as hard as I can and I am not getting sore anymore. Hell, I did a 3 hour chest workout and I didn’t feel anything in my chest the next day or even the rest of the week. (I know I overdid it, but it was a bad day)
I’ve never really hit abs that much until I posted those pics so I’ll put up some new ones in about a week. Thanks for the compliment…
[quote]Emoon15 wrote:
nice, i wrestle and im about 160, but i think your stats could be higher,
my bench is at 300
and squat at 400
and im 5"11[/quote]
dont be silly your profile says your only lifting 6 months. . . not possible and there’s no way (if thats you in your avatar) that you are 15% bodyfat unless it was done with a ruler lol
[quote]Knight33 wrote:
Transform wrote:
Looking absolutely great and a very impressive deadlift.
Stunned you are only 165lbs at 5’10’', you look at least 180-190lbs
Thanks. I’m busting my butt but at this point it feels like I am hitting a brick wall in my training. I have been pushing as hard as I can and I am not getting sore anymore. Hell, I did a 3 hour chest workout and I didn’t feel anything in my chest the next day or even the rest of the week. (I know I overdid it, but it was a bad day)
I’ve never really hit abs that much until I posted those pics so I’ll put up some new ones in about a week. Thanks for the compliment…[/quote]
What ‘physics’ are you focusing on? What kinds of research? I loved optics and mechanics and E&M brought me to my knees though I respect it a great deal. Maxwell was probably one of the greatest mathematicians of all time.
Was leaning towards materials science myself before I switched out of engineering altogether. I may still take some physics classes to keep the mind sharp.
Its hell right now. I’m pushing and pushing but nothing seems to be changing. I dropped my carb intake for 2 weeks to try and bring out some more veins and definition…but all that really happened was that I wiped myself out (sleeping 10+ hr days). My deadlift is stucks at approx. 500 right now and its driving me nuts.
I don’t know why, but I can’t seem to get any stronger. At this point I’m changing my diet to include more carbs for a couple of weeks and a ton more fruits. I want to post some new photos, but I plan on being a little more tanned this time.
[quote]PonceDeLeon wrote:
You look kinda overweight. Just sayin.
(just kiddin, too)
What ‘physics’ are you focusing on? What kinds of research? I loved optics and mechanics and E&M brought me to my knees though I respect it a great deal. Maxwell was probably one of the greatest mathematicians of all time.
Was leaning towards materials science myself before I switched out of engineering altogether. I may still take some physics classes to keep the mind sharp.[/quote]
I just finished up doing some research on dark energy (I have to sit down and type up the article so I can submit it) and now I am either going to focus on positronium or ferrofluids.
(Yeah, I use to love E&M as well, but the prof I took last made me hate the living S^%$ out of it)
damn physics is hard…for me at least, im not a math kinda person. dark energy, dont know what that is, but that sounds really cool haha
are you stuck in trying to get your deadlift higher? have you considered a specialized cycle just for deadlift (coan phillipi, etc) what’s your weakest part when it comes to deadlifting? i read that kroc realized his upper back was weak, so he trained the shit out of it (lots of rows, hence kroc rows!) and his deadlift went up
[quote]shffl wrote:
damn physics is hard…for me at least, im not a math kinda person. dark energy, dont know what that is, but that sounds really cool haha
are you stuck in trying to get your deadlift higher? have you considered a specialized cycle just for deadlift (coan phillipi, etc) what’s your weakest part when it comes to deadlifting? i read that kroc realized his upper back was weak, so he trained the shit out of it (lots of rows, hence kroc rows!) and his deadlift went up
just some thoughts[/quote]
From looking at what I’m doing. I need to beef up my legs. I’m going to focus on them for a couple weeks and then see what happens. I have a lifting comp. in venice beach so I can only try one thing and hope to god that is the reason I’m stuck. So, I’ll go back to doing really heavy squats and beating the hell out of my legs more than ever.
Out of curiosity, what’s your chest size (in inches) when measuring around your nipples? And what sizes are the widest parts of your forearm , upper arm, and shoulders? I’d find this information useful. Thank you in advance.
Here are all the measurements…they are unflexed, with limbs just hanging at the side:
Chest 41.5
Calves 15
Thighs 22
arms 14
These measurements were taken almost 3 months ago I think, so there should be a small improvement. I’ve been focusing on my chest and arms alot so we’ll see. I’ll be putting up progress photos shortly. (Or that is the plan)
You look great - but your deadlift form in that vid was pretty worrying. It’s okay doing everything you can to pull heavy weights, but you wont be pulling them for long if you injure yourself. As I find out every time I deadlift - the more you emphasize form - the harder it is to lift the weight. You pulled that 500 pounds with a REALLY rounded lower back - your hips were very high with your legs nearly locked out as you initiated the pull (hence the severly rounded lower back), and you yanked it of the floor. You have to squeeze it off slowly and keep your back straight/slightly arched throughout. My advice would be start with your hips lower, squeeze the weight off the floor with your hips and dont sacrifice form (at least not too much) to get the lift. Im not getting at you, but you WILL run into back problems if you continue lifting like that. Sorry to be a downer, overall you’re doing amazing.