Did you do any cardio during your earlier years?
[quote]myself1992 wrote:
hey PX, I just got all four of my widom teeth extracted on thursday and was wondering how long it would take for me to be able to lift again. The procedure took 40 minutes and the doc said there was no tissue damage or anything. On thursday I have another appointment with him and he told me to not do anything until that day and that he’d tell me then when I could do stuff. I’m going to do everything as he says because he has seen me personally and he knows his shit but still, with your experience, about how long should one wait until one is able to lift again?[/quote]
Hey I only got two teeth out and it took me 5 days to get back to lifting (was gonna go in 3, but my parents were nagging me not to). Some guy on here got his out and trained the next day so it varies (try doing a search, there was some good threads last time I searched). Only thing I’d say is if you can’t train, don’t sit around and just eat all day and do nothing because when I did that my first two sessions in the gym were fucking awful (5-10 pound drop on all my lifts), there was no issues after that, but it is something to keep in mind.
i no bodybuilding is nothing to do with big numbers and what not but out of curiosity, before switching over to machines for things like squats, deadlifts and overhead presss what kind of numbers were you putting up?? ive read before about the 180kg bench i was just wondering about the other lifts
[quote]sid132 wrote:
i no bodybuilding is nothing to do with big numbers and what not but out of curiosity, before switching over to machines for things like squats, deadlifts and overhead presss what kind of numbers were you putting up?? ive read before about the 180kg bench i was just wondering about the other lifts[/quote]
I was squatting four plates (a side) for reps before I started focusing more on leg presses. My knees are a limiting factor. I now use a squat machine and leg press for most of my training along with extensions, curls and calf raises.
I don’t deadlift. I have deadlifted in the past but not enough to even remember the most weight used.
I was overhead pressing 3 plates a side on the smith machine before actually reducing the weight a little and working more on form around that time period. I was informed by some older lifters that I should take better care of my shoulders…so I listened.
I am very fucking glad I had the sense to listen to people with more experience than me.
I now use overhead presses largely as a warm up. If I had access to one of the Hammer Strength overhead presses, I would throw them back in and go much heavier than I do now…but my shoulders seem to be doing ok with how I am training them now.
Most of those weights were when I was under 220lbs.
Prof X, I think I saw before that you said your arms are the first to go when you drop some weight. Correct me if I’m wrong, of course… I recently went into “damage control” mode and dropped from 210 to 195 in a month’s time. I noticed my arms shrank near an inch. They don’t necessarily look smaller as I’m much leaner but I feel like a twig now. I made sure to hold my 210 for 3-4 months before dropping just so my body would get used to the weight.
Do you think some people just lose more on certain muscles than others?
[quote]TheBigV wrote:
Prof X, I think I saw before that you said your arms are the first to go when you drop some weight. Correct me if I’m wrong, of course… I recently went into “damage control” mode and dropped from 210 to 195 in a month’s time. I noticed my arms shrank near an inch. They don’t necessarily look smaller as I’m much leaner but I feel like a twig now. I made sure to hold my 210 for 3-4 months before dropping just so my body would get used to the weight.
Do you think some people just lose more on certain muscles than others?[/quote]
That happens to me if I drop weight too fast. That is why I am dropping slowly. My arms are the first to pump up and the first to lose size when dieting. This is the first time I don’t seem to be noticing a drop in strength or size yet…but my eating habits are WAY different now than they ever have been with the amount of beef I’ve kept in and the low calories in the MAG-10.
Dropping 15lbs in one month is NOT damage control. That is called “droppin’ weight too damn fast”.
Someone forgot their Prof X thesaurus at home before they came to the gym.
[quote]Professor X wrote:
[quote]TheBigV wrote:
Prof X, I think I saw before that you said your arms are the first to go when you drop some weight. Correct me if I’m wrong, of course… I recently went into “damage control” mode and dropped from 210 to 195 in a month’s time. I noticed my arms shrank near an inch. They don’t necessarily look smaller as I’m much leaner but I feel like a twig now. I made sure to hold my 210 for 3-4 months before dropping just so my body would get used to the weight.
Do you think some people just lose more on certain muscles than others?[/quote]
That happens to me if I drop weight too fast. That is why I am dropping slowly. My arms are the first to pump up and the first to lose size when dieting. This is the first time I don’t seem to be noticing a drop in strength or size yet…but my eating habits are WAY different now than they ever have been with the amount of beef I’ve kept in and the low calories in the MAG-10.
Dropping 15lbs in one month is NOT damage control. That is called “droppin’ weight too damn fast”.
Someone forgot their Prof X thesaurus at home before they came to the gym.
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haha I’ll never forget it again! Thanks for the advice
Apologies if you’ve answered this somewhere before,
How are you using MAG-10 and Anaconda? Both during the day and around workouts
I know you said you weren’t following the described “protocol” exactly.
[quote]Professor X wrote:
I was overhead pressing 3 plates a side on the smith machine before actually reducing the weight a little and working more on form around that time period. I was informed by some older lifters that I should take better care of my shoulders…so I listened.
I am very fucking glad I had the sense to listen to people with more experience than me.
I now use overhead presses largely as a warm up. If I had access to one of the Hammer Strength overhead presses, I would throw them back in and go much heavier than I do now…but my shoulders seem to be doing ok with how I am training them now.
Most of those weights were when I was under 220lbs.[/quote]
Why was it a problem going heavy with the smith machine? That actually seems like a common exercise among some pro’s, I would imagine because they believe potentially safer.
Since you don’t have HS OH press and don’t do OH presses as a main exercise what do you currently do for shoulders other than laterals?
[quote]Professor X wrote:
Dropping 15lbs in one month is NOT damage control. That is called “droppin’ weight too damn fast”.
Someone forgot their Prof X thesaurus at home before they came to the gym.
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lol
[quote]stevo_ wrote:
Apologies if you’ve answered this somewhere before,
How are you using MAG-10 and Anaconda? Both during the day and around workouts
I know you said you weren’t following the described “protocol” exactly.[/quote]
I fit it in wherever I can in my schedule…which right now means drinking the Mag-10 throughout the day while at work. Before training, I usually drink more of the Mag-10 and get as many of the bars down as a I can and drink the Anaconda while training.
[quote]pumped340 wrote:
Why was it a problem going heavy with the smith machine? That actually seems like a common exercise among some pro’s, I would imagine because they believe potentially safer.[/quote]
It wasn’t a “problem”. Very few are going to get up to benching 400lbs or even overhead pressing over three plates a side without making sure every muscle group that contributes to those movements in the upper body is in balance…or else they will see an injury by that point.
That was one of the times that I knew I needed to work on assisting muscle groups more before pushing the limits even more. My strength progress needed a different stimulus and in that case, it involved bringing up any lagging body parts.
If you are asking why I chose the smith machine, it is due to safety as well…especially since I was told I had the genetics for this by that point and most of the guys who had a history of going VERY heavy on barbell overhead presses done BTN (as in more than 3 45lbs plates a side) also had nagging shoulder injuries. They are the ones who recommended it.
I am glad they did.
[quote]Professor X wrote:
[quote]stevo_ wrote:
Apologies if you’ve answered this somewhere before,
How are you using MAG-10 and Anaconda? Both during the day and around workouts
I know you said you weren’t following the described “protocol” exactly.[/quote]
I fit it in wherever I can in my schedule…which right now means drinking the Mag-10 throughout the day while at work. Before training, I usually drink more of the Mag-10 and get as many of the bars down as a I can and drink the Anaconda while training.
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Cheers, kinda doing something similar funnily enough.
[quote]Professor X wrote:
[quote]crod266 wrote:
x, what kind of protien shakes do u drink out of curiosity [/quote]
Either the Lean Body RTDs or their protein shakes mixed myself.
I’m lactose intolerant and that is the only brand I’ve tried that causes ZERO problems in that area.[/quote]
Do you have any idea why this brand doesn’t cause you problems? It contains whey protein, correct?
I’m asking you because dairy also gives me digestion trouble and I am currently looking for a protein shake/RTD that I can handle.
They probably use a better filtering grade/method or whatever for their whey… Maybe it’s Ion-Exchange or what-have-you. You get different kinds of everything…
Different isolates, concentrates etc… If you’re very lactose intolerant, obviously you want it as clean as possible (also, added fiber helps in general with your digestion, many brands have none and if you drink plenty of shakes with no added fiber, you’ll likely end up with lots of gas, bloat, pain etc, non-related to lactose intolerance… Of course you can just buy that extra, and you get different kinds again…).
Usually, regular supp companies don’t specify if cross-filtration or ion-exchange and so on was used for their whey isolate (for example), and they certainly don’t say how much of the protein is isolate and how much is concentrate (again, example)… Kind of a bitch if they went all cheapo on you with 1%high grade isolate and 99% lower quality concentrate.
Which means trial and error.
[quote]Cephalic_Carnage wrote:
They probably use a better filtering grade/method or whatever for their whey… Maybe it’s Ion-Exchange or what-have-you. You get different kinds of everything…
Different isolates, concentrates etc… If you’re very lactose intolerant, obviously you want it as clean as possible (also, added fiber helps in general with your digestion, many brands have none and if you drink plenty of shakes with no added fiber, you’ll likely end up with lots of gas, bloat, pain etc, non-related to lactose intolerance… Of course you can just buy that extra, and you get different kinds again…).
Usually, regular supp companies don’t specify if cross-filtration or ion-exchange and so on was used for their whey isolate (for example), and they certainly don’t say how much of the protein is isolate and how much is concentrate (again, example)… Kind of a bitch if they went all cheapo on you with 1%high grade isolate and 99% lower quality concentrate.
Which means trial and error.
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I can’t drink milk. I can get by on one glass if I’m lucky. Other dairy is hit or miss. I’m trying to figure out what dairy I can and can’t eat. I think I’ve got it figured out now.
Would it be likely that the Lean Body brand products use a higher quality/better filtered whey/dairy than what you find in milk?
Like you said, I just need to try it out and see what happens.
You can buy lactose-“free” milk… But it usually still has lactose in it (obviously less than regular milk) and it seems to me that they add a lot of regular sugar or corn syrup or something to make up for the missing lactose…
I avoid milk like the plague… Makes my skin go all teenager on me and my stomach screams rebellion… I can eat mozarella cheese (the non-Italian version haha) aplenty though, along with cottage cheese…
Other dairy products are hit and miss for me though…
I have never tried Lean Body (isn’t that by the super-ripped little guy? Labrada or the other one? You know who I mean…), but it’s likely higher quality filtration etc being used for it if it doesn’t give pX trouble.
Or perhaps they’re lying and it’s not whey in there but one of the non-dairy based proteins 
[quote]Cephalic_Carnage wrote:
You can buy lactose-“free” milk… But it usually still has lactose in it (obviously less than regular milk) and it seems to me that they add a lot of regular sugar or corn syrup or something to make up for the missing lactose…
I avoid milk like the plague…
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I tried Lactaid milk. It was a HUGE improvement over regular milk for me but I still had some trouble(mostly bloating.)
NO milk for me.
C-C et al, just curious why you wouldn’t just take lactase pills with your whey/milk when you take it.
[quote]ridethecliche wrote:
C-C et al, just curious why you wouldn’t just take lactase pills with your whey/milk when you take it.[/quote]
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I just don’t want to take those pills.
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I’m not too sure that it would solve the problem. I think problems handling dairy go beyond just the lactose.
[quote]ANIMAL M0THER wrote:
2. I’m not too sure that it would solve the problem. I think problems handling dairy go beyond just the lactose.[/quote]
For me, at least, problems handling dairy begin and end at lactose.
The pills work wonders for me.