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Sure. I'll have look for you later. You can google the info pretty easily. Flywheels , like wheel weight are rotational mass. You can find out the physics behind that as well if you would like. It's fairly common knowledge. The main reason passenger cars have heavier flywheels is to assist in intertia where it helps improve daily driving. Just off idle and cruising smoothness. Probably why the car feels nicer to drive.

On a gtr or gtst the lightweight off the shelf chrome molly flywheels are nice to drive , from my own experience. And the car will noticably and measurably accellerate faster.

Removing rotational mass has significant performance benifits. The performance benifits of a decreasing the mass are well documented. Heavier flywheels offer drivabillity . Light weight = performance gains. Is the same for wheel weights.

cast iron flywheel --lightened. Theres a few of these on youtube. You also get this with dodgy clutches too, if they let go. Heavier flywheels that stock can make the driving /shifting easier. It also depends where the mass of the flywheel is distributed.

pre workouts are a placebo (waste of money). Just wear lucky socks instead.

machining the cast iron flywheel is fine to resurface. But to machine till you serious Lighten..... dumb. The outer skin of cast iron is where it's strength is. removing it seriously reduces the strength. Bottom line is that there are plenty of true stories about lightened cast iron flywheels letting go. It's when they are put in high load / heat cycles. A clutch and flywheel breaking up a speed is a scary situation. Google this . You should have no trouble seeing the reccomendations against it. Get a chrome molly one with the new clutch. They are like $400 or less

foam roll the piriformis see if you have a knot. search youtube for howto vid. Basically , you can have knot that will cause the ITB to lock up / pinch nerve. Then once you have unknotted it do the ITB foam roller. Done the right way you won't need a ball. Both legs together straight with feet off the floor , should do the trick.

phenibut's working for me.

Yes. Also not advisable to do them on the same day as bench press of any kind as the same stabilisers are worked. Unless the volume is kept on the very low side for both.

You can but, the risk is higher the more fatigue or stress you introduce to the stabiliser muscles. Lower rep sets are to my mind safer on bench press, all things being equal. Some food for thought and perhaps to help tweak the program .The stabilsers fatigue much earlier than the chest , triceps and front delts. So pre-exhausting them before a set that will be a struggle for 5 or less reps will overstress them. One of the unique challenges is that damage occurs to the rotators long before you will actually feel anything wrong. Other movements at least may give some warning signs to back off. When the stabilisers muscles are effected by fatigue the CNS control you have over the muscle lessens as well. In bench the heavier you go , ideally the more focus on controling all the muscles is needed to ensure good form in the movement.

I get the volume training bit. You have debated enough with people about your experiment, whilst I don't agree with the basis of it personally, I am not trying to pick on it. Just don't want you guys in shoulder hurt land. My input is just the 1rm bunged on the end maybe isn't smart on bench press. The fatigue of the supporting shoulder girdle muscles ( including everyones favorite rotator cuff ) is part of the plateau as you said. Just be aware of it.

You can smash the 45kg L33SH . A 1rm after volume is a sure way to introduce a poor performance. Do a warm up , then the 1rm set and you have the job done. My caution to you is that the volume routine + a meaningful high load set/s (1rm) = rotator cuff fatigue/stress and injury potential. Just take care with the bro-press and have fun.

It's true that being strong & healthy will help with some types of injury prevention. Better still recovery times.

It's nice of you to say but, It's not a natural freakish strength. I would put it in context by saying that plenty of people who are dedicated to strength training are much stronger than I am right now. Also, there are people starting out at a similar age to when I did that aren't any weaker than I was. I was certainly really weak on my legs. My young wife at the time could leg press more than me before I got started (but, then she could outlift most men in the gym at the time). I have some residual strength left from when I put in some heavy strength training a long time ago .I put a lot of effort in. I did it around being smart in my training and finding out what worked. It's a good incentive to do some strength training in your life as you can be sure it takes quite some time for it to decline (provided you eat ok ,don't get sick etc). Even if it does the muscle memory takes less time to come back when you pick up weights after a long break.

No the story is a bit depressing. I've had the roller coaster of stress and sickness since Jan. My weight drop has been poor diet (not enough food). So the body fat % is I reckon the same but, I've lost muscle. Just trying to get back into things again.

had a go at the deads tonight. not really done any since the challenge. I am certain to be sore tomorrow. Tried wider Sumo stance , standard grip (not mixed grip). I'm sitting at about 91kg at the moment 150kg 22 reps I didn't have any kind of muscle failure instead I stopped when I felt sick... too much straight after dinner ha ha I'm not sure what heavy would be like for me, the home weights are maxed out. From that perspective I don't think my 150kg will equate to any 1rm.

Dan I correct my self on this comment. Should have checked the workouts you are doing in your training log before posting. I was thinking you were doing something else (lots of isolation). Your version of full body is good (compounds).

If your goal is overall balance then full body sessions aren't actually the best way there. But, the biggest component ( commitment) you are doing well with.

Try skipping the 120kg or the 90kg set. See how you go with the one warm up. You might find that will give you some extra intensity on the x5 set.

I would disagree strongly with the e-opinions on Phenibut about negative side effects and dependancy. Also respectfully , that GABA or Arginine are actually effective in directly treating sleep function. Neither can pass the blood brain barrier to effect the brain. Not withstanding they might, they aren't anything near the effectiveness of Phenibut, for obvious reasons. Arginine can help reduce cortisol but, the assumption would be you are defficient. It has a mild stimulation on HGH levels but, only if injected. Oral ingestion has no effect. Phenibut is phenylated GABA and is able to pass the barrier. Adding my own experience. Doesn't prove the science case for or against but, is consistant with the already established scientific data. I have been taking it for some weeks now . And I have tested high dosages (upto 5gms) and suffered zero withdrawal or tollerance increases. It did casue me to laugh my ass off though. I have gone days without it recently with no ill effects. No suprises really.

If the types of food hasn't changed just the amount being a little more, then no.

The locked postion of chinups can give you some injuries in the forearms elbows. Moreso than pullups. It's setup that will determine the angle of stress in the arms and shoulders. When doing a pullup, you want to look upward on the way up till just before the top. This will help tilt the body into a better postion. The chinup is more challenging on the elbows as this technique has little effect. Higher engagement of the bicep means the elbows are set to take up the fulcrum loads, you really only have the width to play with.

No idea. I don't do them. I can tell you that there is far less correlation than that article will lead you to believe. It is very common for people to be able to do 10 chins and 0 pullups.

Dribble....... Lots of rubbish in there it's hard to know where to start.

They are easier. His advice is wrong. Partials of the pullup (at the top of the range) combined with negatives are where you should try and start. Most people can't do a single pullup. I gave my son this version of beginers the other day. He couldn't do a single. He can do 5 full now within a short period of time.