Mitcho_7

I'm limited for space in my garage and a 7' bar would only be about 10cm or less from the wall on each side. The womens bar sounds ok, can you still fit 3 or 4 20/25kg plates on either side? (thinking longer term here) I had a look on the abc website but I can't see the bar you are talking about. I can only see a 6'4 bar that's 18kg. It would probably be ok as well, so I'll look into both. Do you know what the pricing is like for the abc bars, particularly the 6'4 bar and the women's 6ft? They don't have pricing on the website... Thanks for your help

If you want a decent bmx Troy, buy one of mine!

righto...mate

they are 385 plus 25 postage on ebay, so $410 posted all up. So i can go $400 posted.

Probably should have mentioned, it will be used for squating, deadlifting, bench, shoulder press, curls. I dont intend to be dropping the bar from any great height when I deadlift either

Markos, do you know of any 6ft olympic bars that have 120cm or more between the inside of the collars? But still have around 25cm worth of room for weight plates on each end? It doesn't have to have a wild weight capacity or anything and I'd prefer to try an keep costs down if possible. Thinking about making up my own home gym, but a 7ft bar will be too long for the space.

$390 plus postage?

Tried paper towels last night doing barbell rows and shrugs, but because it's a warmer environment my hands sweat up straight away. So by like rep 6 the bar started slipping. Usually I can hold onto 100kg plus on the bar quite easily but last night I was in struggle town with even 90ish. I was ok for weighted pull ups though because the bar I was hanging onto was thinner. So I think it Was probably partly to do with the bar I was using but regardless of that, it definently took away from my back workout which was annoying.

Yeh, that's why I was leaning to the chalk in the first place. I'll look into that stuff that was posted, but I have no idea where we would have that in Canberra. I'll try out the straps as well, but I'm only going to use them when absolutely necessary and not just because I can.

I think I'll just go for the straps. The reason I switched from doing tris after chest and bis after back to shoulders/tris and chest/bis is purely because I feel my arms are lagging a little. My chest is 41.5" cold with no pump, but my arms are only like 14" or so cold without flexing. I'm nothappy with the way it looks because my arms don't have the thickness to match my delts. I have been doing the other split for a fair while and thought that i would see if hitting my tris and bis when they are fresher (ie not pre exhausted from back or chest exercises) helped bring them on a bit more. I expected to be able to lift more weight for more reps which is exactly how it has gone. Im going to try it out for a month or two and see how my arms go. I didn't mean to say it is a better way to do it, I just meant that it feels better/ different to working them with chest and back because I can hit them harder and work them more directly with higher intensity.

Where can I get some chalk powder or something to help grip barbells better for shrugs, deadlifts and bent over rows? Im findin it hard to grip them for 12 reps when my hands are sweaty. I deally I'd like to keep it as mess free as possible though. Or should I just use straps?

I don't hit the same muscles the next day anyway. The split is designed in a way that I get 48 hrs rest or so for each muscle group. I will be gauging how I feel after and seeing where I'm at. If I need an extra days rest somewhere I can take it, but I like to try and stick to what is set out.

Split looks like this: Shoulders/tris Back/abs Legs Chest/bis Off So I have tried to give myself 48 hrs between targeting synergistic muscle groups like back and biceps. I think my arms are lagging a bit, so I thought I would switch up my split to see if it helps bring them on a bit more. I can definently move more weight for more reps with the new split, but I expected this. I just hope it will stimulate them differently rather than always training arms in a pre exhausted condition.

I have officially decided working tris after shoulders is 80x better then after chest for me. Much better focus on the tris with more weight. Same thing with hitting bis after chest instead of back. Anyone else have the same experiences?

$410 plus postage

Definently start hitting the freeweights! Machines have there place (like the high/low pulley cable machine) and are good to change things up, but free weights form the basis of a lot of my sessions. Also, probably don't cut out milk all together. If you struggle with lactose intolerance maybe try that zymil milk or whatever Is that is lactose free.

A gym membership sounds like the go. Have you just been using machines the whole time or some free weights as well?

IMO 0.63 rear will choke it up too much up top even with ethanol/wmi. Go the twin scroll .82 or something.

Have you been doing the same exercises/reps/sets for the last couple of months? Maybe it's time to change things up a little?

I'm happy with my nismo

That is some wild improvement for just over 2 yrs work!

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Soy milk tastes like 6 week old regular milk...

My right arm is dominant. Both my arms are a very similar circumference (right is like 1cm bigger), but my right lateral tri doesn't look quite as big as the left. With the coming back from being sick, I usually drop the weight to get out more reps, so i keep it to at least 8 reps for the first 2 sets if I'm doing 4 sets. Its demoralizing as all f**k, but I don't like only doing 5/6 reps. It feels like I've cheated myself in a way... Either way coming back from a sickness sucks. You can usually tell when you are coming down with something though, because you inexplicably drop a few reps more than usual

So i have decided to switch up my split from chest/tris, legs/abs back/bis, shoulder/abs as i have been doing that for a fair while and i feel like my arms are lagging a little because im training them after doing chest and back. New split will be shoulders/tris, back/abs, chest/bis, legs/abs. So today i had my first shoulder/triceps session and i can definently hit my tris harder with more weight and more reps. Pretty much the only exercise that has any push movement is behind the neck press and i do that first. I never really feel it in my tris too much though. The only thing is after my workout i had an epic pump in my left tri and only a mild one in my right and it feels odd, almost like my right tricep didnt do anywhere near as much work. Tri exercises i did were close grip bench 4x12, weighted dips 4x12 and overhead extensions 4x12. The last and second last sets of each exercise i usually fail the last rep so im working them reasonably hard. But i just dont get why i only got the pump in my left and not my right. Anyone else ever had this weird one sided pump phenomenon? My form felt and looked decent in most of the exercises...