Gym And Supplement Discussion

[TM7GTR]

what's redline?

[Manuel Kasko]

what's redline?

Around 7k

[Mitcho_7]

Around 7k

Yeh he did!

[SRS13]

Physio told me I have bicep tendonitis... spewing. So its a few weeks to a month of legs and squats.

Any upper body recommendations that are not going to make it worse while it recovers?

[TM7GTR]

Around 7k

Knew someone would be a smart-ass!

Physio told me I have bicep tendonitis... spewing. So its a few weeks to a month of legs and squats.

Any upper body recommendations that are not going to make it worse while it recovers?

Get into a solid fapping routine. 3 sets of 100 reps per arm.

[Trozzle]

Knew someone would be a smart-ass!

Get into a solid fapping routine. 3 sets of 100 reps per arm.

100?! f**k mate, I'm that good I struggle to last 5

[Nee-san]

What do you guys think about home made weight plates ?

I am thinking of designing some in solidworks at work and then getting them lasercut to spec.

Ideas ? Interest ?

Also considering designing my own squat rack and cutting it here.

[TTT]

Physio told me I have bicep tendonitis... spewing. So its a few weeks to a month of legs and squats.

Any upper body recommendations that are not going to make it worse while it recovers?

Sounds like you'll still be able to do pushing movements so triceps, chest, shoulders should all be fine to work.

What do you guys think about home made weight plates ?

I am thinking of designing some in solidworks at work and then getting them lasercut to spec.

Ideas ? Interest ?

Also considering designing my own squat rack and cutting it here.

If you can get them to be the correct weight (like within a gram of each other) then it should be fine.. but also consider that buying brand new rubber coated plates which have handles built in and are the correct diameter and cost about $3 a kilo or less delivered, you'd better be making a decent saving.

As for the rack, I can find you detailed plans of a power cage if you would like.

[some_cs_student]

Physio told me I have bicep tendonitis... spewing. So its a few weeks to a month of legs and squats.

Any upper body recommendations that are not going to make it worse while it recovers?

Any idea of root cause?

My knee tendonitis is actually a combination of hamstring tightness and glute tightness, and maybe the quads are involved too. Either way, if i stop stretching / rolling for any reasonable period of time even without weights I start getting knee problems.

The physio's gave me some excercises but they never helped, it took a long time to find the cause.

[S T A R 3 3]

Around 7k

[Nee-san]

Sounds like you'll still be able to do pushing movements so triceps, chest, shoulders should all be fine to work.

If you can get them to be the correct weight (like within a gram of each other) then it should be fine.. but also consider that buying brand new rubber coated plates which have handles built in and are the correct diameter and cost about $3 a kilo or less delivered, you'd better be making a decent saving.

As for the rack, I can find you detailed plans of a power cage if you would like.

Yes Please !

the weight of the barbells would be pretty close, probably not to the gram though. however I know I could make them for a lot less than $3.00 per kilo.

[TTT]

are you looking at making barbells or plates?

as for plans..

http://startingstrength.com/files/starting_strength_rack.pdf

I'm sure that has all the info you need.

in the end it will look like this.

http://startingstrength.com/index.php/site/equipment

[Mitcho_7]

Note to self, always wear pants on deadlifting day...

[dezz]

Just did deads in shorts, nothing wrong with some scrape

[Mitcho_7]

Wear em loud and proud eh?

Nah, I hate that carpet burnish feeling I get from scraping the bar up against my shin. I still get it a bit in trackies, but it's not as bad. Hopefully my shin skin will start getting thicker soon.

Are people doing deadlifts on leg day or back day?

I always seem to do them on back day purely because I like to squat on leg day and I wouldn't be able to get the most out of it if I did them on the same day. I do Bulgarian/straight leg deadlifts on leg day instead which seem to be ok even after squatting.

Edited September 22, 2012 by Mitcho_7

[dezz]

I'm back to squatting/benching/deading same day, 3 days a week

[Nee-san]

I don't have a "leg" day, but I deadlift when I squat if that's what you mean ?

[Mitcho_7]

Are you guys more oriented toward the powerlifting side of training?

I just find I struggle to get decent weight up on deadlifts after doing 4x10 of squats. Doing them on my back day seems to work better for me I think. It allows me to give them my all rather than half assing them because I'm already spent.

I was just interested to hear other people's thoughts on how you work them both into your training...

Edited September 22, 2012 by Mitcho_7

[TM7GTR]

To me, deadlifts are primarily a leg exercise, so I do them on leg day. That said, I train legs twice a week (anterior one day, posterior another day) right now.

[Trozzle]

Having watched some tutorial/classroom style videos from Mark Rippetoe over the last week, I'm convinced that deadlifts are primarily a back exercise (while they do hammer glutes and hammies something nasty though)