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Yaaaay. Good aul brummie accent.

cheers for ze protips guize. Since I've started deadlifts I've noticed a serious serious change in my body. My legs are bulking up. My back and shoulders are incredibly strong. My glutes are...glutey. :3 Currently on a power clean and ohp of 45kg. Working on getting that really easy and confident before I go any further. Keep on with the good form. Every time I'm going to the gym I'm doing 3 reps(?) of planking. Abysmal time of 10/8/8 last time, but it's something to work on. I used to be able to do 45 seconds no sweat snatches need a lot of work but they are so so exhausting. My deadlifting is coming to a bit of a standstill. Struggling with 95kg but I know I've got it in me. 100 I could probably do with some practice and chalk. All of my current lifts are only assisted by the callouses in my hands lol.

Basically I'm like the chap in the picture if you imagine he has a 2/3 inch longer spine, and thus the arm reach is more at toes. If I sit back on my heels any more I will fall back, and actually did with 70kg >_< I will try to engage my chest moar and see if it helps. I think the only way I'll get better is with a whole lot of practice. I'm holding it in tight, as far as my body structure allows. I was actually trying to force it along my legs before today, it just swang out to the natural position and put a shitload of strain through my shoulders in the process >_<

I was really struggling with my deadlift form since I started learning to do them. It doesn't matter whichways I bend, twist, sit, stretch, I CANNOT get the barbell to my legs. Its supposed to roll up your leg, like in this picture. Its *supposed* to damage your skin. The closer it is to you the less reliance you have on the wrong places (spine mostly) It seems that I have a short femur (despite being 5ft10, 178 cm) and a long spine, so I'm overhanging more than is natural in this position, putting the bar about 1.5/2 inches away from my legs. My PT checked my form and all seems to be good, I'm keeping my spine straight, using all the correct muscles etc. So I guess I'm just a malformed freak =P I pulled a 90kg, and NEARLY a 95kg. Got a FRACTION of movement to get the full lockout. I also managed a PB in power clean & press. Last week I did both at 42.5kg, a 45kg p.clean, and an assisted 45kg press. This week I did 2x fully unassisted 45kg p.clean/press I got to the last part of the press and I was struggling, could sense my pt had jumped behind me to assist, but turns out I had managed to do it all by myself. I genuinely felt like he had assisted! My PT can't quite believe how far i've come. My stats are unbelievable on paper, I started deadlifting two weeks ago, and I can nearly do 95kg. About 5 weeks of clean and press training, I've got to 45kg, and in the same time I've pretty much mastered the snatch technique (a quite complicated olympic lift) I'm just awesome =] (i think genetics may have a part to play in this, my father is a beast too) Also I saw stupid fuckface in the gym, luckily he was on a machine that was facing a wall so I made my escape without being noticed =P

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I got to the 2nd paragraph and got really really confused XD I think I need to go back to wimmen schoolz

Yeah. its not the pain I'm worried about, more the scarring! =P Get you and your squash! Are you alive and well then? Back to action?

i wear shorts in the gym. so im wrecking my legs, need some knee high socks that'll protect maaa legs. my pt called em scars of honour but I gotta keep SOME of my feminine charm lol

Oh I don't do any gym sessions on a fast, some people swear by it but I'd be on the floor in 5 minutes. My gym sessions are...well extreme to say the least :P I've left the gym bleeding more than once! On my routine I can gym on sat/sun/tue/thu so its more than enough for me lol

No I do intermittent fasting, my diet is shocking at the moment.... dem dirty gainnnz. I'm doing some serious calorie burns in the gym to get away with it, but I do need to clean myself up a bit. I do 3 x 24 hour fasts: sunday 5pm - monday 5pm / tuesday 5pm - wednesday 5pm / thursday 5pm - friday 5pm. I don't count cals or macros but I would normally try to eat lots of protein.

I just take one immediately after a session with water. Just one after a workout is plenty for recovery, I notice a huge difference. ON is about 120~ calories a scoop. You only really need more if you are extreme bulking. Sensible diet with plenty of protein sources and a shake after a session (for instant absorption) is all the average person needs I think protein wise its supposed to be 1gram per pound of weight for men, and 0.7 for women. But I dont think that applies as strictly for bigger people - I'd have to get about 178 grams and that would be quite difficult to do whilst still staying under my calorie allowance, so perhaps just having a diet with plenty of protein is enough?

I use ON, its superb.

My god my shoulders are in a world of ache.... I also need deadlifting sox. My legs are gonna be totalled lol

42.5kg clean and press!! Was assisted last week but this week I did it managed a 45kg clean, and assisted press and deadlift of 80kg! (Last one was 70kg!) pow! Some man came up to me and my pt today and said that I was doing some great work! I near died of embarrassment lol! Then my pt said that's not the first person to say that! Apparently I'm awesome lol.

Cat cuddles do make everything better

jumping squats with weights, oh god my knees hurt thinking about it :/ i'm crap with weighted squats though... can do ATG unweighted til the cows come home, but put a weight on me and its a massive struggle.

Work is really difficult at the minute, new services and lots of hellishly complex stuff we have to handle that we've had ZILCH training on. Workmates are being arsey and I just CANNOT deal with people. Stuff at home is crap - my mum and sister are ill. I came home from work last night and they seemed to be getting better. Went and gave my mum a hug, and she told me to go away so I don't get it (not in a nice way, more like a "i cant really be bothered" way)... Sister champed my head off for no apparent reason.... no how are you how was work, or even a fucking hello. So to fuck I went to the gym, despite having had no rest days this week. Body feels like its dying. After that I drove around town about six times last night in a complete depressed daze. Then my safe haven (gym) has been invaded by a fucking retard that I hate. AND TO TOP IT ALL OFF. I'm now catching this horrible bug/virus/fever/flu thing. Just in time for the weekend, and the one thing I was looking forward to this week, my PT session. ARGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

Well the fact is he never believed my opinions to be valid, so it would be far more like him to join another gym and making a point of telling me so..

I think it is a multiple factor thing (i'm not really feeling that great in myself at the minute, having problems at home and work too) which is manifesting in anger directed at him. I don't want to talk to him but I want answers cause its annoying the fuck outta me.... why he says one thing and does another, and why I feel like he's so determined to maintain my attention/destroy me inside. I love my lifting and its pretty much my saviour at the moment, theres no way I will avoid the gym because of him, I just fear what I might say or do if he pushes it -_-

60 minutes in a month split up whatever way you want!

I am so cross about slimatmygymgate (lol these are getting silly now) and I feel like making contact because I want to know what the fuck possessed him to join my gym... It was no secret that I go there, he told me he'd never join a gym and that he'd rather do a sport! There are loads of gyms in ballymena and he chooses this one.... I'm sure his main priority is NOT to stalk me (I mean a years contract is a lot of money) but I get the feeling its an added bonus that he gets under my skin in the process. Now this all said, I wouldn't be annoyed if he hadn't made such a BLATANT effort to make his existence known. I was walking in the opposite direction, in mid conversation with my PT. One would think, oh, I'll catch up with her another time, or I'll just ring/text, no? Ever since I've been FUCKING PISSED OFF with the whole thing and I just want to drop my deadlift weight on his foot or smth. Not the kind of negative associations I need with the gym/sorting my health out. Very annoying indeed. ¬_¬ Its not the first time he's done this... Here I am sorting my life out, being happy and generally forgetting him and there he is again. Last time he gave me a hug and it fucing BROKE my heart cause he had only recently gotten with his now girlfriend :/

starting the hundredpushup challenge Only I'm doing inclined pushups, as I can't actually do full ones. I feel like I'm near managing them but I need to work on my core stability first. So I'm also doing the 60minute plank challenge (per month) on fitocracy as well. 32 seconds down, 3568 to go And I'm going to keep track on my best time so I can keep improving it. Also managed to hit a 20kg snatch. Did 20 of those yesterday. Only using smaller width (more stable) fixed size barbells for those at the moment, hoping to move onto the olympic barbell soooon. Gotta do a bit more work on form as the oly barbell is 7ft and CONSIDERABLY more unstable than a static barbell thats only.... 4 foot long... even though they're both 20kg.

I make fried rice without precooking.... Its drier, but bung in some soy sauce afterwards and its finnnnnne. lol edit: damn i want fried rice!!!

waaassstttinnnnnng awaaaaaaaaay nooooooooooooooo =P Come back flinkeeeh

I am done. My body is sore ALL over. I've torn the skin on my knuckles, I'm bruised pretty much all over (I have 6 bruises on EACH of my legs!!!), but it is worth EVERY SINGLE SECOND of pain. I feel so awesome And don't even talk to me about the calloused skin. Urgh.