Raining_again
-
Posts
10164 -
Joined
-
Last visited
-
Days Won
2
Content Type
Profiles
Forums
Events
Posts posted by Raining_again
-
-
Mooooaaaaaarrrrrr weight doooo eeeeet!!!
-
Well done pratty keep at it!!!
I'm trying to will myself to add cardio work into my routine but I despise it like the devil.... Curse being a woman with hormones designed to hold onto fat :P
-
I hate being beaten, the stubborn part of me likes to show off. I'm certainly feeling it today, every part of my body aches :P
Because its easier to take a photo than type all of that out :p
Did sets 10 and 12 on Saturday, in about half an hour.
-
And why would you wish a breakup on them? Love is anything but a selfish thing, if you really did care, you'd know the right thing to do is just to be there for him. As much as you'd like to be with him, do you really want to be that person that breaks a couple up? And if you did, would you ever really trust he wouldn't do the same to you?
Oh yeah totally.. I would never do that to anyone, that's why I've never acted on my feelings. I'm always going to be there for him, but it is hard for me that he does depend on me so much for emotional support.
I'm kind of getting the impression that you seem to have a lot of romantic & sexual energy at the moment that's going unspent, and it's ended up attaching itself to some of the people around you regardless of whether or not they are suitable/available/prospective partners. I think maybe you might do yourself a favour by making solid efforts towards dating/online dating and start finding & vetting new people for The Human Mating Ritual without putting existing friendships at risk. At the very least you can move some attention away from unrequited love and maybe you might find crushes you can actually act on without anybody's manic-depressive girlfriend running in with a knife.Unless you really need that sort of drama of course...
There is an element of truth to that but this is not the first time we've been in this position, it's been an ongoing saga since we first talked... O And this is not nostrings, it's a completely different person, his girlfriend is actually quite sane lol. Nostrings got kicked to the kerb ages ago :P it's not unrequited love persay, just always bad timing. He goes on self destruct mode after a breakup and I won't hear from him until he's got with some other girl xD
-
Completely in love with someone, who has a girlfriend. What a crap situation.
We're complete soul mates and I've always harboured these kind of feelings. But honestly I've been ok about it, because we've only ever had an online relationship, and I do value his friendship. We've been through pretty much everything together in the last 10 years. He knows more about me than anyone else, and I the same about him. He's got a bit of a compulsion to rush into relationships that crash and burn, and I think the one he's in is going the same way... However I don't feel that it's right that I just sit and wait til he's single! Why should I put myself through that?
-
Raaawwwrrrrrr.
I was with my pt today, he's given me a slight variation on my current workout, added a couple of things in. He said he doesn't like to make too many complete changes too quickly, just additions, and adding bits to current sets. Like how you change a tricep lift to a 21, to involve the biceps as well, or adding a row into a clean and press.
He was astounded by how far I've come in the last 4 weeks, especially considering how I've not been able to train for two of them. So I did the 10 and 12 of these 8 exercises with him. (I did only have 6 exercises prior to this, but in a 10, 12, 15 set)
So next time I go I fully intend to do 10,12 and 15 of the stuff he's given me today. New goal = extremely motivated. And I like that he's only made a few changes, keeping the 6 exercises I'm now relatively accustomed to, and added 2 new ones. Means I've got a bit to bite onto but I'm not feeling totally lost with everything.
Oh yeah and I lost 3.6lbs this week hurraaaahhh
He did say to me that gains aren't necessarily fat when I'm training like I am, muscles grow and as they do they store more glycogen. Every gram of glycogen that goes into your muscles requires another 3g of water, so there's a bit of water retention going on in the initial stages. Hopefully that will pan out a bit now, and go back to a slow and steady. I've decided to only weigh myself once every two weeks as I was pretty much daily weighing and getting obsessed.
Was fairly well through the routine, got onto the 12 set of clean and press, pt said to me, you know that's 144kg of weight?! (as if to say that's a lot, you know it's ok if you can't) And I said nothing and pushed 12 out in a row without any problems. Ha. Take that.
I can do the 15 set too....! -
I actually thought it was frigging hilarious, but then both myself and Rez come from a call centre/customer service type background... I think honestly that this place has gone to shit recently, more and more people getting on their high horses.. One cannot post anything without fear of being spellchecked, grammatically corrected or just insulted/patronised.
You might post shit people don't like (and I'm not even your greatest fan) but you're still fucking awesome @ReZourceman
-
I do find I'm coping ok with the upping at the moment, but I am feeling like I'm biting into the proper amount of weight now. As a female I am going to be on slightly less weight than a typical male of my age/strength/weight etc, so I think I'm progressing well. I'd rather be a little slower in upping my weights now at the beginning while my muscles aren't as strong, than risk damaging my body from over exertion. I like the idea of doing the 1st set with a higher weight and going lower if I need to, that's a good backup plan. Thanks
-
cube that's so awful to hear, least he passed away nice and quickly. What a beautiful kitteh he was too
-
Form over weight is bar the priority. It doesn't matter how heavy you lift, if the form is wrong you're getting no benefit other than possible injury. You should probably spend about 4 weeks on the same weight until you up them, as your body gets stronger.
Oh yeah totes, my form is fine. I had my pt check my form before I even got into it. I've been swinging an 8kg kettlebell for the guts of 2 years without any injury
I actually feel like my body is in better shape than it has ever been 
I've not been upping the weights too quickly for that very reason, just one at a time, because if I do it too heavy too soon my form will go to complete shit.I've got 6 different exercises, and I up a different one every week, so each exercise will be upped once every 6 weeks. To be honest that will probably slow down before too long as it is getting harder each time I up a weight lol
-
Did my routine in 27:25 this time so getting there. made myself have a little bit more break time (which I did need in the end lol). Upped my double handed kb swing to 12 (from 8) so that's a brave jump. Can't really do 1kg of each as theyve only got 8, 12 and 16 kg kettlebells, and the viprs go up in 2kg increments, and I think upping everything at once might be too much. Just going with what feels right at the moment, not going to be upset if I don't get the weights as high as I possibly can for the moment as I'm still a novice to weight centred training. Would rather go a little too light than injure myself. I will take your advice on board and do some cardio after my session
So currently all of my single handed weights are 8 and my doubles are 12. Quite pleased with my progress. Started on 6 and 8 so I'm progressing nicely for just a months work
-
I have one this year. A Belfast Giants one. Been doing some work in Belfast over the past couple of years and got really into the Ice Hockey. Picked this up the other day, only a couple of quid and pretty basic but I love it.
Who are you working for platty?
-
That's pretty rough man.... You're obviously better off without someone who'd treat you like that
-
Snow can stay the fuck away....
I'm one of the closer ones to the office so I never get leaving early, and I never get snow days!
My raynauds is in full swing in the minus numbers. I forgot my gloves one year and had to shovel 4 inches of snow off my car.. As it does, the blood stopped flowing, and I had to sit in the car for 20 minutes before my hands would regain function!
Bring back the summer
-
If you can do it all in 22 minutes you're not lifting heavy enough!
well I have only started this routine, I'm continuously upping my weights, but I'm doing it gradually. It's a work in progress shall we say :p i dont want to up more than 1 weight on each session.
I'm not giving myself specific breaks, just taking them if I feel like I need to. With the circuit style it's easier to move from one set to another as its working different muscles, so sometimes I don't take breaks at all, but sometimes I take long breaks (usually after the single hand kb as it knocks me for 6)
What would you suggest is a good time to aim for? (the time is based on starting first rep and stopping last rep, there's no warm up or cool down included in that time)
-
This is my current training regime. I do them in a circuit, so I do all of the 10s first, in order on that list, then do all of the 12s then all of the 15s. Did this with 8kg kettlebell, 12kg vipr (for clean and press), 8kg vipr (for squat and chop) Squat and chop is a 1 handed exercise so 10/12/15 of each side.
The vipr was recently upgraded from 10 and 6kg respectively
Did that all today in a butt busting 22m57s
And now I'm going to sleep :P
-
Oh yeah totes. I do 10,12 and 15 in a circuit style (so total 37) and he does 1 of that weight. And he's been training for years against my few months :P I'm not really at the stage where I want to do single reps of really high weights, need to get my muscles developed a bit more so I'm not risking injury.
I think he's like 79kg, so hitting more than double, however he is eating super super clean, and getting in 300g protein a day!!!I'm not great with my diet at the moment... But I gotta say even with a not clean diet, having a dose of protein straight after a session does help. I actually find my aches are a lot less severe and don't last as long as they would without the protein. And it's definitely worth putting a bit of cash into a decent one, even if you're only doing a post workout shake like I am (has the added advantages of lasting longer lol)
My grip isn't fantastic either. There are new all the rage bean bag type weights which you swing like a kettlebell, only you're more holding it with your fingers, might be worth trying that to improve the strength in your hands perhaps?
-
I deleted slimgates number
-
I generally don't have much to complain about, but in the same vein as your post, raining, I've been having a couple of migraines the last week - with as much as two just today, one of which woke me up.
Migraines are a dip in the ocean compared to cluster headaches.... It genuinely feels like a drill is going through your brain and in that moment you lose all sensation of everything around you asides that pain. Although sometimes I think they're ok because they're so brief, whereas a migraine can go on for days... And some of my worse ones have been woeful.. I remember a few times laying in the bathroom in a complete spaz after a considerable amount of projectile vomiting
I seem to be getting migraines very rarely these days, I think that the antidepressants and less stress has definitely helped that.
-
I don't have any specific goals really, so not much I can update on other than injuries.
I might test my back out with some light deadlifts tomorrow, see where it's at. Long term I'm probably going to have to limit deads to once a week at the most.
I'm thinking of properly learning the power clean as a potentially more back friendly total body pull I can do also. Currently I clean the bar for presses and front squats but I wouldn't want to do it for heavy reps just yet until I refine my form. Looking forward to hopefully developing some beastly traps eventually.
You are the only active person in this discussion lol :P
My back is feeling a bit beastly after the 10 to 12kg upgrade so I think I'll need to get used to that weight for a while!
My colleague body builds and I asked him what he can deadlift, to which he said 215kg.... Wowsa. Colour me impressed. He's god damn fit though.
-
Wow I just had a cluster headache very very momentarily *_*
Other than that I really have no complaints, I miss coming in here to complain at least once or twice a day!!!
-
Any word on ye lads (and ladies?)
Or is it that time of year when everyone's given up??
I gained 2 fucking pounds this week, on top of the 1.9 last week. Fucks sake. I have developed some scary muscles on my legs that I've never seen, even in my over a year of training. So I guess the go heavy or go home ethos I'm following is working? Hurrah! Upped my deadlift and press to a 12kg vipr weight and managed to do my whole routine at a similar time.
Working on the idea that if I'm not wrecked within half an hour of weight training, I'm not doing it heavy or hard enough (that's not including the 3/4 minute cardio warm up) And I think I'll up my squat up and chop to 8kg next time I go, see if I can handle it :P
I bought some optimum nutrition protein in chocolate flavour and damn it's good. I read the tub and I was like yeah right you can stir it with a spoon!!! But actually I put the water in it and the very majority of it had already absorbed into the water
some cracking good stuff, and not too high on the old junk sweeteners compared to some. I got it for a massive bargain too, £40 for a 2.2kg tub. I happen to know the wife of the owner of the the best sports nutrition shop in ballymena ohh yeah contacts :3 even the labelled price at 50 isn't too bad when you don't have to pay postage or have the hassle of those woeful courier services!Also gonna have a crack at making pre-workout flapjack type things, if anyone has any good recipes please post em! I tend to eat cereal bars about an hour before my workout but I'm trying to clean my diet up a bit starting with one thing at a time.
-
If you had a slipped disc its unlikely to fix itself. Don't leave it! I hurt my back and left it for months, eventually the muscles supporting the 4 discs gave in and my entire back locked up. My poor dad had to force me into my bed while I was screaming in pain. I think I did some muscular damage by leaving it and it's never been the same since.
In other news, my arse feels like its made of rocks.... Killer squats.
Thanks to @Charlie for linking me to that page about women weightlifting, I've added the lady mentioned (barbellas universe) to my Facebook and shes a friggin inspiration. Absolute role model :3
I'm super motivated at the moment and I can feel the weight falling off me. Have weaned myself to weighing twice a week so I don't know if I've lost anything until Friday
-
My arse hurts, and so do my lungs... Lol
First time back in the gym since I got this chest infection... Still feeling a bit rough but I know it's for the best. Need to get right into it again and not loosen the reigns before Christmas.
Worked out a somewhat bastardised formula to estimate my progress.
Weight x reps
--------------- = weight pm
Time
So I sum all my weight x reps, then divide by time in minutes for whole session. (I dont time each individual set because that would be too much work)
For my suspension training I divide my current weight by 4 and use it as the weight (probably not wholly accurate but it's enough for comparisons sake). So if I get faster, or use heavier weights, I should improve my score. And if i lose weight i need to work faster with the suspension training. It relies on your body weight as resistance, so less body weight makes it easier.
Currently at 115.5 kg per minute over a 28:33 time period. Gonna compare calories per minute as well when I get my polar watch working. So I'm pretty motivated to kick ass at the moment.
Bought some decent ON gold standard whey in my local gym shop today... Helpful when you know the owner and she gives you a 2.2kg tub for £40!
Weight Loss & Fitness 2012
in General Chit Chat
Posted
Some fucking silly bitch hanging off the trx, doing a completely half assed row, looking all around her...
Bitch please, do something worth being here for, or get out of my way -_-