Master Thread Maxxing out (or not): Health / exercise / supplement thread

[AgEngDawg]

Had a very weird experience at the gym this morning. I finished my workout at 6:45 AM and went to hit the showers. I got undressed and got in my towel and flip flops to go take a shower. As I shut my locker, this guy comes in the locker room still dressed in his workout clothes and says that he already called the shower he wanted. There are three showers. One is a handicap shower and one is out of service. So there are two available showers and one is a handicap shower.

I looked at him like he was nuts. He kept being aggressive and saying he already called it. He said to ask some dude that was getting dressed. I looked at him puzzled because it was SO FREAKING WEIRD!!!!

I finally said "Whatever" and that really pissed him off. He said "Yeah Whatever" loudly. I went to take the shower in the shower he wanted (non-handicap) because I was so pissed off at this point. I took the shower and got out. I was at my locker getting dressed and his clothes were in a locker very close. He got his clothes out of that locker and then just slammed it as hard as he could right near me. Again, IT WAS SO FREAKING WEIRD!!!!!

Anyway, I finished up and left the locker room. I did stop by and tell the gym staff about it because it seemed so freaking weird and this dude did not seem stable. I think they should know that. I also followed up with an e-mail this morning to the gym.

Has anyone had something like this happen at the gym?? It seemed so freaking crazy. If the guy just came to me and said hey I am running behind for work could I please jump in front of you, I would have said fine. However, he had a confrontation and aggressive attitude with me from moment one and I did not like that at all.

People, don't start drama in the locker room at the gym. No one likes drama at that time. I mean WTF!!! I thought I might have to get in a fight in just my flip flops and towel.

People are assholes!!! I mean what the actual f*ck!!!!

 

[LVRebel]

Had a very weird experience at the gym this morning. I finished my workout at 6:45 AM and went to hit the showers. I got undressed and got in my towel and flip flops to go take a shower. As I shut my locker, this guy comes in the locker room still dressed in his workout clothes and says that he already called the shower he wanted. There are three showers. One is a handicap shower and one is out of service. So there are two available showers and one is a handicap shower.

I looked at him like he was nuts. He kept being aggressive and saying he already called it. He said to ask some dude that was getting dressed. I looked at him puzzled because it was SO FREAKING WEIRD!!!!

I finally said "Whatever" and that really pissed him off. He said "Yeah Whatever" loudly. I went to take the shower in the shower he wanted (non-handicap) because I was so pissed off at this point. I took the shower and got out. I was at my locker getting dressed and his clothes were in a locker very close. He got his clothes out of that locker and then just slammed it as hard as he could right near me. Again, IT WAS SO FREAKING WEIRD!!!!!

Anyway, I finished up and left the locker room. I did stop by and tell the gym staff about it because it seemed so freaking weird and this dude did not seem stable. I think they should know that. I also followed up with an e-mail this morning to the gym.

Has anyone had something like this happen at the gym?? It seemed so freaking crazy. If the guy just came to me and said hey I am running behind for work could I please jump in front of you, I would have said fine. However, he had a confrontation and aggressive attitude with me from moment one and I did not like that at all.

People, don't start drama in the locker room at the gym. No one likes drama at that time. I mean WTF!!! I thought I might have to get in a fight in just my flip flops and towel.

People are assholes!!! I mean what the actual f*ck!!!!

Wow, that's crazy. No, I've never had anything like that happen in the locker room. Worst thing I've had to witness in the locker room are old balls and saggy butts from the older fellas that like to expose it all to the world.

I've seen these aggressive sort of postures and rude people at times in the gym, but even that is very uncommon where I live.

 

[Rusty Student]

Had a very weird experience at the gym this morning. I finished my workout at 6:45 AM and went to hit the showers. I got undressed and got in my towel and flip flops to go take a shower. As I shut my locker, this guy comes in the locker room still dressed in his workout clothes and says that he already called the shower he wanted. There are three showers. One is a handicap shower and one is out of service. So there are two available showers and one is a handicap shower.

I looked at him like he was nuts. He kept being aggressive and saying he already called it. He said to ask some dude that was getting dressed. I looked at him puzzled because it was SO FREAKING WEIRD!!!!

I finally said "Whatever" and that really pissed him off. He said "Yeah Whatever" loudly. I went to take the shower in the shower he wanted (non-handicap) because I was so pissed off at this point. I took the shower and got out. I was at my locker getting dressed and his clothes were in a locker very close. He got his clothes out of that locker and then just slammed it as hard as he could right near me. Again, IT WAS SO FREAKING WEIRD!!!!!

Anyway, I finished up and left the locker room. I did stop by and tell the gym staff about it because it seemed so freaking weird and this dude did not seem stable. I think they should know that. I also followed up with an e-mail this morning to the gym.

Has anyone had something like this happen at the gym?? It seemed so freaking crazy. If the guy just came to me and said hey I am running behind for work could I please jump in front of you, I would have said fine. However, he had a confrontation and aggressive attitude with me from moment one and I did not like that at all.

People, don't start drama in the locker room at the gym. No one likes drama at that time. I mean WTF!!! I thought I might have to get in a fight in just my flip flops and towel.

People are assholes!!! I mean what the actual f*ck!!!!

Sounds like he was looking for a fight

 

[Joe King]

I thought I might have to get in a fight in just my flip flops and towel.

Do you think you could've taken him?

 

[AgEngDawg]

Do you think you could've taken him?

Absolutely. He would be in a world of hurt when stomping on his head in those flip flops.

 

[AgEngDawg]

 

[AgEngDawg]

Been fasting a lot the past 8 weeks and it has really helped.

I have been doing alternate day fasting, but I have been stretching it out.

Yesterday I ended a 70 hour fast. I couldn't make it to 72 hours though.

 

[CurtOFD78]

Been fasting a lot the past 8 weeks and it has really helped.

I have been doing alternate day fasting, but I have been stretching it out.

Yesterday I ended a 70 hour fast. I couldn't make it to 72 hours though.

Nice work brother. I’ve not been fasting nearly that length, but I‘ve been doing intermittent faster since the end of January (Nothing between 8 pm and noon) and it has been working wonders for me along with a keto diet and improving my workouts. I’m 50 so everything is more difficult for me in the gym but I am starting to see the beginning of *gasp* abs and the wifey is liking what she’s seeing. Keep it up.

 

[kingsolomonwisdom]

I.) Diet:
A.) Fully Raw with a few exceptions
B.) As organic, local, and lowest amount of processing as possible with a few exceptions
C.) Fats: Coconut milk, Avocado's, and various land animal Suet: Bison, Beef, Duck, Goat, Lamb, and Elk, also some raw duck egg yolks
D.) Protein: Hemp seeds, various seafoods: (Salmon, Slipjack Tuna, shelfish, etc) , Duck, Lamb, some beef.
C.) Carbohydrates: Raw honey, Okinawan sweet potatoes, coconut water
D.) Foods with high levels of all macros: Raw grass fed milks: Camel, A2 Cows, Goats, Sheep, and Water Buffalo.
1.) Never mix meats with the plant based carbs
2.) Drink milk at Room Temp
3.) Good portion of food is home grown/raised/hunted (includes Okinawan Sweet potatoes, Avocados, honey, sheep milk, duck eggs, fat and meat, cow milk.
4.) I keep my macros around 55% carbs 30% fat and 15% protein.
5.) 80% raw except the sweet potatoes and the fish.
6.) I used to eat one meal a day for a decade but due to my condition I eat 2-3 meals a day now. My various conditions has forced me to adopt this raw based diet of basically animal products and fruit with minimal to no processing.


I started growing various fruit trees as well as cantaloupe and watermelon.

II.) Liquids:
A.) I do not drink much water other than from the local spring water. With a fully raw diet my liquids come from the milk, the eggs, the fruits the coconut water, and yes the raw meats. So I maybe drink 10% of my fluids from water and when I do drink water it's infused with molecular hydrogen.

III.) Supplements:
1.) Himilayan Shilajit: increases testosterone and other hormones
2.) BPC-157 injections: a GI gastric peptide with 15 amino acid chain that's used as a method for healing tissues.
3.) Various herbs and spices (Ashwagandha, curcumin, Ginko, Astragalus root, Ceylon Cinnamon, etc)

IV.) Workout/Exercise:
Due to my condition I was out of commission for 2 years. I had dropped from 175 lbs of lean body mass to 120 lbs at 6'1". I couldn't even walk at that point. It took a good deal of suffering, pain, research and tracking my meals to figure out how to save my life which was extremely difficult living mostly off grid and out in the boondocks for the most part. That's why I adopted a diet that probably less than 0.1% of the population practices. However, it's been incredibly healing and I've learned so much during this short time period it's been worth the suffering and pain. Sometimes we must suffer to truly gain wisdom. I am slowly attempting to get back into exercising again but here are my principles and exercises.

A.) Mental Exercises: If you look up a study from the Cleveland Clinic in which people used their mind with visualization and using their senses to exercise their fingers and biceps with a control groups. This was for 12 weeks and 15 minutes a day for 5 days a week. The people doing the finger exercises increased their finger strength by 53% and the people working out their biceps gained 13% on their baseline strength. So I incorporate this as an add on to my exercises. I visualize and feel the muscles activating and imagine them not only getting stronger but bigger as well while working out. I remember an old movie of Arnie where he said he would Invision his Biceps as growing into mountains and each body part he would have some kind of a physical comparison to envision that muscle group growing.

Lift or die: On certain lifts if I am going for a major PR (quarterly, annual, etc) I use a lift or die mentality. I don't use this too often since I don't want to be constantly spiking adrenaline but every once in a while it's a good boost.
B.) Nucleus Overload Training: Basically training every single day. Protein synthesis is 12-18 hours and if you're resting your muscles 2-3 days in a row one is losing potential gains.

C.) Progressive Overload Training: Just increase of the sets, reps and or weight every single workout.

D.) Periodization: Switching up the exercises, routines, etc. I'll normally do this once I start reaching a plateau for an exercise.

E.) Deloading: 1 week or so per a certain period of time where I will lighten the load, reps, sets or take an actual week off as a way to reset the body.

F.) Dynamic stretching before and static stretching after workouts.

G.) Various HIT exercises as a warmup (jumprope, boxing, hill sprints, etc).

H.) Isometrics: attempting to lift a weight I cannot lift at 3 different angles at 3 angles for 30-45 seconds each. These exercises strengthen are ligatments, tendons, joints, etc. This is where the real strength gains occur as well as injury prevention.

I.) Normal work: Bailing hay, lifting the animals, building, digging, etc.

J.) Negatives: Doing negatives for about 5 seconds for weight that's roughly 25% heavier than I can normally lift.

K.) Rest pauses on the bottom to avoid using momentum at all. Normally 2 seconds or so.

L.) Go slow down or on the eccentric motion and explode up on the concentric part of the exercise. We gain a vast majority of our strength during the eccentric portion of our exercises so I go down in a slow and controlled motion and explode up as fast as possible.

Essentially my workouts are mostly for back (especially the lower back, legs, traps, and neck for injury prevention and for the work I do).



V.) Miscellaneous:

A.) Bone Smashing: Creating microfractures within the bones that harden and over time create a harder formation. This prevents fractures and I can't afford to have any

B.) Qigong: I use these exercises for longevity

C.) Earthing/Grounding: Connecting to the frequency that heals and overall lowers inflammation in our body.

D.) Whim Hoff Method: I work outside in extreme temperatures so this method makes it so I feel no ill effects from the weather I have no control over plus it helps to prevent disease. This involves hot cold therapy with saunas and ice baths.

E.) Sleep: 8-9 hours of high quality sleep per night: No eating within 5 hours of sleep and no drinking within 2 hours before bed time.

F.) Frequencies/Vibrations: There are various frequencies for boosting HGH, testosterone, muscle healing, etc.

G.) Fasting: Well I used to do this when in full health and at a higher weight. I won't be doing this again until I get back up until at least 170lbs or so. I would like to hit 200 lbs and max out my frame with a little extra adipose in case something catastrophic were to happen to me again so I have some more cushion. I have done a 40 day water fast and a 7 day dry fast in the past. I will never push myself that far ever again. A simple 3 day dry fast and a 1 week water fast is the longest I ever plan on going in the future but not until I reach a much higher weight.

 

[AgEngDawg]

I.) Diet:
A.) Fully Raw with a few exceptions
B.) As organic, local, and lowest amount of processing as possible with a few exceptions
C.) Fats: Coconut milk, Avocado's, and various land animal Suet: Bison, Beef, Duck, Goat, Lamb, and Elk, also some raw duck egg yolks
D.) Protein: Hemp seeds, various seafoods: (Salmon, Slipjack Tuna, shelfish, etc) , Duck, Lamb, some beef.
C.) Carbohydrates: Raw honey, Okinawan sweet potatoes, coconut water
D.) Foods with high levels of all macros: Raw grass fed milks: Camel, A2 Cows, Goats, Sheep, and Water Buffalo.
1.) Never mix meats with the plant based carbs
2.) Drink milk at Room Temp
3.) Good portion of food is home grown/raised/hunted (includes Okinawan Sweet potatoes, Avocados, honey, sheep milk, duck eggs, fat and meat, cow milk.
4.) I keep my macros around 55% carbs 30% fat and 15% protein.
5.) 80% raw except the sweet potatoes and the fish.
6.) I used to eat one meal a day for a decade but due to my condition I eat 2-3 meals a day now. My various conditions has forced me to adopt this raw based diet of basically animal products and fruit with minimal to no processing.


I started growing various fruit trees as well as cantaloupe and watermelon.

II.) Liquids:
A.) I do not drink much water other than from the local spring water. With a fully raw diet my liquids come from the milk, the eggs, the fruits the coconut water, and yes the raw meats. So I maybe drink 10% of my fluids from water and when I do drink water it's infused with molecular hydrogen.

III.) Supplements:
1.) Himilayan Shilajit: increases testosterone and other hormones
2.) BPC-157 injections: a GI gastric peptide with 15 amino acid chain that's used as a method for healing tissues.
3.) Various herbs and spices (Ashwagandha, curcumin, Ginko, Astragalus root, Ceylon Cinnamon, etc)

IV.) Workout/Exercise:
Due to my condition I was out of commission for 2 years. I had dropped from 175 lbs of lean body mass to 120 lbs at 6'1". I couldn't even walk at that point. It took a good deal of suffering, pain, research and tracking my meals to figure out how to save my life which was extremely difficult living mostly off grid and out in the boondocks for the most part. That's why I adopted a diet that probably less than 0.1% of the population practices. However, it's been incredibly healing and I've learned so much during this short time period it's been worth the suffering and pain. Sometimes we must suffer to truly gain wisdom. I am slowly attempting to get back into exercising again but here are my principles and exercises.

A.) Mental Exercises: If you look up a study from the Cleveland Clinic in which people used their mind with visualization and using their senses to exercise their fingers and biceps with a control groups. This was for 12 weeks and 15 minutes a day for 5 days a week. The people doing the finger exercises increased their finger strength by 53% and the people working out their biceps gained 13% on their baseline strength. So I incorporate this as an add on to my exercises. I visualize and feel the muscles activating and imagine them not only getting stronger but bigger as well while working out. I remember an old movie of Arnie where he said he would Invision his Biceps as growing into mountains and each body part he would have some kind of a physical comparison to envision that muscle group growing.

Lift or die: On certain lifts if I am going for a major PR (quarterly, annual, etc) I use a lift or die mentality. I don't use this too often since I don't want to be constantly spiking adrenaline but every once in a while it's a good boost.
B.) Nucleus Overload Training: Basically training every single day. Protein synthesis is 12-18 hours and if you're resting your muscles 2-3 days in a row one is losing potential gains.

C.) Progressive Overload Training: Just increase of the sets, reps and or weight every single workout.

D.) Periodization: Switching up the exercises, routines, etc. I'll normally do this once I start reaching a plateau for an exercise.

E.) Deloading: 1 week or so per a certain period of time where I will lighten the load, reps, sets or take an actual week off as a way to reset the body.

F.) Dynamic stretching before and static stretching after workouts.

G.) Various HIT exercises as a warmup (jumprope, boxing, hill sprints, etc).

H.) Isometrics: attempting to lift a weight I cannot lift at 3 different angles at 3 angles for 30-45 seconds each. These exercises strengthen are ligatments, tendons, joints, etc. This is where the real strength gains occur as well as injury prevention.

I.) Normal work: Bailing hay, lifting the animals, building, digging, etc.

J.) Negatives: Doing negatives for about 5 seconds for weight that's roughly 25% heavier than I can normally lift.

K.) Rest pauses on the bottom to avoid using momentum at all. Normally 2 seconds or so.

L.) Go slow down or on the eccentric motion and explode up on the concentric part of the exercise. We gain a vast majority of our strength during the eccentric portion of our exercises so I go down in a slow and controlled motion and explode up as fast as possible.

Essentially my workouts are mostly for back (especially the lower back, legs, traps, and neck for injury prevention and for the work I do).



V.) Miscellaneous:

A.) Bone Smashing: Creating microfractures within the bones that harden and over time create a harder formation. This prevents fractures and I can't afford to have any

B.) Qigong: I use these exercises for longevity

C.) Earthing/Grounding: Connecting to the frequency that heals and overall lowers inflammation in our body.

D.) Whim Hoff Method: I work outside in extreme temperatures so this method makes it so I feel no ill effects from the weather I have no control over plus it helps to prevent disease. This involves hot cold therapy with saunas and ice baths.

E.) Sleep: 8-9 hours of high quality sleep per night: No eating within 5 hours of sleep and no drinking within 2 hours before bed time.

F.) Frequencies/Vibrations: There are various frequencies for boosting HGH, testosterone, muscle healing, etc.

G.) Fasting: Well I used to do this when in full health and at a higher weight. I won't be doing this again until I get back up until at least 170lbs or so. I would like to hit 200 lbs and max out my frame with a little extra adipose in case something catastrophic were to happen to me again so I have some more cushion. I have done a 40 day water fast and a 7 day dry fast in the past. I will never push myself that far ever again. A simple 3 day dry fast and a 1 week water fast is the longest I ever plan on going in the future but not until I reach a much higher weight.

7 day dry fast? You trying to kill your kidneys?

Never dry fast. Water fast with salt. That is the only safe way to do it.

 

[kingsolomonwisdom]

7 day dry fast? You trying to kill your kidneys?

Never dry fast. Water fast with salt. That is the only safe way to do it.

No, I was trying to save my life.

Salt is a terrible thing to put into your body. Sodium should be obtained from natural sources and not salt.

A dry fast does the opposite it heals organs and tissues and detoxifies you. I had to do it to save my Kidneys and my gallbladder during my healing process. My gallbladder was so inflamed I was at the point where I was throwing up everything even tiny amounts. I had severe agonizing and crippling pain in which most people would've shot themselves. So I had to treat myself and this was my only option as I have no hospital. After a 7 day dry fast I had no pain no symptoms and I was able to eat plant based foods for the first time in nearly 2 years. I got rid of my SIBO, severe ulcerative colitis, and saved my galbladder which was shot.

Overall the dry fast was the best decision of my life as it allowed me to now eat plant foods and raw animal foods like milk and eggs and the fat which has dramatically improved my overall health and weight. Drinking water while fasting slows down the healing process and salt would have a negative impact on the body and undermines the entire reasoning for the fast in the first place unless one just cares about losing weight and having some taste in the water.

 

[AgEngDawg]

Salt is a terrible thing to put into your body. Sodium should be obtained from natural sources and not salt.

No a dry fast does the opposite it heals organs and tissues and detoxifies you. I had to do it to save my Kidneys and my gallbladder during my healing process. My gallbladder was so inflamed I was at the point where I was throwing up everything even tiny amounts. I had severe agonizing and crippling pain in which most people would've shot themselves. So I had to treat myself and this was my only option as I have no hospital. After a 7 day dry fast I had no pain no symptoms and I was able to eat plant based foods for the first time in nearly 2 years. I got rid of my SIBO, severe ulcerative colitis, and saved my galbladder which was shot.

Overall the dry fast was the best decision of my life as it allowed me to now eat plant foods and raw animal foods like milk and eggs and the fat which has dramatically improved my overall health and weight. Drinking water while fasting slows down the healing process and salt would have a negative impact on the body and undermines the entire reasoning for the fast in the first place unless one just cares about losing weight and having some tast

Woah, that post is dangerously wrong. All of it.

 

[Rusty Student]

Do you have any before and after pics?

 

[kingsolomonwisdom]

Woah, that post is dangerously wrong. All of it.

Thankfully it saved my life so it was right for me. Yes dry fasting expedites the healing of the body and tissues, salt is horrible for the body, spring water from a good source is fine but slows down the healing process, cooked carnivore starved off the SIBO and ulcerative colitis, however it caused galbladder issues with all the grease, the dry fast healed my gallbladder completely and now I am consuming raw meats, dairy, and fruits for the first time in a long time and feeling quite amazing and having normal BM's, vastly better sleep, gaining weight very quickly and able to work out and build up my property again. If it was wrong, I'd be dead by now for sure. I'm pretty sure 99.9% of people experiencing the pain, throwing up and not being able to sleep would've caused lesser people to kill themselves. Imagine being stabbed 24/7 in the gut with a jagged knife without the luxury of bleeding out and dying and throwing up every 20 minutes or so and having no sleep. It lasted for about 4-5 days and I waited the extra 3days for extra healing to be 100% certain it was healed. I was at the point where I was going to either starve myself to death or heal from the severe issues. I have had zero gallbladder symptoms since this happened. Now I'm eating essential a primal diet with animal products and fruit. I never knew milk was so good until now but I buy it raw, whole, without any additives and 100% grass fed.

I wouldn't recommend a 7 day dry fast for anyone but if you're in a life and death situation and don't have access to medical treatment then this may be the only option. Also, 4-5 days or so was probably sufficient but I wanted to ensure the symptoms would never come back so I went the extra two days. I monitored my blood pressure, heart rate, blood glucose, ect during this time. I did run an IV for the last 3 days because of all the throwing up and diarrhea I lost a ton of electrolytes, minerals and hydration in general. I laid in the dirt for most days to help the healing process. So if one is severely dehydrated and lost a ton of electrolytes then the IV is the best way to go while allowing the internal organs to heal faster than if you were drinking water.

 

[kingsolomonwisdom]

Do you have any before and after pics?

Are you asking me?

 

[Rusty Student]

Are you asking me?

Yes

 

[kingsolomonwisdom]

Yes

No, while slowly withering away in pain the last thing I wanted to do was to take a picture of myself. I have maybe taken 5 of myself in my lifetime.

I have the before after of my colon went from the doc saying it looked like someone threw a granade up my ass to having the perfect colon within 2 months of the perfected diet.

I have my SIBO test before but not after because since I have no symptoms from eating foods that used to trigger instant diarreah gas and pain I see no reason to pay X money for these tests again.

I have no before and after for the gallbladder as I have no hospital or doctor. I just had the worst week well really 4-5 days of my entire life of crippling pain, no sleep, no food no water, just prayer, screaming, grounding (buried myself in the dirt on day 3 since I thought it was over so I may as well leave the earth naked as I came. I had solid improvements on day for and by day five no pain at all and about the end of day 7 I was eating as if nothing happened and was able to eat foods I haven't eaten in years and foods I've never had before. My life has dramatically changed in just 2 months or so that it's like I'm a completely different person.
Do I wish I would've taken pictures? Not really since I never want to see that person or remind myself of the pain and sufferring. I resonatted with Dr. Aajonus Vonderplanitz and I was essentially eating very similarly to his diet. I seen that he went through a similar experience but it was a much longer period of time and basically 20+ years of sufferring for him. I had more short term accute pain but his was more long term. He was at the point where he was going to burry himself and starve himself to death on an Indian burrial ground in CA. So a very similar thing I was doing as I thought I was going to starve to death or just die of pain so I burried myself. By the end of week one cyotes were surrounding him and they increased in numbers. By week two he awoke to a dead rabbit. He recalled his dad said you have to cook them until they're brown or you will get some kind of bacterial infection and die a painfull but quick death. So he thought the cyotes had brought him the rabbit to speed up the process of death so they could eat him while he still had some meat on his bones. It turned out he ate the raw rabbit and he experienced no pain or sickness. In fact it gave him life, energy and he started hunting but he was barely alive at this point. He rode his bike to local farms and made a deal to work for them while he was allowed to eat as much raw milk and eggs and some organ meats as he wanted. He was doing hard manual labor and within 3 moths he had gained 50 lbs and he said it was the heaviest and strongest he had ever been.


Oddly enough his diet he promotes is very similar to mine at the moment but I consume okinawan sweet potatoes and a few various fruits that he didn't and I don't consume any veg juices. Just overall a great story and he ran thousands of tests on tens of thousands of people and animals to test this primal diet out. This was in the 90's and 2000's so he was way before his time in terms of the raw carnivore mixed with fruit. The carnivores are now starting to see they operate better with adding in some fruits or some cooked starches like sweet potatoes.



This is why I believe in order to gain true wisdom and to find truths in life which are not always readily available we have to suffer in some way shape or form. Now suffering can lead to people going down bad paths or never overcoming the suffering and learning nothing. But if you have severe suffering combined with over coming the obstacles, and the suffering and learning some valuable lessons this can bring true wisdom. Without the suffering, pain or other terrible experiences to overcome then one would most likely have no reason to go outside of social norms.

 

[shiv]

Just hit my 5-year, 5-rep high on DL at 365. 1lb for every day of the year

 

[kingsolomonwisdom]

Yeah buddy.

Just hit my 5-year, 5-rep high on DL at 365. 1lb for every day of the year

YEAH BUDDY! Congrats. Do you go to a gym or do you have your own gym.

Once you break the 405 lb mark the bar will start bending noticeably and you will need to buy an Olympic bar unless you like the bend. Negatives for the legs/back are very taxing so I only do them every 3 days as a part of my routine. As stated before negatives are the best way to increase strength for movement exercises. Isometrics (pushing or pulling against an immovable object for 20-30 seconds at 3 different angels takes your strength to superhuman levels. I found these are the exercises the circus freaks would use to bend metal and pull busses. These strengthen your tendons and ligaments but adds no extra weight so you maximize your strength to weight ratio.

 

[shiv]

Yeah buddy.

YEAH BUDDY! Congrats. Do you go to a gym or do you have your own gym.

Once you break the 405 lb mark the bar will start bending noticeably and you will need to buy an Olympic bar unless you like the bend. Negatives for the legs/back are very taxing so I only do them every 3 days as a part of my routine. As stated before negatives are the best way to increase strength for movement exercises. Isometrics (pushing or pulling against an immovable object for 20-30 seconds at 3 different angels takes your strength to superhuman levels. I found these are the exercises the circus freaks would use to bend metal and pull busses. These strengthen your tendons and ligaments but adds no extra weight so you maximize your strength to weight ratio.

I’ve got a garage gym. Deadlifts have always been harder for me relative to my other lifts for some reason, but I’ve really started making progress lately. I’ve always been able to squat close to as much as I can deadlift (I’ve squatted 400 before). My deadlift max is in the 425-450 range, but that was several years back

I’ve got a garage gym and I only have 385 pounds weight in it now. I hit the 5x365 and wasn’t near failure. I’m not really trying to hit maxes currently, just trying to increase the weight a little each week

I’ve always wanted to be in the 300/400/500 club, but I don’t think I’ll ever be able to hit them all at once in my life because my shoulder is a liability now. I’ve done 3x325 on the bench and 400 a few reps on the squat, just could never get the deadlift down

So you deadlift every 3 days?? That’s pretty crazy.

 

[kingsolomonwisdom]

I’ve got a garage gym. Deadlifts have always been harder for me relative to my other lifts for some reason, but I’ve really started making progress lately. I’ve always been able to squat close to as much as I can deadlift (I’ve squatted 400 before). My deadlift max is in the 425-450 range, but that was several years back

I’ve got a garage gym and I only have 385 pounds weight in it now. I hit the 5x365 and wasn’t near failure. I’m not really trying to hit maxes currently, just trying to increase the weight a little each week

I’ve always wanted to be in the 300/400/500 club, but I don’t think I’ll ever be able to hit them all at once in my life because my shoulder is a liability now. I’ve done 3x325 on the bench and 400 a few reps on the squat, just could never get the deadlift down

So you deadlift every 3 days?? That’s pretty crazy.

I do a full body workout daily I discuss this within my glow up as a man thread. Once you find the sweet spot for the sets per day per muscle group per day then you're set. It's contradictory to what the GYM bros teach but there is scientific evidence behind this methodology.

I don't deadlift much, mostly monster tire pushes which is very similar but I'm going for functional strength since I have farm work daily with my sheep, cows and crops.


NOOO, not the shoulders. The shoulders of my father have been destroyed as he competed in the 135 lb class for bench press. He got to 270 lbs but since most of his time was spent in the bench his shoulders deteriorated over time. Thankfully he had the best shoulder doc in America operate on his shoulders to have successful surgery's. However, he only does machines now in his 60's. I'm happy he's still able to exercise though.

Will you need surgery as well? Perhaps the Isometrics may help your shoulders.

 

[shiv]

I do a full body workout daily I discuss this within my glow up as a man thread. Once you find the sweet spot for the sets per day per muscle group per day then you're set. It's contradictory to what the GYM bros teach but there is scientific evidence behind this methodology.

I don't deadlift much, mostly monster tire pushes which is very similar but I'm going for functional strength since I have farm work daily with my sheep, cows and crops.


NOOO, not the shoulders. The shoulders of my father have been destroyed as he competed in the 135 lb class for bench press. He got to 270 lbs but since most of his time was spent in the bench his shoulders deteriorated over time. Thankfully he had the best shoulder doc in America operate on his shoulders to have successful surgery's. However, he only does machines now in his 60's. I'm happy he's still able to exercise though.

Will you need surgery as well? Perhaps the Isometrics may help your shoulders.

I actually had surgery last fall. Torn labrum, rotator cuff, bone spurs, debrisment. It was a remarkable job by the surgeon, but I just try and be careful now

 

[LafesterMacintosh]

I do a full body workout daily I discuss this within my glow up as a man thread. Once you find the sweet spot for the sets per day per muscle group per day then you're set. It's contradictory to what the GYM bros teach but there is scientific evidence behind this methodology.

I don't deadlift much, mostly monster tire pushes which is very similar but I'm going for functional strength since I have farm work daily with my sheep, cows and crops.


NOOO, not the shoulders. The shoulders of my father have been destroyed as he competed in the 135 lb class for bench press. He got to 270 lbs but since most of his time was spent in the bench his shoulders deteriorated over time. Thankfully he had the best shoulder doc in America operate on his shoulders to have successful surgery's. However, he only does machines now in his 60's. I'm happy he's still able to exercise though.

Will you need surgery as well? Perhaps the Isometrics may help your shoulders.

What’s it like to be the size of a small woman?

 

[OPD77]

Sounds like he was looking for a sword fight

 

[AgEngDawg]

I have seen three different dudes wearing crocs at the gym. Two while doing squats.

Is this a new trend?

You dudes are just tempting me to "accidentally" drop a weight on your foot.

 

[LVRebel]

I have seen three different dudes wearing crocs at the gym. Two while doing squats.

Is this a new trend?

You dudes are just tempting me to "accidentally" drop a weight on your foot.

I'm assuming these were younger guys? Young guys wearing crocs for everything has definitely been a trend the past 5 years or so, and I'd imagine they'll continue on that after they graduate.

 

[AgEngDawg]

I'm assuming these were younger guys? Young guys wearing crocs for everything has definitely been a trend the past 5 years or so, and I'd imagine they'll continue on that after they graduate.

Yep.

 

[LVRebel]

Yep.

Ha, my son tried tell me he was going to wear crocs in "sport mode" and do his workout, and I just gave him one of these looks.

So he got regular shoes and hasn't asked about crocs for workouts anymore.

 

[Old Glory]

I have seen three different dudes wearing crocs at the gym. Two while doing squats.

Is this a new trend?

You dudes are just tempting me to "accidentally" drop a weight on your foot.

I've followed him for a while and he's worn crocs as long as I can remember.

 

[LafesterMacintosh]

I have seen three different dudes wearing crocs at the gym. Two while doing squats.

Is this a new trend?

You dudes are just tempting me to "accidentally" drop a weight on your foot.

What’s protecting your feet, dumbass?? Are you lifting in steel toed boots??

What a dipshit

 

[shiv]

Hit 305x3 on squats for a couple sets

 

[LVRebel]

Hit 305x3 on squats for a couple sets

Nice! I haven't gone too heavy recently. I had been off for a while, but now back on for a few weeks. Easing into things so I don't hurt my old self.

 

[shiv]

Nice! I haven't gone too heavy recently. I had been off for a while, but now back on for a few weeks. Easing into things so I don't hurt my old self.

I’m still having to baby my shoulder and my upper body in general, so I’ve been pushing my lower body strength lately. Problem is I’m gaining a lot of muscle weight and my pants are getting pretty toight

 

[shiv]

Nice! I haven't gone too heavy recently. I had been off for a while, but now back on for a few weeks. Easing into things so I don't hurt my old self.

Which team is yours in FBB?

 

[champsballs]

I gave up sugar, junk food/pop , most fast food and any/all shit food in may. Haven’t spent a day in the gym or done any organized working out and have lost 30lbs of fat by mid July it feels like I took a time machine back 10 years but feels like I gained 20 years of mental aptitude. I’m a very active person so once I pushed thru those first 2-3 weeks I started to get energy back more every day get up at 530 bed at 12am don’t even drink caffeine any more.
We’ve been poisoned as a country for so long and it’s disgusting and the more I look around at people and see what we’ve become It just makes me grind harder

 

[LafesterMacintosh]

I gave up sugar, junk food/pop , most fast food and any/all shit food in may. Haven’t spent a day in the gym or done any organized working out and have lost 30lbs of fat by mid July it feels like I took a time machine back 10 years but feels like I gained 20 years of mental aptitude. I’m a very active person so once I pushed thru those first 2-3 weeks I started to get energy back more every day get up at 530 bed at 12am don’t even drink caffeine any more.
We’ve been poisoned as a country for so long and it’s disgusting and the more I look around at people and see what we’ve become It just makes me grind harder

This just means you were a complete disgusting fat fuck in the first place losing weight like that.

Keep “grinding hard” faggot

 

[champsballs]

This just means you were a complete disgusting fat fuck in the first place losing weight like that.

Keep “grinding hard” faggot

yes in my opinion that’s exactly what I was. Was also a drug addict destined for an eternity in hell. I will absolutely keep “grinding hard”

 

[LafesterMacintosh]

yes in my opinion that’s exactly what I was. Was also a drug addict destined for an eternity in hell. I will absolutely keep “grinding hard”

Shocking!! A fat, disgusting drug addict! Who would have ever guessed!

 

[LVRebel]

I’m still having to baby my shoulder and my upper body in general, so I’ve been pushing my lower body strength lately. Problem is I’m gaining a lot of muscle weight and my pants are getting pretty toight

Yeah, definitely don't rush things with the shoulder. I always had a similar issue as you with regards to pants. When I was lean, I was a 34 waist, but could squat and dead lift a lot, so I had big butt and thighs. Never could find pants that fit very well.

 

[LVRebel]

Which team is yours in FBB?

I'm currently using a very incognito name in the FF league....LVRebel