-- Weightlifting & Nutrition Thread -- v9.0 Optimized

Hey what do you all think of that Sobe No Fear supplementary drink?

Yeah, go ahead and workout…if you are worried about it, then just take it easy…in fact, the first couple weeks on a new program (especially a periodized one) should be light and you should be hammering form and finding the weights you are going to use for each given exercise…(important when you start changing intensity) Since I write my own programs, the first couple weeks I have to play around and tweek it a little too…

Yeah, I still get madd sore sometimes, depending on what week I’m in, and it has yet to affect performance. I keep loading up the bar with more weight, sometimes even surprising myself.

Oh yeah, and don’t forget to WRITE THINGS DOWN. I definitely want to hear ur progress. Don’t expect anything magical, but my training partner and I improve weekly. I think he put 30 or 40lbs on his Stiff legged deadlift last month.

Rest pause is where you take longer between reps so you can do more. For instance you are doing squats…When I squat, I inhale…hold…exhale comin up…inhale…squat…exhale comin up. An example of rest pause would be inhale, squat, exhale…inhale, exhale, inhale, exhale, inhale, squat…get my drift?? U rest just a lil in the middle of the set when ur locked out at the top.

^Gotcha. :tup:

ya, i am writing shizzle down, the first couple of weeks is definately experimantory always have to be, since you gotta see what weights you can push…

anyway, i thought it was always a bad a idea to workout when you are sore…

im outi

Roberth

Great article! Nice find, thanks for this Magnus :tup:

Given the circumstances it’s fine. If you did 18 sets of chest on monday and wanted to hit chest again on thursday and u were still sore…then it becomes a bad idea lol.

I imagine I would be sore all week if/when I attempt full body routines.

Tremendous article, read the whole thing. Thanks again Magnus. Can you give me some thoughts on cutting bodyfat? I know you’ve said before that it’s mostly a function of diet and not so much changing your training habits. What I’m wondering is, how would you structure your cardio when you were looking to cut bodyfat?

ā€œSince you don’t have to diet as hard in situation B, the risk of muscle loss is much lower than in situation A. In fact, because of the possibility of losing a significant amount of muscle during the cutting phase, you could very well end up with no muscle gain after a year of bulking and then cutting.ā€

Intriguing. I guess the dogma-fighting has to happen on this site, too.

Does anyone have a pics of 5-20% body fat?

pic 1: This is 5%.
pic 2: This is 6%.

Something like that. I don’t really understand the numbers.

Those pictures of jorant and juicemonkey are around5-6 percent I think.

Ok if a person is 200lbs @10% bodyfat, they are carrying 20lbs of total body fat…get it??

around 10% is visible abs…

Yeah, Jorant and juicemonkey posted up some good pics.

I want to start lifting in the morning, before I have to go to school because when I get home some days, I’m just tired as hell.

So my question is, when I get up in the morning, should I lift before or after I eat breakfast? I know I should get post workout protein and nutrients, but I also wake up with a pretty hungry stomach.

eat first thing in the morning, every morning…after you lift, get ur shake on…then eat again in an hour or 2.

Cool, but now if I have a heavy breakfast, is it fine if I lift right after I’m done eating? or should I wait X amount of time before I lift?

the illusion thing of looking bigger when you are cutting (getting smaller) is strange in that article…although take into consideration that first dude that he uses as an example is obviously on steriods, so you can probably actually get bigger while cutting under those circumstances…

first week is done, feels good, i did the sumo presses instead of good mornings…

im outi

Roberth

That 2nd to last guy dropped his BF% by a decent amount, but I’m not sure if I’d want to be like that. He’s in good shape, but that seems way too skinny, well, for me anyways.

Yes the first guy is juicin for sure.

You may LOOK bigger AFTER you cut…WHEN you are shirtless lol. But in all reality…most of us won’t look bigger, just better.

I have put on too much fat, time to cut…I will never dirty bulk again.

I don’t remember the pics too well. But if I remember them correctly, then I’m glad that the article said ā€œ10% is easyā€ ā€˜cause 5% must be a fuckin’ chore.

I’d love to see pics up to 30% body fat. I want to gauge where I’m at. I’m pretty sure I’m under 30’s, but I don’t know where. And no, not even Superman could see my abs.

I’ve noticed a gentle rocking motion in myself and others when I’m curling. It’s not the ā€˜uppercut curl’ though. Is this anything to worry about?

I wouldn’t worry about it necessarily…but it does nothing for your biceps. You want to kill the biceps? Widen the stance and bend the knees, keep elbows down at ur sides and curl without any sway.

Cool. I do bend the knees. I try to bend my knees for everything, including military press. Should I be doing this?

How wide of a wide stance?