Recent content by ptender

Skipped legs, and just did chest, since I was short on time, and only had about half an hour to spend in the gym. Figure I'll do legs tomorrow when I don't have to hurry. Rested long enough to change plates/swap dumbbells. -Cybex Bench Press 1x12x90 per side 1x12x115 " 1x12x135 " 1x10x145 "...

I feel great, just pulled something in my arm/elbow last week doing d'bell curls.

Arm still giving me trouble, and staying banged up from having to use it a lot at work, so pulling is out, right now. Tried to do wide-grip chins tonight, and did 4. My new record :rolleyes: Haven't fooled with the Captains of Crush grippers for a month or so, but had the #1 and #2 in my bag at...

If I'm reading this right, you're getting 12 reps at the end with the same weight you did 10 with on the second set. Sounds like you have a large gap between the weights you use for each set, or are not getting the most of your lower rep sets, which should be your "work sets", and could benefit...

I wimped out for a couple of days, since I banged up my wrist at work, and had the elbow thing going on, plus worked a double shift last night, but made it back to the gym tonight. Felt like crap on the way, but had a great workout, and left feeling like a million bucks. Funny how that works...

T-bar rows with just the bar, no T-handle.

That was the only guy with any form at all, and 15 would be pathetic for someone half his size. That sums up the whole thing for me...pathetic. The guy who won might have been doing 1/3 reps.

The last few days have been a bust. Been feeling really puny for some reason, with no energy to speak of. Tried a little higher rep benching at home with sets of 20 with 135 and 185, and was planning to do 3x15 or so with 225, but wound up doing 1x10 instead. Just couldn't do any more. Couple...

You're talking about lateral raises, right? While they can certainly add width to your physique, by giving you greater mass in the medial head of the deltoid, your time and effort will be better spent sticking with basic movements if that is your goal(you wouldn't do heavy crossovers to build...

Nope. I got my pelvis knocked out of place, and my back screwed up 6+ years ago, and had problems 'til last year. Lower back problems all along, and just had to work around it. Haven't worked out consistently for any length of time, since. Just been maintaining. Thought it was just going to be...

Hey there, brother! There was another bowed up thinnie in the gym when I got there, but he finished up as I was starting up. Had the radio on the armband, imaginary lats that sprouted when I came in, and everything. Glad to see a kid taking initiative enough to be in the gym at almost midnight...

Sunday night. Got to the gym ~11:40pm. Gotta love the key card. 55 minutes on the elliptical crosstrainer(Evanescence's "The Open Door" album in its entirety on my MP3 player=53min, plus a 2 min cooldown). I'm very pro-elliptical. I lifted some weights--plates off a bunch of the Cybex stuff...

Ha. Those people will really think I'm nuts in there if I try to get one to video me with my camera(not that I even know how to do anything with it if I made one). I assume you mean pics of me working out?

Nothing Thursday or Friday. Today...Saturday. Legs. Taking it easy, because I haven't hit legs since I started back, plus am worried that I might have a hernia, so didn't want to squat. -Cybex Leg Press I love this thing. It's actually like doing a squat with no lower back strain. Much harder...

Wednesday: Knew I would work a double shift on Thursday, so did chest/back instead of chest/tris, back/shoulders on separate days. -Cybex bench press 1x20x90 per side 1x20x115 " 1x15x135 " 1x12x135 " 1x10x145 " then a drop set with each weight to failure of: 1x9x135 " 1x11x115 " 1x12x90 "...