anybody into bodybuilding/powerlifting?

[ak-]

Got up to:
235 bench
215 squat
155 dead-lift

Highest/biggest I've ever been. Started my cutting routine and dropped to 228 in 6 weeks. Keeping it strong!

We're like total opposites. My dead lift is wayyy stronger than my bench.
Bench seems to be the slowest for me in progress.

[DatUtahGuy]

The hardest part for me with bodybuilding is eating enough. I'm eating like a pound of chicken a day, plus 4 or 5 eggs, tuna, veggies and carbs, some cottage cheese at night and lifting for a half hour each day and I've yet to gain weight. I am seeing gain noobs so it's nice but I would like to start seeing the scale go up. I'm at 138 and dreaming of getting to 160. I know it takes time but "sigh"

[Thizzelle]

K so I'm back in the actual gym and when I'm squatting I can only get 6-7 reps before I have to rerack and catch my breath. My legs are good, but I start to get dizzy and lightheaded. I know you're using a lot of oxygen to power all the muscles the squats stimulate, but I think this is definitely beyond normal. I try to breathe as well as I can while squatting. I do go really low (beyond 90 degrees lol), ass to grass when I go down,

Anyone else experience this? I just rerack, catch my breath and do more sets of fewer reps.

depends on the weight and the reps you're trying to get to. I get light headed on dead lifts, but i'm trying to fatigue out by the last rep.

[DatUtahGuy]

If you are starting out again you don't have enough stamina, thus you run out of juice quickly, doesn't mean you are not capable of doing the weight, just mean your endurance needs to be built up.

[Roysneon]

K so I'm back in the actual gym and when I'm squatting I can only get 6-7 reps before I have to rerack and catch my breath. My legs are good, but I start to get dizzy and lightheaded. I know you're using a lot of oxygen to power all the muscles the squats stimulate, but I think this is definitely beyond normal. I try to breathe as well as I can while squatting. I do go really low (beyond 90 degrees lol), ass to grass when I go down,

Anyone else experience this? I just rerack, catch my breath and do more sets of fewer reps.

[Roysneon]

I've been doing street workouts and shit, calisthenics, meeting up with a group to do workouts at a nearby park. It's just too nice for me to be in the gym right now. Once the weather starts to get shitty in a few months I'll have nothing better to do.

I keep eating more and keep getting leaner, slowly getting bigger as well, but I'm still eating clean, keeping the carbs relatively low and no junk (added sugar, processed crap, wheat or dairy). Haven't weighed in in a while, but I'd be surprised if I actually added any weight recently. Hoping to put on like 10ish pounds by next year. I'm looking better all the time though so it's all good.

[JinormusJ]

Dang.. Haven't posted here in forever

Weight check. Let myself go at the end of the semester. Went up to 240lbs, but I was also lifting heavy weights

Got up to:
235 bench
215 squat
155 dead-lift

Highest/biggest I've ever been. Started my cutting routine and dropped to 228 in 6 weeks. Keeping it strong!

[Thizzelle]

Way cheaper for those at places like big lots. But I've switched to the target in-house brand. Theirs are made in the USA still. Don't know if it's really different but I feel better buying it.

nobody ever has them in stock so I have to do what I have to do. Plus driving around to save a buck only spends a buck. Truth Bomb.

[scabzzzz]

Way cheaper for those at places like big lots. But I've switched to the target in-house brand. Theirs are made in the USA still. Don't know if it's really different but I feel better buying it.

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[e34john]

it's like $5 for 3, they're awesome

Way cheaper for those at places like big lots. But I've switched to the target in-house brand. Theirs are made in the USA still. Don't know if it's really different but I feel better buying it.

[Thizzelle]

rule: if you got to round, then drop the weight down.

[scabzzzz]

I wouldn't say I reiterated it, I clarified it. As someone with back problems you know the importance of practicing good form and the repercussions of letting it slide. Calling it "bro science" to keep your back straight discredits the sound advice that is being given, usually to a less experienced/informed individual. Telling a new lifter that it's fine for his back to round without describing where and how could be all he needs to excuse the slinky action taking place in his lower back while desperately trying to get 405 off the floor.

Ok.

[cale]

I wouldn't say I reiterated it, I clarified it. As someone with back problems you know the importance of practicing good form and the repercussions of letting it slide. Calling it "bro science" to keep your back straight discredits the sound advice that is being given, usually to a less experienced/informed individual. Telling a new lifter that it's fine for his back to round without describing where and how could be all he needs to excuse the slinky action taking place in his lower back while desperately trying to get 405 off the floor.

[scabzzzz]

Depends where the rounding is taking place. If you're rounding your lumbar spine during high weight, you're likely going to run into some serious issues in the future. It's very normal for advance lifters to having rounding of the thoracic, but novices should all aim for a straight back. It's not bro science.

http://www.sfu.ca/~leyland/Kin201%20...0Mechanics.pdf

Thanks for re-itterating my exact point with documentation. That was helpful actually

[cale]

also i dont believe that you need to keep your back straight on a deadlift. its a good rule of thumb, but that shit is bro science and i dare any of you to hit me with scientific research that proves otherwise. the body isnt meant to be in a static position, its too dynamic for that.

Depends where the rounding is taking place. If you're rounding your lumbar spine during high weight, you're likely going to run into some serious issues in the future. It's very normal for advance lifters to having rounding of the thoracic, but novices should all aim for a straight back. It's not bro science.

http://www.sfu.ca/~leyland/Kin201%20...0Mechanics.pdf