Gym Thread (2013)

[FlorianK]

well, I gained a bit of belly fat, but not to much. I'll try to get ripped now cause I'm atm on the northern hemisphere hence its summer soon-ish.
If I'd be in oz, I'd be bulking probs over winter

[Inside Out]

Does the melb uni gym have TVs and spaaa

[abeybaby]

Does the melb uni gym have TVs and spaaa

has neither

[abeybaby]

lets say pics on the first of every month?

[Genericname2365]

Day 1 - Chest + triceps:
1stly, look how much chest you do, vs how much biceps. biceps is a pathetically small muscle compared to your pecs, and so they need far less work to reach failure. also, triceps are always engaged in chest excercises, so we'll kill them off at the end of chest. I find that machine chest presses are almost never any good (unless youre JUST starting), unless its like, a cable press or hammer strength one.

-BB bench press x4
-Db flat bench (so you can drop the weight and it doesnt really matter if you fail, you can just drop them)x3
-DB incline pressx3
-dips x 3 (dips are great for shaping, and warm up tris!)
-cable triceps extensionx3
-overhead Db ext x 3

I've just got a home gym for now until I can get a job so I'm using a lot of your suggested routine in this post, for want of a better routine myself.  Would pushups (not diamond) have a useful place with the chest exercises before I go into triceps? I do realise you're talking about an actual gym in the context of that post, but I thought I'd check how much I should modify this routine anyway.

[abeybaby]

a pushup is half way between a barbell flat bench press and a barbell decline press. its bad in the sense that you cant control the weight (unless you wear a backpack with weights or something) so i rarely do pushups. i wouldnt ADD pushups to this, but you can replace your flat BB bench with them if you want (try to do weighted pushups so you dont do like, 25 reps or something)

[Genericname2365]

a pushup is half way between a barbell flat bench press and a barbell decline press. its bad in the sense that you cant control the weight (unless you wear a backpack with weights or something) so i rarely do pushups. i wouldnt ADD pushups to this, but you can replace your flat BB bench with them if you want (try to do weighted pushups so you dont do like, 25 reps or something)

Cheers that makes sense, I think I'll rotate it a bit but mostly stick with the bb flat bench press.

[duhherro]

did anyone else here workout during year 12 (at a gym) ?

[abeybaby]

^ i didnt, but i think that was the right decision for me.

Dont forget, today is our first lot of progress pics! i will be posting tonight, come on guys, remember theyre PROGRESS pics, so dont be embarrassed

[katykins]

i like the idea of progress pics, how do you put them on an through? i have no idea

[DisaFear]

i like the idea of progress pics, how do you put them on an through? i have no idea

Select an image uploading site. I will use http://www.imgur.com
Select the picture you wish to upload, and do so

On the right hand side of the screen, you will see some links. Select "BBCode"
It should look like this

Code: [Select]

[IMG]http://i.imgur.com/TGjJufz.jpg[/IMG]
Paste it in your message, ta-da



While I don't gym, I've just been doing pushups, situps and other exercises. My arms are so weak can barely do 50-60 pushups a day, in sets of 10 How can I improve this?
Situps though, pushing the 300-400s on days when I'm not lazy

[ldee]

Started my cut about a week and a half ago, already dropped from 99 to 96. Feeling extreamly weak though, might up my carb intake and increase the cardio for the next week and see how I go. I'll upload some pics when I get home from work tonight! Btw, what are we going to upload? By that I mean, poses or what?

[katykins]

This is my journey, at my heaviest i was about 80kg, i feel really embarrased to say that, but thats what happens when you have to overweight parents and you don't watch what you eat. the first photo, i absolutely loath. It was a point in my life where i felt the most self conscious and disgusting that was about two years ago. in 2012 i decided to start weight watchers and watch what i eat, i lost almost 7 kilos, it doesnt seem like much but gosh i love sweet things haha. i got down to about 73kg on weight watchers. now i just don't eat as much, somehow another 2 kilos dropped of me.

Now i currently weigh 70.7kg to be exact. i really want to get into the 60's and 62kg is my goal. this year i want to lose about 8kgs its my goal! so what have i being doing so far? i have decided that i can't do it half assed. i have joined gym and going about 3-4 times a week, doing mainly high intesity cardio. even through i have been going for a while no weight has been lost. I have lost cm's because im also building muscle (the occasional pump class). Its my diet that lets me down grrr. Im really trying heaps to cut down on the crap and eat as clean as possible, its so hard but its a working process i suppose. just have to remind myself what i want, sick of being known as the chubby one farrk.

I dont if the photo will work, im on really slow internet at the moment....

[katykins]

nope didnt work, never mind il try a bit later

[CH3ezEC4KE]

I wish I had before photos at 98kg. Now at 74kg I don't really know how much different I look

Also, is anyone finding it hard to control their eating now school is finished? I found I could eat 6 small meals a day while at school, but at home you're so bored you're just always craving food, which most of the time ends up being chocolate cake or donuts lol. But I guess it's ok when you exercise 3 hours a day