(08-12-2017 11:48 AM)scotian Wrote:  I just violently puked after a gym session and am wondering if anyone on here has experienced something similar, its never happened to me. Here's what happened leading up to it:

-7:30am woke up, drank water and ate a bowl of granola cereal with almond milk
-8-9am drank two cups of black coffee
9:15-10:30 went to the gym, had a great workout doing my usual high rep exercises (did chest, shoulders, triceps). Drank a BCAA drink throughout the gym session.

Immediately after as I was walking home (two minute walk) I was thinking about how great the workout was, I was feeling pumped. Arrived home, had a glass of water and ate a banana. Within two minutes I felt funny, went to the patio to get fresh air then I felt a dry heave coming so I went to my bathroom and puked my guts up into the toilet. I'm not sure if it was because I went to hard in the gym or maybe it was a bad banana haha, I just hope it doesn't happen again because it freaked me out!

Might be the coffee. When I was taking ECA I'd feel the same way during my workout sometimes. 2 cups is around 100mg of caffeine I would imagine.

(08-14-2017 05:35 PM)CaptainChardonnay Wrote:  

(08-12-2017 11:48 AM)scotian Wrote:  I just violently puked after a gym session and am wondering if anyone on here has experienced something similar, its never happened to me. Here's what happened leading up to it:

-7:30am woke up, drank water and ate a bowl of granola cereal with almond milk
-8-9am drank two cups of black coffee
9:15-10:30 went to the gym, had a great workout doing my usual high rep exercises (did chest, shoulders, triceps). Drank a BCAA drink throughout the gym session.

Immediately after as I was walking home (two minute walk) I was thinking about how great the workout was, I was feeling pumped. Arrived home, had a glass of water and ate a banana. Within two minutes I felt funny, went to the patio to get fresh air then I felt a dry heave coming so I went to my bathroom and puked my guts up into the toilet. I'm not sure if it was because I went to hard in the gym or maybe it was a bad banana haha, I just hope it doesn't happen again because it freaked me out!

Might be the coffee. When I was taking ECA I'd feel the same way during my workout sometimes. 2 cups is around 100mg of caffeine I would imagine.

I've never puked at the gym but taking an extra scoop of pre-workout can get me feeling pretty nauseous and lead to some pretty explosive shits. I try to space my caffeine intake out, I'll drink a cup or two of coffee in the mornings and take pre-workout before hitting the gym in the late afternoon or evening

Puking from the gym is a silly fad that's marketed in the fitness industry as a badge of honor

Yes, I admit I've done it in my early years & felt proud afterwards

But there have been professional bodybuilders in the Mr. Olympia leagues who say they NEVER puke anymore because it's stupid and disrupts your gains, which it is

If you are puking from the gym, you are doing it very wrong...just stop it

Thanks for the info guys, like I said it was the first time its happened to me and I've been going to the gym off and on for twenty years, I'm going to cut down on the coffee pre-workout hopefully that helps.

Anyone had success with myo-reps? I've been messing with it on my triceps work which comes at the end of my push session. The idea is that you do an all out set of about 10 reps, rest 15 sec and hit another 3 reps, rest another 15 and hit another 3, and so on for 5 additional sets after the 1st set.(so the set is 10,3,3,3,3,3). It's a kind of rest pause thing the idea being that you are hitting more reps in a fatigued state leading to greater fiber recruitment, and is a quick way to get some good work in for smaller muscles. After some initial progress I seem to have stagnated on it. I'm not sure if it's because my heavy incline work earlier in the workout which is progressing is stopping improvement showing (I tend to go with the philosophy that assistance is working if the main lift is moving up, even where the assistance might regress), or whether I really have stagnated. Just wondering how people have found it?

Never tried that.

When I do a rest pause set it will typically be like fail at 15 reps, fail at 8, then fail at 3. Also, if im doing RP I alternate exercises between workouts, so for chest you'll do Smith press one day, dips on the next chest workout. This is just an example.

Are you hitting mental or physical failure?? The point of rest pause is to royally fuck your muscles up as quick as possible.

(08-16-2017 03:23 PM)Steelex Wrote:  Never tried that.

When I do a rest pause set it will typically be like fail at 15 reps, fail at 8, then fail at 3. Also, if im doing RP I alternate exercises between workouts, so for chest you'll do Smith press one day, dips on the next chest workout. This is just an example.

Are you hitting mental or physical failure?? The point of rest pause is to royally fuck your muscles up as quick as possible.

That sounds like DC training, i've been experimenting with a variation of it, how are your results with it ?

Also, do you have a training partner ?

(08-16-2017 03:23 PM)Steelex Wrote:  Never tried that.

When I do a rest pause set it will typically be like fail at 15 reps, fail at 8, then fail at 3. Also, if im doing RP I alternate exercises between workouts, so for chest you'll do Smith press one day, dips on the next chest workout. This is just an example.

Are you hitting mental or physical failure?? The point of rest pause is to royally fuck your muscles up as quick as possible.

Not sure about everyone else, but rest pause training royally fries my brain. Especially if I'm using it at the end of a workout after the heavy stuff is done.

To me, rest pause work IS the heavy work. So if its chest day it might be like Smith machine incline press 270lbs, 13 reps, 7 reps, 3 reps. That one set would be the entire upper chest workout.

I don't always rest pause, but when I do it's a single set to failure. And yes it will fry your ass. If i do a rest pause workout for back it will typically be an rp set of rack chins, 2 straight sets of deads or rack pulls, and a rp set of cable rows. The next day I'll feel like I have the flu it's that harsh (if you do it right).

Currently following Greyskull, everything is coming up very nicely. 31x8 ohp, 41x14 bench, 73.5x5 squat, 80x7 deadlift. Not impressive, but still, Ive been on a long cut (30kgs lost) and I had no muscle mass. Very happy about the changes I'm seeing. I guess I could progress faster on the bench and the deadlift, but I'm following the program to the letter and the added weight rate is slow.
Any of you have done Greyskull?

How many of you guys frequently use a hex bar/trap bar instead of a regular barbell for deadlifts? I did some reading and apparently there is quite a bit lower risk to hurting your lower back.

(08-22-2017 06:59 PM)Sidney Crosby Wrote:  How many of you guys frequently use a hex bar/trap bar instead of a regular barbell for deadlifts? I did some reading and apparently there is quite a bit lower risk to hurting your lower back.

Normally I use them solely for shrugs. Theres something about a straight bar that just amps me the fuck up. I would have to imagine that they would help you get better numbers though. I shrug more then I deadlift and you technically need to deadift first to shrug. I think it all boils down to personal opinion. I may try to deadlift with them now though. If I do I'll post results on here. Tomorrow is back day after all!

^ Here's the page I was reading.

https://www.t-nation.com/training/trap-bar-deadlift

Quads are more involved than regular deads, and I find the extra stability required gives my upper back some really good work. It's a good movement

(08-22-2017 06:59 PM)Sidney Crosby Wrote:  How many of you guys frequently use a hex bar/trap bar instead of a regular barbell for deadlifts? I did some reading and apparently there is quite a bit lower risk to hurting your lower back.

It definitely presents less risk for injury but you are more mechanically advantageous when lifting a trap bar and because of the position of the weight you are lifting more with your legs than your back. Not as great at building back strength. Also, if you compete, a barbell is what you have to lift when on the platform, not a trap bar.

I liked doing the T-bar deadlifts. I have lower back issues and I found that I could lift more weight for more reps doing it with the t-bar.

Normal deadlifts- 3x3 225lbs
VS
T-bar deadlifts- 3 sets of 4,6, and 8 respectively 255lbs

The preworkout hit pretty hard too. Theacrine is a fuckin godsend. Its pretty much caffeine that you don't build a resistance to. It is found in the preworkout that I currently use.

I think I'll probably end up hitting t-bar deadlifts for back day then work in normal deadlifts on leg day. Seems like a good way to take some pressure off my lower back.

Trap bar deadlifts is more like a squat or clean style deadlift. The bar is centered so there isn't a lever arm created for your lower back. I do rows with them myself or calf raises

(08-23-2017 05:42 PM)alexdagr81 Wrote:  Trap bar deadlifts is more like a squat or clean style deadlift. The bar is centered so there isn't a lever arm created for your lower back. I do rows with them myself or calf raises

Never heard of doing Rows with a trap bar. What's the reason for that?

I agree with Kieran, deadlifts with trap bars actually really hit my lats, so sometimes I mix them in if I feel dicey about the low back. Wonder if that carries over to rows.

(08-23-2017 08:02 PM)komatiite Wrote:  

(08-23-2017 05:42 PM)alexdagr81 Wrote:  Trap bar deadlifts is more like a squat or clean style deadlift. The bar is centered so there isn't a lever arm created for your lower back. I do rows with them myself or calf raises

Never heard of doing Rows with a trap bar. What's the reason for that?

I agree with Kieran, deadlifts with trap bars actually really hit my lats, so sometimes I mix them in if I feel dicey about the low back. Wonder if that carries over to rows.

You get better ROM, you get a better contraction, you put less strain on your back.

(08-05-2017 08:22 AM)sterling_archer Wrote:  Tomorrow is the end of the 3rd week of intermittent fasting. Difference between mean of the first week and mean of the this, 3rd week is -1,77 pounds. This week is mean weight same as the 2nd week. Should I lower the caloric intake?

Update. This is the quote of post I put here on 8/5/2017. Since then by following Steelex advice, better weighing my food and putting some rope skipping here and there I managed to lose what I wanted to. I still have some fat on belly but I am not going continue with cut because I would be really lightweight and would have to consume even less calories than I currently do.

Now the question is, how do I transition to bulking phase? I read that I first need to go to maintenance and then slowly increase calories and macros till I got to needed goal. Should I up my calories for 100 - 200 kcal each week till I hit the needed goal? Or should I immediately go to bulking calories?

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I'm seeing instagram posts that Rich Piana has passed away. RIP. He always kept shit 100% real in his youtube videos.

Him and Dallas mccarver. To be honest im way more sad over Dallas passing.

Has anyone tried Athleanx's TNT program?

Anyone has any experience with neck training? I've been training the neck whilst on a deficit for 3 weeks already and it has grown 1 cm, really happy with it.