aj_rock

So what happened during the match mate? Get game time?

Lentils have been my go-to recently actually

Ok, ummm.... Well, sorry to say, but the vast majority of that qualifies as warm up... you guys aren't doing a significant amount of cardio conditioning. (I speak as a guy who's coach was ABSOLUTELY insane and tuesday practices are basically 120 minutes of running >.> ) Try the training I suggested on your other thread. Work up to 40 minutes at a decent pace so that you KNOW you can play at least half the game

I'm currently going bi-daily... basically two meals a day at opposite ends of the day. Not really scientifically supported, just how things work out during the semester...

Posting to sub, but also, how intense is your training would you say? I know you mentioned 25 minutes of cardio every training session, but I have no idea how hard you guys are pushing.

OHP always always ALWAYS moves more slowly than you'd like :/ I feel sorry for your delts though! OHP followed by front squats? They must hate you.

You're not a bro? :'( *Sniff*

Way to make the post of the day at ten in the morning Waldo. Now the rest of my day shall be rudderless and pointless

T-dat.

In my experience, the DB rows you can actually get pretty damn close to half your regular row working weight per arm. Just watch that you don't twist too much and get most of the motion from dat retraction rather than dem spine twists.

You said scale, I said root, tomayto tomahto, haven't done music theory since high school...

Yeah, a big problem with music software is that it takes money to develop a better GUI, and so most of the more user-friendly, high quality software packages cost a fair bit of money, frootyloops was in the neighborhood of 500 last time I checked... If you can stomach it and understand electric theory though, Audacity is free and extremely customizable... basically the linux of music software. As for the chords, it all depends on the context of the piece of music. You WILL get a slightly different sound from each possible manipulation, and then there's the fact that there ARE different names for those chords, depending on which is the root. C-E-G is a Cmaj, but E-G-C formulated as such is actually an E minor augmented, meaning you have a flat third, sharp fifth. G-C-E is an unusual one, because you are playing the 4th and 6th notes rather than 3rd and 5th. But you still get something slightly different every time. Part of the reason why writing a damn song can take so long sometimes, there's just so many options...

nom nom nom? Getting your daily protein reqs from your own dead skin cells it seems.

SAME HERE. Funny how being at at school is a lot like being unemployed... minus the lack of stress.

Me too. In a room of four andrews, I'M andrew. The rest are Andys, or go by their last names. Which I can go for as well. But yeah, no real nicknames. I've used aj_rock for a WHILE though, across most forums, just to keep the consistency. You could probably figure out who I am because of that if you cared enough... as a relatively strong, fit guy, I've never really considered the internet a threat to me That being said, if I ever attended a NF meetup, I'd give AJ a try, as many people online show surprise at the fact that I've NEVER been called that IRL

It's a good idea mate. Oly lifts are one of those lifts that cross over for rugby exceptionally well.

Yeah, it really depends on how serious you are about running full pace. If that was your plan all along, then it's very unlikely that any catch-up training they could do (even if they did it properly!) would get them up to your pace. So your situation hasn't really changed IMO.

Indeed right you are, I mis-quoted. Knee shear is why some experts still advocate not going past parallel in squats... Not saying it's right, it's just the form of thought. It IS the moment arm that increases, so torque on the knee is what I was looking for.

Pfft Colorado. Blue Mountain up near Toronto in Canada, iz much better! Good luck re: the job thing. Insert the usual rah rah support text here.

*goes to subbed threads* *sees men's only thread locked* *heart stops* *sees men's only PART TWO* PHEW

caustic: the reason for tall lifters to be cautious of squats is about knee health, nothing else. Without adopting a wider than usual stance, you're almost guaranteed to get your knees too far out over your feet, putting excessive shear stress on the joint. Check the alternatives like sumo squats. Or, front squats should be good too; they force you to keep a straighter alignment, and you use less weight, meaning less joint stress. lainosis: Never fear the nanners. Most fruits are so low-calorie in general, that a single piece of whatever fruit will rarely have even the slightest effect on your energy levels, even if it's the first thing you eat after fasting. Eating a huge bowl of syrupy fruit salad is a different story though. I remember watching a BBC documentary on women who just couldn't seem to lose weight; turns out one of them reported having a daily 'fruit salad' that was pretty much a popcorn bowl of fruit and syrup. *facepalm*

RIP chicken. Church: don't sweat it online. You got a lotta hip-deep wading to do.

S'long as you're getting horizontal adduction and scapular retraction. I'm actually a huge fan of single arm dumbbell rows, and recently started T-bars just for giggles.

My usual warm-ups for dead lifts usually goes 60kg X 5 for form, then: (in percentages of working weight) 65% X 3 80% X 2 95% X 1 total warm-up reps: 11. The key is that, once you get form back under knuckle, to ramp up the intensity fairly quickly, get muscle and mind primed to do whatcha gotta do. I think you're going too light on the warm-up ATM. Umm as for your form issues. This is where upper back and CHEST both actually come into play. I've come out of deadlifts feeling like I pulled a pec sometimes, as everything stabilizes out. That being said, your deadlift is only ~ 10kg below my best, but my upperback/row ability is way up from you. You might be gettin to playing catch up soon. Maybe give those rows a bit more priority. Reaaaaaaally concentrate on the scapular retraction.

Depends on the purpose of eating / if you are on a rest day or not, lainisos. Fruit can be awesome at the right time due to it's non-impact on insulin levels. It's also still very vitamin enriched, and calorie sparse (aka you do have to eat a lot to get calories... one apple ~ 75 cals, now imagine eating a similar sized chunk of chocolate). That being said, they DO NOT keep you very full, and do poorly at re-filling muscle glycogen (fructose tends to get to the liver and stay there), so on rest days with lowered carbs, I'd say keep it low. After a workout and starting your feast after fasting? Go ahead and have some fruit.