Yeah well it's better than cheap scotch don't worry about it.correct on both accounts. although protein wasnt designed to be downed with a tropical umbrella and bendy straw. man up and drink that s**t.
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Yeah well it's better than cheap scotch don't worry about it.correct on both accounts. although protein wasnt designed to be downed with a tropical umbrella and bendy straw. man up and drink that s**t.
I think I just must have gotten used to it. I tried it with water and it didn't taste that bad. I do remember that when I first started drinking it even with milk it taste like crap. My creatine is pretty good though, it taste like fruit punch so it's pretty easy to drink.It's not that bad with water. Some of the high-end stuff is actually pretty tasty.
The new creatine I got though. BLECGHK
It's basically concentrated koolaid powder and splenda.
I think I just must have gotten used to it. I tried it with water and it didn't taste that bad. I do remember that when I first started drinking it even with milk it taste like crap. My creatine is pretty good though, it taste like fruit punch so it's pretty easy to drink.
Thanks shmot, you've been super helpful.
flavourless creatine won't absorb well unless its got some sort of sugar/electrolyte in it. thats why flavoured creatines are quite good; they generally use sucralose as a sweetener. if you have an unflavoured one, id strongly advise something to help with absorption, like glucose, juice or even salt O_oMy bro uses a tasteless creatine powder.
Pretty ballin', means you can mix in whatever.
obviously im guessing, but it sounds like a 'pfj injury' (feel free to look this up). in any case, rest for a while and avoid any deep squatting or similar for the next couple of weeks. its all about a gradual return; take a week off, then test the waters and see if you can bend your knee a bit, then a bit further, etc etc. hopefully shouldn't take longer than a few weeks. if it does, i'd recommend getting it getted out.god****it
So I finally injured myself as well. I pushed myself a little too hard while running and my right knee hurts quite a bit. Yesterday, it started out as a feeling of soreness then I was limping and soon after I couldn't even walk on it. It's feeling much better now, I can walk but I can't fully extend my knee without feeling a bit of pain when it bends.
At least I can still lift? :C
i always thought 1xbw bench, 1.5xbw squat, 2xbw dead was the super general rule of thumb, looking at http://www.exrx.net/Testing/WeightLifting/StrengthStandards.html his numbers seem about consistent (if you trust rippetoe). altho I know it changes from person to person. My back got fudged from the accident so my squat will probably be higher than my dead from now onif there's that much of a gap between your squats and your deadlifts, i'd defs get someone (who really, really knows what they're doing) to check your form. they should be relatively close to each other...
I don't know which exact numbers I should write down but:HEY GUYS
Is anyone else down to throw some numbers out there??
BENCH - 185 lbs
SQUAT - 235 lbs
DEADLIFT - 315 lbs
BODY WEIGHT - 180 lbs
TOTAL - 915 lbs
lets do pullups in michigan this weekendI just found this thread. I have no idea where to start really XD
wow man thats hecka impressive =w= im 20ish lbs heavier then you can only bench about 200 XDTrying to lose some fat lately, down to about 140lbs. Current stats, with goals by summer in parenthesis:
Bench: up to 5x175 (1x225)
Squat: up to 3x225 (Break 300)
Deadlift: up to 3x225 (break 300)
if you're looking to regain lost mass, aim for 8-12 reps per set. this is the ideal rep range for building size.In August I had surgery and couldnt eat solid food until like October, so I lost a lot of weight and muscle mass.
I started lifting again at my college but I'm stuck now on some certain exercises. I do bboying, jazz, and hip hop on the side but I make time for weightlifting.
I eat about 2500 calories a day and I weigh 168.
135 bench 5x5, I really struggle on this so I switched to doing dumbbells for a month. I usually do 5x5 with 55 pound dumbbells for now.
155 squat 3x8, I usually don't have any trouble on this and I just need to work out legs more often. Before surgery I was able to do 225.
225 deadlift 3x5, this is my favorite exercise and I usually don't go so intense on these.
105 Barbell Row or 3x8 pull ups. I don't struggle so much but I don't see being able to do my bodyweight+hanging weights for pull ups.
Any tips guys?
Okay, gonna break my answers down per para you have.I've actually been lifting for uhhh...two months now, and I typically do lifting 2-3 times a week, it's really reliant on how available I am with working and doing 17 credit hours at school
Which brings me to my first question. Is it a bad thing that I do cardio & lift on the same day? Along with that, I do pretty much everything lifting-wise that I can thus far on the same day. I'll go through a rundown of my game plan when I work out. I first do a 5 minute moderate walk to warm up, then I stretch for about 10 minutes for my legs, then go for a 10 minute run, typically at a decent tempo pace. Then I stretch my arms and proceed to do machine workouts for my triceps and shoulders, and then back(I'd post everything I do, it's not much, but I don't know the names of everything xD). Then I go to do bicep machines, then I do this like...thing for mainly just triceps...it's like a rope you pull down lol, but I do that last for machines since after then, I'm basically done needing to use my triceps. Then I do dumbbells, which I usually do chest, shoulders, and then biceps with. Then I do that forearm thing where you have the weight at the end of the string connected to the piece of wood/whatever(lol) and that concludes everything. Typically, besides for free weights, I do 3 sets of everything, doing 12 reps with the lowest weight first, then increasing weight and dropping to 10 reps, then increasing again and doing 8 reps. Free weights, I just maintain the same weight and just do 12 reps, 10 reps, 8 reps.
It's awesome because I've noticed a decent amount of improvement these past two months, I still remember having trouble doing 15 lbs with the dumbbells but now I'm up to 25 lbs =P Plus, I've noticed that my shoulders are wayyyy more developed and I can't fit my hand(from the end of my middle finger to the end of my thumb when wrapped around my arm) around my biceps any longer. Hell, I can barely fit it halfway around it =D. It really sucks that I have to squeeze everything into one day though, and especially when it's at 7 at night because that's the earliest I can do it >_<...
I'm actually planning on changing things up soon because I've noticed that I'm not doing everything correctly. I don't do abs as of yet, so I am at least going to throw crunches in next time I work out. Eventually, I'll go back to doing my painful 20+ minute ab workout, but I'm scared of it now since I'm no longer doing it almost everyday like I did in high school xD Also, I don't do bench or basically anything with bars, it's either machines or dumbbells. It's just difficult to do that stuff because I have no one to spot me =( I also don't do stuff I SHOULD be doing like pushups, pullups, dips. I've found a website that has a set regime for the kind of workout I have to do, and I'll be trying it out soon, and it incorporates a lot of things that I WANT to do in an exercise.
I guess if I had any goal as of now, it would be to develop my abs a bit better and in general just get stronger legs so that I can run in 5/15Ks again. I really don't have much desire to get any bigger upper body-wise. If anything, I'd just like a little bit better developed chest/pectoral region, but that's just for the ladies, lol. Kind of not a workout-related goal, but I need to work on controlling acne on my bod, mainly the shoulder region and a little bit of chest, has anyone else had this problem and found a way to control/remove it? I mean it's not TERRIBLE, but it's noticeable, and it's been around for a few years now and I want it to gtfo.
ONE MORE THING! I've been taking protein, and I have a question about it. So one "heaping" scoop with the stuff I use is supposed to be mixed with like 1/4(or was it 1/2...? I don't remember) fl oz of water/milk. That seems like WAYYY too small amount of liquid, and it makes the drink taste AWFUL, but I've dealt with it so far xD. I hear people just disregard the liquid requirement and just mix a scoop in with whatever they feel like. Is it fine to do this? Also, I take one scoop in the morning, and one like 15 mins after a workout. Is that reasonable?
Thanks if anyone can enlighten me a bit on some of this stuff, although I did make it kind of hard to comprehend probably. I just had a lot of ideas come to mind at random times so uhh...yeah! It's awesome that there's a thread like this on Smashboards ^_^