Strength Weight Training: Anything and Everything II

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If it's galvanized you're ok. If it's just stainless or tin plated it might rust if it's not done right. But really it's going to be supporting a few hundred kilos at most, you'll probably collapse under a heap of plates and twisted metal before it does.
 

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does anyone know how you would go about losing muscle mass from your back/lats
have a lot of muscle in this area as a result of schoolboy rowing and significantly hinders my running/cycling ability now

is it a matter of just simply not working the muscle (i do alot of low intensity swiming) and doing a lot of cardio as well as being in some sort of calorie defecit?

also, if I wanted to stay at my current weight but wanted to maintain strength/tone of muscles, what sort reps/set/session per week numbers would I be looking at?

thanks in advance
 
Doesn't seem to have hurt Usain Bolt much.

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BroughtonMid said:
sorry should've explained better, I am talking in terms of long distance running i.e. upwards of 15km

extra weight to carry
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keep running those 15kms at a caloric deficit and you'll soon lose those lats no problem.

Wanting smaller lats is like women going in for breast reductions - it goes against nature; it is a slap in the face of God.
 
evo said:
keep running those 15kms at a caloric deficit and you'll soon lose those lats no problem.

Wanting smaller lats is like women going in for breast reductions - it goes against nature; it is a slap in the face of God.
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haha okay thanks alot for that
 

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I want to start incorporating some of the Olympic lifts into my routine.

Has anyone got experience with these? How have they helped/hindered you and did you notice a carryover into your sport or athletisism (sp?)?

Also, what lifts have the most benefit to sport and what's the best way to work them into a whole body (two day a week) routine? Shoulder they replace squats? Done as well as squats? Should they make up most of my routine, and then just throw in a couple of supplementary exercises?

Any help is greatly appreciated
 
the main question to be answered is why do you want o lifts in your program and what do you intend to gain from them?

o lifts can take a long time to learn if our not a natural at them which then renders them useless until you're proficient enough at them to get anything from them

with a 2 a week program i'd say there's plenty of other options you go with that won't chew up your 2 - 3hrs of training time per week

if you let me know what you want to get out of them then i can either go into m,ore detail or give you some alternatives
 
cptkirk said:
the main question to be answered is why do you want o lifts in your program and what do you intend to gain from them?

o lifts can take a long time to learn if our not a natural at them which then renders them useless until you're proficient enough at them to get anything from them

with a 2 a week program i'd say there's plenty of other options you go with that won't chew up your 2 - 3hrs of training time per week

if you let me know what you want to get out of them then i can either go into m,ore detail or give you some alternatives
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It seems like they are a great exercise for muscle development and also great for power and strength through the core, legs, glutes and back. Which would have a great cross over into sport. Much like squats and deadlifts, but for your whole body.

With only two sessions, I want to focus on compounds (I'm not doing any isolation stuff, except for leg press and shoulders, though I have had shoulder injuries so I have to do those exercises) and it seems like the oly lifts are the best compounds...
 
they're not great for muscle development as there is no eccentric contraction and time under tension...olympic wt lifters have bulk from their insane 3 times a day training but even then they lift in wt classes

power can be enhanced through other means too such as plyometrics and med ball throws which carryover more because you actually do them in sport...you never pick something up put it over your head in sport

o lifts are basically fast deadlifts really but you still decelerate the bar during deads, especially using dynamic training protocols without bands/chains

if you've had shoulder injuries then i wouldn't be putting anything over your head regardless of what anyone says but you could still try some hang cleans

just remember what they are used for though - power - which is lifting a wt fast...don't load them up where you can barely get it up and your technique goes all over the place

first place to start is by perfecting the hip hinge movement (deadlift)
 
Calves played up more than Dustin Martin last night.

I usually do them twice a week with legs, but may have to cut that down if it continues.
 
I've been getting weird back pain after doing one-legged squats lately (leg up on bench). Basically an occasional sharp pain just over the lower lumbar spine, pretty much just to the right of centre (but still over the spine).

Will get the pain at times when walking (particularly changing direction, or really squeezing my glutes). No referred pain down the legs or anywhere else. Goes away if I give the squats a rest for a few days.

Anyone had any experience with anything like that? Worrying it's a lumbar disc issue, which I don't really want to exacerbate.
 

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