Mgoblue201 said:
So squats should be limited? I remember the severe pain I was under when I first began lifting. It must have taken at least a week for my arms to fully recover. Now I can work out every other day with only minor tightness in between. I have the sense that I just had to work off rust so that my arms could get used to so much lifting. It's like trying to start a car after ten years. Something is probably broken. But it seems like squats take a much heavier toil on my body. My legs are well conditioned, and I'm still getting a reasonable amount of lingering pain. It seems to be incrementally building too. I've already done squats twice this week, and I knew that more would be a bad idea. So I actually planned on spacing them out to Monday and Friday, and seeing a few comments in this thread strengthens this resolve. Does that sound like a good idea?
Squats twice a week, Monday and Friday, is not bad at all. I'd say, stick to that and see what you can do about adding it in one more time during the week, possibly Wednesday. Maybe do M/F for two weeks, then a M/W/F for a single week, then two weeks of M/F, and repeat for a while. Slowly move it to one week of M/F and two of M/W/F, and eventually every week being M/W/F. Your body will adjust to the additional load and you'll probably be able to handle it just fine, it just might take longer than you'd expect.
If the tightness/soreness is too severe though, M/F will probably still lead to growth.
A good friend of mine was recently hospitalized, and my girlfriend was having trouble sleeping at night because she was so focused on our friend, so I was spending a lot of late nights at her place until she'd fall asleep. This took a toll on my energy, since I was losing some sleep, so I went looking for some short term solutions.
Fucking. Awesome. I've never tried this stuff before, but it made a huge difference in my mornings after being up late. I only ever drank a half-bottle at a time, but it made me feel awake. I wasn't energetic in a bouncing off the walls kind of way, but I just felt more cognitively aware, you could say.
I had a half bottle left after our friend was out of the hospital, and got the idea to try it before a recent lifting session, and fuck
did I feel pumped. I did my entire routine in a solid 15 minutes less than normal, while adding on a bit more weight to several lifts, and felt great afterward. Woke up the next morning barely able to move, but hey you can't win 'em all. :lol Anyway, if people are having trouble finding motivation or focus to go lifting or complete their lifting routine, maybe trying the occasional 5-Hour Energy will help them out. I'm not planning on using them anymore, as I like to just get enough sleep at night to avoid situations like this, but it is a fun thing to try out once.
A good Q&A about them can be found at their website:
http://www.5hourenergy.com/QandA.asp
I also found some pretty good bread wraps recently, was wondering what the GymGAF thought of them, or maybe hoped people here would find them enticing.
It's some pretty solid stuff from what I can tell, tastes great too. Couple of nutrition labels from them + ingredients:
FlatOut Traditional Italian:
Ingredients:
http://www.flatoutbread.com/products/trad_ital.html
FlatOut Light Italian Herb:
Ingredients:
http://www.flatoutbread.com/products/lt_ital.html
Homepage is at
http://www.flatoutbread.com/movie.html (go to "What's New" to get to the product list with ingredients/nutritional info).
They're a little high on sodium, but make up for it in other areas + tastiness.
TheLamonster said:
Why was the OP edited and deleted? There was a lot of good info there...
Glanton got in an internet-fight with Amirox and left GAF because of it, taking his post with him. He was eventually banned too, which I'm sure is related.
