Working Out....

[garethom]

Tried a range of different tri exercises, most effective one for me is tricep pull downs with a rope. Feels like the most isolation I've got, and the best gains in strength/size.

[wub]

Weighted bench dips, overhead tricep extensions ss w/ underhand tricep pull downs, single arm tricep kick backs (don't know the correct term)

also this funky new one where you get a bench, lie below the tricep push down station and with an ez bar do a sort of reverse tricep extension until tension. Bit hard to describe, will look for a picture in a bit.

[Molzie]

Weighted bench dips, overhead tricep extensions ss w/ underhand tricep pull downs, single arm tricep kick backs (don't know the correct term)

also this funky new one where you get a bench, lie below the tricep push down station and with an ez bar do a sort of reverse tricep extension until tension. Bit hard to describe, will look for a picture in a bit.

Like skullcrushers but with cables?

[Laszlo]

I've seen people do that thing in the video and I just think "why? You're taking up a bench for no reason".
Is it really that different?

over head is a completely different movement. Also, I can't do the weight standing.

Fair enough. The people I saw doing it were pretty hench so I knew there must be a something to it, I just couldn't work it out

[wub]

Weighted bench dips, overhead tricep extensions ss w/ underhand tricep pull downs, single arm tricep kick backs (don't know the correct term)

also this funky new one where you get a bench, lie below the tricep push down station and with an ez bar do a sort of reverse tricep extension until tension. Bit hard to describe, will look for a picture in a bit.

Like skullcrushers but with cables?

Yes, so you're pulling down rather than pushing up as you would with skull crushers.


Also, skull crushers.

[Molzie]

I'm confused. So you're lying on a bench with your head at the cable end and instead of extending upwards you're pushing out parallel to your body?

[wub]

I'm confused. So you're lying on a bench with your head at the cable end and instead of extending upwards you're pushing out parallel to your body?

Lying on a bench. Ez bar attachment on a cable. Hold with straight arms out above you. Then sort of curl the ez bar back behind your head.

[Genevieve]

It was time to up the calories. Upped them by 250 calories now and will check my progress in a week. Cuz I definitely stalled on massgains (though not on strength gains).

Dope.

Also doing my first ever front squat today.

[Molzie]

good luck! start slow, keep those hips in and push through the heels.

My body is packing in. It seems I've now got an abdominal strain from playing squash ffs

[Genevieve]

Thanks! Ddidn't go too well. Don't think I have the deltoids or chest yet to do them properly, or my arms are just too short. One of those things. The barbell kept relling off, meh.

[Molzie]

What grip were you using? Crossed or straight arm?

[Genevieve]

I tried both, but the bar keps rolling off. When it was in a position where I felt like it would stay, it was crushing my collarbones. I'll take pain if I have to, but this just seemed like a little much.

I may give them another try next time. But yeah, any way I tried them, something seemed to hurt badly.

I even tried this:



Edit: my elbows were probably not high enough..

[wub]

Extra 5kg on my bench for reps, new PB

Feel like a fois gras goose though, so far intake today has been;

4 scrambled eggs, 1 avocado, 4 whole earl wraps
PWO
Whey/creatine shake with water (post)
Chicken breast, chiming churro sauce, salad veg, 4 wholemeal wraps

In just over 4hrs of being up

[wub]

And an extra 10kg for reps on my deadlift PB

[Laszlo]

Well done, mate!

I've got to do back today but I feel wrecked after a shitty nights sleep.

[Genevieve]

OD on caffeine yo.

[Laszlo]

On it.

[Genevieve]

Atta boiiii!

I haven't missed a single day so far. Damn proud of myself.

[Laszlo]

Neither have I!

(only about to finish the third week)

[wub]

Well done, mate!

I've got to do back today but I feel wrecked after a shitty nights sleep.

Thanks man

Also bought myself some digital scales yesterday, so can do proper weighing. As of this morning, am up to 190lbs so not in fact losing weight as I thought