Originally Posted by ThaVirus:
What do you bros do for shoulders? I've been watching a lot of NBA after the restart and I want my shoulders to pop like Giannis and seemingly half of the NBA roster.
Mine get some residual work from the bench, overhead press, dips, etc but I'm looking to really go hard on them.
Do heavy presses (db or bar). Aside from that, you don't need any extra front delt work. They get enough work from bench, dips, curls, etc. Never in history has anyone had underdeveloped front delts compared to side and rear.
Focus on tons of side and rear delt work. That's how you get square shoulders. Side raises, bent over flys, reverse pec dec, reverse cable flys, rope face pulls.
In all of your delt work, keep your shoulders pulled down and back to keep tension on the delts and off of your traps. [Reply]
Originally Posted by lewdog:
Let me know how that goes. It’s at least where I would start, for about 4 weeks before assessing how it’s working. We can sometimes improve body composition with increased calories when we’ve caused some metabolic issues.
Yeah, I will let you know. I will probably give it to October for sure. I will have to completely revamp my diet since I have been doing IF for a few years now.
With my workout and work schedule, then I will be eating at 5 AM and then thru out the day to have a more conventional diet. So I may just go to a lot of small meals every 2-3 hours but trying to keep calories at 1500 or less... let's see what happens. [Reply]
Originally Posted by Detoxing:
Gawd i hate those SOB's.
Wipe down the ****ing equipment you disgusting pieces of shit.
Yup staph and ringworm are very common in gyms not to mention COVID If they can link a bunch of cases tied to 1 gym then its bye bye. That's why people need to not be so fucking dumb at take 1 min to wipe shit down before and after using it. [Reply]
Mostly protein and fat when cutting through the summer. Less than 50g of carbs every day except Saturday where I allow myself a refeed day of excess carbs/calories.
People grossly over-estimate how many calories they really need, even when working out hard, to lose weight. I'm very strict on my cutting diet 6 days per week, eating roughly 1,700-1,800 calories per day. I workout 4 days per week and on the 3 days I do not workout, I fast until 12 or 1 on those days and fit all my calories in the day in an 8 hour window.
Now that summer is over I plan to do a modified carb cycle. Basically I will continue to intermittent fasting those 3 days I don't workout and have little/no carbs. But on the 4 days where I lift I plan to stick carbs post workout and in a large evening meal, 100-200g of carbs on those days. I don't mind gaining some weight/muscle back through winter as I add back heavy strength training of squats/deads/bench/military work every week.
I deadlifted 355x3 last week at a bodyweight of 175 so I was pretty happy to see those numbers already, as cutting definitely zaps my strength. [Reply]
Originally Posted by lewdog:
Mostly protein and fat when cutting through the summer. Less than 50g of carbs every day except Saturday where I allow myself a refeed day of excess carbs/calories.
People grossly over-estimate how many calories they really need, even when working out hard, to lose weight. I'm very strict on my cutting diet 6 days per week, eating roughly 1,700-1,800 calories per day. I workout 4 days per week and on the 3 days I do not workout, I fast until 12 or 1 on those days and fit all my calories in the day in an 8 hour window.
Now that summer is over I plan to do a modified carb cycle. Basically I will continue to intermittent fasting those 3 days I don't workout and have little/no carbs. But on the 4 days where I lift I plan to stick carbs post workout and in a large evening meal, 100-200g of carbs on those days. I don't mind gaining some weight/muscle back through winter as I add back heavy strength training of squats/deads/bench/military work every week.
I deadlifted 355x3 last week at a bodyweight of 175 so I was pretty happy to see those numbers already, as cutting definitely zaps my strength.
Do you count calories on an app like MyFitnessPal or Samsung? I feel like unless I use those I always go over, but holy fuck is it annoying as hell to keep logging that shit all the time. [Reply]