The Official Hype Fitness Thread 5.0

[Anita18]

How much does a bar at the squat rack weigh without any weights on it? I'm starting out the StrongLifts 5x5 program and everything begins at 45 lbs. (Barbell rows start at 65lbs and I have no idea how I'm supposed to deal with THAT since I can't even lift the damn thing off the rack to begin with! I made do with 30lbs...)

It's definitely heavier than my usual 20 lbs, but I wasn't sure if it was 45lbs or less than that. Good news is that I handled the 5x5 well at whatever-it-was-but-more-than-20lbs (which I'd never done before) and I'm not terribly sore today...maybe I'll feel it tomorrow.

 

[Webfoot Hero]

How much does a bar at the squat rack weigh without any weights on it? I'm starting out the StrongLifts 5x5 program and everything begins at 45 lbs. (Barbell rows start at 65lbs and I have no idea how I'm supposed to deal with THAT since I can't even lift the damn thing off the rack to begin with! I made do with 30lbs...)

It's definitely heavier than my usual 20 lbs, but I wasn't sure if it was 45lbs or less than that. Good news is that I handled the 5x5 well at whatever-it-was-but-more-than-20lbs (which I'd never done before) and I'm not terribly sore today...maybe I'll feel it tomorrow.

A typical Olympic bar is around 45 lbs while if you can find a women's Olympic bar, it'll weigh around 33 lbs.

 

[Anita18]

A typical Olympic bar is around 45 lbs while if you can find a women's Olympic bar, it'll weigh around 33 lbs.

How can I tell the difference? I think I'm the only woman using the squat rack, to be honest...

 

[baby_webhead]

www.leangains.com

www.reddit.com/r/leangains

www.reddit.com/r/fitness

www.reddit.com/help/faqs/Fitness

Those will explain much more in depth than I am about to, but no. As long as your diet is consistent and meets the requirements for your muscle building goals. Fasting, actually eats body fat, not muscle. Aka, it actually speeds up your metabolism.

The eat every two to three hours, five to eight meals throughout the day doesn't do much in this regard, not to say it doesn't have it's other benefits. There's three ways the human body is hungry, more or less.

1. You're actually hungry and need food.

2. You're dehydrated.

3. You're body is trained to expect food, so it's grumbles, you think you're hungry, you stuff your fat face and you eat food when you don't need it.

Skimmed all. Thanks! This is the line that really got me!
"Concisely put: starvation mode happens when you are, quite literally, wasting away. Not when you have a simple caloric deficit. Your body will make up for it with fat stores. That's what they're for."

 

[Webfoot Hero]

The women's bar should be about a foot shorter and have a slightly smaller diameter. The differences are so minute that I've seen people confuse them until they pick it up without any weights on it. If you can't tell, you could always ask a gym employee what a bar is and if they have any women's bars.

 

[Golgo-13]

Ah, ok. So more of a Prowler than a pull sled.

Check out this page
http://www.christiansfitnessfactory.com/index.php/Weighted-Sleds/View-all-products

They have one as low as $150

Thanks.

 

[mrvlknight21]

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[knowsbleed]

Man, that looks like it would wear you down through and through. I loathe and love burpees... combined with pullups would lead to more of the former.

 

[baby_webhead]

That burpee mile was sick O_O

 

[ComicChick]

Im tired just watching them do it

 

[mrvlknight21]

Just for fun (and fitness related),Here is a cool video of one of the top Jeet Kune Do practitioners, Tommy Carruthers doing some demos.
Easily some of the fastest hands in the world.

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[knowsbleed]

He's incredible and looks pretty unassuming, not very dangerous looking. Seems to have great upper body strength. I wonder how practical his skills would be in an actual fight. I also wonder how many times his live dummy has been accidentally punched/kicked.

 

[Anita18]

He's incredible and looks pretty unassuming, not very dangerous looking. Seems to have great upper body strength. I wonder how practical his skills would be in an actual fight. I also wonder how many times his live dummy has been accidentally punched/kicked.

Like with all martial arts, nobody recommends whipping out your supposedly badass moves in a real street fight. You just don't know what people are carrying, and most martial arts spars are one-on-one with a lot of rules about respect.

He could possibly scare off any attackers with some of that though. (My friend in taekwondo told a story of a blackbelt who scared away a group of attackers surrounding him, by dropping one of them with a back kick to the face..) But if multiple people went at him with knives (or guns, obviously), he might not stand a chance.

When you're really good at something, it looks easy though. I'm pretty impressed watching the Olympic taekwondo competition. A lot of the high kicks don't look hard to do (at least by them ), but they can still take down the other competitor. Even if you aren't fighting to actually hurt them.

 

[mrvlknight21]

Like with all martial arts, nobody recommends whipping out your supposedly badass moves in a real street fight. You just don't know what people are carrying, and most martial arts spars are one-on-one with a lot of rules about respect.

He could possibly scare off any attackers with some of that though. (My friend in taekwondo told a story of a blackbelt who scared away a group of attackers surrounding him, by dropping one of them with a back kick to the face..) But if multiple people went at him with knives (or guns, obviously), he might not stand a chance.

When you're really good at something, it looks easy though. I'm pretty impressed watching the Olympic taekwondo competition. A lot of the high kicks don't look hard to do (at least by them ), but they can still take down the other competitor. Even if you aren't fighting to actually hurt them.

Most JKD practitioners (like Carruthers and to a MUCH lesser extent, me) do not train for sport or sparring. They train for street fights and survival. There are actually specific scenarios that we train for at my school that involve multiple attackers and attackers with weapons, etc. Not saying that my training guarantees success in all scenarios, but it is far better to have at least considered what could happen, how to move, seen multiple people coming at you, etc etc than to have done point sparring for 10 years and then get faced with a street scenario that looks (and will be NOTHING) like that.


A lot of traditional martial arts are almost worthless in a street fight for some of the reasons that you mentioned.

 

[ComicChick]

i like to use Austin Power's Judo Chop. Surprisingly effective lol

 

[DV8]

everytime I workout my chest or legs hard, I'm sore the next day . . . not so painfully sore that I can't accomplish anything, but a GOOD sore where I know I've really worked my muscles hard

BUT when I do my back and biceps routine, while I feel like I'm getting a good workout and pump, I'm very rarely sore the next day . . . I feel like I'm not really working my muscles proficiently if I'm not sore . . . is that the case? I'm still increasing my weight every week (for the most part) but I feel unaccomplished w/ those muscle groups

 

[ComicChick]

had this as a captcha today. a sign?

 

[Manic]

Anybody got any recommendations on a good pullup bar? Preferably not one that has to be screwed into the wall.

 

[Anita18]

had this as a captcha today. a sign?

LMAO!


Also, oof deadlifts will activate all the back muscles you've been slouching with! I only did 45 lbs, and the old guy who was standing next to the barbell rack asked me if I needed any help. Turns out I could take the barbell off the rack safely, but I couldn't put it back onto the top rack.

 

[baby_webhead]

I think ive solved my back workout problem by doing these. I'm still building strength but it should help balance overall with my pushups.

ok i still don't know how to embed vids here : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bgDVzK454pE

I'm still working steady with my squats and leg lifts.

 

[Trainwreck2100]

I think ive solved my back workout problem by doing these. I'm still building strength but it should help balance overall with my pushups.

ok i still don't know how to embed vids here : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bgDVzK454pE

I'm still working steady with my squats and leg lifts.

I do inverted rows too, pretty good workout but with trx ropes instead of a smith machine

 

[baby_webhead]

I do inverted rows too, pretty good workout but with trx ropes instead of a smith machine

Nice! I just have a home made thingy with a bar propped up on stacks of chairs. It's not pretty but it gets the job done.

 

[DV8]

had this as a captcha today. a sign?

but the real question here is . . . did you ever redeem said Swag Bucks?

 

[mrvlknight21]

had this as a captcha today. a sign?

Whats a captcha/swag bucks?

Anybody got any recommendations on a good pullup bar? Preferably not one that has to be screwed into the wall.

A free standing bar or one that attaches to the doorfame like the Iron Gym?
Let me know, I have reviewed MANY pullup bars.

 

[Speedball]

So I've been told by my doctor to stop doing lower body exercises because I have a weird bone growth on my pelvis and it could the C word. And legs exercises are what I'm good at... ugh...
I need some ideas for upper body exercises that don't involve using the lower body?