Bluemoon Fitness Thread

[decmancity]

Been reading through the book gary and certainly very interesting.

It still seems a bit odd to me how people can eat eggs and a beef patty for breakfast!
I was a standard bowl of coco pops man!
Now I have porridge and sliced banana!

Some good things regarding how he used to workout etc though, I think I would like to nail down the workout I do now before changing it up.

 

[garymj]

Been reading through the book gary and certainly very interesting.

It still seems a bit odd to me how people can eat eggs and a beef patty for breakfast!
I was a standard bowl of coco pops man!
Now I have porridge and sliced banana!

Some good things regarding how he used to workout etc though, I think I would like to nail down the workout I do now before changing it up.

Good idea, but you can always learn something from it.As for the food ,back in the 8os, I was eating up to 24 egg whites a day, plus a whole chicken 2 tins of tuna ugh,Madness I know.

 

[allan harper]

Been reading through the book gary and certainly very interesting.

It still seems a bit odd to me how people can eat eggs and a beef patty for breakfast!
I was a standard bowl of coco pops man!
Now I have porridge and sliced banana!

Some good things regarding how he used to workout etc though, I think I would like to nail down the workout I do now before changing it up.

Good idea, but you can always learn something from it.As for the food ,back in the 8os, I was eating up to 24 egg whites a day, plus a whole chicken 2 tins of tuna ugh,Madness I know.

You was eating 24 raw eggs a day! I'm going to try it one day, doubt I could manage 2 never mind 24!

 

[decmancity]

Been reading through the book gary and certainly very interesting.

It still seems a bit odd to me how people can eat eggs and a beef patty for breakfast!
I was a standard bowl of coco pops man!
Now I have porridge and sliced banana!

Some good things regarding how he used to workout etc though, I think I would like to nail down the workout I do now before changing it up.

Good idea, but you can always learn something from it.As for the food ,back in the 8os, I was eating up to 24 egg whites a day, plus a whole chicken 2 tins of tuna ugh,Madness I know.

Definitely.

Jesus. Well you never know, I say that now but who knows in a few months I may be at the level where I have no choice but to eat that much!

 

[quiet_riot]

For bodybuilding, the regular "bench press" is not all its cracked up to be, though you will find they all use it."Vince gironda" a famous old trainer reckoned ,wide grip neck press on a bench ,and front dips ,with feet forward with chin on your chest were far better for building the " pecs " chest.

I don't get much pec activation on the flat barbell bench. Much better with dumbbells IMO, avoids shoulder irritation I get. Dips are excellent too.

Agree. A better stretch at the bottom, and a great squeeze at the top, thanks to the freedom of movement, I also pronate (?) my wrists as I move up, the squeeze feels better that way.

 

[Mrmcfc]

For bodybuilding, the regular "bench press" is not all its cracked up to be, though you will find they all use it."Vince gironda" a famous old trainer reckoned ,wide grip neck press on a bench ,and front dips ,with feet forward with chin on your chest were far better for building the " pecs " chest.

I don't get much pec activation on the flat barbell bench. Much better with dumbbells IMO, avoids shoulder irritation I get. Dips are excellent too.

Agree. A better stretch at the bottom, and a great squeeze at the top, thanks to the freedom of movement, I also pronate (?) my wrists as I move up, the squeeze feels better that way.

So you finish up with the dumbbell in the same place you would doing flyes?
In my mind that feels like it would be the natural movement to do to get that squeeze going. Think I'll try that out.
:-)

 

[quiet_riot]

So you finish up with the dumbbell in the same place you would doing flyes?
In my mind that feels like it would be the natural movement to do to get that squeeze going. Think I'll try that out.
:-)

Yep, start like this:

[bigimg]http://www.workoutroutinewarehouse.com/images/decline-dumbbell-bench-press-2.png[/bigimg]

and end like this:

[bigimg]http://www.workoutroutinewarehouse.com/images/dumbbell-decline-flys-1.png[/bigimg]

 

[Mrmcfc]

So you finish up with the dumbbell in the same place you would doing flyes?
In my mind that feels like it would be the natural movement to do to get that squeeze going. Think I'll try that out.
:-)

Yep, start like this:

[bigimg]http://www.workoutroutinewarehouse.com/images/decline-dumbbell-bench-press-2.png[/bigimg]

and end like this:

[bigimg]http://www.workoutroutinewarehouse.com/images/dumbbell-decline-flys-1.png[/bigimg]

Haha
Excellently demonstrated.
I'll give it a go next chest day.

 

[decmancity]

Here is what I did this week;

Spoiler

Monday
flat bench press @ 30kg
Incline bench press @ 12.5g each dumb bell
Skull crushers @ 1.5kg each.
Close grip bench press 30kg
Dumbbell military press 12.5kg
Lateral raise 5kg

Wednesday
Deadlift 20kg, 22.5kg, 25kg 1 set of each weight x 8 reps.
Bent over one arm row 20kg each arm
Lat pull down
35.5 x 8
43 x 8
50.5 x 8
Barbell bicep curl

Friday
Bulgarian split 15kg each dumbbell
Lunges 15kg each dumbbell
calf raises 20kg 4 x 10
ab workout
10min punch bag session
2 mile bike

All weights apart from calf raises 3 sets of 8.

On Tuesday I also did 4 mile bike and 3 mile run mixed with some basic db work.

Been working on the diet as well, really cutting the shit out and only had a blow out day today which even then so far has only been about 6/7 ginger nut biscuits!

 

[garymj]

Here is what I did this week;

Spoiler

Monday
flat bench press @ 30kg
Incline bench press @ 12.5g each dumb bell
Skull crushers @ 1.5kg each.
Close grip bench press 30kg
Dumbbell military press 12.5kg
Lateral raise 5kg

Wednesday
Deadlift 20kg, 22.5kg, 25kg 1 set of each weight x 8 reps.
Bent over one arm row 20kg each arm
Lat pull down
35.5 x 8
43 x 8
50.5 x 8
Barbell bicep curl

Friday
Bulgarian split 15kg each dumbbell
Lunges 15kg each dumbbell
calf raises 20kg 4 x 10
ab workout
10min punch bag session
2 mile bike

All weights apart from calf raises 3 sets of 8.

On Tuesday I also did 4 mile bike and 3 mile run mixed with some basic db work.

Been working on the diet as well, really cutting the shit out and only had a blow out day today which even then so far has only been about 6/7 ginger nut biscuits!

Very good work that keep it up,any help I can offer let me know.