Powerlifting/Strength Training Thread

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daveydavey said:
Getting myself on a jollie this week, and will be away on Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday which will be the most consecutive days I havent trained this year / since I started weight training.

I imagine specifically it is dependent on individuals but generally speaking after what time do you start loosing strength? Not concerned as I've worked all areas this week and will be back in the gym Monday so still hitting one work out per week for each area, but just wondering.
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As @Charmless Man said above you will be totally fine with 4 days off - you may even benefit from the rest! I've had 2 week breaks from training and not noticed much drop in performance, although the DOMS you get is pretty intense after you get back into it. I had a lecturer at Uni who was researching skeletal muscle and such (ironically he wasn't in good shape) and I think he claimed 3 weeks of no training is when you start to see notable decrease in performance - my memory could well be wrong though. Diet will play an important role especially when you're not training for a sustained period. I had flu recently and wasn't eating well for a week - I have been struggling in the gym as a result, but hope to catch up soon.
 


mattT said:
As @Charmless Man said above you will be totally fine with 4 days off - you may even benefit from the rest! I've had 2 week breaks from training and not noticed much drop in performance, although the DOMS you get is pretty intense after you get back into it. I had a lecturer at Uni who was researching skeletal muscle and such (ironically he wasn't in good shape) and I think he claimed 3 weeks of no training is when you start to see notable decrease in performance - my memory could well be wrong though. Diet will play an important role especially when you're not training for a sustained period. I had flu recently and wasn't eating well for a week - I have been struggling in the gym as a result, but hope to catch up soon.
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How's the PhD going marra?

I'm currently grappling with some problematic x-ray diffraction data/ignoring it :lol:
 
bought myself an oly bar for the gym as they're all cheapy ones and a gay little traditonal russian style belt as my powerfilting belt bites into my hips when going A2G. Gonna blitz the oly lifts, might even change my program to a dedicated oly one despite that one CM pointed my too being pretty good.
 
oROSSo said:
bought myself an oly bar for the gym as they're all cheapy ones and a gay little traditonal russian style belt as my powerfilting belt bites into my hips when going A2G. Gonna blitz the oly lifts, might even change my program to a dedicated oly one despite that one CM pointed my too being pretty good.
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Thought of a higher belt position? I basically wear mine over my upper abs.
 
Charmless Man said:
Thought of a higher belt position? I basically wear mine over my upper abs.
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yer, thats where I wear it but still does. Maybe not as high as you in that latest deadlift video mind.

even worse is that its a white Eleiko one to match my knee sleeves to make me look an uber helmet. Bar isn't Eleiko though, didn't go that far
 
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Charmless Man said:
How's the PhD going marra?

I'm currently grappling with some problematic x-ray diffraction data/ignoring it :lol:
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Things have suddenly become very busy - got some reviewers' comments to address (bastards!) and it's coincided with some interesting data we've got which could indicate a novel flu protein.

So did you successfully incorporate the heavy met into your protein and get diffraction data? I seem to remember the iodide soaking wasn't working?

Sorry to others for detracting from the thread topic. Perhaps continue by pm?
 
oROSSo said:
yer, thats where I wear it but still does. Maybe not as high as you in that latest deadlift video mind.

even worse is that its a white Eleiko one to match my knee sleeves to make me look an uber helmet. Bar isn't Eleiko though, didn't go that far
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How much did that fucker cost? £4000?
 
Titus said:
I seen some of their belts going for some extortionate price recently. They've got to rip off the SBD covered hippies somehow
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The powerlifting ones are about 300 I think

quite surprised how much difference a decent bar makes, even with lightweights. Might make my own oly lifting thread/blog.
 
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Bench last night:

110kg x 1 (x5 sets)
95kg x 3 (x3 sets)
85kg x 7 (x3 sets)

Strict OHP

60kg x 5 (x3 sets)

Tricep Dips with chains
3 sets of 7.

Also did high bar squats and rows. Understandably my triceps are fucked.
 
oROSSo said:
The powerlifting ones are about 300 I think

quite surprised how much difference a decent bar makes, even with lightweights. Might make my own oly lifting thread/blog.
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Do you have powers to add a sub forum for training logs?
 
Titus said:
Would be canny. I imagine he'd need to change some settings to allow consecutive posts from the same poster though
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there is a time limit where a new post is seperate to your old post but not sure how long it is. Maybe a week or so.
 

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