Thread: Blood, Sweat, and Beers

Originally posted by ALBOB
You dumbass, working out is working out whether it's cardio or weights. If you're feeling sick stay the hell out of the gym until you feel better. Give your body a chance to recover.

Sorry pops, It's just that I was feeling a little guilty considering missing another day in the gym and had to go.

Felt a little better today, but still wasn't quite up to par so all I did was shoulders. Decided to throw military presses in to the workout. (only did them once before) and I think I need to use them more often. It felt pretty weak *hopefully it was just the cold* as I could only do 185 once then needed a spot.
Have a question though;
On military press do you go down till you touch your chest? Cause that's what I was doing and it seemed to feel a little funny in the shoulder joint.

The most effective way to hit the delts with military press is to go behind the neck. Unfortunately, this puts your shoulder joint in a VERY unstable position SOOOOOO use dumbbells. With DB's you can bring your arms down directly to the side of your head which hits the delts hard and you don't have to worry about injuring your shoulder. Generally your upper arm should go much below parallel because that takes the stress off your delts. Also, a little trick to hit the lateral head of your delts is to hold the DB's with your pinky finger higher than your thumb. Standing in front of the DB rack do two or three warm-up sets to get your delts nice and warm then jump straight to your max weight. Go to failure with your max weight and then drop down five pounds and rep out to failure again. When you reach failure again drop another five pounds, etc. Work your way down to the end of the rack and then crawl into a corner and cry yourself to sleep from the pain in your delts. The entire "set" will take you about five minutes but you'll remember it for a lifetime.

I agree that dumbells are the way to go, but I've been stuck on the 95's for quite some time now and wanted to do something different for a boost.

Woke up early today and had the gym to myself again. Ran about half a mile then beat up the heavy bag, ran some more, hit bag, well you get the picture. Did this for two and a half miles then did some abs. Back of my neck on the right side is feeling sore so i'm taking an off day for weights.

Well can't say that i did anything intense over the weekend, but I started my weekend job at the gym and it fucking rocks. I went in and did some weights every now and then (nothing too serious as I have to be in the office a lot) also got in a bit on the treadmill and homework (I know that has nothing to do with weights, but whatever ) I'm going in before work today to make up for some lost time.

Did a bit of chest today but cut it a bit short. Only did Incline bench then dropped it to half and burnt out, then did flat dumbell press, dropped it to half and burnt, then dropped it again to half and burnt out. Shorter than usual but it felt good. I'll do cardio and abs at work later tonight.

Tired today but went in for shoulders. I did military press again and I think I'm going to drop it from my routine as it seems to be too hard on the shoulders. I tried Arnold Presses and I like those, I'm going to throw those in instead. They are pretty hard as I could only pull off a few with the 65 lb dumbells so i've got lots of room for improvement. Also did abs.

Dude...you not have the record for the longest first post in the history of IM, but also I think the longest running up to dat journal

Really?? Damn, and all because I can't think of a title that I like more.

Originally posted by irontime I'm going to drop it from my routine as it seems to be too hard on the shoulders.

Isn't that the point?

Originally posted by ALBOB
Isn't that the point?

Not if the stress is at the joint and not the actual muscles. I've done them on and off for a few months. And my actual joints ache due to the angle and pressure that are placed on it.

IT, so you like the Arnold Press's? I may have to give them a try.

Originally posted by dvlmn666
Not if the stress is at the joint and not the actual muscles.

Yeah, I know, but I saw a chance to give the little fuqer some shit so I took it.

Originally posted by irontime
I did military press again and I think I'm going to drop it from my routine as it seems to be too hard on the shoulders.

Boohoo waaaaa big baby.

Ahh piss off pricks

Ya DV, I like them a lot. The turn really seems to work the muscle well.