Recent content by Ddevildownn

Agreed, I am personally the only person I know of with a problem coming all the way to the chest. Mudge is also right there, when I am doing low reps, high weight I tend to come a bit below my sternum and touch to my chest without incident. Perhaps I should just do that when I am doing 8-12...

I only wear gloves for bench press, mainly because if my hands slip they will be right where I am going to rack the bar onto, quite a painful situation. Nice thick gloves also keep the outside of my palms comfortable while doing close grip bench press. Gloves for just about anything else for...

In my opinion the guy is correct, if you happen to have a shallow rib-cage and short arms it is highly likely that you will expose yourself to injury going all the way to the chest while pressing. This is for much the same reason as doing behind the neck exercises is asking for an injury unless...

It is possible... to my limited knowledge as the others have said, to make the walls of the veins thicker, because they are actually a type of musclar tissue in one of the layers, to what degree I am not aware.

These exercises use some of the largest muscles in your body, and thusly a large amount of free glucose and glycogen, insulin spiking with something easy to down like Powerade or Dextrose, to my knowledge should help. The blood pressure and heart rate thing can't be helped at all, I get the...

To answer the original post, I would reccomend looking in the training sections in MMA sites like sherdog.net, they will have some very good advice to give you. Also look for some Brazillian Jiu Jitsu and Muay Thai boxing classes for fight training. To adress the issue of whether or not...

I am going to guess that you probably haven't used the search function at all for this or any other site to find information on weight training, particularly things about over training and the importance of a full body workout. Your legs are big as the they because they are your damned legs...

I usually use straps just like that, lift without them until I can't keep my grip and then use them, I don't want to cheat my forearms at the same time I would not like to cheat much larger muscles. So when needed I use them. I also do forearm curls and extensions on arm days, it actually...

Some of the best advice I have heard for people who complain about not being able to gain mass or weight is from an MMA forums. Most people who complain of not being able to gain mass are eating less than what is needed to sustain a dead rat, at the same time they are either lifting too much...

Sounds like it could be a stress fracture, I would get it checked out. Also I have a friend who has complained of that when curling for Football conditioning, for the last three years. Nothing catastrophic has happened just yet...

I sincerely doubt that bringing the bar to your neck rather than mid chest to xiphoid succeeds in anything other than extra stress on your rotator cuff and shoulder joint or a tricep workout... depending how you manage to even get it there. Slightly wider than shoulder width grip and to the...

Well, not really, I have been helping him lift since he was 13, he also runs about 280+ when it comes to body weight, he is not exactly a small guy. He would actually be pushing a lot more if he was working out right. But as of right now his workouts consist of maxing every day and ignoring...

This is definitely something to worry about it, if you have trouble rotating it... well not to state the obvious but it is a rotator cuff injury. I would definitely stay off of anything that puts pressure on the joint in any direction or involves rotation. I sustained a similar injury by...

Neurostim+C Orange Pineapple flavor... I kid I kid, I have never tasted anything so horrible in my life. It actaully caused me pain it tasted so bad, but hey I got a free sample when ordering from BulkNutrition. It worked... because it had like 3-4 cups of coffee worth of caffeine in it.

I have a friend who trained for several years, he really is a genetic freak (he trains chest every day without instance of injury and makes gains constantly, he is 15 and pushes 295), he has been taking creatine for quite a while which helped him with stamina problems that he was having. I...