Tell me what beverage you won’t drink in the afternoon in your country, or I might operate the trap door.
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also, whats the colour of the boathouse at Hereford?
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What’s in the case?
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Started taking Creating about 5 weeks ago. I did a semi-loading phase where I took 2 doses per day for a week then down to the normal 1 per day from then on.
Since I started taking it I’ve put on 2.6kg & 1.5% bodyfat according to my Salter scales so my lean mass has remained pretty much the same and it’s all fat.
I know Creatine causes water retention and weight is expected for this reason, I don’t feel like I’ve put on any fat. The waist of my trousers aren’t any tighter, still using same holes on belts etc. but the legs of my trousers are definitely tighter and feel bigger around chest, back arms etc. too. I know this is also due to water retention (I haven’t put 2kg of muscle on that quick) so I can only assume my scales (which are very old) are reading the extra water as fat and take it with a pinch of salt.
On the plus side the Creatine does seem to have helped me through a plateau and I’m creeping up by the odd kg or rep at most sessions again; but my goal of benching my bodyweight by Christmas is lookin decidedly dodgy now. I was hoping for 100kg BW & 100kg bench but may just have to try the 100kg bench and forget bodyweight.
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Those scales use electrical impedance and water will appear the same as fat to them so it will be that
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From what I’ve read they should treat excess water as lean mass but mine seem to be doing the exact opposite.
“Fatty tissue, which is about 10 to 20 percent water, slows the signal. On the flip side, it soars through fat-free mass, such as muscle, which contains 70 to 75 percent water. Flood your body and the device will give you a falsely low fat reading.”
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dog - C2 have not made them for a long time!
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Yeah, from what I could see on YouTube it’s pretty limited in terms of exercises:
Sit this end and push the central part away with your hands or feet, sit the other end and pull it towards you. I guess you’re covering 3 main muscle groups with that but it’s quite a big unit to store, think I’d rather have a weights bench and barbell or dumbells.
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Rather just have bands, stick them in a drawer 
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I’m scared of bands, always think they’re going to take my eye out 
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Plenty of videos of people using them to help with pull ups and them pinging them in the undercarriage
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Son went to gym with me this morning so thought I’d take advantage of having a spotter and try a PB on bench press.
Managed 2 reps at 100kg, tried a 3rd but wasn’t having it.
I’m 107kg at the moment so still a fair bit away from BW but I’ll take that for now.
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Got round to updating my tracker after the weekend and shows how the 1RM calculator/percentages need to be taken with a pinch of salt:
8x90kg gives 1RM of 113kg
2x100kg gives 1RM of 105kg
I reckon I might be able to squeeze 1 rep out at 105kg after doing 2 at 100kg but I don’t think there’s a cat in hell’s chance of me shifting 113kg. That’s a bigger increase than from 90-100 which took me from 8 reps down to 2.
ETA - I think they’re Ok at lower rep ranges (2,3,4) but once you get up around 8/10 they give you too much credit for shifting a lighter weight many times.
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Gym’s been having electrical problems last few days.
Had no electricity on Monday so closed at 3:30 as it was too dark. (I don’t go Mondays)
Lights were back on yesterday but no heating (Fine once you got going)
Email this morning to say still not sorted so they’re closing until further notice and will advise as soon as they’re open again.
I’ve got a bench and a couple of those selectable dumbells at home so looks like I’ll be on them today at least. I can do a decent Push session with those but Pull is a bit trickier - one arm DB rows, bent over rows, shrugs, bent over lateral raises and some sort of curls should be OK.
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Have these in our rowing club, not used as much any more, but good to see what you can do.
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Upto 130kg for 6 reps on deadlifts today.
I hate the first rep of every set though. However hard I try to make sure I get set up just right, the first rep feels like my back is going brake or I’m going to fall over the bar. Once I’ve done one and naturally put the bar back down it all clicks into place and I have my groove but can’t find it from the start.
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Yeah I have the same with heavy deadlifts. That first one always feels odd. 130kg is good going.
Im going to get back into lifting this week. Moved my power rack. Just need to build it and bring all the plates down. Be nice in a empty garage not having to clamber over crap to get to it.
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So after doing a few weeks of my new strength routine ( sets of Rowing, Ski erg, sled push, wall ball, farmers walk, lunges ), I’ve decided to mix in my old routine ( Row warm up, Lat pulldown, seated row, DL, Squat, Calf raises and lunges ).
Not sure which I prefer. Burning loads more calories with the new routine ( based on HR ). Think I’ll just flit between the two on a weekly basis. Mix it up a bit
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