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Pierre benched 127.5kg at 80kg, and squatted 150kg x 3
Nina benched 75kg with a Sling Shot, thats a 15% increase
Jesse powercleaned 90kg @ 63kg. Thats fucking strong. He now squats 130kg, deads 170kg and benches 80kg. I think he may be ahead of Max at the same stage. Unbelievably explosive.
Max squatted 180kg with his first attempt using knee wraps, he'll get better as he practices with them.
Bigger and faster than he would be if he didn't train at all
Nick reminds me of a trainer at one of my gyms, trains really hard, sweating, grunting, crying out in pain. Looks great, quite strong by mainstream gym standards. He seems to have a different injury every week.
Injuries are the price we pay for the thrill of not sitting on our arse.
Just a quick question for you Nick, how do you deal with all these injuries? For example do you go physio and make sure you stretch etc?
How does it make you feel mentally?
Because I have been having some issues with my lower back (poor hip flexor, glute, hamstring flexibility) due to squatting and leaning too far forward (good morning) for the past 4 weeks now...
I haven't trained a solid COMPLETE session of the beginner PTC program since. 4 weeks ago... I have just been doing bench, press, row (sometimes it gets tight even doing them exercises so stop) whenever I feel like it...
The point being is I feel like pure SHIT. . . My lifts have gone down as I'm not lifting therefore don't think in my brain I should be eating as much as I used too, which makes me think ill put on more fat (that I don't need lol) so Ye it's just like a vicious weakening cycle I think...
I just need a lot of motivation to sit there and stretch for 20mins before and after I workout... And on top of all this the best I've ever squared was 75kg 3x8 =\
Firstly i rest and try to figue out why it happened. Then i rehab and put in place measures so it wont occur again.
I have a few physios I see but I also try and learn as much as i can on my own and implement that.
Not much you can do about feeling like shit except man up and get on with your training. Not being able to train is horrbile but you just have to get back on it.
You learn pretty quickly what you can and can't do (plus volume etc).
I know I can't consistently do horizontal push exercises cos my back muscles are fairly weak (imo anyway) and I have impingement problems in my shoulders (basically means if I bench bench and more bench I'll end up with horribly rounded shoulders or rotator cuff injuries)
Daniel - if you've got tight hip flexors etc you need to STRETCH.
Stretch those muscles and strengthen the opposing muscles.
If you're not doing the exercises at the very least substitute them with either a light prehab exercise or stretching
Nick you should post up some before and after pics to show people what they can achieve if they knuckle down. I could certainly do with some more motivation lol.
I could have made this change much more dramatic if I trained and ate properly from the start. The first few years I was still partying and drinking too much.