Chuck Norris

[musclesntx]

Originally Posted by BiggerGuns=LongerDrives

Boyd, you ever see that show Workout on Bravo?
I always think of your gym when I watch it...

BRAVOtv.com : Work Out

WTF? My gym isn't run by some old gay chick who don't know d!ck about training (seriously, if you watch her when they RARELY show her training, she doesn't know sh!t).

But I would kill to have her location - she's gotta be raking it in.

[BiggerGuns=LongerDrives]

Originally Posted by musclesntx

WTF? My gym isn't run by some old gay chick who don't know d!ck about training (seriously, if you watch her when they RARELY show her training, she doesn't know sh!t).

But I would kill to have her location - she's gotta be raking it in.

LOL old gay chick

She does look pretty dam good for her age though



It's her locale of her gym and the gym itself that reminds me of your gym
I know it's different set-ups and clientel, but its the moderness of your gyms.

I have never seen her in action? How the hell did she get all this then bro?
She must have trained mostly women then???
The other trainers have done some questionable things too.

That Doug guy died, that was farkin sad

Please tell me why this trainer on her show reminds me of you? (A smaller version of course)...maybe it's his accent?? hahaha


Sorry to clutter your journal, let me know later and I'll delete my posts

[musclesntx]

LOL - it's the accent. Everyone says that to me. They say he sounds like me. bwahahhahahaa

[hrpiii]

I have watched that show twice. She is openly gay, as the scenes with her and her girlfriend are very entertaining. But they rarely show her training, or her trainers working. Mainly it's about her running the place and trying to get into clothes design for fitness. Two of her male trainers are flaming gay, like way over the top.. how the heck can you concentrate on your workout when you have someone going overboard on wtf you are wearing that day... O come on!! I think it's more for the camera and stuff, played up way too much.

[musclesntx]

Originally Posted by hrpiii

I have watched that show twice. She is openly gay, as the scenes with her and her girlfriend are very entertaining. But they rarely show her training, or her trainers working. Mainly it's about her running the place and trying to get into clothes design for fitness. Two of her male trainers are flaming gay, like way over the top.. how the heck can you concentrate on your workout when you have someone going overboard on wtf you are wearing that day... O come on!! I think it's more for the camera and stuff, played up way too much.

I honestly don't care about anyone's sexual orientation. We joke about that around here with each other, but I think no less of anyone based on their preference (cept Jamie and Nate). But that show is JUST about that. I have no problem about it being about HER, but it's obviously a bit overboard for the camera. I don't even watch it, because if my studio had 1/10000000th of that drama, I'd fire everyone at my place.

[BiggerGuns=LongerDrives]

Originally Posted by musclesntx

I honestly don't care about anyone's sexual orientation. We joke about that around here with each other, but I think no less of anyone based on their preference (cept Jamie and Nate). But that show is JUST about that. I have no problem about it being about HER, but it's obviously a bit overboard for the camera. I don't even watch it, because if my studio had 1/10000000th of that drama, I'd fire everyone at my place.

Yeah man, they have called her a b!tch and other things...I dont think any real boss would put up with that

[musclesntx]

Alright, long story short this was a crazy weekend and since I was unable to have an easy leg day during my deload week, I just took leg day off altogether this weekend.

Today was chest and shoulders. Felt Awesome!

Alright, good discussion.

Today is push day, and it felt great to go heavy...
DB Bench
100x15x4

Incline
225x5
275x5
315x5
345x3
365x3x2

Inc DB Bench
100x12x2

Laterals
45x15x3

Front Raises
35x15x2

Very similar to my last chest day, but I flipped the db bench and incline and still got good weight on the incline. I have a nice heavy benching day planned next Tuesday, so it'll feel good to push heavy on the flat bb with 2-3 weeks off of it.

I'm about 246.5 and I have felt bloated the last few days. Not too terrible, but a lot of it has to do with the lack of sleep I got this weekend. Also probably didn't drink as much water as I needed too - staying up late throws you off in so many ways. I told hrp today that I'm cutting carbs off at about 5:30 (right now) and I'm going to zero carb tomorrow. He asked me a question and I wanted to point out something - I'm not going zero carb to get into ketosis. I don't actually avoid every single carb there is. My RTDs may have 3g in them and I get down fiber as well. I don't freak out over trace carbs because again, this is a hormone thing, NOT a "get into ketosis" thing. Nonetheless, I have a terrible time getting into ketosis when I'm trying to. It isn't hard for me to get rid of the carbs, it just doesn't happen for me. I've played with BodyOpus and other ketosis based diets, and it just took a lot for me to get into keto (I use the keto-stix to measure). I don't have to go to that extreme to lose fat (I'm not sure anyone really does) but it was just something I wanted to experiment with in the past. Kind of like pot.

[musclesntx]

I think I've found another thing that drives me crazy - it's the way that everyone thinks there is one way to train. LOL I like simple, but let me point out something: it's quite ok to deviate from a leg/push/pull week. Especially when you consider that half of these schmucks here don't weigh any more than 148lbs, are benching in their yards and eat 955 calories per day...

I can think of a ton of different successful routines (including some that I have developed) that combine squatting and deads on the same day. Hell, some of the most recognizable power programs of all-time include bench, squatting and deadlifting in the same day 3x per week.

I believe everyone knows where I stand on compound exercises and their importance on growth, and how I know you're wasting an assload of time not lifting heavy ass weights, but there are many different ways to attack it. Split and set counts are far less important than intensity and figuring out why you aren't getting stronger. I can say this - if what you are doing hasn't been working, don't expect it to start working out of no where.

If you've been training for more than 2 years and people don't stop you often and ask you for workout advice, then what you are doing isn't working. You aren't working hard enough. If you don't hear things things from people like "If I had arms like yours" and "You must workout all the time" or similar things than that, then it's time to seriously evaluate what you're doing and get it straight.

I'm not trying to be vicious, I just see a lot of people that don't look like they workout regurgitate advice that they heard when they asked wtf they need to be doing a month ago. For the ones that have been here for a long, long time, I think we can all laugh at the number of people who were brand new to the game one day and then 2 months later they're internet experts. I applaud anyone that has the passion to learn, but again, I think most people just see a nice canned answer and then throw it out there as the Gospel when realistically, they don't completely understand the logic behind the answer themselves.

A'ight, I've ranted enough.

[Traps]

[Traps slowly opens the door just enough to poke his head inside] ........ [in a nervous voice] ..... CHUCK!!?? ....... its me .......... Traps ........... is it cool if I come in?


(I dont know what that ment, i'm a little dehydrated i think........ )

BTW, I agree with what you say, however at least they are parroting correct information(most of the time)

For those of you who know who you are

[BiggerGuns=LongerDrives]

Originally Posted by musclesntx

I think I've found another thing that drives me crazy - it's the way that everyone thinks there is one way to train. LOL I like simple, but let me point out something: it's quite ok to deviate from a leg/push/pull week. Especially when you consider that half of these schmucks here don't weigh any more than 148lbs, are benching in their yards and eat 955 calories per day...

I can think of a ton of different successful routines (including some that I have developed) that combine squatting and deads on the same day. Hell, some of the most recognizable power programs of all-time include bench, squatting and deadlifting in the same day 3x per week.

I believe everyone knows where I stand on compound exercises and their importance on growth, and how I know you're wasting an assload of time not lifting heavy ass weights, but there are many different ways to attack it. Split and set counts are far less important than intensity and figuring out why you aren't getting stronger. I can say this - if what you are doing hasn't been working, don't expect it to start working out of no where.

If you've been training for more than 2 years and people don't stop you often and ask you for workout advice, then what you are doing isn't working. You aren't working hard enough. If you don't hear things things from people like "If I had arms like yours" and "You must workout all the time" or similar things than that, then it's time to seriously evaluate what you're doing and get it straight.

I'm not trying to be vicious, I just see a lot of people that don't look like they workout regurgitate advice that they heard when they asked wtf they need to be doing a month ago. For the ones that have been here for a long, long time, I think we can all laugh at the number of people who were brand new to the game one day and then 2 months later they're internet experts. I applaud anyone that has the passion to learn, but again, I think most people just see a nice canned answer and then throw it out there as the Gospel when realistically, they don't completely understand the logic behind the answer themselves.

A'ight, I've ranted enough.

There's alot of people here like that, it annoys the piss out of me too.
I am sure we all know these people

[musclesntx]

Originally Posted by Traps

[Traps slowly opens the door just enough to poke his head inside] ........ [in a nervous voice] ..... CHUCK!!?? ....... its me .......... Traps ........... is it cool if I come in?


(I dont know what that ment, i'm a little dehydrated i think........ )

BTW, I agree with what you say, however at least they are parroting correct information(most of the time)

For those of you who know who you are

LOL - thanks Traps.

Also, if you are doing this and don't realize it, see the pic of the little baby above.

[GetFit]

Originally Posted by musclesntx

If you've been training for more than 2 years and people don't stop you often and ask you for workout advice, then what you are doing isn't working. You aren't working hard enough. If you don't hear things things from people like "If I had arms like yours" and "You must workout all the time" or similar things than that, then it's time to seriously evaluate what you're doing and get it straight.

This is so true. I got some guys in my gym that are there 24/7. I don't know how long they lift for but they are there when I come in and they are there when I leave. They have ok physiques but nothing more than average in shape person. This one guy in particular always says I do ... all the time this sh!t just don't grow. Then he always preaches these drop sets and how the key to legs is lots of light weight.
I am not physically in the position where I can tell him what he needs to be doing but its like bro, if its not working for this long don't you think your doing something wrong.
I don't get these guys, they do this "modified" close grip bench with elbows real wide yet they struggle with real light weight. I come in work out for a month and I am lifting twice what these guys are.

[HammerTech]

Originally Posted by musclesntx

Split and set counts are far less important than intensity and figuring out why you aren't getting stronger. I can say this - if what you are doing hasn't been working, don't expect it to start working out of no where.

If you've been training for more than 2 years and people don't stop you often and ask you for workout advice, then what you are doing isn't working. You aren't working hard enough. If you don't hear things things from people like "If I had arms like yours" and "You must workout all the time" or similar things than that, then it's time to seriously evaluate what you're doing and get it straight.

While your "rant" in entirety was a great post and one I agreed with, this in particular stood out to me as "most important" of it all. I think in some ways all that you do is somewhat "fluid" in the gym...meaning that it's under some level of evaluation all the time to see if it's working or not...and if it ain't, fix it.

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[BiggerGuns=LongerDrives]

Speaking of Chuck

[HammerTech]

Originally Posted by BiggerGuns=LongerDrives

Speaking of Chuck

Talk about a weapon of mass destruction....

[musclesntx]

Originally Posted by GetFit

This is so true. I got some guys in my gym that are there 24/7. I don't know how long they lift for but they are there when I come in and they are there when I leave. They have ok physiques but nothing more than average in shape person. This one guy in particular always says I do ... all the time this sh!t just don't grow. Then he always preaches these drop sets and how the key to legs is lots of light weight.
I am not physically in the position where I can tell him what he needs to be doing but its like bro, if its not working for this long don't you think your doing something wrong.
I don't get these guys, they do this "modified" close grip bench with elbows real wide yet they struggle with real light weight. I come in work out for a month and I am lifting twice what these guys are.

I hear ya - I'm always fascinated with the number of people that can tell you exactly what you need to do or what you shouldn't be doing when they have no basis on what they're saying. Maybe they heard it in the high school weight room. I don't know.

I do