Recent content by LucSulla

I'll take 3 when I get heavy on deads, but otherwise I like 1-2 minutes. My BP suffers even when I am lifting on heavy days if I go more than 90 seconds.

I used to do 405 for reps. I think I was in the 300s when I responded to this originally. Then I let a lot of things get in the way, some reasons valid, many not. Now I am back down to 225, and it is depressing some days. One of the harder things I think is realizing where you were is not...

My love of nailing a luscious, ripe watermelon from time to time has nothing to do with this!

Me and one of my best friends started doing 5x5 workouts back in late 2008. He has a bad back just from bad genetic luck, but we took our time getting in to this routine and made sure we used good form and so on from day 1. We ran it together for the better part of a year, and his back...

Gonna have to agree with SD.

Stick to the book/your chart would be my advice. "Feeling" like you worked out isn't necessary to have done good. I did a 5x5 for 1.5 years, doing both the linear and periodized versions. In fact, I just started hitting a linear program again three weeks ago. Enjoy things not kicking your ass...

I get these doing DLs, particularly when I work up to pretty heavy sets. Most of the time, they are caused by your blood pressure escalating to very high levels when you are straining on sets. Same reason you see people get blood shot eyes or nose bleed occasionally. When I do get them, they...

I always spend at least 5 - 10 minutes on a bike followed by another ten minutes of stretching as per the whole "warm taffy stretches, cold taffy breaks" analogy. The only time I've ever hurt myself in a gym is when I: A. Didn't warm up properly (though this was usually just a minor strain...

Wow, it has been almost 2 1/2 years since I logged in here. Glad to see this thread is still alive! It never ceases to entertain. I moved to Florida and started a Ph.D. at UF, which also means I now workout in the campus rec. All of you who have been posting about your campus gym experiences...

I don't think there is anything wrong with smart iso work after your main lifts as long as you keep in mind that they or more the potatos and less the meat so to speak. In other words, don't pursue them so hard you hurt your big lifts. And like I said before, all those insane hypertrophy...

Well, in all honesty, the stuff like the Bill Starr 5 x 5 and so on put on mass and strength, but I think they do a lot more on the strength side. And that isn't down playing how much mass such programs do put on. However, most BBers I know aren't looking to be strong as much as they are...

Smith machines take your stabilizer muscles out of the lift which in turn reduces the amount of muscle fiber stimulated by the movement. It may not seem like a large difference in movement, but locking it into exactly the same path every time doesn't efficiently work the muscle group targeted.

As well as people that take for granted how dangerous bench press can be: USC Trojans' Stafon Johnson has surgery after weights mishap - ESPN I love that the strength coach says he has never heard of someone crushing their throat on BP. I think that is a bit of covering your ass there, and...

There was a pretty large, in depth UK study that demonstrated that stopping above parallel put nearly twice as much sheer on the knee as descending below parallel. If I can find it later, I will post it.

I have before if the cages and racks are all full. Actually, if you read through the threads here, you'd see quite a few people have only to get in trouble themselves with the gym.