Recent content by Beleriand_K

Keeping your elbows in line with your shoulders can not be recommended unless you are a powerlifter participating in meets and using a shirt. Which you apparently are not. So spare your shoulders and keep a less than 90 degree angle between your upper arms and your body. Considering your grib...

No, it would not. Lats haven't got much to do with Bench Pressing and speed is build by your chest during the first half of the distance to help pass the point where your triceps takes over. Bench Pressing use chest muscles for the first half of the distance and Triceps the rest of the way, so...

The best motivation of all is the feeling of succes. Let's face it, in the daily life most of us are just nobodys. If we can scrape together enough money to pay the bills doing whatever crappy work we do, then that's about all we can ask for outside the gym. Your boss don't pad you on the...

If it can be of any help to you, I can send you the source files to my homepage, which is a simple example of how a css-file can be used. You can contact me on [email protected] if you're interested.

If we're talking stylesheets, like on internetsites (css-files), they are great. They make everything a lot easier. My own homepage is build around a simple css-file. You can take a look at the HP at www.beleriand.subnet.dk and at the stylesheet at www.beleriand.subnet.dk/hjemmeside.css which...

Endpoint>No, I don't work for AST. And no, it's not a body building program. I'm sure it can be used by body builders, but it works just as well for power lifters as my self. The reason I keep recommending it is, that I'm currently using it myself. And as I'm very satisfied with the results I...

I have uploaded 11 chapters of the Max-OT program to www.beleriand.dk It is an edited version of the original from AST, but I'm sure a lot of people could benefit tremendously from reading especially the warm-up part.

I choose to read SSAlexSS' story as the joke it hopefully is, but just to make sure some poor innocent beginner doesn't takes it seriously, doing 102 sets through eight hours is completely ridiculous. It's continuing wearing out the muscles way after all energy (and sense) has left the body. In...

You might find these articles useful: http://www.deepsquatter.com/strength/archives/tomdl.htm http://www.deepsquatter.com/strength/archives/tomsquat.html

Deadlift, Bench Press, Squats. Strange, but correct. I'm completely hopeless with squats. And regarding doing deadlifts with a bad back: Maybe you should try doing it sumo style as that puts almost all of the weight on the legs, the back being vertical all the time. And you could start doing...

http://www.er-equipment.dk/intindex.htm This is a link to a danish supplier of powerlifting equipment. On their site is a picture of plates as low as 1,25 kg (= 2 lbs), but at my gym we have plates as light as 0,5 lbs, so they can probably also supply those. Anyway, as you can see, they have...

Thank you very much! It has been a sheer pleasure for an old man (36 yrs of age :)) reading the stories above after having just read another thread about a 17 year old kid complaining that he hadn't made any sizable gains for the past two weeks! He had gained 30 lbs in the four (four!) months...

Zulu>That's a good question. I think it's more because of habit than anything else. We're used to doing triples and it feels good, so we just think "triple" when we have to put a number on something. But not everything in warm-ups are triples. Maybe I didn't make it clear in my warm-up program...

Subscribtion to this site is a big time mistake. Even though I like to look at the pictures of all the beautiful women :D I'm definitely not going to pay for it. The internet is overcrowded with sites supplying naked women for free, so why pay for it? The Pictures of Women forum might be one of...

The best warming up I've ever done is the Max-OT warm-up with a slight adjustment of my own. If you're trying for 1RM at 100 lbs, it looks like this (remember two minutes break between each set): 12 reps at 50 lbs (4/8 of 100) 10 reps at 50 lbs (4/8 of 100) 6 reps at 62,5 lbs (5/8 of 100) 3...