Recent content by erickthegreat11

A thousand apologies to all you dedicated lifters. I started my old job back up, and for the past two weeks I havent lifted. My job is fairly physical to where Im sweating in air conditioning all day, so I got lazy and havent lifted. Two to three lifting cycles ought to get me back to 100% or...

I havent trained in two weeks!!!!! This is coming right after I started up DE again, and was stronger than Ive ever been!!!!! I just had to get back into the routine of my old job though, now I'll be loyal to the IRON.

my routine calls for DE to fall 48 hours after normal leg work out. To me DE and sprinting is the same workout. So Id do sprints, then speed work, in that order, in the same day or workout.

change up for my workout plan: Day 1: Narrow bench, db bench, skull crushers, db tri ext, Day 2: weighted pull ups, face pulls, pull downs, bb curls, hammer curls, db curls, incline curls. Day 3: Wide bench, weighted dips, squat, quad, revised: Day 1: Narrow bench, db bench, wide bench...

pain is caused by a weakness. Find the weakness. Go narrow, do dips, whatever. I've had the same thing happen, then I found the weakness, pain stopped.

This will increase the strength in the joints if done properly. You are using enough weight so that your feet dont come off the ground but a few inches, so the impact isnt that spectacular. I believe running for 20 minutes or so would cause more pain. I recently started doing jump squats again...

1.5 to 2.5 hours every day

Just started doing these recently. You take the barbell, standing up, overhand grip, only the bar is held behind you, and just curl it up. Give you an idea where to start, I work with about 55-60 pounds on forearm curls (8 reps), and am working with 30# on a standard 45# bar.

face pulls

Cramping is usually dehydration. It could also be a muscle weakness, in that the muscle is tiring quickly.

There ought to be a sticky on here for quotes like CoolColJ's "Use less weight" I was laughin my ass off. Im a big fan of weighted dips. These seem to help in that range for me. Also using wide grip bench will put more grunt in your chest strength. Dont unerestimate triceps either... throw...

ahhahahha..... sounds like me. Im guilty of getting a little lazy, just a little. My bench and squat went down a little bit. I was so pissed that 210# went up only 3 times tonite. I got so mad I hit the end of my bench until my hand started to get sore... 210# is so close to my short term...

throw in some forearm curls using dumbells. Also do behind the back forearm curls using a barbell. Keep it in the 8-10 rep range, lifting heavier than that is risky if you're prone to pain in this area. The behind the back forearm curls will work the outter forearms muscle, and the other wrist...

I worked my way back up to the weight I did before, and it does hurt the shoulders. So what I did was did flat bench press first, then a couple warm up sets for dips, then full work out weight and I had no pain like that.

I bench every other day and continue to make gains. day 1: Narrow bench, db press, jm press, triceps extensions, forearm curls day 2: deadlift day 3: wide bench, weighted dips, squat, quad extensions, day 4: weighted pull ups, face pulls, pull downs, barbell curls, hammer curls, dumbell...