Recent content by ocellaris

I'm also looking for a new one. I live downtown and finding something thats not far away is tough. I'm currently at the Athletic Center at Denver Place and I hate it. Let me know what you find.

Are you an adolescent? Everything I've read says this effects primarily kids that are still growing, but I am certainly done growing. Just wondering. Im hoping this won't be a huge set back for me since I only did one workout with the pain. I did SLDLs last night and that didnt hurt at all...

I'm well into the Madcow 5x5 SF program and I unfortunately messed up my knees and need to give them a rest for a little while. So this pretty much means no squats and probably no deads for the time being :worried: . I was thinking I'd replace deads with weighted chins for the time being, but...

Wow, Great info, thanks a lot. That site describes my pain/situation almost exactly. Think I'll pass on squatting tonight and save the video for when my knees feel better. I'll mess around with extensions, curls, front squats, leg press, and maybe half-squats or something, see if those bother it.

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Giving up your back = rolling over to avoid being punched in the nose = dumb, but nevertheless pros do it plenty. I doubt green was trained above watching a UFC or two. His mount looked incredibly unbalanced and unpracticed, sitting that high up.. if you cannot escape that mount you have a...

I think I'm avoiding shifting the weight onto my toes. I've been attempting to focus on my form lately and have read Starting Strength pretty thoroughly. I'll try to get a video on tuesday and see if you guys can see anything I'm missing. I do bounce out of the holl slightly, maybe thats it...

I recently started squatting 3x a week (up from 1x). After and during my last workout I got this pain below me knees, sort of towards the very top of my shins. It hurt most at the bottom of the squat, and today things like walking up stairs or sitting up hurt quite a bit. The area is pretty...

Hughes for sure. BJJ is much more widespread than it was during Royce's spree of victories, fighters know how to defend nowadays. Even if you were to discount Matt's BJJ skills, he is a no-joke wrestler with an uncanny ability to avoid take downs, and pop up from them in a matter of seconds if...

This may be a real dumb question, but does anyone have any tips/tricks on getting onto a decline bench with dumbells heavy enough that you cannot curl them. I had an embarassing experience trying to get on while holding them and the whole bench fell forward. I've made several attemps getting...

Great, Thanks for the replies. So should the shoulder blades be pulled together at any point during the lift, or they should they stay in whatever position they roll forward too for the duration? Thanks.

When I deadlift, my shoulder blades are pulled together and my chest is out at the beginning of the lift and at lockout, but at some point along the way (up and down) my shoulders seem to roll forward or drop down a bit. I have to drop the weight pretty substantially (~60%) to sucessfully do 5...

bleh :rolleyes: Here are some beefy hamstrings :rolleyes: I think a big part of my problem is all throughout high school / college, I went about 1/4 way down. The past couple months I've been trying like hell to go deep, but it just feels so akward. I think im getting it down though and...

Nah. I think I still have some natural growth in me, and I don't wana mess with anything until my shoulder is close to 100%.

Hi everyone, this is my first time putting pictures on the internet so don't tear me apart please. Backstory: Been training since 1.15.06, after a 2 year hiatus (torn rotator cuff and then within a month of that healing up, I shattered my right hand got real depressed and drank alot). Was a...