TSR Muscle Building Society For Men V7

Do you have a bike?

There's a good little gym like 30 mins cycle from town/fallowfield that do student offers. They have bumper plates, squat rack thats always free, space to DL etc. Only issue is there's no power rack and the dumbells only go up to 30kg.

I'd look elsewhere first but its a good back up plan.

Won't have one for a bit but I suppose the bus would do? Got the address? Theres so many gyms but most are either commercial or too far. What about the aquatics centre? I heard that theres an older section with probably every thing I need, sadly I think its been torn down but I don't know for sure.

Any of you guys ever done lying barbell rows before? What are they like?

Seems like a good way of doing rows super strict minus lower back work but doing valsalva mechanism with your belly pressed against a bench seems a bit dodgy?

Are you primarily interested in bodybuilding/powerlifting/strongman/olympic lifting? Because I can tell you there's pretty much nowhere in Central that caters to strongman. The Third Space/some Soho Gyms have platforms for olympic weightlifting but as you said, they're very expensive.

For bodybuilding, you could get by in some of the Fitness Firsts like the one just off Russel Square, which doesn't get THAT busy and has some decent equipment (Hammer Strength squat rack, bench, Eleiko bar, some hammer machines) a while ago.

For powerlifting, I don't know any more. If you have the cash, I'd avoid UCL/ULU since they get extremely crowded at peak times, unless you want to train after 8pm or before 4pm, in which case they're passable if you're poor? UCL is better than ULU for lifting as there are more racks/bars etc. I've never been to the YMCA so I can't comment.

If you want real lifting kit, your options are either pay loads for The Third Space or something similar or to go further out towards Bethnal Green/Alperton or somewhere else in the suburbs.


I suppose there's Olympic Sports Gym near Manc but I don't know how convenient that is.

I thought you/he were/was high 80s.

I take it this weightloss wasn't intentional?

What the ****. I don't know anything about you, just pictured you as some 220lbs+ mother****er.

I think there are a few factors including working a physical job, playing football non-stop for over a year, going out on Saturday, getting wasted and being spiked with rohypnol and being dehydrated a lot.

I think there are a few factors including working a physical job, playing football non-stop for over a year, going out on Saturday, getting wasted and being spiked with rohypnol and being dehydrated a lot. I think the last one suggests I might be higher if I ever sort my room out because there are some days I wake up itching and with my joints stiff, just from dehydration I think. It wasn't intentional but I don't mind. Even with all this stuff I'm close-ish to being as strong as I've ever been. I used to be able to strict press 70 for 5, now I can do a triple as part of a high volume workout. My squats are a bit down, bench is a bit down but hard to judge since I do it after dips. I could maybe manage 110 instead of 115-120. Deadlift I don't think about because I don't train it - training it as a comp lift is pointless since I don't compete and training it heavy makes work horrible for 3+ days.


Never been above 90 kg tbh. Pretty offended you don't know anything about me. I'm bigger than in these pictures I think. But we'll see if it's noticable.

http://www.thestudentroom.co.uk/showthread.php?t=2044620&page=4&p=38492790#post38492790

I never get why people do this to guys (obviously unless they are trying to rape them).

To be honest, when people had mentioned it - I always assumed that they were lying and had just drank too much or taken too much of something but I was out night and witnessed one of my mates having obviously been spiked. I basically saw how much he had to drink (literally 3 pints) and I was pretty sure he hadn't taken anything himself but the guy just got ****ed up and was all over the place. We took him home in a taxi and he was blacking out and being nonsensical.

If someone did it as some kind of prank or joke - they don't get any benefit from it because they see **** all of what happens.

****ing hell, it actually happens?

I thought TTT was joking.

How or why would people even slip it in?

you look like you lift with the back double bicep and rear poses, but from the front you look like a regular joe, i have the same issue ;(

If you want to look better then shave your chest/abs. Its faggy but worth it if you actually care.

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Just go train at UCL then. It's the cheapest gym and it's got all the kit you need to do SS. Just go before/after peak hours or be prepared to wait for stuff and look for plates.

The other two guys were on amaretto and cokes,