TSR Muscle Building Society For Men V8

I heard about this one since i entered last year and follow the gym on facebook.

Oh and the specifics, not yet. Registration will be up this week but you can see the events from last year on the old event page so know roughly what's coming. There's gonna be car deadlift again.

I heard about this one since i entered last year and follow the gym on facebook.

Oh and the specifics, not yet. Registration will be up this week but you can see the events from last year on the old event page so know roughly what's coming. There's gonna be car deadlift again.




Way to one-up me/everyone.

What competition specifically is it? European Championships?

Try and meet Zoe Smith and grab me an Autograph if she's there.

How do the handles differ on the car deadlift frame to a trap bar?
Trap bar's too thin for my liking

Lol no, I wish. It's just a competition organised every year by the dad of a guy from my club (he's half French). Europeans were a month ago.

Anyone have any recommendations for exercises you can do with DB's for chest that don't require a bench? Stuck with my 85kg DB set until after exams when I can try scoop the money together for the gym.

Sounds like you need to rest for a bit. Often these niggles just need rest and recuperation.

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Could you do DB bench and flies on the floor? It's not ideal but its better than nothing. Also I'm sure you could make some homemade form of bench, just put a couple of stools together or something?

I'm sick of conventional DL's feeling dodgy on my back, so on my DL day I'll be doing sumo deads instead. Should I add any other assistance work, to work on areas I might be missing with conventional DL's?

I was thinking of adding back hyperextensions especially as I squat high bar as well..

I'll have to give it a shot, cheers

Why does it feel dodgy on your back? Where on your back does it feel like that?

Anyway, you're right in adding hypers: for me, my hips hamstrings and medial thighs seem to take precedent for sumo DLs. I'd add Good Mornings, but don't go heavy on them. Do something light, but controlled, and high rep. 3x12 or something. Any back work will be good if you're squatting high bar. Squatting high bar puts a lot of stress on my abs compared to regular low bar squatting anyway, so you want to avoid your abs being too strong relative to your lower back.

Edit: and SGSLDL (snatch grip stiff legged deadlift, quite a mouthful ) are GREAT for nailing pretty much your entire posterior chain.



Floor presses! Although you could lie on a couple of chairs or something and do 1-armed dumbbell press too, I guess, but I wouldn't like to do that. I'd also recommend (weighted) push ups for pretty much everyone for dat dere serratus work, so there's that.

On my lower back, I just can't seem to get it locked in place properly. Also my posterior chain is *******s compared to my quads, so I want to switch to sumo as it uses more of the hips, I think? And thanks, I'll give those a try!

On my lower back, I just can't seem to get it locked in place properly. Also my posterior chain is *******s compared to my quads, so I want to switch to sumo as it uses more of the hips, I think? And thanks, I'll give those a try!

Sumo definitely uses hips a crapload more. A lot of people pull sumo if they've got back injuries (or are very tall). I imagine your posterior chain is pretty bad if you're not squatting low bar and doing some assistance work! Careful with your posture for this. IMO you can't make your posterior chain too strong (same with all of your back), but quads being forced to be too tight through muscle imbalance could lead to some pelvic tilt.

RDLs mate. Posterior chain amazingness.

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Well up till now I was doing high bar squats and conventional DL, and no assistance work on top. I had rounded shoulders as well before, but I did focus on some back work and sorted that out.

Now that you mention it, I think I might have some form of pelvic tilt. It becomes especially noticeable when walking up a hill as my torso leans forward, my ass sticks out and I use my quads a lot.

So looks like the focus will be my hammies, glutes and lower back for the next few months!

Yeah I used to do them but quit for some reason, I'm thinking of doing sumo's as the main movement then these for assistance.