Comments on: A Primer On Warming Up And Cooling Down https://evilcyber.com/fitness/bodybuilding-primer-warming-up-cooling-down/ Home workouts, fitness, nutrition, diet and the rest. Fri, 13 Jan 2012 19:14:51 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.1.9 By: dmitry https://evilcyber.com/fitness/bodybuilding-primer-warming-up-cooling-down/comment-page-1/#comment-3794 Wed, 12 Oct 2011 05:42:51 +0000 http://evilcyber.com/?p=6490#comment-3794 great article…..thanks wolfie.

]]> By: offermann https://evilcyber.com/fitness/bodybuilding-primer-warming-up-cooling-down/comment-page-1/#comment-3793 Wed, 12 Oct 2011 01:12:39 +0000 http://evilcyber.com/?p=6490#comment-3793 Do not get me wrong, I understand and do my absolute best to follow the principle of progressive overload, its by in large one of the most important. Increasing weights in a linear fashion has been my biggest setback these past 18 months. Each exercise poses its own issue because of the shape of the object I can use for the movement. For example, the majority of my weights are in 5 gallon buckets of paint and the like, these work great for bent over dumbell rows and are even suitable for curls but how the heck am I supposed to press a bucket with a handle on the top. That is where I have to make the most utterly ridiculous thing, I had been using a heavy guitar amp I owned and started with that as a base weight, every week I would add small amounts of weight and put that into my backpack which I then placed into the amp, from there I would press it. Heavy compounds were difficult, there was virtually no way to do a bench press safely, (I was following your weightlifting option 2 plan and am continuing on that) so I had substituted for weighted incline pushups. The only real heavy movement I could perform semi-safely was the deadlift, I use a 5 foot steel tampering rod, feels just like a barbell except 15 pounds lighter, and I would drape my buckets on each side of the steel bar, using clamps to secure them a bit. After I hit about 200 pounds of weight it just became too unsafe and I realized my ROM was not full because the height of the buckets was taller then a standard 45lb weight plate.

These past few weeks I decided I wanted to improve the quality of my equipment for my own sake so I adjusted a few things. I built a sturdy pullup bar, which has a pulley mounted in the center of it which is rigged up to a V shape bar, so far the only use I found for this high cable system is tricep pulldowns which by the way I am substituting for skullcrushers in your plan for the time being. I bought a few rolls of lead flashing from the hardware store I work in, they are very compact and weigh 40-50 pounds a role and they fit perfectly around my “barbell”. This eliminates the need for buckets and now I feel like I am using real equipment. I am doing zerker squats, floor press because I have not constructed a bench and I am back to deadlifts. However, the only problem is that these lead rolls are expensive, far more expensive then an iron plate I’m guessing. I would like to buy weightplates but I live in the middle of nowhere, and the closest person on craiglist selling them is a good 3 hours away, a trip my parents would not allow me to take.

Realizing I just wrote a solid two paragraphs on virtually nothing, the original answer is this. Most of my weights are actually predetermined, in my log I will just add up the totals of things I have dangling from my barbell and conclude around 5 pounds or so of uncertainty on each lift. Adding weight is not the hard part though, because all I have to do is make sure there is more stuff then the last time I lifted, I just wish I had actual weights for my own personal gratitude.

How would I go about warming up for chinups. I normally do 3 sets of 8 reps, unweighted. Am I supposed to do 3 sets of warmup for each exercise requiring one, or will one set do? The reason I never included a proper warmup before was because the several times I tried it the way it was prescribed to me I still felt fatigued during the heavier lifting, and my warmup was no more then 50% of my working weight, I think the volume fatigues me. Thanks for reading if you decided to.

]]> By: the_wolf https://evilcyber.com/fitness/bodybuilding-primer-warming-up-cooling-down/comment-page-1/#comment-3790 Tue, 11 Oct 2011 06:23:01 +0000 http://evilcyber.com/?p=6490#comment-3790 In reply to offermann.

How do you train then in the first place? Do you know the weights that you use normally?

]]> By: offermann https://evilcyber.com/fitness/bodybuilding-primer-warming-up-cooling-down/comment-page-1/#comment-3788 Mon, 10 Oct 2011 22:50:19 +0000 http://evilcyber.com/?p=6490#comment-3788 cool, i have never even thought of warming up other then basic cardio and I suppose its time to drop the static stretches. unfortunately it is nearly impossible to achieve an even less then ideal warmup with my home gym that looks like a construction project. would it still be beneficial to pick an unknown lighter weight and perform a few reps to get the muscle groups moving?

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