Do u feel the tension on the chest when u bench press?
Do u feel uncomfortable on your knee when u hack squat?
Do u feel umcomfortable at ur back when u row?

These are the questions u need to know becos it will tell u whether or not u r doin something wrong.

Just my own experience, I cant feel much when lying on the floor doing bench press and I'm not sure whether u had a feeling of tucking in ur elbow which I think u should. And I think u bend a little bit much on back for the rowing.

Well, just my own opinions, let's hear frm other big bros.

Thanks, van_takawa

Do u feel the tension on the chest when u bench press?
Yup, but not much. Maybe it's because it's too light? i kinda feel more tension on the forearms

Do u feel uncomfortable on your knee when u hack squat?
Not really

Do u feel umcomfortable at ur back when u row?
Can feel some tension, but I think it's the muscles working, no?

I don't really understand what you meant by the 'tucking' feeling, but if there's any sensation on the elbows it's only at the beginning of the press.
And yeah, now that you mention it, i do notice that i overbent on the row. Should be flat. Maybe i need a mirror next time coz difficult to agak2 properly.

Thanks again!

monday = leg
tuesday = chest
wed = back
thursday =shoulder
friday = bicep n tricep
weekend = fapfapfapfapfapfap

no pain no gain

Rename your exercises.

Floor presses, sissy squats, pendlay rows.

Generally your form is fine on all three, imo.
Youtube the exercises i mentioned to see other people do it and check for forms there

Oh ok. It has been ages since I trained at 1U.

Hi guys,
Did anyone here tried Stronglifts 5x5 ?
Is it works? Effective?

good for beginner. it does improve strength.

Thanks mike.

About the squat i made, it's quite different from the sissy squats i saw. Those involve a kind of bent back, limbo rock movement.
http://www.muscleandstrength.com/exercises/sissy-squat.html
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yRUZQYh4cEs

While the one i perform was similar to the hack squat described at bb.com
http://www.bodybuilding.com/exercises/deta...bell-hack-squat

Perhaps you were referring to another type of sissy squat? Or was the way I doing the hack squat resembled sissy? Thanks

IMO, beginner should start something like SL 5X5 to improve strength first before go into isolation exercises.

the only thing that matters for building muscle is gaining strength, no?

Correct me if Im wrong.

This post has been edited by Dagger69: Apr 14 2012, 09:19 PM

Done that for 3 months. Really improved my overall results. Definitely worth a try for newbies. Just one advise, need to have that mental strength

I think im gonna start 5X5 program
normal 3 sets is hard for me

Lol, not sure where I should post this.
Since I changed my diet to fit at least 1g protein per pound bodyweight, my pee has been quite consistently light yellow.
I've been drinking a lot of water since before I change my diet and most of the time it would be near colourless.
I'm drinking as much or more water since the diet change. (I'm pretty sure my intake is sufficient)
Would it be a good indicator of me taking enough protein? (as in there's access being converted to nitrogen and released)
Just a purely curious question.

This post has been edited by strinq: Apr 15 2012, 03:20 PM

Hmm, just my 2 cents, I think the colour also depends on how frequent you drink as well as the quantity. If you spread out the water intake more evenly, I think even you have enough protein, the colour will be clear.

Yeah, I think I do spread it out pretty equally.
I don't drink like a large amount in one sitting then don't drink for a few hours.

EH what website u guys use to find the amount of protein, fats and carbs in a certain food ?

My Fitness Pal has a very nice database, even a section with tonnes of Malaysian food:
http://www.myfitnesspal.com/nutrition-fact.../malaysian-food

For Android and iPhone users, get their app its free and does a good job keep track of your nutrition count for the day.

Guys is a full-body routine good?Any example of a full-body routine I can do?

cekodok.com..malaysian food database.

Oh my bad man, got the wrong term. Guess youre doing hack squats lol.


On a side note, loaded an extra 10kg on the smith by mistake during a flat bench press today lol. Got the first rep and totaly failed the second. Good thing there was one person nearby, cos i was effin stuck!

Lesson of the day: try not to train when youre sick, you end to not focus enough!

Edit: was on the smith so it wasnt so bad

This post has been edited by mikehuan: Apr 15 2012, 08:55 PM

I'm doing Stronglifts 5x5 when I'm started my journey in weightlifting. I like it and the mass gain and strength gain is good. But currently I'm adjusting my workout a bit. Removing OHP (I'm sucks at OHP) and adding dips and chin up, lateral raise, front raise and rear lateral raise.

I started with a friend and he stopped doing SL 5x5 for unknown reasons and started doing isolation exercise such as bicep curl, preacher curl and stopped entirely doing squat and deadlift (large upper body mentality) and guess what, I'm having a much better result than him although he uses mass gainers and whey and I didn't. Maybe genetics play part in that, maybe no. I don't know but I'm very sure that workout differences is the main cause.