What do you mean the PT's are judgmental? Just curious.

I get what you mean now. I guest trained at a FF gym at Asia Jaya. But most of them are skinny ass fitness pussies. I own them in terms of poundage they use. Everyone's there to learn how to workout but it doesn't give them the right to look down on other people.
Unless you're paying them, they treat other people like crap. Not like their knowledge is all that great.

LMAO! Yep yep. The average fitness centre PT's are definitely not qualified to train people in bodybuilding. To tone, yes, to gain mass, not really.
By the way, free weights produce the best results, always. Most PT's make their trainees use stupid machines. Saw one PT teaching his client how to do arm armed machine flys. Christ!!

Screw the machines. Do free weights. Only skinny guys stay in the machines section. Big guys are always in the free weights area.

Well, when i first started, i had to swallow my ego. I remember when i first stepped into my gym, i was laughed at by the regular guys at The Royal Lake Club (near the Lake Gardens) who were labelled the "strong guys" there. I couldn't even bench the bar, imagine that.
Few years later, i lift more than 2 times of what they lift. I get the last laugh. Now i piss them off by using up most the 20kg and 15kg plates in the gym when i deadlift so they gotta wait their turn.
It takes perseverance, patience and a thick skin but in the end, sticking with free weights is worth it.

This post has been edited by darklight79: Jun 15 2006, 09:42 AM

Yeah. They were seriously bastards with something shoved up their asses. They used to be so arrogant. They would make me wait endlessly for the bench press apparatus.
Now they don't really dare piss me off anymore. But hey, i'm a mellow guy in the gym. As long as i have a good workout, I'm pretty happy. Here's an old deadlift vid. They were waiting on the right for the weights. I took my time.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eJ-Aswa0pJ0

I just hit 415 pounds yesterday for 2 heavy singles.

And a 110kg Yates row video for 8 reps. The third set was killing me. Lol.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kEX1Msk75Io

This post has been edited by darklight79: Jun 15 2006, 10:07 AM

Thanks mate. Old video. I'm gonna put up a new vid of a 200 plus kg deadlift. I've improved.

Yes

Thanks bro. I'm trying my best. Like i keep saying, i wish i started deadlifts a lot earlier. My back has exploded in growth and thickness ever since i started doing them. My US friends say the potential is there. 600 pounds is not really far away, hopefully by the end of this year. There'll definitely be some plateaus encountered, but i guess i should be able to get around them.

Well, look. FF, CF, TF are all glamour places to train, full of youngsters who just do chest and biceps everyday with chicken legs. You're better much joining a hardcore small gym with decent and complete equipment. Granted there are no hot chicks to look at, no air conditioning nor fancy ass aerobics classes and all that, but as long as there's metal, it gets the job done.
Seeing the Cost of Redemption by Ronnie Coleman who trains in a hardcore ghetto gym with only a giant fan blowing in hot Texan weather really inspires me. The gym i train at has no air conditioning at all, but it's got a power rack and I'm pretty happy with it.

This post has been edited by darklight79: Jun 21 2006, 04:22 PM

I meant, i hope to lift 600lb, not weight 600lb. Lol. And no, I'm a very friendly guy. It's very hard to piss me off.
Well, my bodyweight is currently 97kg now. I wanted to reach 100kg, but I need to be careful that the weight gained is more muscle than fat. So it's hard, i need to control the macronutrients in my diet properly. Here we go, another new record. 435 pounds lifted.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BrmSoPKgYEs

This post has been edited by darklight79: Jun 22 2006, 05:40 PM

*grabs Pennywise in a chokehold and proceeds to slowly strangle him to death*

Any place that has a power rack. That's why i don't recommend Celebrity Fitness. Al lthey have is the crappy Smith machine. If you need to pick from these places, FF seems your best bet. I'm not sure about CF though.

Aw bro. Sorry to hear you were sick. I got your sms. Anyway, carl trained with me on Sunday at my club's gym. There was one more guy, a friend of his. Wasted. You should have come. Next time bro, no problem.

Ah crap. Too bad the pass was for first timer walk ins. Or else i'd train with you guys more often. The one session i had with carl at FF was fun though. Back day. Heh.

This post has been edited by darklight79: Aug 8 2006, 01:31 PM

Meeting through forums are fun. I met carlsuen and iliveunderwater through health forums.

Bro. Chris here. I just got your sms when i woke up. Lol. I know it's very confusing when you get different variations of advice on the deadlift. IMO, doing more than 5 reps on the deadlift is wrong. Because the deadlift is a functional strength exercise designed for strength and low reps. You do more than 5 reps in a set, your form will start being crappy. I usually experiment with single, triples and sets of 5. Try to visualize pushing your heels through the floor when you're pulling the bar up.
Your lower torso and your upper torso must straighten out at the SAME time when the bar is going up. Here, the video i posted on youtube of me deadlifting, the guys at bb.com forums saw it, they said the form is very good. Use that as an example.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BrmSoPKgYEs

That was 435 pounds, now i'm already lifting 500lbs, so i guess i'm improving.

Good luck bro.