Graham Grice
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As far a morning training goes I hate it!
I far prefer training later in the day. I feel weaker in the morning and stronger and more raring to go after an 8 hour shift doing a physical job!
The spine does take a while to wake up so to speak and lengthen out I think after we have risen from a nights sleep. -
I meant DB’s for bench press.
DB bench press is far superior health wise over BB in my opinion but its usually shoulders that you have trouble with.
Maybe stay with DB’s for a little while, see if it subsides. I had a pain in my bicep region that I only felt when doing chin ups. I felt it on no other movement not even on any bicep exercises! I stopped chins for a while and it subsided. Went back to them and fook me it was there straight away! After another break the same happened. Decided to give chins the chop! Was gutted as was really handy at them and got to a level where i was hanging some good extra weight off a belt for 8 reps but realised I can live without them if needed. With me, being natural and just coming into my fifties its all about staying healthy so I can train into my older years. Squats and deadlifts are still my main staple so not doing too bad! -
Ah ok. I must admit reading your post it gave me the impression it was more of a motivation advice kind of request. The way you’ve described your habits I did’nt think you were anywhere near ready for a macro breakdown
Lol. Sorry if I cam over a bit abrupt! In saying that if you carry on with such a haphazard approach all the calorie % advice in the world wont be much good. But if you had a plan like that it would give you accuracy and something to aim at and a goal for each day.
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What do you mean a starting point!? You obviously know whats wrong as you list them.
Your starting point is get your house in order. Stop eating crap with irregular habits. Blame your hands, as your hands are what lift the crap to your mouth!!
Clear your cupboards of all the crap. Go shopping and buy what you actually need. Pre plan and prepare your daily meals, every day I now exactly what im going to be eating and when, and if its prepared ready then you eat it.
Train your bollox off as that alone should be the catalyst to “want” to eat to support all your efforts and reach you goals. I can never get my head around people that put all the effort, sacrifice, energy expenditure and pain into the training and then not bothering with the nutrition!! Bloody crackers! (Jacobs are nice!!) -
Is the pain there when using DB’s ?
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Im on two 500mg tabs a day. One morning, one mid evening. I have no injury’s or inflammation of any sort but I take them for general health.
Ive seen both JP and Corinne state to up that dose quite a bit if they are having tendon issues etc.
Im also supplementing with Udo’s Choice Ultimate oil blend, a 2:1:1 ratio of omega 3-6-9. Note its not fish oils. I take this at the same time as the Curcummin as ive also researched that a fat intake with it helps absorption. -
Jordan and Corinne use Life Extension’s curcummin. Im using Doctors Best.
Which ever you go for make sure it includes BioPerine in its make up, to help the bodys absorption. -
How you going on with these Tim?
Im nearly out of Doctors best and im looking at going for the Pure Clinicas. -
Glad i asked now!
Im off to Tesco, to bulk buy Jacks recommendation. Seems the best value at £1.60 for 500g’s
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Id also say a mixture of them all.
In other words keep things mixed up. That probably doesn’t answer specifically the question of which would trigger the greatest response, but to be honest all of the techniques would produce a training effect of some degree.
Keep the body off guard and guessing. Keep the bulk of it heavy and compound but throw in plenty of differentials, such as time under tension and rest variations. -
Heres something to try.
If your a seasoned lifter with a good mature muscle base, you should have relatively good mind and muscle hook up.
After lifting for quite some time it seemed to come to me.
Away from the gym try tensing different muscles. Dont actually do any movements, just use the mind to tense the back muscles for example.
Now lets use a seated cable row as an example. Grab what ever handles you’ve decided to use, and before pulling them in towards you, tense those back muscles and keep them tense, and “use them” to row the weight. On the full pull, pause and feel them tensing.
Return the cable slowly and under control, and just before you go for the next pull pause and tense the back again, ready to pull with those back muscles and just using the arms as the hooks to the handles. You can then try the same on plenty of other movements -
I read the same in Nortons squat tutorial. Ive not bothered with a belt in a long time, not for squats, deadlifts or bench press. Ive always been under the assumption that lifting without would be more beneficial, so will be interested to see others opinions.
Lets throw in wrist straps as well!
I had a sore wrist a few years ago and started to use them. It cleared up and I stopped. I dont get any wrist problems now at all but the one time i feel some discomfort is bench press on the Smith. I dont use the Smith that often but if I do, it hurts my wrists if I go heavy.
As im now in my older years and want to carry on training, and try to train smart and safe so I can, do you think it would be wise to use wrist straps to protect my wrists form any future possible wear out and injury, that could occur with the amount of hammer they get!? Or would wearing them be a detriment? -
Was looking at Scotch pancakes today in the supermarket by Hovis.
Made with free range eggs and rapseed oil. Whats your take on those Jordan?
Per 30g pancake..
Fat-2.5g
Carb-14.4
Protein-1.7g -
Theres already a thread discussing this. Its in this section…’Favorite whey’.
Quite a few have posted in there saying what they have tried and what the prefer.
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Sorry to hear your not feeling 100%
As far as you saying you are suffering from depression, I can offer no help or advice. Mental health is a very complicated thing and differs in every individual case.
But one thing jumps out at me when I read your post…….
“My diet isn’t on point ATM and hasn’t been for a long time due to irregular shift patterns and not working where I can get healthy food options i know this won’t be helping the situation but there’s not much I can do about it ATM”….
Only one person in charge of what you eat and when, and thats you. Go out and buy the correct food, as in the foods you think you need. The foods that will fuel your training ambitions and give your body and mind the energy to the road of recovery.
Plan and pre-prepare your meals. Take the food with you and try and ingest your nutrition and get your sleep as best and regular routine you can, around your shift pattern.
Good luck.