Progress pictures

FireMyst · Post by **FireMyst** » Mon Dec 11, 2006 3:57 pm

i love rings training, it is excellent for core body conditionning... it's tough on the nerves though as i'm still having a shoulder/arm/hand injury from it that's on and off for 4 weeks now.

what i found good to offset the nerve fatigue/injury are therabands... they are fun too!

correction : i was talking about ring equilibriums, push ups are easy with no added weight.

FireMyst · Post by **FireMyst** » Mon Dec 11, 2006 4:00 pm

here's the excercise

http://www.drillsandskills.com/skills/Rings/Z/ria008

http://www.drillsandskills.com/video/di ... ria008.mpg

and from there you raise your legs horizontal and you hold then you lower your body and you hold, you release legs, rise all the way up and do again.

brad_69 · Post by **brad_69** » Mon Dec 11, 2006 4:49 pm

the gymnast rings pushups look aweosme but I dont have the equipment for it.

swanso5 · Post by **swanso5** » Mon Dec 11, 2006 5:05 pm

if you could go to some form of meatl yard they might have some rings or old handles you can sue and attach with regular wt attachments and some chain or thick rope and you'd be set...then you only need a beam or somwething to hang them from

brad_69 · Post by **brad_69** » Wed Dec 13, 2006 1:50 am

Lol I have none of that and dunno where a metal yard is.... sounds like more work than its worth I'll just find other ways to hit the chest and see what I can do. I'll never have a huge one anyway cause frame is too stretched out and lanky.

swanso5 · Post by **swanso5** » Wed Dec 13, 2006 1:58 am

maybe try towel push ups...place a towell under each hand on a wooden floor and slide your hands in and out like a fly/push up combo...can also do with db's if you have the old school one's here the wts can roll around the db

brad_69 · Post by **brad_69** » Wed Dec 13, 2006 2:08 pm

I may give the towel ones a try at home since I'd need hard wood. Thanks.

brad_69 · Post by **brad_69** » Sat Feb 10, 2007 5:30 pm

So its been like 5 weeks since I took the last progress pics and I'm taking a break now for a week for rest so I thought I'd take some new ones.
Since those pics I've gained baout 5 lbs of muscle begun bench and gone from 140-195 and I'm not slowing down yet. Max shrug has gone from 80ish to 110 dumbbells. And everything else has pretty much imrpoved too. May be hard to judge diff since the pics arent great but here they are.
and wow these pics are kinda huge sorry

swanso5 · Post by **swanso5** » Mon Feb 12, 2007 3:19 pm

more back and arm definition but chest still seems to be lagging...how much do you squat, deadlift and bench??

brad_69 · Post by **brad_69** » Mon Feb 12, 2007 5:02 pm

Dont deadlift and I only do body weight exercises for legs. Bench I'm up to 195 set of 7 as best, but I can improve on that., becuase its been shooting up since I started. Like I said before chest just doesnt show its strength for some reason. I'm aiming to be able to do 2 plates 225 bench by like early march.

swanso5 · Post by **swanso5** » Mon Feb 12, 2007 11:42 pm

you'll find it hard getting any bigger without training legs as they let you use the most wt so that should be your next focus i think

Boss Man · Post by **Boss Man** » Sat Mar 24, 2007 2:50 pm

funnyman wrote:Eat like 6 meanls a day with a lot meat. One more thing, dont waste calories doing ............ cardio for now ....... last thing dont waste moeny on supplemens, they really dont work i dont care what any one tells you.

Firstly, he doesn't have to eat Meat.

Low Fat Dairy products, Soybeans, Tofu, Egg Whites, Beans Peas, Rice, Fish. All examples of healthy Protein sources he could have, so no need to necessarily eat lots of Meat.

Cardio is still important, to assume you don't need any is not necessarily a good way to think, as Cardio does help with Circulation, and Lung and Heart condition to name a few things.

Even Powerlifters and people like that do Cardio. You need some level of good Cardiovascular health if you're body is going to carry around, a lot more weight from muscle.

Also Some Supplements do work. A lot of Protein powders work, and Glutamine works, I can testify to that Fact, and I have never heard or read anybody say it doesn't work.

Also Amino Acid Supplements would probably work too, as they are an alternative to P P's, plus things like Glucosamine would work well, for people who want extra protection for Joints, providing the person has no Shellfish intolerance, as Glutamine containes Chitin derived from Shellfish.

So really I would contest your point about supplements. You may have had some unsatisfying results from supplements, but that's either down to not using them properly, or you really did buy some duds, like Muscletech stuff, Creatine Serums, etc etc.

Occasionally some people are non-responders, especially to something like Creatine powder. That could be you.

I'm not dissing you Funnyman, but I can't agree with all your points, but that's not anything against you fella.

brad_69 · Post by **brad_69** » Sun Mar 25, 2007 3:34 pm

Since that pic ive put on another 3-5 pounds almost gotten shoulders and traps much bigger and started working an better range for bench., so sliced the weight down and bring the bar right to chest. I'm also slowly bringing legs back in. In the next couple weeks ill probably take another break then take a new pic or 2 to see the difference.
Oh and I've also started a protein shake... havent noticed a big difference yet but havent been using it for too long.

brad_69 · Post by **brad_69** » Sun Mar 25, 2007 7:52 pm

Oh and I do eat ALOT at least 6 meals a day with alot of carbs protein and decent amount of dairy. I get most of the protein from meat and some from protein shake.

swanso5 · Post by **swanso5** » Sun Mar 25, 2007 10:37 pm

you won't see results "exclusively" from the protein shake it's overall cal's that give results