A. Moss' Online Journal discussion

Post by **stuward** » Thu Sep 02, 2010 11:38 am

A. moss wrote:
pdellorto wrote:Andy, where are you holding the weight on those situps?

I was holding it on my chest/stomach... why is that bad?

No, but it's harder if you hold the weight behind your neck or over your head. It's also hard to guage the actual resistance because the weights could slide down closer to your waist, espacially as the weight goes up, making it hard to really compare one workout to another.

A. moss · Post by **A. moss** » Thu Sep 02, 2010 1:06 pm

stuward wrote:
A. moss wrote:
pdellorto wrote:Andy, where are you holding the weight on those situps?

I was holding it on my chest/stomach... why is that bad?
No, but it's harder if you hold the weight behind your neck or over your head. It's also hard to guage the actual resistance because the weights could slide down closer to your waist, espacially as the weight goes up, making it hard to really compare one workout to another.

I have 50 pound plates, and 25 pound plates that I used for my sit-ups. The only way I could keep the weight from sliding down to my waist was to put the two 50's on my chest and hold the two 25's, so I don't really think they were sliding down on me. although I could imagine that holding it above my head would be harder. I'll do it like that, with a lower weight next time.

Post by **stuward** » Thu Sep 02, 2010 1:14 pm

Try these. http://www.exrx.net/WeightExercises/Rec ... SitUp.html

pdellorto · Post by **pdellorto** » Thu Sep 02, 2010 1:16 pm

Sorry Angus!

And good move on the slow-but-steady approach. It works.

A. moss · Post by **A. moss** » Thu Sep 02, 2010 1:25 pm

stuward wrote:Try these. http://www.exrx.net/WeightExercises/Rec ... SitUp.html

That looks good. I'll definitely try that. thanks, stu.

A. moss · Post by **A. moss** » Thu Sep 02, 2010 1:29 pm

pdellorto wrote:Sorry Angus!

And good move on the slow-but-steady approach. It works.

No biggie, pete.

pdellorto · Post by **pdellorto** » Wed Sep 15, 2010 6:58 pm

No hands squatting? Did you put your arms over the bar like it was a yoke?

By the way, one of the TUF12 guys is from my town - Andy Main, training out of AMA Fight Club, is from Boonton NJ. No, I don't know him, but keep an eye out for the guy. ;)

A. moss · Post by **A. moss** » Thu Sep 16, 2010 11:46 am

pdellorto wrote:No hands squatting? Did you put your arms over the bar like it was a yoke?

No, I put my hands to my sides.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CU9UAjI6 ... re=related

[/quote]By the way, one of the TUF12 guys is from my town - Andy Main, training out of AMA Fight Club, is from Boonton NJ. No, I don't know him, but keep an eye out for the guy. ;) [/quote]

Thats BA, I will do that.

What did he win by?

Post by **Jungledoc** » Sun Sep 19, 2010 4:30 am

wait,..Now what????lol

Well, 225 is 2 pairs of wheels. What's next is 3 pairs!

A. moss · Post by **A. moss** » Sun Sep 19, 2010 12:04 pm

Jungledoc wrote:
wait,..Now what????lol
Well, 225 is 2 pairs of wheels. What's next is 3 pairs!

Haha yeah I gotcha, yep thats right.

Jason Nunn · Post by **Jason Nunn** » Wed Sep 22, 2010 5:24 pm

A. moss wrote:
Jungledoc wrote:
wait,..Now what????lol
Well, 225 is 2 pairs of wheels. What's next is 3 pairs!
Haha yeah I gotcha, yep thats right.

Yep, it's always nice to have a reason to go buy more 45's!

Post by **Jungledoc** » Wed Sep 22, 2010 10:18 pm

I once had a goal of lifting every Olympic-sized plate in our little gym. At the time we had 330 pounds of plates. I was trying to do this before leaving PNG for a trip to the US. About 2 days before leaving I managed to rack pull the whole lot! Lucky for me, because while we were away a shipment came that contained another 200 or so pounds of plates! It will be a while before I manage lifting the whole supply again.

pdellorto · Post by **pdellorto** » Tue Sep 28, 2010 2:06 pm

so 5 x 5 is working a lot better than those bodypart splits did, huh?

It's nice to see you getting such a good reward for all of that squatting.

A. moss · Post by **A. moss** » Tue Sep 28, 2010 2:19 pm

pdellorto wrote:so 5 x 5 is working a lot better than those bodypart splits did, huh?

It's nice to see you getting such a good reward for all of that squatting.

Yeah a lot better. I didn't know any better, My dad set up my last routine for me and sed it was good, so I did it. for about 2 months I gained strength and size (I was a beginner, so it didn't take much) and a year straight with no progression. With how unintelligent I am about training, I'm a lot smarter then I was.

thanks man.

Post by **Jungledoc** » Thu Sep 30, 2010 4:27 pm

A. moss wrote:I don't understand whats going on... I've been losing stength here latly and I just took a deload about 2 weeks ago.....I'm taking Creatine too... I've never LOST stregnth when taking Creatine....

Whadday mean "losing strength"? You listed 2 PRs!