Strength / Weight Training

Yup, i'm trying that on Monday. Looks fun!

Awesome! Hope you love it! JM press you’d typically bring it a bit higher than that pic. Eric Spoto has a good (and short!) video about it on YouTube (JM Blakely’s is good too).

There’s so many angles and variations for all of bodybuilding. You could be in a gym all day hitting them all

Tendinitis in my left elbow simply won't quit. Annoying.

I’m sorry, that sucks dude.

Rope Tricep Pushdown

Weirdly enough, the PHUL programme that I got off the Boostcamp app has both Rope Tricep Pushdown and Skull crushers as two separate exercises. So far I've been substituting by just doubling up on the rope, but will have a go at JM presses. The Spoto video says they are even better when done in a Smith Machine so I am going to try that out too.
Thanks forum.

I'm a bit wary of making you guys feel inadequate but wanted to brag about how many plates I'm pushing these days:

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Which exercise?

I can do the same... My knees hate me for trying to make them run so im trying to give rowing ago again (used to row as a kid).

I was aiming for 2k at 2.00/500m split or 8 minutes at a causal pace... From this website, for my age, should be piece of piss

I managed the first 1k at 1.54 split... then a 5 min break. Then 375m at a 1.45 split... then about 10 mins break to try for another 500m at an 1.59 split... FML

I dont even count as a beginner

Standing military press, 20 reps, as part of an entire session that is exercise after exercise, each at 20 reps with no rest between. It's very tough, but quite good fun.

youre a machine... I need breaks. Lots of them. All the time.

That ends up happening, but the interesting thing is at what point you break.

Here's what I'm doing - give it a whirl if you fancy seeing at which point you have to stop.

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Plates is plates, everything's relative - you could be working at a higher percieved effort than the big gorilla opposite deadlifting 300kg. That's what I tell myself anyway.

I'm going to simplify my "training everyday alternate sets stupid reverse pyramid epic gainzz mega fatigue" platform, now the weather in sunny (lol) Scotland is allegedly above zero degrees i'm cycling in a couple of days per week. Colleague who lifts stupid weights tells me to just do bench/squat/deadlift 2x per week, heavy sets 5x3 or 5x5, no fucking about - sounds fair. This advice comes as I discover there's a sport science lab downstairs from my office with a leg press / smith bench press / trap bar deadlift setup & a ton of plates that I can use before work... coincidence?

My gym would never let me use 20ish exercise areas in a row. LOL

Gym at work has been a game changer for me to get training in. Enjoy!

Yeah it'll keep me to ticking over & the leg press will hopefully be kinder to my knees than barbell squats, maybe let me bump the weight up a bit too without any strange crunching noises.

I like the way they give up thinking towards the end.

• A17 some sort of, i dunno, squat maybe? yeah, squat.
  

JM presses are quite fiddly too :-/

The vid that someone suggested on here argues that the bar should aim towards your throat on the way down. When doing that I feel like I randomly distribute the load across most of my upper body, but target nothing in particular. To get any noticeable strain on my triceps I find that I need start with the bar directly above my shoulders and then to aim to lower the bar down to my eyes.

Your thoughts?

I was doing 5x5 up until recently. On the advice of a pt I’ve lowered the weight and going for 4/5x12. Muscles definitely feel more pumped and worked. Time will tell if there’s a physical improvement

If that’s what hits them for you, go for it. You won’t get the same tension/pump on a JM press as a a more direct isolation movement but if you’re getting good range of motion (forearm to bicep) and finding it harder and harder as the set goes on you’re probably hitting them right.

On a different note, I’m mad excited that my training’s on a roll for the first time in a while. Knocked out 155x8 on squats this morning. Not quite a PR but the first time I’m reaching my pre-baby numbers whilst weighing 10 kilos less.

Good work on the squats!

Thanks! Made a real effort to focus on form and, wouldn’t you know, the lift starts getting better!

Do you think focussing on form makes the weight lighter? I find I get distracted and somewhat forget about the weight. Might just be my one track mind😁

I find that it helps make a weight more repeatable. So I can push a set further with a high quality stimulus (moving the way I “should” move) and fatigue less as the workout goes on. Bracing properly makes the biggest difference by far.

Bracing correctly is something which I haven’t really seen mentioned here before. It’s vital.