Scared little kids yesterday...

[Lord_Suston]

Because of Needsize's post on deadlifting I felt i had to go and do back and traps yesterday. I'd figure i would describe the gym i lift at. Imagine all scrawny kids with frosted hair and wife beaters. It gets worse All I hear is "yo bro how do i get bigger arms. Curls of course is the reply" So I warm up and do my pull-ups and then i go to cable rows and bang out 4 nice sets of 12rep range with the highest weight. Then I decide why should Needsize be the only person doing deads with heavy weight. So I do a few warmups and then 315 is on the bar up 10 times no prob. Then I turn around and everyone is staring and not lifting. I throw on some more weight and do 365 for four clean reps (ouch did they fuckin burn). My roomate was laughing cause nobody was in a ten foot radius of me, they were just looking at me in disbelief that someone could do that much weight..... Pretty sad that 365 is not tat much weight. But i'm feeling it this morning.....
I know this is a little off training posts, but i'm progressing in size nicely and my strength has increased dramatically sinc i started doing Deads....

 

[beastboy]

Damn I need to start to doing deads, but I admit it.....I'm scared too!

 

[Thaibox]

Sounds like you lift at my gym bro. My training partner and I are the only guys that ever do deads. I've been at the same gym for over ten years and I can only remember seing maybe 2 others do them, but with pretty weenie weights.

 

[Lord_Suston]

Let me guys no one does squats too???? Huh isn't it funny all the guys who want to get big do nothing but bench and curls, yet the big men (or athletic) do almost all compound movements...

 

[Thaibox]

lol, yeah, with the exception of two guys I know of, the only people that usually do squats either use the smith machine, or have 135 on the bar and go down 6 inches, scream, then struggle back up. Its funny, when my gym is packed, everyone bitches that everything is taken. But, somehow I always seem to find the squat racks available. Everyone waits to use the same isolation things.

 

[supersizeme]

i know this feeling, and it is a good one. i train at a ballys and i see maybe 2-3 other guys that deadlift on a regular basis. i'm not as thick as either of them and only one of them hits maybe 200lbs tops for reps. on my heavy days i'll get up 280 for 10 right now and can't wait to hit 315. i so want to hear the sound of 3 plates tapping the ground for 10.

on a side note, my arms did not start growing until i began squatting and deadlifting heavy. i have also watched my traps travel further and further up my neck. i love it.

 

[rippedtrojan]

i know how that is. i can get 315 for 4-5 clean reps. it's not even that much. but since no one deadlifts, and my 160lb self starts lifting a bar with 3 plates on each side, people stare. kinda fun actually

 

[Lumberg]

Man I would love to work out at one of your guys' gyms. At my school there is one gym for everybody, including varsity athletes. So if you go there when the linemen are working out three plates is nothing. Then there's these two guys, one's quite tall and built and he's got bearded, bowlegged buddy who is about 5'5" who I call "Cousin of squat". The little guy gets up to about 500 and the big guys does like 365. They do like 8 sets. I asked them, "What are you training for?" and the bearded guy was like, "Just trying to get big." They don't look like students either so I have NO idea what their deal is.

 

[gettinlarger]

yeah man i rarely see people doing them. ive just recently started them, and i cant wait til i start striking fear into the hearts of others. hahaha

 

[Deciever]

my gym everyone deadlifts and squats.. so it can be hard to get a squat rack at my gym.. for me, a 335 deadlift at 132, seems good, but everyone else is pulling within 30 lbs of me and they are only a bit heavier