Colstreamer's 2015 training log.

[Ironguruera]

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[Colstreamer]

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Ha ha ha! Brilliant!

[Ironguruera]

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I just never saw the need to curl in the rack. I've curled 130 on the preacher bench. I've curled heavy and slow and controlled and slow and controlled works better IMHO for the biceps except for maybe a mix up trauma day...

[lancer55]

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My gym (LA fitness) is packed full of people who hog all the benches and both preacher stations, pretty much every day around 6pm. If both squat racks are empty and those are the only two barbells left not gonna lie I curl there. I wont do another variation of curls because of all the New Years Resolutionists lol. But that is usually why I go between 9pm-12pm so I can have the gym to myself.

[lancer55]

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Also trying to find specific db's is like a scavenger hunt sometimes. They will be in the yoga room or upstairs by the treadmills, the stupidest places. Nobody puts anything back, they toss everything in front of the db rack rather than back on top and it is like a minefield full of db's.

[Colstreamer]

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My gym is a proper benchers gym. There are 10 benches, one is decline, two are incline the rest are flat. Yet there's only one squat rack. It kinda reminds me of something I read a while back about planet fitness removing squat racks because they're "intimidating" at lunch time till about 6pm it's full of people with skinny kegs all doing bench presses and bicep curls.

Funny thing, my gym is called "McFit" and it's right next to a McDonalds.

[Colstreamer]

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Also trying to find specific db's is like a scavenger hunt sometimes. They will be in the yoga room or upstairs by the treadmills, the stupidest places. Nobody puts anything back, they toss everything in front of the db rack rather than back on top and it is like a minefield full of db's.

That's my second biggest hate. People not putting shit back where it goes! It's not hard! They just curled those dumbells, why can't they carry them back to the rack?

[Ironguruera]

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My gym (LA fitness) is packed full of people who hog all the benches and both preacher stations, pretty much every day around 6pm. If both squat racks are empty and those are the only two barbells left not gonna lie I curl there. I wont do another variation of curls because of all the New Years Resolutionists lol. But that is usually why I go between 9pm-12pm so I can have the gym to myself.

I had to switch gyms cause the crowds of ppl were too much. It was only a matter of time before I lost my cool lol.

Golds by me started charging$10 a month. No contract. Every asshole fat piece of shit in town and teenager wanting to be Arnold overtook the place. New gym is $30/month and pretty dead all the time. Esp at 8 pm when I train.
U might try to find a new place bro.

[Colstreamer]

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Push day.
I forgot my bloody dipping belt today so I decided to bang out a few extra sets on the flat bench. Problem is, in my gym everyone seems to want to bench all the time, so finding a free bench is murder. So I asked a girl (pretty strong looking girl at that) if I could share her bench. Turned out that was the best thing that could've happened. I'm always a bit worried about going too heavy on bench without a spotter, that's why I usually use dips as my main chest exercise but today I whacked on 100kg (220lbs) on my second set and it was easy! So I tried 105kg (231lbs) on the fourth set. I banged them out quite easily so I tried 107.5kg (236.5lbs) on the fifth set.

Warm up:
Dips 3x5 @ bodyweight.

Flat bench press:
1x5 @ 95kg (209lbs)
2x5 @ 100kg (220lbs)
1x5 @ 105kg (231lbs)
1x3 @ 107.5kg
1x5 @ 107.5kg (236.5lbs)
1x3 @ 107.5kg I'm happy with that. I knew I wasn't benching to my potential before as I'd always start with weighted dips which obviously drained my strength before starting with the bench.

Incline bench:
1x5 @ 82.5kg (181.5lbs)
1x5 @ 85kg (187lbs)
1x4 @ 87.5kg (193lbs)
1x3@ 87.5kg
1x8 @ 70kg (154lbs)

Shoulder press:
1x5 @ 60kg (132lbs)
2x5 @ 62.5kg (137.5lbs)
2x5 @ 60kg
I got a bit too excited at my extra strength from not doing dips and had to drop a bit of weight from the shoulder press in the last couple of sets.

Lateral raises:
3x10 @ 10kg (22lbs)

Stretching to finish and I'm done!!

[Colstreamer]

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I had to switch gyms cause the crowds of ppl were too much. It was only a matter of time before I lost my cool lol.

Golds by me started charging$10 a month. No contract. Every asshole fat piece of shit in town and teenager wanting to be Arnold overtook the place. New gym is $30/month and pretty dead all the time. Esp at 8 pm when I train.
U might try to find a new place bro.

My gym is open 24/7 so really I ought to go at quiet times, like weekend mornings or very late at night. 3pm-7:30pm seems to be the busiest time. Also, this chain, McFit, is endorsed by the Klitschkos so it's popular here in Germany.

[Ironguruera]

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Everything is 24/7 by me. I prefer Sundays then by 8pm pretty dead. Except golds. It's a lost cause. I lost it at the front desk 1 day yelling wtf happened here!?! It's amateur hour! Stormed out. Lol

[Colstreamer]

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Lol! I've only ever trained at one other commercial gym, fitness first, I worked nights back then so I could go around 9-10am only the big boys lifting and rarely overcrowded. This place I'm at now...

[lancer55]

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I had to switch gyms cause the crowds of ppl were too much. It was only a matter of time before I lost my cool lol.

Golds by me started charging$10 a month. No contract. Every asshole fat piece of shit in town and teenager wanting to be Arnold overtook the place. New gym is $30/month and pretty dead all the time. Esp at 8 pm when I train.
U might try to find a new place bro.

I would but this is the closest gym to me, 15minutes. There are others but their 30+minutes away.

[Ironguruera]

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I understand that! My work is 30 min and it gets old esp if there is traffic.

U might still try it though. More time in the car but if the gym is dead and u have free roam of the place... Might be worth it! See if they do guest passes so u can go when u normally would and see how crowded it is.

I drive further away now but it's 5 min vs 10 min so not as bad. I'd rather drive the extra 15 but only of the gym has what u want and is much less crowded to make it worth it.

[Colstreamer]

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^^^ I agree. There's a gym literally across the road from my home but they have no punch bags, I like hitting stuff, so I chose my gym based on the fact they have a room with bags and other boxing equipment. I mean, I've checked out most of the gyms in town and none of them are what I'd consider "hardcore" lifting gyms. So getting to hit stuff without going to the boxing gym and getting pounded by kids with loads more stamina than I have was the deal breaker.