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The Daily Achievement Thread...

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    #32
    hunter164
    Registered Users Posts: 2,076 ✭✭✭hunter164


    The first set does be fine then with sweat and fatigue it seems to drop drastically. I was thinking straps or chalk?

    I'll also start giving the hanging down a go :)


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    #33
    xgtdec
    Registered Users Posts: 821 ✭✭✭xgtdec


    hunter164 wrote: »
    The first set does be fine then with sweat and fatigue it seems to drop drastically. I was thinking straps or chalk?

    I'll also start giving the hanging down a go :)

    Chalk is good, i personally dont like straps, i think they create a sort of illusion of grip..but thats just me. If your hanging around for agaes dont forget to add weight to yourself...50kg dumbell down your shorts..that kinda thing:D


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    #34
    Da Za
    Registered Users Posts: 769 ✭✭✭Da Za


    Bored atm..........

    So I thought I'd get in here and say I'll get a PR block pull tonight

    I'll be back with the evidence (vid)

    Also, have had 4 cups of coffee so far and more to come:)


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    #35
    jugger0
    Registered Users Posts: 1,453 ✭✭✭jugger0


    Da Za wrote: »

    Also, have had 4 cups of coffee so far and more to come:)

    Prepare thine anus


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    #36
    JJayoo
    Registered Users Posts: 6,561 ✭✭✭JJayoo


    Hunter164

    Are you using a mixed grip?


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    #37
    imnothim
    Registered Users Posts: 236 ✭✭imnothim


    iv probably got this before but not in a good while as i havent really repped deadlifts in maybe a year or more.
    180kg x 5


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    #38
    hunter164
    Registered Users Posts: 2,076 ✭✭✭hunter164


    JJayoo wrote: »
    Hunter164

    Are you using a mixed grip?


    Yea, why?


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    #39
    Deano7788
    Registered Users Posts: 2,693 ✭✭✭Deano7788


    hunter164 wrote: »
    Yea, why?

    It makes it easier to maintain your grip and stops the bar rolling.


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    #40
    Da Za
    Registered Users Posts: 769 ✭✭✭Da Za


    My Block Pull PR for this evenings session:


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    #41
    imnothim
    Registered Users Posts: 236 ✭✭imnothim


    nice


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    #42
    BrianD3
    Registered Users Posts: 8,289 ✭✭✭BrianD3


    11 standing ab wheel rollouts on my lunchbreak today. New PR. Thought my head was going to explode :)


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    #43
    ronanc15
    Registered Users Posts: 1,279 ✭✭✭ronanc15


    New PR of 165kg deadlift with improving grip.

    Slowly making progress


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    #44
    RidleyRider
    Registered Users Posts: 3,783 ✭✭✭RidleyRider


    ronanc15 wrote: »
    New PR of 165kg deadlift with improving grip.

    Slowly making progress

    Finding it a slow process to increase weight on deadlift also. Fair play to you on your new PR.

    Own a personal level, did 50press ups in a row tonight :D


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    #45
    arse..biscuits
    Registered Users Posts: 1,878 ✭✭✭arse..biscuits


    Daily achievement......... I've convinced my wife to start lifting weights, tomorrow is day 1


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    #46
    ronanc15
    Registered Users Posts: 1,279 ✭✭✭ronanc15


    RidleyRider wrote: »
    Finding it a slow process to increase weight on deadlift also. Fair play to you on your new PR.

    Own a personal level, did 50press ups in a row tonight :D

    Cheers, any increase is progress so we'll keep hold of the positives :)

    Fair play on the press ups! Pet hate of mine! A necessary evil though.


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    #47
    Oregano_State
    Registered Users Posts: 2,290 ✭✭✭Oregano_State


    Completed my first 300m interval track session on wednesday evening (4x300m, with 4min recovery) since I started training for the 400m again after a 2 and a half year hiatus from athletics.

    I've been back training since the early summer, but it's taken surprisingly long to get back to approaching the level I was at a few years ago. I attempted the same session 10 weeks ago and it broke me. Good to see measurable improvement, especially as I've been coaching myself and training alone up to now.


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    #48
    imnothim
    Registered Users Posts: 236 ✭✭imnothim


    170 x3 squat rep pb, raw. haaaaapy.


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    #49
    Hanley
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 21,981 ✭✭✭✭Hanley


    I hired a coach.

    ...sadly it was someone to coach me, not to work for me.

    Doing the SFG cert in July and have to snatch a 24kg KB 100x in 5 minutes, along with a whole load of other stuff. Also have to press a 48kg KB at some point in the near further. Jay from Urban Fitness has his work cut out!


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    #50
    Insect Overlord
    Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 30,857 Mod ✭✭✭✭Insect Overlord


    Hanley wrote: »
    have to snatch a 24kg KB 100x in 5 minutes, along with a whole load of other stuff. Also have to press a 48kg KB at some point in the near further

    Any chance you'd explain the above? I haven't been in a gym in a year so the terms don't mean a whole lot to me as a n00b. :o


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    #51
    Orla K
    Registered Users Posts: 2,462 ✭✭✭Orla K


    What's a SFG cert?

    My achievement isn't really daily. I've lost about 7/8kg with an untreated thyroid problem, which I think I've had since childhood. It was difficult but doable. I'm now on meds and while everyone is freezing my temperature is getting to normal, I've never been so warm! I can't really tell you how awesome it is to be feeling normal and not ****e.
    I've also ordered more tablets today since I've about a week left.

    After 28 years of feeling lethargic and foggy brain I'm starting to feel good.
    For anyone that's healthy/normal it's feels so good to just feel like you feel everyday.

    And the most awesome is my feet aren't so cold that they're numb! I can feel my toes! They are actually warm now, with socks, boot slippers and a blanket over them.


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    #52
    imnothim
    Registered Users Posts: 236 ✭✭imnothim


    5 sets of 20, 100kg squats and no vomit. this thinly veiled showing off thread might kill me.


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    #53
    gymfreak
    Registered Users Posts: 2,793 ✭✭✭gymfreak


    3.5kg PB on Clean and Jerk today :)


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    #54
    tmc86
    Registered Users Posts: 1,031 ✭✭✭tmc86


    Not so much an achievement on weight increases but I had a great week's worth of training sessions last week. I finished off nicely with a legs and core day yesterday in which I concentrated on form. I spent about half the session on squats making sure I was getting perfect sets! Felt so good after it that i was sitting at home that evening wanting to go back to the gym!


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    #55
    BrianD3
    Registered Users Posts: 8,289 ✭✭✭BrianD3


    13 standing ab rollouts today. Again, thought my head was going to explode. Very tough. Yet here is a video from youtube of 71 year old John Maulkin doing 15 standing rollouts.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_NV7kNjHV5o


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    #56
    RidleyRider
    Registered Users Posts: 3,783 ✭✭✭RidleyRider


    BrianD3 wrote: »
    13 standing ab rollouts today. Again, thought my head was going to explode. Very tough. Yet here is a video from youtube of 71 year old John Maulkin doing 15 standing rollouts.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_NV7kNjHV5o

    His 6 pack must be ripped:eek:


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    #57
    Da Za
    Registered Users Posts: 769 ✭✭✭Da Za


    This may be a PR of sorts




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    #58
    RidleyRider
    Registered Users Posts: 3,783 ✭✭✭RidleyRider


    Just went through a whole 174grams of.. skittles:( Disappointed cause I thought I cut all this sh!t out in the night time. Not so much an achievement, more a search for attention :pac:


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    #59
    Hanley
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 21,981 ✭✭✭✭Hanley


    RidleyRider wrote: »
    Just went through a whole 174grams of.. skittles:( Disappointed cause I thought I cut all this sh!t out in the night time. Not so much an achievement, more a search for attention :pac:

    Heh. From reading your posts I always just assumed you were a guy.


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    #60
    Hanley
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 21,981 ✭✭✭✭Hanley


    I got 10x10 ring dips with 10kg added. Was very happy there.


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    #61
    RidleyRider
    Registered Users Posts: 3,783 ✭✭✭RidleyRider


    Hanley wrote: »
    Heh. From reading your posts I always just assumed you were a guy.

    I am a guy:eek: I went through a phase of thinking 'sure I can eat what I want at any time of the day cause I go to the gym occasionally' So I turned a corner where I'd eat just one bar or something small everyday but that is after depressing me:pac:


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