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The Jimbo Slice memorial thread, feat Nate Dogg - The new Off Topic thread

Mellor

One thing that never ceases to amaze me with the gym is the sheer craziness of some people.
The other day, a women was using calf raise machine that was loaded to the hilt with plates. Tried to do a few reps, struggled immediately and blew her ankle. I don't know if it was a broken bone, or a torn ligament. I'd guess it was one or the other though. Stupid behaviour leads to accidents, the gym is no acceptation.
Then her lawyer contact the gym to let them know she is sueing them for damages. WTF?

I'm sorry she was hurt of course. But you you try to lift a weight that's too heavy for you, and you hurt yourself, that's your fault imo.

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Brian?

Blacktie. wrote: »

Either the tacos or the tonta. I think it's called to tonta anyway. Just be sure to use their sauces they have. Amazing.

Torta? Spanish for cake but Mexican for sambo.

I was more enquiring about their fillings.

Blacktie.

Brian? wrote: »

Torta? Spanish for cake but Mexican for sambo.

I was more enquiring about their fillings.

Ah ye torta. I keep making that mistake. Well I'd recommend the pulled pork anyway. I'm not actually sure about the fillings... I think the torta has an egg, some guacamole, bit of red onion, cilantro... but I could be wrong on that. Check out their facebook page.

[Deleted User]

I think I'll have some rocky road.
I really want another of the m&s chocolate fudge gf cake but after polishing off one last weekend i might take it easy

marialouise

cloudatlas wrote: »

I thought it would taste nicer, and I have been trying to go more flexiterian, seek out alternatives where possible and see how I get on

That's good for you, trying to cut down on meat isn't a bad thing. But I must warn you, pea protein is notoriously vile, I have only read horrible reviews of it here.

The only thing I can suggest instead of what you're already doing is trying like a sweetener thing, like MyPRotein FlavDrops, you can just add them (vanilla is my fave) + your yucky pea protein + some yummy nut milk (cashew is my fave) and you'll have a nice shake. It'd be a shame to throw it away

Brian?

bluewolf wrote: »

I think I'll have some rocky road.
I really want another of the m&s chocolate fudge gf cake but after polishing off one last weekend i might take it easy

Rocky road ye say? Sell it to me.

Brian?

marialouise wrote: »

That's good for you, trying to cut down on meat isn't a bad thing.

Excuse me?

marialouise

Brian? wrote: »

Excuse me?

I know, it kills me to write it! Do you want me to up my meat consumption to compensate for the advice?

Brian?

marialouise wrote: »

I know, it kills me to write it! Do you want me to up my meat consumption to compensate for the advice?

Quite frankly, yes. Any time you type advice like that you should eat a packet of ham

[Deleted User]

Brian? wrote: »

Rocky road ye say? Sell it to me.

No it's all mine

cloudatlas

My shoulders are very tight and slightly rounding after a week of testing maxes. I am incorporating dumbell flyes and using a band to do some stretching. Is there anything else you would suggest for upper back shoulders?

Dtp1979

cloudatlas wrote: »

My shoulders are very tight and slightly rounding after a week of testing maxes. I am incorporating dumbell flyes and using a band to do some stretching. Is there anything else you would suggest for upper back shoulders?

Face pulls and shrugs and rev cable flyes

COH

cloudatlas wrote: »

My shoulders are very tight and slightly rounding after a week of testing maxes. I am incorporating dumbell flyes and using a band to do some stretching. Is there anything else you would suggest for upper back shoulders?

Dtp1979 wrote: »

Face pulls and shrugs and rev cable flyes

OP if your shoulders are tight do some rolling/soft tissue work on the pecs/lats/triceps then stretch them out good and proper then do your shoulder stability work eg. lots of row variations, facepulls as mentioned above but would avoid shrugs as tight traps can elevate the scapula and that could exacerbate your shoulder problems.

Three of my fav. go to's are

- Batwings
- Inverted Shrugs
- Band Pullaparts

deadlybuzzman

Talk about $hittin myself, a lad in the gym asked my to spot him on a couple of singles as he was getting back into heavy squatting.
In fairness if anything went wrong as he did 170 x 1 and 180 x 1 there would be absolutely nothing I be able to do for him (we were on a platform, no safety bars)
I felt like I was about to star in a gym fail clip

Alf Veedersane

deadlybuzzman wrote: »

Talk about $hittin myself, a lad in the gym asked my to spot him on a couple of singles as he was getting back into heavy squatting.
In fairness if anything went wrong as he did 170 x 1 and 180 x 1 there would be absolutely nothing I be able to do for him (we were on a platform, no safety bars)
I felt like I was about to star in a gym fail clip

Once you're not wearing white shorts, you'll be ok.

Well, apart from all of the physical injuries.

[Deleted User]

About 5 mins of core exercises, doms for 2 days. Things are definitely worse than i thought :pac:

ixus

deadlybuzzman wrote: »

Talk about $hittin myself, a lad in the gym asked my to spot him on a couple of singles as he was getting back into heavy squatting.
In fairness if anything went wrong as he did 170 x 1 and 180 x 1 there would be absolutely nothing I be able to do for him (we were on a platform, no safety bars)
I felt like I was about to star in a gym fail clip

Should you have just said no, you would like to but not comfortable spotting at that weight?

Alf Veedersane

bluewolf wrote: »

About 5 mins of core exercises, doms for 2 days. Things are definitely worse than i thought :pac:

Them ab DOMS are unpleasant.

They make you not want to be in bed.

cloudatlas

deadlybuzzman wrote: »

Talk about $hittin myself, a lad in the gym asked my to spot him on a couple of singles as he was getting back into heavy squatting.
In fairness if anything went wrong as he did 170 x 1 and 180 x 1 there would be absolutely nothing I be able to do for him (we were on a platform, no safety bars)
I felt like I was about to star in a gym fail clip

I was asked to spot a heavy bench, I said I was unsure that was a good idea, he just said 'sure it's pscychological anyway'. He survived.

cloudatlas

http://www.irishtimes.com/life-and-style/health-family/fitness/losing-fat-gaining-muscle-with-my-not-so-scary-personal-trainer-1.3105587

I have "“gym brain block” after drinking strawberry whey. Considering she threw up last week she is doing well, although her personal trainer sounds a bit snarky.

Mr. CooL ICE

cloudatlas wrote: »

I was asked to spot a heavy bench, I said I was unsure that was a good idea, he just said 'sure it's pscychological anyway'. He survived.

I've been asked to spot a few heavy benches where I've agreed before I've seen the weight involved, but been too awkward to say "actually, no". Only needed to intervene twice and luckily, nobody died.

The way I see it is that anybody who can bench 120kg+ knows that they can't expect someone to pick it off their chest and know that the spotter will only be capable of taking up to half the weight in slack. But if something catastrophic happens like an elbow/shoulder imploding, ain't nothing I'd be able to do about that.

[Deleted User]

cloudatlas wrote: »

http://www.irishtimes.com/life-and-style/health-family/fitness/losing-fat-gaining-muscle-with-my-not-so-scary-personal-trainer-1.3105587

I have "?gym brain block? after drinking strawberry whey. Considering she threw up last week she is doing well, although her personal trainer sounds a bit snarky.

I wonder if she does have a fiancee or doesn't know the difference between the two

Eta: I wonder why my phone doesn't like the accent. Fiancée

Nervous Wreck

Nicolas Cage wrote: »

I've been asked to spot a few heavy benches where I've agreed before I've seen the weight involved, but been too awkward to say "actually, no". Only needed to intervene twice and luckily, nobody died.

The way I see it is that anybody who can bench 120kg+ knows that they can't expect someone to pick it off their chest and know that the spotter will only be capable of taking up to half the weight in slack. But if something catastrophic happens like an elbow/shoulder imploding, ain't nothing I'd be able to do about that.

Anyone benching any decent weight knows what to expect from a spotter; a bit of help but not to take the whole thing. I.e if they drop it on their chest and you have to grab it, they're gonna help you lift it off them. I'm not particularly strong but I've had no issues spotting people on 150+ max efforts.

testtech05

OK so firstly I want to apologise for the long winded nature of the story. I'm a long time follower of Hanleys mails and training programs and always read the daily emails from him but unfortunately I have never had the chance to train in RevFit as I am based down in the west of the country but I have noticed a funny/worrying trend lately that is indirectly related to Hanley.

There is a gym down here close to where I work which Hanley gave a seminar in 1 day a couple of years ago, this same gym has recently changed from a commercial style to a more 1 to 1 or group PT orientated approach. (All pretty boring so far I know but bare with me.)

I am on the mailing list for both Gyms so today I get an email from both 1st from Hanley @ 9am titled "Do These 3 Things To Tone Up & Lose Weight Before Summer's Out" and secondly from the local gym @ 11:30am titled "3 Ways to lose weight this summer". I thought surely a coincidence given the topic and time of year etc but when I went on to read the mails large parts of Hanleys mail are just copied and pasted into the one from my local guy, the rest just changed slightly. There have been similar mails before where I have gotten a biut of deja vu from reading them but never as blatant as today.

I am just wondering if anyone else thinks there is something wrong with this or am I just overreacting, maybe there is a link between the 2 gyms that I am unaware of as this particular local gym is not where I go. Just looking forward to some opinions on it and as Hanley was involved this seemed like the best place for it!

ford2600

Brian? wrote: »

In some actually off topic news. There's 4kg of brisket in my fridge. It's going to be one hell of a weekend.

How was the brisket? What wood did you use for smoke?

One of the best ways to have beef. Cheap as fcuk to.

€9/kg or so?

COH

testtech05 wrote: »

OK so firstly I want to apologise for the long winded nature of the story. I'm a long time follower of Hanleys mails and training programs and always read the daily emails from him but unfortunately I have never had the chance to train in RevFit as I am based down in the west of the country but I have noticed a funny/worrying trend lately that is indirectly related to Hanley.

There is a gym down here close to where I work which Hanley gave a seminar in 1 day a couple of years ago, this same gym has recently changed from a commercial style to a more 1 to 1 or group PT orientated approach. (All pretty boring so far I know but bare with me.)

I am on the mailing list for both Gyms so today I get an email from both 1st from Hanley @ 9am titled "Do These 3 Things To Tone Up & Lose Weight Before Summer's Out" and secondly from the local gym @ 11:30am titled "3 Ways to lose weight this summer". I thought surely a coincidence given the topic and time of year etc but when I went on to read the mails large parts of Hanleys mail are just copied and pasted into the one from my local guy, the rest just changed slightly. There have been similar mails before where I have gotten a biut of deja vu from reading them but never as blatant as today.

I am just wondering if anyone else thinks there is something wrong with this or am I just overreacting, maybe there is a link between the 2 gyms that I am unaware of as this particular local gym is not where I go. Just looking forward to some opinions on it and as Hanley was involved this seemed like the best place for it!

Welcome to the fitness industry

Alf Veedersane

testtech05 wrote: »

OK so firstly I want to apologise for the long winded nature of the story. I'm a long time follower of Hanleys mails and training programs and always read the daily emails from him but unfortunately I have never had the chance to train in RevFit as I am based down in the west of the country but I have noticed a funny/worrying trend lately that is indirectly related to Hanley.

There is a gym down here close to where I work which Hanley gave a seminar in 1 day a couple of years ago, this same gym has recently changed from a commercial style to a more 1 to 1 or group PT orientated approach. (All pretty boring so far I know but bare with me.)

I am on the mailing list for both Gyms so today I get an email from both 1st from Hanley @ 9am titled "Do These 3 Things To Tone Up & Lose Weight Before Summer's Out" and secondly from the local gym @ 11:30am titled "3 Ways to lose weight this summer". I thought surely a coincidence given the topic and time of year etc but when I went on to read the mails large parts of Hanleys mail are just copied and pasted into the one from my local guy, the rest just changed slightly. There have been similar mails before where I have gotten a biut of deja vu from reading them but never as blatant as today.

I am just wondering if anyone else thinks there is something wrong with this or am I just overreacting, maybe there is a link between the 2 gyms that I am unaware of as this particular local gym is not where I go. Just looking forward to some opinions on it and as Hanley was involved this seemed like the best place for it!

IIRC, the guy running the gym out west was a friend of Hanley's. Maybe they collaborate.

deadlybuzzman

Alf Veedersane wrote: »

IIRC, the guy running the gym out west was a friend of Hanley's. Maybe they collaborate.

There's two gyms up this way that I know of that he would be friendly with the owners of.
The info might feel a bit second hand when you see it like that but after a few years you see that it's largely all the same stuff that's out there anyway.

Brian?

ford2600 wrote: »

How was the brisket? What wood did you use for smoke?

One of the best ways to have beef. Cheap as fcuk to.

€9/kg or so?

Tasty as bejaysus. I used hickory.

Cost me €7 a kg. Dirt cheap.

ford2600

Brian? wrote: »

Tasty as bejaysus. I used hickory.

Cost me €7 a kg. Dirt cheap.

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

That you at 3.20...

Looks pretty similar. Used Applewood.

That is cheap

rubadub

Brian? wrote: »

Tasty as bejaysus. I used hickory.

Cost me ?7 a kg. Dirt cheap.

I thought you meant the hickory at first!, I got hickory in dealz 2years ago 400g for 1.50, not sure if it is there now.

woodies are charing ?9.99 for 700g :eek:

http://www.woodies.ie/weber-wood-chips-hickory-842644