Weightlifting Help/Guru

Hey Guys,

Weightlifting has always been a passion of mine and after tearing my MCL my senior season of football, it become my obsession. I am 20 years of age and have been lifting since the 8th grade, but I didn't take it seriously until 2 years ago. I have rare natural genetics (6'4 220-240 avg (Always been)). I will give you any tips/advice I can. I will answer any questions that you may have. If you're serious about lifting I'm more than willing to help. If your an ass or make any negative comments on my thread I will not offer advice to you in any way now or in the future.

I have personally been through the mill of workouts,supplements, and anything else imaginable.

Here are a couple images of me currently ~3-5 weeks taken as of the date of this post.

 

up the tren

 

Don't need Tren when you work hard and have natural genetics my friend. Steroids are insanely counter productive. People like you make my day, thanks for the compliment.

 

If you really think that then you are a fool.

Realistically you do look like you are on a cutting emphasis steroid/PH/SARM etc.

I'll play though. Whats your favorite mass building exercise for back excluding DL/SQ/BB row?

 

I started getting serious into weightlifting when I put a stop to my hockey career. Normally my summers were dedicated to 5 days a week circuit training to build stamina and mostly leg strength as I was a goaltender. My upper body strength was never something impressive. Back in April, I started my goal and I believe when I was bicep curling with an ez-curl bar I was putting to much weight and strained my left forearm.

As I have progressed I have seen steady improvements in the amount of weight and success of my workouts. My left forearm however is not in a good state. Everytime I am either curling the ez-curl with only 20lbs/side or barbells doing set of 21's. after I complete those sets I feel a sharp pain--comparable to shin splints but in my forearm! I used to describe it as my veins about to explode but now the pain has gotten worse. I took a 2week break from any Arm workouts and when I got back I thought why not test myself (mistake) put 25lbs/side and I am capable of doing so just the pain in my left forearm is surreal! I immediately dropped my weight and finished up.

What should I do? I don't want to completely stop arm workouts... Hammer curls don't hurt one bit. Should I make an appt with a physic therapist? Should I just do lower weights higher reps for a bit to see if the pain diminishes? Avoid all forearm intensive workouts? Dumbbell rows also hurt, only when I'm doing the rows with right arm and left is stretched leaned on the bench.

Any advice is appreciated.

 

Steroids are counter productive as in you shorten your life for temporary gain. I don't see them as worth taking and don't recommend them period.

I'm vascular because of 3 scoops of C4, and a scoop of arginine on arm day after a 65-10lb drop set (6 sets) which followed 10 sets of random selection on cable curls. The lighting doesn't hurt either. 20-30% of how vascular/huge you look is lighting lol.

DL/Row are probably my favorites. But concentrated 4 second negative rows on a cable machine are legit. I also like to pyramid pull ups with varying grips ex. start at 15 reps and descend 15-14-13-12 so on... I like dumbbell rows with 4 second negatives, really concentrated. Something I've been trying lately is lat pulldowns with ropes like you'd use for tricep extensions, if you'll pull the weight down and force the ropes apart at the bottom I notice a good stretch. Those are just some of the things I do in my workout. But deadlift and rows are the bulk of what I do. I do 10-12 sets of deadlifts every back day.. lol.

 

I'm no doctor and I can't say I've had this problem. Usually though time off helps. I've had issues with my right front delt and shoulder in general in the past and when I avoided training it, it seemed to loosen up and overall feel better. However, as soon as I'd start back the pain would too. But I fight through the pain I think its just scar tissue from many years of football. Maybe you have some sort of tendinitis? I truly don't know. Just trying to give you something to consider.

 

if your loosing weight is it best to eat more meals but less, like 6 meals. what kinds of food should you cut out completely? breads are no good right even whole hweat?

 

Would not be cool if my tendon snapped! Lol.

 

How should I go about gaining strength. I can bench 150 right now but that's not really good. I'm a noob when it comes to lifting so don't judge. Should I be doing lower weight higher reps or higher weight lower reps to gain strength quicker...or does it even matter.