The Bodybuilders Thread!

Status
Not open for further replies.
Day 18: I haven't seen anyone else DL but me at my Virgin Active branch yet.

Getting the same looks when I deadlift in my new commercial gym.

Question: Anyone know of any "Black Iron" gyms in the Cape Town CBD or S Suburbs area?
 
CrazYmonkeY159 said:
Day 18: I haven't seen anyone else DL but me at my Virgin Active branch yet.

Getting the same looks when I deadlift in my new commercial gym.

Question: Anyone know of any "Black Iron" gyms in the Cape Town CBD or S Suburbs area?
Click to expand...

Which VA do you gym at. I go to most VAs in Cape Town and I always see guys deadlifting
 
I put on 5kg of what I can only assume is fat in one week. 103kg on the 9th... 108kg yesterday :( A week of drinking and eating doing year end crap... sucks.
 
xrapidx said:
I only see really light weight deadlifts i.e less than body weight.
Click to expand...

I usually go to Claremont and Constantia and the guys are always busy there. Mostly heavy weights. Even some of the ladies DL up to 100kg. Btw I hit a PB of 120kg on Friday. So stoked
 
I been considering Constantia because its closer to work now, how busy is the gym in general?
 
xrapidx said:
I put on 5kg of what I can only assume is fat in one week. 103kg on the 9th... 108kg yesterday :( A week of drinking and eating doing year end crap... sucks.
Click to expand...

Don't be too hard on yourself. That can't be 5KG of fat. That would mean your body has stored an extra 45000 calories in a week. Nowhere near to possible. 60% is probably water rentention.
 
modern10 said:
Which VA do you gym at. I go to most VAs in Cape Town and I always see guys deadlifting
Click to expand...

Yeah same here. And who cares about the looks you get when deadlifting. Pretty soon people will start doing it as well, like after the Olympics, the gym was full of jocks trying to snatch. LOL :D
 
Yeh . if you think people look at you funny... you should see the looks I get when I go lie down on the floor after sets 6-11 of deadlifts:p
 
xrapidx said:
Yeh . if you think people look at you funny... you should see the looks I get when I go lie down on the floor after sets 6-11 of deadlifts:p
Click to expand...

...or when I put down a 280kg lift without any noise, unlike those punks who throw 60 kg's to the floor on their last rep LOL
 
I carry my last rep back to the squat rack...

EDIT: And by carry - I mean stumble slowly.
 
modern10 said:
Which VA do you gym at. I go to most VAs in Cape Town and I always see guys deadlifting
Click to expand...

I go to Gardens in Wembley Square. The floors there are padded so there isnt alot of noise when u drop weight

Get a good whey isolate if you want low calories high protein. any other protein will give u good calories if you're bulking.
 
Last edited:
what time do you train? Im there most evenings and usually find myself waiting for a rack... When its especially busy I take the spare barbell and deadlift in some space somewhere... gardens gym is generally ok, only thing that grates me is those groups of 5 people huddled around the rack so they can take turns squatting or deadlifting! and the idiots who kick a punching bag as hard as they can a few times with their spagetti legs and call it a workout, rather go squat or legpress...
 
JasonK said:
what time do you train? Im there most evenings and usually find myself waiting for a rack... When its especially busy I take the spare barbell and deadlift in some space somewhere... gardens gym is generally ok, only thing that grates me is those groups of 5 people huddled around the rack so they can take turns squatting or deadlifting! and the idiots who kick a punching bag as hard as they can a few times with their spagetti legs and call it a workout, rather go squat or legpress...
Click to expand...

It depends I either train 5pm-6pm or 5-30pm to 6-30pm I work right across the way so its a quick walk. Yes. I've noticed that there are people who do so many isolation sets and zero compound lifting. No pullups no benching no dl no squats. The racks are fine man. Someone was doing pendlay rows in them today (for a long ass time) while I was waiting to squat :(
 
xrapidx said:
I been considering Constantia because its closer to work now, how busy is the gym in general?
Click to expand...

It's smaller than the Claremont one, but its not that busy after 6pm when I go. You don't have to wait long to use the equipment.
 
That's why I'm glad I gym from home, don't have to wait for equipment anymore, just built myself a dip station before I went on holiday. Jealous of guys on bodybuilding.com that have awesome home gyms, equipment overseas is dirt cheap compared to SA
 
Status
Not open for further replies.
Back
Top
Sign up to the MyBroadband newsletter
X