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I noticed in these crossfit open workout videos that they don't drink any water. Perhaps they deem it a waste of time? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eFTA9gdeLPo
My gym partner also doesn't drink any water during our workouts. So maybe for an hour no water.

What gives? If u are a super athlete do u not need water?
Does it aid or impede performance?
 
ryan411 said:
I noticed in these crossfit open workout videos that they don't drink any water. Perhaps they deem it a waste of time? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eFTA9gdeLPo
My gym partner also doesn't drink any water during our workouts. So maybe for an hour no water.

What gives? If u are a super athlete do u not need water?
Does it aid or impede performance?
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Depends, though its good.

To help your body in the optimal way, you should drink at least a glass of water an hour before you workout session. Then you should also sip water during your workout. Key word, sip, ie. don't flood your body with water, take in small amounts in between sets.

Now what is important, is to know how much you sweat during your workout. The more you sweat, the more water you will need to replenish into your body. Which is why you already feed your body water an hour before workout, so that by the time you are working out, it already is in your system.

Interesting fact, did you know you body absorbs water better from fruit high in water content, than plain straight water? For example apples ect.

As for sweat...in the early stages of starting to work out, your body will probably be not too efficient with sweating, so you will find it hard to sweat, then as you progress and become more fit, and your body starting to learn how to become better at cooling itself down, you will find that you start to sweat faster when you work out, and more during the workout sessions.

Take-away fact, whatever you sweat out, you need to replenish to stay in hydrated.
 
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I couldnt go 15 minutes without water. It is awful when I forget my bottle.
 
Oh. And here's a cheap idea. Replace your protein supplements with a good pre-workout... n.o xplode, neurocore, n.o rage etc. You will never look back.

Then, stop doing bench press all the damn time and instead include 4 sets of pull ups into your workout. Start with narrow grip then progress to wide grip. Never do pull ups two days in a row. DO NOT CHEAT WITH YOUR LEGS. HANG THEM STRAIGHT. Do pull ups until you can do sets of 10 or 12 correctly.

Now, revel in your own glory, then go and amaze yourself on the bench press as your 12 rep max has jumped by 10-15kg.

BOOM.
 
bromster said:
Oh. And here's a cheap idea. Replace your protein supplements with a good pre-workout... n.o xplode, neurocore, n.o rage etc. You will never look back.

Then, stop doing bench press all the damn time and instead include 4 sets of pull ups into your workout. Start with narrow grip then progress to wide grip. Never do pull ups two days in a row. DO NOT CHEAT WITH YOUR LEGS. HANG THEM STRAIGHT. Do pull ups until you can do sets of 10 or 12 correctly.

Now, revel in your own glory, then go and amaze yourself on the bench press as your 12 rep max has jumped by 10-15kg.

BOOM.
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Haha. Not sure if I completely agree with your method, however I do agree on one thing, and that is, that you need a good back base, to improve your bench press.
 
bromster said:
Oh. And here's a cheap idea. Replace your protein supplements with a good pre-workout... n.o xplode, neurocore, n.o rage etc. You will never look back.

Then, stop doing bench press all the damn time and instead include 4 sets of pull ups into your workout. Start with narrow grip then progress to wide grip. Never do pull ups two days in a row. DO NOT CHEAT WITH YOUR LEGS. HANG THEM STRAIGHT. Do pull ups until you can do sets of 10 or 12 correctly.

Now, revel in your own glory, then go and amaze yourself on the bench press as your 12 rep max has jumped by 10-15kg.

BOOM.
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bromster said:
Oh. And here's a cheap idea. Replace your protein supplements with a good pre-workout... n.o xplode, neurocore, n.o rage etc. You will never look back.

Then, stop doing bench press all the damn time and instead include 4 sets of pull ups into your workout. Start with narrow grip then progress to wide grip. Never do pull ups two days in a row. DO NOT CHEAT WITH YOUR LEGS. HANG THEM STRAIGHT. Do pull ups until you can do sets of 10 or 12 correctly.

Now, revel in your own glory, then go and amaze yourself on the bench press as your 12 rep max has jumped by 10-15kg.

BOOM.
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ummmm, dafuq are you ok dude?
 
bromster said:
Oh. And here's a cheap idea. Replace your protein supplements with a good pre-workout... n.o xplode, neurocore, n.o rage etc. You will never look back.

Then, stop doing bench press all the damn time and instead include 4 sets of pull ups into your workout. Start with narrow grip then progress to wide grip. Never do pull ups two days in a row. DO NOT CHEAT WITH YOUR LEGS. HANG THEM STRAIGHT. Do pull ups until you can do sets of 10 or 12 correctly.

Now, revel in your own glory, then go and amaze yourself on the bench press as your 12 rep max has jumped by 10-15kg.

BOOM.
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Who does a 12rep max? And if I hung my legs straight they'd be standing :p
 
Lololol. I did cardio and pull ups for a month and would really suggest everyone incorporate bodyweight exercises into their routine. My bench really did improve by that amount in a month and a bit. I would also suggest alternating dumbell press on a stability ball.

The 12 rep max is just a benchmark. And the straight legs is just to give an idea of how to not use them for momentum.
 
CarsinemiA said:
I would too if I was dropping R450 for 20 servings.

The problem with preworkouts is not that they don't work; they do. The problem is tolerance and dependency issues.
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too true! I developed an addiction to them to the point where I didnt cycle off them either. I just upped the amount of scoops I was putting in. I eventually got to the point where I couldnt sleep anymore! Been off them cold turkey for a month now (and coffee, detoxing all stimulants) and sleeping like a baby. I have been opting to have a solid sweet potatoe serving about 60 mins before gym instead, able to gym just as long.
 
Would like to report here that I received a mail from BSSA on Friday.

Seems they have sorted out their shipping and time delay. Takes 3-4 days for orders to be delivered to your door now via courrier. Excellent news! Also they have announced the release of their Maximal Pak for pre-order - ships first week in July.

I am VERY happy with this news!
 
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Thanks for this, I did it 48 hours ago, only did 3 rounds instead of 4 as I didn't want to be too sore the following day. Good thing I held back and didn't do 4 rounds and my abs are still sore today. Will do 4 rounds tomorrow perhaps or if I only do 3 again, it's cause I don't want it to impact my gym workouts with abs/core being essential to a lot of SL 5x5.

Found I didn't sweat much, but then again maybe I am not a sweater or not conditioning to sweating yet. Found the planks pretty tame at only 30 seconds but the reverse crunches and toe touches were quite challenging to complete 20 reps.
 
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