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Oscar_Actuary wrote:I'd buy some food in the mean time.

I've gained ten pounds man i think i'm eating enough

After visiting the gym with a couple of friends and purchasing a guest pass, i now know that i can squat and bench at least a hundred pounds @ 130lbs bodyweight. I can deadlift that amount also but i already knew that. Not very impressive compared to you guys, i know, but you should've seen how weak...

Ok, so i THINK i found a way to stretch the piriformis: http://www.exrx.net/Stretches/HipAdductors/LyingAdductorMagnus.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; "Piriformis and Quadratus Femoris become stretched if hip is slightly transversely adducted (knee toward opposite side of chest)....

As a slight change of pace from all the shoulder threads we've been having, i figured i'd make a hip thread. Late last year, i developed hip pain. I learned that the symptoms are consistent with piriformis syndrome. It's been a real... well, a real pain in the butt. I believe it was caused by the fo...

Overhead presses recruit the clavicular head as a synergist but don't involve the sternal head at all

Mods, please sticky -- this is a good summary and people ask these kinds of questions all the time. I'm sure some of the other guys will have some good stuff to add also.

A twin study wherein two skinny-fat computer nerds do one exercise apiece... now that would be interesting.

No rebuttals from me. For empathy's sake, though, i'll relate my own experience since starting shoulder pre-hab stuff a few months ago: Learning not to sleep on my side has been tough but it's getting easier. Also my shoulder sometimes feels a bit stiff the day after an intense chest workout but usu...

Didn't even make it to 11. Oh well. At least i got better at the inverted rows.

(and at least i posted in the right thread this time!)

you guys forgot to tell him not to do sit-ups :)

JasonJones wrote:
Us little guys gotta stick together.

(And drink more milk.)

Hear, hear.

(To both parts.)

but i also would've accepted "punctilious" or "pedantic"

I approve of the use of the most excellent word "picayune"

JasonJones wrote:300lb deadlift @ 140lb bodyweight. That was in fact all the weight in the little gym in my building, a client challenged me to do it

Wow. I'm a skinny, slender-framed dude and you're an inspiration.

Ok, i have one more question, and i'm just gonna post it in here because it's shoulder-related. And because it's MY thread and i'll do as i please with it :) I came across something i hadn't noticed before here: http://www.exrx.net/Kinesiology/Inflexibilities.html#anchor13299557" onclick="window.ope...