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[Ouster]

I have weedy little arms and a BMI of 16.5.


I'd get laughed out of a gym....

[*Raz*]

I should post a pic up of my lower arms when I get my plaster casts off!!! NOW they would be skinny and shriveled

any ideas of how or what i can do to get the strength back in my wrists and arms after they are off?! NO RUDE COMMENTS PLEASE

bleugh

Edited by *Raz*, 28 February 2009 - 01:29 PM.

[Southy]

any ideas of how or what i can do to get the strength back in my wrists and arms after they are off?! NO RUDE COMMENTS PLEASE

Raz I personally found after I broke my wirst that swimming was the best thing for it, as your not putting a lot of pressure on it and working it very hard. After I had my cast off I went on holiday the next day and went swimming twice a day everyday and after a week of this my wrist was soon back upto the same size as it was.

[*Raz*]

any ideas of how or what i can do to get the strength back in my wrists and arms after they are off?! NO RUDE COMMENTS PLEASE

Raz I personally found after I broke my wirst that swimming was the best thing for it, as your not putting a lot of pressure on it and working it very hard. After I had my cast off I went on holiday the next day and went swimming twice a day everyday and after a week of this my wrist was soon back upto the same size as it was.

Thank you!Swimming was what I had in mind actually because I love it and its good exercise all round

Ill give that a god then in a week or so

Did your wrist hurt when you got the cast off?

[Southy]

I wouldnt say that it hurt as such, it felt really weird though like my arm felt proper weak and that I couldnt hold it up properlly (had my cast on for 7 weeks due to multiple breaks)

I was only fairly young at the time and was dreading having it cut off, spesh when he came at me with the saw, think he realised I was scared of the saw and told me not too worry it wouldnt hurt me and proceeded to set the saw going and place the blade into his hand where it stopped right away.

[*Raz*]

I wouldnt say that it hurt as such, it felt really weird though like my arm felt proper weak and that I couldnt hold it up properlly (had my cast on for 7 weeks due to multiple breaks)

I was only fairly young at the time and was dreading having it cut off, spesh when he came at me with the saw, think he realised I was scared of the saw and told me not too worry it wouldnt hurt me and proceeded to set the saw going and place the blade into his hand where it stopped right away.

Yea, I am expecting my arms to feel really weak and really light!!!

When I got back from Austria I had my left wrist put in cast and they re did the cast on the right, and she took it off with that electric saw thing! I went queezy and nearly fainted even though I knew it wouldnt cut my skin I just thought ''it still might be possible knowing my luck'' just had visions of her cutting my arm up . Dreading that on friday, although they might cut it because its a different material!

Interesting to see what my arms look like - shriveled, hairy and lots of dead skin too

[Mutley_RIP]

Raz maybe you should try the COC grippers once you feel ready. They exercise the grip, wrists and forearms. Might be of use to you.

Also if you are doing a million crunches and situps you also need to be exercising your back to keep your core stable and so you dont have an imbalance. I used to do crunches (hate hate hate them ) and then do hyper extensions sometimes weighted and sometimes not.

Oh yeah its also a common myth that you can get muscular as a woman really quickly..... toooook me forever to get there and not long to lose it

My aim originally was to get fit, then it was to be strong. I think I managed the strong thing quite quick but being a girl my legs were the strongest. I used to love loading up the vertical leg press (one of the only bits of machine I would use) with 500 kg and rep it ... aaaah nostalgia!

[gav]

Come on young gav from minispares who lifts weights also, I know you are out there somewhere and feel the need to share your gym results

Gav has the arms of Arnold schwarzenegger everybody!!!!!

Cheers mate not a patch on you though. Just found this thread, quite interesting. Managed to complete one goal last night which was to bench over 100kg, I want to get my deadlift up to 250% body weight (can just about do 200% atm which is 140kg) I managed to v-squat 160kg for 8 reps last week. Dan has given me some encouragement so i'm training even harder atm.

[gav]

For those that don't know COC means captains of crush. I'd be very impressed if you can close even the trainer to be honest and i don't mean that sarcastically.

[danoz24]

Come on young gav from minispares who lifts weights also, I know you are out there somewhere and feel the need to share your gym results

Gav has the arms of Arnold schwarzenegger everybody!!!!!

Cheers mate not a patch on you though. Just found this thread, quite interesting. Managed to complete one goal last night which was to bench over 100kg, I want to get my deadlift up to 250% body weight (can just about do 200% atm which is 140kg) I managed to v-squat 160kg for 8 reps last week. Dan has given me some encouragement so i'm training even harder atm.

AHHHHHH HAAAAAAAA, here's my thread!!!!




RIGHT, seta whopping record last night.

I benched 157.5kg for 1 rep. it took 10 1 rep sets to get there from 60k.

all the way down and all the way up people unassisted!

ill upload a pic in a secondo

[danoz24]

me last night after moster session!! im putting on a brave face but am well and truely fu**ed

 me_gym.jpg   165.48K   18 downloads

[danoz24]

Come on young gav from minispares who lifts weights also, I know you are out there somewhere and feel the need to share your gym results

Gav has the arms of Arnold schwarzenegger everybody!!!!!

Cheers mate not a patch on you though. Just found this thread, quite interesting. Managed to complete one goal last night which was to bench over 100kg, I want to get my deadlift up to 250% body weight (can just about do 200% atm which is 140kg) I managed to v-squat 160kg for 8 reps last week. Dan has given me some encouragement so i'm training even harder atm.

you're my hero Gav.

GAV GAV HE'S OUR MAN......



WELL DONE ON THE BENCH PRESS BIG GUY- KEEP IT UP

[gav]

Ha ha, awesome, looks like you've scared everyone away though, where is everyone? There was probbaly 70 people plus at monster last night.

[*Raz*]

Raz maybe you should try the COC grippers once you feel ready. They exercise the grip, wrists and forearms. Might be of use to you.

Also if you are doing a million crunches and situps you also need to be exercising your back to keep your core stable and so you dont have an imbalance. I used to do crunches (hate hate hate them ) and then do hyper extensions sometimes weighted and sometimes not.

Oh yeah its also a common myth that you can get muscular as a woman really quickly..... toooook me forever to get there and not long to lose it

My aim originally was to get fit, then it was to be strong. I think I managed the strong thing quite quick but being a girl my legs were the strongest. I used to love loading up the vertical leg press (one of the only bits of machine I would use) with 500 kg and rep it ... aaaah nostalgia!

Yea, might give those grip things a go. I have got one of those stress ball things that I keep using, Jammy gave it me . Was suprised how hard it was to squeeze it

Yea, im still doing the crunches, but I know it wont do much unless I burn the fat off too, like go running, but I cant run at the moment with my casts on because its more hard work and you wouldnt believe how much of my balance has been effected!

I really dont want to get muscular though, so hopefully I wont!

[Juju]

me last night after moster session!! im putting on a brave face but am well and truely fu**ed

 me_gym.jpg   165.48K   18 downloads

Look at the meat on that!!