Ok.... 4.8% bodyfat and No abs!

**Nick222** · 24-06-2011 09:11 PM

Cheers guys! To be honest I dont really feel the alcohol being a factor, im still strict with the food i eat (still come in and eat cottage cheese/ peanut butter ha!) and i dont really find myself weaker in the gym on a monday. Im off the sauce probably until my holiday anyway!

I measured the BF again today before my session and I was 6.8% and im 5 foot 10.5.

I never did my squats as full squats and would barely go down at all, ive slashed the weight and now do around 3 sets of 20 with lighter weight. I do need to sort the hamstrings out though as I get quite alot of stick from the gym staff due to my poor deadlift form and saying I'll be in a wheel chair!!! I need to be more diciplined with holding the stretches. Im SO tight, but i've barely stretched at all thoughout my young life !

**Asauka** · 24-06-2011 09:16 PM

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Originally Posted by dope540

i'd rather take that 3% as mj says. i full stretch daily and have no problems with gym work and tkd. some days i train twice with full stretching twice a day.

Interestingly, would you recommend this to someone who has the worlds smallest/tightest hamstrings? Just trying to touch my toes is painful! I stretch going to the gym and before Aikido however I work at a desk all day which I believe causes the problem (as well as genetics).

**dope540** · 24-06-2011 09:56 PM

i would do as much as you can comfortably every day and slowly build on it whenever you can. a bit like adding weight to your lifts whenever you can. do a full warm up before and stretch to cool down. i use to do cool down stretches at my club a few years back and people looked at me weirdly. guess where i am at now and where they are.

get some smr in as well.

throughout the day take regular walks and a bit of light stretching. calves, hip flexors, adductors, upper back.

**Wotan** · 24-06-2011 10:11 PM

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Originally Posted by MiniHulk

So many different things to weigh up when bodybuilding. *tries to turn his sentence into an adianoeta and fails*

I'm impressed!

I did PreSocratic philosophy at uni and never used that term in a sentence - ever!

**MiniHulk** · 25-06-2011 09:34 AM

I personally like the word and take preference to it over "double entendre", I just don't like the way it sounds lol.

**MiniHulk** · 25-06-2011 09:35 AM

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Originally Posted by dope540

i would do as much as you can comfortably every day and slowly build on it whenever you can. a bit like adding weight to your lifts whenever you can. do a full warm up before and stretch to cool down. i use to do cool down stretches at my club a few years back and people looked at me weirdly. guess where i am at now and where they are.

get some smr in as well.

throughout the day take regular walks and a bit of light stretching. calves, hip flexors, adductors, upper back.

When I used to take my daughters to TKD, I used to see a few guys/girls do cool down stretches for a good 10 minutes after each session. Upon watching them during training next time - they were definitely the most flexible of the group.