Paul Savage training log

LessThanLuke said:
I have almost 20" arms weighing 110kg.
21" at 170+ is not something you should brag about.

PaulSavage said:
they all talk about how big I am or how much weight I'm lifting.

PaulSavage said:
Is it f**k, of all the people that come up to me in the gym not a single one has said 'wow your really fat' they all talk about how big I am or how much weight I'm lifting. Also the vast majority of my waist measurement is still muscle even now at 27+ stone.

KevC86 said:
It was a close call but ive selected this as the best part of todays posts.
You have a wealth of knowledge on avoiding injury, yet neither you or your star pupil are currently fit to compete.
Great stuff, keep it up.
(The refusal to see the Generals physio was a close second, for a guy who claims he is willing to do anything to succeed you sure as s**t aren't exactly fighting to get to Northerns, especially now that the line up has gotten so stacked)

ben66 said:
People are polite- of course they're not going to come up to you and say you're fat! You are fat- you're 27 stone, and it's not all muscle, I hate to break it to you. Your waist measurement isn't altered by muscle really, only fat- it's a great measurement to see how fat you actually are in fact. If my weight goes up, but my waist doesn't- I've grown muscle, if my waist goes up, I've gained fat (along with muscle in all likelihood)

General_ill said:
That x4less you lift in though is full of c**ts.

PaulSavage said:
Of course its not all muscle. I'm not fat. I have more muscle to fat than the average person. You arnt very bright, the size of your lower back and ab muscles play a big roll in your waist measurement, so does food intake. It seems like you think I want to be a bodybuilder? I'm perfectly fine with the amount of fat I have, I wouldnt want to have less. The aim is to be as big and strong as possible, I could care less about having a six pack, if I did I'd get weaker, lose muscle and make less progress.

danbaseley said:
If the medical staff are having issues with understanding how you injured yourself, you need to explain it in terms which they will understand.
See if they can envisage a jolly looking man leaving Gregg's with two bin bags full of doughnuts, in order to chase after an ice cream van going around a hairpin bend.
They should fully understand the forces acting upon your body.

PaulSavage said:
Really?? Have you been in there? The staff have always been great with us and everybody has been cool, we both get a lot of support and nice comments. Lot of them follow strongman. Can't fault the place at all, that's why we got the sponsorship with them.

ben66 said:
I'd guess you have more fat to muscle than the average person. But I'm not going to argue the point. I know you want to be big, but you're in denial. Being fat as strongman isn't a problem, but you need to be strong with it.
I was looking forward to seeing you do this comp, and showcasing what you can do- but, as time went along, it became more obvious what was coming.
Good luck in your future endeavours.

General_ill said:
I’ve been in and I know a few of the staff. I don’t know any other strongmen they train there. Although few of my members do have membership go on occasion so may have been them. In fact it’s them that tell me the majority of the people are c**ts.

PaulSavage said:
Why do they say they are c**ts? Not putting weights away? That's only thing I can think of. There's another guy training for a strongman comp at mo, not sure if there's others, I don't go talk to people unless they talk to me first. There's some power lifters and a decent amount of weightlifters though, some sprinters, boxers and mma guys too. Plus good split of male to female, It's pretty mixed rather than just bodybuilders and gym bunnies etc They are much more along the lines of catering for everybody including the athletes and for me for the price its an amazing gym. I used to pay near 4 x as much for total fitness and it was completely s**te compared.

General_ill said:
The facility is good yeah. But not being able get a squat rack for curlers. Not putting stuff away. Walking past bars whist deadlifting taking plates off platforms being used. General commercial gym c**tishness

PaulSavage said:
Of course its not all muscle. I'm not fat. I have more muscle to fat than the average person. You arnt very bright, the size of your lower back and ab muscles play a big roll in your waist measurement, so does food intake. It seems like you think I want to be a bodybuilder? I'm perfectly fine with the amount of fat I have, I wouldnt want to have less. The aim is to be as big and strong as possible, I could care less about having a six pack, if I did I'd get weaker, lose muscle and make less progress.