What program would you say you are following? An Olympic Lifting program mostly right?

Oh, I forgot that this thread exists. It's your fault RomTom.

So yeah, it's been about a month and half since I've starting lifting again after a two year long "break". I didn't have a choice really. My brother flew over to visit me on his vacation and he's been pestering me to get back every time I called him. Bodybuilding is not just a fetish for him you see, it's also his second job. We both got a membership to the closest gym to my apartment. Fun place, lots of awesome and polite juice heads. I couldn't afford the membership nor the protein shakes (which is one of the reasons I stopped) so he bought everything for me! T^T

It's frustrating when you look at the weights you used to lift while the vague image of what you looked like is constantly on your mind, then you try to start with 40lb, then realize you could barely lift 25lb. The most difficult part was the food. I dislike meat, and I don't enjoy eating chicken everyday. I also barely ate three meals, or got the minimum amount of nutritions my body needed every day. So every meal my 198lb meat loving brother cooked was difficult to get down at first. Now I get hungry every two hours.

On the first month, I've used almost double the weights I've used the week before. Now I can comfortably bench press 100lb with dumbbells. Stopped smoking, and I feel a lot better, mentally and physically. Though I'm not sure if want to continue. I can't tell if got back to lifting weights because it's something I want or just to humor my brother. It's an expensive and time consuming lifestyle/hobby.

Olympic lifts is main focus.  Workouts can come in two forms.  Lower weight designed for repitition and endurance and then higher weight deisgned to push strength. I mix in some other stuff with the plates or bar to get me moving a bit.

Tonight is back to the snatch, so power snatch, snatch with squat, and then overhead squats.  Focus on keeping the bar close and transitioning to get under the bar and lock out.

Fei-Hung said:
I started going gym about 3.5 months ago. I had not been to the gym or done anything exercise related for 5 years (since I got married).

Before I marriage I was 5ft7, and weight at the very most 8stone. Nothing I would do up to then would help me put on weight.

When I started going to the gym again I was 5ft6, almost 12 stone and had my hand out of a cast for about 1 month (hand was still healing).

I've only lost. 5stone but I've noticed I've been replacing fat with muscle. More importantly I'm 5ft8 now. Some how I shrank and after gym I grew an inch. Guy at gym said doing certain exercises like deadlifts and posture improving could have caused it.

Posture  improvement goes a long way to straightening your spine and improving height

Anyhu, I've never done leg work outs before, this has been my first time and I love it. My issue is I feel a lot of pressure on my lower back when doing squats. On a good day I'll squat about 80kg. On a bad day like today I just about managed to do 70kg.

Try using a weight belt when doing your heaviest squats to help straighten your back and emphasize load on legs. Work on form too. Also, stretching.

I also seem to have reached a point doing flat chest where I can't lift more than 50kg on my chest and even then I struggle. I think it is because I don't do much freeweights on my arms. I struggle really badly as the hand I broke still is healing and bending my wrist a certain way or moving it with a lot of weight in certain directions causes the area where I had a broken bones to swell up.

Any recommendations?!

It could be your form or your wrist injury. Try other "push" exercises to get your chest/triceps/shoulders stronger without so much reliance on that wrist. As a suggestion, incorporate triceps pushdown/dips/over head press with machines to lower stress on wrist. There is no shame in doing machine chest exercises like chest press as well to strengthen chest while hand recovers.