No.14750
>>14730Thanks. Wanted to do OHP today but squat rack was busy and I don't won't to power clean the bar so just did seated DB shoulder press instead
I read that lightheadedness after deadlift might be hydration issue
No.14752
>>14750In my gym there's some set-weight curl bars which I have used in a pinch for OHP, but because they don't have rotating sleeves, they're rather hard on the wrists.
Might indeed be a hydration problem, I often don't drink enough.
No.14755
Session today was pretty good. Could finish all my sets:
Squats 75 5x5
Barbell Curls 25 3x8
Overhead Press 40 5x5
Deadlift 75 5x5
Funny enough today I didn't feel lightheaded from the deadlifts; but I also drank a lot beforehand, though it might also be the difference between DL/RDL.
Press gets so much easier if you user proper technique (i.e. keeping the bar in line).
Afterwards because I had some time to kill I did a bit of punching bag and speed bag, but holy shit, today's speed bag was bad. Probably lack of coordination from the strain of lifting. Also my right pinky is shaking like crazy when I have my hands in a writing/touchpad position.
Apart from that there were no funny gym people today, though it was more crowded than expected from my recent experiences.
No.14756 KONTRA
>>14755And as I am nearing the end of the first year since I started out again, I can say that while I haven't increased my stats in any way (as compared to e.g.
>>2507), that's not a bad thing, because my back pain has improved immensely.
In fact, I haven't had a weird slip-up or anything for quite some time now. I can still feel it tensing sometimes and I can still crack the vertebrae (though that is probably something that will stay with me for now), but just a year ago sitting in a chair all day was enough to make my back hurt, today it's virtually irrelevant.
A year from now I can hopefully declare full freedom of pain AND increased stats.
No.14815 KONTRA
Today was not ideal. I did some archer pull-ups for fun inbetween classes yesterday but didn't warm up so my elbows have been hurting afterwards, still went through with the weighted pull-ups today but it didn't feel too great. Gonna try to avoid stressing elbows until next week.
The program I'm doing suggests that I also do deadlifts today, but my grip was already pretty weak from pullups + dumbbell split squats + shrugs, I even decided to skip one set of the shrugs. Mb gonna drop into the gym tomorrow just to do the deadlifts.
>>14756>A year from now I can hopefully declare full freedom of pain AND increased stats.加油！
No.14866
>>14815>Ernst, how many different exercises are you doing?>Yes.Just make sure you don't overtrain. It's a thin line between getting all out of your noob gains and fucking you up for later on.
Nevertheless great success!
Also, are you still lifting with double overhand, or have you switched to cross grip/hook grip?
Back in the day I usually had to switch do cross at around 90-100 kg, I think it will be the same this time around.
No.14891 KONTRA
>>14866>Just make sure you don't overtrain.Yeah, I'll try not to. I had no issues recently so might've gotten a bit cocky. Ended up doing a bit much today as well.
>Also, are you still lifting with double overhand, or have you switched to cross grip/hook grip?Have been doing cross grip above 100kg. Tried straps today, felt a bit weird at first, gonna take some getting used to.
No.14913
>>14905Are you the same Ernst that likes to bike and is kinda bike/biking obsessed?
t. correlation pro
No.14923
>>14913No, and I actually don't even like cycling.
I wonder what exactly made you think that.
No.14927 KONTRA
>>14923It's because your faggy crumbesque preferences in women probably translate to a giant raging faggot who puts himself in colorful spandex to hinder car- and motorcycle traffic because he is full of himself like all cyclists.
Glad you hate cycling and cyclists like any sane man, but you are still a raging homo.
No.15142
Got some fairly effortless PRs on bench and squat, should be able to add another 5kg at least until end of month. Shoulder press still lagging, despite my shoulders having grown quite a bit since I started training. Maybe triceps is actually limiting it after being fatigued from close-ish grip bench. Anyways pushed myself on shoulders/biceps/triceps as hard as I could today, adding dropsets after reaching failure.
Also found this guy on yt who has some videos on mental cues for bracing & lifting which was kinda helpful:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qC1nAck0XRY No.15151
Went for the first time since before easter because my back started hurting again. I had already showered yesterday and it is possible that I might have to shower tonight again, which makes it three times in two days, which is really bad for my skin, but oh well... You gotta do what you gotta do.
Anyway, I did everything I did two weeks ago, but DB bench was again pretty bad, but it was also the last exercise for the day and I was already sweating like a pig.
Apart from that I only have a story about a plate hoarder. Some buff dude with a beard and no hair who loaded up the leg press with all the 20kg plates, and I mean ALL OF THEM. I walked up to him and asked him (more in jest) if he was using all the plates and he told me, dead serious, that yes, he will use them all.
He then proceeded to indeed load all the 20kg plates onto the leg press (I think it was 6 or 7 per side), did some half rom reps and then continued jabbering with the dudes who are always there, while I was finishing half my workout for the day with 15kg plates.
I COULD HAVE EASILY TAKEN SOME PLATES HAD I KNOWN YOU'RE ONLY THERE FOR GOSSIP YOU MASSIVE FAGGOT
Next time I'm alone I will try what I can do on the leg press and see just how many plates *I* can do. With full rom, obviously.
No.15281
I try to eat lots of veggies/fruit/berries and protein, while keeping myself in tonus by walking a few kms, already lost like 5 kg in a month and I don't feel bloated anymore. Extra policies: 0 sugary drinks or candies, very low amount of bread (tiny pieces of dried whole rye one instead), nearly no processed foods, disabled Wolt subscription. Insane what a low carb diet alone can do, I should go back to the gym though too, cause my back is fucked again from sitting.
No.15284
>>15151>6 or 7 per sideGiven that it's literally nothing, if you train a lot, it was genuinely his fault for using such an exercise to make everyone mad.
No.15287 KONTRA
>>15281Impressive will power and I mean that serious.
No.15288
>>15281>Extra policies: 0 sugary drinksIn my opinion the best and easiest thing everybody can do to maintain a decent diet. That includes artificial sweetener alternatives, those are arguably even worse.
No.15289
>>15288not all artificial sweeteners are created equal. Some of them like erythritol do not increase blood sugar and at mindful quantities it's as safe as eating a fruit. In general though, I have to agree
No.15349
>>15288Show me one single case where a sweetener is worse in comparision to sugar if ingested in small - or better - in large quantities.
No.15354 KONTRA
>>15349Fuck off of this board with your retarded posts
No.15429
>Exercise Bikes
>Treadmills
Both you can have for free outside. I don't get how the you could fitcels convince to use them.
No.15432
Another day, another workout.
Same stats as last time:
>>14755Went well, although I had to really fight the last few reps of the OHP, and I got lightheaded again during deadlifting, although the weight itself was not a big issue and I only started to feel a light strain in my forearms after the second-to-last set.
At least I didn't lose much. I will probably do another day with the same weights and then increase.
I also had this weird back pain again and by now I am convinced that it's caused by standing somewhere for too long, so I either have to sit, lie down or walk, but standing is really really bad.
No.15439
>>15432>painIf it's too much, you are making a mistake of using too much weight without the body adapting to it. Also doing warmup with lightweight sets is of utter importance, I always do at least light 2-3 sets, like 30-40%, then 60%.
>caused by standingMix deadlift with pullups, this is what helped me to stretch out compression. After two weeks I usually have 0 pain until I stop doing this routine basically.
No.15444
>>15439Don't worry, the pain is not from working out; in fact the workouts have helped alleviating the pain, but apparently I am still not over the hump.
No.15590
Lifting today was bad. Couldn't finish a single full set, didn't do cable flies, but I felt tired and had one of those days where there wasn't time to properly eat or drink (one downside of wfh).
I also really wasn't there with my mind, I have to admit. Had to force myself to go because I already skipped it on monday and instead went for a run (ashes on my head), and for some reason the people there irritated me, even though it wasn't particularly louder than usually, although some asshole continuously counted reps loudly and some other asshole whom I had met before in the locker room was hogging the whole bench with his dirty sweaty clothes while he was showering and to add insult to injury they switched the tissue dispenser on the toilet with one of those air dryers that are evidentially less hygienic than tissues, but I can understand it from the owner's perspective who can't have a cleaning lady go through everything daily.
Yeah, I think it mainly my shitty mindset today, which I find a bit worrying because I always found lifting to be a meditative activity for me, so if I can't unwind and clear my mind through iron, how else could I?
"At least" I could observe someone pulling out of a parking space in a manner that you usually only see with women. People with this licence plate really don't have their reputation for nothing. Good thing I still have my home plate.
No.15605
Looks like I amassed a bunch of smaller injuries the last few days: left knee feels painful in some positions & elbows acting up, a bit of back pain plus got an
anal thrombosis.Gonna have to take it easy, maybe skip the heavier lifts for a bit
Anyways, this old-ass American biker guy deadlifting 700lbs in his garage popped up on my youtube, best thing the algo threw my way in a while:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BWprPrZXOis No.15752
>>15659what I add to my back squats is front squats using 80% of typical back squat weight, they help stabilize squat technique and my quads immediately pop out
No.15849
Lost 50kg since January 2021, and all that just because depression made me stop wanting eat food and the only things I'm able to eat are beef, eggs,milk, dairy, oats, dark green vegetables (broccoli, kale, spinach, watercress, ruchetta...) and some supplements.
I wonder if I can get some muscles since I'm in mid thirties and skinny as fuck right now (1,75m and 75kg).
No.15908
>>158491,75/75kg isn't really skinny in my opinion, maybe it appears like this, because you are used to being a lot heavier. Also it should be easily possible to gain some muscles, especially since you seem to be able to gain mass easily. Your diet sounds already great, so just go for it.
No.15939
Just swam 25 min. That’s a start
No.15940
Finally went lifting again.
It's always amazing to see what difference it makes whether one is going on a saturday morning or a workday evening.
I basically rushed through all sets without any major effort (especially curls and OHP were deceptively easy today), but I deliberately did not add weight because it had been so long since the last workout, but I think I can safely increase the weights again.
I also saw someone actually do squats in the rack for the first time. He was doing 100kg front squats with crossed arms.
I talked a bit to him and he told me he's basically taking it easy; his PR was something like 350kg, but he's not actually competing. And he's only a young boy of 21, but I find it commendable that he actually had the wisdom to forego ego lifts.
I still told him to take care and make the most of it as long as he has energy and regeneration out of his ass.
I'll be glad when I reach 100+kg again and maybe work my way up to 300+ until I'm some old deadlift dude like the one in
>>15605. Moments like this make we wish I had stuck with it when I was still in my early 20s.
No.15976
Do you practice Kegel exercises? Why not?
No.15978
>>15976>Why notI prefer Bowling. Kegel is for 50+ people who play it in the cellar of some ancient village-pub.
No.15986 KONTRA
>>15981>>15978Peak german humor
No.16250
Only a few days into the mini-cut, it's crazy how quickly the weight drops if you minimize carb intake, already back to 80kg. Most of the intial loss is water weight ofc. Maybe I'm going a bit overboard with the calorie deficit, feeling pretty low energy. But I still managed to maintain on all my lifts today.
Fucked up all the calluses on my hands, really need to stop picking at them.
>>15752Tried front squats today for the first time this year and fuck me did they feel hard. Granted it was after doing deadlifts so my core was kinda cooked, but still didn't expect to have to go down in both weight and reps considering my regular squat went up quite a bit since the last time I did front squats.
>>15941Do you go to classes or just dance by yourself?
No.16279
>>15908Thanks, bro, I agree with you, about I'm not skinny since my waist is currently 90cm. To be really, honest? Workout isn't the issue right now, but overcome my sugar cravings is.
My daily intake of sugar used to just 3 tbsp since forever, now is zero, and I felt some signs of sugar withdraw last three days and my way of dealing with it is eating an apple or small dried apricot.
I feel like I'm a drug addicted on a withdraw. It's scary...
No.16463
Left shoulder popped out for a moment today when I was trying to squeeze out one last rep of seated DB shoulder press. Felt dizzy for a moment and decided to abandon the rest of the workout in order not to exacerbate it. There's a bit of pain but there seems to be no impact on my range of motion, so I hope I got off with a warning.
Luckily tomorrow is my lower body day, so I might add some low weight rehab exercises for the shoulder.
>>16279Eating fruit seems like a good subsitute to deal with sugar cravings. But also eating some sugar is fine as long as your overall calories work out imo.
No.16528
>>16250There are also split squats, performing them dynamically while walking is a great overall fitness booster, if you are not willing to run like a maniac for 30-40 minutes.
>>15976I've tried Kegels a few years ago, they are cool, but doing them just a bit too much was not pleasant. I felt weaker and less sensitive than not doing them at all. What I can recommend is lots of walking in the mountains with fresh cold air and holding for 7-12 days.
>>16463Fuck sugar and breads of all sorts, I've dropped 10 kilos the last time I ignored them and already pushing 8 kilos right now. As I get older, even a simple innocent croissant goes straight into fat.
No.16541
I found out that training body part isolation is a good way to get that flowy movement in dancing while in the past I thought it mainly came down to stretching which according to a website is false and I think it is quite convincing. While a low flexibility hampers my attempts at making crazy cool kicks or floor work (I suppose, never tried because it's quite straining for my body rn) moving "the whole body" in dance comes down to controlling small muscle movements and coordinating them right.
I actually can see a difference after doing isolation exercises.
I used videos that teach you isolation for Salsa but found a Korean (?) guy who does videos on different body isolations for popping - the dance style where people can move robotically or like computer animations. Looks pretty cool in how controlled it is.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lb1LcUYkJqg No.16726
I lost 4kg the last week alone, from 90 to 86kg. In two weeks, my BMI probably won’t be in slightly overweight anymore. I just decided to just eat less, like three or four times less. This ascetic change seems to make me generally jollier and helps me have a stronger will. If I get a better sport routine into all that I’m set for life
No.17165
>>16463>>16528Once a month, I eat my 461Kcal milk shake during the Saturday and walk 14km. The usual route is walk 7km, go to the straight to the lake, chill out in the really shallow water for 20 minutes and walk 7km back home.
My waist is already 89cm... things are going smoothly.
No.17232
sometimes I go to the gym holding in a shit
because I like to live dangerously