Weightlifting and Bodybuilding thread v. holy shit we have the sub back
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Doesn't glycogen storage just make muscles look bigger anyway? If anything it helps giving off a more cut look.
I think you're better off not stressing about your weight on a scale as much as you are and just focusing on your BF% instead.
Figured it'd be good to add some daily jogging and simple body weight exercises to my routine. It shouldn't interfere or cause any troubles with my strength focused weightlifting routine right?
Just finished my first week of eating at a deficit and doing some lifting (3x a week, program named "Fierce 5").
Felt a little too easy but I think that's better than going too hard out the door.
I don't think so, but I could be wrong.
I know a lot of people are against it but I just avoid tracking my own weight on my current diet/routine. It's just anxiety fuel to me because I gain and lose weight really fast.
I did low bar squats for the first time today and it felt pretty good. I was able to do 135 for 6 reps. Pretty happy considering it was only my 3rd leg workout with real weight.
So I can't squat anymore because my knee is fucked but leg presses and curls and extensions are fine... except for the fact that I never feel quite as worked as when I squatted. I rarely get sore, even when pushing my max weight. I started working out about a year ago but I'm still learning... is there some innate difference in work between squatting and the machines? I know squatting is a miraculous compound exercise and I'm upset I can't do it anymore, but I'm really killing myself on the three machines to compensate, just doesn't seem to do the trick as well.
not getting sore when u squat is a sign u need to up your volume. trust me some high rep squats will get you sore
also im back to the gym after a 4 month break fellas
Today was my first squat day back, so i did a 5x5 @185 pause just to try to get back into form. It felt ridiculously easy so i decided i wanna go up and up to see what i hit.
I made it to a 315 pause squat that went up SUPER quick. I definitely had more in me, maybe 335-350 but I didnt have a spotter so I didnt go higher. My max b4 I quit lifting 4 months ago was 415 for anyone curious. Im very happy with this,as i dont seem to have lost a whole lot of leg strength
You've looked into rehabbing your knee?
What's wrong with it.
opposite for me, i stopped lifting for about 5 months and went from 150kg 1rm (330lb) squat to about 120kg (264lb), yet my upper body strength is almost unchanged, think i dropped about 5kg off bench and thats it
Inflammation in the top of the knee. I have a tiny cysts too but x-rays were perfect. Ortho gave me NSAIDs for a couple weeks, which helped, but as soon as I stopped them the pain came back. It's a very strange trigger, I'm seeing my Ortho at home once the semester ends.
Does it hurt if you do Front Squats or is any form of squat is completely out of the question? Maybe you can do that as an alternative with Romanian Deadlift or Stiff leg deadlift till your knees completely recover. Do note the muscle emphasis is different from the Back Squat so it won't be a direct substitute.
Does anyone know a good routine for gaining muscle without going to the gym? Don't really have the money for it right now but I'm really eager to start working out again.
Youre not going to gain muscle unless your undertrained to begin with, but that being said this is something you can do until you've access to a gym:
two hundred squats
Hundred Pushups
50 Pullups | Ultimate pullups training
Do all 3 programs at the same time, you'll make some sort of gains
I'm not sure if that will be a good idea, the pain occurs when I apply a front load to my knees, weight on toes instead of heels, for example. I can actually decrease the pain if I take the squat really slowly and nail the form, making sure no weight shifts forward, but I can tell this isn't good for my knee either. The stiff leg deadlift should be fine though.
Is there anything I can do leg-related as well?
Yeah the 200 squats he linked you to.
today i almost passed out after doing leg press, i guess i should go easier
did some direct ab training and now i have fucking ab doms... this sucks cock
what routine did you do?
I've been struggling at finding a nice way to target the abs that gives that burn.
Today's the day I can do 400 pushups in sets of 20 with 1 minute of recovery in between
all this training is paying off, my self esteem is off the charts ahahah
I watched a video once of someone dislocating their knee because they over extended on the leg press and I have stayed away ever since. Freaked me out man. I still do squats and lunges though
it wasn't really a serious dedicated ab workout i just did 3x12 on the weighted decline and 2 sets (?) of planks, it was just made harder because im a fatty
you guys got any tips on stomach workout for beginners ?
5x5 fork put downs, 3x8 plate push aways
Just finished my second week of three days a week lifting - even though it wasn't much it is Progress.
Do your compound lifts and supplement it with crunches/sit-ups as you see fit, that's all you really need.
I'm gonna be living at my parent's place for the first 6 weeks of summer and I'm not gonna have any way to do squats/deadlifts so instead of doing 3-days chest/upperbody 2-days lowerbody I was thinking of changing the lower-body days to cardio/abs. Is it a bad idea to do them on the same day? I was thinking of doing a 20-30 minute run then a 15-20 minute ab routine, would you guys have any recommendations on ab workouts? I know sit-ups, crunches, planks, supermans etc. but I was wondering if there's anything else I should incorporate.
If you're only focusing on your abs you can't really go wrong with what you've mentioned.
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