Weightlifting and Bodybuilding thread v. holy shit we have the sub back
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Don't be stupid with the weight you use and don't lock your knees at full extension and you'll be fine.
There are tons of those videos unfortunately. They're all painful to watch. Saw one where a woman's legs bent anteriorly from the knee and hit her chest
Yeah I know, still makes me feel uncomfortable though.
Is there any reason to use leg press when you can do squats and lunges? Just to stack more weight on your legs?
There are definitely uses, even excluding the unintended calf moves presses work well with. The machines are ubiquitous, and they do a pretty decent job when you want to train limited range of motion, have a sore back, or want to do unilateral work (but are too weak to do proper standing uni. like pistols). Can be part of your training toolkit but should not be the backbone of your leg routine if you're going for pure aesthetics. That said, most of the uses have better alternatives available in most decent gyms. Glute ham raises and free weights are much better ways to train those muscles
im going back to my parents for a 4 day weekend and its fuckig impossible to find a gym where i can workout every day for a reasonable price, is there anything i can do to avoid paying for a full month's membership just for 4 days
Find a park and do some calisthenics. Fuckload of chins and dips, pushups. Or find a bullshit gym like planet fitness and eat the $10
4 days off might do you good, go hard before you leave and take it easy when youre there, if you really want to do something, pull ups/chin ups and split squats are about the best you can do without weights
i just started again so it would be a shame to take a few days off so soon, i think i'll just pay for a 3 day pass and miss 1, seems like the best compromise
Crushed squats, got 350 for 3 sets of 8 today high bar too, thinking I might have a new max in me soon
Hit a sweet bench PR today 125kg, it was an absolute grind though, stuck half way for 3-4 seconds before I got it to lock out.
Thats +15kg since I started training at this new gym
How much does a person's "structure" limit volume gains? I have a rather narrow frame, and currently my traps are pretty developed compared to my shoulders, which gives kind of a "droopy shoulders" look. I'm trying to hit shoulders as much as possible but I don't know to what level I can alleviate that.
Long term I'd like to look bigger but I'm unsure how much I should expect.
Made it to a week in the gym, with only one rest day between work outs. Trying to do more cardio but I just fucking hate running. I’m forcing myself into it.
Weighed myself at the gym for the first time in what must be 7 or 8 years. Last time I was on a scale it was 245.4. I’m at 159.7 now.
I no no longer fear the scale how I used to but I really just don’t care about it now. I just want to get stronger and fitter.
I've been going to the gym for a few months now and still can't do a proper chin up and that bums me out.
Do assisted chinups
315 for 15 reps on high bar squats today, was def an amrap would've failed another rep, def also a pr though
squats are fucking evil
Just lift with a focus on progression, dont worry about extraneous nonsense like that. You will do your head in with the over analysis. This is especially true if you want to stay natty, because natty gains are very very slow. Almost inevitably people I meet who are constantly second guessing their progress/ability to progress will pack it in or jump on roids, meanwhile the guys who make great gains eventually getting to the point where people accuse them of using steroids simply train, eat and forget about it.
the more you do the easier they get, i stopped for a while so my leg strength is really far ahead of my cardio ability, so i will get exhausted long before my muscles start to fatigue. sucks mayne
I've been a member of 3 different gyms now and all of them have had a regular with only 1 arm, wtf gives
Did a volume block there where I was doing 4x12 on squats at around 65%. That was brutal. I'm doing 5x5 in the current block at around 78% like its nothing, less 2 mins rest between set and not a bit out of breath afterwards. I was really against the idea of doing such high volume squats in the last cycle but theres definite benefits from it.
Squats went from being my least favorite part of working out to be one of my faves
unpopular opinion: bench is my favourite lift
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Getting a sick chest pump and looking big is great. But lifts specifically, squat is best
First week of lifting after a long break completed, feels good to be back! My lifts have dropped dramatically but not as much as I would've expected considering how weak I was when I was first starting out. I imagine I'll quickly bounce back to my previous gains? Dunno how that works since I'm also on a small cut right now. The way I understood it, when muscle cells are created they take a loong ass time to disappear again and only deplete themselves and become "inactive" if not used.
why am I always sore? I take a rest day, and I'm still sore as fuck the day after the rest day, before my next work out.
How long have you been doing it? If you've only just started or taken a long break its probably just DOMS (delayed onset muscle soreness). It'll last roughly 3 days after that you shouldn't be sore after working out unless you're really pushing yourself.
Well this week is my 3rd consistent week at the gym. My first two weeks at the gym I felt sore for my rest days but was okay by the next workout day. I had leg day on wedsnesday and today my hamstrings are still killing me. I went pretty hard on my legs, so it could be that but Idk.
Its easy for it to happen with leg muscles if you haven't done anything major with them, after I started doing squats with a bar my Quads were ruined for like 4 days and have been fine since.
At the moment you should leave them until the pain goes away, once it does try it again and if it happens again you should try reducing the weight as you may just be pushing yourself too hard. Pain shouldn't be part of recovery and if it keeps happening then something is going wrong somewhere.
you dont train your lifts frequently enough, and then when you do train them, you go too hard.
try to hit the same muscle group at least twice a week, or ideally 3 or 4 times, even if your not going hard on some of those days
What kind of split are you running that you're hitting the same parts 3 or 4 times?
Am I missing something here? Even on a PPL you'd be doing 2 times.
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