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Post by stringypoo on Aug 29, 2019 9:22:33 GMT -5
Alright, here's a question for you guys who do weights. Firstly, I just joined the gym last week, and I didn't get in much weight training until middle of this week. Today, one of the guys at work, the most likely to be featured in a Musclemag article (no, seriously. The dude is nuts.), also super nice guy, let me and the other music teacher who also just signed up jump in and join his set rotations. He was mostly working back, lats, and chest. If you are not particularly arm-strong and never worked arms before, does it sound right that you could have correct form for these back, chest, and lateral exercises and instead of feeling anything in those areas, you mostly just feel your arms are tired? That's the only logic that came to my mind. Because neither the other music teacher nor I felt much in those areas, especially after the workout. that is completly normal. Everybody will 'lose' the lattpulldown because of the fatigue in the underarms for example. It not that because you do a chestpress you only use your chest, you use every single muscle in your body. Other point is that if your chest or shoulders are to weak to do the lifting the arms will take over. Try to lift with ligther weights and I think you should be able to feel the muscle more that you want to train. That’s good to hear. Thanks for breaking that down for me. It made sense in my head that way, but I certainly needed some outside assurance. |
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Post by ElderGoose on Aug 30, 2019 5:21:05 GMT -5
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Post by v9733xa on Aug 30, 2019 16:32:50 GMT -5
Geez. I will just never ever be able to do anything like that. Congrats. Amazing stuff!
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Post by stringypoo on Sept 4, 2019 10:17:43 GMT -5
Yeah, running just doesn’t seem for me. I get the running with a certain part of the foot business, but I just have zero stamina for it. And my side starts hurting so quickly when I run. Someone recently told me it is the result when you either don’t breath in deeply enough or breath out sufficiently, forgot which way he said it. I may try to get into it though, once I’m into a weight training routine that I can rotate with cardio consistently.
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Post by julianlozano on Sept 12, 2019 13:05:19 GMT -5
Yeah, running just doesn’t seem for me. I get the running with a certain part of the foot business, but I just have zero stamina for it. And my side starts hurting so quickly when I run. Someone recently told me it is the result when you either don’t breath in deeply enough or breath out sufficiently, forgot which way he said it. I may try to get into it though, once I’m into a weight training routine that I can rotate with cardio consistently. Definitely try to do weighted leg workouts, that usually helps you build leg strength that will improve running. |
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Post by Joost on Sept 19, 2019 0:02:50 GMT -5
The Gamechangers movie..I was already convinced that plant based protein is the way to go but hopefully they really make a change in the world with this movie
Any thoughts?
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Post by stringypoo on Sept 24, 2019 21:23:30 GMT -5
I had a week off from the gym as a result of a very busy week last week, but I got back into the gym yesterday. Felt really good.
I have a current new goal, which is to try to reach a level of evenness in arm strength, as my left arm is notably weaker than my right arm. My friend who is the gym beast had me and another coworker doing his routines with him two and three weeks ago, and I was struggling with the dumbbells on my left arm quite a bit to reach the rep count we had set. Meanwhile, the right arm was totally fine, not so hard. I had the problem that by the 4th rotation, I wasn’t able to reach my needed reps for my left arm. I asked him what would he do if he were me, and he said I needed to go down to a lighter weight for both sides, but I really felt bummed about that because I was starting at one of the lower weights already...hahaha! So yesterday, I spent most of my time trying to work with those and go for evenness.
Does anyone have any tips for how to work on this? Should I actually be favoring equipment that is conjoined, or are free weights a good option for this? I focused yesterday a lot on free curls, hammer curls, etc.
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Post by zelio on Sept 25, 2019 5:09:59 GMT -5
I had a week off from the gym as a result of a very busy week last week, but I got back into the gym yesterday. Felt really good. I have a current new goal, which is to try to reach a level of evenness in arm strength, as my left arm is notably weaker than my right arm. My friend who is the gym beast had me and another coworker doing his routines with him two and three weeks ago, and I was struggling with the dumbbells on my left arm quite a bit to reach the rep count we had set. Meanwhile, the right arm was totally fine, not so hard. I had the problem that by the 4th rotation, I wasn’t able to reach my needed reps for my left arm. I asked him what would he do if he were me, and he said I needed to go down to a lighter weight for both sides, but I really felt bummed about that because I was starting at one of the lower weights already...hahaha! So yesterday, I spent most of my time trying to work with those and go for evenness. Does anyone have any tips for how to work on this? Should I actually be favoring equipment that is conjoined, or are free weights a good option for this? I focused yesterday a lot on free curls, hammer curls, etc. Hey, if you weren't "able to reach my needed reps for my left arm" then that's a good thing. The best way to build muscle is by lifting until you can't lift no more. So if you reach the limit with your left arm only, then the left arm will also build more muscle and thus catch up with the right arm at some point. I also think your friend is right: go for lighter weights so you can inch yourself closer to the limit, like, pick a weight that you can lift close so ten times with your left arm, or fail at 8 or so. But lifting until you can't lift no more is the way to build muscle. |
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Post by stringypoo on Sept 25, 2019 20:15:13 GMT -5
I had a week off from the gym as a result of a very busy week last week, but I got back into the gym yesterday. Felt really good. I have a current new goal, which is to try to reach a level of evenness in arm strength, as my left arm is notably weaker than my right arm. My friend who is the gym beast had me and another coworker doing his routines with him two and three weeks ago, and I was struggling with the dumbbells on my left arm quite a bit to reach the rep count we had set. Meanwhile, the right arm was totally fine, not so hard. I had the problem that by the 4th rotation, I wasn’t able to reach my needed reps for my left arm. I asked him what would he do if he were me, and he said I needed to go down to a lighter weight for both sides, but I really felt bummed about that because I was starting at one of the lower weights already...hahaha! So yesterday, I spent most of my time trying to work with those and go for evenness. Does anyone have any tips for how to work on this? Should I actually be favoring equipment that is conjoined, or are free weights a good option for this? I focused yesterday a lot on free curls, hammer curls, etc. Hey, if you weren't "able to reach my needed reps for my left arm" then that's a good thing. The best way to build muscle is by lifting until you can't lift no more. So if you reach the limit with your left arm only, then the left arm will also build more muscle and thus catch up with the right arm at some point. I also think your friend is right: go for lighter weights so you can inch yourself closer to the limit, like, pick a weight that you can lift close so ten times with your left arm, or fail at 8 or so. But lifting until you can't lift no more is the way to build muscle. Nice. Thanks for the reply on that. You helped confirm a few feelings I had about what I am working on. I definitely get pushed to my limits when my friend is there. Since the other day it was just me, I probably didn’t get as solid a workout, but even without him there I reached a limit for my left arm numerous times. I am enjoying this process at the gym quite a bit when I go. I tend to feel and see new results very quickly, which is a nice way to go about it. Maybe because I’m already extremely low body fat? But I also understand it takes fat to burn and turn to muscle, or something like that. I guess my thing is not that I want to be bulkier, but I just want to be stronger. So I think for now I’ll keep my current eating habits, of which I don’t eat particularly light, but I don’t try to absorb carbs either. Haha |
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Post by stringypoo on Oct 9, 2019 10:19:55 GMT -5
A little update on my gym experience: I tend to make it to the gym two or three times per week. I’m a bit proud of myself for this fact because my time after work is always too short for the number of hobbies and interests I want to satisfy in the evenings. My most recent goals have been to gain strength in the left arm to reach a more even level with my right arm. Lots of free weights. As of today, I definitely felt that my left arm can mostly keep up with my right, which feels awesome. In addition, it seems like I’m able to get more action out of all the weight machines I use now that I’ve gained that strength. I went today and yesterday so far this week. Maybe I made a mistake today doing nearly the same workout, because maybe my arms will be super sore tomorrow, but when you can see a big difference in the work you can put out as well as how you look, it definitely feels worth the pain I might feel tomorrow.
I am soon going to aim at developing my shoulders more, so I need to do some researching to find exercises that can help me with that.
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Post by stringypoo on Nov 13, 2019 21:07:32 GMT -5
I’m now on a regular gym schedule that is centered around the idea that every Wednesday I’ll take a day off and Fridays through Sunday I’m out in Shanghai. I go to the gym every Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday. But the more I do it the more I wish I had more time to go. I’m quite addicted at this point. I believe that if I could, I’d probably be there 5 or 6 days a week. I might have to get a second gym membership so I can have one to go to in Shanghai! You guys, this has been one of the most positive changes I’ve made in my life. I can’t believe I waited this long to start doing something like this for myself.
Also happy to report the progress on my arm work. I still work quite a bit with free weights each time, and my left and right arms are almost equally capable at this time. When I started back in September, I was only able to complete my fairly large routine with 5KG dumbbells, which is just a little over 11 or so pounds. Three weeks ago I upped it to 7.5KG, and starting this Monday I went up to 10KG on each, and although barely able to complete the routine, I made it with both arms! So I’m feeling really great about this! And I also started putting more leg days into my schedule. I’m starting to feel and see new muscle outlines, especially at my inner-thighs, which I didn’t ever have before. I probably need to be building in some cardio to my exercise, but I’m so addicted to weight training recently and I don’t want to stop. Haha
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Post by clazza on Nov 21, 2019 17:11:06 GMT -5
The Gamechangers movie..I was already convinced that plant based protein is the way to go but hopefully they really make a change in the world with this movie Any thoughts? Watched it the other week and it was saying a lot of the same things that I read years ago before I changed my diet. It's very well done and there are some amazing parts in there. Especially when they do the blood tests. |
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Post by Liggy on Dec 16, 2019 23:59:27 GMT -5
 How I feel sometimes. |
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Post by coltsfabio on May 16, 2020 9:08:25 GMT -5
My personal fitness regiment... doesn't exist. I like Oreos too much, man. And Arby's gyros
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Post by drauth on Jul 25, 2020 12:20:06 GMT -5
With the whole pandemic thing going on, gyms have been out of the question since March. I switched over to the "Move" routine from the Bodyweight Fitness subreddit and I've managed to make solid gains over the last few months. www.reddit.com/r/bodyweightfitness/wiki/move |
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