I go to the C4tonsville Y more often these days but I like the one you go to more! Yay! That is a very nice Y. I am woefully unswole, but maybe my new project of working less will help.
― horseshoe, Sunday, 9 March 2014 16:54 (ten years ago) link
also lol suburbs but the Towson Y is like a palace. It has a fireplace o_O
― horseshoe, Sunday, 9 March 2014 16:55 (ten years ago) link
the Y has body pump classes which for someone like me who has no idea what I'm doing when I'm strength training are good.
― horseshoe, Sunday, 9 March 2014 16:57 (ten years ago) link
now I am messing up this serious thread. But in terms of general chillness the 33rd street y is my fave.
― horseshoe, Sunday, 9 March 2014 16:59 (ten years ago) link
this is not a serious thread! look at the picture! i might try the towson one some weekend
― sent from my butt (harbl), Sunday, 9 March 2014 17:20 (ten years ago) link
My brother just bought a house in Towson, I'll have to tell him he can join a pimped out Y.
― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Sunday, 9 March 2014 17:35 (ten years ago) link
i work out in the oldest, grubbiest Y in the whole metro area. there are plans in the works to rehab it but idk. i think working out with actual matched unrusting plates and unbent bars in something better than a beige basement might be weird now.
― goole, Sunday, 9 March 2014 21:39 (ten years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=panCh8MkYxo
― 龜, Thursday, 27 March 2014 02:50 (ten years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lIlL-ibwOlA
― ∞, Wednesday, 2 April 2014 05:50 (ten years ago) link
remember greg valentino?
― dylannn, Wednesday, 2 April 2014 06:08 (ten years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oYlNfvwFN_I
synthol city
― dylannn, Wednesday, 2 April 2014 06:09 (ten years ago) link
^haha. ya. god. gregg valentino. sad thing is he did so well at the beginning.
― ∞, Wednesday, 2 April 2014 06:19 (ten years ago) link
a guy was doing hack squats and saying DAAAAAMN every rep
― flatizza (harbl), Thursday, 10 April 2014 01:12 (ten years ago) link
I just started a ridiculously super-basic program! I feel taller :)
Ab stuff alongside it is a serious problem, though. I tried a Deadbug because I thought it was supposed to be an easy version of a bird dog, but even that really hurt my back. I have no back pain day-to-day, but abs exercises slaughter it.
― ljubljana, Thursday, 10 April 2014 01:48 (ten years ago) link
seated leg presses and leg extensions starting to show dividends — the shorts i was wearing last summer don't fit anymore :D
― clouds, Sunday, 27 April 2014 16:23 (ten years ago) link
weird question. a few weeks ago I did a pretty rigorous ropes course with my kid for his birthday and for the following few days I was sore in my armpits. I'm not a hardcore lifter but I exercise regularly and have done a variety of freeweight exercises over the course of my life, but nothing that has worked my armpits I guess? Is there something crucial that I'm missing?
― how's life, Thursday, 1 May 2014 18:20 (ten years ago) link
do any kind of exercise that you'renot used to = you'll get sore, basically. helps to change things up as much as possible.
― ryan, Thursday, 1 May 2014 18:27 (ten years ago) link
pullups or chinups would work that stuff
― goole, Thursday, 1 May 2014 18:29 (ten years ago) link
Oh, I've never been able to do a pullup, so that explains that.
― how's life, Thursday, 1 May 2014 18:34 (ten years ago) link
maybe the most sore I've been is after playing dodgeball for 2 hours even though I was religiously lifting 3x a week at that point. I wouldn't imagine you're missing anything important.
― frogbs, Thursday, 1 May 2014 18:36 (ten years ago) link
Quiet day at the gym, so I decided to film myself doing a set of 5 deadlifts. Ugh, after a decent first lift I start curving my back like an angry cat.I knew one lift was shoddy, but I really thought I was holding it together for the other three.
Stupid weightlifting...
― Øystein, Sunday, 1 June 2014 22:15 (nine years ago) link
hey, i hit a PR a while ago!
bench 165 3x5
i shudder to think what my deadlift form looks like on film, especially the last rep. it's the descent that really screws me up
― goole, Sunday, 1 June 2014 23:04 (nine years ago) link
my progress so far:
lateral pull down - 170 (3x10)seated leg press - 255 (3x13)chest press - 160 (3x8)
body weight up to 175 lbs (up from 140ish last year)
― clouds, Monday, 2 June 2014 00:03 (nine years ago) link
damn, quality gains clouds
― een, Monday, 2 June 2014 00:15 (nine years ago) link
thanks!
― clouds, Monday, 2 June 2014 00:17 (nine years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/HGOvJGU.png
― 龜, Monday, 2 June 2014 03:30 (nine years ago) link
Nice going, google & clouds. Envious of yr progress, since I've been stuck since xmas at least.
My only real progress was in the deadlift, but I guess I'm going to have to deload quite a bit now to make sure I don't head for snap city...
Anyways, started StrongLifts 5x5 last week. Doing bench & overhead press for the first time in my gym-career, which is fun and beats the hell out of boring supersets of flys & pushups & (tricep exercise that I don't know the name of).
Moving from highbar to lowbar squats is kinda weird, but I've lowered the weight substantially and I'm really enjoying increasing the weight 5lbs every session.
― Øystein, Monday, 2 June 2014 15:36 (nine years ago) link
low bar weirds out my inflexible shoulders but it feels much more stable and compact
i have stopped "progressing" but have made my peace with that cause i basically reached the point i wanted to i.e. hottttt
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Monday, 2 June 2014 15:39 (nine years ago) link
these days i mainly do squats, pullups with 10kg between my feet and dips with 35kg between my feet, inching up a leeeeetle bit every so often
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Monday, 2 June 2014 15:40 (nine years ago) link
JUST SO YOU KNOW
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Monday, 2 June 2014 18:04 (nine years ago) link
lol
― goole, Monday, 2 June 2014 18:05 (nine years ago) link
I want to do weighted dips but those waist straps tend to hurt my lower back :-/
― ryan, Monday, 2 June 2014 18:07 (nine years ago) link
I look at this thread and get sad. I need a workout buddy because the only way I will ever motivate myself to go to the gym is if I have agreed to meet someone there. (I was using a personal trainer for a while several years ago and that worked well until the package sessions ran out and I saw what they normally cost once you moved beyond the intro rate.)
― On-the-spot Dicespin (DJP), Monday, 2 June 2014 18:08 (nine years ago) link
I'm hitting an odd point in this...my squats/deadlifts/cleans keep going up but I can't seem to increase my bench or military press. I guess I'm not really meant to be a bicep guy.
― Maggie killed Quagmire (collest baby ever) (frogbs), Monday, 2 June 2014 18:08 (nine years ago) link
i yanked something in my shoulder doing dips once, never went back to them. idk what they work that other things don't
― goole, Monday, 2 June 2014 18:11 (nine years ago) link
xp not to be a gym pedant frog but bench & press don't work biceps? am i missing something here
lol if you can keep these straight while doing them
http://www.exrx.net/WeightExercises/PectoralSternal/BWChestDip.htmlhttp://www.exrx.net/WeightExercises/Triceps/BWTriDip.html
― goole, Monday, 2 June 2014 18:12 (nine years ago) link
assume by bicep frogbs means tricep since that's the only way it makes sense
― resulting post (rogermexico.), Monday, 2 June 2014 18:12 (nine years ago) link
(also nice work clouds!)
― goole, Monday, 2 June 2014 18:13 (nine years ago) link
all you need for biceps is lots of pull ups imo
― ryan, Monday, 2 June 2014 18:13 (nine years ago) link
all you need is some tickets
*kisses arm*
to the gun show
― goole, Monday, 2 June 2014 18:14 (nine years ago) link
whoops mistyped there, i did mean triceps. i'm not a bicep guy either but i dont really work 'em out much
― Maggie killed Quagmire (collest baby ever) (frogbs), Monday, 2 June 2014 18:31 (nine years ago) link
thanks goole!
on a related note i just got back from the store buying some shirts that don't fit me like baby huey, feel maybe 60% more confident
― clouds, Monday, 2 June 2014 20:38 (nine years ago) link
Starting a squat program this week. not that my quads aren't already stretching my jeans as it is but whatever i love heavy squats.
― (•̪●) (carne asada), Monday, 2 June 2014 20:52 (nine years ago) link
just jumped back into a bodyweight circuit after a couple years sans sweating to be ready for weights again in a month or so. predictably my walk-everywhere-all-day legs are fine and my triceps are yelping after just a couple sets of close-hand pushups.
incredibly, i don't have any doorframes in 4 floors of house that will fit my pullup bar--anybody know any weight-free substitutes for a pullup?
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Tuesday, 3 June 2014 15:22 (nine years ago) link
houses should come with pre-installed pull up bars.
― ryan, Tuesday, 3 June 2014 15:42 (nine years ago) link
a pull up bar in pot
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Tuesday, 3 June 2014 15:44 (nine years ago) link
...........every pot
goddamit
On the advice of the gym manager/trainer who helped me put together my routine I'm taking a week off before starting a new program. I don't know if that's good science, but right now I'm torn between relief at having a break and the knowledge that I will go completely stir-crazy until I can start again. I'm really looking forward to it, though- I insisted on at least getting some guidance with my first set of deadlifts yesterday, since it was the only one of the three major compound movements I wasn't doing yet, and today my back is sore in a way it hasn't gotten in months.
― You guys are caterpillar (Telephone thing), Tuesday, 3 June 2014 16:02 (nine years ago) link
http://gawker.com/everything-wrong-with-barack-obamas-workout-1586136625
― goole, Friday, 6 June 2014 16:26 (nine years ago) link