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龜 the real ans from me is next to nothing.

a water bottle is about it, just to keep you from walking back and forth to the drinking fountain

clothes you can move in, that's about it.

shoes are a slight consideration. if you're doing a lot of lifting with your feet planted, flatter harder soled shoes are best. cushier running shoes aren't great, bball shoes can hamper ankle movement

i don't fuck w/ a phone or ipod working out. i hate having things in my ears or wires hanging off my body. just me tho.

xp You don't have a phone?

― Eric H., Monday, April 20, 2015 3:59 PM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark

Who is this person. Ban him

Tnx goole. How do you do for office-to-gym trips. I go to the one by work

do you have a gym bag?

or, a bag?

Yes

great!

:)

Ty guys I already own a pair of lifting jeans

"manky rag" is necessary to put down on bench imo but we can take this outside if you want do you even lift bro

I'm only going there to do cardio and bodyweight exercises

hmm u should definitely bring an unnecessary manky rag

xp lol

do you have a gym bag?

― goole, Monday, April 20, 2015 4:07 PM (57 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

or, a bag?

― goole, Monday, April 20, 2015 4:07 PM (57 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Yes

― 龜, Monday, April 20, 2015 4:08 PM (56 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

great!

― goole, Monday, April 20, 2015 4:09 PM (55 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

lol

I forgot to bring a lock :(

:(

parallel bar dips r my new thing i think theyre really going to help me

they are the shit

the first time i tried them i literally could not do 1. now i do 3x5 with 30kg between my ankles just sayin

may i feel yr ankles, TH?

My gym doesn't have parallel bars, but I dunno, the rings?

morbius you CAD

lol

my gym EDC consists of a backpack containing a padlock, a pair of underarmour compression shorts, basketball shorts (or pants on deadlift day), some ugly old chuck taylor low tops, a Klean Kanteen, , two 1.25lb microplates, and a new weightlifting belt. I love my weightlifting belt and wish I would have bought it years ago. I bought it from Best Belts. I got the 3" model because my ribs are close to my hips and I like to wear it while deadlifting. I consider it a piece of safety gear because I am old and have hurt my back a couple of times when I've lost tightness during lifts when exhausted. the belt helps me remember to brace my core hard during the whole movement even when exhausted.

joined a gym, did some squats :)

guys someone taught me how to lift weights today it was fun!

How do u lift weights. Asking for a friend

i did squats today also

Can somebody lift my weights for me

the best way to lift a weight is with your mind unless the weight is on your mind and then you should get a friend to help

take a load off danny

lagoon which gym?

blink, its equinox cheapo brand, not bad

$15 - 25 depending on if u want to go to the manhattan gyms

need more kettle bells and a better pull up set up to tbh

i am sore in weird new places

notice trying to squat im not even approaching a weight where its really gonna work my legs yet cause my core is not strong enough

Aren't there machines where you can do squats while leaning up against something?

probably if u r coward

Ah, OK. Well then get your core right with some yoga immediately.

i think if i just keep doing the squats my core i will catch up, yoga is cool tho too, i mean i do core exercises regularly but i guess its just diff w heavy weight

not that im lifting that heavy but i plan on working my way up

need to get more xplosion

depth is always the problem for me, may be the problem i have forever. that's fine! it's fine.

um its actually not fine

if any of you have some tips for loosening up unusually tight hamstrings, tia

cf: yoga

nooooo

Here's a simple hamstring stretch I've been doing recently:

From a standing position, lean forward as if to touch your toes. Try to keep your lower back flat rather than rounded, so that you're pushing your hips back more than you are curving your spine. It doesn't matter if you can't actually touch your toes this way, just try to relax in that position with your legs fully extended. Now contract your quads for 10-15 seconds. Relax, stand up, repeat.

yeah i've been doing that! just recently. seems to help. funny, a lifetime of shitty ham stretches from gym class, and that one seems to work best. really makes you wonder how 'knowledge' and fads in fitness come and go.

they're really tight tho. every other type of stretch can and does feel great, but stretching the backs of my legs gives me this much sharper pain.

Yeah, there is a lot of bogus conventional wisdom out there about stretching in relation to lifting and athletics in general

These leg raise correctives are not solely hamstring stretches, but they'd probably help:

https://youtu.be/nIN0Gem5l3o

The context for those is Gray Cook's functional movement system ... self-screens are pretty easy to do and have helped me understand the need to improve basic movement patterns before trying to put too much on top of them

https://youtu.be/h8G6jkEf1uI

disclaimer: I am not sw0le

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