BRANE-SCRUBBING is among all-time reasons to go to the gym - otm
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Saturday, 28 December 2019 20:13 (four years ago) link
also, i confess: i've long wanted to try the GERKIN and ARMY etc functions on the fancy gym treadmills, so i will work up to that and it helps to have something to work up to
― forensic plumber (harbl), Saturday, 28 December 2019 20:21 (four years ago) link
I have never heard, and am afraid of, these "functions" of which you speak.
― mom tossed in kimchee (quincie), Saturday, 28 December 2019 21:16 (four years ago) link
the damn pickle army
― lag∞n, Thursday, 16 January 2020 03:06 (four years ago) link
Lol. Anyone try the manual treadmills? Goddamn they kick my ass
― ingredience (map), Thursday, 16 January 2020 06:20 (four years ago) link
Thinking bout joining a fancier gym for more $.
― ingredience (map), Thursday, 16 January 2020 06:23 (four years ago) link
manual treadmills seems like a very 80s hotel gym kind of thing. I remember them. They were rough.
― Yerac, Thursday, 16 January 2020 06:26 (four years ago) link
i tried one once idk
― lag∞n, Thursday, 16 January 2020 17:39 (four years ago) link
for me being able to set the pace of a regular treadmill is a big draw, but thats more a particular training for actual running thing rather than just general exercise
― lag∞n, Thursday, 16 January 2020 17:40 (four years ago) link
Ok whatever guys they’re good but i guess you just want to be haters
― ingredience (map), Saturday, 18 January 2020 05:01 (four years ago) link
maybe you found a really nice one? my knees hurt just thinking about the friction.
― Yerac, Saturday, 18 January 2020 06:27 (four years ago) link
manual treadmill feels like a pretty canonical piece of swolequipment
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Saturday, 18 January 2020 09:36 (four years ago) link
i am not sure what a manual treadmill is but my gym has like non-motorized treadmills where you can also pick up weighted handles to do farmer's walk. is that what it is?
― forensic plumber (harbl), Saturday, 18 January 2020 15:04 (four years ago) link
yeah, this guy: https://www.woodway.com/products/curve/
def not 80s style. awesome and brutal. there's a learning curve to get a good pace going.
― Larry Elleison (rogermexico.), Wednesday, 29 January 2020 00:03 (four years ago) link
it's basically like a 4% incline that you have to constantly control based on where your toes land
― ingredience (map), Wednesday, 29 January 2020 00:11 (four years ago) link
my bro science opinion is that it's really good for hills and/or sprints
― ingredience (map), Wednesday, 29 January 2020 00:13 (four years ago) link
feels really different than running on a standard treadmill cuz you're powering everything.. i did 10 minutes on a manual then switched to a regular for a minute and my legs were v. confused
― ingredience (map), Wednesday, 29 January 2020 00:16 (four years ago) link
also it forces you to run on your forefeet
― ingredience (map), Wednesday, 29 January 2020 00:19 (four years ago) link
oh ok, that's not the one we have. it's this thinghttps://www.fitnesszone.com/Merchant2/graphics/00000001/stairmaster-hiitmill-x-treadmill-1_270x270.jpg
― forensic plumber (harbl), Wednesday, 29 January 2020 00:29 (four years ago) link
woah!
― ingredience (map), Wednesday, 29 January 2020 00:30 (four years ago) link
What the fuck is that??!?
― mom tossed in kimchee (quincie), Wednesday, 29 January 2020 02:25 (four years ago) link
you can add weight to the handles and do a farmer's carry on the treadmill. i believe it does not have power to the belt but may have some sort of resistance system with magnets? i've never used it.
― forensic plumber (harbl), Wednesday, 29 January 2020 02:30 (four years ago) link
curve is the type i have tried
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 29 January 2020 02:41 (four years ago) link
i finally went back to the gym yesterday and actually touched some weights. i'm sore. i am hoping i can put myself back together again in february. i am very unswole now, but i was having a hard time in life.
― forensic plumber (harbl), Sunday, 2 February 2020 15:10 (four years ago) link
get em!
― lag∞n, Sunday, 2 February 2020 18:20 (four years ago) link
for those of you who lift on the heavy side, what do you do on non-lifting days? I can't help but feel like my alternating between heavy lifting and very sedentary days is probably not the best thing, but I also don't want to overdo it on in-between days.
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Wednesday, 5 February 2020 18:54 (four years ago) link
i def don't lift on the heavy side but i've been swimming on my non-weight days and man it feels p good
― A-B-C. A-Always, B-Be, C-Chooglin (will), Wednesday, 5 February 2020 19:05 (four years ago) link
Running like 20-30 mins
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 5 February 2020 19:10 (four years ago) link
When I lift heavy I rest on non-lifting days. What seems to work best for me for balance and recovery is weights 3x a week and running once on the weekend. Have been meaning to etch out some kind of schedule where I do a high volume full body routine twice a week then run and do yoga as many of the others as possible without burning myself out.
― beard papa, Wednesday, 5 February 2020 19:13 (four years ago) link
i should note i swim slowly and not for terribly long. more of a dynamic stretching than anything
― A-B-C. A-Always, B-Be, C-Chooglin (will), Wednesday, 5 February 2020 19:20 (four years ago) link
weights 3x, 1hr of youtube yoga 4x or as toddler allows
― adam, Wednesday, 5 February 2020 19:27 (four years ago) link
light stretching or even a walk is nice to alternate w heavy lifting imo swimming is amazing if u have access, swim a lil hanging in the sauna eat some food take a nap just be a body very nice
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 5 February 2020 21:25 (four years ago) link
lol there's a dude with an alan thrall tshirt on at my y right now
― goole, Thursday, 13 February 2020 01:06 (four years ago) link
hes training untamed i assume
― lag∞n, Thursday, 13 February 2020 18:44 (four years ago) link
I like Alan Thrall but I feel like if I was wearing a tee of him or any "training" guy I would be giving off the pretense that I was "training" and not just casually lifting weights which is what I am more realistically doing.
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Thursday, 13 February 2020 18:48 (four years ago) link
i hope you casually walked up to him and growled the catch phrase
― forensic plumber (harbl), Thursday, 13 February 2020 23:30 (four years ago) link
"where's the beef"
― Dan I., Friday, 14 February 2020 00:38 (four years ago) link
― forensic plumber (harbl), Thursday, February 13, 2020 5:30 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink
sorry to admit this didn't even occur to me! not to gymshame but was not particularly accomplished. his lifting partner was pretty yoked, i thought the whole thing was cute tbh
― goole, Friday, 14 February 2020 19:29 (four years ago) link
Man, lifting as a 40-year-old busy professional dad feels like such a slow grind sometimes in terms of progress, especially since I probably don't sleep as much as I need to. I feel like I barely made progress over the last year, although lately I am starting to feel like I'm getting somewhere again. I was able to hit a set of 5 x 325 on my DL recently (with very long pauses between reps), my OHP is kind of stuck at 135-145 x 5 depending on the day, and my bench hasn't gone beyond 215 x 5 but it's come back there after dropping off for a little while. I'm now experimenting with more volume on everything but the DL so we'll see how that goes.
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Wednesday, 19 February 2020 19:33 (four years ago) link
man i feel that. i have been running, though, as well, so i only lift 2x/wk. running on a treadmill even!i think i like the strong app? i tried it a long time ago and didn't like it more than just a spreadsheet. but now something clicked, it's a neat little thing.
― goole, Wednesday, 4 March 2020 19:58 (four years ago) link
goole! hey man!
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 4 March 2020 23:12 (four years ago) link
hello tracer my friend ps i listened to The Ratline recently and it was great, were you involved, sorry to mix lifting and business
― goole, Thursday, 5 March 2020 18:47 (four years ago) link
lol it's just gym chat nbd
i was not but i am on familiar terms with the people who were. glad you liked it! i was more involved with the missing cryptoqueen which you may like too??
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 5 March 2020 19:14 (four years ago) link
i'm one ep down and the missing crypto queen is great! never heard of this story before at all. the bulgarian choir is a fine touch, i was like ohhh i get it
― goole, Monday, 9 March 2020 03:57 (four years ago) link
The Strong app is great! The one quibble I've had with it is the inability to track different rep ranges or goals of the same lift separately, so when I was doing a routine with separate heavy and volume days that used the same compound lift my numbers for the bench would zigzag up and down and make a very ugly, difficult to read trend line, especially since they progressed at different rates.
I've just started with a new program on my trainer's recommendation that includes a lot of timing- rest/pause sets, myo-reps, etc- and I'm starting to dig into the timing features in Strong since my old method of watching the second hand on the wall clock out of the corner of my eye doesn't exactly work from every spot in the gym, and fucking around with the timer on my phone usually eats up a decent chunk of the 20 second interval most of the sets use.
― You guys are caterpillar (Telephone thing), Monday, 9 March 2020 15:29 (four years ago) link
i have those exact quibbles with it. i switched from volume DLs to Romanians just to make it work loli guess I'll need to play around with it to get the internal timing to work? i couldn't figure it out; i'd like to throw some planks in there
― goole, Tuesday, 10 March 2020 22:05 (four years ago) link
I’m officially stopping the gym until further notice. We bought a home bike recently but that’s more my wife’s thing and I’m not into it. Let’s start sharing tips on body weight workouts, videos, cheap home gear, etc.
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Sunday, 15 March 2020 01:31 (four years ago) link
i'm still soldiering on because my i'm supposed to work from home but i guess i should stop? i will probably just go for walks and maybe work on push-ups if i stop. do you have any bands? i like lateral band walks to make your butt hurt.
― forensic plumber (harbl), Sunday, 15 March 2020 01:37 (four years ago) link
body weight squats are fuckin awesome. hold something heavy with both hands under your chin for a goblet squat. stretch. do wall slides.
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Sunday, 15 March 2020 01:39 (four years ago) link
i had been wanting to work on wall slides. good idea. maybe i can goblet squat by putting all the rice and beans i bought in a bag.
― forensic plumber (harbl), Sunday, 15 March 2020 01:43 (four years ago) link