i did squats first!
― Online Webinar Event for Dads (harbl), Monday, 29 October 2012 15:45 (eleven years ago) link
i know!!
that was a belated reply to my thing upthread
― goole, Monday, 29 October 2012 15:48 (eleven years ago) link
i am having starting strength delivered to my job and now i'm afraid my office will blow away and i'll never get it!
― Online Webinar Event for Dads (harbl), Monday, 29 October 2012 15:52 (eleven years ago) link
everyone on body building.com has a bodyspace profile.do people actually do that???
― homosexual II, Monday, 29 October 2012 15:59 (eleven years ago) link
i guess they are into building not getting swole
― caek, Monday, 29 October 2012 16:05 (eleven years ago) link
wtf is bodyspace
― Online Webinar Event for Dads (harbl), Monday, 29 October 2012 16:31 (eleven years ago) link
myspace for juicers? idk
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 29 October 2012 16:36 (eleven years ago) link
its social networking for people into body building... ha!
― homosexual II, Monday, 29 October 2012 16:37 (eleven years ago) link
gruntbook
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 29 October 2012 16:39 (eleven years ago) link
Checked out the gym after all (thanks for the push, harbl). They have 45-min 'orientation sessions' available in the 'strength and conditioning centre'. Only the 'SCC' (strength and conditioning?) ones are available as women-only sessions, the others are available as co-ed. Why would whatever 'TRX core training' and 'Field House Circuit' are be unavailable as women-only sessions?
TRX Core Training SCC Circuit Field House Circuit
― ljubljana, Monday, 29 October 2012 20:41 (eleven years ago) link
trx is doing bodyweight exercises while hanging on a strap. kinda weird. you should do the scc orientation, they probably show you where all the weights are to get you on the path to becoming sw0le.
― Online Webinar Event for Dads (harbl), Monday, 29 October 2012 20:44 (eleven years ago) link
thanks, I will check it out.
― ljubljana, Monday, 29 October 2012 21:26 (eleven years ago) link
TRX is fun, enhances or mitigates body weight workouts, it's mildly popular generally so that classes tend to be coed.
Pole fitness, otoh, obviously has women only classes and a body weight component.
― seandalai lama (Leee), Monday, 29 October 2012 22:14 (eleven years ago) link
Avoid TRX at all costs that shit will get u crazy strong and lean but not sw0le
― all yoga attacks are fire based (rogermexico.), Tuesday, 30 October 2012 01:31 (eleven years ago) link
Am I kicked off this thread if I'm happy with crazy strong and lean but not sw0le?
― ljubljana, Tuesday, 30 October 2012 02:04 (eleven years ago) link
The advantage to using free weights over something like TRX (or other bodyweight stuff) is that to get stronger you need the exercise to get progressively more challenging in a structured way. This is easy if you can add small weights to the bar each time but with bodyweight stuff you will either need to keep adding more reps indefinitely or perform increasingly difficult variations of the movement, which can be really complicated and difficult.
― strike curious poses, Tuesday, 30 October 2012 11:39 (eleven years ago) link
i don't think you should avoid it but this is a thread about lifting heavy weights because it is fun
― Online Webinar Event for Dads (harbl), Tuesday, 30 October 2012 13:38 (eleven years ago) link
i am never actually going to look sw0le
― Online Webinar Event for Dads (harbl), Tuesday, 30 October 2012 13:39 (eleven years ago) link
I've enjoyed the TRX that I've done.
― Jeff, Tuesday, 30 October 2012 14:01 (eleven years ago) link
TRX does offer variable resistance -- just change the load angle -- but it's inexact and does max out (albeit in some pretty challenging places). Great full-body/core workout. Just more Tarzan than Conan.
― all yoga attacks are fire based (rogermexico.), Tuesday, 30 October 2012 14:18 (eleven years ago) link
Does anyone here compete? I'm thinking about trying my first powerlifting meet mid next year. I wouldn't be putting up spectacular numbers or anything but it seems like it would be fun.
― strike curious poses, Tuesday, 30 October 2012 22:01 (eleven years ago) link
TS: Tarzan vs. Conan
― ryan, Tuesday, 30 October 2012 22:14 (eleven years ago) link
man i wouldn't even dream of competing!
― goole, Tuesday, 30 October 2012 22:19 (eleven years ago) link
Lol the only competition I daydream about is for crossword puzzles.
― Leeezzarina Sbarro (Leee), Wednesday, 31 October 2012 05:49 (eleven years ago) link
Would general fitness talk be appropriate here, or should someone start a new fitness fascist thread?
― Leeezzarina Sbarro (Leee), Saturday, 3 November 2012 01:22 (eleven years ago) link
i tried to do glute-ham raises in the thing but it hurts the front of my legs so bad i had to stop. it was already as high as it could go, maybe there's something else i didn't see to adjust though. what i did do was barbell glute bridges. it's fun to hump the air in the squat rack.― Online Webinar Event for Dads (harbl), Monday, October 29, 2012 3:38 PM (5 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― Online Webinar Event for Dads (harbl), Monday, October 29, 2012 3:38 PM (5 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
i never had a knack for ghrs. and you should probably keep at em. but stiff leg deadlifts: it's a different exercise and you're moving in a different way but a good supplement on days when you want to light up your posterior chain. light light is key at the start. feel what muscles are firing when you do it, feel what's sore the next day.
i know it's broscience but i find deadlifting every week is way too taxing on my cns. my recovery is way too slow and it fucks up my week. but i can build my deadlift with stiff leg deadlifts and heavy rack pulls (sometimes good mornings although i know they might have been discredited and will fuck up your lower back and i don't let anyone see me do them). i can come back from weeks of not deadlifting in the conventional way and hit PRs.
― dylannn, Saturday, 3 November 2012 05:43 (eleven years ago) link
walking lunges with barbells is another ham killer for me. box jumps.sprinting, fuck yeah, just pull all that power from your posterior chain.
what i do instead of using ghrs :%
― dylannn, Saturday, 3 November 2012 05:47 (eleven years ago) link
Good mornings are the shit! Discredited how?
― strike curious poses, Saturday, 3 November 2012 14:59 (eleven years ago) link
starting strength came in the mail yesterday
― Online Webinar Event for Dads (harbl), Saturday, 3 November 2012 15:30 (eleven years ago) link
― strike curious poses, Tuesday, October 30, 2012 7:39 AM (4 days ago) Bookmark
great post/dn combo
― 乒乓, Saturday, 3 November 2012 15:33 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.askthetrainer.com/top-5-worst-exercises/
discredited by the american college of sports medicine, internet broscientists, fat guys at my gym, other pussies.
― dylannn, Saturday, 3 November 2012 21:33 (eleven years ago) link
<3 broscience
― Tome Cruise (Matt P), Saturday, 3 November 2012 21:48 (eleven years ago) link
That article's basically just saying if you do them with bad form or more weight than you can handle they will hurt you, which is true but not exactly a devastating critique. Louie Simmons is pro-GM and I really enjoy doing them, that's good enough for me.
― strike curious poses, Saturday, 3 November 2012 22:00 (eleven years ago) link
I mean, I'm not trying to have an argument and I know you said you do these anyway, just saying.
― strike curious poses, Saturday, 3 November 2012 22:01 (eleven years ago) link
TOP 5 WORST EXERCISES, even if it says you can do them with proper form ain't exactly a ringing endorsement. i was just making reference to the fact that i always come across people saying they're responsible for horrifying lower back injuries, and i've been told face-to-face by guys at the gym not to do them.
but we're on the same page, bro! it's a great exercise and a great posterior chain builder.
― dylannn, Saturday, 3 November 2012 22:10 (eleven years ago) link
Sweet christmas, I lost 5-10 lb. in a month. /sonotsw0leBeing injured sucks! >.<
― Leeezzarina Sbarro (Leee), Sunday, 4 November 2012 01:29 (eleven years ago) link
Good mornings famously the exercise with which Bruce Lee fucked up his back
― Brad C., Sunday, 4 November 2012 01:57 (eleven years ago) link
agh i'm in stallsville. a few days of getting bad sleep and forgetting my afternoon trail mix, maybe.
― goole, Sunday, 4 November 2012 05:31 (eleven years ago) link
always been super jealous of people that fight to gain weight. i've been as high as 280 without trying and have to keep my diet painfully strict to maintain weight + slowly gain lean muscle.
i know lots of people that tnation reps/who write for tnation have been mentioned here but i wanted to mention it because despite the near omnipresent pimping of their supplements it's a great site, esp for diet stuff, old school getting sw0le advice
― dylannn, Sunday, 4 November 2012 06:05 (eleven years ago) link
carlos @famouscrabyeah i got a gym membership. its called life. watch me lift this big ass rock. now im gonna do 20 reps of pretending im a beautiful bird
― 乒乓, Sunday, 4 November 2012 18:46 (eleven years ago) link
i did second day of starting strength today. i was so afraid of bench press before so i stuck with dumbbells. last time i tried to really bench press was in college and i couldn't do the bar for more than a few reps. so i did my first warm-up sets with the bar and the first one i was like lol what a joke. it was like lifting a broomstick over my head. i did my work sets at 65 lbs! i am proud. standing presses are hard for me though. also i deadlifted 135 for the first time, doing work sets also. his example says do one set of 5 for work sets. there are 7 warm-up sets. yes it takes a long time in the gym but it's fun.
― Online Webinar Event for Dads (harbl), Saturday, 10 November 2012 18:11 (eleven years ago) link
after watching a bunch of videos i'm not too worried about leaning forward at the bottom of my squat anymore. it's a consequence of sticking my butt out which i think is ok and it's not like i get stuck there. it just feels exaggerated but i don't think it looks that way.
― Online Webinar Event for Dads (harbl), Saturday, 10 November 2012 18:12 (eleven years ago) link
also a trainer ran over and "helped" me put the 45 lb plate on the bar i was thinking i just picked 125 lbs up off the ground 10 seconds ago i don't think i need help?
― Online Webinar Event for Dads (harbl), Saturday, 10 November 2012 18:13 (eleven years ago) link
sorry i mean 5 warm-up sets
― Online Webinar Event for Dads (harbl), Saturday, 10 November 2012 18:16 (eleven years ago) link
last time i tried to really bench press was in college and i couldn't do the bar for more than a few reps. so i did my first warm-up sets with the bar and the first one i was like lol what a joke. it was like lifting a broomstick over my head. i did my work sets at 65 lbs! i am proud.
hi5!!
― goole, Saturday, 10 November 2012 19:32 (eleven years ago) link
re: the trainer: i think that's called 'flirting' but idk
thread of getting go0le
― 乒乓, Saturday, 10 November 2012 19:42 (eleven years ago) link
this answers all of my squat questionshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wY4gwVlO_k0&list=PLC03D688F10C4DE1F&index=3&feature=plcp
― Online Webinar Event for Dads (harbl), Saturday, 10 November 2012 22:31 (eleven years ago) link
http://brianfinke.com/most.html
― 乒乓, Sunday, 11 November 2012 17:17 (eleven years ago) link
i look just like those ladies
just when i was finishing up today a guy came and loaded 4 45 lb plates on the smith machine and did like 8 of something really fast. i couldn't look but i could hear and it was sad. i wanted to put my hand on his shoulder and say, "no. stop." then he waved some huge dumbbells around. anyway i am the most superior person in the gym now.
― Online Webinar Event for Dads (harbl), Monday, 12 November 2012 19:14 (eleven years ago) link