thread of getting sw0le

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i swear to god i'm getting weaker. i'm struggling with amounts that would be difficult but basically automatic a month or so ago. this is crap!

idk if it's winter or what by my sleep and eating habits have gone to shit, i'm going to blame it on that.

how are you all doing out there, dyel

I am getting stronger, which is nbd given my uber weakness to begin with. I am almost ready to move to the actual 45 pound barbell instead of the 15 pounder, which I've been loading up an additional ~5 lbs per workout

i'm trying to add some more carbs to my diet to help with some gains. also going to cut out some of the intense metabolic conditioning i'd been doing and focus on recovery a little more.

idk if it's winter or what by my sleep and eating habits have gone to shit, i'm going to blame it on that.

yeah this is where it's all at. sleep is so important ime

i was not in the gym for a little bit (12 days!) bc of running group. can't figure out how to do both that well. i'm thinking i'm gonna skip one running workout per week from the schedule, probably the interval one. i'm the fastest in the group, of 6 people who are all older than i am. lol. i went back today and i didn't really lose any strength. but the tiny bald guy who dances on the ball thing was there and he makes me uncomfortable! he's so small! he tried to give me that velcro pad thing for the barbell.

i started to explain to him how it doesn't touch my neck and he said "i don't know, maybe i'm too short to do that." i'm still puzzled.

man there were some high school dudes in the rack next to me who were making me very nervous with their weird, bad overloaded squats

second workout in a row a guy has tried to give me that thing!

that thing, that thing, that ♪♫thing♪.

what the fuck

http://youtu.be/gJMdK7vJsLc

so i have this suit jacket that used to fit almost perfectly maybe a tiny bit small (i have big shoulders anyway) and now i can't even button it, i just realized today at work. so sw0le. but then i was also thinking my upper body looked skinnier. i have better posture now.

i only go twice a week lately

Finally started that 4-week course, but week 1 was a rush through a bunch of machines - disappointed. Going to read New Women's Rules of Lifting or whatever it's called and figure it out for myself.

still in stallsville on squats! dammit what do i have to do for you, sw0le g0ds

just a thought: have you tried taking some time off?

Back to lifting after a couple (OK, three) weeks off; lost some of my overhead press but seemed to hold the line at squat and deadlift. We'll see how bench press goes tomorrow.

that's what usually happens to me, o press goes to shit, squat pretty stable

man it's the other way around for me.

just a thought: have you tried taking some time off?

― ryan, Monday, March 4, 2013 9:21 PM (2 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

taking some... what now?

was off for 3 months, until last week. back up to 5RM within a week on squat, but i look like http://vimeo.com/34678147 when i try to o press.

i went to the gym. i keep taking time off by accident and then i get anxiety like "if i go i'll get sore because i've been off too long and i don't want that" so i wait longer and have more potential for soreness. i didn't try too hard though. i found a new gym character who wears some weird shoes and velour pants pulled up really high.

CAEK this is not really swole-related (I will try to make it more so) but iirc you are the astronomer who did some work at McDonald? I go to there soon! Pls tell me all of the secrets of the universe (and of Marfa).

Swole: uhhhh OK I am on the road for another month or so and getting into the gym is a bit tricky, but I have been doing a bit of wimpy jogging and will get a temp membership at some uber cheap dumb musclehead gym next week so I can do two weeks of swole. I guess.

i like running or i pretend to but it's incompatible with swole. i can't figure out how i can get better at both :(

I kinda hate running but as the spouse reminds me, "the heart is a muscle, too." And er latest checkup was all "LADY U PREHYPERTENSIVE U GOTTA EXERCISE" so I'm all "FUCK guess I gotta run a little (very little) bit."

lifting is good for your <3

I feel like I don't get my heart rate up for a very long time when lifting. I'm doing Starting Strength, basically, and it doesn't seem to put the same aerobic stress on the ticker.

quincie, yes that is me! what do you want to know? i will actually be there again in april. webmail if you prefer or maybe we should just start a west texas thread?

my sw0leness officially suspended via gym membership cancellation via moving to nyc in a couple of months btw.

I will start a West Texas/Southern AZ&NM/CaliMex Border thread!

Was asked 'do you want to train for endurance or strength', avoided shouting 'SW0LE!!!'

Having trouble remembering the form for any lifting whatsoever, from week to week.

i also had to give up running b/c of my shit knees. since then though i've started using lighter weights with shorter rests between sets, and it gives you close to the same aerobic workout without just straight shrinking you.

all hail xxp

going to bed now so maybe link it here in case it falls of new answers.

nrolfw has a "bodyweight matrix" that looks like it would get hr up for a few minutes and not suck as much as running, i'll find it later. i didn't go past stage 1 of it because i got SS instead.

ha, got it xp

moving to nyc in a couple of months btw.

― caek, Thursday, March 14, 2013 7:54 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

nice, congrats man

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Q4KfTDju0zQ/UQSEAZrfQaI/AAAAAAAADP0/qB9L8NfesWw/s400/Squats+-+Cardio,+I+Lift+Weights+Faster.jpg

i'm getting sw0le from food + sendentary job am i doing it rite

ty goole, we talked about it a bit on i go to new york

sw0le danger
http://www.youtube.com/embed/VjEhUbrufKk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VjEhUbrufKk

god damn!

i am s0re

I didn't enjoy this four week course at my school's athletic centre. Exercises not written down anywhere other than unreadable ancient photocopy of some book, too blurry to see where the arms and legs are going, and not in the order we did them. So I forgot them all between weeks. I can't seem to copy form properly when it's demonstrated to me unless someone actually grabs me and changes the way I'm positioned, which makes me worry about striking out with only a book from here.

We finally got to deadlifts and squats today, the final week, and I wasn't even flexible enough to pick up the bar with proper form.

Embarrassingly, the thing I hated most was seeing myself in the mirrors. I need to get over myself, obv.

I can't seem to copy form properly when it's demonstrated to me unless someone actually grabs me and changes the way I'm positioned

This is not uncommon, FWIW, and one of the things that makes a good personal trainer actually worth a few visits. You don't really need those people for programming or diet (thx Internet!) but a good one trained in barbell exercises can be v. v. valuable.

yeah, this is what I thought I'd get from this course, especially as there were only two of us on it, but there were too many exercises and not enough grabbing and repositioning! I will look into other options.

Do some of you sw0le individuals also subscribe to short bursts of cardio to skyrocket heartrate? Maybe there's another thread for that...

Do some of you sw0le individuals also subscribe to short bursts of cardio to skyrocket heartrate? Maybe there's another thread for that...

Hill Sprints, Tabata workouts ,kettlebells and double under jump rope at high intensity for my cardios

whats up with her form https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bxAc97K2I5M

The back arch is a powerlifting move, helps you press your feet and shoulders on the lift.
I could tell if her elbows were properly tucked.

ljub it took me a couple months to feel ok doing barbell squats. do goblet squats. there are youtubes showing it and it's easy to do properly without hurting yourself. it helps you learn the motion of bending at your hips and the way you hold the weight lets you not have to focus so much on balancing. you just keep your knees pushed out and chest up and the rest falls into place. you'll be able to do it pretty deep and that alone will help you become more flexible. just work on hip flexor and hamstring stretches after you are done since you'll be warm.

you are 50 x more helpful than the 'personal trainer' at the athletic centre. thanks, will check those out!