thread of getting sw0le

i switched gyms to the y which is a little farther away but has parking lot so that should help. i went today. it's better than my other gym. less bros, more middle aged dudes just pumping iron. i was the strongest girl. also where i used to deadlift there was a little pit in the floor under the rubber mat so the barbell would roll crooked and it was awkward to set up. the y has a nice flat rubber floor. also rowing machines! pool! stuff! horseshoe goes there too but i didn't see her.

Wait I messes that up!

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.

also lol suburbs but the Towson Y is like a palace. It has a fireplace o_O

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.

now I am messing up this serious thread. But in terms of general chillness the 33rd street y is my fave.

this is not a serious thread! look at the picture! i might try the towson one some weekend

My brother just bought a house in Towson, I'll have to tell him he can join a pimped out Y.

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.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=panCh8MkYxo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lIlL-ibwOlA

remember greg valentino?

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

synthol city

^haha. ya. god. gregg valentino. sad thing is he did so well at the beginning.

a guy was doing hack squats and saying DAAAAAMN every rep

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.

seated leg presses and leg extensions starting to show dividends — the shorts i was wearing last summer don't fit anymore :D

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?

do any kind of exercise that you're
not used to = you'll get sore, basically. helps to change things up as much as possible.

pullups or chinups would work that stuff

Oh, I've never been able to do a pullup, so that explains that.

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.

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...

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

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)

damn, quality gains clouds

thanks!

http://i.imgur.com/HGOvJGU.png

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.

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

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

JUST SO YOU KNOW

lol

I want to do weighted dips but those waist straps tend to hurt my lower back :-/

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.)

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.

i yanked something in my shoulder doing dips once, never went back to them. idk what they work that other things don't

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.html
http://www.exrx.net/WeightExercises/Triceps/BWTriDip.html

assume by bicep frogbs means tricep since that's the only way it makes sense

(also nice work clouds!)

all you need for biceps is lots of pull ups imo

all you need is some tickets

*kisses arm*

to the gun show

whoops mistyped there, i did mean triceps. i'm not a bicep guy either but i dont really work 'em out much

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

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.

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?

houses should come with pre-installed pull up bars.

a pull up bar in pot

...........every pot

goddamit