thread of getting sw0le

I read starting strength over the weekend, seems legit. anyone try 5/3/1? another resident rec'd it to me after he got v v swole

been reading/watching some strength training stuff and lol every person is a totally eccentric loon, its like the opposite of running where everyone is totally sober and boring

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

These used to be my favorite, but be careful with them, they are absolute hell on your shoulders. They bend them in a very unnatural position and put tons of stress on them.

squatting hurts the front of my left hip so i had to stop to work on some things :(
doesn't matter i give up because i can't work and exercise

oh no :( oh no, all around.

have a weird history of yanking things that seem unrelated to the lift. last summer i pulled something really badly in my lower back while... benching. that took a while to get over.

just recently i either pulled something close to my inside right hip or irritated something in the joint. it happened doing bent-over rows. it's still a little tender at the extremes of range of motion.

gbx: I never stepped in a gym before about a month ago but I've started Fierce 5 program, which is a variation on Starting Strength AFAICT. I was very proud of myself this weekend last when I squatted 120*5*3. Wow at swole lifters in this thread!

http://forum.bodybuilding.com/showthread.php?t=159678631

I can't do front squats at all tho. I topple forwards with just a bar weight at the moment, or at least I did last time I tried. Maybe I'll be al right now my core is no longer made of jelly, must give it a try tomorrow.

the human body/culture is terrifying https://www.t-nation.com/training/doctors-view-of-crossfit

went to some indoor bouldering gym last night as part of a free fitness class programme organised by my employer to get their staff fitter. great fun, but i feel completely beaten up today - i can't even pick up the phone without wincing. i was so rubbish at it though - zero confidence, terrified of falling off, sweatiest fingers in the world ever... feel the urge to go back and do a better job if i can only find someone to drag along with me

rock climbing will fuck you up for sure

ya i suspect its prob the best thing you can do for real functional strength (as long as you dont fall too far)

prob be great for yr core re running nick

erryone I know who is really into climbing is ripped, it's true

yeah all the perfect muscles of all diff sizes, its like the opposite of iso lifting

i don't think i was engaging my core much tbh. it's mostly my pecs and triceps that are killing me now from all the dangling i was doing while i was trying to summon up the courage to make the next move. also i found that having to put my feet up above the level of my ears is not a feeling i'm comfortable with at all.

its def engaging yr core cmon!

erryone I know who is really into climbing is ripped, it's true

There are exceptions. *looks at feet*

I said ripped, not swole

idk if your feet are ripped or swole, did not investigate

ripped > swole obvs

ripped feet wld just be weird anyway

My feet typically do feel pretty ripped after climbing, actually.

I kind of think of sw0le being more Schwarzenegger, ripped more Bruce Lee

sadly i was more gripped than ripped

ya swole is big ripped is toned

get that yoga body sexi

someday, I am more dad bod these days

argh what thread am i even on, "toned," there's no such thing as toned

i am on the cusp of dadbod and gymbod, just sort of naturally fat and lazy

I wish I could control where I lose fat from first. The order of operations is all wrong. I guess the real life solution that would be to extract the fat cells from my gut and put them in my butt but that sounds expensive

lol goole trying to think what the equivalent offense in the running thread wld be maybe someone coming in and saying u shd only do sprints never run long or something

it's mostly my pecs and triceps that are killing me now from all the dangling i was doing while i was trying to summon up the courage to make the next move

see now i really want to go back and magnetize my core

B-)

argh what thread am i even on, "toned," there's no such thing as toned

― goole, Tuesday, May 12, 2015 11:48 AM (13 minutes ago)

lol was gonna say

that's a great interview about CrossFit ... lots of useful information in there for anyone who wants to keep training into middle age and beyond

dude i trained with made a big deal about how a good climber should always be trying to "stick your dick in the wall" i.e. tuck your hips in so you have contact with the rock on your pelvis unless you're in motion. the idea is that if your butt is sticking out while you're climbing, you are reliant on the belay to support your weight which defeats the purpose of bouldering somewhat... basically, butt out means you're coming down. tbh it's been years since i did this so it all sounds sorta silly to me now too.

argh what thread am i even on, "toned," there's no such thing as toned

― goole, Tuesday, May 12, 2015 11:48 AM (13 minutes ago)

lol was gonna say

― (•̪●) (carne asada), Tuesday, May 12, 2015 12:04 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

lol im clearly not up on this swole semantics but you know nice well proportioned muscles that are not huge is what this means to the general public

Dick in the wall otm

xp haha i may have some well proportioned muscles but i'd have to go on a calorie restrictive diet for about a year before anyone could see them. i just eat a ton of food and lift heavy weights tho

yeah obvs low body fat is part of toned too

yah "toned" as a general description means some muscle definition and low body fat

"Spot toning" is the phrase that is 100% bullshit iirc, thinking you are going to have a six pack by just exercising your abs and doing nothing else

theres a six pack under there somewhere

that's a great interview about CrossFit ... lots of useful information in there for anyone who wants to keep training into middle age and beyond

― Brad C., Tuesday, May 12, 2015 12:05 PM (4 minutes ago)

I did crossfit a few years ago and I do see where the some of the criticism comes from, but I do give it credit for getting me comfortable with using free weights and the exposure to oly lifts was awesome.

I have also seen a lot of people make real lifestyle changes through crossfit. maybe it's better that these people are out being active doing these "dangerous" exercises rather than doing the nothing they were doing before.

well i think the thing abt the danger is once u get injured u stop

particularly the prevalence of back injuries that come from olympic lifting with poor form, which yr almost guaranteed of if youre doing them fast to exhaustion, is just p scary imho

not guaranteed injuries guaranteed poor form if that was unclear

i mean running has a super high insistence of injury too but at least its not back injuries

crossfit cld solve a lot of those problems by redefining exhaustion to mean when yr form breaks instead of when u cant lift anymore

some woman in the break room who works in my general area had a big old foot brace/boot thing on and I overheard her say she was injured because she was running too much

prob a stress fracture