prob longer tbh
― lag∞n, Thursday, 17 September 2015 19:41 (eight years ago) link
more than one class a year and some occasional half hearted stretching
― lag∞n, Thursday, 17 September 2015 19:42 (eight years ago) link
a good hip stretching routine before you squat is impt
― goole, Thursday, 17 September 2015 19:45 (eight years ago) link
i dont really "like to" stretch
― lag∞n, Thursday, 17 September 2015 19:46 (eight years ago) link
actually i do like it i just dont do it
― lag∞n, Thursday, 17 September 2015 19:47 (eight years ago) link
I don't like doing it when I have a limited workout time window, which is pretty much always now, but know I should. I do a little warmup and crab-walky thing before I lift, and I tend to do a little light stretching after but not really a full routine like I should as often as I should.
― on entre O.K. on sort K.O. (man alive), Thursday, 17 September 2015 19:55 (eight years ago) link
I actually love stretching after a workout. In fact my ideal is like 2 hours in the gym with 1-1.25 hrs working out, then some stretching, then the sauna before showering, but that's just not doable for me on a work day or pretty much any day.
― on entre O.K. on sort K.O. (man alive), Thursday, 17 September 2015 19:57 (eight years ago) link
breathing practice in yoga has been impt for me in lifting and running. wide-legged squats make my ass go boom fyi.
― mattresslessness, Thursday, 17 September 2015 19:59 (eight years ago) link
^ +1
― F♯ A♯ (∞), Thursday, 17 September 2015 20:02 (eight years ago) link
yeah I know I'm the local yoga stan but it's hard to overstate how much it helps w/everything else
― resulting post (rogermexico.), Thursday, 17 September 2015 20:51 (eight years ago) link
my new gym has yoga classes
― lag∞n, Thursday, 17 September 2015 21:00 (eight years ago) link
Learn to squat ass to grass and other people will tell you that you don't have to go that deep.
If you want to work on your mobility, you might get some help from this video by Alan Thrall: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zvGr7wXQfwE&t=1m44sMy one superpower at the gym is great flexibility, so I cannot vouch for the efficacy of his advice.
― Enter nothing in the dialog and click 'OK' (Øystein), Thursday, 17 September 2015 21:09 (eight years ago) link
Skip to 1:44 to get past the joeks and intro speech.
― Enter nothing in the dialog and click 'OK' (Øystein), Thursday, 17 September 2015 21:10 (eight years ago) link
cologne guy was there tonight and i tried not to get so bothered. he was doing spider curls on an incline bench.
i like big compound lifts and isolation moves. right now i'm like, fuck it, five day body part split. back legs shoulders/traps chest arms. trader joe's is perfect for this shit. pre-cooked chicken, pre-cooked brown rice, broccoli, curry sauce, microwave it all. total bodybuilder action. it's such a domestic lifestyle.
― mattresslessness, Friday, 18 September 2015 04:52 (eight years ago) link
https://vimeo.com/channels/highmaintenance/79948720
― Meta Forksclove-Liebeskind (forksclovetofu), Friday, 18 September 2015 14:17 (eight years ago) link
matt does not strike me as a tim ferriss devotee
― hello, it me (clouds), Friday, 18 September 2015 15:29 (eight years ago) link
me neither, just echoing the "domestic lifestyle" comment
― Meta Forksclove-Liebeskind (forksclovetofu), Friday, 18 September 2015 15:31 (eight years ago) link
pre-cooked chicken, pre-cooked brown rice, broccoli, curry sauce, microwave it all. total bodybuilder action. it's such a domestic lifestyle.
― mattresslessness, Friday, September 18, 2015 5:52 AM (13 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
i go to tj's every week and i've yet to see any of these things. they sound good for quick meals? gonna have to look harder tomorrow if i use the (raw) chicken today
― F♯ A♯ (∞), Friday, 18 September 2015 18:24 (eight years ago) link
in my tjs precooked brown rice is in little bladders above the asian meal freezers
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Friday, 18 September 2015 18:26 (eight years ago) link
pre-cooked chicken is by the salads in mine.
― mattresslessness, Friday, 18 September 2015 18:30 (eight years ago) link
good lookin out doodz
― F♯ A♯ (∞), Friday, 18 September 2015 18:31 (eight years ago) link
I decided to eschew brown rice a couple of years ago, I don't like the taste/texture and I'm baselessly unconvinced that it's all that much healthier. I'm a maverick.
― on entre O.K. on sort K.O. (man alive), Friday, 18 September 2015 18:37 (eight years ago) link
i don't really care about white vs brown either but it's what they have precooked in my store. i definitely avoid bread if i can, not gonna claim some gluten allergy but my body always throws a fit when i eat it, like "i'm gonna bloat and give you a weird bread hangover in the morning"
― mattresslessness, Friday, 18 September 2015 18:52 (eight years ago) link
brown rice is goof imo it tastes good, it doesnt pair as well w as many things as white but like just as some rice that youre eating w some veggies or w/e imo its better
― lag∞n, Friday, 18 September 2015 19:13 (eight years ago) link
good bread is fucking amazing i am never giving it up
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Friday, 18 September 2015 19:34 (eight years ago) link
I'm trying- again- to retool my gym routine toward fat loss but there's so much conflicting information I don't know if what I'm doing will make any difference. Right now, the axioms I'm starting from are lower caloric intake (because physics; this at least seems to be pretty much immutable), high protein (aiming for 1g per lb bodyweight, though hitting 185g of protein per day is difficult) and lifting heavy for smaller sets, with short (20 min), intense cardio when and where I can.
My workouts are 3x week, M/W/F, to have a full rest day between each and the longest 2-day rest between compound leg lifts (I do one major/compoud lift per session, Mon: squats, Wed: bench, Fri: deadlift).
Aside from continuing to work on my diet, does this plan make sense?
― You guys are caterpillar (Telephone thing), Tuesday, 22 September 2015 16:07 (eight years ago) link
for me it's very much about the diet. I work out a lot but don't eat very well usually. This results in some decent strength gains but I could stand to lose some fat. The key really is food intake ime
― (•̪●) (carne asada), Tuesday, 22 September 2015 16:32 (eight years ago) link
I've been working out steadily 3x per week since early june, and I have stayed exactly the same weight, and I'm pretty sure it's my nighttime snacking that's the culprit bc otherwise I eat pretty reasonably. However I do have to assume that means I've replaced some fat with muscle. My clothes fit better, I see a diff in the mirror, etc.
― on entre O.K. on sort K.O. (man alive), Tuesday, 22 September 2015 19:38 (eight years ago) link
yeah that's exactly what you're going for iirc
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 23 September 2015 09:09 (eight years ago) link
3x5 100kg squat
:D :D :D
i would have done a full ric flair sw0lebro "whoooooo!!! SUCK IT FEEBS!!!!!!" if i were that kind of person
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 23 September 2015 13:32 (eight years ago) link
that's good shit !
― (•̪●) (carne asada), Wednesday, 23 September 2015 13:56 (eight years ago) link
thank you! it feels fucking great. 2 years ago i was psyching myself up to go for 60kg.
i look exactly the same afaict
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― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 23 September 2015 14:02 (eight years ago) link
how much is a kilogram
― goole, Wednesday, 23 September 2015 14:17 (eight years ago) link
j/k that's awesome
― goole, Wednesday, 23 September 2015 14:18 (eight years ago) link
Do any of those body fat % measuring scales actually work? I'm willing to put up with a little inaccuracy so long as it's inaccurate in a consistent way and, more importantly, doesn't cost hundreds of dollars. Looking for something less abjectly horrifying than calipers to measure body composition since scale weight is staying pretty much the same
― You guys are caterpillar (Telephone thing), Tuesday, 6 October 2015 01:11 (eight years ago) link
shrug.jpg― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, September 23, 2015 9:02 AM (1 week ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
This is a good reminder of something I've been thinking about a lot at the gym -- the fact that as a guy in my 30s I can actually conceive of progress measured in years instead of weeks or months, that I can actually think "I'd like to be able to do x in a year, in two years" etc., and that's one advantage I have over my 22-year-old self that helps make up for any loss in inherent ability.
― on entre O.K. on sort K.O. (man alive), Tuesday, 6 October 2015 01:18 (eight years ago) link
yes, the bfp scales are generally effective. I have an older tanita and was actually surprised how close it came to the results of a caliper test.
― resulting post (rogermexico.), Tuesday, 6 October 2015 03:48 (eight years ago) link
Was able to finish 3x10 back squats today with a plate on each side (so I guess like 135?). Small milestones. Also got in some weighted lunges, a few machine exercises and some weighted calf raises. Legs feel like jelly.
― on entre O.K. on sort K.O. (man alive), Monday, 12 October 2015 18:31 (eight years ago) link
30 reps at 135# is hard work man. good job!
― (•̪●) (carne asada), Monday, 12 October 2015 18:41 (eight years ago) link
wai to go sw0lebro!
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Monday, 12 October 2015 18:50 (eight years ago) link
thankig u
― on entre O.K. on sort K.O. (man alive), Monday, 12 October 2015 19:25 (eight years ago) link
i keep straining something in the same spot in my back >:|
― goole, Monday, 12 October 2015 19:27 (eight years ago) link
the biggest predictor of a pull/strain is it happening before. this sucks! it happens when squatting, but it's not the lifting erector part, but along the side (part of keeping a lock on the bar, pulling down)
w/o getting too graphic, i have a huge scar on my right side from a surgery i had as a kid. my lat on that side is cut right in half, and, well, it's basically really gnarly looking while working. the disconnected part under the scar is sort of atrophied. it never feels unbalanced during a movement but i guess it is. the strain happens somewhere in there.
i took a week off, and i'm gonna reshuffle the exercises i do to include more chinups, hope i can sw0le up that whole underarm + outer back zone. and it's an excuse to get in more bicep work, so i can fit in with the other ymca patrons young and old
― goole, Monday, 12 October 2015 19:35 (eight years ago) link
BFP scales work for some, not for others -- I have an organic cystic thing that throws the result significantly off. It's also important that you be at more or less the same level of hydration when you take measurements, which is harder for some than others.
― Three Word Username, Monday, 12 October 2015 20:16 (eight years ago) link
Today I was able to do 3x10x135 deadlifts -- I've read that your deadlift should be more than your squat, but this was the most I've deadlifted so far, and it was not fucking easy. Actually part of what made it hard was just what it did to the skin on my hands and how much I felt it in my wrists. Thinking I might need gloves for my soft hands.
It's super vain, but lately I am kind of psyched to see myself in the mirror straining to do these lifts and just being like "holy shit, I am actually lifting"
― on entre O.K. on sort K.O. (man alive), Wednesday, 14 October 2015 20:06 (eight years ago) link
mix grip on the deadlifts will help with that a bit
― (•̪●) (carne asada), Wednesday, 14 October 2015 20:09 (eight years ago) link
Deadlift is generally more than your squat, but grip/hand strength can limit your deadlift. You will build up callouses.
― One bad call from barely losing to (Alex in SF), Wednesday, 14 October 2015 20:10 (eight years ago) link
yeah that sounds like what happened to me (not that they were easy otherwise, but my grip was what gave out first). was not aware of mixed grip until carne mentioned, but googled and found this, which is very useful:http://www.crossfitinvictus.com/blog/when-to-use-mixed-grip-or-double-overhand/
― on entre O.K. on sort K.O. (man alive), Wednesday, 14 October 2015 20:13 (eight years ago) link
In the interest of full disclosure I don't think my above-mentioned squats were full ass-to-grass. Still working on that. Maybe will take the weight down a little next time and work on form.
― on entre O.K. on sort K.O. (man alive), Wednesday, 14 October 2015 21:15 (eight years ago) link
Some controversy about whether or not a-t-g is ideal for all peeps. Form is more important than depth.
― One bad call from barely losing to (Alex in SF), Wednesday, 14 October 2015 21:27 (eight years ago) link