JimiNutz
Banned
I was watching a few of this dudes videos at the start of lockdown.
I used to do this workout a fair bit.
Four sets of that is a nice way to get the heart pumping in the morning.
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I was watching a few of this dudes videos at the start of lockdown.
I used to do this workout a fair bit.
Four sets of that is a nice way to get the heart pumping in the morning.
JimiNutz
Banned
The rain eased up here so managed to get another cheeky morning KB session in with my friend.
We did double KB thrusters with the 24kg bells, 20 sets, 30 seconds work and 30 seconds rest.
We also did 10 sets of farmers walk with the 32kg pair, 30 seconds walking each set.
I'm pretty sure my form was correct for the farmers walk, chest up, shoulders back, looking forward but I felt the farmers walk way more in my triceps where as my friend felt it more in his traps?
We did double KB thrusters with the 24kg bells, 20 sets, 30 seconds work and 30 seconds rest.
We also did 10 sets of farmers walk with the 32kg pair, 30 seconds walking each set.
I'm pretty sure my form was correct for the farmers walk, chest up, shoulders back, looking forward but I felt the farmers walk way more in my triceps where as my friend felt it more in his traps?
Kazza
Member
This week's:
82.5kg (-1.4kg)
35 inches (-0.25)
Well, it looks like my body was saving up all the weight loss for a big showing this week - 3lbs in one week ain't bad! Stuck to my usual routine (fasting Mon, Tue, Thur, Sat) and eating whatever I want on the other three days (actually fairly healthy in terms of meals, with plenty of fruit and veg, but with lots of sugary snacking in between). Light jogging outside everyday (nice weather this week, no rain!) plus alternating Pilates/yoga and bodyweight workouts.
I already said my body felt "hard" last week, but this week my muscles have really got a bit of a pump going on. There has been lots of 3D action going on with the arms and chest, it's like going from 16-bit consoles to 32-bit. Before I decided on the whole fasting way of losing weight, I was a little worried that it would cause me to lose a lot of muscle as well as fat, but those fears now seem to have been completely unfounded. I'm definitely making some muscle gains and my body has obviously been using my fat reserves for energy on fasting days, which is exactly what I wanted.
No changes next week. If I were to make a prediction, I would say my weight will stay more or less the same after this week's big drop and my waist will go down another 0.25 inches. Stay strong, everyone
This week:
82kg (-0.5kg)
35 inches (no change)
Underwhelming results this week. While it's always good to drop a bit of weight, it's the waist measurement that has become most important to me, so no improvement there is a little disappointing. I have stuck to my routine, so it isn't due to laziness or lack of discipline. That said, in terms the strength and flexibility training I've been doing, I have seen a lot of improvement there. Doing a plank used to feel like a form of inhumane torture, but it seems the pilates and yoga is starting to pay off as I can now how plank positions reasonable comfortably without shaking and sweating like crazy.
Usually, a disappointing week is followed by a good one, so I'll stick to my usual routine and hope for another 0.5kg/1lb reduction in weight and a 0.5 inch loss from the waist.
Keep strong everyone
Kazza
Member
I like this guy, he always comes across as super calm, not at all like a lot of other (more shoiuty) fitness youtubers. However, I find his workouts a little too difficult to keep up with, so that's more of a 2021 aim for me.
haxan7
Banned
one for the physiotherapy experts:
I’ve had this persistent sharp stabbing pain inside the back bottom of my right shoulder blade for months now when doing exercises that target the back.
It feels like a super tiny little spot of sharp pain that only gets triggered when putting weight on just the right spot. Could it be a micro tear?
i just triggered it now using the reverse pec deck, but on my following sets I shifted the weight a little to avoid triggering it
I’ve had this persistent sharp stabbing pain inside the back bottom of my right shoulder blade for months now when doing exercises that target the back.
It feels like a super tiny little spot of sharp pain that only gets triggered when putting weight on just the right spot. Could it be a micro tear?
i just triggered it now using the reverse pec deck, but on my following sets I shifted the weight a little to avoid triggering it
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haxan7
Banned
Rogue and I think the other ones have email notifications for the exact kettlebell you want. That’s how I ordered mine
I’m in the US tho
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teezzy
Banned
My dog is making it difficult to workout . She loves being around me too much. Every time I start doi g kettle bell swings she pops a squat right in front of me and I cant swing anymore or I'll accidentally bop her in the face and ooowwwwiee no way am I going to do that. So I switch to pushups and move to a different room. She lays right down under me so that my face touches hers on the descend.
I love ya too Ruby, but i need to get shredded!!
I love ya too Ruby, but i need to get shredded!!
Cutty Flam
Banned
Walked for about 18min yesterday
I have to start focusing on a better pace, a bit quicker and that should put less stress on joints and overall work better, an observation of mine. I cleaned up a large mirror today w/ windex and am gonna practice perfect form again
Today’s training
Not a great session again, but went through about 15 good sets
I have some ideas to improve, I’m going to follow them
I have to start focusing on a better pace, a bit quicker and that should put less stress on joints and overall work better, an observation of mine. I cleaned up a large mirror today w/ windex and am gonna practice perfect form again
Today’s training
Not a great session again, but went through about 15 good sets
I have some ideas to improve, I’m going to follow them
Cutty Flam
Banned
I hope it gets better for you man, I’ve had to work through a rotator cuff injury before and man it took about 10 months of uncomfortable training before it finally went away. I still did like 20-30 sets each workout because I could without much pain, but it was annoying as fuck. I really hate back injuries. Usually you can tell if it’s injured. If I were older at the time and knew better, I probably would have just got a serapin injection at the pain spot and signed up for some aqua therapy for a month to keep in shape while tending to the injury
Cutty Flam
Banned
I’ll never forget the time Stephen Hawking had put out a pic of what he thought or estimated aliens to actually look like. He had to be trolling
Burpees are like some straight up space alien shit
This is how martians get wrekt
TTOOLL
Member
Holy crap, my fiancée did some math yesterday, she's a nutritionist btw, and we found out that for me to put on some weight I would have to eat like +3000kcal a day.
That's insane and it explains why I've never been able to increase my size when I used to go to the gym, I got to 75kg but after that nothing and I was eating a lot...Apparently it's pretty hard to get 3000kcal just from regular good food, I'm not counting sweets or junk food obviously.
If I join a gym I'll definitely have to supplement a lot =(
I remember once, I had been doing CrossFit for like 15 months and there was this hero workout in which you had to run a mile, do 150 burpees and run a mile again. Shit was crazy, when I got to around 80 burpees my body was heavy like 300 pounds but I kept going and finished the damn thing. Never done it again.
Btw, if you are into insane workouts, the hero workouts are very challenging, at least for me lol. The one I mentioned is called Riley.
That's insane and it explains why I've never been able to increase my size when I used to go to the gym, I got to 75kg but after that nothing and I was eating a lot...Apparently it's pretty hard to get 3000kcal just from regular good food, I'm not counting sweets or junk food obviously.
If I join a gym I'll definitely have to supplement a lot =(
Burpees are like some straight up space alien shit
This is how martians get wrekt
I remember once, I had been doing CrossFit for like 15 months and there was this hero workout in which you had to run a mile, do 150 burpees and run a mile again. Shit was crazy, when I got to around 80 burpees my body was heavy like 300 pounds but I kept going and finished the damn thing. Never done it again.
Btw, if you are into insane workouts, the hero workouts are very challenging, at least for me lol. The one I mentioned is called Riley.
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ipukespiders
Member
It's easy to create an "insane workout".
10 do as many pushups as you can
20 rest 30 seconds
30 goto 10
10 do as many pushups as you can
20 rest 30 seconds
30 goto 10
VlaudTheImpaler
tl;dr
Working out with Covid is interesting. I was pain free but my stamina was shot. Too much and I'd feel dizzy and start to sweat like crazy so I had to take it much slower than normal. But I felt great... even with a fever. I just couldn't sit there, feeling strong and not do anything. I was able to do a bunch of ring work. Hangs, pelican curls, one armed horizontal pullups, assisted pistol squats (I can nearly do a full rep on my left leg unassisted but I do tons slightly assisted) etc.
Practice was great today. I'm definitely getting stronger. Getting much easier to pin certain people at practice and I have a much easier time withstanding Mr. Stapleton's punishment... Which just means that he's probably about to take things to the next level lol.
We did a gripper burnout today after practice. I didn't know it was going to be one at the start though... He just broke out the super grippers...
A larger green version of that ^ and started going.
He did 75 easy. Then he said, "That's the bar, I just stopped because I wanna see where you guys are at." My buddy did 45 each hand. Then... I did 100... But as I neared 100 Mr. Stapleton goes, "Oh man, he's gonna regret that in a minute cuz we're only getting started." Then he set the springs much higher... My buddy could only get 10... Mr. Stapleton got 45... And I got 30. However, Mr. Stapleton had been smashing the number 2 grips the entire time we'd been doing our reps... Alien hands man. Just unreal.
Anyway, we immediately finished up with a bunch of barbell curls at different widths and grip variations and then some skull crushers to finish.
Due to it's dictator I have no hope for the Michigan tournament at this point unfortunately... So we're trying to put something together underground. Unfortunately, I don't think we'll be able to take pictures or videos since some Michigan peeps are interested. But I'll see what I can do if it actually happens.
Keep hitting it brothers, don't let anything stop you.
Practice was great today. I'm definitely getting stronger. Getting much easier to pin certain people at practice and I have a much easier time withstanding Mr. Stapleton's punishment... Which just means that he's probably about to take things to the next level lol.
We did a gripper burnout today after practice. I didn't know it was going to be one at the start though... He just broke out the super grippers...
A larger green version of that ^ and started going.
He did 75 easy. Then he said, "That's the bar, I just stopped because I wanna see where you guys are at." My buddy did 45 each hand. Then... I did 100... But as I neared 100 Mr. Stapleton goes, "Oh man, he's gonna regret that in a minute cuz we're only getting started." Then he set the springs much higher... My buddy could only get 10... Mr. Stapleton got 45... And I got 30. However, Mr. Stapleton had been smashing the number 2 grips the entire time we'd been doing our reps... Alien hands man. Just unreal.
Anyway, we immediately finished up with a bunch of barbell curls at different widths and grip variations and then some skull crushers to finish.
Due to it's dictator I have no hope for the Michigan tournament at this point unfortunately... So we're trying to put something together underground. Unfortunately, I don't think we'll be able to take pictures or videos since some Michigan peeps are interested. But I'll see what I can do if it actually happens.
Keep hitting it brothers, don't let anything stop you.
VlaudTheImpaler
tl;dr
Yo, just saw this. I don't know if it's what it is but I've dealt with all sorts of back pain for quite a while (not so much these days thankfully). In my upper back, my rib heads would come out all the time and my wife would have to put them in. When they slide out, usually you don't notice it as a pop or anything. They just slide right out and you notice it pretty quick because of the sharp, stabbing pain. For me, the pain wasn't THAT bad because I have a really high pain tolerance, however, if it stayed out long enough it would wear on me over time and then it would impair my breathing causing me to take short breaths. This sucks, don't let it get to this point. Might want to see if you can find a good chiropractor to see if they can put it back in if that's the problem. Mine helped immensely. Sometimes, if you just leave it alone, it might slide back in on it's own and you could not notice it. Other times you'll notice the pop. And if it's bad enough or you just can't get your muscles to relax, it just won't go back in by itself. I've seen the chiro for this so many times that my wife has learned the technique to put it back in herself lol. Even I have learned to meditate past the pain and relax my muscles enough to shove it back in myself by putting my back against the corner of the wall and crossing my arms and applying just the right amount of pressure in just the right way... If I'm lucky.
As for something you can do to help stop it from happening, I made this a part of my warmup and just something I do at least once a day regardless.
This should be good for you even if it's not a rib head issue. This will definitely stabilize and strengthen that area and help ward off future injuries.
Pulling while activating my lat's at the same time I activate my upper back on the arm wrestling table has further helped to the point that I very rarely have issues now.
haxan7
Banned
I'm still pretty much a beginner myself but I've been operating with the assumption it's possible to build muscle in a caloric deficit. Mainly going by what Coach Greg says (https://www.youtube.com/user/gregdoucette).
He says just make sure you're hitting minimum 1 gram of protein per pound of body weight per day (according to him, when eating in a calorie surplus, it's ok to go for less protein down to about .75 grams of protein per pound of body weight. When eating in a DEFICIT, you need more protein to make sure your body doesn't stop building muscle).
I've made some decent / noticeable muscle gains and slowly been working towards a 6 pack eating this way.
haxan7
Banned
it's easier than you think. Get a food scale and meal prep batches 3-4 lbs of chicken breast at a time. 200 grams of cooked chicken breast is 62 grams of protein. I eat that for lunch and dinner with rice + veggies or mashed potatoes + veggies. Breakfast is 3 eggs, oatmeal, fruit, coffee, water. With just 1 protein shake (usually between lunch and dinner), I'm well over 150-160 grams of protein (I'm at around 153 lbs at the moment).
Jasonadream
Member
Gym here re-opened up 2 weeks ago for me so I’ve been doing some conditioning/ rooting mechanic work ever since.
I crushed front squats the other day; 335 for a single after a bunch of doubles at 315.
Quads feel amazing but upper back not so much. Always a trade off on that.
Aiming for 365+ for front squat
480 for squat
335 for bench
495 for deadlift(aspirational)
by December.... fingers crossed
I crushed front squats the other day; 335 for a single after a bunch of doubles at 315.
Quads feel amazing but upper back not so much. Always a trade off on that.
Aiming for 365+ for front squat
480 for squat
335 for bench
495 for deadlift(aspirational)
by December.... fingers crossed
ipukespiders
Member
A pound of chicken, a pound of hamburg and a can of tuna.
haxan7
Banned
that's closer to 300 grams of protein unless my calculations are wildly wrong
DunDunDunpachi
Banned
Find ways to train while you work. That is how I've gotten in shape since starting this stuff in March. Even if you're only able to isometrics, stretches, and some fine motor conditioning (like the NSD spinner that a lot of the dudes in this thread have recommended) it's better than nothing.
I'm in a similar/same situation. 9-11 hr days, 5 days a week. With 4 kids, i don't have a solid hour to myself until after 9pm. So I sneak in little bursts of activity all day, a few minutes at a time.
Farmer walks hit a long chain of muscles and are good at revealing systemic weaknesses in the body. it's normal for one person to feel it more in such-and-such muscle compared to another if that muscle is weaker or isn't properly "connected" to the other muscles involved in the movement. When I do 1 handed farmer walks, I feel them in my obliques the most, and in the upper traps. They work pretty much every muscle from the neck down.
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ipukespiders
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So a few pages back I asked about SARMS.
I went ahead and I’m a month or so into the cycle. And I’ve noticed the following:
The Good
Gaining muscle - fast
Increasing reps and weight - fast
Increase in appetite - huge
Energy levels - up
Recovery time - reduced
Sleep - 7-8hrs per night
The Bad
Testicle shrinkage - yes
Libido level - Massive spike in weeks 1-2 but now very reduced
Orgasm - Mind blowing weeks 1-2, now my dick feels kinda dead.
So yeah I’ve 2 months to go and not entirely sure if I should continue.
Also likely I’m going to require some form of PCT.
I went ahead and I’m a month or so into the cycle. And I’ve noticed the following:
The Good
Gaining muscle - fast
Increasing reps and weight - fast
Increase in appetite - huge
Energy levels - up
Recovery time - reduced
Sleep - 7-8hrs per night
The Bad
Testicle shrinkage - yes
Libido level - Massive spike in weeks 1-2 but now very reduced
Orgasm - Mind blowing weeks 1-2, now my dick feels kinda dead.
So yeah I’ve 2 months to go and not entirely sure if I should continue.
Also likely I’m going to require some form of PCT.
Cutty Flam
Banned
Walked around 20 min, did a few sets of random postural and core exercises today
I’m going to have to implement Farmer Walks as a staple into my training again. I left them out to focus on other lifts but overall I look flatter, feel weaker and definitely feel that Farmer Carries help with preventing impingement issues
I think I’ll start doing them around the block when I train and see how it pays off. I’ll start with holding 15lbs and see how it feels after a quarter of the block to get back into it. They definitely seem to make everything go much smoother (imo) if you start the training session w/ them
I’m going to have to implement Farmer Walks as a staple into my training again. I left them out to focus on other lifts but overall I look flatter, feel weaker and definitely feel that Farmer Carries help with preventing impingement issues
I think I’ll start doing them around the block when I train and see how it pays off. I’ll start with holding 15lbs and see how it feels after a quarter of the block to get back into it. They definitely seem to make everything go much smoother (imo) if you start the training session w/ them
RoyalLaFlame
Banned
Just bought a bunch of weights and a bench to put at home. With work and spending time with the girl, I barely have time to workout.
I'm getting fat. Now I need to decide when I should workout - thinking from 6:15-7 (AM) or at night between 8 and 9. Already created a simple workout plan.
I'm getting fat. Now I need to decide when I should workout - thinking from 6:15-7 (AM) or at night between 8 and 9. Already created a simple workout plan.
quickwhips
Member
So can I join you cool people. I'm 11 days into starting to workout. I was hoping posting here would help with discipline.
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SLoWMoTIoN
Unconfirmed Member
BROS give me a balanced meal plan before I go back to dominos!
Tesseract
Banned
stop eating dominos!
Cutty Flam
Banned
Drink pepperoncini juice until you’ve met your 2k calories
JimiNutz
Banned
Back on the double Kettlebells yesterday morning, this time for the double kettlebell swing.
I've been swinging kettlebells for a long time and have decent hip power so I wasn't expecting much but using double bells for the movement seemed to change it up enough for it to be pretty challenging - plus I was swinging double the usual weight that I use.
Woke up this morning and not only are my glutes and hamstrings a little sore but I'm feeling slight muscle soreness in my forearms and traps as well which I don't remember getting from regular swings at all.
I'm definitely convinced by these double KBs and have asked the gf to order me a couple of 24kg bells for Xmas.
I always found that working out first thing in the morning was an awesome feeling. It's a great way to start the day and guarantees that you get your workout done.
Plus if you're looking for some fat shredding benefits, I heard that working out first thing in the morning is a great way to get your 'engine' fired up so to speak and is good for your metabolism (not sure if that's Bro Science but it makes sense to me).
I've been swinging kettlebells for a long time and have decent hip power so I wasn't expecting much but using double bells for the movement seemed to change it up enough for it to be pretty challenging - plus I was swinging double the usual weight that I use.
Woke up this morning and not only are my glutes and hamstrings a little sore but I'm feeling slight muscle soreness in my forearms and traps as well which I don't remember getting from regular swings at all.
I'm definitely convinced by these double KBs and have asked the gf to order me a couple of 24kg bells for Xmas.
I always found that working out first thing in the morning was an awesome feeling. It's a great way to start the day and guarantees that you get your workout done.
Plus if you're looking for some fat shredding benefits, I heard that working out first thing in the morning is a great way to get your 'engine' fired up so to speak and is good for your metabolism (not sure if that's Bro Science but it makes sense to me).
Cutty Flam
Banned
Re-introducing the farmer walks was the correct decision, the workout felt a lot better starting off the first of working sets with it. I'll keep it at one set of 2:20 like I did today for two weeks and then move it up some
I usually do them in an awkward small circular pattern around the pad but now I take them out to the sidewalk and walk straightaway. Feels way more natural going straight and only straight not having to move in any other pattern, easier to focus on form and everything. Plus it's also just a lot more fun performing them that way
I usually do them in an awkward small circular pattern around the pad but now I take them out to the sidewalk and walk straightaway. Feels way more natural going straight and only straight not having to move in any other pattern, easier to focus on form and everything. Plus it's also just a lot more fun performing them that way
quickwhips
Member
Just finished working out day 13. Kids are still sleeping. I'm shocked.