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Asleep Style posted:I only have the blue one, which is the most resistance. I don't think starting with blue is a good move, but I also don't have direct experience with the others. from googling a bit it looks like yellow is for grandmas or people with really bad tendonitis. I'd probably start with red if it's bad enough that you've stopped lifting entirely i mean, i'm only stopping for a few days and only out of an abundance of caution not making it worse, since it wasn't getting any better working through it. carry on then fucked around with this message at 23:26 on Mar 30, 2022 |
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# ? Mar 28, 2024 21:44 |
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maybe the green one then, especially if you're pretty strong in the first place
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# ? Mar 30, 2022 23:44 |
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Asleep Style posted:maybe the green one then, especially if you're pretty strong in the first place alright cool, thanks. punching my stats into a 1rm calculator i found it told me i'm solidly "novice" but i'm not at all untrained so i could probably grow into that one pretty quick.
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# ? Mar 30, 2022 23:47 |
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i stopped using twitter so i post gains here same thing with my squats as the deadlifts, had a 3 month gym sabbatical due to health and winter bullshit, am back at my baseline (4 plates, 225lb/102kg) it's so satisfying to not feel like i've aged 30 years in the last 2, exercise is great keep it up everyone here
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Share Bear posted:keep it up everyone here this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KxGRhd_iWuE
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# ? Apr 6, 2022 22:20 |
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love this guy and all the memes that spawned from it
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# ? Apr 6, 2022 22:31 |
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well looks like i gotta take the rest of the week off lifting. i've been consistently 3 on 1 off since new years but the random aches are piling up, progress is slowing, and now i'm just losing motivation. part of me feels like a weak loser for even considering it but i don't know, i'm just feeling some sort of "life burnout" and hoping it'll go away with a few days off. yell at me if i'm making a mistake
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# ? Apr 13, 2022 19:01 |
i went to the gym this week for the first time since the pandemic started lol
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# ? Apr 13, 2022 19:36 |
i did a lot of outdoor stuff so I didn't turn into a fat blob but my endurance is definitely worse
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# ? Apr 13, 2022 19:36 |
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i gained a solid 15 pounds over covid. on the plus side, on returning to the gym, i'm getting that sweet rapid improvement as if i'd never been to the gym before
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# ? Apr 13, 2022 20:00 |
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buying my own dumbbell bar and plates set back in like august 2020 was one of the best things i've ever done. i didn't even realize how much of a rut i was stuck in at the tiny apartment gym. but it's also been a bit of a problem since it's so hard to justify not going hard even when i can feel i probably should take some time off
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# ? Apr 13, 2022 20:04 |
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i spent last week flown out to HQ for quarterly planning, drinking and eating a bunch of food and doing like one mountain hike. i came back this week to big prs so uhhh take a week off
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# ? Apr 13, 2022 20:16 |
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I gave up alcohol at the start of the pandemic otherwise I would have been 20-30 lbs heavier.
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I gave up alcohol (again) after being drunk for a good 20 months of pandemic straight and did gain those 30 lbs. lifting and biking are really helping me a lot with the sobriety, so those numbers are going up, but working from home I am having trouble curbing the snacking so my weight hasn't gone down. luckily I'll be in the office a few days a week from now on, which gives me a nice 15mi bike ride home and makes it less convenient to pound cheezits all day. I really like having exercise built into a routine like a bike commute, it makes it so easy to just do.
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# ? Apr 13, 2022 22:02 |
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feelin like shiiit, unsure why going to eat and go to bed early hopefully my body will figure it out and let me hit the rack again soon
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KoRMaK posted:feelin like shiiit, unsure why sleep is a highly underrated component of fitness, when i was test driving retirement for half of 2020 i slept better than i have since high school and the improvement in physical and mental fitness was huge. and that was before i started eating well and getting a solid hour of exercise every day.
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yeah a good night's sleep (which varies but is something between 6 and 9 hours for most people, or maybe like measuring REM cycles is better?) is undeniably a good thing i am very bad at it, even with like not doing internet computer things at night. i read physical books and i am still up to roughly the same time every day c workout s: due to nice weather, my gym was extremely crowded yesterday. i finally got to use a racked bench for the first time in months though (been doing barbell presses instead) and that felt great even though i am super weak at arm stuff
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adequate sleep is way underrated
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i went to the gym 3 times this week. thats my best week in approx 4 years
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# ? May 6, 2022 21:49 |
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what are some of y'alls favorite healthy recipes? I've got a deece lifting/cardio schedule down but I gotta get my diet under control. I tried
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# ? May 7, 2022 02:04 |
Make your own smoothies. Put 1/2 c dry rolled oats in your blender and chop em up finely, add yogurt, frozen fruit, protein powder, instant breakfast, peanut butter, etc. maybe some milk or ice cubes depending on what fruit you pick to thin it out i make one all the time with a packet of carnation breakfast, some milk, and a carnation instant breakfast packet. Sometimes I add strawberry or mango or whatever, go nuts bro
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I gotta try the oats, that sounds tasty and like it'll keep you full for a long time. Thanks for the tip! For breakfast every day I throw some Greek yogurt, a banana, a couple mandarins, some berries, and 2oz spinach in with half a cup of water and it's an easy thing to have on the go
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# ? May 7, 2022 02:16 |
If the texture is gross you can cook it into oatmeal and blend that in to smooth it out but it doesn't bother me at all to just do it dry. i often forget to chop them up dry first too and it still is fine to drink but just a little chunkier if you add it after you've already added liquids
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saw my lowest weight in years on the scale yesterday because I've been sick for like a week. I feel my muscles falling off and I'm sure my cardio will be even worse coming back but at least I should be better enough to exercise some tomorrow.
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# ? May 7, 2022 02:27 |
i tried overcooking my smoothie oatmeal and it just disappears entirely now and thickens the smoothie. pretty good. Also I went to the gym 6 times last week (!) which feels like some kind of god dammed personal record
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whoaaaa nice i been throwing uncooked rolled oats into my smoothies and its definitely got a subtle difference, ive noticed an improvement to gastroenterological processing
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I've been really into the smoothie lately. I've never been a breakfast person and I take meds that make me even less interested in breakfast so being able to drink an actual meal is wonderful. Just throw some arbitrary frozen fruit, few scoops of yogurt, some oatmeal in the blender and thin with milk. Fast, satisfying, and easy to consume. Any other good additions? I'm wary of greens because I feel like they would make it taste much worse but I think I have some chia seeds sitting around 🤔
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i add a little bit of hemp protein for fiber, but i think that's because i have an allergy to egg yokes that i need that and the protein powder I use is from eggs. really, i got no idea my fave smoothie is the pb+j: oat milk frozen raspberry frozen strawberry pretty thick scoop of peanut butter scoop of vanilla protein rolled oats some water to thin
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you can add a lot of spinach to a smoothie and it will barely, if at all, affect the flavor profile. it really surprised me because I don't consider spinach to be that neutral of a taste but I add 1.5-2oz of spinach and it just disappears into whatever frozen fruit/berries I have in there.
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zombienietzsche posted:what are some of y'alls favorite healthy recipes? I've got a deece lifting/cardio schedule down but I gotta get my diet under control. I make chickpea tikka massala and ratatouille pretty often, as well as vegetarian mapo tofu (replace pork with shiitake or baby bella mushrooms), but basically cooking for yourself is generally gonna be better than eating out all the time even when cooking with meat portion size is kinda key, try not to go more than 1/2lb (precooked) on any meat and get your extra protein from either powders, beans, or nuts and no crazy snacks, and don't forget leafy greens, however you like em but usually i eat just plain yogurt or pb&j (low sugar j, no salt/sugar pb, grainy bread) and even then, only do stuff incrementally, severe changes (crash diets, trend poo poo) in diet are likely to fail, so stick to small incremental changes, drinking less soda/beer, eating out less often, etc etc Share Bear fucked around with this message at 19:45 on May 17, 2022 |
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i’ve increased the amount of (sugar free) soda I drink of late only another 7 months until watuary and I can finally drink some water
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i make caesar-ish salads with lots of spinach and chicken most lunches nowadays, love that stuff and it throws together really easily plus i can add in whatever i have to use up like tomatoes, onion, a few olives, or some leftover kale if i used it for a recipe and want to finish the rest
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zombienietzsche posted:you can add a lot of spinach to a smoothie and it will barely, if at all, affect the flavor profile. it really surprised me because I don't consider spinach to be that neutral of a taste but I add 1.5-2oz of spinach and it just disappears into whatever frozen fruit/berries I have in there. spinach is a miracle ingredient that can be added to almost anything to get your green leafy count up. chuck it in rice, a curry, pasta sauce, anything that you mix up and boom it works
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# ? May 18, 2022 05:34 |
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I've started lifting again. This time I'm adding curls and triceps pulldowns into my routine. In the past it was like "lol I don't want to be a curl bro" but older me wants arms. I'm also 5'10" and 200 lbs. at some point I'd like to get to 180 or so. Maybe after a few months of lifting to get my strength back up.
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every muscle group needs attention comrade
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# ? May 26, 2022 18:31 |
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currently got the dumbbells outside and doing arm poo poo and dips using the patio furniture before my architecture meeting took a call too, so now i don't feel bad about not working late to make up the gym time
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# ? May 26, 2022 18:32 |
I got some more weight plates for my dumbbell set and now I actually have enough weight to do a few real lifts in my apartment. I also got a connector to turn them into a lovely barbell but it was the wrong size
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# ? May 26, 2022 18:39 |
Lifting at home rules though, I can play lovely music through speakers and blast myself with a box box fan with my shirt off since I'm a sweaty piggy boy
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# ? May 26, 2022 18:40 |
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its true and it saves time i do kind of miss riding my bike to the gym and getting a little bit of social anxiety and overcoming it tho
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PokeJoe posted:I got some more weight plates for my dumbbell set and now I actually have enough weight to do a few real lifts in my apartment. I also got a connector to turn them into a lovely barbell but it was the wrong size from experience, those connectors suck rear end and at least mine would get stuck hard enough to need tools to get it unstuck give it a shot but if yours is like mine, once it starts giving you trouble just order a 1-inch barbell and some clips online, i was kicking myself for wasting so much time once i did that because it's so much nicer
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