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I cancelled my gym membership cause they kept billing through quarantine. I did 5x5 til my squat was 1.5x body weight and dead was 2x. I honestly miss those so much. I have lost a ton of weight and muscle such that clothes are loose now, but underneath im just kinda skinny fat now. I take the stairs when entering and leaving my building for weekly groceries and thats about as much exercise as I get.
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Fortaleza posted:How have y'all been keeping up with good dietary habits? That's the main thing keeping me from improvement these days. the general thing with doing fitness is not doing everything at once. people usually get overwhelmed by trying to do everything at the same time and fail. good eating habits will eventually get you to exercising, and exercising will get you to good eating habits cooking for yourself is the easiest way to control what you're eating Eat food, not too much, mostly plants is solid dietary advice unless you're training for marathon or real powerlifting or trying to be in a marvel movie also don't leave snacks or alcohol or general stuff around, limit that with what you have now and don't buy too much of it, you can't snack/get turnt on what you don't have better snacks that are lighter in their place is what you should be doing if you need the snack Share Bear fucked around with this message at 19:23 on Jan 6, 2021 |
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my gym shut down accounts for covid, but i still cancelled and had to remake/resign a new contract they reopened in may. i reenabled this last week and went on friday. i am fully vaxed for a month+ and they have a mask and distancing policy during-and-post workout was probably the best i've felt in a year, though my core and legs are still shot, today, Monday
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Jun 7, 2021 17:11
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AnimeIsTrash posted:I'm excited about going back to the gym, it's been about a month since my 2nd shot but i'm going to wait another week before going back. yeah mask on the entire time EXCEPT when i was done and very winded, stepped outside to catch my breath i know there isn't really an airflow issue but it feels like it when all the spittle you exhale is contained in your mask
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Jun 7, 2021 17:18
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Silver Alicorn posted:I want to get fit but my bipolar says I should eat a bunch of snacks instead. what do I do yospos do one thing at a time and don't make too many drastic changes at the same time eat snacks, then go to the gym, repeat
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Jun 7, 2021 17:37
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ADINSX posted:I'm stalling out at around 200 pounds for a 1 rep bench max. My primitive bro brain has wanted 225 for years now (1 NFL combine rep) and its getting discouraging 225 is two big plates (45lb weights) so i see the desire for symmetry there do people call them this? i probably invented my own jargon if that's not the case
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Jun 8, 2021 17:47
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i'm keeping this alive because i am absolutely annoying everyone i know to do exercise again since i've been on hiatus for a year today was arm day, i feel like a t-rex how anemic my bench is comparatively to squat/deadlifts, but got through it but i also think a lot of guys ONLY work on their arms/chest given how much more busy the dumbell section is than the racks are
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Jun 9, 2021 17:48
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i would like to get strong without feeling sore today is a sore day
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Jun 17, 2021 20:58
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sometimes youre sore and its fine sometimes you just think “gently caress my maxes i can do more” and then cant use appendages
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Jun 17, 2021 22:50
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gonna attempt to do something i havent done since pre-covid that's right i might go to the gym twice this week doms has been so bad up until this week but now i'm feeling better after a couple of days and can start pushing my maxes harder
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Jul 1, 2021 15:17
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PokeJoe posted:a cool trick for losing weight is to replace your meals with some sort of drug. instead of breakfast try some coffee and a cigarette. want to eat lunch? take an Adderall. when dinner time rolls around you can permit yourself to eat one quarter of a plate of food or you can just take some ketamine. soon you'll be shedding the pounds big lesson learnt as an adult, and as someone that pre-covid travelled pretty far prettty often: breakfast is really important it doesn't have to be big, but it has to be something, it keeps you sorta regular with sleep/waking up as well
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Sep 13, 2021 19:34
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carry on then posted:time for my monthly whining about slow progress. i know i need to eat more than i do but man, it's hard to overcome the mental habits around how much groceries to buy and how much to eat each day hi, doing something is way better than doing nothing, so by that metric you're doing great  my perpetual advice: don't try to change too much at once, ease into it. frequent exercise begets good eating habits and vice versa, and they will come with time c iron status: i feel like a jerk cause sometimes i wanna give people advice i usually do when people are definitely about to hurt themselves, but people show up to the squat rack with shoes w heels and i'm like ugh
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Nov 2, 2021 21:16
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Asleep Style posted:back to the gym this morning for the first time since covid hit. this is the longest break I've taken since I started lifting over a decade ago. gonna be a long road back good poo poo
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Nov 3, 2021 16:31
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ADINSX posted:Hot take: people who watch tv while running on treadmills instead of using that time as a brief respite from the sensory overload of our modern lives are sickos hard agree, also with people constantly on their phone or posting about it to insta/twitter/whatever
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Nov 10, 2021 22:12
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welcome linux thread posters, get out there and do poo poo my current dilemma is that i specifcally chose a gym walking distance but far (1 mile, to get light cardio in) and now its cutting into my time can't wait til its warmer so i can bike again
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Mar 29, 2022 15:58
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i'm not riding in sub-50 weather cause i'm not buying a ton of poo poo to prevent wind sheer from freezing me instantly
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Mar 29, 2022 15:59
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its cold! i just wanna lift without crying at 15mph beforehand (and so i walk)
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Mar 29, 2022 18:31
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c lift s: pre covid my baseline for deadlifts was 3 plates (315lb/142.8kg, meaning the minimum i would do in a set of 3) but lockdown + omicron + holiday binging set me way back to start over in january we’re back baby, wish i could improve my grip without using tape/powder though, i get mad calluses on my palms
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Mar 30, 2022 19:49
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yeah i mixed grip i do one set left hand over and one set left hand under, ill look into the hook grip
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Mar 30, 2022 20:08
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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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Apr 6, 2022 22:15
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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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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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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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hope yallre well i failed a deadlift last time and kinda strained the part of my butt btwn my hip and the upper muscle part its better but its always scary to fail something ime
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May 31, 2022 19:02
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going back and being more cogniscent of my form at a lighter weight i feel is more correct but like def affects gains i really want to figure out how to improve my grip without using gloves or chalk or straps or the weird thumb-breaking grip, but i feel like just going until i can grip confidently at the weight i'm at is the way to go
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Jun 8, 2022 20:03
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akadajet posted:did 235lbs for 3 sets of 5 today back squat. gonna go for 245lbs next time yeyuh keep at it though stupid it annoys me when people go do squats with heeled shoes or like take off their shoes to do squats, kinda grody ngl
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Jun 9, 2022 14:48
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carry on then posted:the secret is liking lifting lifting is the only exercise i like but also because i like it so much i push it on everyone some people like running, some people like other stuff, the key is to find the work out you like enough to keep it as a habit lifting is really good though
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LanceHunter posted:The myth that diets have a 3% long-term success rate comes from one 1959 study that was done on just 100 people. The actual numbers are significantly higher, with 25-27% maintaining significant weight loss for 5 years or more. There are studies showing that as high as 87% of people can maintain a weight loss of at least 10% for 10 years. hell yeah thank you for your research to clarify this
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AnimeIsTrash posted:I asked in another thread but I wanted some more advice, is there any stretching or something else I can do to help fix my wrist position during squats? I noticed I was overextending my wrists quite a bit so I went back down to 1 plate and now find it really hard to maintain a neutral wrist. its sort of similar to overheads where you want your palm to push against the bar so youre using your entire forearm and not flexing your wrist more than enough to seat the bar on your palm alternatively push the weight a little higher on your shoulders so your arms arent doing as much work
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Aug 9, 2022 16:43
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yeah keeping the thumb open is good for forcing your hand to balance it against the end of your forearm instead of bending back the wrist
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question that i've noticed either is my bad habit or other's bad habits: if you drop after every deadlift, may I ask why? I learned to do it as a complex movement and you do it clean both ways unless failing. it seems like you're losing something by not returning it in the same way. otoh deadlift competitions allow people to drop after completing the lift i think, but these are people doing like a plate and dropping and having the floor shake and poo poo bounces everywhere. its particularly bad at my local gym because the racks are on the 2nd floor and the floor, even with padding, gives and everything shakes around it at more than 1 plate Share Bear fucked around with this message at 18:51 on Aug 10, 2022 |
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akadajet posted:dropping a non max effort deadlift just means you’re a pussy but like, EVERY time? like you do a set and you full pull and drop each one. it's so common, there has to be a reasoning for it, it makes no sense to me, and i'm way too anxious to just go up to someone and be like "why do your deads suck lmao"
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Aug 10, 2022 19:42
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aight hit my yearly goals, celebrated with a falafel gyro, maybe will have a beer later one guy did the drop thing again but he was in vastly better shape than i was so i dont know, its probably peacocking
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barkbell posted:what is the drop thing you do a deadlift (like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-4qRntuXBSc). instead of returning the weight to the floor in a smooth compound motion, you kind of drop where one would start bending their knees. you do this repeatedly. you are not lifting large amounts/single max reps of weight.
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Aug 24, 2022 22:46
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AnimeIsTrash posted:the answer was i need to stop using the stupid nonadjustable squat rack oh yeah that things a death trap, the one with the rails that guide it right
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Aug 25, 2022 00:11
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AnimeIsTrash posted:No it's not a smith machine. Non adjustable meaning you can't really mess with any of the preset heights, one of these: i feel smith machines are bad as if that wasnt obvious
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Aug 25, 2022 06:09
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yeah i gotta up my cardio because basically after getting the first vax i was straight back at the gym, and now i'm getting super winded which is prob long covid or just being in my late 30s
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Jan 25, 2023 21:17
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qirex posted:it could also be high blood pressure yeah i'm due for a checkup, last one was like "youre healthy but your cholestorol is like 0.1% above average be careful" and i havent changed diet or routine since please go work out
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Jan 26, 2023 16:21
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ADINSX posted:Oh god I didn’t even consider that maintenance workouts are still just as good as regular workouts for mental health if not necessarily phyiscal, keep it up i really want to get back to 3x a week (for gains and also staving off feeling down) but my (regular, cheap) gym is just far enough walking where that's inconvenient. i am at 1-2 times a week rn and i feel great each time when the weather's nicer i can bike and itll be fine
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i flip the switched grip, one set on both sides (one set left hand over right hadn under, one set left hand under right hand over), i think this is fine it doesnt solve actual real grip issues this video was p good about how to address grip without using straps necessarily: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tFuzwb8WkKc the intro is all you need if you wanna just work on grip w/o straps
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