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Hmmm... 100kg+ for a tiny muscle group that is meant to act as a stabiliser and you have a niggle in your AC? I'd think carefully about your routine, here.
Bench is gash.
I am now on your side. #freethescapular
EDIT - apparently BW x 0.7 + added load is a decent calculation for total weight lifted, so I should be able to take my bench numbers and figure out what the equivalent load on the harness needs to be to have something close to that.
I also bought a knock-off of the IronMind loading pin for belt squats via Amazon for peanuts (compared to their one, anyway). Looking forward to seeing what that does for my high bar squat.
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Yes - have always been intrigued by beltnsquats since seeing some beastly American lifter (weightlifter) doing them as part of shoulder rehab...
Keep us posted!
Anyone else hate lower back doms? As my routine doesn't change much, I don't get doms very often but I've learned to like feeling sore when I do (I know soreness is not an indicator of muscle growth).
Yet every time I get lower back doms, I feel like I'm injured. It feels like a different type of soreness, to me at least.
Yet every time I get lower back doms, I feel like I'm injured. It feels like a different type of soreness, to me at least.
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Tested belt squats today,
I tested them today. I went round to the side of a rack so I was out of the way (plus it's handy having something grab if you lose your balance!) and used a couple of the gyms plyo boxes to get sufficient elevation so that the pin didn't hit the floor at the bottom.
The loading pin worked fine, and they feel great - it's basically exactly the same movement pattern/feel as a high bar squat without any axial loading, however I can't use my Spud Inc. chainless dip belt because at the bottom of the movement the strap digs the absolute hell out of my hip crease. Luckily I had an old cheap belt as back-up as I'd predicted this - this sort of thing - which worked much better and I attached the pin and belt together with a couple of short climbers slings. I'm only doing belt squats for higher reps but I'm not sure if the belt part will hold up though; it could use some extra padding which I could DIY, but I'm more worried about it ripping, so although I found a cheap IronMind loading pin clone, it seems I need a cheap alternative to their belt! Spud Inc. do one but it's hard to get here and costs a fortune compared to getting it in America (which is how I got my chainless one), so I'll have to look around and see if I can find something suitable.
I tested them today. I went round to the side of a rack so I was out of the way (plus it's handy having something grab if you lose your balance!) and used a couple of the gyms plyo boxes to get sufficient elevation so that the pin didn't hit the floor at the bottom.
The loading pin worked fine, and they feel great - it's basically exactly the same movement pattern/feel as a high bar squat without any axial loading, however I can't use my Spud Inc. chainless dip belt because at the bottom of the movement the strap digs the absolute hell out of my hip crease. Luckily I had an old cheap belt as back-up as I'd predicted this - this sort of thing - which worked much better and I attached the pin and belt together with a couple of short climbers slings. I'm only doing belt squats for higher reps but I'm not sure if the belt part will hold up though; it could use some extra padding which I could DIY, but I'm more worried about it ripping, so although I found a cheap IronMind loading pin clone, it seems I need a cheap alternative to their belt! Spud Inc. do one but it's hard to get here and costs a fortune compared to getting it in America (which is how I got my chainless one), so I'll have to look around and see if I can find something suitable.
How do you get them? Lying in bed? Brocep curlzing? Squatting? Deadlifting?
You shouldn't really be getting them at all unless you have started a new dynamic activity (like just taken up dancing, synchronised swimming, gymnastics or rugby)...
8 sets of heavyish triples conventional deadlifting when my legs are fatigued so my lower back takes more of the load.
It's not an injury as I'm less sore today and should be fine to pull sumo tomorrow.
The doms just feel different to say hammy doms which feel awesome in comparison.
8 sets of 3 at 80% and up is a lot and if you are getting that tired that your legs are no longer doing the work there won't be any point in the exercise (as it becomes a different lift).
Better stick to 5 sets at most at that sort of weight, and start using assistance exercises (RDLs, Nordic curls, split squats...).
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I've lost about 8 stone recently and for the first time in my life I am going to join a gym next week. I know I want to do weights as I have quite a physical job and have started getting aches so I want to build up some muscle. Also since I have lost my weight I have gained a bit of loose skin, so my question is what would be the best exercise to tone it back up.
Well done on the weightloss! Remarkable work!
Regarding loose skin, there isn't much you can do beyond surgery... you can get bigger muscles off the back of your training to fill the skin back out, but that's not "easy," I'm afraid.
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Thank you. Yeah that's what I thought, and Tbh I really don't want to go down the surgery route unless I really have to, going to give it every chance at the gym first before I will even think about surgery.
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Give it a year or so (unless there's loads of it)... it may tighten up a bit over time, especially if you make some gainz, but ultimately skin is a bit like an elastic band - it's meant to be stretchy, but too much and it won't return to it's previous state no matter what.
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There isn't loads of it and it's certainly not as bad as some people's, and tbh it seems to be in the places where the muscles are pretty much non existent. Yeah that's what I was thinking, get a year's membership and see where I am after that.
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Bread.... talk to me
I hear so many people barking on that bread is the devil and you wont be able to lose weight.
I love bread especially in this weather having sandwiches for lunch. logging my food it fits with my macros so why do people hate it so much? should I be avoiding it?
I hear so many people barking on that bread is the devil and you wont be able to lose weight.
I love bread especially in this weather having sandwiches for lunch. logging my food it fits with my macros so why do people hate it so much? should I be avoiding it?
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Two slices of bread a day is fine. It's just when you end up having toast for breakfast, then sandwiches for lunch etc. Like anything as long as it's in moderation it will probably be fine.
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The gym is going to be grim later. Sure, it'll be air conned, but I am going to melt by the time I get there. At least they have finally switched on the air con though.
8 stone, my hat goes off to you good sir. Squats and deadlifts would be right up there for putting some muscle on. Any of the 'big 5' really - Squat, Bench Press, Deadlift, Overhead Press and Barbell Row or at least some variation of.
8 stone, my hat goes off to you good sir. Squats and deadlifts would be right up there for putting some muscle on. Any of the 'big 5' really - Squat, Bench Press, Deadlift, Overhead Press and Barbell Row or at least some variation of.
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Ours isn't and it's two levels in a normal industrial unit. Downstairs is ok but upstairs feels like the rain forest with the humidity. I have a nice day today, heavy squats and deadlifts followed by the first rugby fitness session.
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Ours isn't and it's two levels in a normal industrial unit. Downstairs is ok but upstairs feels like the rain forest with the humidity. I have a nice day today, heavy squats and deadlifts followed by the first rugby fitness session.
This weather is a killer for squats and deadlifts. I certainly don't progress as well as I do in the winter.
