Right there with ya man. Just coming off anti-biopics from the upper respiratory infection that came out of the last cold I caught from my son... And today he went back to the doctor with a new cold so bad it turned into croup. I'll be sick again by Saturday!
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Fitness |OT8| Dad Bods, Bulge Swelfies, and Wait...Do you even lift bro?
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Right there with ya man. Just coming off anti-biopics from the upper respiratory infection that came out of the last cold I caught from my son... And today he went back to the doctor with a new cold so bad it turned into croup. I'll be sick again by Saturday!
It's been rough this year. I think it's because I have a lot of 3yr olds on my case load which means multiple classes of kids putting everything in their mouths.
Ricky Ricardo
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So, ya'll about that seated OHP or standing OHP?
mdsfx
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Standing!
Edit: not sure why I'm yelling...
Urggggh failed 132.5 bench again. Granted, I am losing weight right now but this seems like the most basic thing for people. Roll of shame and everything.
Deload it is. I've already added dumbbell press but it hasn't had enough time to make a difference . Should I add dips too?
Deload it is. I've already added dumbbell press but it hasn't had enough time to make a difference . Should I add dips too?
Arrowgigantic
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I like to get stronger, so I do them standing. If I ever feel like not getting stronger, I'll switch to seated.
Amazing in 70 degrees. Insane in 22 degrees. I don't know how you do it dude. I've been working out in my garage with this recent cold wave but my workouts aren't anything to write home about.
Standing but I do Arnold Presses and DB Presses (usually) sitting down.
God damn Brolic continuing to be super strong.
Hit the gym even when I didn't feel like it and kicked ass. Deadlift with 5x285, 5x330 and 5x375. Hit every rep easy, hit all accessories easily. Felt beast.
Staying at my brother's place this week while apartment is being remodeled, it's so fun walking into his garage and using the cage. I just wish he had more 45 plates, he needs 6 more at least.
Home gym is the best, but damn it takes up a lot of space.
Staying at my brother's place this week while apartment is being remodeled, it's so fun walking into his garage and using the cage. I just wish he had more 45 plates, he needs 6 more at least.
Home gym is the best, but damn it takes up a lot of space.
Psychotext
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Lost 2.5lbs overnight... I have absolutely no idea why. Didn't do much yesterday, and only an hour on the turbo trainer.
Benching sucks. I am usually able to add 5 pounds every other chest day. I got upto 115 and struggled really bad to do 3 reps. Almost failed to rack the bar on the last rep. I am improving, it's just so terribly hard compared to squats and deadlifts for me. Although today was a vast improvement over the last time.
Are you doing arms or shoulders in the day before chest? I found it easier doing chest after a rest day or leg day since the support muscles in the bench press are not still sore or recovering from other workouts. I just made this change and I can see a slight difference.
Ape Gone Insane
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I'm on 1100 at the moment and think I have underestimated my TDEE as I'm dropping at a slightly faster rate than 2 pounds per week (excluding water weight). Need to eat more before I start burning that muscle too.
I do modified Greyskull so I only lift 3 days a week and bench is the first exercise of the day when it comes up.
BruceLeeRoy
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Thats fantastic bro. 5 Miles at that kind of clip makes you feel like your flying.
Bumping my question, would be good to know what I can expect from not having access to proper safety equipment.
FallingEdge
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This makes 0 sense.
mdsfx
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I think it was phrased poorly and is probably just trying to highlight that standing position offers benefits to your core, legs, etc.
FallingEdge
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Okay, that makes more sense.
Arrowgigantic
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There are literally zero ways doing them seated is better than doing them standing. Unless you count being able to put a few extra lbs on the bar as something, which you shouldn't.
I feel like the same people that do seated OHP see it as an accessory to the all important bench. These folks typically do quarter squats with three plates once a week too. And curls are their second most important compound lift after BP.
FallingEdge
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I agree. Are you guys being serious or no? At first I thought it was a joke. Now I'm not so sure.
I opened my Mr. Hyde this morning and one scooped it along with some other additions for pump. I felt things....great workout but the feeling afterwards was like a toddler on sugar and mouintain dew. I felt jittery, amped and could not concentrate driving son to daycare and then to work.
LOL
The best sarcasm is when they're not sure if you're being honest or not.
*edit*
On a more serious note, I downloaded the Wendler Log app, and it's pretty great. I feel like some of my progress is slow because I don't follow a really strict program. Gonna go balls deep into 5/3/1.
Jacksinthe
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Going back to the popular exercises at the gym topic, the one thing that's really popular at my gym is something I don't even know the name of. It's basically a hinged sleeve that's bolted to the ground, and a 45 lb bar slides in. People load up the other end with plates and then lift it between their legs. Sometimes I see people doing more complicated things with a trainer, but mostly I just see guys load tons of weight on it and grunt while they pull the thing up. It would seem to do the same thing as rowing with a close grip, I guess.
All I know is they don't have a dedicated bar for it, so people are constantly having to steal the bar from one of the nearby places to use it.
All I know is they don't have a dedicated bar for it, so people are constantly having to steal the bar from one of the nearby places to use it.
Landmine rows.
We have one of those and its pretty popular - I see people stand up w/ that sometimes, and roll it left and right to hit the abs too.
Jacksinthe
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^^^ Yup to both. People use a triangle usually to do rows with them. Arm position is usually tucked at the sides instead of a wide grip like pendlays or bent over rows. Similar to doing a seated cable row but standing. Plenty of variants to row type exercises. I do them at home but don't have a land mine. I fold a towel up to cushion the rear end so it doesnt damage my walls and place it in the corner of the room. Works the same.
Arrowgigantic
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It's not a joke. "Do you do seated OHP or standing OHP" is like asking if you do OHP or do push presses.
When I said I do it standing because I want to get stronger, it's not because seated doesn't work muscles. It just doesn't work as many muscles as it could, and on top of that, the deltoids and triceps and biceps work harder in a standing OHP. So why do it seated? You get stronger doing them standing. The only possible reason I could think of is because you've got an injury somewhere below your sternum and sitting means you won't aggravate it.
Bottom line is that the answer to seated or standing OHP is omg why are you asking this question.
When is a good time to drink a protein shake after a protein rich meal? For example, let's say right after I workout I ate 10 pieces of buffalo wings.
If I take a protein shake an hour after that, wouldn't it be wasted since around 5-10g protein takes like an hour or so to processed?
I workout late at night so I don't have a time to wait.
If I take a protein shake an hour after that, wouldn't it be wasted since around 5-10g protein takes like an hour or so to processed?
I workout late at night so I don't have a time to wait.
Jacksinthe
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Psychotext
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One of the things I'm getting on my next rack. Some good moves you can do with them.
That sounds like it's going back to that myth of Xg per meal max. In short, it's bollocks. There are people here that get all their protein in one massive meal per day. You could theoretically eat so much of it that your body couldn't process it before you crapped it out, but that's not what the original science behind that number is about.
Don't worry about it.
BruceLeeRoy
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Since when are these not known as T-Bar Rows.
pffft Landmine we really are a bunch of meatheads.
I think you're overthinking this.
I could totally be underthinking it though, I used to care a lot about that kind of stuff, realized it had such a marginal impact on me.
That's one of the reasons the standing OHP isn't a primary lift in weightlifting and powerlifting competitions anymore.
Escape Goat
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Even Batman needs help on deadlifts
Psychotext
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His form is all over the place, probably why he managed to injure himself.
Show him how it's done brolic.
Show him how it's done brolic.
So today I was doing deadlifts, only at 60kg (usually do 80) because my legs were kinda sore from yesterday's squats. The gym PT came and asked if he could have a go during my rest, and when he did he had a really odd way of doing them, like all back and hardly bending his legs, and not putting the weight back to the floor. He then said deadlifts are all about the lower back and nothing to do with legs or glutes. He was just trolling me right? He also said after I'd mentioned I'm doing 5x5 that "nah it's all about the 12's"
Jacksinthe
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Sounds like Romanians from how you describe it but idk.
Psychotext
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...and funnily enough, Romanian deadlift done with proper form is 90% leg anyway. Guy can't be that stupid can he?
Was this it?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jEy_czb3RKA
Was this it?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jEy_czb3RKA
Even Batman needs help on deadlifts
He needs to get that utility belt up around his belly. It's not going to help where's he's got it now.
Yeah except he didn't seem to use his legs hardly at all. I think he was just being a Dick tbh
Psychotext
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This one then: http://www.exrx.net/WeightExercises/Hamstrings/BBStraightLegDeadlift.html
(Edit - Ironically also considered a hamstring exercise.)
It also doesn't help that he's using a really narrow grip.
But hey what do I know, I don't go around suplexing alligators.
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