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Started a new gym this week. Nice equipment but there is a plague of circuit trainers. Serious, one gym had almost the entire free weights area tied up and was taking 3 minute breaks between the individual parts of his circuit.
I'd recommend continuing to put effort into weighted squats, along with deadlifts it's one of the best compound lifts.
Please be sure to warm up before you start doing those squats. If you're at a gym, all you need is 10-15 minutes at a moderate pace on a stairclimber or something similar to get your leg muscles warm.
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Cardio isn't so bad if your machine has a TV.
The fuck are you doing back there, muscles? Dying?
Just wait until you start learning the joys of cortical remodeling. Invest in some Thai Oil now...
Especially since it leaves me feeling like some sort of human pokemon. Gonna get me some of that Lamarckian evolution.
and thats pretty much the choice
bed... or exercise
Don't tell anyone, but that's the only reason I exercise.
The only reason I exercise is because I already wake up next to an attractive member of the opposite sex and felt guilty/ashamed to subject her to my fat ass. Now doing naked stuff doesn't feel like I'm subjecting her to a punishment. Also, it makes me feel happy not to be winded so quickly while playing with my 4yo son.
Stronglifts suggests you just start with the bar, which at 45 pound isn't a lot to squat, so you should be unlikely to injure yourself. If you can jump off the ground 45 pounds should be easy. It also suggests you increase the bar by 5 pounds a work out. By the time you get to weights that are challenging you should have decent form and your body should be used to the movement.
The main things I try to focus on getting right when squatting are:
Also look up a youtube video of "squats butt wink." That's another thing to avoid. It's a lot to focus on, but if you keep these sorts of thing in mind when starting with just the bar and building up, by the time you get to weights that are really challenging your form should be solid. There are also tons of good form videos online which you can get pointers on.
What? You didn't get forearms worthy of this place?
Still? Damn that sucks.
Taking a break can be vital depending on the injury severity, but I think the ramp up period can be just as important.
Looking up pulley injury rehab I got these hits:
http://onlineclimbingcoach.blogspot.ca/2010/05/pulley-injuries-article.html
http://www.climbinginjuries.com/fingers-pulleys/
http://thomasbondphysio.blogspot.ca/2012/12/pulley-injuries.html
One of them seems to suggest it should take about 100 days to heal a pulley injury. They've also got some different rehab suggestions.
So very, very thankful the next class is five days away.
holy fucking shit no. No! After 3 minutes I was like "fuck this" and hopped off. It's not that it was harder, just suddenly impossibly boring and restricting. And different. And I felt like my pace was totally off, since that's just a natural adjustment outside. And the numbers staring me in the face mocked me.
How I can does cardio indoors without wanting to kill myself plz thx
Note: I have never been able to get the hang of the elliptical. I dunno why, i always feel awkward trying to pedal on it. Also it is even more interminably boring than the treadmill.
Oh, and I find myself getting really out of breath doing lunges--can I just stick with those without really losing running gains
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Precor 2 Rowing machine. Great exercise, and you hand to really think about form to do it right, so it is a bit more engaging.
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Also great for the butt.
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How about some jump rope for cardio? It gets your heart pumping pretty fast and it's a skill that you can improve.
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I can try the jump rope. I am horribly uncoordinated but I always wanted to be a hip, hop, hip hop and skippy badass on the playground
I failed when I was 8 but never again
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I don't understand my gym's music setup at all. Only place I hear Copacabana followed up by Darude - Sandstorm.
I know how that is. I hate the treadmill. One thing you might consider is a cardio routine that you can do standing place, perhaps with music. It's less intensity, but I did that last winter. Like, alternating marching, jumping, etc, every minutes and rotating the exercise.
I'm doing everything in my power to not going on a treadmill this winter and stay outside. I was doing jogging in the evenings this summer but switched to my lunch hour when it got too dark. Then it got colder so I added some better base layers and got a jogging jacket. It snowed in Vancouver this week but I ran twice anyways. It was interesting! Short strides, but the slush was more hazardous than the fresh snow.
One co-worker was talking about how how he jogged in -30 while living in Winnipeg. Urghh. Eff that..
All three gyms I got to use iPods to play music. Generally top 40 which is fine with me since I love that shit.
Basically your gym is butt.
You know what's disappointing?
When putting on muscle actually show off how unfit you are, because your complete lack of pecs provided a cavity to hide your man-boobs.
You know what's not disappointing? Realizing you have pectoral muscles ascending your chest towards your collarbone.
--LeVar Burton
I've found that personally whenever I am making progress in fitness, whether it's bigger lifts, realizing I've gotten bigger in the shoulers, etc., I always start to feel much more proud and excited about the functional benefits of exercise versus the vanity side. It's like "I want to get fit to look good and be strong," but then it always just transforms into "I'm excited because I can now push heavier things around than I could before," and I start to care less about how I look.
It's how it should be IMO. I have a friend who has struggled with her weight forever. She's always been extremely self conscious about it and it kind of motivated everything about her. She got into doing cross fit about a year ago, and now she has actually gained weight from getting stronger, and isn't a super lean person still, but she's so proud of the things her body can do that she couldn't before that she has the confidence she never could get before, and I think it's just fantastic.
I have seen a lot of people fail trying to "not get too big" but I have never seen someone going into a gym for gains not look better afterword.
Fuck that! I'm exercising to increase the frequency of my wife grabbing my ass during sex. Caring about lifting heavy things is for young people.
--LeVar Burton
Some people underestimate the cardio benefit of doing high-intensity leg exercises in the free weights section of the gym. You can easily get your heart rate as high as when running, and keep it there.
Of course walking the next few days becomes rather painful. But squats, lunges, front squats, straight-leg deadlifts, plyojumps, etc, will all jump your heart rate. So that's always an option if you're really stuck.
edit: you could also try out high-intensity interval training on the treadmills. instead of jogging at a regular pace for hours and hours which can be mindnumbing, you sprint as hard as you can for 10-30 seconds, then walk for 30-60 seconds and do it again. It will melt you.
The music setup is loose butthole, everything else is tight. Like, I'll go up to the desk and turn the volume down to nothing, and I have a moment's peace of lifting before someone comes in 2 seconds later and notices the quiet and cranks that shit up again.
Yeah I do barbell squats and dumbbell lunges and I am way out of breath afterwards
I like the idea of intervals on the treadmill. That's basically how the couch 2 5k started out. Although I am also going to use the exercise bike.
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