The Big Oily Vascular [Weight Lifting] Thread
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I realized the last weight lifting thread hit 100 and we never started a new one what for the liftings and then the putting back downs of heavy things so here ya go.
Herein we discuss weight lifting, strength training of various sorts and types and bodybuilding. I think it's cool to have this be slightly separate from the main Fitness and Weight Management thread even though there is crossover.
I realized the last weight lifting thread hit 100 and we never started a new one what for the liftings and then the putting back downs of heavy things so here ya go.
Herein we discuss weight lifting, strength training of various sorts and types and bodybuilding. I think it's cool to have this be slightly separate from the main Fitness and Weight Management thread even though there is crossover.
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So this motherfucker is getting a folding wall-mounted rack, barbell, and set of 10s/15s/25s/35s from Bells of Steel in the mail this week
The first part came in yesterday and to be honest they feel real good to Wolverine around with in conversation
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But come this Friday they are going to be removed (and it will be two weeks since I got them in the first place). Maybe like an inch, inch and a half of stitches on my upper right back.
Once they are out I can go back to lifting right? I am tired of waiting.
I'm glad this thread is back, it was fine using the general Fitness thread but it's not quite the same.
Also I'm glad you've joined us here Cello!
Hoping tomorrow will bring my bar and the stringers so I can get this all installed. It was a workout in itself getting all the individual rack pieces and the pairs of 45s, 25s, 15s, and 10s down to my basement!
The UPS driver seemed resentful which, hey, fair, that was a lot of weight
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I have a membership to some climbing gyms that are close by, that have surprisingly good weightlifting areas, that tend to be very underutilized (because people are climbing) so I haven't felt too much of a need yet to up my home game.
@Cello Your mileage may vary but I had to replace those style of spring collars once I got up to heavier weights, one of them just fully released and dropped 45 pounds of weight (onto the mat, luckily). I grabbed these and they've worked much better.
Oh yes, I'll definitely upgrade at some point! For now, the spring collars were 9 dollars thrown in with my weight set, and they work better than some of the clamps I've tried with a manicure, haha, so it'll be on the to-do list sometime in 2023 to get nicer ones!
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I've been staying out of this thread since I rolled my car in January 2018 and couldn't lift due to neck issues, finally found a physio this year who actually fixed it so after getting back into the swing of things with kettlebells* and pullups and bodyweight stuff I'm on my 5th week of deadlifting again.
*Not actually swings though as explosive stuff still fucks with my neck.
Fair warning, now that you've started down this road that list will never end.
Pics of my setup in the spoiler, took 8 years to get here and I think I've got just about everything I need, except for that viking press handle I just found on Amazon yesterday that I'm going to buy after the holidays, but after that I'll be mostly completely done for now!
But I ended my work project at the end of the year and am starting at a different team and I think I’m just going to block out lunch+extra time to work out midday again. My consistency was never the same when I had to start going after work.
I’m not expecting it to magically fix my consistency, but I feel better about it. Just gotta make sure I eat breakfast all the time again instead of some lazy sleepy coffee
The newest addition is actually that piece of wood leaning against the wall.
I bought a single stair tread, which just happens to be the exact width and depth of the treadmill handles, and came already stained and lacquered. Cut out spaces to make room for the buttons on the handles, and now i have an impromptu treadmill desk for work!
Also last year installed the landmine fixture to the wall (bottom right) and thats been real fun
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It's just a bench press but you put another bench at the end of the bench you're lying on for your legs. So you do your normal bench set up but then put your legs on the lower bench so you're lying completely horizontal with 0 leg drive to assist the lift. You can also do it on the floor if you're benching off racks.
I feel like if you don't take deload weeks then it is just going to be attrition against your progress I think.
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I spent a fair amount of time as a younger lifter trying to figure out why every dang person recommended floor pressing when it didn't seem to be helping my raw bench overmuch, and only much later realized that whether they meant to or not places like EliteFTS had a real bias towards geared lifting, even when they were writing articles for raw lifters. Information on the internet has gotten so much better (and so much worse) than it was when I started lifting 11ish years ago.
everyone should work out shirtless how else can you kiss your muscles for a job well done
I have been escorted out of the gym for reasons beyond explanation
blatant jealousy i reckon
sorry, lifting jargon, I mean a particular piece of gear and specifically a "bench shirt." They come in single layer (single-ply, the only gear used in the IPF or International Powerlifting Federation) or wild ass multi-layer (multi-ply, those feds are the true wild west) but they let you bench more. In the aforementioned wild-ass multi-ply gear Jimmy Kolb can "bench press" (but honestly it's like an entirely different exercise) 1320 lbs, which is a genuinely incomprehensible thing. You can see the shirt when he stands up at the end, it's a truly impressive piece of fabric engineering (not to take anything away from Jimmy, who is a marvel and a madman).
Edit: another angle
Anyway goals! I have lifting, general strength and sport goals this year
Lifting; 100kg bench press, 60kg strict press, 160kg deadlift.
General strength: multiple strict ring muscle ups, let's go with 3-5. One armed pullup. One armed hang from 20mm edge. These are probably the most ambitious, the one armed hang especially.
Sport goals: finish my projects (Violence, Nazgul, Millionaire, The Last Stand at least, maybe some others). All seem very doable to me.
Also I suppose if we're putting goals in here for accountability I want to get back to a 180kg deadlift by the end of the year, don't really care about any other lifts though it would be nice to ever overhead press more than 60
Finally ordered some dumbbells for home use (cause I will find any excuse to not leave the house). Just slowly transforming my home office into an office/gym.
Small space, but lots of stuff. I have two exciting deliveries imminent; the Rep Open Trap Bar and the Bulletproof Fitness Isolator, which is a rack mounted leg extension, leg curl, hip thrust station, arm machine, crazy ass multi-piece unit.
Peaking block is going well, despite developing plantar fasciitis and tendinitis in my left forearm. My deadlift is going to hit somewhere north of 510lbs, which is a massive PR. Squat and bench should also PR. Thumbs up for ChadBot and bulking.
I found that heavy weighted pullups, archers and band assisted worked well yeah. At my best I could go from deadhang to 90 degrees, right now I could probably do 110-115 to 90 degrees maybe on my right, and barely hold a lockoff on my left.
So basically gotta get back to that, and that means adding a good 7-8kgs back to my weighted pullups max.
It’s a scout reverse hyper from Rogue. I like it for the space savings but I hate it for the capacity. It’s not rated for a high weight, so when I do heavy swings, the front feet lift up. To keep it from flipping backwards, I have to attach a chain to my rack and thread it through the crossmembers of the hyper. The loading pin is also limited, so anything above 200lbs on the arm I have to use a different chain and carabiner to secure the extra weight to the swing arm.
If I wasn’t space limited, I would drop it for Titan’s cheapo hyper, but I don’t want to give up the floor space.
I also have a GHD setup that is modular which you can see the pieces of. I have a GHD footplate from Rogue that attaches to my rack and two GHD pads from Rep that I put on top of my squat box. Works great and minimal space needed.
I got a pivot for my rack safeties to use my Viking press handle with, I realized pretty quickly that cleaning it up to press it was going to get impractical past a certain point because the handles on that thing are thick. I will be having some fun with push press tomorrow, will report back soon.
Moved to incline bench and when I went to adjust the seat I somehow sliced right under my thumbnail.
Also the roof is leaking right on this bench.
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At the risk of asking a super patronizing question, when was the last time you re-evaluated your macros? I got what felt like hard stuck for awhile towards the end of the year and felt like absolute shit physically (and briefly pulled something in my core) and tried a bunch of things before discovering through trial and error that the core problem was actually just that I needed to go up to 250g of protein a day (a very stupid number).
It's maddening.