I mostly just stick with heavy conventional deadlift and weighted chin ups/pull ups, along with heavy barbell row. Deadlift and back can be easy to overtrain so I stay heavy and relatively low rep.
Weightlifting for Kiwis - Discussion and support regarding the art of swole
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Speaking of deadlifts, here's cbum doing some:
Edit: While I am at it, I'll throw in this little nugget of information, courtesy of Rip:
Now that I am getting back into the saddle after 2+ months, my grip strength is way down and can't deadlift a whole set without the last 2-3 reps struggling to hold the bar. While I'll do the rest of the exercises for strengthening my grip, I've never tried this style of grip before -- always used the regular "knuckles pointing straight down" kinda grip, we'll see how it goes.
Edit: While I am at it, I'll throw in this little nugget of information, courtesy of Rip:
Now that I am getting back into the saddle after 2+ months, my grip strength is way down and can't deadlift a whole set without the last 2-3 reps struggling to hold the bar. While I'll do the rest of the exercises for strengthening my grip, I've never tried this style of grip before -- always used the regular "knuckles pointing straight down" kinda grip, we'll see how it goes.
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Hit 1 plate on OHP today! This next week I'm deloading, me and my workout partner are both a little bit thrashed, his lats are hurting and my shoulders are aching, so we'll take it easy and do our major lifts with light weight and focus on cardio and ab work.
So far I'm at:
60kg on OHP
95kg on bench
135kg on squat
150kg on deadlift
So far I'm at:
60kg on OHP
95kg on bench
135kg on squat
150kg on deadlift
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Right on! I can do 5kg more on bench, but those are (almost) my 1RMs!
1RM
Squat: 150
Bench: 100
Deadlift: 140
Press: 65
TM
Squat: 130
Bench: 85
Deadlift: 120
Press: 60
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Benched 140kg for five reps today.
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Recently swapped 45 minutes on the stair climber for 10x 30 second high speed sprints, I'm so surprised at how sore my calves are.
Things are moving slowly for me at the moment in terms of weight increases but I'm taking this time to improve my form on everything.
I am kinda worried I am consistently losing weight even though I am eating more, hoping it's the last remnants of fat I have on me since I think I still look pretty bulky for a woman, we will see when I finish this cycle and go back to deadlifts if the number went up or down.
Things are moving slowly for me at the moment in terms of weight increases but I'm taking this time to improve my form on everything.
I am kinda worried I am consistently losing weight even though I am eating more, hoping it's the last remnants of fat I have on me since I think I still look pretty bulky for a woman, we will see when I finish this cycle and go back to deadlifts if the number went up or down.
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5RM
Squat: 125
Bench: 220
Deadlift: 250
Press: 135
Squat: 125
Bench: 220
Deadlift: 250
Press: 135
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Personally, conventional deadlifts were never really the best exercise for my back, though types of rack pulls and Romanian deadlifts just feel great on my traps in particular. Same with classic barbell rows, I'm just not really built for them in a bodybuilding context. Nothing grew my back thickness more than rows, however. In particular one armed dumbbell types and ones where I can get a huge stretch like certain types of chest supported rows or even Yates rows, depending on what area of the back I'm targeting.
And pullups are the GOAT for back, weighted or not.
I had to really figure out how to train my back, because it was a difficult part for me to grow through the more normal methods. Now it's one of my best parts, because I went crazy with it and once I found the right angles and exercises through trial and error, it just got wide and thick.
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I think you're supposed to to a bit of a shrug once you have the bar all the way up and you're in the upright position - similar with the overhead press.
When Rip says that you should shrug at the top, that bit of advice had stuck with me ever since, and I always make sure to do a bit of a shrug, activating my traps once I have the bar all the way up.
But yea, pull-ups are still the GOAT, Franco Columbu swore by them, he'd do 10 sets of 10 perfect reps (instead of sets of faaahve)... I'll get there one day.
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That is how I do them, really flex at the top, but for some reason I just feel it much better in my upper back when I pull from a little off the floor or with a trap bar.
I also like to do shrugs before and after deadlift variations, and that's a surefire way to get the traps to grow.
I became a bit of a fanatic about back training, basically trying everything I could to see what would work for me because it was always lagging behind too much for my goals. I learned a lot through that. I've boiled it down to a big stretch and a big squeeze in the target muscle, a higher volume of pullups of all types, and really dialing in angles and elbow path. So, my usual back routines would be pullups, yates rows or trap bar deadlifts with shrugs, close grip or sternum pullups, one armed dumbbell rows or meadows rows with a huge stretch, and finishing with dumbbell pullovers. Cables just never felt as good to me, I can work with them but heavy free weights made the biggest difference.
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Any tips for push-ups for fat-asses and lazy fucks ? It's been almost a decade since I've chosen to do them.
It's time to get back into the habit.
edit: Note. My form is fucking terrible and I'm wobbly without shoes on. Beginner's push-ups don't provide any sort of challenge and I just look like I'm trying to do the Worm.
Edit 2; The only things I do is use my Bullworker to 150 and stationary bike, due to a rotator cuff injury my ability to lift fluxates dramatically. Some days, I can lift 160 without even noticing, other days it's a struggle to even get the 5 pounders on to the bar.
It's time to get back into the habit.
edit: Note. My form is fucking terrible and I'm wobbly without shoes on. Beginner's push-ups don't provide any sort of challenge and I just look like I'm trying to do the Worm.
Edit 2; The only things I do is use my Bullworker to 150 and stationary bike, due to a rotator cuff injury my ability to lift fluxates dramatically. Some days, I can lift 160 without even noticing, other days it's a struggle to even get the 5 pounders on to the bar.
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Well, with push-ups, I would recommend you look into elevated push-ups. You can change the incline to get started as you become more familiar with how to do them also, if you got no gear, squats are an idea that could help you.
I am early in my lifting, and my squats are HORRID but improving. They are great for burning calories and training your legs and are easy to change in difficulty and improvement.
I also got a fucked shoulder, and one of the things I am looking into is shoulder support of some kind I hope they can remove the worst of the discomfort and pain from my shoulder so I can train better for things overhead.
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Start doing negatives (also called negative reps); use a stool or whatever you can to stay all the way up, then go down slowly. Jump back up, then go down again, slow and controlled. And all the way down, pretty much a "dead hang", you want max stretch and max contraction, like VeteranOfTheRetardWars said earlier. Try not to do half-reps, otherwise it's gonna be hard to shake off the bad habit.
You'll notice how your whole upper back puts into place and adjusts to how the movement should be done. Chest up, engage your lats, everything. If your gym has one of those assisted chin/dips machine, then you could try that, it'll make it much easier, but honestly I think it's better if you learn them "the old school way", it'll be better in the long run.
But honestly, the best approach is "greasing the groove"; T-Nation has some really good articles about pull-ups:
Things You Should Know How To Do #1: The Pull-Up
Not a pro at pull-ups? Double your reps in just a few weeks. Here’s how.
Check this one out first.
How to Increase Your Pull-Up Power
High-rep pull-ups are cool, but you'll stagnate and bang yourself up if you keep chasing volume. Instead concentrate on adding weight.
Pull-Ups: You're Doing Them Wrong
Think you're good at pull-ups because you can do a lot of them or strap on extra weight? Think again. Here's how to really do them for best results.
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yep. hate this faggot. He's lifting for redditors who need scientific based routines. Like nigga just go heavy or go fast. As long as you lift safely you'll be alright. I've yet to met a nipard fan that was big
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Nippard is fine, the problem is that Redditors and Zoomers, as a people, are pussies who don't even lift.
But really with science cantent, it's The Virgin Jeff Niappard vs The Chad Mike Isratel.
But really with science cantent, it's The Virgin Jeff Niappard vs The Chad Mike Isratel.
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Got back into lifting weights about a month ago.
Age has been a problem. There's pain from gains and then there's pain from being old.
I guess all I can say is power through it. The results are worth the pain.
Age has been a problem. There's pain from gains and then there's pain from being old.
I guess all I can say is power through it. The results are worth the pain.
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I like nipples, he has a great body, but bitch is icnredibly disingenuous about getting gains with SCIENCE and EQUATIONS and BIOMECHANICS while being so patently obviously on gear. And I don't care how many videos he does being outraged at the suggestion he's on gear. He IS on gear.
The way the dude bros pseudoscience from the past has been effectively replaced with OCD zoomers looking to have the perfect muscle engagement with milimetrically calculated angles and movements and milimetrically calculated diets is astounding.
Like, bitch, is the gear. It's the fucking gear why they look like this and you don't. And i'm not the "I don't look like this so everybody who does must be on gear" troll. It IS the fucking gear, and you eating some 30g less proteins or not having the exact caloric intake you calculated you need won't put you closer or further to looking like that, because you're not on gear.
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I'm a newb to see these differences between natty and geared, what makes him look geared? Because he isn't all veiny and shit, from what I associate with being on gear.
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I'm not sure Jeff's on gear, his strength isn't insane given his training age and his size at his biggest looked reasonable. Those don't in and of themselves mean he's natty, but if he isn't that means he lied to John Meadows' face and that is unforgivable in the eyes of God and man.
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You don't always get veiny from gear. Veiny is a result of arteries expanding which may come as a result of bigger muscles needing blood. Some bodybuilders take poppers before training for this very reason.
I have small veins, I'm never veiny and my body tends to develop thicker but smaller muscles. I guess if I took gear I would be kinda fucked.
And that takes me to Jeff Nippard, dude's 5'5 (164 for euros). He's, like, really short. Short sizes make very solid, compact muscles, very beautiful muscles, but they also come with a limit about how much muscle you can build. Dude's got the muscles of somebody taller with that height.
I really like his body, but he's carrying what I think is more weight than a guy his height can support naturally.
Besides, your muscles look different when not on gear. You will always be having a swimmer-like figure. With more or less volume a natural lifter will always have compact, lean, linear shapes.
Gear will give you the rounded, puffier, expansive muscles. And it will be most noticeable in those body parts that have more androgenic receptors, that is the lats and the shoulders, incidentally the hardest parts to develop naturally.
Guys with gear will have huge both.
In summary: lean, swimmer-like muscles with a compact, toned volume you cannot prove he's not on gear, he might be or he might be not.
Round, puffy, expansive muscles like out of a gay porn, especially lats and shoulders are tell tale signs of roids.
Also, if he has abs all year round but he keeps increasing muscle mass, something's fishy. I'm not talking toned abs. I'm talking chiseled, carved abs.
Edit: I feel like I registered on the Kiwifarms to shit on people, I might join some yoga group or something
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