Weightlifting for Kiwis - Discussion and support regarding the art of swole

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Anyone use any kind of unconventional strength training? I got into maces awhile back and ended up making my own out of a shot put and steel rod. I like swinging around a heavy piece of steel. I wanna try out Indian clubs at some point too.
 
Anyone use any kind of unconventional strength training? I got into maces awhile back and ended up making my own out of a shot put and steel rod. I like swinging around a heavy piece of steel. I wanna try out Indian clubs at some point too.
I think there's an martial art and lifting program native to Iran that uses weighted clubs.
 
Hit 1005 lb total. Ended up going through some major life changes. Got an insane new job, 50% pay increase. Major drama with an ex that had me drinking 24/7 for 2 or 3 months. Pretty fun. Shits all done with at this point now, getting back into lifting and feels good. Can barely do my warm up weight but whatever, hopefully not too long. Moving soon and going to be back at a real barbell gym again thats open 24/7. One of my favorite things is a late night workout and just vibing alone in a gym with some loud music. Currently at this packed chain gym, its just not the same.
 
Anyone here do a lot of strength athletics and then decided to cut weight to sub 10% bf? I started doing keto and really limiting my intake and my lifts are down and I'm light headed after every set. It may be my intake is too small, but I am wondering if anyone else has experience with this.
 
Anyone here do a lot of strength athletics and then decided to cut weight to sub 10% bf? I started doing keto and really limiting my intake and my lifts are down and I'm light headed after every set. It may be my intake is too small, but I am wondering if anyone else has experience with this.
sub 10% bf sucks, aside looks. I've always been a low BF holder but when you drop below 10 you do have adverse health issues. My lowest was the 7ish range (i'd have to check my records) I look back and feel I looked frail not as sexy as I thought I was lol.

If you are aiming for so low BF you should darn well be tracking your intake, also the body takes some time to adapt to keto. It's hard to say what is causing it and if it's just adapting or an issue.
 
sub 10% bf sucks, aside looks. I've always been a low BF holder but when you drop below 10 you do have adverse health issues. My lowest was the 7ish range (i'd have to check my records) I look back and feel I looked frail not as sexy as I thought I was lol.

If you are aiming for so low BF you should darn well be tracking your intake, also the body takes some time to adapt to keto. It's hard to say what is causing it and if it's just adapting or an issue.
I've never really thought of the effects of being that tiny. I've always been 20%-25% bf. I mostly just am curious to see whats under all my fat. What bf% would you say you felt good at?
I've been tracking my intake and my TDEE is a little of 4000 calories a day, so I cut down to 1200. Its not easy finding high-calorie keto-friendly foods.
Thanks for the reply
 
I've never really thought of the effects of being that tiny. I've always been 20%-25% bf. I mostly just am curious to see whats under all my fat. What bf% would you say you felt good at?
I've been tracking my intake and my TDEE is a little of 4000 calories a day, so I cut down to 1200. Its not easy finding high-calorie keto-friendly foods.
Thanks for the reply
I've always been low BF just my genes even before lifting and sports. I sit low teens mostly, but felt best? Younger lol. Couldn't give you a number off top of my head.
1200 is crazy low and no way you can heal let alone build even fuel yourself, you shouldn't have cut that deeply.
High calorie keto? It's called meat. Beef for sure is your go to if you're looking for calories.
 
I've always been low BF just my genes even before lifting and sports. I sit low teens mostly, but felt best? Younger lol. Couldn't give you a number off top of my head.
1200 is crazy low and no way you can heal let alone build even fuel yourself, you shouldn't have cut that deeply.
High calorie keto? It's called meat. Beef for sure is your go to if you're looking for calories.
Yea it is very low and was a deep cut. Meat is my go-to I just have to make sure its limited so excess protein doesn't get converted to glucose. Appreciate the feedback
 
Yea it is very low and was a deep cut. Meat is my go-to I just have to make sure its limited so excess protein doesn't get converted to glucose. Appreciate the feedback
Just eat a lot of saturated fat. Deep fry your meats, eat salads drizzled with homemade dressing, and learn how to make mayonnaise and do tuna/egg/meat salads.

Scrambled eggs fried in bacon fat is good, as is bacon.

Put raw eggs, unflavored whole milk yogurt, a bit of melted butter, and cocoa powder in your milkshakes.

Lots of cheeses are low carb.

It's pretty easy to make your own cheeses, and with a bottle of lactase you can help the microbes break down the carbs.

Hello thread, I'm starting weight lifting on Monday. I already do a running program but I want to yeet a lot of fat and kick my mental health issues the right way. I also want to wrestle my boyfriend and win.
Your best bet as a true and honest woman for dumping mental health issues is to not use hormonal BC and don't be vegetarian and especially don't be vegan. Also get pregnant if you can at this point in your life, and breastfeed for a year and a half.

All of the above reduce the severity and likelihood of depression and anxiety. Using hormonal BC, being vegetarian and especially vegan, not having kids, not breastfeeding, and not breastfeeding long enough make depression and anxiety more severe and more likely.

It's possible to do it if you respond to the incentives the US government creates, namely by keeping your BFs name off the birth certificate, not marrying, and getting various nog/beaner feeder programs like WIC, food stamps, welfare, section 8 housing. The Mormon side of my gfs family does that and they all have at least 4 kids. They live better than most middle class people, if you don't want the latest gadgets and the biggest house.

I can ask her to walk you through those programs if you like.

Back on topic, the best lifting program depends on what sort of running you currently do.

If you do short distance, high speed running - less than 3 miles, less than 7 minutes a mile - then just do the five basic compound lifts and whatever isolation lifts strike your fancy. The shorter the distance/volume and the greater the intensity, the more energy you can devote to lifting and get results.

It's a tradeoff.

You can probably lift total body twice a week, or upper/lower body four times a week, with the above running schedule.

See this post for more details:

If you do medium or long distance running, then there's effectively a limit on how strong and thicc you can get. Your body probably won't tolerate more than one upper body and one lower body/core workout a week, and you won't be able to do much intensity or volume before you accumulate overtraining injuries. If you still want to do long distance running, do the 5 basic compound lifts at medium intensity and volume, and do body weight exercises instead of isolation lifts.

Whatever you do, you will shed fat and your appetite will increase.

If you want to win at wrestling your bf, take classes on Judo and BJJ, maybe with some wrestling and kickboxing or muay thai thrown in.
 
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Hey Kiwi lifters. I'm tired of being ashamed of my reflection and feeling rundown all the time, so I'm thinking about getting back into lifting. Does anyone have any advice for warm ups or stretches to do before you work out? Thanks a million.
 
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Doing a set of 20 with just the bar is probably enough for most lifts.
 
been lifting for 5 years now, recently tried intermittent fasting and have been doing it for 3 months
recently also tried low carb and noticed that my bf% is dropping (just a tad) despite eating more calories, strength is a bit higher (despite the lower bf%), and that my mood is better overall

am I in placebo territory on the mood part or is this a general thing people experience when they go keto/low carb?
 
been lifting for 5 years now, recently tried intermittent fasting and have been doing it for 3 months
recently also tried low carb and noticed that my bf% is dropping (just a tad) despite eating more calories, strength is a bit higher (despite the lower bf%), and that my mood is better overall

am I in placebo territory on the mood part or is this a general thing people experience when they go keto/low carb?
I started keto a week ago and have been dropping a good amount of weight. Other than being tired, I don't notice a difference. People around me say im really relaxed though.
 
I started keto a week ago and have been dropping a good amount of weight. Other than being tired, I don't notice a difference. People around me say im really relaxed though.
it took me about a month to truly feel out the benefits of IF, I think you still have more to uncover, a single week is not enough for the major changes to become evident :)
 
it took me about a month to truly feel out the benefits of IF, I think you still have more to uncover, a single week is not enough for the major changes to become evident :)
Maybe. I measure my ketones today and was at 80mg/dL which is considered a large amount. So I'll see what a month down the road brings.
 
All my Olympic weightlifting meets have been canceled due to corona-chan, so I'm using this time to cut aggressively so I can compete in a lower weight class whenever this shit clears. I live in a city and have no place to train the Oly lifts since gyms were forced to close, but I can at least keep my squat, deadlift, and press up using an ancient barbell and squat rack in my neighbor's basement. I can sort of power clean there, just keep hoping I don't get tetanus from the rusty bar slicing me open.

Cutting is not fucking easy when I'm stuck at home with nothing to do in a house stocked with food and weed, though.
 
All my Olympic weightlifting meets have been canceled due to corona-chan, so I'm using this time to cut aggressively so I can compete in a lower weight class whenever this shit clears. I live in a city and have no place to train the Oly lifts since gyms were forced to close, but I can at least keep my squat, deadlift, and press up using an ancient barbell and squat rack in my neighbor's basement. I can sort of power clean there, just keep hoping I don't get tetanus from the rusty bar slicing me open.

Cutting is not fucking easy when I'm stuck at home with nothing to do in a house stocked with food and weed, though.
Don't worry brah. Since I had to switch to drive through, I only go to McDonalds 4x/day and Taco Bell 3x/day. I've lost 23lb since march 6th.
 
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