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

[Grinrow]

I've been going to the gym for 3 months almost every day and I was wondering do muscle imbalances fix themselves overtime? I've got the coomer arm not from cooming but from the job I was at where I only had to use 1 arm for hours on end and now I look like the charger from l4d

 

[Gregor Samsa]

I've been going to the gym for 3 months almost every day and I was wondering do muscle imbalances fix themselves overtime? I've got the coomer arm not from cooming but from the job I was at where I only had to use 1 arm for hours on end and now I look like the charger from l4d

To an extent, yes it will. It all depends on how big the imbalance is. If you think its noticeable (both strength wise and size wise) do some extra reps with your non coomer arm.

 

[Dr. Geronimo]

May not be the right place to ask, but can anyone here recommend some ankle/wrist weights? I'm looking for weights I can wear at work just to give me a small boost.

 

[Vexillology]

May not be the right place to ask, but can anyone here recommend some ankle/wrist weights? I'm looking for weights I can wear at work just to give me a small boost.

That sounds scary. Even a small amount of weight has to be awful if it's resting on a joint for hours. I know some people love them when they're exercising but are they safe to wear for that long? I've never seen someone just rocking weights while walking around.

 

[Tom Nook's Gloryhole]

Yeah that just sounds like it'd tire you the fuck out and potentially cause long term damage with no actual real world benefits.

However in the interests of drama I want to see what happens so I'll encourage it.

 

[CivilianOfTheFandomWars]

I only lift so I look cool in a Halloween costume, tbh

 

[Dr. Geronimo]

That sounds scary. Even a small amount of weight has to be awful if it's resting on a joint for hours. I know some people love them when they're exercising but are they safe to wear for that long? I've never seen someone just rocking weights while walking around.

I get what you're saying. My current position isn't as physical as my old one so I'm just trying to figure out ways to add a little extra to my day to day activities.

 

[Vexillology]

I get what you're saying. My current position isn't as physical as my old one so I'm just trying to figure out ways to add a little extra to my day to day activities.

If you work at a desk you can do push-ups against it. It's the least annoying of the desk exercises for your colleagues. If you don't care about your colleagues, get some weights or do squats lol.

It's also impressive how much you can work out without any equipment. Tense your abs as tight as you can for ten seconds at a time, take a little break. Hold one leg up while you're typing, and do little impromptu yoga style stretching crap, if you can't stand and have to type and monitor a screen. Anything but sitting still.

 

[Nate Higgers]

I work in construction (usually lifting/pulling heavy shit, usually outdoors) 40h/wk, 8h/day, 5 days/wk. I need to get stronger so I can do more than I have been at work, but I’m too goddamn tired to lift or even do body weight exercise after I get home.

should I just wake up at 4am and exercise before work or what? I did the keto memediet this last winter and lost 20lbs but I’m still desperately lacking when it comes to muscle/strength.

 

[Hollywood Hulk Hogan]

I work in construction (usually lifting/pulling heavy shit, usually outdoors) 40h/wk, 8h/day, 5 days/wk. I need to get stronger so I can do more than I have been at work, but I’m too goddamn tired to lift or even do body weight exercise after I get home.

should I just wake up at 4am and exercise before work or what? I did the keto memediet this last winter and lost 20lbs but I’m still desperately lacking when it comes to muscle/strength.

Getting enough sleep is also important, but if you can wake up at 4 am and still be getting enough sleep, then I'd say go for it

 

[Nate Higgers]

Getting enough sleep is also important, but if you can wake up at 4 am and still be getting enough sleep, then I'd say go for it

My schedule for the next year and a half is such that getting 7h/night is the most realistically close I can get to “a good nights sleep”

 

[Hollywood Hulk Hogan]

Had leg day today. Fucking callous tore off on each hand, so deadlifting really sucked. I toughed it out though. Mostly focused on form since I didn't want to go too heavy due to said callous tear. When I am bored during work meetings, I pinch and tear callouses. I gotta stop that shit

Ran for 20 minutes afterwards. I figured doing a jog after leg day would be solid cardio and man, it was tough. It's funny how I can go from a 7 minute mile pace for 20 minutes and then struggle for a 9 minute pace after leg day.

 

[Canoodler]

I tweaked a muscle deadlifting yesterday, so that sucks.

 

[Flabba Wabba Jabba]

I experimented with pulling sumo deadlift today and it feels weird, like cheating in a way. I managed to work up to 500, got it, then pulled 500 again conventional. 2 new PRs, feels good man.

Yeah it definitely feels wrong. Like I can feel the same muscles being activated equally as conventional, but my rom is really poor. My deadlift is only at 465 right now though so who knows once I get up to the 500+ range.

Squatted 405x6 today and I had to summon the might of Zeus to get 3 sets of it. Jeff Nippard's Powerbuilding program is fucking killing me.

 

[Helvítis Túristi]

Three weeks ago I changed my arm day exercises a bit. Instead of doing 4 sets of triceps exercises and 4 sets of biceps exercises, I combine them into a super set but only do 3 sets for each super set. I've noticed that my arms are more engorged with blood after doing them and they stay swole longer. Going to give this a go for a month or two and then decide if I should change my routine in order to build my arms.

 

[Hot Dog]

Got 510 conventional deadlifting. Feels good man.

 

[Hollywood Hulk Hogan]

Got 510 conventional deadlifting. Feels good man.

Congrats!
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I recently switched abs from leg/ab day to just doing 4 sets of ab stuff at the end of every work out, before doing cardio. It's awful when you do it after consecutive days. Even just 4 sets of hanging leg raises are torture when you did them 2 days ago and then day before did bicycles for 4 sets.

 

[Flabba Wabba Jabba]

Tweaked the shit out of my shoulder doing overhead press today. Had 135x8 for 3 sets as my primary compound, and just jolted the fuck out of my rotator cuff on the way up. Still managed to get the rest of my exercises done though.

Currently have ice on it but brother does this hurt.

 

[Hollywood Hulk Hogan]

Tweaked the shit out of my shoulder doing overhead press today. Had 135x8 for 3 sets as my primary compound, and just jolted the fuck out of my rotator cuff on the way up. Still managed to get the rest of my exercises done though.

Currently have ice on it but brother does this hurt.

Be careful. Rotator cuff injuries are awful.

One thing I have learned over the years is listen to your body. While it's okay to work through an injury if you can, don't try and be a hero. If you feel pain, let it rest.

I hurt my foot last Friday doing cardio and now the ball of my foot near my big toe hurts to walk on. It hurt like hell to walk, so instead of running and doing stair stepper, I just did light stationary bike work. It's improving, but not 100% so just playing it safe.

 

[Flabba Wabba Jabba]

Be careful. Rotator cuff injuries are awful.

One thing I have learned over the years is listen to your body. While it's okay to work through an injury if you can, don't try and be a hero. If you feel pain, let it rest.

I hurt my foot last Friday doing cardio and now the ball of my foot near my big toe hurts to walk on. It hurt like hell to walk, so instead of running and doing stair stepper, I just did light stationary bike work. It's improving, but not 100% so just playing it safe.

Oh yeah this was completely out of the blue. I spend about 20 minutes warming up before doing my workouts (with 1-2 warmup sets of the exercise before doing working sets).

It's feeling better now, leading me to believe that it was just a tweak and not an actual injury, but yeah I completely agree about people feeling like they need to continue, despite an obvious injury.