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

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Ahriman dijo:
I can't confirm nor deny that I hurt something doing rows, but I had to take it slow this week. I skipped gym today.

Protip: Listen to your body, slow the fuck down and give it time to rest/recover.

On a lighter side of things,

https://youtube.com/watch?v=ShcmPBwdSMw
https://youtube.com/watch?v=sAsiL0zZjnI
These are hilarious, my Insta feed is now 10x funnier.

But also, who would have thought, Mike O'Tren is more of a meme than usual.
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yeah i took the week off of lifting to let my arm recover and just did cardio so i wasn't a sedentary fuck.
definitely listen to your body, fellas. don't need to end up in snap city.
 
Ahriman dijo:
I can't confirm nor deny that I hurt something doing rows, but I had to take it slow this week. I skipped gym today.

Protip: Listen to your body, slow the fuck down and give it time to rest/recover.

On a lighter side of things,

https://youtube.com/watch?v=ShcmPBwdSMw
https://youtube.com/watch?v=sAsiL0zZjnI
These are hilarious, my Insta feed is now 10x funnier.

But also, who would have thought, Mike O'Tren is more of a meme than usual.
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Reminds me of the "act natural" Me: *image of Liver King* meme while back lol
 
If it starts to hurt while working out (slowly intensifying), I usually take it as a sign that it's not strong enough and needs to be targeted more. Did this with shoulders and my pain while pressing has gone away. Lower back is next on the list to strengthen.

If it's pain after the gym, somethings fucked up and it's time to re evaluate.
 
Barry McKockner dijo:
If it starts to hurt while working out (slowly intensifying), I usually take it as a sign that it's not strong enough and needs to be targeted more. Did this with shoulders and my pain while pressing has gone away. Lower back is next on the list to strengthen.

If it's pain after the gym, somethings fucked up and it's time to re evaluate.
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Honestly I think it was more a posture thing, rather than weakness - for instance, I am getting better and better at pull-ups. I am starting to see my lats developing a bit more. I do 50 reps total and I can normally crank out the first 3 sets with 10 reps, but by my last 2, my form gets all fucky and both my biceps and lats can't keep up... but it's still progress.

My goal is to have a form this clean:


But it's hard for me (at least for now) since I am more of a bigger dude, it's easier for skinnier, ripped dudes like him to get easier at chins and pull-ups.
 
Took 8 days off due to a chest infection. A residual cough remains, but I figured I was okay enough for a session.

Worked up to a 200kg backsquat, 100kg strict press, and 200kg conventional pull. More in the tank for each lift, but I reckon this was a pretty good reintroduction after sickness.

Controversial opinion: bench is a dysgenic subhuman beta male exercise. Real men press that shit strict.
 
William Tyndale dijo:
There was an autistic guy on /fit/ a few weeks ago who said he did 10 sets of 20 reps on every exercise he did. He looked great too. If you’re working with dumbbells you may want to try something like that. (He said he was autistic - I’m not just calling him autistic).
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This guy is either
a) Extremely genetically gifted and his muscles accumulate less lactic acid;
b) Doing some weird crossfit-esque stuff with baby weights (but paradoxically getting dem gainz);
c) Juicing.
Even in the latter case, the regimen looks suboptimal, but roids/HGH will carry him for some time, especially if he started recently.

On a side note, i think that doping in weightlifting should be de-stigmatized more, steroids should be legal to purchase. Both natural and steroid gains are valid and hard to achieve, but what pisses me off are "fitness influencers" pretending to be natty and misleading their gullible audiences. The standard pipeline seems to be "juice up -> get more or less ripped in 6-12 months -> make thousands of PEAK PHYSIQUE photos to post them during PCT (good thing most social media sites erase/hide EXIF data) -> sell BS supplements/magical training programs pretending your gains are natural". Double the disgust if the influencer is also some kind of MMA fighter.
I have more respect for degenerates on perma-course doing heart attack any% speedruns and being open about it than I have for people hiding the fact they're juicing.
 
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tulskij_tochnyj dijo:
On a side note, i think that doping in weightlifting should be de-stigmatized more, steroids should be legal to purchase. Both natural and steroid gains are valid and hard to achieve, but what pisses me off are "fitness influencers" pretending to be natty and misleading their gullible audiences. The standard pipeline seems to be "juice up -> get more or less ripped in 6-12 months -> make thousands of PEAK PHYSIQUE photos to post them during PCT (good thing most social media sites erase/hide EXIF data) -> sell BS supplements/magical training programs pretending your gains are natural". Double the disgust if the influencer is also some kind of MMA fighter.
I have more respect for degenerates on perma-course doing heart attack any% speedruns and being open about it than I have for people hiding the fact they're juicing.
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Pretending to be natty is a very lucrative grift involving wealthy people and powerful institutions so I don't see things changing anytime soon. Chris Hemsworth created a fitness app promising to get you jacked like Thor which was valued at like 200mil and bought out by Mark Bezos last year. The grift runs deep.
 
So, for some godawful fucking reason, I've been getting Facebook ads for "research chemicals" (SARMS). WHAT THE EVERLOVING FUCK
 
Did an hour and 20 minutes of chest and tris today, and felt like I could do more even though I took every exercise to burnout on the last set. I just hit the sauna for 20 minutes instead of pushing farther. I dont know the downsides of overtraining or if that's a myth.
 
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Me on 5-8 yr but I don't look nearly as ripped. I also wear regular t-shirts, nothing fancy.
 
Did lower today, finally tried out the hack squat machine. It's harder than I'd thought!
Also, hit my record for pulling today, 155kg for 2! Not too shabby. Reckon that's about 90%ish of my 1rm, rating that around 170kg hasn't failed me yet. Backoff sets at 135kg, form was worse on those, just a bit shy of 3 plates. Suboptimal environment, the platform where I usually do deadlift was taken by a couple (bless their hearts) doing squat and rack pulls together. Can't fight love I guess. Had to fight the bar being a little crooked and not being as able to line up my position with the bar like I'm used to instead.

Oh, I meant to ask, any tips for breaking a bench plateau? I've had this dumb wrist injury, but in general, I want to improve my bench rapidly. My training partner is making rapid progress on bench, and while he's shorter than me (so he's got better leverages and whatnot I guess?), I've kept pace. But now the difference between our working weights is widening fast. We're about even on squat, I'm a little ahead on deadlift, but his bench is just blowing up.

So far my plan is just to add extra sets on my primary pressing muscles, tris and pecs, and front delts. Right now my max bench is like 100kg/220pounds, if everything goes just right. I'm very eager to push through this wall and start repping at 90kg, at 100kg, so I can really develop. Anything else I can work? Specific things I should try to work? I'm doing pause bench (about 2-3s of pause) for a few sets every week, but I tend to fail quicker on that than usual.
 
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Sumptinsfuckey dijo:
I recently started the Starting Strength beginners program. Trying to put on some muscle, which aint as easy after 40. Hit the gym for the first time in weeks yesterday and my legs and ass are killing me from the squats.
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Keep it up! The only thing that works in the end is consistency.
 
tulskij_tochnyj dijo:
I have more respect for degenerates on perma-course doing heart attack any% speedruns and being open about it than I have for people hiding the fact they're juicing.
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That's why I loved Chris Piana.
He knew what he was doing, understood the consecuences and was (for the most part) very honest.

Doesn't hurt that the dude was hilariously entertaining. I'm not even that much into fitness, but his Bigger By The Day series on youtube is probably some of the best content to ever be on that shithole.
 
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