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DOMS =/= muscle loss. Soreness is a result of muscle freshness so it's based on how often you train a muscle. If you skip a week, you will naturally get more sore
Weightlifting for Kiwis - Discussion and support regarding the art of swole
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Eh, I think that's just natural. You should get back to where you were before very fast.
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You didn't really lose anything in a week, you just didn't maintain a baseline level of training which worsens the soreness. I recently had to take a month off because I had housework that required me to move a bunch of stuff over to my home gym and took up all of my free time, my first week I was down drastically, probably 20lbs on the big 4 lifts, but I was back where I was within a rotation.
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You're not going to lose really any muscle from less than 3 weeks of total abstinence from strength training. There's so many variables in what could make your normally programmed lifting "feel hard," that it's not worth autistically dissecting whether it's sleep, nutrition, blahblahblah unless you're actually competing in something. But if you're able to complete the reps with acceptable form, it's not that big a deal.
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Tried doing what my coach calks "bulldozer" sets today on a couple excercises, lat pulldowns and tricep pushdowns. Basically you pick a weight you can do at least 12 of, do as many as you can, rest for 15-20 seconds, then do another, repeat for (ideally) 5 sets.
God damn but its more difficult that it sounds. I only managed to make it 4 sets on lat pulldowns and 3 sets on pushdowns before my muscles were burning so bad I couldn't do another set. Not the most auspicious of beginnings but I'll do it again the next time I do an "A-B" workout and push myself harder.
If you find yourself needing more of a challenge give it a shot, it hurts like hell.
God damn but its more difficult that it sounds. I only managed to make it 4 sets on lat pulldowns and 3 sets on pushdowns before my muscles were burning so bad I couldn't do another set. Not the most auspicious of beginnings but I'll do it again the next time I do an "A-B" workout and push myself harder.
If you find yourself needing more of a challenge give it a shot, it hurts like hell.
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idk brah these sound an awful lot like myo reps going by a different name
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Could be, Never heard of myo reps before.
Just looked it up on google it and yeah, sounds like the same idea, though personally bulldozer sounds better to me than myo reps. Bottom line, whatever you call it, it seems to do the job. Like I said it burned like hell by the time I was done.
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I've been reducing my caloric intake recently and changed the type and amount of food I eat at each meal. I have lost 8 kilos in the last two months.
I am not as strong as I was when I was eating more calories (and drinking beer regularly) but I can still bench 130kg for 7 reps.
I am not as strong as I was when I was eating more calories (and drinking beer regularly) but I can still bench 130kg for 7 reps.
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Finished up a full body week this week, next is push pull legs. Need to work on my squat execution, keep catching myself not hitting parallel on heavy squats, think it's mostly fear of not getting back up. Missed a set of 8 at 132.5kg that I should have hit. Finished it at 120, and struggled a bit with pin squats after, set the safeties a bit too low, can't generate enough power in the hole yet. Did hit two new PRs on bench press, 92.5kg for 3 and 95kg for 1. Inching my way up to 100kg.
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I've been really focusing on bringing up traps, forearms, and abs lately because I have slacked on them in the past, and I have made serious progress.
For traps, I have been doing shrugs to failure before above the knee rack pulls, and I work up to a heavy double or triple. So that's a lot of volume and weighted stretch of the traps, and it's been working.
For my forearms, fat gripz on an ez curl bar, deadhangs, and pronation twists done frequently throughout the workouts have gotten them improving for sure.
And as for abs, honestly just actually hitting them and not skipping them at the end. So, more giant sets with direct ab work after like curls or shoulders or something.
For traps, I have been doing shrugs to failure before above the knee rack pulls, and I work up to a heavy double or triple. So that's a lot of volume and weighted stretch of the traps, and it's been working.
For my forearms, fat gripz on an ez curl bar, deadhangs, and pronation twists done frequently throughout the workouts have gotten them improving for sure.
And as for abs, honestly just actually hitting them and not skipping them at the end. So, more giant sets with direct ab work after like curls or shoulders or something.
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I joined a gym a couple weeks ago and have my first real resistance workout with a trainer tomorrow! I'm excited. Been doing mostly cardio on my own.
Friday I did resistance training in the pool for 40 minutes. I had minor DOMs Saturday. Today I'm three pounds higher than I was Friday, five pounds higher than last week, four pounds higher than when I started three weeks ago. I've been doing mostly carnivore to reduce blood sugar and get lots of protein, averaging about 1700 calories a day, and about 9 carbs a day for the last three weeks. My watch says I'm burning 2,000-ish calories a day.
I know it's common to see weight gain at the start of an exercise program because of extra water during the healing phase, but is it normal to see three or four pounds two days after your first resistance workout? Why am I not losing weight in general when I'm eating under my calories and working out? Am I expecting too much too soon?
I'm not quitting, but I've seen so many people who claim to lose ten-twenty pounds of water weight the first couple weeks of keto and I've been losing/regaining the same five pounds! Could it be because I'm not getting enough sodium?
Friday I did resistance training in the pool for 40 minutes. I had minor DOMs Saturday. Today I'm three pounds higher than I was Friday, five pounds higher than last week, four pounds higher than when I started three weeks ago. I've been doing mostly carnivore to reduce blood sugar and get lots of protein, averaging about 1700 calories a day, and about 9 carbs a day for the last three weeks. My watch says I'm burning 2,000-ish calories a day.
I know it's common to see weight gain at the start of an exercise program because of extra water during the healing phase, but is it normal to see three or four pounds two days after your first resistance workout? Why am I not losing weight in general when I'm eating under my calories and working out? Am I expecting too much too soon?
I'm not quitting, but I've seen so many people who claim to lose ten-twenty pounds of water weight the first couple weeks of keto and I've been losing/regaining the same five pounds! Could it be because I'm not getting enough sodium?
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I tend to lose weight all at once after a few days on the diet, stairstep like. I can’t say much for the experience of keto or carnivore though.
Just keep at the weight training, it’s far from the best way to lose weight, that’d be the ol fork putdown, but it’s the everything else that makes it worth doing.
Been hitting some encouraging pressing PRs and seeing some nice bicep gains. Down a few kilos too, will be at my lightest ever soon enough. My squat is the only lift I feel weird about right now, just something feels off when I do them in terms of technique, I worry about not hitting depth or getting stuck in the hole which is stupid since a squats so easy to bail on.
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I don't know what your favorite ab exercise is, but one thing I've found that's helping me in terms of programming and all is supersetting decline dumbbell tricep extensions with decline situps. Can put those right after some sort of press. I just find an ab activity I can easily superset in with some other work I want to do. I've preferred those but pairing dips with L sits, or hanging leg raises with your rack pulls or as a part of the dead hangs, I can only do consistent ab work if I find a place I can layer it in
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Hanging Leg raises, Windshield Wipers, Russian Twists, Atlas Swings, LaLanne Pushups, Ab Wheels, Decline Situps, Dragon Flags, all of these are great for growing my abs.
Also, L-Sit Pullups are amazing for the lats, and I use L-Sits and the Hollow Body to sneak in more work during certain exercises.
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I didn't give an update about how my SARMS journey went. Increased about 22 lbs in what I lift, no weight gain. I did gain water weight while on cycle. Haven't lost strength after cycle, and I had zero hints about crashing my test. Losing libido, getting bitchy and all that jazz.
The neurotic people discussing SARMS at reddit, and claims that it has all kinds of side effects. I had zero, but I have been on 3 courses of accutane and had zero side effects. So most likely me handling medications well + redditors being unhealthy fucks. As good health does decrease the risks.
Was it worth it? Eh, I would say it was not worth the money. As it was expensive. About 300 usd for 90 pills of the two mentioned + 30 ml of Clomid. And I had to wait for a month for snailmail from China.
My cycle was 8 weeks and was taking 20 mg LGD-4033 + 15 mg MK-677 a day. Took 10 mg LGD at first, but then increased it.
The neurotic people discussing SARMS at reddit, and claims that it has all kinds of side effects. I had zero, but I have been on 3 courses of accutane and had zero side effects. So most likely me handling medications well + redditors being unhealthy fucks. As good health does decrease the risks.
Was it worth it? Eh, I would say it was not worth the money. As it was expensive. About 300 usd for 90 pills of the two mentioned + 30 ml of Clomid. And I had to wait for a month for snailmail from China.
My cycle was 8 weeks and was taking 20 mg LGD-4033 + 15 mg MK-677 a day. Took 10 mg LGD at first, but then increased it.
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Just don't do it again man, trust me it's all good until it isn't. You took minimal doses, so that's good, but I would highly recommend staying off.
I'm lucky to have gotten away from PEDs with minimal trouble, but even SARMs with minimal sides can fuck you quick if you keep playing that game.