Most of us have no willpower when it comes to sugar.
Yeah, sugar, dairy products, and other stuff is a killer, especially the former. Substituting "milk" chocolate with 90% chocolate helped me break the addiction somewhat.
This one's the big one for me. It also brought massive relief to back and knee pain.
It made me more able to move heavy ass things outside of the gym. During my fast food job there were times my co-workers couldnt lift the bag out of the bin. It was always within front-shoulder raise range for me, or at least upright row range. And I've yet to encounter a batch of groceries too heavy for me
Are you looking to get stronger or just build a back? If you are trying to build your back then move to barbell rows and t-bar rows. But if you want to get stronger, I would look into deadlifting
I've laid off of all barbell for a few months because two of my fingers got mangled so I didn't trust my grip.
To add to this. If it doesn't have any nutritional value, it will never be bought by me. Food is expensive as is, just making it more expensive is silly.
Same here, tbh. Back and pulling muscles outran my grip strength, coped with straps for a while.
I use those little grip things while I drive, but other than that I don't really worry about it. I just do my lifts untill my grip starts to loosen, then throw on the versagrippz, I figure it'll take care of itself.
You should look into straps until your grip comes back
What are your general goals, and about what level of fitness are you already?
Compound exercises to start with (i.e ones which work multiple muscles) such as squats, leg press, lat pull downs/rows, pull ups etc would be a good start. Initially go lighter with the weights and work on technique, then add more too it. Once you've got the basics down you can then look into isolation exercises to target particular muscles, consider doing a split across the week mixing both compound and isolation exercises into the same session.
This is a very basic full body program I find works really well. It’s just focused on saving time, building technique and work capacity, some basic mobility, and you can ride this one for a while as it’s bread and butter stuff that just plain works.
I will never shut up about how great calisthenics are as high rep additions to anyone's program. I do these at least 3 times a week, 4 sets AMRAP, BW only. They're also far superior to curls of any type for bicep hypertrophy, unless one is actually going for bodybuilding. Someone else has called them a compound lift for the biceps, which I think is accurate.