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Muscle ups?
Weightlifting for Kiwis - Discussion and support regarding the art of swole
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My upper body strength is shite and my current tactics aren't working because now my shoulders are crunchy, which is terrible.
Can anyone recommend a routine to fix the crunchiness?
I'm thinking switching to behind-the-neck barbell presses instead of military, as a start.
Can anyone recommend a routine to fix the crunchiness?
I'm thinking switching to behind-the-neck barbell presses instead of military, as a start.
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- 7 de Ene, 2021
What do you mean by crunchy?
Personally, I would not switch to behind-the-neck barbell presses. If you want to use a barbell do it in front. Behind the neck is limiting your range of motion and, at least for me forces my head/neck into a weird position. Similar to a lat-pulldown behind the neck.
If you want to have some variation of the military press you could try to switch to the machine or free weight, depending what you do now.
This is my personal opinion and probably not backed by anything: When creating muscle mass on my shoulders, I find military-press a relatively ineffective exercise. Lateral raises are way more effective.
What do muscle ups have to do with deadlifts?
If you look for something else that hits many of the same muscles I can recommend you this exercise. I mainly use it for hamstrings, but depending on your positioning, by moving foot position and point of rotation, you can focus glutes or lower back.
These fry my hamstrings, and I only use body weight. I go really deep into the stretch and it works fantastic. I usually do them when I fucked up my quads and they are shaking to much for doing stiff-leg-deadlifts.
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Kettlebells can be very useful for core exercises but they are surprisingly tough to master as they require a somewhat good command of body mechanics.
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No. Conventional overhead press with proper form is far safer for your shoulders. If you're having shoulder issues you need to work them progressively and lightly to not overload an already problematic joint. Side raises in the scapular plane, conventional OHP, face pulls, with proper stretching and warm up beforehand and not pushing through pain if any is experienced.
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Makes crunchy noises like popping a knuckle.
Thank you both for the advice. I'll give it a shot. Check back in June.
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I would also recommend including some very basic band work for the shoulders, mobility and rotor cuff and the like. I train judo and jujitsu along with my already eclectic training, and I want to keep my shoulders healthy so I do a lot of stuff for them.
My favorite is an exercise from John Meadows called Spider Crawls, fantastic for stability and rear delts, and another thing I would recommend is Face Pulls.
Also, I generally prefer to put my shoulder work toward the tail end of the workout when I’m super warm. It just feels better to me personally.
Last thing for me to recommend would be general mobility and flexibility work. It’s like the old saying “a stitch in time saves nine”, if you do the absolute basics for like five minutes after a workout you are miles less likely to visit snap city. And you just feel better overall.
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Depending on the nature of the crunchiness, the Lu Raise might help. If you start with 5lb plates it'll be more of a range of motion stretch. 10lb plates (sets of 8-12) will be more of a strength workout if your shoulders aren't yuge, and you can eventually work up to heavier plates as a lateral raise replacement.
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After about a year of training, starting with 18 pounds, then 26 pounds, I just did my first pair of Turkish Get Ups with a 35 pound kettlebell. Holy crap it is terrifying to be under that thing. I'm not sure if that's a number to be proud of in absolute terms, but hey, it's twice what I was doing a year ago.
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I return.
I took a few month long gym break after doing some travelling last year. Did my first 2024 session on Monday - I am dying and sore but it feels good. I am slightly pissed I let myself regress so much due to laziness, but just gotta get back on the horse.
I took a few month long gym break after doing some travelling last year. Did my first 2024 session on Monday - I am dying and sore but it feels good. I am slightly pissed I let myself regress so much due to laziness, but just gotta get back on the horse.
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As someone who had/has this problem before my injuries getting old STOP BEING A PUSSY
bench/bench/bench.
pound your chest work on it. Incline bench/Decline etc what ever you need. I don't know what your body is like so you might suffer bird chest too but, just focus no matter how slow progress is. I understand because I did it, it's annoying you don't feel/see gains. Don't stop.
Also tren works mad good.
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What movements are you doing? My personal recomendations would be to simply go to absolute muscular failure in all sets. Three sets are fine, but rep ranges aren't really useful as you cannot progressively overload. Their usefulness is in telling you how many reps there ought to be before you can't do any more, therefore regulating how much weight you're lifting. If you can curl 5 kilos 20 reps until you fail, and you want to hit somewhere between 8-12 reps, go up to 10 kilos, where you fail at 10 reps, for instance. Muscle growth can occur anywhere between 5-30 repetitions, so you have plenty of room to grow. However, progressively overload, which is gonna be hard, but it is doable. In calisthenics, where you only use your bodyweight, you progress my making the movements harder. This can by done by being stricter with form, or by switching to another movement. So when you can do 30 reps for 3 sets with squats holding your dumbells, you upgrade to doing bulgarian split squats.
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Sounds good bro. You should add some bodyweight movements like pushups and pullups. I'd highly recommend getting rings, they allow you to do pretty much everything you need for upper body, and they're fairly cheap.