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Drop your routine here! What do you do?
Curious about what everyone's routines are. Whats your routine look like and have you had success with your routines in the past? Focusing on strength? Mass? Both?
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Biceps
I keep screwing up bicep curls. My forarm hurts or i end up pulling my upper body back when I lift as momentum. I tried holding the dumbells vertically but I‘m not really getting a good workout. Any tips?
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Body building
Looking for a trainging partner in bristol any body fancy it
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Female aspiring competitors
Hey ladies it's hard for us to get support for lifting all this heavy weight lmao! Let's support each other and do the very best we can and achieving our goals whether we're competing on stage or not. Let me be your support system and now I will be yours!
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New to body building
I just wanted to introduce myself, I’m 43, married 23 years, two grown boys and I have fallen in love with weight lifting, I love the fact that there is a community of wonderful women who share my love
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Bulking up - am I on the right path?
Can anyone look at my current plan on gaining muscle for three months (Jan-March) and see if there is anything I should finetune? I would appreciate your advice. I've been on this regime for 5 weeks and planning to start cutting in April. I have increased my weight from 92kg to 94kg within those 5 weeks. TDEE calculators…
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Expected creep, got a jump!
I've been in maintenance for the past couple of years and my weight has not budged much out of the 134-136 range at all. Since last fall I transitioned out of logging and tracking my cals and had success. December I started an 8 week strength program with the understanding that I'd keep doing the intuitive food thing and…
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Am I doing too much?
I have some trouble understanding how much time I should be spending in the gym. I am trying to follow a push/pull/legs plan, but I always add more exercises to my workouts. I end up spending approximately 2 hours or more in the gym. I have watched some insane 1 year transformation videos on YouTube and I am curious to…
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Need advice people with weight problem.
Guys I'm stuck. I dont no what to do. I weight 10.5 stone at 5ft 7 tall. Im at a heathly weight "apprently" but my arms and legs are long and skinny and boney My torso ain't to bad If I'm honest, oh and my neck is skinny aswell.. Lifting wise I do compound excerises with barbells. Squats, bench, deadlift, RDL bla bla bla…
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Favourite Pyramid Rep Ranges
What are your favourite pyramid rep ranges, mine are as follows. Strength 5, 4, 3, 2, 1 Muscle and Strength 10, 8, 6, 4, 2 Hypertrophy 15, 12, 10, 8 10, 8, 6, 20
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Any women successfully lost love handles?
25 year old 5’5 130ish pound Female here. I’ve been lifting on and off for the past 2 years. Been slacking lately due to work schedule but over the past week I’ve taken it back up and rejoined a gym so I can get back to heavier weights again. My main goal is to feel comfortable in a swim suit again. I haven’t really since…
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Weight gain vs muscle
Does weight gain have a direct correlation to strength? I'm currently bulking and I'm wondering if I should be seeing rapid results with the weight I've gained or if it should take awhile to turn the fat into muscle. I'd like to hear others results with weight gain and bulking in correlation to their strength.
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Weight training beginner
I’ve started weight training. Always been pretty athletic and muscular so decided to embrace that and dedicate most of my gym time to weights. After months of no exercise and having piled on the pounds I rejoined my gym. First session I was on the hip adductor squeezing in so weights on inner thighs. I lifted 95kg. Second…
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Can you gain "permanent" muscle mass? What happens when you stop lifting?
So say you have been weight training for 10 years and because of life circumstances you have to stop. After some time do you go back to where you were before you started lifting? Or is there a permanent change to your physique?
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Bodybuilding and strength training friends
Looking for bodybuilding and strength training friends for motivation and support
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At home glute and leg building
Is at home glute and leg building effective and can anyone suggest anything
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Should it just be as simple as increasing weight slightly every week?
In terms of getting bigger, is it as simple as just making sure I’m increasing the weight slightly every session overtime without the need of much else in terms of changing things up? Current lifts Squat 100x5 Bench 70x5 Deadlift 120x5
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Snacks ideas
Nice quick one people. Could u give a skinny mo fo some Snack ideas please I eat alot of nuts and Im bored of the taste now, i've been eating them for 10am snack for 3 years roughly but I need the kcals so a yogurt or a apple isn't enough, I cant stand cottage cheese either. My snack is 100g of nuts with raisins, dark…
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New to weightlifting - Thinner, Leaner, Stronger program
Hello! I'm new to weightlifting and purchased myself Michael Matthew's "Thinner Leaner Stronger" book as a guide to start a program. I've started today with Workout 1: Lower Body: Barbell squat * 3 sets (8-10 reps) Leg press * 3 sets (8-10 reps) Romanian deadlifts * 3 sets (8-10 reps) Hip thrust * 3 sets (8-10 reps) Two…
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hope to gain weight! NEW name Jake
Hello I just turned 21 and I am real tall and skinny(6'3 145 lbs) I know really skinny. I am just posting this for myself and going to try and update weekly. Today I started tracking meals as I haven't been able to gain weight for years though I played sports in high school and was same weight. Anyway, I ate 2650 calories…
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Weight gain
I cant seem to consume all the calories I need to gain weight, and also I have a fast metabolism so idk if I should be eating more calories than what it tells me to
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I don’t understand weight gain
Hi I am a 45 year old woman and up until a year ago I weighed 105 pounds. I walked every day but I decided that I wanted to be more fit so I joined a gym. I had a body fat % of 19% and I was pretty happy. (But I wanted a challenge.) I hired a trainer and we started slow focusing on form and I continued with cardio every…
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Gaining in the Glutes
I am currently 67in and 131lb. Because I am a bit below my maintenance range (135-140) I am going to go on a surplus to gain back and may want to go up to 145. However, I like the look of my upper body and really just want to build my lower body. I am lifting an upper lower split currently so I hit muscle groups twice a…
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Time for my cut or continue? Pictures
Ok here is me this morning at 118.8 pounds. Feeling fluffy but strong. I’ve gained 7 pounds in the last 5 months. I know a lot of it is fat and I’m ready to cut but man I tried for 1 week and I was starving!!! I am wondering if I should maintain and try and do a slow cut? I don’t want to lose any muscle. Cutting calories…
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Body Fat Caliper Measurements
Hey all, Because I heard that they are a good tool for tracking ones progress during a bulk, I bought a body fat caliper. I took my reading today and am a bit floored by the result. I ended up with between a 5-8% BF! I knew I was very lean (131 at 5’7 and male) but I can’t see my abs! I have had picture estimates from…
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Muscle build after femur fracture
Hello I'm new here! I'm on the road to recovery from ED but along way to go.... I have severe osteoporosis and fell over 12 months ago and broke my femur. Are there any gentle muscle building exercises I can do to build up the muscle behind my thigh? I have a lot of lost muscle due to ED but it is very noticeable compared…
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Gym workout question for (used to be or are) heavier women?
How long did it take to see a difference?
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Slowly increasing deadlifts
I’m doing a linear progression adding 5 to my squat every workout and had been doing clean deadlifts (not clean pulls) alongside it progressing at roughly the same increase. Obviously my clean deadlift was with lower weight than my actual deadlift but I’m going back to conventional for the next 12 weeks. I am restarting my…
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Body Recomp help
Hi, I’m having trouble accurately calculating my macros for body recomp. I am 5’1” 126lbs 28 years old I work out 3 to 4 times a week (lifting with 2 or 3 days of cardio) I used a calculator online and I feel like the macros are excessive for my stature. Does this look weird to anyone else? Low fat option: Training days:…
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Modified PHUL programming - is this just as effective?
I downloaded the PHUL Workout mobile app and tried following the recommended schedule but find that I can only commit 30-45 min per day to lifting so I end up not finishing the prescribed workout. I pause that workout and continue the second part the next day. I’m supposed to have a rest day after upper and lower power…