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Thank you! If I start feeling like I reached my limit, I would stop and call it a day. But it could be a coincidence but since I started doing this, I went up in weights on my squats and other exercises. Not exactly sure but I'm happy with that.

I tend to do full body 3x a week but each day is different.

I think its pulled rather than tight.

Not to mention that the cold weather actually causes more pain in my flexor. The other day there was very little pain, but today I woke up with more pain due to it being so cold. I hate walking around everywhere when it's cold. Makes it hard to walk across campus and go up and down stairs. I have to walk slow right now and…

I haven't been to a dr. but talked to my trainer and my mom who is a nurse. If it doesn't heal soon, I am scared I might have caused more damage than I believe, but I believe it's minor.

What are other substitutes to DLs and squats? I can do goblet squats and leg presses. I try step ups but I don't really feel anything from those. I wanna continue to build my glutes and just keep my lower back and thighs in shape, especially since the holidays are coming up

That's reassuring. I can do squats a little with manageable pain, but sometimes lifting heavy weights off the rack or floor that puts pressure on my left hips hurts very bad. I can leg Press, but for now I'll take a break from heavy squats and deadlifts until I feel better. Hopefully it's soon since I stopped them on…

I'll b gone for 5 days, and should I use the same weight as I use for barbells? (Stupid question, or as much as I can handle for each hand?)

I do full body 3x a week. I just feel like I don't have enough lower body and feel like I can do more and I done some yesterday and felt good. I'm just gonna have to replace lunges because I feel like I'm aggravating my knee more than ever.

How bad is it to do sumo Squats, lunges, good mornings/front squats, sumo clean deadlifts and stiff Leg deadlifts in one day? Stupid question, but I love doing lower body workouts and want to improve my legs.

I have noticed the different feeling when squatting using the smith machine and barbell alone. I wished my trainer helped me use the racks rather than the machine. I'm more experienced than he gives me credit for.

Lol. I might try without when I go to the gym today.

I don't plan on using the Smith Machine forever. I'm only using it for a few weeks to get use to it and for safety reasons. I'm not sure when I should try using without.

Ok thank you. That's reassuring. I just started, I'm enjoying doing compound workouts, I'm already starting to see results and my weights continue to go up because I'm getting stronger. I'm not ready stop because of something that's not a big deal and I hope it never becomes one. Really wish I started compound lifting 8…

I use a Smith Machine for my squats and split lunges since I'm a beginner and don't have a spotter but there are other people around if I do need help. I always use a mirror since the racks are in front of mirrors, I also do a lot of Sumo Squats. The weird feeling in my knee came after I started doing split lunges. I was…

All I know it's like a squirmish feeling in my right knee, that's best way I can describe it. Whenever I walk, especially doing cardio, the feeling goes away.

I'll start trying that. I hope to be able to move up to using the 45 lb bar soon.

It is unfortunately. Unless I need to start bringing my own bar but to me that would be awkward.

The only small bar I been using was the EZ bar. Works just as good but very hard to put back on racks for seated shoulder pressing because racks so far away due do bar being small. I'm just not sure if I should continue using the EZ by continuing to add weight or start using SM for my press workouts until I'm ready for the…

Since I'm new to compound lifting, I do hope to be able to get strong enough to be able to use the bars and weights alone without the SM some day. The big bars used for bench pressing are very heavy to me right now unless I use the SM for practicing until I'm ready to do without.

Are there any apps that include different programs and workouts to keep track of?

That makes sense. I'll look into one of those programs that could help me. How long should I stick to one of the programs before changing it?

Sometimes I assume that almost every YouTube video I see they created their own workout, because it's hard to tell if they are on a program or not. I even asked the people at the gym about starting a program and they seem to turn away my question and would tell me to do something else like what I mentioned in question 2.

I have a body scanner scale. My body fat use to be very high and my muscle mass was was very low. This is the highest it's ever been in my life. People don't even believe that I weigh as much as I do. I don't even look 142 but since I started weight lifting, it either went up by a couple of pounds but my body fat has…

I'm actually 24.1% body fat, not 30. That't my muscle mass.

If I do add more exercises, how many per muscle group and then I change it up for the other 2 days I go?

Basically, is it possible to do 5x5 workouts and add in other workouts and make your own routine for a 3 day split? If so, how many total workouts to do a day?

How effective is the 5x5? When is it alright to add in individual workouts like leg presses, lateral pulls, dumbbell/cable bar workouts? Can you use curl bars for these workouts?

I was never put on a plan when I started lifting to be honest. The trainer at my gym only showed me the basics of using weights and then added on 2 more times. The main workouts that included chest presses, deadlifts, and squats (also including the leg press machines) he suggested a spotter but I always thought you could…

Yeah, I could. Doing a total of 25 different workouts is very exhausting and I guess the reason why I'm not seeing much progress is because of that. I can handle a lot of different workouts but I do need to tone it down a bit and try something different.