DaniH826 Member

Hello darlings, sorry I've been so antisocial but as it turns out the grieving took longer than expected and I've been a lot more depressed than I realized. Anyway, I wrote up a program and am back in the weight room in earnest, as of this morning. Been lifting, but just kinda hacking at it once or twice a week with no…

I'm of the opinion that the best program is the one you enjoy, that fits into your overall fitness approach and suits your available equipment and workout space and schedule, and that you're going to stick with. I personally am doing a homebaked 3x8 compound barbell program that suits me just fine. I up my weights…

Look at it as a workout within a workout. It's all part of it. :smile: I work out from home, and if I can't rack it or move it, put it on the bar or take it off, then it's not getting lifted. But even that part of it, makes me stronger. It's part of training, really.

Yep, start with dumbbells and work your way up. 45 pounds isn't super light anyway, and there's absolutely no shame in having to work your way up to it. I started with dumbbells for the overhead press because that's all I could do. I made pretty fast gains from there because I stuck with it. You will too. Start where you…

If it ain't broke ... don't fix it.

Only all the time. Quit WoW in April after like 7 years (played City of Heroes for several years before that), and currently playing Skyrim and other Elder Scrolls titles until Elder Scrolls Online is released next year.

1. Sorry for your loss. 2. I've never officially done Stronglifts but have been posting in this group for months. No need for you to say so long if you wish to stay and post. :smile:

It's funny cause it's true! Internet trained here also!

Thanks a ton! You bet! :laugh: I guess the 7 years of WoW playing came through on that one, eh? :smile: As is the OP evidently cause he knew exactly what I was talking about. :drinker:

Oh hai! Been out of sorts and angsting about changing citizenships from Germany to US last week (that only took me 24 years :laugh:). Now that it's over with, I'm back to focusing on fitness this week! Still happily doing my 3x8 and don't plan on a new lifting program this month (Owait! did I just say that? What's wrong…

Want! Can you post the mats, and I'll have my husband make me a couple of those? Please oh please?

If it ain't broke, why try to fix it? You have been, are getting and will continue to get stronger with AllPro's. It'll just take longer than it would with Stonglifts or Starting Strength. And you're shrinking, not getting bigger, so it's obviously working for you. If you stick with AllPro's and get the weight up by 10%…

Then maybe maintain the same 3x/week lifting routine but stay at 3x8 and increase the weights every week rather than the reps. AllPro's has accessory work such as triceps and biceps curls and calf raises that you can easily drop and just focus on the main lifts (squat, deadlift, OHP and bench) and make progress in that…

AllPro's aims at more than providing pure strength, from what I understand it. You're working on some hypertrophy and endurance also since you're going all the way up to 12 reps before you increase the weight at next cycle. The genius of AllPro's is that it has built-in deload days so you never have to figure out when to…

I'm still playing around in the kiddie pool and have in no way reached probably even half of my newbie gains, but I test my 1 RM every so often just for kicks. Then I go right back into the kiddie pool and keep going. Cause sometimes ... I just want to know what I can do. So I take them up by like 5 lbs at a time until I…

LOL yes Tree, you can say that here. :laugh: I'm done with my squat challenge because at around 40 it starts to just get stupid ... back on that elliptical next week! @3fold -- I wouldn't lift with bronchitis. Cold, yes. Bronchitis, no. TGIF !!! Happy weekend y'all!!!

^^ Yep. They are 2-inch diameter washers. Actually just a hair over 2 inches. Fit over the Oly bar somewhat loosely, but if you clamp them in with your plates, they won't go anywhere. Here are the ones I have:…

Same. They're about 0.6-ish lbs each. Two washers on each side gives me about a 2.5 lb increase. I purchased 6, which means I can take it up by 1.25 increments to roughly 3.75 lb if need be. It's not exact, but close enough of an approximation to continue making progress by something less than 5 lbs. And that's all I need.…

I lift twice a week doing 3x8 and increase all my lifts by like 2.5 pounds every other week (5 pounds for deadlifts). I do squat, bench press and OHP one day and then deadlifts, rows and power cleans the other day. All compound lifts, all whole-body lifts, so that part is always covered. I lift Mondays and Fridays, and it…

^^ Indeed. I will say that just this past Saturday, I watched a 105 pound woman who was 5 foot nothing, lift a combined 6.6 times her body weight between deadlift, squat, and bench press. I have no idea what she eats or doesn't eat, and whether or not she goes through cut/bulk cycles, but obviously she's fueling her lifts…

That's awesome. I'm really liking the 3x8 I'm doing. Had to do a major deload since the difference between 5 and 8 is rather ridiculous (for me anyway). Having fun just lifting twice a week though. Making every rep count and taking all the time in the world working my way back up slooowly. :smile:

I have to switch things up regularly. The only thing that's been constant for me since I started lifting in February, has been the lifting itself. I've switched programs around more times than you can count, BUT I've progressively gotten stronger and fitter. Nowadays I'm adding cardio/endurance into the mix and am…

It was great fun. They decided to make me do math (that's what I get for offering to help out). I'm OCD about getting things right, so in my double- and triple-checking, I missed some of the record deadlifting goings-on. Nother meet in November, should be a blast! If y'all have one scheduled nearby, you should go watch!

^^ Unless this guy's hip condition can be directly related to squat form, rather than a congenital abnormality, I wouldn't worry about it, honestly. And as hip impingement goes, most of that has to do with preexisting hip anatomy and not necessarily the way someone squats. The squatting more than likely exposed and…

No ma'am. Professional body builder Kris Clark. That woman can move some serious weight around. In her 50s too (so actually older than me). Good-ness!

So after watching an 11-year-old girl deadlift 100 pounds and a lady about my age bench press 250 and another gal heft about 6.6 times her body weight (altogether) ... I'm going to just shut up about my numbers. :laugh: :laugh:

I bend my legs during Pendlays too. It helps me get that stable base, which is all I'm worried about. Did elliptical, day 3 of squat/push-up challenge, then yoga, then deadlifts, Pendlays and power cleans. I'm pretty much wiped out now. :laugh: TGIF !!!!!

I know pain sucks. Be good to yourself. :flowerforyou:

I usually lift on an empty stomach in the morning with a 20-minute warm-up beforehand of some sort. Used to be yoga, nowadays it's elliptical. I don't usually have trouble hitting my scheduled lifts unless I didn't get enough sleep or I start too late after getting out of bed. As long as I get going between 30-60 minutes…

Just a home-baked thing that has me starting out with 5 push-ups, 20 body weight squats and 10 sumo/goblet squats. I'm taking up the push-ups by 1 per day and the squats by 2 per squat per day. Every 5th day is a rest day. Nothing too dramatic.