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Sounds like water retention. 3 questions to ask yourself: 1. Do you sleep 8 hours a night? 2. Are you allergic or sensitive to anything in your environment? 3. Do you think you may have actually dropped your calories too low? When your body is stressed, it retains water. Those 3 questions (plus emotional stress) are…
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In short, your lower back is contracted during the lift (and you feel pain because it is probably reaching it's breaking point). To remedy this, you need to bring you glutes (the lower back saviors) back into the game. Try this: Right before you press up, dip your hips a little bit. From there, squeeze your butt as you…
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Bodyweight exercises will got old real quick. My advice is too see if you can borrow or buy used a KETTLEBELL (25 lbs is a good starting point) and once you level up, move to investing in an EZ BAR with 70 -100 lbs of weight. Working out at home is tough because all of the distractions. To combat this, you'll need some…
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"... but push ups kill me and I often give up after a measly 30 reps!" This is a good sign (you are pushing yourself)! It is when it get's easy that we have to watch out.
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"If I need more, how do I get it without a gym membership and fancy equipment? " The key is intensity and learning proper progression. My guess, you can probably get by without equipment for a long time by just doing different variations of pushups, squats, lunges, chinup hangs, planks, ab rollouts (or hand walkouts if you…
