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rOcktober daily workout thread
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'catching up' on one lift - is this kosher?
i'm doing wendler 531 and really happy with it. chugging along nicely for most of my lifts. except squats. i took them off my wendler schedule about a month ago because i couldn't even get through the warmup sets with a consistent, clean form, so there was no point in even pretending i was going to do the numbers that were…
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back mice
i hate to be that google hypochondriac, and i'm probably going to call my g.p. anyway. but in the meantime i just have to ask. has anyone dealt with this? heard about it? the medical name is episacral lipoma, and it's a new one on me but apparently not unknown among people who lift 'heavy' weights.
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tfl hell - any tips or suggestions?
i've got perennially tight/tender tfl muscles, and i'd love to do more than just palliative stuff with the lax ball. the yoga pose they call seated cow face helped since it went straight to my i.t. bands, but it doesn't feel like it reached the ground zero zone very much. i have trouble finding stretches that properly…
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omigawwwwwwd i hate squats
great big long rant full of swear words thank you all. i feel, not exactly better now, but at least i feel purged.
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TENS EMF Ultrasound - lifter input wanted
just to be clear: this isn't about pain relief or 'gains'. i'm not injured (so far) and really like the actual lifting itself, so i'm not looking for shortcuts. but i'm curious to know if other lifters have ever used any of these technologies as adjuncts to the usual mobility/rom work like stretching and 'traditional'…
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augus[t] someone should make a new daily workout thread then
B) nothing else to report yet, personally.
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lifters ... reset
i'm feeling sad, so tell me happy stories about your reset, and how well it worked out. nothing special about mine. i'm just being childish about it because
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deload after break for the wendler people
for people who are doing wendler, what do you do for deload/reset if you've taken unprogrammed time off? this past week was supposed to be my 5/3/1 in the cycle, but i just haven't done it. went to the gym only one day this week (monday) and iirc missed all my main weights anyway. i'm pretty tempted to do the deload part…
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didjulyke your workout today? - checkin thread
::sorry for lame thread title. i'm feeling impatient:: and bouncy. did 85lb bench for 3's week - BARELY. i've never come so close to missing a bench rep as i did with that third one but i did it. IT SUCKED. and did 85lb squats, which was lighter than i thought i was meant to be but w/e. it went fine and i got 5 on the…
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turkish get-up . . . your own favourite non-standard warmups/accessories.
truth is, i'm starting this thread because i have such a huge crush on the turkish getup and the waiter carry. like you do when you have a crush, i've been hunting content all weekend in between doing them, and just want an excuse to bend people's ears about them. so here's a link to my favourite info page at this point.…
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two years lifting - nothing to see here :P
my second annual rec centre pass expires as of midnight today. i don't have anything very remarkable to report and i don't do internet pictures, so really there's nothing to see. 'strength' has gotten to just be a kind of work in progress, so there's nothing special about this week's numbers to me. but still, it's a…
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time to re june vate - daily checkins for june!
eh, i held off for two days but my nitpicky streak wants a new thread for the new month, so here it is. i took a bike ride along my old commute path to eat chiptole burritos and drink orange pop. networking with colleagues, yanno :tongue: no lifting because it's day off. but my ex-colleague remembers the days when we were…
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wendler boring but big?
has anyone done this variation of the wendler protocol? from what i gather, you do your day's lift, and then for accessory you drop way down to 40 or 50% of your training weight and do another 5x10 of the same lift. plus one other accessory. i'm feeling tempted by it, partly from mental laziness and partly for other…
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May you never miss a deadlift and drop it on the floor - daily checkin for may.
had to get in there before anyone else, because eric clapton. i debated with myself half the day but went ahead anyway. first day of 3's week. bench: got my weights mixed up so i did 65/75/80 for work sets instead of 60/70/75. even so i got six for the last set at 80 pounds, so i'm pretty pleased with myself. wasn't easy,…
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changeover to 5-3-1
this may be a selfishly stupid/lazy question that's already been answered a zillion times, but i'd love a me-specific conversation about it: backstory: - just hit two years since the first day i ever entered a weight room. started work with a good no-bs trainer about 6 months ago. - until now i've done 5-5-A on all lifts…
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february focus thread - month goals
squats: form only, weight irrelevant. bench: add 5 to make 80 deadlift: 150 would make me feel like a monster. rows: 75? ohp: 60+ again.
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november goals
i couldn't think of a catchy title. my head's too full of 'just get through this month' because it's november :dizzy: anyway, here is my list: 1. squats up to 100. i think it's doable as 90 felt comfortable in my nov 1 workout, and form improvements seem to be fairly reliable now. 2. ohp up to 60. that's ten if i include…
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Don't be spooked in October! Set goals!
just sayin'. i haven't worked out mine yet, but i love reading other people's.
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you know you're hungry when . . .
- you consider spreading peanut butter onto focaccia bread. next person's turn.
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yoga flavours
okay, so lifting is making me strong but it's also making me stiff. because sometimes i'm lazy and can't be arsed to watch a zillion youtubes and build my own post-lifting stretch list, i've decided i need/want to add yoga to my toolbox. just to be clear: i like stretching. i despise yoga. i don't want Serenity,…
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the rehab work thread
i'm starting this thread because . . . well. i figure i'm not the only one working on something like this, so why not make a space where we can all talk to each other (and to ourselves) while we try to figure it out. me, i am working on squats. current frustration/disappointment is: i can be fine IF i'm just working at…
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muscles that cramp
i don't mean the kind of spontaneous cramps that make you shoot off the couch or out of bed at 3am. i have a couple that will cramp up if i push them too far during workouts. like, for instance: one of my four quad muscles will do this to me - on both sides - if i overload them during an overhead press. it's no fun having…
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things that i learned from my trainer (or elsewhere) this week
i guess it's kind of all-about-me to start a whole thread about it. but like most of my threads it's not meant as exclusively me. it just maybe sounds a little that way. anyway. what i learned this week in training was related to bench. just a tiny little subtlety thing, but it has breakthrough status in my mind right now.…
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GOALS - think up a pun for July
le sigh. i just couldn't come up with one. but i couldn't find a thread for this yet, so have at it.
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creatine
someone was asking about it, but it was far enough back that i can't find the thread now. i bought a bottle of pills a bit more than a month ago, so i thought i'd report. i've been pretty conservative with it, i.e. only one 3g pill per day. i think i like it. i'm not sure if it really is giving me more endurance - now and…
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Workout check-in - Juknow you got this!
'body is required' sez the error message when i tried to create this without making a post. if they only knew how right they are :tongue:
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Workout check-in - May-king big changes this month
i don't have anything to say, but i thought this one up and wanted to get inb4 krok :tongue: have at it, people.
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is there something wrong with doing bent-over rows without closing your hands?
i had this interaction in the gym today which has kind of demoralized me. very very nice kid, super-respectful, positive attitude, intelligent . . . probably weighs 10 pounds more than me and squats like a hardcore demon with really good form. but he knows a whole lot and that means being approached by him always makes me…