Where do our exercisers work out and what do you do?
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I worked out today, but my body was already unhappy with me for having hoisted wet mulch bags all day yesterday in a very rare day of yardwork. It shows that no matter how much time i put in on the machines, they don't work ALL the muscles. I'll have to look into adding some dumbbell work.
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I recently started doing real pull-ups and dips. Previously I only did the assisted kind out of fear that I'd injure my shoulder (torn rotator cuff in 22).
I've been trying to do 3 sets of 5 (up from 3 sets of 3). I can do that with dips, today I hit 5-5-4 on pull-ups. Still need to improve my form though.
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You see things like that. It’s impressive, but I have to wonder how that much stress is going to affect them later on.
@Mik I agree. I dont think that the human body is designed of evolved to be able to handle some of that stuff. I think of US football. Having a 300 pound guy running at you full speed and jumping on you cannot be good for either person.
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Speaking of trap bars, a guy at my gym this morning had FIVE forty-five pound plates on each side of a trap bar and did a dead lift with it.
That’s 495 lbs.
Speaking of trap bars, a guy at my gym this morning had FIVE forty-five pound plates on each side of a trap bar and did a dead lift with it.
That’s 495 lbs.
As Clint Eastwood noted, "man's gotta know his limitations" - and Clint has lifted weights for most of his life.
The trap bar is some protection of my L4/L5 issues which is there is nothing between them two discs. I'm trying to do more leg work. I do serious lifting with bench - and leg press - but much more modest weight with the trap bar. Right now, I'm doing about 150 lbs. Even after I get a bit more time with the bar, I don't think I'll be doing anything too silly.
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I do 3 sets of 10 of 155. I should put the extra 10 on each side and do my once-and-future body weight of 175. I’ll probably do that next time.
My squats are 315, also 3x10. I should add a tad to that to do 2x my body weight. I’ll do that next time too.
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By the way, I gave ChatGPT my exact workout routine and asked it to critique based on my goals. It made what I thought were good recommendations that were not upsetting the apple cart, just pointing out redundancies, some order changes, and a couple weak spots.
Then it asked me if I wanted critique on my diet so I entered a fifteen day average of my macros, then my actual typical meals, and it did the same (I’m good on calories and protein, it wants me to shift some fat calories to carbs) and gave me specific suggestions how to do it
We’ll see what the results are, but I found both exercises useful and informative.
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I’ve started to incorporate rest days. I still am active 7 days a week but I do push, pull, legs, rest then repeat, so 3 days on one day off the weights. The rest day will be biking outside when I can or inside when i must. But regardless I’ll do enough to close my rings on my Apple Watch.
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This looks like a great way to increase grip strength. And just as a change up from my regular pull-ups.
A shame my gym used covid as an excuse to discontinue towel service permanently.
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