Food/Diet and training hobbies
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@chris-osborne said in Food/Diet and training hobbies:
@matt-wood said in Food/Diet and training hobbies:
So glad the gyms have stayed open here, (feel bad for those of you in tier 4). Probably would have gone full Michael Douglas a la Falling Down in Ross on Wye had they shut my gym again
Not jealous much lol can’t see them reopening here for a while to be honest. As I can’t go swimming anymore and need to do something, signed up for this
Just looked at that it looks great. You will be surprised how fast the miles start piling up if you do it regularly. I walk the dogs twice a day so that works for me. Get yourself an Audible subscription (if you have not already) and listen to some books as you're doing it or podcasts.
I bet you will rack up the distance really quickly and it is excellent exercise for us.
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@matt-wood I’m in Lancashire so they’ve just shut again, supposedly for 2 weeks but probably longer. I’m not far from Merseyside so looking at getting a temporary membership for one there
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@matt-wood said in Food/Diet and training hobbies:
So glad the gyms have stayed open here, (feel bad for those of you in tier 4). Probably would have gone full Michael Douglas a la Falling Down in Ross on Wye had they shut my gym again
Not jealous much lol can’t see them reopening here for a while to be honest. As I can’t go swimming anymore and need to do something, signed up for this
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@ryan-carruthers Yea its a great exercise and healthy shoulders SHOULD be able to cope with it. Trouble is it is a tough exercise and that means our body will want to cheat as much as possible resulting in injuries.
I hate shoulders, when I used to do my sports injury bit they were my nightmare client since there is sooooooo much stuff going on in a shoulder joint and it is all small fiddly little things that are so easily injured.
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@ryan-carruthers said in Food/Diet and training hobbies:
Westside For Skinny
Yea those Westside guys push themselves stupid hard, not for normies like us
Back in the 80s and 90s they were a revolutionary (somewhat) thing. I think a lot of the serious bodybuilders and powerlifters went there. Need some chemical supplementation for that sort of thing though
Good stuff though.
Back when I was a wee kiddie I used to use Bill Starrs 5x5 to get strong. Hard on the body though, as with the Westside stuff.
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@lee-woodman Well that must have been a respectable crash to smash up your kneecap! Glad it was nothing worse than that though
Start whispering in the owners ear to get a trap bar
Nothing quite like lifting heavy s**t
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@matt-wood Had a bit of a car accident!
My gym doesn’t have a trap bar so never really tried one. I often do some weighted reverse hyper extensions and ‘good mornings’ after legs just to stretch it out and strengthen it
I tend to train strength and size, so upper body for example I’ll do 3x5 bench press then 3x8 dumbbell incline press for chest and similar for back, legs etc. In just like lifting heavy stuff sometimes
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@lee-woodman Wow what did you do to smash a kneecap?! they are tough little buggers so you really have to be trying hard to smash one! On that note, I certainly would not be recommending lunges split squats leg extensions etc. Seems like you have a pretty good idea of the things that work for you.
Trap bar deads works for you? they are more of a back squat replacement than traditional deadlift though.
Do you have a reverse hyper machine in your gym, could try some sets of those on upper days to help strengthen up the lower back.Those are very respectable numbers for 'normal' people. You train for strength over size? Personally I have had to switch away from the lower rep heavy sets to more of a volume style workout as my joints are getting old and cant hack it anymore
Always wanted a 200kg deadlift, never got anywhere near it though
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@matt-wood Legs is a funny one for me, I smashed my kneecap when I was 18 so I can’t do certain exercises. Can’t really do lunges, split squat, single leg extensions or leg press without feeling it but can do squats, deadlifts just fine! So better to feel a bit tender in my back (not pain) than a pain in my knee. I don’t go mega heavy, maybe 120kg for 5x3 on squats, 160kg for 6x2 on DL and I rotate the two
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@lee-woodman
https://www.youtube.com/user/mountaindog1/featured
Search with the word 'stretch' on this guys channel he has some good stuff on there.
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@lee-woodman Couple of regular sessions a week will help loads if given time.
Squats and deads are tough on lower backs, especially if you are strong and load up the weight. If you ever fancy giving you lower back a rest you can always switch the traditional deads for trap bar version, much easier on the lower back and split squats are a good alternative as you wont need to load up the weight so much given that you are training each leg at a time. Also great for hip and ankle mobility.
Shoulders are a proper pain in the arse as they got so much stuff in them and its all tiny. Im guessing you already warm them up before your upper body days, mobilise them fully. I have started spending about 5mins on this at the start of a workout now. Might also help, if you dont already do it, spend a little time at the end of your upper session doing some light weight external rotation exercises. Almost everyone I see has over internally rotated shoulders. AthleneX on yotube has some great vids and exercise for this.