TL Health and Fitness Initiative 2011 - Page 176

On April 18 2011 07:17 Sneakyz wrote:

Some cheap garden gloves work pretty decent.

On April 18 2011 07:25 eshlow wrote:


Try to avoid the gloves.... it can actually make your grip a bit weaker because it adds another centimeter or so to the diameter of the bar

On April 18 2011 07:57 sJarl wrote:
Or you could use mixed grip for heavy deadlifts and work on your grip so it doesn't affect you in other lifts.

On April 18 2011 08:32 Kickstart wrote:
K so parents are grilling out these sausages from sams club that i fucking love but i dunno if its paleo ok or if i should skip it and just cook my own dinner (ive been strictly making my own food each meal). They threw away the label with the ingredients and stuff but i found them online i think: yummmmmmmm

Ok to eat two of those or so or should i skip it

On April 17 2011 19:35 Zafrumi wrote:


cardio is very much overrated (and basically a waste of time if you are on a good lifting program like starting strength).

it should be obvious that strength training will help you build muscle and lose fat more so than any cardio program does, shouldnt it? I mean, if you do tons of cardio, you might lose the fat, but you will be a skinny kid with no strength whatsoever.

you can add some cardio (like 10-15 minutes at the end) to your lifting program, just be aware that you might not progress as fast because you are "taking away" strength from your lifts, if you know what I mean.



yes, stay away from flour for super strict paleo. personally, I still use it on occasion to make sauces



are you working for blizzard by any chance? or why are you in france ^^

On April 18 2011 11:08 maliceee wrote:


Shouldn't that depend on what type of cardio? sprints and sprinting intervals are great for losing fat fast while retaining strength.

On April 18 2011 12:11 GoTuNk! wrote:

Agree on cardio being overrated. HIIT is very effective on the other hand, but if you are able to do both HIIT and weights, u are either not lifting enough, getting overtrained pretty soon, or taking steroids :p. I mean HIIT slows ur recovery time even more than regular cardio and there is no way u can add it into any sensible strength training program.

On April 18 2011 15:02 Froadac wrote:
So for those aware of my medical history I’ve had a lot of surgeries. All of which really hurt my ability to exercise, and really cut me up >.> I used to be fairly strong, was very athletic, but recently because my back has been bothering me a lot I haven’t. I went to a friend’s house, and their mom is a physical therapist. She said that I should do generally more activities to strengthen my back muscles to support my back. Depending on some of you health and fitness guys to give me some exercises to try. Probably relatively low stress stuff would eb good to start. I’ll probably see a PT in a couple months, but in the interim…
Also, regarding a purely cosmetic standpoint, do you guys have any advice for softening scars. The one on my back isn’t particularly pretty, but at least it has lightened. Despite putting Cocoa butter on the one on my neck for over a year and a half, it still is fairly red. It actually fluctuates with stress levels >.>
So, what specific core, arm, and leg exercises should I be doing. Also neck exercises, although that’s getting really specialized.
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But specifically in terms of fitness, I just want baseline health. no superhuman lifting, just improving my posture, increasing core strength, and getting my arms and legs reasonably fit. People have said "do situps, do pushups."

Just to make it clear, doctor said to NOT do situps, but that V sit kind of stuff was better.

Also, some specifics, even if conservative would be nice, because I really have no idea AT ALL how much I should be doing. Even when I was more fit (like 13 or 14 lol) I just did sports and got fit, but I've fallen below that threshhold

I'm really small, at 5'4" (Chill sized, lol) and 110 pounds.

On April 18 2011 12:53 Catch wrote:


I kinda disagree with this.

If your talking about a four day split, in which one is either a HIIT/Sprint day OR you add a fourth conditioning day to a three day split, I think a sensible program could possibly compensate for this by having an medium/light day the workout following the HIIT day.

Just because you can't go heavy all the time doesn't mean you can't still train adequately .
When you add multiple HIIT sessions is when this becomes a problem as well.

Just my .02... I don't even have much experience in this realm personally, so feel free to let me know if I'm wrong.

On April 18 2011 14:57 JT wrote:
I have a question in regards to weight training in combination with sports.

I'm 28, 6'1, 187lbs or so. I've been an on and off lifter since I was about 20, but for the most part wasn't all that consistent and wasn't following very good or organized programs.

I've also always played a lot of sports. I did starting strength for 2 months about a year ago and made good progress, but in the last year I've been on and off with weight training. I'm in pretty good shape, probably 12-13% bodyfat and fairly fit and athletic. But I'd like to get into fantastic shape this summer.

If I just wanted to get strong and go for aesthetics as well, I know starting strength would be the way to go. The problem is that I looove to play sports and I want to do a lot of activities this summer that will expend energy.

I do BJJ once or twice a week, play tons of basketball, play in a hardball league, I'm gonna do some mountain biking, etc etc. I also work as a server in a restaurant so I'm walking all day.

I have a feeling that doing starting strength in combination would easily lead to overtraining, so I was wondering if you guys had any recommendations on what kind of strength training program to follow? Pavel Tsatsouline's "PTTP"? Any ideas would be very much appreciated.