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AoN.DimSum
United States2983 Posts
On January 14 2014 13:19 Najda wrote: My squats today: Appreciate any form advice/critique. your gym plays nujabes?! btw try to get your whole body in the video. We need to see what you are doing with your legs if you are squatting  | ||
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Najda
United States3765 Posts
On January 15 2014 01:37 AoN.DimSum wrote: your gym plays nujabes?! btw try to get your whole body in the video. We need to see what you are doing with your legs if you are squatting People can play whatever music they want (generally whoever gets there first). And yeah, it's kinda hard to set up a good camera angle, I'll try again next monday. | ||
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IgnE
United States7684 Posts
On January 14 2014 16:49 zatic wrote: So I am still struggling with significant imbalance from my knee injury. My left leg is still visibly smaller and weaker by a lot, which stops me from doing serious squats and deadlifts. So far I have been doing a lot of single leg exercises (leg press, extension, etc) and basically did what I know: 3 sets of 5 with increasing weight. However progress is incredibly slow, and it almost feels like my healthy leg is getting further ahead. My PT suggested to end all sessions with an exercise to exhaustion. So I should do (for example) single leg presses at a weight that completely exhausts me within 30 seconds. If I can do more reps after 30 seconds, increase. Opinions on this suggestion? Seems like a good idea to me? Do you never train to exhaustion? Or are you asking about the leg press? Leg press can be useful in situations such as these. | ||
zatic
Zurich15366 Posts
On January 15 2014 02:44 IgnE wrote: Seems like a good idea to me? Do you never train to exhaustion? Or are you asking about the leg press? Leg press can be useful in situations such as these. No it seemed like a good idea to me too - I just double check everything I hear fitness related with TLHF. | ||
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MtlGuitarist97
United States1539 Posts
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autoexec
United States530 Posts
On January 15 2014 07:00 MtlGuitarist97 wrote: Another minor pull up PR for me. Hit a set of 17 pull ups (unweighted) today, which felt good. So in the last two weeks, my pull up maxes have been 1x17 for one set, and BW + 50lbs for my 1rm. Feeling pretty good for not really training pull ups other than mostly bodyweight sets. How do you do your pull up programming? I am plateauing right now at like a max of 9 or 10 if I didn't workout the day before. | ||
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MtlGuitarist97
United States1539 Posts
On January 15 2014 08:41 autoexec wrote: How do you do your pull up programming? I am plateauing right now at like a max of 9 or 10 if I didn't workout the day before. I don't really, lol. Eshlow would be much better, but to give you an idea of what I did to get to this point: But if I had to give you some advice: First, do some dumbbell (or barbell) rows. In conjunction with deadlifting and overhead pressing, this will help you a ton. For the pull ups themselves, I find that if I stall with bodyweight pull ups, the solution is to do high volume at a medium weight. This (for me) means 3x5-8 @15-25 lbs. For you, you may still have trouble doing 3x8 bodyweight pull ups, so try to at least work up to the point where you can get 3x8 and not have to crane your neck. Once you get to this, add enough weight that you can do 3x5 and be really tired and then go back to 3x5. In my experience, the amount of weight that you should add is enough weight that you can do ~6.5-7 pull ups with. I would just keep adding weight until you can get to ~8 pull ups with each weight. In Starting Strength, Rippetoe advocates being able to get to 15 pull ups before adding weight. This is ridiculous and completely unnecessary. If you feel that you can't progress anymore with pull ups, do more deadlifts and rows. Deadlifts will increase your forearms' potential (I find that's my limiting factor personally for fatigue) and rows will help in general. Anyway, this isn't really that great of advice and I don't know a lot about programming in general. I just kind of follow SS and hope that it carries me on. Some of the other guys know way more than I do, so I hope IgnE, Decaf, Mordek, etc. give you advice that doesn't suck like mine | ||
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Najda
United States3765 Posts
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IgnE
United States7684 Posts
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Najda
United States3765 Posts
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GuiltyJerk
United States584 Posts
...that was a long explanation for not a lot of stuff.... | ||
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decafchicken
United States20174 Posts
Worked up to a pretty routine 125kg snatch 150kg clean and jerk today, hoping for some big PRs on saturday! (140/170!?) | ||
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phyre112
United States3090 Posts
I try to do minimum 15 minutes of stretching when I'm not at the gym in my free time, and I've recently started trying to do some longer periods (30 minutes to an hour) of more yoga-type stuff 3-4 times/week, but that's only been going for 2 weeks, and there's no telling how long it will last =p | ||
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autoexec
United States530 Posts
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Froadac
United States6733 Posts
I wasn't very aggressive but this is where I am. Deadlift: 140lb Squat: 110 lb Overhead: 65lb bench: 80 lb Bodyweight: 125 lb. Sigh I need to just get consistent but it takes me a long time to get back on track if the medical authorities that be cause issues. | ||
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sc4k
United Kingdom5454 Posts
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mordek
United States12705 Posts
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Najda
United States3765 Posts
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mordek
United States12705 Posts
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Osmoses
Sweden5302 Posts
So he had me lower my weights down to babby and he coached for free for an hour. Quite the bro-move, abd I immediately noticed improvement, so I decided it was once again time to hire a personal trainer. Thank God for disposable income. I made sure to ask him about his lifts this time, and they are twice that of mine so I should be in good hands. | ||
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