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On March 13 2020 17:12 zatic wrote:
Corona: So I am coming home Saturday. I have already stripped all public/social interaction out of my schedule for the next couple of weeks.
But the question remains: Do I still go to gym? Is there a way to safely go to the gym? Can I ethically justify going to the gym?
Yes? I don't see the issue. Wipe down the bar and don't touch your face
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On March 14 2020 11:16 decafchicken wrote:Show nested quote +On March 13 2020 17:12 zatic wrote:
Corona: So I am coming home Saturday. I have already stripped all public/social interaction out of my schedule for the next couple of weeks.
But the question remains: Do I still go to gym? Is there a way to safely go to the gym? Can I ethically justify going to the gym? Yes? I don't see the issue. Wipe down the bar and don't touch your face
The issue is doing my part and not potentially infecting others.
Well I am quarantined anyway now so no gym.
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On March 14 2020 19:26 zatic wrote:Show nested quote +On March 14 2020 11:16 decafchicken wrote:On March 13 2020 17:12 zatic wrote:
Corona: So I am coming home Saturday. I have already stripped all public/social interaction out of my schedule for the next couple of weeks.
But the question remains: Do I still go to gym? Is there a way to safely go to the gym? Can I ethically justify going to the gym? Yes? I don't see the issue. Wipe down the bar and don't touch your face The issue is doing my part and not potentially infecting others. Well I am quarantined anyway now so no gym.
Infective radius is supposed to be about 6 feet/2 meters, so if you're asymptomatic the gym is probably fairly safe if it's not crowded, since people tend to respect personal space pretty well there. Go at off-peak times, and like decaf said, wipe things down before/after use. If other people are constantly coughing/sneezing around you maybe stick to different machines than what they're using.
Since you're quarantined you don't really have a choice, but for anyone else reading the thread, if you're going to get infected the gym probably won't be the place that it happens.
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On March 14 2020 19:26 zatic wrote:Show nested quote +On March 14 2020 11:16 decafchicken wrote:On March 13 2020 17:12 zatic wrote:
Corona: So I am coming home Saturday. I have already stripped all public/social interaction out of my schedule for the next couple of weeks.
But the question remains: Do I still go to gym? Is there a way to safely go to the gym? Can I ethically justify going to the gym? Yes? I don't see the issue. Wipe down the bar and don't touch your face The issue is doing my part and not potentially infecting others. Well I am quarantined anyway now so no gym.
Not working out makes you weaker which is more irresponsible
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Gym shut down anyway. I guess it's time for .... *shudder* .... cardio
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Our office is soft-closed (no food services, encouraged to work remotely, etc) and has a small gym so it's EZ money for me :D
edit: office is completely closed now and badge access has been revoked :|
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So I figured I'd bump this thread with some updated training goals for myself, since my previous ones are somewhat outdated with the pandemic going on.
Backstory: About 6 months ago, I snapped my left wrist in half(radius) just before the wrist joint off a bad fall. Titanium Plate and 4 screws to put it back together. Medical staff were super nice, but would not recommend the experience 2/10.
A bit over 2 months later (~3 weeks for surgery as the fracture shifted, and then another 6 weeks to heal as they rebreak it to set it properly). I could curl about 3lbs, and had about 10lbs of grip strength with my entire hand.
One of my sports is bouldering, and while I was basically a tripod on my first day back as my left was fairly worthless, I had a goal in mind of getting back to pre-break strength in about 6 months from the first day I broke it.
Once the pandemic started and all the gyms closed, I started formal grip training, and I think I have made that goal in the last month and a half of working at it. When I started, my left hand could barely close on the light trainer, while the right hand could just about close the hardest one fully.
Fast forward to today, and the left wrist can do reps with the hard one(granted, it also might have been a bit worn by now), but I'll take it. I haven't stopped training the right hand, so it's probably still about 10%-20% weaker, but it's a whole lot better than several times weaker.
Goal #1 - Do a proper pushup.
For the moment I've just been propping up my palms with various things. My range of motion is current 100% down, to about 20% from the top before my left wrist runs out of ROM. Rough guess is I need to be able to bend another 2-3 degrees or so, but I'm not sure if it's stopping due to running out of stretchable stuff, or if it's a hard limit due to the plate/scar tissue. Will keep working at it and see what happens.
For other fitness stuff, I'm now biking to work when it's good weather and I need to be in the office. About 6k with ~100m of elevation change makes for a fairly light trip into the office, and a hard workout on the way back. Goal is to climb the hill on the way back in 4th gear or higher(with my normal cadence) the whole way up by the time this is over. Currently can do it in a mix of 2nd and 3rd gear, and when I started I was going up in a mix of 1st and 2nd gear, so I think this is doable.
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Nice progress with the rehab, that's great!
Feeling really fortunate to have pulled the trigger on the home gym equipment last summer. You can't find anything in stock or not at rip-off prices secondhand.
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Been doing strongman/crossfit workouts for the most part.
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Just dropping in to say after lots of rebuilding during quarantine I squatted 200kg again for the first time in over a year! Lucky to have a barbell and a staircase on my backyard deck I can use as a squat rack lol
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That's awesome :D nice work on the comeback.
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There is definitely not enough traffic in here anymore.
I had my latest Powerlifting meet 2 weeks ago, and I am finally decent, which is basically a result of figuring out my Deadlift-training. Within 2 years I put 42.5KG on that thing.
I did a watercut and still had to take a hot bath in the middle of the night to make weight @104.75Kg. Accordingly, Squats were shaky and Bench still wasn't great either, but with good attempt selection I managed.
I went 9/9 with a 222,5Kg Squat, 127,5Kg Bench and 262,5Kg Deadlift (370 DOTS) and won my class, which is a first.
https://www.instagram.com/p/CFq_UvNIvVu/
Bench is my obvious weak-point now, it never recovered after a bad stretch of training in late 2018 and a long lasting shoulder injury in 2019. If I find a way to just make it normal again (my max from 2018 is 142,5), I should be fine.
Next training cycle will be Squat-focussed, I really need to get those 227,5Kg (501lb).
And if I recall correctly, Decaf squatted 232KG once, so I need to get that as well.
Keep training folks 
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Well, almost at the 1 year mark since I snapped wrist in half (~10 months since starting strength rehab).
Bouldering is going well, pretty strong now, although my tendons aren't quite keeping up(Need to tape the shit out of some fingers).
I've gained back enough flexibility in my left to do pushups now(slowly). I think I've hit the limit though, as there's a pretty hard stop compared to my right hand, and any pushing against the limit results in rather significant amounts of pain. No clap pushups or anything like that in my future.
Benching is also probably not in the cards. Past about ~100-110lbs it starts putting too much pressure on the joint. Will probably be limited to chest press style machines where I can keep the left wrist slightly off perpendicular.
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On October 08 2020 20:25 Malinor wrote:Next training cycle will be Squat-focussed, I really need to get those 227,5Kg (501lb). And if I recall correctly, Decaf squatted 232KG once, so I need to get that as well. Keep training folks
Many a moon ago...hopefully again one of these days. Turned thirty last weekend and to make sure I wasn't dead yet I snatched 125kg, biked 15 miles, and squatted 102kg (my bw) for 27 reps (was going for 30, fatigue and hangover had other plans) within 24 hrs.
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On October 28 2020 10:43 decafchicken wrote:Show nested quote +On October 08 2020 20:25 Malinor wrote:Next training cycle will be Squat-focussed, I really need to get those 227,5Kg (501lb). And if I recall correctly, Decaf squatted 232KG once, so I need to get that as well. Keep training folks Many a moon ago...hopefully again one of these days. Turned thirty last weekend and to make sure I wasn't dead yet I snatched 125kg, biked 15 miles, and squatted 102kg (my bw) for 27 reps (was going for 30, fatigue and hangover had other plans) within 24 hrs.
 Last time I did birthday squats was at 32 ...
This year has been the worst for me so far. Between lockdown and moving I found no opportunity to go to the gym at all. And BW exercises at home are just the worst, can't bring myself to commit to anything.
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Glad to hear you're still at it and succeeding Malinor!
I'm currently working through Brian Alsruhe's Powerbuilder Perfected program. If I finish this whole thing as written it will be an accomplishment in itself, which is cool. Every week I can look back and say "I did that". Hoping with the winter bulk I'll see some PRs at the end too. I forgot to do birthday squats this year D:
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Been biking around 120 miles/week at 18-20mph while doing core and technique work mostly during my lifting sessions. Squats feel weak as shit but body feels good and lifts are getting crisp again if not very light. Winter is gonna put a real damper on my backyard gym and cycling though ugh
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Hey hey guys! I hope you are all doing well
I'm in lockdown, so no gym, but I managed to find a pair of dumbbells with adjustable weights (I was mostly interested in the many disks of 1-2kg for climbing exercises but I got the short bars as well to assemble them into dumbbells.
I'd like to investigate a bit how I could use them for some exercises since I'm mostly stuck at home. I used to do 5x5 at the gym ~ 1 year ago, and I guess it'll be impossible to reproduce something similar, but already working my back / shoulders / upper body would be good for the moment.
Do you have any references of good websites / sources where I can study which exercises to do ?
Googling randomly the ratio of noise/signal is really bad, 10k pages with a lot of info, but being very unexperienced myself I find it hard to distinguish what's valid from what's not..
Thanks!!
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I am finally a 500lb-squatter (529lb / 240Kg to be precise). Since two years I though I had it in me, but only in the last half year I put everything together, finishing with a massive +17,5Kg PR.
Gaining too much weight in the neverending lockdown during February and March also contributed, but training went extremely well before that already. Have to see how much I can squat when I finally get back to -105.
Next stop 250Kg, will probably take some time.
https://www.instagram.com/p/CNfVRPPonHi/
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Massive PR! Crushed my PB as well (232)
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That was a great looking squat congrats.
I recently hit a PR on squat, 435lb. Hopefully by next year I'll be pushing into the upper 4s.
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