Fitness thread

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booting(I hope it's coo')

Finally making the progress I've wanted for so long.

I'm purely focusing on HIIT workouts as well as cardio, so no 1RM's done in a while.

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Took about a month (I think? 3 weeks? who knows) off the EC stack and just got back on it today. Holy god I forgot how it felt to be this tweaked off some cough medicine, it's kind of insane. Of course the tolerance will build and I'll be back to feeling normal soon, but still.

Since I cut so drastically for my most recent powerlifting meet, I find myself way ahead on my cut. I'm hovering 169-173 on any given day now, down from 180-182 in December. I'm not actually sure why I decided to get back on EC but whatever, I'll be at a pretty low BF% in a month or two at this rate--if I had to guess I'm around 12-13% right now.

Strength wise, I'm slowly adjusting to not caring about how strong I am, or at least not caring as much as I do about my appearance. Regardless it's still important to me. My strength took a dive after cutting so hard, but my most recent numbers are:

BENCH: 250x1, 205x3x5
SQUAT: 393x1 low-bar belted, 315x8 high-bar no belt
DEADLIFT: I stopped pulling sumo. It's not getting me stronger, and it shows whenever I try to conventional pull. So I switched to training exclusively conventional until my next powerlifting meet many months from now. Conventional is at 325x5, going up 10 every week.
OHP: 140x1, 125x5, 120x8

Also started doing back extensions to fix my chronic glute problems and for a better lower back. Helps a ton. My friend/coach has me holding the bar on my traps like a high-bar squat and using the back extension machine that way. Hits hard, and I highly recommend it.

I have never bulked correctly. I think I'm in a hurry to finish this cut so i can FINALLY bulk correctly and put on quality mass, since I haven't put on much at all for how long I've been training. So I'd say that's my long-term goal as of recent.

That's my update for today since I have time to kill. GOOD LUCK EVERYBODY

Gettin' reeeeeeal tired of other people policing what I eat. Can't order a milkshake without the cashier asking if it's "cheat day", people sitting with their mouths open if I eat a chocolate bar at work, just shut the fuck up and gimme a deep fried moro bar, mmk?

Uhhh also feel like I don't keep as much track of my lifts as other people here but last time I checked my PB squat it was 150kg. There we go.

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Long story short, there is something wrong with my butt. I dunno what it is, I've called it everything from tendinitis to bursitis to sciatica. Either way I'm pretty sure it's because I forgot how to engage my glutes somewhere down the line, so I'm trying to fix it by switching to low bar squats and doing good mornings and stuff, and also working around it by not actually doing squats...wait what

LOW PINS MOTHERFUCKER, they force me into a good position towards the bottom of my ROM so I'm forced to engage my glutes. So far they've been helping a ton.

[video=youtube;7Tw6kWoTzwg]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Tw6kWoTzwg[/video]

Anybody want to give some pointers to me and my friend who want to start getting in shape? I just don't know where to start, aside from eating healthy. As in, I'm not sure what kind if workout routine to pick up and how to introduce myself into this without getting extremely apathetic and sad after about a week in.

Anybody want to give some pointers to me and my friend who want to start getting in shape? I just don't know where to start, aside from eating healthy. As in, I'm not sure what kind if workout routine to pick up and how to introduce myself into this without getting extremely apathetic and sad after about a week in.

Tay sweety I'm so proud of you.

First piece of advice and something I found most important: If you are thinking about weights, HAVE A COUPLE OF SESSIONS WITH A PERSONAL TRAINER. The most important thing they can show a beginner is not what exercises to do, but HOW to do them. If you try jump right in to some technical moves and you do them wrong, you can really f'uck yourself up.

Start with easy exercises for the different muscle groups before you jump in to the harder ones, ie. start with goblet squats before you jump in to barbell squats, and overhead barbell press before you start to focus on each individual delt head. Just make sure you take enough time to ease yourselves in to it. When you first start, you're gonna burn and you're gonna burn hard.

As for getting apathetic and sad about a week in, it happens to everyone. When I first started going to the gym I had to drag myself there. I wasn't seeing results as fast as I wanted to and I was getting disillusioned. But the best I can say is stick at it, keep your friend on track and get him to keep you on track. After a while, it honestly becomes a lifestyle. I can't imagine a day without going to the gym, it's my relaxation technique. But I also know now that I have more experience how long a process it is, but also how freaking amazing it feels when you hit your milestones.

Finished c25k for the 2nd time, but this time I actually held a 6mph pace the whole way. I'm two pounds from the lowest weight I've been in my adultish life. I'm getting started on SS, which brings me to my point. Deadlifts are odd. Any mental tricks to put the weight down in a straight line and not over my knees?

- 2 scoops cinnamon (or vanilla) protein powder
- Pinch of cinnamon if you used vanilla
- Your favorite granola bar
- Pinch of baking soda
- Pinch of salt
- Sweetener to taste

1. Crush or process the granola bar. Easier if you use a crunchy one like Nature Valley.
2. Mix all the dry ingredients in a bowl.
3. Add water until you get the texture of pancake batter.
3. Microwave for 15-20 seconds on high
4. Take it out, stir
5. Repeat until it looks like a slightly underdone cake. This is important. Overdo it and it'll be dry and disgusting. If in doubt, let it sit and let the residual heat finish cooking it.

You now have an actually delicious protein cake with good macros. You're welcome.

(For mine I use MyProtein cinnamon roll and Nature Valley biscuits. Comes out to 430kcal / 12F / 35C (not including 4 fiber) / 41P. Always have it post-workout. It is amazing.)

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I have regressed, but I haven't.

I've been losing weight for the better part of 4-5 months now, and it's probably the healthiest cut I've ever done since my strength is only now starting to decline. I haven't been this light since 2011, before I had ever touched a barbell, and I've never been this lean in my life. For a long time I've been going crazy on weight loss and equally crazy when bulking, so my strength levels would bounce up and down erratically depending on what I was doing. Highs would be 185-lbs/84-kg, lows would be maybe 168-lbs/76-kg, deadlift for example would go from 495 to 435 when hovering between those two bodyweights.

Well, now I'm at 159, pretty sure I'm sub-10% body fat (no picture cause I just had chips and a footlong). I just restarted squatting and deadlifting after finally diagnosing and fixing the glute problem I've had for almost a year now, haven't properly done either in 4 months. So right now I'm sitting at 205x3x3 bench, 290x6x3 squat, 395x5x3 deadlift. Maxes I'm guessing are 235, 345, 425, compared to 250/425/495 at 180. Squat and deadlift have actually been going up rapidly thanks to muscle memory or whatever I don't know what it's called.

I'll be done with this on my birthday, which is in a month. I'm excited cause I'm finally building a good foundation for me to gain real weight, and I feel like I have the discipline to do that right this time.

First meet is in October. No goals since I don't know when my squat/DL will stop increasing. But yay progress!

This is still my personal thread. No one is allowed to post in here.

Anyway I picked up weightlifting the correct way about 5 weeks ago. I think I'm making good progress considering how new I am. Made a short comparison between snatch from last month and this month:

[video=youtube;Zp_hYTv6j_U]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zp_hYTv6j_U[/video]

Overhead flexibility is an issue--that's why my elbows look bent, I can't really extend my arms to lockout in the overhead position. It looks like it's clearly gotten better from the video though.

Bar path has improved a lot.

My extension was also nonexistent a month ago, but it's there now, still cutting it short though.

Still embarrassingly slow, maybe because I haven't been using weights that I actually have to fully extend or fully squat for, but probably because I can't get under the bar for shit. I plan on doing a video like this every end of the month; didn't include C&J in this video since I was exclusively practicing snatches in September. My issues are similar with that though.

First meet in January, hopefully I don't suck by then.

[video=youtube;-X03IoXT6eQ]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-X03IoXT6eQ[/video]

Overhead position getting better, high hangs to work on extension/speed, second pull is way off. Still making progress is all that matters.

Gettin' reeeeeeal tired of other people policing what I eat. Can't order a milkshake without the cashier asking if it's "cheat day", people sitting with their mouths open if I eat a chocolate bar at work, just shut the fuck up and gimme a deep fried moro bar, mmk?

Uhhh also feel like I don't keep as much track of my lifts as other people here but last time I checked my PB squat it was 150kg. There we go.

u fat

I'm literally the only one who posts in this thread still but SUH

[video=youtube;xSOEfwy1wxE]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xSOEfwy1wxE[/video]

90kg snatch is in the works since I've only been narrowly missing 88kg even when I haven't been fresh. 110kg clean and jerk too once I get my jerk to be consistent. 200kg total soon Y E S