I’m hoping to get back over 500. Now I’m not training for rugby and getting injured periodically, I should be able to string a couple of years together of consistent training.
The guy wasn’t even that big
My target for “strongest dude in a shitty commercial gym” has been raised considerably
Its much easier to get quality advice in strength training than ever. Of course there’s lots of terrible advice as well, but pretty much every gym has a few guys that are on Starting Strength or an equivalent program, and some of them will get STRONG.
Yeah.
One thing I’ve noticed in Aus at least. A lot of people doing lots of sensible looking mobility and rehab work. Lots of stuff on hips and glutes and ankles.
Often paired with bro ish weight training or ridiculous amounts of hip thrusters for the girls, but at least they should stay healthy.
I was recently thrilled to learn that Peloton would be adding an entertainment option to its treadmill. Unlike the bike, where I think the instructor-led classes make it infinitely more appealing, I think the treadmill classes are just … fine. I’m happy to turn a class on, but I’m equally happy to listen to podcasts.
[Up until about a week ago, I had a janky old TV propped on a chair and would watch that while running. But then my son knocked it off, shattering it. This was 90% my fault for placing a janky old TV precariously on a chair that was not at all out of the way.]
Anyway, I was super pumped to hear that I could watch TV/movies (currently only Amazon Prime and Youtube TV, but that’s more than enough). It was perfect timing, considering the recently-broken TV. But the software was still in beta and it wasn’t clear how long it would take to roll out to all users so I tried not to be too anxious. Two days ago, my son was like, “the entertainment option is on it now” and it was perfect timing–I wanted to run for about an hour, it was storming outside, and Jackie Brown was on Prime.
So I get dressed and ready to start, only to find out that, somehow, the entertainment option is only on my son’s user account. Not mine. And it’s still not on mine. Utter bullshit.
I’m on the third week of my marathon training plan. The first two weeks were all easy mileage, and I had my first real workout yesterday: 6x800m at goal marathon pace with 400 m recovery.
This was a hard workout, with a 4.9 aerobic intensity on my watch (with a max of 5 being “overreaching”). My goal time is 4:00, and this workout really shouldn’t be that hard, but I chalk that up to a few factors:
For now, I’m just going to stick with the plan and consider revising my goal if I have trouble hitting paces as the workouts become more demanding. I also expect to continue to use the treadmill for a lot of the easy runs because I like being able to set the pace on cruise and focus on keeping my heart rate in the correct range.
My elbow tendonitis has come back.
I had been nursing it over recent months and I thought I was improving slowly, but somehow I’ve pushed too hard and it’s back with a vengeance.
Part of me is tempted to keep training like normal, but I think that’s me being in denial.
Going to dial right back anything that uses my arms and restart the physio tendon strengthening work that worked in the first place.
I am going to focus more on squats and go back to 3 times per week starting strength style. See if I can add some good weight to my squat at least.
I should probably go back to a proper physio therapist as well…
Ugh. Expensive and disheartening.
What worked for me is these: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07D1ZRTY2/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&psc=1
And backing off whenever it hurt.
Also push and pull in the same day seemed to be a problem.
Once I find a routine that works for the week I never deviate from it. Every time I try to introduce something new I get hurt.
No doubt this is stuff you’ve tried, but for me the flexbar twists, and a version of the pipe pronation/supination that this guy shows (I just used an adjustable dumbbell with weight on only one side of it to make it top-heavy), worked pretty well for me.
I have the flex bar as well (maybe due to a recommendation here?). It did not cure my golfer’s elbow but maybe it helped a bit
I do a lot of wrist stretching.
second day at the beach and the hotel doesn’t have a gym, so i found myself doing push-ups/crunches this morning. haven’t done a single push-up over the last 13 months i’ve been working out, did 65 the first set.
i don’t know how many i thought i’d do, probably around there. i can do crunches forever basically.
how many push-ups can yall do at once? makes me wanna start doing them every morning.
65 seems pretty legit (assuming full range). I can probably hit 50, and feel that’s pretty solid.
Doing lots of push-ups seems pointless compared to just benching. When the pandemic hit and my gym closed, I switched to push-ups at home (did consistently very other day). At first I slightly increased how many I could do (probably just due to better form), but then started slowly declining in strength.
i just always wanted to be the person that got out of bed and did pushups before he brushed his teeth in the morning 
i could only do 40 the second time, then i gave up lol.
edit: what’s full range? my palms were flat a little outside of and even with my chest.
There are plenty of videos that show proper form. Biggest mistakes are not going down all the way down and arching the back. As for hand/arm position, you can bring them in closer to work arms more vs. wider for more chest, just make sure it’s comfortable and don’t flare your elbows.
During the first half of the pandemic I was using pushups as a main lift. You can do a lot in terms of progression using arm position and/or adding weights to a backpack.
Thanks.
My issue is the other side. Golfers elbow. But your video eventually led me to this one.
A lot of stuff clicking from this video. Firstly, I have the lat flexibility issue he mentions (I did the test) secondly, that weakness in the shoulder definitely seems to be exacerbating it.
And thinking back it’s tiredness on top of bad motion that has normal caused pain. And that repetition of the pain over time has probably degraded the tendon again to the point where I am now.
So.
Plan is to go back and do 8 to 12 weeks of slow progression on the tendon, plus the strengthening exercises for the shoulder. Between the two I may be able to get back toy core lifts sooner than later.
I’ll then stick with the tendon stuff for another 8 to 12 weeks before adding in the assistance exersises which caused me all the issues.
In hindsight too. My approach of doing assistance stuff in super sets and circuits is probably a really bad idea, as I’m fatiguing the shoulder.
Thanks.
Check out that video I just posted. If it’s after push and pull. It might also be a fatigue issue in shoulder stability like I suspect I have. A couple of good exersises in there than might help.
And going to buy an elbow brace now. Ty.
Sorry. One more. What size did you get and how big are you? What size do you think I should get?
I’m fairly large and I got an XL.
Great video thanks. I’ve been battling golfers elbow too for a couple years. I didn’t fail the lat test hard but there was a little difference so that might be my problem too
