Dips and pullups (both band-assisted) - hitting all kinds of new muscles. It’s ugly as hell - but good purchase.
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I heard you mention pullup issues recently I thought. If I didn’t post this then I am now. If you are really wanting to get better at pullups it has helped so many people they adopted it as a program. Pullups aren’t the most important tho ever to me and that’s why I suck at them. Or maybe I hate them so much I suck at them.
I’m getting deja vu. Maybe I posted it.
Yeah you did. I’m a long long way from even one good one right now. I’ll check that out.
Lol fitness stack exchange is even worse than stack overflow. Nothing but downvotes and people bickering about what is an isn’t an opinion to a very reasonable question.
The comment there is correct, different angles and shoulder positions will work different aspects of the triceps, do extensions a bunch of different ways and you’ll be good.
Yeah but then like 4 other posters bitch, and everything anyone posted is downvoted. If you’ve ever dealt with stack overflow - it’s similar. They are so far up their own butts and have rules on top of rules on top of rules.
I’m just playing around with my new curl bar and trying to decide if I should do tricep extensions standing up or laying down. I think it’s a standard noob question that it would be nice if someone just said - do it this way to start off.
What sort of bands are you using for the chinups? I’m looking for something for when I add them back. They absolutely trashed my elbow. Probably from my shitty technique
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07K1823XB/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o03_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1
I bought these. Also I realized I wasn’t really doing chinups. I was using the outer handles like doing lat pulldowns. Which is a lot harder. Still can’t do a real one but I’m a little closer.
Holy cow did dips hurt in a bunch of places. And even the knee pull up things. I look forward to tracking those as they improve.
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Back was feeling better today and was able to successfully lift with no issues or even discomfort. Glad I took a few days off and surprised it got better that fast.
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I just drug out a shoulder/core workout for 4 hours while checking twitter and the smackdown thread. Might be the first workout in my life where I never broke a sweat.
I’ll release my 4-hours to amazing shoulders workout video soon.
I think I may have figured out my wrist issues. I started using my laptop a lot on the dining room table, which has no arm support and my fore-arms are angle up slightly. I got a higher chair with elbow support and I already feel better.
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We got a Peloton bike delivered over the weekend. I did one ride yesterday and my god my ass hurts from that seat. Top of the line Karen engineering and they can’t design a seat that doesn’t leave me with deep bone bruises in each ass bone after 30 minutes.
It really is perfect for our small townhouse, though. We’ve got like a 12’x11’ second bedroom and this fits in there just fine with some minor rearranging.
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If it keeps bugging you there are shorts in cycling stores that come with extra padding specifically for this purpose.
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Im guessing its probably also down to how you are sitting. First time i rode a bike in 10 years o had the samr thing. It was fine after a week.
That’s why I got a nice wide butt sit down exercise bike. I don’t need to train my sphincter.
Or do you?
Can come live with you Suzz?? Sweet setup.
I need to do something like Suzzer’s setup. I stopped Starting Strength when I was having shortness of breath issues and now it’s cold af and my barbell and stuff is in garage so I’m back to dumbbells and kettlebells and in half ass shape again. I will grow out of them way before winter is over and would need to insulate my garage somehow on the cheap because I rent. Thinking I may as well have them in the living room since I’m not having people over anytime soon. Downstairs neighbors are a concern though.
I’ve been doing Peloton on the exercise bike even with biker shorts on and I can confirm, my ass must be black and blue the last few weeks.
Been doing these on cardio days like i used to only the sets they recommend. I was doing 5-6 of 20 reps of each of them previously.
http://www.leanitup.com/carve-out-your-abs-with-these-swiss-ball-exercises/8/
I don’t understand this. How can you get short on breath doing 4x5 or 5x5 when you do like 30x+ with kettlebells or whatever? I try to do 3x12 with my dumbbell deadlifts and squats, and that creates some shortness of breath and a high pulse, but I figure that’s just exercise and is actually strengthening my heart and helping push plaques out of veins or whatever. I think some shortness of breath is good, as long as you’re at least breathing on the way up or after a rep.
My workout program is coming along and I’m still eating pretty healthy but staying basically the same weight. Continuing to get stronger and more muscular though. Suspect I will need to do 3-4x weekly cardio classes after lockdown to really take weight off. I did 20 mins with VR headset yesterday and that was decent cardio. I should ramp that up, but I just bought and currently downloading Red Dead Redemption 2, so that may distract me.
My doctor said it was likely anxiety and a perpetual panic attack and anti anxiety medicine has helped a ton already in a few weeks. It wasn’t shortness of breath doing Starting Strength, it was all day.