I hate hiking boots but love these for traction https://www.salomon.com/en-us/shop/product/speedcross-5.html
I dont know that I’d pay full price, but they occasionally show up on slickdeals.net for 40-50% off.
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Those look like a good choice to me for the terrain LMM described, imo.
I found a spooky old well on my hike.
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I like both running and hiking. I thought running would be bad for my knees, but really I haven’t had much pain from running. It might have something to do with squatting.
I’m back on the runcoach.com plan, and aiming for a turkey trot 5k in 8 weeks. My 5k PR is 23:32 in 2019, but I don’t think it’s realistic to shoot for that. I’ll try for 26:00 (8:22/mile pace), and see how I do. Maybe in the spring I can go for a PR.
Hiking the steeper, more rocky trails, such as Mt. Monadnock in NH, gives me a lot of back pain, mostly from the descent. I still like to do it, but I try to glide as suzzer says. I still end up paying for it.
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Questions:
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My squat ts getting to where I may fail sometime and I only lift solo. Is it fine to just drop it behind me if I have bumper plates and like say a horse stall mat that it is dropping on?
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My squat rack is an old Weider rack from the mid 2000s and a bench/squat combo thing. The highest setting for the hooks is still kind of short for me when squatting and the poles aren’t very high either making me wonder if I might walk right over them when trying to rack a heavy amount. Should I be buying a different rack or building a platform for the bench?
Not my pic but same bench I’m talking about below. I have to squat again to not set the barbell right over the top of those poles/posts/bars:
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Dumping the weight is fine. Are you in an apartment building or something with someone under you? That might change the answer.
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I’d probably get a new rack.
No, it’s just the garage floor. Just don’t want to hurt myself or anything like that. It’s weird that the Weider is so short at its highest setting. I’m only 5’11. But yeah I was thinking of buying something better rather than building a platform.
Garage floor is perfect. One good thing to do is practice dumping the weight. I’m sure there are vids on it. I actually had a lifting coach when I was starting out because I wanted to make sure my form was good (it is not great despite this). The first time I failed a squat, we had a five min lesson on how to dump the weight. It’s kind of scary if you’ve never done it, but it is almost hard to do it wrong. Just put one plate on each side and drop it a few times to practice.
If you buy something new, you can get a cage with safeties, and then you don’t have to worry about dropping the weight. Kill two birds with one stone.
Yeah that would be the next thing is researching what to buy. I was thinking of the fold away racks since my garage space is limited but have no clue lol. I actually have another bench I bought for indoor stuff last winter that I can use if I get a rack I can do bench and squats on.
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At one point I was looking at this unit with the safety spotter arms shown (but not included in the price):
https://www.roguefitness.com/sml-2-rogue-90-monster-lite-squat-stand
With this monolift unit:
https://www.roguefitness.com/rogue-adjustable-monolift-monster-lite
Spendy set-up, but I think pretty safe for pushing squats when lifting alone.
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As long as it’s fine to just drop it behind me I’ll probably be ok. I’m still going to be going up in small increments I just don’t want to injure myself alone in my garage. Will probably just grab something like this I guess. I’ve felt the most uncomfortable walking the bar forward into that rack in the photo I showed previously. If I have something to just push the bar into I will fee much more comfortable I think. Sucks I bought a Rogue pull up bar and all these have pull up bars though lol.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01N4I8FOY/ref=ox_sc_act_title_1?smid=ATVPDKIKX0DER&psc=1
I stumbled forward on a squat a month ago. I think I gave myself turf toe that still bothers me if I lean too far forward. I’m sticking to high (8-10) reps and weight I can manage and not going to failure from now on. I’m too old to be killing it.
Broke 200 lbs for first time ever. Late in the day so that probably won’t stand for my normal post am poop weigh in.
In high school my best friend and I were unable to gain weight. We ate as much as we could every meal plus the Cartman weight gain calorie shakes PLUS 2 or more trips to the Dairy Queen for straight up ice cream and chocolate every day. Neither of us would gain an ounce. I never thought 200 was possible.
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I hear you there. I bought lifting shoes recently and focusing on the weight being centered on your foot helps a lot. I got ahead of myself the other day and leaned too far forward and the weight wasn’t a lot but made me worry about when the weight is a lot. I’m just doing linear progression and not huge jumps so should be fine but I’m a safety nerd.
The one I have or the one I linked that I may purchase?
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01N4I8FOY/ref=ox_sc_act_title_1?smid=ATVPDKIKX0DER&psc=1
Even though it’s good to know what you do, you really shouldn’t be failing a lot of squats. I probably failed about 3 squats in six years. During that time, I averaged one squat session a week. And one of those was with spotters, so it’s only really twice that I actually had to dump the weight.
About a year ago I changed to squatting in a cage with safeties. I’ve failed 3 in the last year. I also hit some PRs though. But I think there is definitely something about knowing that the safety is there that makes the failing more likely.
Hang on a second. You’re 5’11", 200lbs and you’re trying to gain weight intentionally?
Unless you’re got a pretty solid and specific plan, that is generally a bad move.
Did a 40 minute training run today with the following splits:
Mile 1 - 10:11 (warmup)
Mile 2 - 7:59 (target pace)
Mile 3 - 8:54 (couldn’t sustain target pace as long as i wanted)
Mile 4+ - 10:00 (cooldown)
Based on this I think that 8:00 is too fast for my next 5k attempt in a few weeks and I should try for something around 8:20 instead
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