Hmm. Perhaps. The other issue is space.
I think I could possibly squeeze in those individually stand alone squat stands. But it’s pushing it. And without the safety bars, I wouldn’t feel real comfortable squatting heavy.
Any ideas on space saver options that would still have the safety aspect covered?
I’ve got a rack myself and I normally don’t even squat inside of it. However, I always bench inside it with safeties.
For back squats, I would just dump the weight if I fail. Maybe I’m not really pushing myself, but I rarely fail a squat (only 2 reps lifetime). Early on, my coach made me practice dumping the weight a lot, so I would learn to fail safely.
Nevertheless, I do feel better with the safeties also. COVID has allowed me to lift more regularly, so I’m approaching PR territory and now I do squat in the rack with safeties.
The only answer to the safety issue I can think of is to only front squat. Just dropping the weight if you are going to fail a FS should be very safe, so you could get away with stands. And if you have bumper plates and a platform with rubber on the sides (that’s what I’ve got), you’re not going to damage anything if you need to just drop the weight.
I don’t have a platform. Space definitely doesn’t allow that. I do have two of the big rubber tiles that are used in platforms. They get moved around where I need them. Dumping 400 pounds onto the floor in a condo building would definitely be a no go, even with a platform.
The platform doesn’t really take up space, if you assemble it in the room in which it goes and you don’t need to move it.
I don’t think the dropping would be a structural issue. Maybe a noise issue.
My exercise room is over my crawl space and I don’t think the build is super-sturdy or anything, but I’m pretty sure I could drop 400lbs without breaking through the floor or anything. The platform really helps distribute the force across the floor.
I’m not sure if this counts, but riding my bike and I see her out running so I wave and we stop to talk. On pretense of checking out my riding jacket, she grabs my bicep and squeezes. Like hard enough to hurt. (Hey lady, don’t bruise the merchandise!) She controls the conversation and sends me on my way. Oh well, I guess I have more pushups to do.
We are gonna need more context, and possibly, further down the line, some pictures.
I’m thinking there’s a small chance she reads my posts so lol, no. Best I can do is recommend any of the novels of Jane Austen. Persuasion is close in some ways.
Ha, thanks. I hope she’s enjoying the process because I’m pretty much playing with my cards face up at this point.
If she knows you like her AND she’s touching you. That’s pretty positive.
Make a move dude.
I did, a while ago. Not a complete disaster, we’re still friends, but it left me pretty confused about what our relationship is or can be. She does like me. And she sure knows how I feel about her. It’s complicated, but I’m assured that all the answers are in Austen.
Maybe we need a lonely hearts thread?
Haha. I think this thread will work fine. There’s not a whole lot of fitness talk going on.
Just doing simple bodyweight stuff while figuring out what else I’d like to do.
Push ups: 200 reps (goal sub 20 minutes, hit 16:38)
4’ high squat jumps: 100 reps (goal sub 20 minutes hit 15:33)
Pull ups (tree outside): 12 reps three sets
Nice burn at the end but kind of a relaxed pace. I’ll treat those times as benchmarks to beat next time.
“Simple bodyweight stuff,” he says.
Nice work.
Well there are people out there using concrete blocks and milk jugs. Here I am just doing pushups. I guess I could blast off with traditional CrossFit stuff, but the thought makes me nauseous.
I was going to go for a run yesterday, but there are Amish families around me every half mile or so, and I’m not sure if I will be more embarrassed if their horse buggies pass me or if I pass them, so I just watched Mad Men.
Are you still using the Peloton app (without a Peloton lol)? How’s it going?
Sadly, no. I’m doing about as minimal of a work out one can do, if it even qualifies as a work out lol. Pushups, curls, crunches, squats. I’ll leave the number of reps out of it haha.
Been putting on weight since lockdown properly kicked in. Small bits here and there adding up.
Decided to download and start using a calorie tracker. Been pretty useful so far.
Things I’ve discovered from two days of using it.
None of this is completely unknown to me, but I’m finding it useful to keep track of it all together. Goal is to track calories for a couple of weeks until I get the hang of it.
Did another of these Friday and am back at it again today. Just focusing on getting a better time each session, then will think about adding reps/sets or figuring out something with higher intensity per rep. Maybe add clapping push ups.
June 1
Push ups
200 reps
13:14
Broke down into 30/30/30/30/20/20/20/20
Frog squats (box jumps without boxes)
100 reps
12:24
10 rep sets. This was hard.
Did the push ups out on the back deck. For a glimpse at just how hard I am socially distancing.
Down about 3-4 lbs eating mostly eggs, sausage, rice, and potatoes. A few snacks of course, like these bad boys.
I just wanted to update this and say that I did my seventh workout today. Squat, Bench/Press, Deadlift. I am going to subsitute pendlay rows for deadlifts soon. Otherwise still follow Starting Strength with “limited AMRAP” set on the last set. (I try to keep ~two reps in the tank, so the last set goes to RPE 8).
I will start running this weekend.
