Pull-ups are hard.
Can do 5 now. IDK if reasonable but hope to get to 10 by end of the month.
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I can’t have a pullup bar in my apartment but I found I can hang from a door frame molding. Kind of hurts my fingers but I just did 7 unassisted. Woo.
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I had the same challenge and bought one of these. Folds away against a wall, but is a fairly serious commitment.
I’ve been loving it tho. Have been working up to 3 sets of 5 full ROM dead hang chinups, and working on ring dips with some Olympic rings that I hang from the bar.
Between this and the barbell. There’s very little I can’t do. The exception being heavy deadlifts or squats as a concession to living in an apartment building.
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You could definitely get a squat rack with a similar footprint to that. You just wouldn’t be able to fold it away.
Folding away is essential. When that is out it basically takes up the entire remaining space in my “gym”
Also. I’m generally worried about my floors. Me plus 180kg (400lb) would be 300kg/640lb. Is a lot of stress, even for a well built building.
Nice! I may get one in future. However. No way this would go on my rented condo plaster walls.
How does muscle soreness relate to gaining strength?
When I try something new, I’m sore for a few sessions but then I find I don’t usually get sore any more even if I think I’m pushing myself. I’m kind of sore right now after doing upper body stuff yesterday, even though I couldn’t do as many reps as I had been. Seems weird.
You can get strong without experiencing a ton of soreness. Usually soreness comes from exercising muscles that have not been heavily used recently. So if you get on a cycle of frequent training using the same movements you’ll likely get stronger at those movements without experiencing a ton of DOMS. If you change up your workouts frequently then you may experience more muscle soreness.
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Yeah. Ideally. You shouldn’t really be sore ever. Because most of your improvements come from slow and steady repetition.
It just comes from the first few times of working out after a lay off in my experience.
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The other trigger to keep in mind is that muscle soreness seems to be triggered mainly by eccentric loading. So if you’re doing a bunch of RDLs and your hamstrings are sore, I wouldn’t be too worried.
If anything, it’s inversely correlated.
If you’re getting DOMS, then you’re likely not on a program that has enough frequency and volume for you to build muscle mass.
This is an oversimplification, and probably not 100% true, but it’s probably close to the truth.
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Added floor press to home workout today. Not a perfect substitute for the bench, but pretty good. Will definitely be able to load it better than the weighted pushups I’ve been doing. Where I’m pretty sure my backpack is a few kgs from tearing.
Floor press is OK. But you can do a lot with pushups.
Try getting a vest for extra weight. Much better than a backpack.
Also try feet elevated on steps or feet-on-wall pushups.
Yeah floor press is a great exercise. Are you doing it with nor rack I assume? Getting a good amount of weight into position can be tough. I have to go pretty light, popping the bar up feels a little tenuous to me if I put on too much weight
Yeah. I’m going to keep pushups, but work towards one arm. Ive also got my ring dips twice a week.
I’ve got a back pack with 33kg in now. Doing pushups on parallel bars to get greater ROM. Was thinking about a vest, but they don’t get much heavier than that.
Yeah. No rack. Started pretty light at 75kg. Getting it up seemed fine, but obviously this will get harder over time.
I’ve start with the bar up on a couple of 50cm heavy rubber matts. Then kind of hip thrust it up. I think it was this thread which suggested that. Worked great.
Lol I think that was my recommendation. That’s how I do it.
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I’ve seen vests up to 50kg, but even 33kg was a lot more than I was imagining. That is one solid backpack you’ve got there.
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