Weightlifting for Kiwis - Discussion and support regarding the art of swole

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Lifting light dumb bells, with elbows really in tight to the side. Lifting the weight up as far as the forearm can go, squeezing the bicep muscle while pressing the elbows hard into the side of the body. Feels like this hits the bicep muscle in a whole new way.
 
Sundays are the best days imo as long as you go early. Churchgoers are at church, Januaries usually don't bother and college dudebros are usually hung over. I'd imagine midday is awful though.

e: i fucking cursed myself, there was someone with a bench and dumbbells doing calisthenics in the smith cage today
Croco said:
Lifting light dumb bells, with elbows really in tight to the side. Lifting the weight up as far as the forearm can go, squeezing the bicep muscle while pressing the elbows hard into the side of the body. Feels like this hits the bicep muscle in a whole new way.
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That's the way I settled on doing them working around my elbow issues. Works well and you can do it without a bench for support.

Re: Music that hasn't been mentioned yet: Rez soundtrack; especially if it's like 5AM. If it's not explicitly this one it fucking sucks, it was composed to be incrementally layering and the others just get rid of that and give you like 3 minutes of all the layers at once and no smooth transitions into the boss songs.

A conversation offsite about Rekieta and his scuffles with other lawtubers (specifically one who's recently got into powerlifting) resulted in someone pointing out the other lawtuber could bench multiple copies of Rekieta and given that he said he was 90 pounds for some autistic reason that wedged in my brain as an increment of weight equal to one 45 on each side of the bar. Can you really call yourself a lifter if you can't bench at least two copies of Rekieta?:really:
 
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24nagging said:
I would have to do 6,000,000 pushups and squats for me to fail, making it a gigantic waste of time if I have access to any type of equipment
dips and pulls are fine tho, but eventually you would need to add some weight if you don't wanna do +20 dips and pulls
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That many, eh? What if I told you God promised you the gains 3000 years ago if you'd only add calisthenics in to your programming.

I didn't add any weight until I got to sets of at least 25+ on dips and pullups.
 
Dean Pentel said:
That many, eh? What if I told you God promised you the gains 3000 years ago if you'd only add calisthenics in to your programming.

I didn't add any weight until I got to sets of at least 25+ on dips and pullups.
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What the elites don't want you to know is calisthenics are free. You can just go to the park and do them.
 
The thing about OHP is that you need to consider what your goals are, if you only care about looking good then you don't need to OHP at all, other exercises (such as super ROM front raises) are better to train your front delts and cause less fatigue, if you want to OHP because you want to OHP then it's fine, but if you are doing it just because everyone else is doing it then consider if it's what gets you closer to your goal in the most optimal way.

Also, there was a study done that I saw in a Milo Wolf video about doing chest first and triceps afterwards, vs, doing triceps first and chest afterwards: The result was that the people who trained chest first got 21% more chest growth than the second group, in the other hand, the group that trained triceps first got 8% more triceps growth than the group that started with chest; the lesson to learn from that is that if you want to maximize overall muscle size you start with the big muscles, then do the smaller ones, so you should leave OHP for later in the session when you train chest.
 
Anime Waifu NFT collector said:
The thing about OHP is that you need to consider what your goals are, if you only care about looking good then you don't need to OHP at all, other exercises (such as super ROM front raises) are better to train your front delts and cause less fatigue, if you want to OHP because you want to OHP then it's fine, but if you are doing it just because everyone else is doing it then consider if it's what gets you closer to your goal in the most optimal way.
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OHP is my ego lift. It’s just based to lift 2pl8 over your head like a goddamn sexual tyrannosaurus. I know there are smarter training methods for shoulders but nothing is as fun.

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Coincidentally, I just scored 80lbs of dumbbells and it’s humbling to get your ass kicked by 15lbs lateral raises.
 
I'm so fucking tired of rhomboid pain I'm SICK OF IT I can't even figure out what I'm doing wrong at this point
 
Holy shit I made an amazing smoothie recipe today.

1 cup water
1 cup mixed fruit (strawberries, blueberries, raspberries)
1 cup kale
6 tbsp peanut butter
2 tbsp chia seeds
1 scoop protein powder. I use Iso100, fruity pebbles flavor. I'm not sure how much a difference it made to the flavor but it smells like fruity pebbles.

Macros come out to:
57g fat (only 5 of which is saturated)
51g carbs (20.5 are sugar)
54g protein
933 calories.

If you try it don't take your time drinking it. The chia seeds tend to absorb water and it'll turn into sludge if you let it sit too long.
 
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Behind the neck pulldowns are fine. Its a real exercise. A lot of people avoid them because of shoulder issues but if they don't cause pain they're a good variation. If the guy was going totally behind his back... Then i don't know about that.
 
dick brain said:
I'm so fucking tired of rhomboid pain I'm SICK OF IT I can't even figure out what I'm doing wrong at this point
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You should do myorep incline Y raises with the thumbs up, and focus on using your lower traps rather than the shoulders to move your arms, you don't need to fully relax at the bottom like in this video and your arms don't need to point that far out either, I have been doing myoreps of this (8 sets) because it's a very fast way of doing lots of sets, it's working great, first time I did it a few weeks ago I could feel the lower traps sore the next day.

Using the same weight rest for about 10 seconds in between sets, very good for isolations since your won't run out of breath doing this

 
mars said:
If you lean too far back you just turn it into a row
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the pulldown is a vertical row (a pulling movement for the back muscles) if you think about it (they start the same way (scapular retraction) for example).
Also I don't follow AX, just found the image illustrative.
 
Is CrossFit considered weightlifting if you go to the courses more about strength than aerobics? I just find it easier to have a program each week and an instructor that will tell me I'm not doing motions correctly.
 
wtfNeedSignUp said:
Is CrossFit considered weightlifting if you go to the courses more about strength than aerobics? I just find it easier to have a program each week and an instructor that will tell me I'm not doing motions correctly.
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If you're lifting weights, it's weightlifting. The one thing I haven't seen in my limited exposure to Crossfit is weight progression; the focus is more on a routine, not necessarily becoming stronger. Maybe the strength course you're looking at has progression, I don't know.

Crossfit is great if it motivates you to consistently workout and you enjoy the routine, and don't mind the cost. But you can find plenty of reasons or people who will shit on it if that's what you're looking for.
 
Jerk Sausage said:
If you're lifting weights, it's weightlifting. The one thing I haven't seen in my limited exposure to Crossfit is weight progression; the focus is more on a routine, not necessarily becoming stronger. Maybe the strength course you're looking at has progression, I don't know.

Crossfit is great if it motivates you to consistently workout and you enjoy the routine, and don't mind the cost. But you can find plenty of reasons or people who will shit on it if that's what you're looking for.
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I've been doing it for years now, progression is mainly if your mindset is set on incrementally raising the weights, but getting to very high levels really depends on the program. In the Uni I got to pretty decent weights, but nowadays I'm trying to keep my gains and not destroy my lower back.

Issue with CrossFit is that it can veer to absolutely retarded workouts that are meant to look more impressive than practical.
 
wtfNeedSignUp said:
Issue with CrossFit is that it can veer to absolutely retarded workouts that are meant to look more impressive than practical.
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And that's my main issue with it as well, the circuit-training and superset aspect of it. I like focusing all of my effort on a single exercise, breaking for as long as I see fit, and continue that one exercise until I'm at or nearing exhaustion on it. It doesn't look impressive, the majority of my time is spent resting, and the work only takes 20-30 seconds per set.

Crossfit is more about consistent action, higher volume, moderate intensity, and mixing different exercises. Which again, if that works for you and the alternative is doing nothing and losing gains, is great.

If you've been doing it for years, what are you considering?
 
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