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

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I try to eat a meal with carbs and salt about 2 to 3 hours before lifting. If I eat too close to my workout I get acid reflux.
 
mars said:
I try to eat a meal with carbs and salt about 2 to 3 hours before lifting. If I eat too close to my workout I get acid reflux.
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why don't you get a "during work out" drink?
Put a bag of tee in a thermic cup, add 3 tee spoon of sugar, honey, and hot water at the end. Close and shake, and drink it while you work out. You are basically getting tons of carbs that get transformed into insulin very easily. It's a much cheaper and simpler prework out basically, I found that works wonders for having energy during training
 
HowlingChasm said:
How do y’all go about pre-workout meal timing? I have an autistic insistence to lift 30min after a meal for no particular reason except it’s ritual. Maybe sometimes if I go longer I might feel blood sugar jitters that make me feel like I’m not going to be lifting optimally but otherwise it’s literally no logic to it.
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Small serving of carbohydrates (oatmeal). Having shit (literally) inside your body is not helpful for going inverted on the rings or sprinting around on the court. Same reason I don't drink a ton of water, I don't want it sloshing around my stomach.
 
Front box squat 1x5 155. Cry.

Back squat 230 reps with ease. Don’t cry.

I want to try the hip thrust machine, but I’m afraid teenage girls will make fun of me.
 
CharlesBarkley said:
I want to try the hip thrust machine, but I’m afraid teenage girls will make fun of me.
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If you start doing hip thrusts your foreskin will fuse with your peehole and the girls will titter so loud your bladder will resonate with their laughter and explode.

Fortunately, reverse lunges accomplish the same thing if you're trying to have a nice booty.
 
I've been working out at home for a long time. Started going to a commercial gym late summer of last year and my progress has been pretty great. On deadlifts I was always limited because my bar was pretty cheap and could only hold ~200kg max and I only had plates for maybe 190kg if I really squeezed my tiny dumbbell plates on. That way I reached 3x5 with 190kg a couple of times, most of the times working out with 180kg though.
The last months I've intensified my deadlift training at the gym, trying to break through the limit with high volume workouts (3x10 as a goal) in combination with other exercises like sled pushes that helped a lot. The last weeks I've managed to do sets of ten with 190kg and in one workout worked my way up to a 1RM with 230kg, both with straps but no belt. Attempted 240kg two weeks ago but only got it halfway up.
 
Found a $20 bill under the inverted situp bench today. Also, why are some of you insecure about doing hip thrusts, the only people that care are other insecure dudes lol.
 
The Stranger said:
Found a $20 bill under the inverted situp bench today. Also, why are some of you insecure about doing hip thrusts, the only people that care are other insecure dudes lol.
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men don't like training legs (and glutes specifically) because a) it's hard; b) those are "girly" exercises
the only thing girly about hip thrusts is the weight you put on it
 
24nagging said:
why don't you get a "during work out" drink?
Put a bag of tee in a thermic cup, add 3 tee spoon of sugar, honey, and hot water at the end. Close and shake, and drink it while you work out. You are basically getting tons of carbs that get transformed into insulin very easily. It's a much cheaper and simpler prework out basically, I found that works wonders for having energy during training
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Intra workout shakes are great, specially for when your training is long duration, the more volume you do per session the more you benefit from it because it gives you the energy that you need, I always use fruit, protein powder (preferably strawberry since it works better with fruits, chocolate does not) and milk, in fact, if you want some 200 IQ hack you can prepare your protein and carbs in advance by putting them inside those tiny zipper bags, one zipper bag with protein, one zipper bag with carbs of some kind (oatmeal, cornflakes, dextrose), another zipper bag with powder milk, and then you place those bags inside your shaker, when you are ready to work out you just add water, it is better than preparing it and leaving it there all day until it's time to workout, you can't prepare your intra-workout drink in the morning and train in the afternoon after work, it will spoil, but you can do this.
 
Anime Waifu NFT collector said:
Intra workout shakes are great, specially for when your training is long duration, the more volume you do per session the more you benefit from it because it gives you the energy that you need, I always use fruit, protein powder (preferably strawberry since it works better with fruits, chocolate does not) and milk, in fact, if you want some 200 IQ hack you can prepare your protein and carbs in advance by putting them inside those tiny zipper bags, one zipper bag with protein, one zipper bag with carbs of some kind (oatmeal, cornflakes, dextrose), another zipper bag with powder milk, and then you place those bags inside your shaker, when you are ready to work out you just add water, it is better than preparing it and leaving it there all day until it's time to workout, you can't prepare your intra-workout drink in the morning and train in the afternoon after work, it will spoil, but you can do this.
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I used to get dizzy and light headed (like if my blood pressure dropped) when I did legs. Of course the climate in my area was not ideal for weight lifting, but on top of that I did very heavy sets to failure. I tried to get in salt before work outs, and that helped a little, but I still got low bp by the end of training.
Then I did two things, added this intra workout shake, and I lowered the intensity (2 RIR for compound movements) and I've never felt better doing legs
 
Struggled through the workout today because I slept like shit all weekend. As I was getting ready to leave one of the other regulars (who is in super good shape himself) came up and gave me some kind words for having been working hard the last couple months and looking good for it etc. Was a good morale booster; as someone still relatively new to the lifting life it's hard sometimes to feel like I'm doing well enough and like it's all worth it.

If you're in a position to offer some praise to someone in your gym in a casual manner, do it. I appreciated it and the person you do it for probably will too.
 
I don't post this for communicational masturbation, I just wanted to say that I started to take with me blood flood restriction bands (occlusion), and two elastic bands, when I have the time I do tricep pushdowns and bicep curls myoreps with the bands, and also when I have free time I run around the block to train my cardio, my point being that if you really want to exercise you will take those 5 or 10 minutes of free time and instead of doom scrolling or talking to someone you are gonna exercise, Sean Nalewanyj made a video about how when he was 15 he didn't had a squat rack, so during winter he would take his bar outside, make a squat rack out of snow and squat on the backyard, if you truly have the willpower you will exercise anywhere, no excuses, during your lunch break you can go to a gym close to you, work out outside, run around the block, etc. Most things can be done fairly quickly with a combination of BFR, myoreps or drop sets, "He who has a why can bear almost any how" as the horse lover would say.
 
Finally my knee is about back to normal. Maybe at 90% right now. I tried some heavier reps on it and nothing exploded just a little soreness that quickly went away. Lost a LOT of strength unfortunately. Was repping 850lb leg presses for 10, best effort now is 550 for 15. I know it'll come back quick enough, still I don't plan to rush it. I plan to stay in the 15 rep range on most quad heavy movements for another month. I kinda want to wear my knee sleeves as injury prevention but I'm doing such low weight right now that it seems performative to wear them lol.
 
Saw a dude who dressed like an obsessive runner (socks tucked OVER the pants) trying get his shoulder ultrasounded, dude had the biggest forearms. Wanted to ask how many pull ups he could do but the situation was just too awkward to strike up a conversation, plus I was intimidated by his girthy forearms. Bigger than his biceps.

Thank you for reading my homoerotic nano-blawg.
 
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