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

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24nagging said:
why would you ever in your life do weightlifting moves in a commercial gym? They are so ineffective for strength and hypertrophy, and so prone to injury and exhaustion
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My gym has the weights and platforms to do them. I program them in as my day 7 during the winter as a way to still go to the gym and move without exerting myself
 
CrunkLord420 said:
Are people really drinking a ton of water while working out? I try hydrate before so I don't have to drink water while I'm doing shit. I'm doing like 45 minutes of cardio and I'll drink half a shaker bottle worth of water.

Basketball felt great on my injured hand, dribbling and shooting really gets your hands pumped up with blood. Feels better, inflammation has come down.
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I do it to regulate temperature more than anything. It's not a problem when I run or ruck but when I'm stationary I start burning up.
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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Just grunt and moan a bunch. Talk dirty to the bar. Own it.
Anime Waifu NFT collector said:
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.
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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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I actually tried taking a tablespoon of honey with my pre-workout because of this post. I do think it helped. My workouts aren't long enough for intra-workout carbs to matter too much (75ish minutes usually) but a little preload of quick carbs seemed to help. I do take two forms of pre-workout though. A high stim pre-workout (Transparent Bulk Black) and a non stim pump oriented formula (Ryse Pump Daddy v2). Not for any special reason except I get a better mind/muscle connection when I can feel a big pump in the muscle and also it's really fun feeling.
 
mars said:
I actually tried taking a tablespoon of honey with my pre-workout because of this post. I do think it helped. My workouts aren't long enough for intra-workout carbs to matter too much (75ish minutes usually) but a little preload of quick carbs seemed to help. I do take two forms of pre-workout though. A high stim pre-workout (Transparent Bulk Black) and a non stim pump oriented formula (Ryse Pump Daddy v2). Not for any special reason except I get a better mind/muscle connection when I can feel a big pump in the muscle and also it's really fun feeling.
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Same. Just half a tablespoon of sugar in the water bottle past few days.

When buddy mentioned it - it reminded me of a hike and a bag of candy from a while back. In retrospect the sugar helped us a lot with the final leg. It makes sense, glucose can hit your bloodstream before it even reaches your stomach. Like giving a cookie to a diabetic. Neat trick.
 
24nagging said:
why would you ever in your life do weightlifting moves in a commercial gym? They are so ineffective for strength and hypertrophy, and so prone to injury and exhaustion
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I think that people do olympic weightlifting because they want to be special, it's cynical but I don't see any other reason, I saw a Clarence Kennedy video that spoke about why so few people do weightlifting, his reasons were that young people do hypertrophy because they want to get girls and older people do powerlifting because they no longer care about that (the tacit implication being that hypertrophy is a waste of time and powerlifting is better), and weightlifting is harder to do so that's why less people do it, but the argument from him was never that weightlifting is silly and not useful to achieve things other than being good at weightlifting, and it doesn't even translate well to other sports, why would I care about getting good at the overhead squat or powerclean?
 
Any tips on Romanian deadlifts? I want to get the form right before adding weight. I've watched a few videos and have been practicing hip hinges in the mirror the last few days. I feel like I'm getting the gist of it; backward with the hip, keep the back straight, don't go too far down that it bends either way, then thrust forward to get yourself back upright.

Anyone have anything to add? Even if it's something stupid like what you think of while doing it to keep yourself correct, it might just be "eureka" I need to get me to start actually doing them.
 
porkWellington said:
Any tips on Romanian deadlifts? I want to get the form right before adding weight. I've watched a few videos and have been practicing hip hinges in the mirror the last few days. I feel like I'm getting the gist of it; backward with the hip, keep the back straight, don't go too far down that it bends either way, then thrust forward to get yourself back upright.

Anyone have anything to add? Even if it's something stupid like what you think of while doing it to keep yourself correct, it might just be "eureka" I need to get me to start actually doing them.
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I would just say not to add too much weight. Just keep upping the weight until the form breaks down and then go back down until you get the form correct
 
Anime Waifu NFT collector said:
I think that people do olympic weightlifting because they want to be special, it's cynical but I don't see any other reason
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I imagine it's easier to compare dick sizes online if everyone just agrees to lift and measure themselves to the Olympic standard - rather than clarifying a dozen details and variations. It also gives you records to beat: "I'm half way to Michael Asher" - and you're measuring against guys who have been tested for drugs and steroids.

I have a hard time ranking myself against other guys in the gym because they might take twice as long to rest, or they're training for volume, or their whole routine is dedicated to upper body while I'm all-rounding. And hey, they may be juicing. Am I doing well for my demographic? I can't tell. I end up looking at stats and recommended ranges instead.

Comparison is the thief of joy, but one of the reasons I got into this is to better size up the strength of an opponent if a fight is in the air - and to make sure I'm strong enough to cash any cheques my mouth may write. So I'm surreptitiously studying everyone else in the gym regardless.

porkWellington said:
Anyone have anything to add?
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Just that everything I've seen says to keep your head up and don't tuck your chin in. I guess it helps prevent you from bowing your back.
 
porkWellington said:
Any tips on Romanian deadlifts? I want to get the form right before adding weight. I've watched a few videos and have been practicing hip hinges in the mirror the last few days. I feel like I'm getting the gist of it; backward with the hip, keep the back straight, don't go too far down that it bends either way, then thrust forward to get yourself back upright.

Anyone have anything to add? Even if it's something stupid like what you think of while doing it to keep yourself correct, it might just be "eureka" I need to get me to start actually doing them.
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think about moving your ass back, not the bar down. You should feel a stretch on the bottom, even with very little weight. Don't use straps until you feel you got the movement down, then use it (you are not training your forearms, you are training your glutes and hams, so use them).
If you're lower back start hurting in an odd way (aka it's not a pump), stop doing it for a while, check your form, do alternatives like smith machine RDLs, or DBs RDLs, or hip thrusts, and try again
 
Looks like my hand is gonna make a full recovery. Confirmed no fractures and everything is working fine. I thought my knuckles may have changed shape slightly (alignment) but even that is coming back as my pinky knuckle recovers.

I feel like basketball has been super effective rehab for my hand. Basically cardio, plyometrics for the hand. Hands pumped up full of blood by the end. Next time you hurt your hand, try dribbling a ball.
 
Can I get some advice? I don't seem to be making any progress, I have been spending my time watching "Full Day of Eating, Road to 300lbs" videos, I also watch "X days out" videos by my favorite natty vegan bodybuilders and I watch collabs between influencers all the time, I consume one hour of media a day (sometimes more) of analobic gymbro related content, t but I don't seem to be getting any bigger, please help, how do I optimize my protocol?
 
Anime Waifu NFT collector said:
Can I get some advice? I don't seem to be making any progress, I have been spending my time watching "Full Day of Eating, Road to 300lbs" videos, I also watch "X days out" videos by my favorite natty vegan bodybuilders and I watch collabs between influencers all the time, I consume one hour of media a day (sometimes more) of analobic gymbro related content, t but I don't seem to be getting any bigger, please help, how do I optimize my protocol?
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Why are you shitposting in my wholesome weightlifting thread
 
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