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

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Lord of the Large Pants said:
Just getting back into kettlebells after many months away due to sickness/insomnia. I wasn't exactly Hercules before but I can feel how much I suck now and it's depressing.

But dammit I am going to become slightly above average again.
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I missed ~20 days and had to reduce all the weights by five pounds. First setback. Feels bad man.
 
How do you people train your upper back with dumbbells? Like the traps? I use dumbbell rows, but I would like to add another exercise to my repertoire. Also, I need some inspiration for abs training at home.
 
Otis Mallebrok said:
How do you people train your upper back with dumbbells? Like the traps? I use dumbbell rows, but I would like to add another exercise to my repertoire. Also, I need some inspiration for abs training at home.
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For abs, leg lifts, flutter kicks, Russian twists, planks, crunches. My favorites are the ab roller (standing or kneeling if you're learning), and hanging leg lifts with back support so you're focusing on your core and and not just your hips. I found hanging leg lifts from the pullup bar too easy to swing and get momentum. You can also keep your legs at a 90 degree angle while doing pullups. My upper abs are crazy after a month of ab roller and hanging leg lifts. Almost sticking out as far as my pecs
 
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I hope everyone is doing ok, especially Dick Brain and Fed Postal Service.
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I'm doing pretty good actually. I lost some strength during lent because I fasted for 24 days just to see how long I could go because I'm a fucking mongoloid like that and wanted to know what Jesus felt like but it's pretty much back now. I've settled into a pretty comfy routine where I aim for 4-5 day fasts during the work week and treat the weekends like I'm clean bulking, but being less strict with it than before and falling back to OMAD/IF when I feel like it. Still seeing slow and steady recomp doing that which is cool but probably not for everybody. Eating clean is easier now that it's warm enough to grill. Not really doing anything differently in the gym, though I've been taking mobility more seriously and seeing progress there too. Been on a couple rucks, got some backpacking trips planned. Life's alright.

My biggest problem as it pertains to lifting is just that I can't use the fucking weight sled because of this dickhead:

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If it keeps happening I'm just gonna plow right over him like

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Anyway the American spelling is meater.
 
CharlesBarkley said:
My girl started going to the gym with me and it sucks because she thinks I’m always looking at thots, when in reality im looking at dudes squat deep at 260 and being like “ahhh nice form…” in my head.
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Not that I'm in that situation but I've always been under the impression that couples in gyms usually don't commit to it for a long time. (even less than going with a buddy)
 
Wujime said:
N00b question, what's the good rule of thumb for adding weight? For example, if I curl a certain weight in 3 sets of 5 reps, should I just increase the weight and see if I can handle it or should I progress doing 3x10 and possibly 3x15 first? What about when I come to a weight which feels maximal, do I add 5 reps or like 2 a week?
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personally i aim to do 3 sets of 8 reps on most exercises, once i can do that successfully i add weight and see if i can still do 3x8. usually i can only manage something like 8-7-5 or 8-6-6 with the higher weight, so i keep training at that weight until i can do 3x8 again, and then it's time to go up again.

going up all the way to like 15 reps seems excessive to me but that's just because i personally don't like to do high rep counts, i find that a set where i hit (near) failure on the 14th or 15th rep is much more uncomfortable and fatiguing and exhausting than a set where i hit (near) failure on the 7th or 8th rep. but that's a matter of personal preference, if you enjoy higher rep sets then it's fine to train like that too. as long as you get close to hitting muscle failure on the last rep of your set, it's gonna give you a good training stimulus.
 
McKennai said:
Not that I'm in that situation but I've always been under the impression that couples in gyms usually don't commit to it for a long time. (even less than going with a buddy)
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It definitely adds friction. I have several hypotheses about it that probably sound like incel bullshit despite being informed by my own experience across several relationships but the bottom line is that women don't want to work out, they definitely don't want to do it in public, you will end up dragging them there, they will resent you for it, you will eventually give up and stop trying to drag them there, and they will resent you for that even more when they see you getting better while they get worse. You can't even safeguard against it by limiting your dating pool to women who already work out because every woman starts working out after a breakup, only a few of them actually care about it intrinsically. Which is normal, I think, but I'm not, so I suffer.

A friend of mine used to work out with his wife and one day she showed up late after he had already finished his whole workout and he just told her to have a good one and left and that's the most based shit he's ever done. You're a grown ass adult human being, it's nobody else's job to take care of your body.
 
whatsupwthat said:
It's actually impressive how consistently retarded you are on literally every topic discussed in this thread. I refuse to believe someone who lifts regularly could be this stupid though, so I have to ask. DYEL bro?
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I'm actually correct on every topic I posted about, so...
intensity > volume, and if you disagree you are wrong. Simple
the big 5 are not an universal recommendation that must be done in order to gain muscle and strength. Simple
 
I think one should try to make his routine as short as possible and aiming for low volume and high intensity and then over the weeks add volume whenever necessary for whatevr youre lagging. I don't think it is as simple as one being better than the other, but I'd lean more towards intensity
 
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