thread of getting sw0le

the new alpinism is talking about it a lot

sick i love the future

sick r u doing the extra weight instead of more reps to get swole or what

― lag∞n, Wednesday, November 12, 2014 10:55 PM Bookmark Flag Post

i have no idea why i am doing it this way :/

haha

alpinism is just walking a lot and swinging tools and imo is a better benchmark for fitness than dumb ol olympic lifting

u must have mistaken this for the fitness thread BRO

this thread is about getting SHREDDED

and also complaining about hurty joints

love 2 shred love 2 become very robust

I just learned how to do lifting stuff honestly I'm p...*pumped* about it

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-vf3Hr09ea1Y/TkbOx8VupOI/AAAAAAAACS8/2x8bUOadEJc/s1600/fist-bump.jpg

i have been enjoying doing body weight-only stuff at home but i rly wanna get some kettlebells

i wd need to get a gym buddy to go to a (free) gym

planet fitness is wildly inexpensive morbs fwiw, and if u show up early enough theres free coffee/bagels (dunkin donuts brand)

haha bagels at the gym, what's the point of that?

the whole concept of "gym buddy" makes me shudder, i imagine dudes with fingerless gloves hitting each other on the arm and barking at each other like seals then going back home to pound protein shakes and browse expensive watches online

its good to have someone to spot u, also protein shakes are a must, not that i ever go to the gym or workout w anyone lol

haha bagels at the gym, what's the point of that?

― things lose meaning over time (Dr Morbius), Friday, November 14, 2014 11:56 AM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

idk just food i guess lol

eat yr carbs

TH, that is total hotness except for the expensive watches

haha whoops

lol

and the gloves *proud of calluses*

oh I just found out the extra 30 prescribed steroid tablets I was sent can't be returned... hmm, what to do

u can become the gym drug dealer

quick update. been working on dem legs. looking so much better. upper legs (thighs/quads/etc) are looking decent, but i kind of left my calves behind..UH OH.

Will start hill intervals after I finish unpacking (just moved, which threw my schedule off course).

I'm learning that I used to overtrain. By doing less days, I'm getting better results, especially since I don't have the time to eat 3000 calories a day.

although the whole gym bro culture still exist, I see a lot of regular people getting into the free weights, squatting heavy and getting sw0le . it's cool

how many days are you doing? xp yes always great to see a variety of people getting into it

xxp yes ! i had to dial stuff back too and take some real recovery time between heavy lift days and it's been good. I'm making gains but not feeling so beat down.

recovery is so important, also eating

although the whole gym bro culture still exist, I see a lot of regular people getting into the free weights, squatting heavy and getting sw0le . it's cool

― (•̪●) (carne asada), Friday, November 14, 2014 1:06 PM (8 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

feel like the gym bro culture has changed so much too like hardcore bros these day tend to be so low key and supportive and they just want to like jump up on to boxes with their friends

and the gloves *proud of calluses*

― mattresslessness, Friday, November 14, 2014 11:23 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

proper grip should minimize calluses *stares at u paternally*

hm i thought i had a hook grip but my thumb needs to go in between fingers and bar. every time i post in this thread i figure something out. thanks all you hot dads!

and dadettes

Whoa! Just discovered this thread, so excuse the long intro post, but I could use some advice from y'all.

I'm decidedly not a gym bro. I'm a scrawny guy who just started hitting the gym well into adulthood two years ago, and I discovered that I really like it. For the last two years I've worked out about four times a week, usually doing basic push/pull exercises, trying to vary my routines, occasionally mixing in other exercise (yoga, kickboxing for awhile, biking, swimming, even Crossfit for a bit, none of which I stuck to too long). I haven't bulked up the way a guy with a bigger bone structure would have working out so much, but I've felt pretty good about myself all things considered. My arms are no longer disturbing little sticks, and for a while I even had defined pecs.

So here's the problem: Five months ago I suddenly experienced moderate shoulder pain. Nothing debilitating or motion-limiting, but it never went away. After visits to two orthopedists, it was diagnosed as an AC joint injury—commonly called weightlifter's shoulder. It's an injury brought on by too many presses, push-ups, planks and dips, which, as cruel fate would have it, were some of my very favorite exercises to do. SO yeah, I brought it on myself without knowing it.

So now after acquiring a taste for working out, I'm be told I can't do it. For the last month I cut all those offending exercises out of my routine (replacing presses with flies, at my orthopedist's suggestion), but that hasn't really improved things. So this week I have committed myself to taking a full week off from the gym completely, and a second if need be. It's hard, and I'm obsessed with how rapidly I am losing the muscle I worked very, very hard to gain.

Does anybody have any advice, or has anybody experienced a similar injury? I don't know how long I should stay out of the gym for. The cruel thing is there's very little direct correlation between when and how I work out and how I experience the pain. Some days my shoulder feels perfect after a hard workout. Some days it's sore after doing nothing. The pain is mild enough that I could easily push through it, but it's been lingering for so long I just want it over with.

hmmm well, not a doctor of course, but maybe heavier lifts and less repetition would help? i say this as fully bought-in member of the cult of heavy.

the key lifts of a heavy full body program are squat and deadlift, and those only involve the shoulder in a secondary way. you could do those without any arm work and still be ok maybe? great for gaining weight too.

fyi my pulled back muscle from this summer (!) is p much back to normal. finally. still feels a little tight a lot of the time tho, i guess that's the new normal for a guy my age.

and i've never done hook grip! i should probably give it a try now while my DL is still at a low weight from rehabbing my back. does it help?

I've decreased my weights quite a bit, out of fear that I might pull or aggravate something or do a lift or press wrong. But since AC joint injuries are repetitive stress injuries, maybe it would make more sense to do less lifts with more weight. I really have no idea but I could try it.

i have a janky shoulder too. never quite heals.

you can try: neutral grip presses with dumbbells (palms facing each other), make sure your elbows are tucked in and not out wide.

Oh that sounds like a good grip idea. It'll be nice doing something that's not a fly.

What's wrong with your shoulder?

who knows! tends to be aggravated most by bench press though. especially if I try to go too heavy.

lots and lots of reps with tiny little dumbbells helped heal my cranky shoulders

search "shoulder joint stabilization" for rehab exercises

I have 2 tiny little dumbbells at home, but I haven't touched em in two years bcz after myeloma knocked the shit out of my bones, I'm afraid my arms will fall off. I know I should just ask the doctors or one of my health plan's available "consultants."

i have done this routine in the past and it's helped with lingering shoulder issues

http://www.rawstrengthandconditioning.com/raw-home/overhead-stability-and-mobility-bulletproof-shoulders.html

yes but have u actually fired bullets at them

Have any of you ever had to take a significant amount of time off from the gym because of an injury? If so, how'd you cope? How bad were the losses, and how long did it take you to rebuild?

just my opinion but my feeling has always been that taking time off, even a month or so, doesn't have that big an impact on muscle growth. it's more psychological than anything, and after a few sessions I tend to be back where I was after I left off. I'm sure I'm wrong about this but us in the swole brigade tend to be more anxious about taking time off than we need to be.

it's a marathon not a sprint, etc.

yeah wld think itd take quite a bit longer than that to get srsly out of shape

i was mostly off this summer and haven't lost much progress. i never make much progress anyway though :)

That is very encouraging; pretty much exactly what I needed to hear right now