3rd leg day down, I added some weight for sure. Hungry too.
I found bag mecca⌠and proceeded to wreck my shins. Switch kick was weak todayâŚ
IMO my quads are starting to fill in.
Camera was way off and did not show how red (and a big bump) my shins got
F#ck you shins, get wrecked (conditioned I mean)
Maybe some dayâŚ
Level -1 questionâŚ
⌠i hate exercise, also a workaholic, also have interspersed half-week long (4day/3day x 12h) oncall shifts every couple of weeks messing with my running habit forming.
⌠the initial lockdowns were awesome for me originally, picked up couch to 5k daily, got to 5k, but then stopped when it got too cold outside, this was 2 years ago and never picked it back up.
⌠any âeasyâ brain hacks?
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Hmmm, none Iâve done myself.
When I was younger, simply being consistent for a few weeks made it an addiction and it was self sustaining but Iâve felt that dwindle with age.
I think no easy hack is what makes Joko, David Goggins and the like popular. The whole âtuff sh#t, just do itâ pep talk.
Iâm trying to think of semi hacks Iâve heard of, things to help one be more consistent such as planning, structuring routines around a workout plan. For example âearningâ your dinner- you canât eat dinner unless you knock out that days excercise.
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Great vid of the pressures and unrealistic standards now on menâs looks.
In the wokeâesphere it was a big topic how much pressure magazines and Hollywood was putting on females in regards to unrealistic looks. At the risk of triggering some, I dare say itâs worse for men. The Thorâs, menâs fitness mag covers, various YouTube âfitness booggersâ and social media clout chasers have brought the expectation level to insane heights.
This vid hits it pretty good
Life shortening hella strict diets, lifestyle altering workout regimens, pharmacology etc just to not look âmehâ at todayâs expectations.
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A lot of people look at exercise as an extra thing that almost sort of operates on its own schedule outside of everything else that happens in your life. Thatâs why gyms are always packed in January and empty in June. If youâre super hyped about exercise thatâs great, but itâs not going to last unless you make it easy to fit in your schedule. Maybe that means just making it a weekend thing, and then once youâve got that down you can start thinking about where youâve got an hour here or there during the week. Frequency is important, and yeah youâre going to leaving some of your gains on the table without training daily, but itâs better than not training at all.
If youâre just getting started, or just returning to a regular exercise schedule, then Iâm going to say the routine is more important than the actual exercises that youâre doing. For someone untrained, the body is going to soak up adaptations in all the major areas of fitness almost regardless of whether itâs running, interval training, weight lifting or whatever it is youâre doing. Itâs only later youâve got to worry about optimizing for specific things.
Another thing to keep in mind, is that itâs not even close to being controversial that getting some physical activity during the day will help with your cognitive abilities also. If youâre a workaholic and spend all day doing thinky things instead of physical things, then getting some exercise will help with the thinky things also. Thatâs one of the main reasons that makes me want to leave the field of technology. I think itâs ridiculous that an entire industry full of people who spend all day figuring out how stuff works is constantly pushing people away from one of the best ways to get better at doing exactly that.
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Kids, donât forget to point your feet down/out when kicking⌠And I was just getting the hang of weak side
I donât even know how to treat this, just trim off the dangling parts and keep clean?
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Yeah pretty much. Itâs just annoying to have the dangly bits catching on socks and stuff. Just clip off what you can, and keep it clean. A lot of gyms will get on your case if youâve got longer nails anyway.
When I started with Judo one of the yellow belts there was like âyou should take care of those, or one of the black or brown belts here is going to kick your assâ. 
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I had just trimmed them, wasnât log but a kick to a pad will rip whatever is there if you are a derp like me
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Oh, yeah, I see, so you jammed it.
Yeah thatâs annoying.
And also the reason why people always get the âtake your rings offâ speech. Lots of horror stories around people forgetting to take their wedding rings off or something, and then having a similar thing happen. Itâs all just levels of bad from there.
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My ankle hurts now too lol.
Yeah very embarrassing as the coach is pretty intense and Iâm over there looking like a goober (horrible form) and then derping my toe into the pad.
Iâve lost 60lbs since May and hope to lose another 60lbs. I was a powerlifter in my youth which has turned out to be to worst thing I could have ever done to my body! My back is destroyed and now Iâm struggling to lose weight because a lot of it is muscle. Itâs pretty much assumed I will find my way into a wheel chair in the future. So right now Iâm trying to lose weight to ease the stress on my back and easier for me to push myself in a wheel chair if and when that time comes!
So take it easy with the weights you only get one body in this life! I certainly promote low weight high rep!
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I took a 3 day break and it is not being nice to my body. I can only do like 43 normal pushups, pause a few seconds in rest mode, go up to 51, drop dead, then do a plank for about 30 seconds.
Somehow, the muscles around my arms are getting bigger underneath, instead of on-top. So I assume I am only working the lower side muscles of my arms, which is to say the least probably not healthy. I might need some dumbbells or at least some buckets with water or something. Again, the goal is to be able to hold my whole body weight with one hand, so I could be able to climb stuff without my arms giving in.
Might want to try a different hand and elbow stance / location. I believe if you keep your elbows tucked close to the body really works the underside of the arm where a wide elbows out works more of the chest.
I donât think I can do any wider elbow stance when doing the pushups, itâs almost 90 degrees angle when I get close to the floor.
There should be some good YouTube vids of pushup arm positions to better target certain muscle groups. I keep my arms along the side, no longer a wide stance and that made my triceps much bigger- it also inflamed my upper bicep tendon soâŚ
If you are trying to up your climbing game do a good pull circuit (YouTube).
I donât have this problem, how do I get this problem? Lol.
Most people have a hard time keeping muscle, even at maintenance cals and lack of activity yet alone with a cut/deficit.
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I donât know, I see a lot of people complain about losing gains but that honestly isnât the kind of loss Iâm talking about. I experienced many times a loss of gains, get the flu and it feels like it took you back 6 months.
I was always told we never lose muscle and if we did it certainly wasnât good for our health. I have gone through muscle wasting from nerve damage and the doctors would be concerned. On the BMI scale Iâm supposed to be around 200lbs but the Drâs say themselves that will never happen, at best 270lbs. I will always technically be obese!
Iâm on a sauna research kick. I canât shake the feeling there is something bad about infrared saunas. All the talk is they are the best thing since ever, better than all other types but Iâm like âbut radiation though âŚâ
There are then reviews about EMF and cheap ones. I just want a good old fashioned element heated unit but infared has flooded the market.