Beginner Fitness: Daily Simple Questions Thread - March 07, 2020 |
- Daily Simple Questions Thread - March 07, 2020
- People who have gone from fat to fit what was your why/reason/purpose? How important was it for you that you were willing to go through all those hardwork?
- Gym Story Saturday
- Feeling uncomfortable switching with bigger/stronger people at the gym
- Inner Chest accessories
- Should i do the SAME exercises on the SAME muscles everyday if im doing low weights/high reps?
- Eating a lot of sugary food right after cardio if I'm at bulking/maintanence?
- How are we affected by an all out effort with no warmup?
- Self-Promotion Saturday
- What squat/deadlift program to run next to the Smolov Jr. Bench program?
- Programs like GZCLP and 5/3/1 and back work
- Food for bulking
- Sick of yo-yoing between determined to improve and then justifying bad diet choices. (22M, 6ft4, 202).
- I need some advice on some lifts.
| Daily Simple Questions Thread - March 07, 2020 Posted: 07 Mar 2020 02:04 AM PST Welcome to the /r/Fitness Daily Simple Questions Thread - Our daily thread to ask about all things fitness. Post your questions here related to your diet and nutrition or your training routine and exercises. Anyone can post a question and the community as a whole is invited and encouraged to provide an answer. As always, be sure to read the wiki first. Like, all of it.Also, there's a handy-dandy search bar to your right, and if you didn't know, you can also use Google to search fittit by using the limiter "site:reddit.com/r/fitness" after your search topic. Other good resources to search are Exrx.net for exercise-related topics and Examine.com for nutrition and supplement science. Be aware that the more relevant information you add, the more relevant the answers you receive will be. And if you are posting about your routine, please make sure you follow the guidelines. (Please note: This is not a place for general small talk or chit-chat. Also, the community decided long ago that we keep jokes, trolling, and memes outside of the Daily Q&A threads. Please use the downvote / report button when necessary.) [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 06 Mar 2020 11:23 PM PST I was depressed, unhealthy and fat, my body fat was easily around 25% so I decided to turn my life around. Started hitting the gym and after more than a year I have lost a ton of weight and now my body fat is at around 14%. Now that last 2% is damn hard! I've tried everything, increase my workout intensity, variation, caloric deficit, I just canr lose that last 2%. I know that if I want to lose more fat I have to put extra work that I have but I just don't have the energy to do it because I have to balance my busy work and personal life as well. People who have gone through similar experience, how did you persist to reach whatever your goal was? [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 07 Mar 2020 12:03 AM PST Hi! Welcome to your weekly thread where you can share your gym tales! [link] [comments] |
| Feeling uncomfortable switching with bigger/stronger people at the gym Posted: 07 Mar 2020 12:18 AM PST So, my gym is quite small and only has two benches and two squat racks. I'm a small-ish female, not particularly strong. Every time someone is using them, I feel very uncomfortable asking them to switch because I'm using much less weight and don't want to get in the way of their workout by having to constantly change the weights. I've also noticed that when I'm using one of the benches/squat racks and a bigger guy is using the other one, whenever someone else wants to bench press/squat, they ask to switch with the guy and not me. It makes me feel super uncomfortable and like they have to compromise on their workouts because of me. I wouldn't mind switching at all if asked, they just never ask. And if I see two guys using the bench/squat rack, I just do another exercise and wait for one of them to finish even though it means I have to completely rearrange my entire workout and usually not do my main lift (or use less weight than I intended). I'm sorry if this is a stupid question, but I just wanted to ask... For all you bigger/stronger dudes, how does it feel on the other side? And for other smaller people, do you experience this as well and how do you deal with it? Is it a legit issue or am I just too much in my head? [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 07 Mar 2020 01:41 AM PST 22m 182lbs Bench 1rm 205lbs So I've been actively working out for about 15 months now and I'm glad to say that I'm seeing some good results. I'd like to think that I could separate what's real and bs when looking for info online. But sometimes I have a tough time telling. I've been told by gym buddies and some online videos that I have to do flyes and cable extensions to "target" my inner chest. Could I develop a good chest just by progressively overloading flat and incline bench? I'm a little insecure about my "inner chest" since it seems that it's not as developed as I would want it to be. tl;dr is there such a thing as focusing work on the inner chest or is it broscience? [link] [comments] |
| Should i do the SAME exercises on the SAME muscles everyday if im doing low weights/high reps? Posted: 07 Mar 2020 12:06 AM PST For upper body i can do low weights high reps, theres no way i can do heavy weights at all anytime soon due to a chronic elbow injury. The pain is just dreadful. For lower body yes i could go heavy with squats and leg presses. Not deadlifts tho as that involves using my arms to lift extremely heavy bars. Would all this be good enough? My main question, since im doing low weights only which means im not doing too much volume on the muscles...can i do the same exercises on the same muscles daily? Or should i still split them out and do different muscle groups each day? [link] [comments] |
| Eating a lot of sugary food right after cardio if I'm at bulking/maintanence? Posted: 07 Mar 2020 03:13 AM PST cant seem to find any related post to this so thought I'd ask here. If I were to go for a super intense cardio session of running like mad but I immediately consume say, 50g of sugar, right after my workout...is that unhealthy? I read a research somewhere that your body actually needs sugar after a workout, since it's the fastest energy source of digestion. Do note also I"m not looking to lose weight or anything [link] [comments] |
| How are we affected by an all out effort with no warmup? Posted: 07 Mar 2020 02:54 AM PST I PB'd my 5K parkrun time this morning after rolling out of bed and just making it to the start line in time. I ran a smart race and gave everything at the end. I felt terrible, as if I was choking on my lung like a smoker of 20 years. After the finish line I felt dizzy and couldnt catch my breath. I knew it wasnt a good idea to try to PB but was feeling good. Why is this not a good idea? I know we need to prepare our body for a workout to warm up our muscles and open the capillaries, but after 7-8 mins I was fully warmed up anyway. Why do we feel terrible afterwards and can this have any negative affects going forward e.g. getting sick? [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 07 Mar 2020 02:04 AM PST Welcome to Self-Promotion Saturday This thread will serve as a weekly AutoModerator post, for anyone looking to get exposure for their Instagram, Youtube, blogspot, RedditMade, Kickstarter, TeeSpring, MySpace, AOL, stand-alone website, or stand-alone physical product. This post is the one time where people can advertise without repercussions, and the one thread when anything goes. All other advertisements will continue to be removed as per Rule #8. [link] [comments] |
| What squat/deadlift program to run next to the Smolov Jr. Bench program? Posted: 07 Mar 2020 12:55 AM PST Hey all, so I am currently looking to run a Smolov Jr. Bench program. For the people who don't know what that is: Week 2: Day 1: 6x6 @ 70%, Day 2: 7x5 @ 75%, Day 3: 8x4 @ 80%, Day 4: 10x3 @ 85% (+5-10lbs for every day) Week 3: Day 1: 6x6 @ 70%, Day 2: 7x5 @ 75%, Day 3: 8x4 @ 80%, Day 4: 10x3 @ 85% (+10-20lbs for every day) I am a 23M, 188cm, weight: 195ish. I want to incoperate atleast 2 days of squats and 1 day of deadlifts into my programming, however, Im not sure what program to run next to the Smolov Jr. Bench program. Does anyone have any tips on what program to run? I can squat or DL during my bench days, but I rather not because I will spend a lot of time in the gym.. [link] [comments] |
| Programs like GZCLP and 5/3/1 and back work Posted: 07 Mar 2020 03:13 AM PST Recently switched from the recommended beginner routine to GZCLP and loving it.
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| Posted: 07 Mar 2020 02:54 AM PST I am one of those people who get full very easily but am able to eat a solid 3000 calories a day with hourly food and medium sized meals. Is this worse than having 3 big meals a day? [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 07 Mar 2020 01:26 AM PST Hey everyone. Ever since maybe the end of high school, I've dreamt of looking great in my body. For me that's always been having impressive arms or abs, I'm a pretty basic dude. However for my uni years (18-now), I've never achieved my dream body. Instead, I sit somewhere between skinnyfat at my smallest weight (176 pounds in my first year of uni after eating 1300 calories a day) and just plain fat at my largest (235 pounds 2 years ago after a "bulk" that didn't really work out). While the literal reasons for not achieving my dream body are clear and present (I sleep 6-7.5 hours a day, I don't get quite enough protein, I eat semi-crap), the underlying link between all of them is what I wanted to ask your guys advice on. The best example of my underlying issue is with my diet. I know that I need to improve my diet. I eat takeout like burgers and pizza every second day, and I could do go eat more protein/vegetables. Often at the start of trying to properly start eating healthy, I buy a lot of options for myself to have available, like mushrooms/red peppers/tuna/ingredients for a healthy sandwich. This works for a while, but eventually I forget/neglect to restock up, and return to just having a general ethos of "eat healthy" as my plan. And when this happens, basically my ENTIRE psychology is warped by cravings and hunger. If I'm not hungry, everything seems fine. But as SOON as I'm hungry it feels psychologically unbearable and I immediately start finding ways to justify larger, unhealthier meals to compensate for how hard it's been to be hungry like this. In these moments, I lose all care for a better body and see the super tasty food as necessary to stay sane. Thoughts of healthy "boring" food makes me nearly want to cry. Obviously, this slingshotting between steely determination and lax decadence is a problem. At extremes it can mean I spend days self punishing by eating almost nothing and then days bingeing justifying it as I should enjoy life. It almost feels Dr Jekyl and Mr Hyde-esque. I wanted to ask if anyone has experience with this sortve barrier to achieving your fitness goals, and what you'd recommend I do to make forward progress. It's the eroding will to be healthy when hungry part I need help with the most. P.S. I work out 3-4 days a week at the gym, and do boxing classes for 2 hours twice a week. Just in case the exercise part of my equation was needed. Unlike diet exercise is never a question of willpower, how great I feel after going is never outshone by not going. [link] [comments] |
| I need some advice on some lifts. Posted: 06 Mar 2020 02:23 PM PST Hello, I'm running the fierce 5 workout program and I have some questions.
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