Beginner Fitness: Daily Simple Questions Thread - June 14, 2020 |
- Daily Simple Questions Thread - June 14, 2020
- What's the mechanism behind stress impacting fitness and gains?
- How do you factor exercise when calculating caloric defecit?
- PPL as a weak beginner?
- For the purpose of getting an ass, would a leg press machine be as effective as squats with weights?
- If I increase reps in the first sets should it affect my next sets?
- Monthly Fitness Pro-Tips Megathread!
- Victory Sunday
- Benefits of caloric restriction + weights versus restriction and cardio
- Which nutritionist/fitness/health channel on YouTube do you believe is your go-to place for health advice?
- Is it the same if I walk or run?
- Quick Question, I am a fitness noob so pardon my ignorance. How effective are ab workouts really?
- How do you count weekly sets for things with high overlap? Eg flat bench & Incline bench?
- What are realistic expectations from stretching?
| Daily Simple Questions Thread - June 14, 2020 Posted: 14 Jun 2020 03:04 AM PDT 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] |
| What's the mechanism behind stress impacting fitness and gains? Posted: 13 Jun 2020 01:01 PM PDT And in particular the physiology behind the effect of emotional stress on fitness? I find it curious that, even if I'm sleeping well and eating well, the amount of emotional stress I'm under will heavily impact my ability to perform workouts and recover from them. A lot of the time, I leave work mentally fatigued and exhausted but physically ok, but then I find it exceptionally difficult to push myself for a 35-40 minute workout afterwards. But it's not as if I'm not eating enough if I'm maintaining my weight, or I'm waking up tired. So what's going on behind the bonnet, so to speak, when I'm under heavy emotional stress and struggling to improve at my workouts? EDIT: didn't expect this to generate so much discussion! I didn't fully understand the effect chronic stress could have on the physiology of the body but it certainly explains a lot, and explains why more often than not, I feel just a bit flat for workouts. [link] [comments] |
| How do you factor exercise when calculating caloric defecit? Posted: 13 Jun 2020 11:56 PM PDT I know that when cutting, 300-500 calorie deficit below TDEE is a good place to be. But is that entirely based on food, as in, if my maintenance calories is 2000, should I eat 1500 calories a day regardless of my workout? Im confused on how to factor in the calories I burn exercising. Like if I burn 200 calories doing cardio, do I eat 1700 calories that day, so that it ends up at 1500 calories total and I maintain my -500 caloric deficit? Also, how does strength training work? How do you factor the calories burned when lifting weights? [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 13 Jun 2020 06:08 PM PDT I'm somewhat new to lifting (starting working out earlier this year, but barely had time for 1-2 inconsistent sessions a weak), but I am still really weak. After the quarantine, I was lazy for 2 months and recently got dumbells, that go from 5 to 50 pounds. However, I am extremely weak (current max lifts: bench 50lb, ohp 20 lb, dumbell row 60lb, curl 15lb, deadlift 80lb but I should work on weak form first). I want to optimize summer since I have more free time, and hopefully can workout everyday. I was thinking about doing Push Pull Legs twice a week with 1 rest day. However, I've seen programs like SS and SL that seem to be better for beginners, but I also like doing some isolation work. Its also hard to do things like squats with dumbells, and even pressing since I have to get the dumbells up first. I also want to get stronger, but my main goal is bigger muscles. I've heard that lifting everyday might overtrain you. Is working out almost everyday a bad idea for a weak beginner? [link] [comments] |
| For the purpose of getting an ass, would a leg press machine be as effective as squats with weights? Posted: 13 Jun 2020 03:51 PM PDT Would a leg press with increasing weight help me gain mass in my glute area as well as squats would? I have shitty knees and its hard for me to stand back up when doing squats, but I can do high weight on the leg press. [link] [comments] |
| If I increase reps in the first sets should it affect my next sets? Posted: 13 Jun 2020 11:58 PM PDT Sorry if this questions has been posted here before, but I couldn't find anything on it. Say I'm doing flat dumbbell press (just going to use this example because it's the one that made me ask this question). In my last workout I did 8 reps, 7 reps, 7 reps, 7 reps, 6 reps. Then, in my workout today, I did 8 reps, 8 reps, 8 reps, 7 reps, 5 reps. Both are pretty much the exact same amount of total reps, but me starting my sets today by going to 8 reps 3 times required so much effort that I wasn't able to go past 5 in the 5th set. Is this normal? It's really frustrating as well; every time I start off doing good in my sets, I'll just lose it all in a bad 4th or 5th set. Any fixes? [link] [comments] |
| Monthly Fitness Pro-Tips Megathread! Posted: 14 Jun 2020 03:04 AM PDT Welcome to the Monthly Fitness Pro-Tips Megathread! This thread is for sharing quick tips (don't you dare call them hacks, that word is stupid) about training, equipment use, nutrition, or other fitness connected topics that have improved your fitness experience. [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 14 Jun 2020 03:04 AM PDT Welcome to the Victory Sunday Thread It is Sunday, 6:00 am here in the eastern half of Hyder, Alaska. It's time to ask yourself: What was the one, best thing you did on behalf of your fitness this week? What was your Fitness Victory? We want to hear about it! So let's hear your fitness Victory this week! Don't forget to upvote your favorite Victories! [link] [comments] |
| Benefits of caloric restriction + weights versus restriction and cardio Posted: 13 Jun 2020 07:24 PM PDT I'm not trying to be a fitness queen but I'd like to lose the 6 pounds I gained during lockdown. Prior to March, I had been restricting and doing tons of cardio which brought me down from 135 to 120. Will I be able to do the same with the same amount of restriction and weight exercises (10 lb dumbbells) instead? I'm extremely burned out from doing cardio. [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 14 Jun 2020 01:49 AM PDT Which YT channel do you find yourself gravitating to most often and why? Which ones are best for Nutrition? Which ones are best for lifting? Which ones are best for trends? [link] [comments] |
| Is it the same if I walk or run? Posted: 14 Jun 2020 12:36 AM PDT So say I'm running a mile and I'm walking a mile, do I burn the same amount of calories either way? [link] [comments] |
| Quick Question, I am a fitness noob so pardon my ignorance. How effective are ab workouts really? Posted: 13 Jun 2020 07:07 PM PDT I am under the impression that they are only effective when you have really low body fat percentage and these are the last efforts to sculpt the body. But what else do they do? [link] [comments] |
| How do you count weekly sets for things with high overlap? Eg flat bench & Incline bench? Posted: 13 Jun 2020 10:13 PM PDT So I'm trying to educate myself on how to properly plan for sets and weekly volume and im working off the old 10 to 20 true sets per week. But what confuses me is the stuff that has high over lap? So 15 weekly sets of flst bench and 15 of incline... Are the muscles seperate enough in a sense so that full benefits of growth and strength will be reached? [link] [comments] |
| What are realistic expectations from stretching? Posted: 13 Jun 2020 02:57 PM PDT In relation to weightlifting I've seen people stretch only before, or only after, or not at all or all of the above as well as foam rolling etc. My question is this. How would your performance change were you to stretch vs not doing so? Should you focus on improving flexibility and mobility or simply stretch for the sake of it? And aesthetically, does stretching affect the appearance of muscle in any meaningful way? Fundamentally, from two identical athletes, would the one who began to stretch start to outperform the other in any way? (short vs long term) Its a discussion I've had with many people and everyone seems to have a different opinion. If anyone has any research please share! [link] [comments] |
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