Beginner Fitness: Daily Simple Questions Thread - August 12, 2020 |
- Daily Simple Questions Thread - August 12, 2020
- Is it true it takes at least 8 weeks of daily exercise and healthy diet change to see health benefits?
- Rowing for beginners.
- Rant Wednesday
- Strength building routine for Wednesday plus weekends?
- Are SS/Stronglifts etc. enough? (beginner)
- How do I make my thighs leaner?
- Power rack recommendations with space limits - 78” or less height?
- Is it better or worse to get all my steps done at the start of the day?
- Decent squat racks I could buy?
- Is there a point at which you reset your training set volume for hypertrophy programming?
- Questions about 5/3/1 BBB
- Bulking while working out twice a week - do I need to vary calories?
- Conventional vs Sumo deadlift for leg and glute hypertrophy?
- Which scenario would be more effective for hypertrophy?
| Daily Simple Questions Thread - August 12, 2020 Posted: 12 Aug 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] |
| Posted: 11 Aug 2020 07:52 PM PDT Could this be the reason many people don't last long when they make a news years resolution of getting healthy? Many Americans want INSTANT results, and for them 8 weeks seems like forever. I have a friend who keeps telling me he wants to get in shape but after two weeks he quits he just stops jogging, he can't get over that hump. They say there is a hump that comes when you first start training and working out were you lose all motivation I wonder if that is from over training or fatigue from not being used to working out consistently how does one get past that and fight on? does it take mental strength what is the motivation behind it is it constantly saying you want to get healthy or you want to look good and motivating yourself that way? [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 11 Aug 2020 05:32 AM PDT My gym just got a Concept 2 rowing machine and I'd like to get onto it. 1st round I did 4 minutes 150 stokes(level 5). 4 min later I did 2nd round for 1.5 minute 50 strokes. 3rd round I did 1.75 min for 75 strokes. Last round I did 5 minutes 180 strokes, then I'm dead. I feel like I was doing it a bit too fast that exhausted me that much, but it's a little difficult to manage the pace to around 25 strokes/min when you gotta pull fast to make sure it works well. Also some articles say you gotta keep on it for like 30-40 min, but I can't really imagine anybody can be on it for 30min. What's the best plan to build it up eventually? Update: Just found two blisters on my right palm near the fingers, I actually was wearing gloves... [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 12 Aug 2020 03:04 AM PDT Welcome to Rant Wednesday: It's your time to let your gym/fitness/nutrition related frustrations out! There is no guiding question to help stir up some rage-feels, feel free to fire at will, ranting about anything and everything that's been pissing you off or getting on your nerves! [link] [comments] |
| Strength building routine for Wednesday plus weekends? Posted: 11 Aug 2020 07:11 PM PDT Relative beginner trying to get stronger. I tried doing two full body workouts during the weekend and another Wednesday, but it was far more difficult than when I was lifting every other day. I was thinking about doing a full body on Wednesday and an upper/lower split during the weekend. Any recommendations? [link] [comments] |
| Are SS/Stronglifts etc. enough? (beginner) Posted: 12 Aug 2020 04:53 AM PDT Hi all, Is SS/Stronglifts, etc. those sort of beginner compound programmes enough? They seem quite... light on intensity and length to me (but what do I know). I will also add that they seem pretty heavy on the lower body and relatively light on the upper. I've been going to the gym about 5x a week, doing a semi random disordered set of exercises (mostly dumbells, kettlebells and a few bar exercsies) and doing a middle distance cycle about 1x a week and generally doing a lot more movement in general in the last month, I'm losing fat like nobody's business (about 1.9kg/week so far). Intention is to keep up the fat loss for another 10kg or so (72kg target) and then go ham on strength building. I'm coming from a position of ignorance really, the beginner compound regimes just don't look... exhausting enough to me. Are they partially weighted toward getting people in the habit of doing exercise and not scaring them off on day 1, or am I just wrong? edit: I've just noticed you have a wiki with an article on this [link] [comments] |
| How do I make my thighs leaner? Posted: 12 Aug 2020 04:51 AM PDT My thighs are very big despite losing a lot of weight. I don't think it's just quads/muscle at all. I am very aesthetically pissed off that I can't seem to make my legs smaller. My legs are thick and I don't know how to fix it! [link] [comments] |
| Power rack recommendations with space limits - 78” or less height? Posted: 12 Aug 2020 04:26 AM PDT Currently only have a bench which severely limits my ability to do other important exercises. Have a drop ceiling in my basement which is a major limitation to some of the racks I've looked at in terms of height. Wondering if anyone knows of or has recommendations on where to look for a solid, durable, half rack that is 78" or less in height? I understand some features may not be available. Would be a huge help! Appreciate any input. Thanks in advance [link] [comments] |
| Is it better or worse to get all my steps done at the start of the day? Posted: 12 Aug 2020 02:00 AM PDT I'm a 5'10 guy 182lbs from 238lbs and I've been walking 10k steps every day for about 3 months. I usually do them spread throughout the whole day but in the last week I've been doing them all in the first hours of the morning. I was wondering is there any pros or cons to doing them all at the start of the day instead of spreading them out through the whole day? [link] [comments] |
| Decent squat racks I could buy? Posted: 12 Aug 2020 01:33 AM PDT Hard to find anything anywhere. Not sure if this is the right sub to ask, but yeah. If anyone has any suggestions, please let me know! [link] [comments] |
| Is there a point at which you reset your training set volume for hypertrophy programming? Posted: 11 Aug 2020 01:57 PM PDT I realize there are a number of components to effective hypertrophy programming, but I'm trying to understand this one thing about increasing sets for progressive overload. Is there a time in hypertrophy programming where you can reset you volume, so that you are not just infinitely doing more and more sets? I assume maybe a "natural" time to reset would be if you include maintenance/strength cycles? I assume the answer is you must always be increasing something - so if I wanted to drop back down to less sets, I necessarily would have to increase the weight to not lose gains. Yes? [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 11 Aug 2020 06:37 AM PDT Not sure if this is the right place for this but here goes. I understand the basic premise of 5/3/1, read the book and quite a few articles on it as this is going to be my program now that the gyms are opening up again. However I don't understand what to do for assistance exercises and I don't think it is clear in the books or articles. So I do my main 5/3/1 for the day, say squats for example, then I do 5 x 10 deadlifts (Doing variation 2) at 50% training max, cool, then ab training then done? Surely there is more than this to the program, I was in the gym for like 30 - 45 mins ish On another day, say bench for example, so 5/3/1 then the 5x10 on OHP, then another 5x10 of an assitance excercise, I've chosen chins (instead of abs, in the book it recommends one day abs and the other lat work, 4 days a week) so this is naturally a bit longer, but still seems like a very short workout. Jim also says to not add anything to the plan as this is everyone's mistake. Am I understanding the concept correctly or am I missing some assistance work? [link] [comments] |
| Bulking while working out twice a week - do I need to vary calories? Posted: 11 Aug 2020 10:22 AM PDT I have other priorities than fitness at this point in life, so I can only work out twice a week. I can do that consistently, but the days might vary. Worst case scenario, I'll work out Monday and Wednesday one week, then Friday and Sunday the next week. Eating at a caloric surplus a week after my last workout seems like it would just make me fat, but I don't really know. Should I change my intake based on how long it is since my last workout? If yes, how long after a workout should I eat at a surplus. Info: I am doing 531 for beginners. Male, 31 years old. Estimated 1 RM: Deadlift: 110kg Squat: 95kg Bench: 70kg Press: 42kg [link] [comments] |
| Conventional vs Sumo deadlift for leg and glute hypertrophy? Posted: 11 Aug 2020 06:35 AM PDT Conventional has a greater range of motion than sumo but sumo has a larger potential for heavier lifting because of that so just wondering what your experiences and opinions with this? [link] [comments] |
| Which scenario would be more effective for hypertrophy? Posted: 11 Aug 2020 06:55 AM PDT When training (musclegroup of the day) do a circuit of different types of exercises, alternating each time you train this group, so compound day, isolation day, etc. When training (musclegroup of the day) incorporate all types of movements into one exercise. Repeat the same exercise routine. [link] [comments] |
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