Beginner Fitness: Daily Simple Questions Thread - October 18, 2020 |
- Daily Simple Questions Thread - October 18, 2020
- Why do I want my stabilizer muscles to limit my lifts?
- Victory Sunday
- Doing proper cardio after weights.
- Need routine and nutrition advice for endomorph
| Daily Simple Questions Thread - October 18, 2020 Posted: 18 Oct 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] |
| Why do I want my stabilizer muscles to limit my lifts? Posted: 17 Oct 2020 08:34 PM PDT At the gym the other day, I was waiting for a vacant bench to bench press at (my gym has 2). It was taking too long so I decided to use the Hammer Strength iso-chest press instead. I was able to move significantly more weight on that machine than with the free weight version, and personally, I felt more comfortable and safe using it. I'm aware that this is because I don't have to use stabilizers to keep the bar from swaying. This got me to thinking, why do I want my stabilizers to limit my lifts in the first place? When I'm doing a bench press, I'm looking to work my pecs, anterior delts, and triceps to an extent. All of these muscles are worked with the aforementioned Hammer Strength machine as well. I'm not really trying to work all of those other stabilizers. I usually have a dedicated exercise just for those specific muscles, so that they are hit fully. I understand free weights are more efficient, but are they really giving those stabilizers a full workout? EDIT: I just returned from the gym without replacing my compound lift with a machine. [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 18 Oct 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] |
| Doing proper cardio after weights. Posted: 18 Oct 2020 03:32 AM PDT Hello. I am currently going to gym 4x a week to lift weights. After each weight session I do 30 minutes of cardio which consist of 10 minutes of bike and 20 minutes of treadmil at high intensity(Z3-Z4 BPM). I've read that this is suboptimal way of training and even potentially dangerous for my health. I have also read that I should do cardio at different intesity levels. My new plan is to split my cardio sessions into 30 minute bike rides at zone 2 BPM, 30 minute run at zone 3 and 10-20 minute run at zone 4. I would do 2 x 30 minute bike rides, 1 x 30 minute run and 1x 10-20 minute run a week. Would this be a meaningful way of improving my current cardio workouts for better results and health? [link] [comments] |
| Need routine and nutrition advice for endomorph Posted: 18 Oct 2020 03:50 AM PDT Hey all! I'm super confused about what sort of diet and routine I need to be on to get the results I'm looking for. Body type: Male, 170ish pounds. I've always had fairly skinny arms and shoulders (not bone skinny, but lacking muscle). All of the weight seems to go to my chest in muscle, my torso in fat, and my legs and butt in fat. So things seem weirdly proportioned in where the muscle and fat are visible. And that's given that I seemingly workout pretty evenly. For some months now, I've been pretty consistent about working out 5-6 days a week. I was doing P90x for a bit, but then moved and lost access to a pull-up bar, so I'm more or less doing James Grange's Build band routine. I try to do cardio 2-3 times a week - jogging, biking, or a good HIIT workout. Diet-wise, my goal has been to eat 3000 calories a day, which I've probably been less consistent with. On a good day, I hit 55% carbs, 25% protein, 20% fat. I sort of came to those numbers but reading Michael Matthew's "Bigger Leaner Stronger". My goal is strength. I feel like I'm not in a position to cut since my arm and shoulder sizes are small and my legs and glutes feel fat. So I'm in a lean mass mindset, but I don't know if that's correct. Do I just need more patience and consistency? Do I need to be doing full body workouts 3x a week, or splits? More or less cardio? Is my diet off? [link] [comments] |
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