Beginner Fitness: Daily Simple Questions Thread - November 27, 2020 |
- Daily Simple Questions Thread - November 27, 2020
- 8 month progress - M/25/5'11 - 108KG -> 82.6KG (238lbs -> 182lbs)
- My 2 Year Progress; M/23/5'9 (175 cm)/143 lbs - - > 170 lbs
- Physique Phriday
- Looking for cardio moves to do on an exercise ball
- Natural affinity for static vs. dynamic exercises?
- Self-resistance: does my implementation of it work?
- Onitsuka Tigers for deadlifting? Is arch support ok for deadlifts?
| Daily Simple Questions Thread - November 27, 2020 Posted: 27 Nov 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] |
| 8 month progress - M/25/5'11 - 108KG -> 82.6KG (238lbs -> 182lbs) Posted: 26 Nov 2020 02:01 PM PST I wanted to post this in the hope that my progress inspires others, as fitness has become a huge part of of my life, it's helped greatly with mental health issues (both anxiety and depression, which I have suffered at quite severe levels), physical issues (joint pain, lower back issues) and general wellbeing. I have 4kg to go before I enter a surplus and start bulking which I cannot wait for, unfortunately the gyms here don't open for another few weeks still (they have just shut again). I have included the progress pics in the link above along with my 3 day split I have been following. When the gyms are closed I have been doing the following workouts: Day 1:
Day 2:
Day 3:
In terms of diet I started really low at 1500 calories, but increased this to 1800 after a few months. I aim for at least 150g protein but usually hit about 180g now, I don't track any other macros. When bulking i'm gonna increase to around 2300 then increase from there. Cheers all - Sam [link] [comments] |
| My 2 Year Progress; M/23/5'9 (175 cm)/143 lbs - - > 170 lbs Posted: 26 Nov 2020 05:31 AM PST Hello fellow Fitness Enthusiasts. Since I started Lifting/Fitness I always wanted to come to a point where I felt comfortable with sharing a progress Pic. Not only because I was inspired by one of them on here but also as a statement to my self by being proud of what I achieved. Progress Pics: (unfortunately only 1 before Pic with no legs sorry) http://imgur.com/a/b1uRH5U When I first started lifting I was an insecure, depressed and lazy stoner. I needed a change in my life and found this subreddit back when I had office free time in a job I hated. Not only did it inspire me but it was also an unbelievable useful resource for general information about training and nutrition. Big shoutout to the Simple Questions Thread everyday and all the amazing people that answered my silly questions on there back then. I started by buying a Squat Rack, a Bench, Barbell, 2 Dumbells and some weights. My starting lifts 1 RM:
My Lifts now:
My Workout Program time line:
Obviously the noob gains were strong, I made good progress on SL and Ivysaurs but I really started to enjoy working out so I upped my Frequency to 6 Days a week and possibly made the most asthetic progress on the PPL. After that I wanted to change thing up a little bit and switched to NSuns 4 Days and still really enjoy it. After 1 year of Training I moved to a bigger city were finally a gym was available and affordable. I left my Home Gym equipment in my Hometown and everytime I visited my parents I had the availability to train. I can say that buying this equipment was the best investment I ever made. My weight fluctuated a lot in these 2 years. I went from 65 kg to 85 kg in my first year. As you can already guess most of it was fat and it was the typical "Dirty Bulk" diet. Tried to keep my protein intake about ~ 150 g a day. But was in a way too big surplus (about 1000 Kcal a day). My Tdee back then was about 2300 Kcals. Most of diet consisted of high fat and way too many carbs. After realizing I was way too fat and started to feel uncomfortable in my skin I knew I had to cut. Kept my protein intake about the same but lowered my calories to about 1800 kcals. This is also when I switched to PPL. After a long hard cut I was back at about 71 kg BW but lost a lot of strength. After finally figuring out my diet - that means eating a smaller surplus ~ 300 kcals, upping my Protein Intake to about 170 g per day and cutting back the high fat and carb meals I started to gain strength and build muscle again. This is the way I'm handling my diet till today and hopefully I will keep making some gains. Thank you for reading this post and enjoy your day. Hopefully the whole Covid thing will be over soon and all of us can get back in the gym asap. Best regards [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 27 Nov 2020 02:04 AM PST Welcome to the Physique Phriday thread What's the point of having people guess your body fat? Nevermind that it's the most inaccurate method available, (read: most likely way wrong - see here) you're still just putting an arbitrary number to the body you have. Despite people's claim that they are shooting for a number, they're really shooting for look - like a six pack. So let's stopping mucking around with trivialities and get to the heart of the matter. This thread shall serve two purposes:
Let's keep things civil, don't be a creep, and adhere to Rule 1. This isn't a thread to announce what you find attractive in a mate. Please use the report function for any comments that are out of line. So phittit, what's your physique pheel like this phriday? [link] [comments] |
| Looking for cardio moves to do on an exercise ball Posted: 27 Nov 2020 03:28 AM PST Hey all. I'm new here and I've finally started working out again after lockdown had me on hiatus. Anyway, I used to be pretty versed in the moves for the exercise ball. It was my favourite way to work out for a long time. I pulled my ball out again the other day and I certainly remember the basics. I know how to do a bunch of core strengthening exercises, all the balance and about abb work I can think of. I know how to warm up and cool down and all is good. I just am forgetting so many of the cardio moves I can do with this ball. I've googled fitness ball cardio workouts, and they have loads of videos on youtube and they have picture instructions on pinterest. Problem with all of these is I am blind, so I can't see the pinterest posts, and the youtube videos I tried aren't great with descriptions. Does anyone here have knowledge of these workouts with the ball? If so, could you perhaps give me a few ideas for the cardio piece? That would be swell. Thanks a ton. [link] [comments] |
| Natural affinity for static vs. dynamic exercises? Posted: 27 Nov 2020 03:42 AM PST I play indoor volleyball. I have noticed a lot of exercises designed for my sport seem to be build around very dynamic movements, and I've recently been educated on my status as a Power jumper vs. a Speed jumper. Should I be utilising more conventional resistance training e.g. Bench Press vs. the suggested dynamic exercises e.g. Varieties of Pushups, in order to grow and improve as an athelete within my natural affinities and build? I understand the dynamic exercises are important e.g. I'm starting plyometrics on Sunday, but I just finished a Strength session (Squats, deadlifts etc). Will I be getting good Bang for my Buck by training like other slim and taller volleyball players? [link] [comments] |
| Self-resistance: does my implementation of it work? Posted: 27 Nov 2020 12:56 AM PST I originally posted this in /r/bodyweightfitness but I didn't get a lot of responses. Here's the content of that post: So, just to provide some background. There's this style of training called self-resistance where you use opposing body parts to provide resistance for another body part. Usually that means the use of opposing limbs or using a stronger body part to provide ressistance for a weaker one (some examples here). One problem with self-resistance the way it's been applied so far has to do with the fact that you cannot reach your opposing limbs for some exercises. For example, how do you apply horizontal pushing on one arm to the other?. Well, having some experience with suspension straps gave me an idea. The idea is the use of a rope to transfer the force in a way that your limb couldn't (unless you can reattach them). So, how does one go about doing this? by suspending a free rope to a pull-up bar (a pulley might work too). What you do from that point is to grab the rope on opposite ends and pull it. So, by using the rope as a medium you're providing eccentric resistance for the concentrically moving limb and vice versa. I know this might get a bit confusing, so I've provided some example bellow. An example of this type of training applied on the six main movement patterns:
I've been trying this for a couple of days so here's what I feel some of the positives and negatives are: The good
The bad
The ugly
Some isolation exercises:
Miscellaneous
The setup So how do you set this thing up? I've personally used a pull-up bar with a rope. The adjustable handles are inspired by one of RedDeltaProject's videos. Eventually I'm going to transition this to a rope and pulley system. One way this can be done with a pull-up bar is to attach a chain on a carabiner (seen here), this can later be attached to a heavy duty pulley. You probably want this pulley to have a rating for high weight like this one. Some alternative setups For those of you who just want to try this system, it's simple: use a towel or a rope. The simplest implementation of this, is to use a towel on the opposing sides of a pull-up bar and perform the pull-up as I've shown above. some commercial products that could work For the people who prefer a pre-made product, there are some products that could be adapted to this type of workout. There's a lot of generic-named exercise machines on amazon and walmart like [this one]((https://www.walmart.ca/en/ip/Fitness-DIY-Pulley-Cable-Machine-Biceps-Triceps-Hand-Strength-Trainning-Exercise-Home-Gym-Equipment-Workout/PRD25D6DFCZRGDY), or this one , there's another product here that could probably be adapted too. Do keep in mind that I haven't tested these so I don't really know if they'll work for this kind of thing. Having said all that, do you think that this makes sense or am I wasting my time with this? [link] [comments] |
| Onitsuka Tigers for deadlifting? Is arch support ok for deadlifts? Posted: 26 Nov 2020 11:50 PM PST Looking for a new all around lifting shoes that also works for deadlift/bench (i'll use oly shoes for squat). I love the design of Onitsuka Tiger Mexico 66 and they seem to be very flat and have a low base. And many people recommend it but nobody seems to mention that all the shoes have a built in Ortholite sole (basically arch support with an absurd amount of raised sole to fill in the arch). Is this bad for deadlifting? as it's extra cushioning that may take away from sole to floor contact? I'm not one for fads, but this does seem like an orthopedic fad that isn't suited for heavy lifting. [link] [comments] |
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