Beginner Fitness: Daily Simple Questions Thread - February 24, 2021 |
- Daily Simple Questions Thread - February 24, 2021
- Rant Wednesday
- Took a break and came back stronger?
- Validity of DB Exercises "Balancing Things out" Muscularly
- Daily Simple Questions Thread - February 23, 2021
| Daily Simple Questions Thread - February 24, 2021 Posted: 24 Feb 2021 02:00 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. Rule #0 still applies in this thread.Also, there's a handy search function to your right, and if you didn't know, you can also use Google to search r/Fitness by using the limiter "site:reddit.com/r/fitness" after your search topic. Other good resources to check first are Exrx.net for exercise-related topics and Examine.com for nutrition and supplement science. If you are posting a routine critique request, make sure you follow the guidelines for including enough detail. (Please note: This is not a place for general small talk, chit-chat, jokes, memes, "Dear Diary" type comments, shitposting, or non-fitness questions. It is for fitness questions only, and only those that are serious.) [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 24 Feb 2021 02:00 AM PST 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] |
| Took a break and came back stronger? Posted: 22 Feb 2021 10:57 PM PST Haven't touched a barbell in about 5 months. Started up again today, just thought I'd do my maxes to see where I'm at. When I left off my squat 1rep was 315 even. Maxed out today at 340. Still can't believe it. Anyone have an explanation for this [link] [comments] |
| Validity of DB Exercises "Balancing Things out" Muscularly Posted: 22 Feb 2021 01:44 PM PST Note: I posted because I thought this question didn't belong in the daily simple question thread - but I can post there if this doesn't belong as a post. -- A lot of people say that, if you're muscularly unbalanced (say, right arm is stronger than the left), that you should switch to DB exercises instead, like DB bench instead of barbell. Is there actually any validity to this advice? I feel like experiences are either anecdotal, or this is an easy cop-out answer to a more difficult question than most can tackle. Anytime someone asks this question in the Daily Simple Question thread, the answer is "just switch to DB", without any more context needed, and forgoing the knowledge to the newbie that they are probably going to progress a lot faster if they just stick to barbell. I've been training for a long time, and personally have never noticed DB training to "balance things out". In fact I would say the opposite (emphasizing this is my anecdotal experience) Keeping with the DB bench example - I understand that, you're forcing yourself to push the same weight on DB exercises. Like, you're gonna push 80lbs each arm, no matter what. But this isn't accounting for, say, RPE on each arm, speed of the push, or angle of elbow (one might have their weaker arm closer to their body for it to be more tricep dominant without realizing it). Ultimately, what I have seen, is someone holding back on reps so that their weaker arm can perform the movement. Meanwhile, let's say you switch back to barbell bench. You're going to notice that your left arm is lagging behind on the lift a bit more than the right arm. Whether it's slower to push, craps out right before the right arm, etc. But in the past I have just kept training, trying to push on equal parts of the body and it usually fixes itself the next set or so. Typically, for me, spending extra time setting up, breathing, and bracing fixes these issues, or, I try again the next week without jumping up in weight and notice no weakness on the other arm. Maybe the answer is a bit of both - continuing training barbell, but include DB variations as needed/wanted. Thoughts? [link] [comments] |
| Daily Simple Questions Thread - February 23, 2021 Posted: 23 Feb 2021 02:00 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. Rule #0 still applies in this thread.Also, there's a handy search function to your right, and if you didn't know, you can also use Google to search r/Fitness by using the limiter "site:reddit.com/r/fitness" after your search topic. Other good resources to check first are Exrx.net for exercise-related topics and Examine.com for nutrition and supplement science. If you are posting a routine critique request, make sure you follow the guidelines for including enough detail. (Please note: This is not a place for general small talk, chit-chat, jokes, memes, "Dear Diary" type comments, shitposting, or non-fitness questions. It is for fitness questions only, and only those that are serious.) [link] [comments] |
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