Strength / Weight Training

Soo.. in an answer to a question nobody asked, out of the various options for back/upper back I am settling for Y raise and dumbbell rows. It was amazing to discover just how weak I was at Y raises, and I am still pretty much on single digits in terms of percentages of my body weight. If you, like me, have never done them before I would recommend at least to check them out for the sake of curiosity.
Not saying others exercises are bad, just that I found that the two above feels like the most precise targeting of my weaker areas.

Continuing the trend of me being terrible at buying shoes online, does anyone what a pair of all black AdiPowers in size "10" for £120?

They fit like a size 9, a genuine size 9. There is no way they are supposed to be a 10. I think potentially they were mislabeled. London pickup.

When I finally achieve James Bond villain levels of global superpower one of my first decrees is that shoes and clothes can only be sized in accurate metric measurements.

filling in gaps in stability etc...

Such as mobility? prob don't need any equipment. Have a poke around mobility and bodyweight stuff on youtube

that's made me think - can anyone do a pistol squat? I tried once, couldn't even get my head around it.

Already doing bethaks, dands and planks. Seems to be good for a bunch of things.

Just googled pistol squat... Nope.

I can do a few with my right leg, but not with my gammy (damaged hip tendon) left leg.

One-leg/arm exercises are good, but this requires stupid flexibility/balance, time that can be put into "bang for buck exercises" like lunges/squats/DB work... :)

Maybe one of those balance board things would help. No idea if they are bullshit or not.

that's made me think - can anyone do a pistol squat?

Ha, no. My balance is embarrassingly poor. Bmx has helped a lot... at least I can gate start now, but I'm a long way off a pistol squat.

Yup. But fairly ropey and only about 3 consecutive reps before I fuck up. It helps holding something in your hands.

But I regularly do 2 x 12 single legged squat on each leg. (Body weight only). On a few very good days I have managed all 48 reps without losing balance.

So are your ankles mobile enough to not lift your heal and keep form?

Hmm... you mean on the foot that stays on the floor? If so, yes.
My form for pistol squats is generally ropey though. It's difficult to fully stretch the leg that is in the air. Also, in the pictures they keep the arms perfectly parallell throughout, but it's of course much easier to retain balance if you use them compensate for wobbles.

Im a recovering powerlifter...my reaction to those things is "set on fire pls" ;)

Yeah, that one. But you make a good point. I prob couldn't keep the other one up either

Just started to dead finally. Working on form mainly first. 60kg is mine.... Didn't max out. No idea what it is yet but won't be trying a pr any time soon
The 220 is my mates. And I think is max is 245kg at about 82kg body weight

245 is bananas. They're quite fun eh!

I'm aiming for about 140-160 without gaining weight... Let's see.

I did try upload a picture but didn't work
Yeah 245kg at 82kg is pretty epic to see, even magnus magnusson was pretty impressed when we spoke to him at body power.
Yeah I'll be happy when I get into the 100s. 140 160 still decent and strong. I'm trying not to put any more weight on but just fancy lifting heavy for month or two just to get stronger and it's more fun I find.
Just got to remember to warm up properly as iv got a shit shoulder.

I have quite good hamstrings (touch wood) so can actually straight leg DL up to around 110kg

Hamstring stretch and foam roller before and after are good but DLs deffo help with strength but not too sure about the tightness

Aye. The tightness is something I've never managed to figure out.

How's your lower back? A lot of people with tight hams have the lower back thing but it's still a pandemic with everyone sitting in chairs all day...

Im hyper aware of not fucking my back up and DLs feel like they'll either make it stronger or cause injury depending on some minute movement.

A deadlift tip: If you do sets make sure you reset your form properly, in some people (cough me cough) otherwise the hips rise, your deadlift gets hard and it's not fun.

Can't comment on back issues / tightness but for me hamstring curls / reverse hyper are good to strengthen without loading my spine and nervous system so worth a try if you find other exercises tiring in a "I don't want to to hold a bar anymore..." way. Straight leg deadlifts just kill me for the weight I need to get hamstring..

Worked up to 110kg today, set of 6: 3x conventional 3x sumo.

Is there a way of doing a reverse hyper without one of those machines?

5 weeks in to "proper" training again and now progressing above what I'd dropped down to.
Sq 5x110kg
Dl 3x130Kg
Put on 2kg (74kg)
Looking to work back up to 145kg Sq / 160kg Dl by end of Sept and ideally keep under 75kg, but I've got a couple of away weeks and birthday cakes to consume before then so probably a bit too optimistic. But weighing anything under 80kg will make that a PB / bodyweight ratio.

I've been working on my lower back specifically over the past 4 months, since putting my back out over Easter BH.

I usually superset back exercise whilst Bench pressing. There are quite a few good exercises for lower back. DL is helping for sure as long as concentrating on form and lifting more gradually.

Did you put your back out deadlifting?

There's some suggestions on t'internet.

Most gyms have a hamstring curl machine, which is also good.

Otherwise you need to hang from a high bench and use a band/weigh you ankles to get the resistance.