Strength / Weight Training

Some lifts are really tough to get right by yourself too, even if you are being coached by someone.

You can sort of do the right movements, but still engage the wrong muscles.

If your proprioception is telling you that this feels like how you were taught, that's what you're going to continue with (and that proprioception is going to drift over time too).

Then it's tough to recognise that you're gong wrong, let alone fix it.

I have the myprotein isolate and I bang it in the blender for a few seconds - combines no problem, 2 scoops to about 250ml milk.

Some lifts are really tough to get right by yourself too, even if you are being coached by someone.

You can sort of do the right movements, but still engage the wrong muscles.

I'm no expert but i'd say that most lifts are like that. Even seemingly simple things like bicep curls.

And I’d add that the issue 90% of the time is just using too much weight. People can do the movements fine, but it all goes to shit when the weight goes up.

Dem gainz tho

Anyone recommend a free app for tracking workouts / progress? Was going to use the stronglifts one but I'm mixing it up slightly so it doesn't really work, is "strong" any use?

I only use it because I have a Garmin, but the Garmin Connect app is free I think and is fine for basic logging

I don't bother with weight and reps but it's there to be used if you want to.

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I didn't know it did that.

I'm having a lazy day because my knee feels unhappy.

my knee feels unhappy.

Too many sets perhaps?

Ooo I didn't know it did that either - looks just the ticket, ta

I didn't know either. Every day is a learning day.

I've been using Lift , although it doesn't have anything for warm ups.

Yeah, its kind of hidden! I think you have to go to "create manual activity" to even see it as an option

Oh fuck this looks useful! Good shout.

Why strict curl 10kg when you can swing the fuck out of some 25kgs (in the squat rack for extra gainz)?

Squat rack curls do my head in

I admit that I may have put my whole body into getting the final two barbell curls home yesterday.

Preacher benches are the great leveller for people lifting too much on curls.

"Oh shit, I can't lift half of what I was lifting standing!"

I use(d) and like(d) strong

I don't swing, I have that much self respect, but at the end of two sets of 20x20 I was definitely not moving only my lower arms, there was some back arching going on there.

Reminds me of another pet gym hate. People on the leg press machine straining out half a rep before letting the weight smash back down, shaking the whole room.

You're only doing half the exercise you prats!

I like to do concentration curls while sitting on a bench in the squat rack.

Sometimes, I don't even use weights - I just like to look at my guns and trout pout.

Anyone got a good home pull up set up? So far I have a beast maker climbing holes thing above the garage door which is ok.
I’d like a proper bar and ideally some way to hang rings too. Might have to be outside as my garage roof is lower than my total reach so not sure I can go high enough for ring pull ups

I had a play around with Garmin - they've somehow taken a simple idea and made it far more complicated than it needs to be, there's too many steps to edit anything e.g. weight used within the workout or even changing units of measurement, where you have to go into settings & change everything on your account to read in metric which also changes your cycling settings from miles to km too - Garmin y u do dis?

Strong it is - eay to use, edit, add / remove bits - would be great if the progression graphs were free but meh, it'll do as it is

That's probably why I ended up not tracking weights and reps in there. Annoying AF if you need that.

But also, I should really just go Metric for running and cycling. Im metric for everything else...