When I used to study goju karate, we were taught to kick trees, and we would strike each others shins, and begin with just hitting them with rolled up newspapers and stuff, in order to toughen them up. Good times.
^yah man, same in MT. shin conditioning 101. Gotta love Baukaw
building extra muscles will only weaken your existing muscles, stick to a healthy diet and you will do just fine
Second FT. If I could only do one gym exercise it would be squats. Running is my overall #1, but squats are a close second.
Wow ok.
I guess I’m doing squats today.
Here are single leg weighted split squats. For people with back injuries, they are great. It’s generally a good idea to use these as accessory or to build up to a barbell squat using these. You should be at about 33% of body weight for each dumbbell (66% total) for 8 reps with a 3 second descent before going heavy on the squat if you haven’t squatted in a long time or never squatted. I’ve seen people make much faster gains on squat by incorporating these, even if the already squat BW 2x or more.
http://www.exrx.net/WeightExercises/GluteusMaximus/DBSingleLegSplitSquat.html
^ It’s all about hip mobility. All of us desk jockeys have stiff hips. loosen em up
Thanks for the link. You think farmers carry lunges would be similar?
Split squat is better for flexibility and strength, because you can get deeper below parallel and the front leg is carrying more of the load.
I didn’t do squats but just weighted lunges after 1hr spin class and it somewhat brutalized my quads.
Took rest days, felt like crap today then hit up gym anyway.
Did one of the nastiest supersets ever. Nastier than hot elephant crap on warm African day.
2hrs chest back dumbbell heaviest weight ever then 30 min bag Muay Thai jump rope.
Had to binge vegetables tonight to ensure recovery.
You should reasonably be able to do bar squats without resorting to single leg barbells. Just watch a video or two for technique.
Anyone take bone broth supplements?
did 2 easy sets of 120lbs x 5 reps flat bench today (perfect form, full motion) then 6 supersets of (110lbs x 6 reps flat bench + 120lb row x 5 reps) (perfect form) Would have done more, but had to go. I felt like I could do 10 sets of 110lb flat bench today. My suit tops don’t even fit anymore, especially around the chest and arm socket of the blazer and my shoulders. Had two new ones made this week.
Earlier this week, I also got up to 90lbs on about a 60 degree incline bench and 75lbs on 90 degree incline (shoulder press - I actually do it without the back to make it a core exercise. I just sit on the front of the bench). I think i’m better at flat bench, but heard incline is important too. I haven’t been able to do heavy set work on incline but mentally need to get to the weight first.
Posting your workout unsolicited incessantly is highly correlated with psychosis. Might want to talk to someone about that.
Im posting progress brah. If that’s how you really feel I recommend not ever looking at bodybuilding.com / that is basically what everyone does 24/7.
That sounds like the sort of thing a person with a little baby body would say
Every time i think im making progress i humble myself by checking out Tony Sentmanat aka ‘Real World Tactical’.
Yeah, Charlie, I have an important question for you.
Do you even lift, Bro?