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don't go so low. you reached the limit of your hip flexion and continued to go lower so the movement had to come from somewhere. this place is your low back.

Some people's asses just flutter, but they make squat plugs specifically to help deal with that

what is your price range?

You're retarded.

Bulk until you hit at least 1/2/3/4 and then deficit your caloric intake by 200-300 calories while continuing your routine.

You will be juicy as fuck.

so reverse the order? bulk first and burn later?
seems i actually am retarded lol thank you user

but what is 1/2/3/4?

Its how many scoops you take

>Anyone have any experience/advice overcoming social anxiety?

You just have to do it.

It's like: some guy posts his pic on Veeky Forums, he's some skinnyfat dyel and he's like "hey Veeky Forums I'm not looking to get super buff or anything but I just want to look a toned, maybe lose some weight. FYI I haven't thought about macros or done even a moderate amount of walking in over six years"

If you saw that posted on Veeky Forums you'd probably roll your eyes right? Let's not be too harsh, the guy's obviously just trying to improve himself, but as someone who truly understands how self-improvement works you're thinking to yourself 'not going to make it' right? You understand that making even small changes to one's habits (including habits of attention and mindfulness) can be a Herculean task.

If you socialise more, you will socialise better.

In fact, given the subjective nature of socialisation, an argument could be made that in the social game 'quantity = quality'.

It's how many pl8 you can lift on OHP, bench, squatz, deads

I've had 1g of melatonin and a fifth of vodka. I'm going to wake up though, right?

Is swimming while I have a slight shoulder injury okay if I stick to the breast stroke? It doesn't seem to hurt anymore than normal after swimming but recently it feels like my shoulder blade on the injured side isn't being held in place tightly or something. I'm seeing a doc on tuesday to get it looked at however

Is there an infographic of chest exercises?

up to 100 I think

For people on PPL do you do deadlifts on pull or legs, it's kind of both.

If I do it on pull then my hammies and ass are busted up for squats the next day. But if I do it the same day as squats one of them will be shitty due to fatigue.

As long as there is no discomfort and you don't try to go 110% you should be okay but it might be better to wait and talk to the doc

Do you think popping and clicking should be worrisome?

how necessary for gains is the calorie surplus?

very

I'm about halfway into bulk, but ate too much. Is it better to:
add end-of-day cardio, cut harder when it's time to, eat at maintenance cal instead of surplus?

extremely

It depends. I have popping in my left leg during squats and other leg exercises in three different places, it's a little uncomfortable but it's been several years since the first of it started and I've not noticed anything strange besides very mild discomfort after heavy repeated popping

How do I fix leaning forward while high bar squatting? Is it a mobility issue?

does it matter where the calories come from if i meet the nutrient requirements?

You ate too much, now you gotta live with the fat till your next cut. If you have a moderate to low muscle mass, feel free to go to maintenance or a slight deficit, but you'll make low gains.

What body can I expect after 1 year of lifting?
Or: post pic of how you were after 1 year of lifting.

A bit, you'll feel like shit if you just ate McDonald's but I mean that's technically kinda possible

Nothing impressive. A bit of "tone" if you're lean, nothing noticeable if you're fat except maybe a larger upper back. Usually caused by trying to sit back instead of straight down.

What brands of scale are you guys using to measure your food?

There's no right answer here. There's an enormous range of variation based on your starting point and genetics, even assuming you do everything right.

Should I take L-Carnitine only on days I workout or evenly throughout the week?

Low bar squat hurts my wrist too much. Can I do high bar in SS? should I use less weight than low bar? Or more?

These things just showed up at the gym.

What the hell are they?

Support the bar with your back, not with your hands.

If you want to switch to high bar, alternate squats and pulls from workout to workout.

Will try to lean more on the back, thankso

They're heavy things to pick up that have handles 90 degrees to how you'd pick up a bar

strongman log lifts

How long has it been known that Scooby is gay? I just realized on his last video

Would inverted rows or negative pull-ups be better at translating into more pull ups

Cut to 10%. Bulking while fat is retarded.
Bulk afterwards.

Is there a point at which I should switch from dumbbells to barbells? I have enough plates to put together maybe 75lbs x 2, after that should I get more dumbbell plates or get a barbell?

Can someone please check my form on my boxjumps? I'm afraid that I'm only tucking my legs underneath me and that I'm not actually jumping.

youtu.be/3QwvY3DLDZ4

I'm losing shitloads of strength on my cut. It's happening too fast to be muscle loss, like I could only do half of my bench press reps on the third day of cutting. It sounds like the symptoms of starving yourself but thing is I'm doing a pretty careful cut, with ~2000kcal a day and ~140g protein. I only weigh 76kg, 180cm, maybe around 12% bf. I'm also on clen/t3, but small dosages.

What do?

So, I think I hurt my right shoulder during moving houses.

There's a (tolerable) sharp pain at pic related when I'm taking the barbell off the rack for the bench press, but no pain when I'm doing it the exercise with good form. It has definitely weakened my OHP as well. If I do the OHP motion with the line of my right arm facing my head it definitely hurts, but if it goes away from my body there is almost no pain at all? During daily life I don't feel it at all except during random movements that make the area feel sore for a second.

What do Veeky Forums?

Hey Veeky Forums, hungry skeleton here

I feel like my chest is to small, but I feel absolutely no pain there when I do pushups or bench. Only in my arms. What am I probably doing wrong?

Also, I don't have much of a choice in the kind of food I eat at the moment. Along with a protein shake, what can I add to help with weight gain?

I just realized as well

When do I know I can put more weight on?

I'm currently doing dumb bell chest and shoulders press (I'm a noobie, pt has me doing these to.just get in the swing of things). When do I know I can start using heavier weights?

I'm going every other day to the gym. So should I just try after a week to move up? The jumps are 2.5kg

Read sticky. You add weight every single workout.

I couldn't possibly add weight every workout. I moved up to 7.5kg shoulder press, but no way I could do 10kg chest press.

Currently cutting on a novice routine. If my goal is aesthetics would it be good to switch to a split like ppl once I finish my cut?

So I hate the idea of a leg day. I do a push pull routine and usually split legs between them. Like squats on push and hamstrings on pull. That way I can do ABxABxx. Is this dumb?

>brosplit

Is 1/2/3/4 1rm or reps?

My deadlift is proportionately week compared to my squats. I was squatting lmao3 plate today but on pull day I only deadlift like lmao2.5plate

It's more a grip issue though, I started working out last month and I feel like my grip strength is just not great.

Any advice?

Take some nasaids like ibuprofen, slap some horse balm on it, give it some time to heal, if its not better in 1-2 weeks see a doctor. You dont want a chronic injury in your shoulder.

Is it normal for us obese dudes to lose 4 pounds in less than a week? Is it more likely the mechanical scale at the gym is broken? Both the conditions were the same for each weighing and im definitely not eating too little.

If that's true then something is wrong, like you're not eating right. Most likely it's not true, you just think you can't do it. You're not supposed to wait until your current weight feels too easy before increasing it, it'll never be easy unless you get stronger, and you'll never get stronger if you keep lifting the same weight.

You're always either stronger or weaker than you were last workout, never the same, so keep increasing the weights. If a 2.5kg increase is really too much, it shouldn't be, do one more rep instead. Just do more than last time.

It doesn't mean you lost that much fat. Eating less might mean you have less half-digested food in your colon, which of course makes you weigh less.

Weight can jump both up and down when you change your diet. Don't trust the scale the first two weeks.

Honestly if you're obese you could lose 20 lbs in a week and it would be healthy.

I went from 195 to 150 when I was a teen which was extreme but thankfully I am 195 again but fit.

I was cold all the time, because I was eating only 1700cals and running 5 miles daily.

I remember I got to 1pl8 bench in 8th grade and couldn't do the same after I lost the weight. My pr is 2pl8.Now I'm going after 3pl8 as a senior.

Citation?
You can't forever increase weight. You'd very quickly be needing to lift a ton!

Not dumb. Push-pull is actually a common type of split, and I think was popular before push-pull-legs started dominating. Squats on push day, deads on pull day. To me personally, by that point it's like, why not just do full body AxBx etc?

But I guess my nearest gym is still out of my way, so I want to reduce transit time by going less often for longer work outs if I can.

Come on man. Brosplits are chest/arms/legs/core/back/shoulders type splits.

Yes you dumbass

Are you doing mixed grip? If you are and your grip's still failing, I'm not sure, aside from doing a lot of dedicated grip work.
You might consider straps, just make sure you do good warm-ups without them, and maybe some grip specific work. I think if you're not training for power lifting, straps are a lot better than mixed grip.

I'm sure you know this, but your grip should be wider for low bar. I do wider than bench. Any narrower and my wrists/elbows hurt.

how the fuck do you guys shave your chest when you have PE?

Never said you always get stronger, I said it always changes. Once you reach your limit it'll increase as often as it decreases. The span in which it changes might increase and decrease. Maybe you could have lifted 7.5kg and a sugar cube today? Maybe you could even have done that last time. That's wasted gains, bro.

Pls respond

>Be me
>Actually happy with last few years of training
>Diagnosed with significant hypertension
>Doctor insists I lose weight
>Weight loss demands include "cut all meats, replace with pasta and bread"

Does Veeky Forums recommend a person treat this condition with general cutting advice?

no you do your beginner routine until you start stalling too much cause thats how you optimize your gains

What he really means is cut all sodium and saturated fats.

Whey is fine, beef not so much.

Whole grains is literally propaganda. Veggies for fiber, fruits or beans for carbs (also fiber)

General longterm cutting advice. Whatever you do is probably gonna have to be permanent, depending on what exactly is fucking up your blood pressure.

Lean down, cut the sodium back, stop smoking and drink less. That's the usual starter kit. None of those solve all hypertension issues (and, potentially, the whole lot of them won't solve anything if you've got an underlying medical issue causing the problem) but they're the low-hanging fruit to see if anything clears it up.

This.

But also, why on Earth would PPL inherently give better aesthetics? I guess on a split you tend to have a little more time for isolations. But if you're still a novice, your primary muscles aren't big enough to make any little ones pop anyways.
Aesthetics is mostly being cut and muscular, which is mostly about managing your diet. The lifts you do (or worse, what pattern you do them in) having much real effect on this is the worst meme.

>parts of the pussy area showing outside the underwear

This is my fetish. Is there a name for it?

Thank you kind anons.

idk i like it too tho

bump

Is Fierce 5 a good novice routine?

Thanks for responding. So for pure aesthetic goals.. forgive my stupidity.. would you even need to follow a routine at all? Or could you not just follow basic principles like progressive overload, caloric surplus/diet etc and still 'make it? Instinctively train basically

Former skeleton, here. If you're feeling sore in your arms, you're not tucking your shoulder blades back and together properly, so the effort is coming from the front of your delts instead of your arms. There is of course the possibility that while you have weak chest muscles, your arms are even weaker, and you will feel it there even with good form.

Eat more food. Get a calorie counting app like Myfitnesspal or Cronometer and see how much you're taking in. You should be eating at a caloric surplus if you want to see results. If you dont have a choice on what food you get, just eat more of it.

Started doing Stronglifts 5x5 two weeks ago.I am a fat fuck and I think I have problems with mobiliy(I cant hit pararell with squats) and rowing/deadlifts are giving me a challange.How do I fix that, and how do I stretch before the workout?

If your instincts are good and you bring the effort, you can go stupidly far without a major plan (and basically every good lifter knows that the plan is just an outline subject to change). That goes for both strength and aesthetics training.

The issue is that most people have crap instincts as far as training goes.

Make sure you're sticking to dynamic stretching before your workouts, as static stretching has a greater chance of causing an injury when your muscles are cold.

My stretching routine used to be:
- 5 Spiderman Stretches (each side)
- 10 bodyweight squats
- 10 pushups
- 5 side lunges (each side)

It worked great until I started Greyskull, and now I warm up with low weights on my exercises. I suggest doing both, but you'll also see an increase in flexibility once you start shedding weight. Just do the best with what youve got for now, as long as your form isnt dangerous.

If i cant squat properly because Im too fat(guts in the way), should I substitute it with some other exercises until my gut doesnt throw me off balance? or should I just wait until I drop 50lbs or so(currently 325lbs with goal of 180)?

>cant squat properly because Im too fat(guts in the way)
poor excuse. have you never seen a fat powerlifter?

How do you get abs like pic related.
I'm training and making progress with all main compound lifts and i'm wondering if that's enough?

Do it on Pull and do: Pull push legs
Then deadlift the first day after you rest and do another workout to start on your second Pull day

There's a pretty big difference in size between a 300lb powerlifter and a 300lb bastard who's never touched a weight in his life. A lot of superfats who start out have to work around their size and/or immobility causing squat issues. Often deadlift issues too - its apparently fucking hard to get down to the bar with that kind of stomach in the way.

You don't. Enjoy being classified as ugly by girls.

Should I just commit sudoku because I am bald af? :(

Yes, absolutely possible but it depends more on genes if you are ever going to be able to build abs like that. And don't forget that dude is around 8% bf.

Looking for lifting shoes, are Adidas PowerLift 2.0 good for beginners?

Yes mate they're great for squats adidasspecialtysports is having a 30% sale on the 2.0's since 3.0 is out. Not sure if that's for americans too

Oh, cool, thanks for info! Going to buy these.

Having a 2 week break from squats (almost like a deload), is the hack squat machine a sufficient supplement?

Unfortunately not, why are you taking a break from squatting?
You can also try squatting at low intensity for a while if you want to take a break from heavy squatting.