Currently progressing and almost left blue. Squats feel amazing and simple, but I can't for the fucking life of me attempt to keep my wrist even the slightest straight during my squat(low bar) without getting TERRIBLE pain in my elbows, brachialis and triceps. It's like they all cramp up
Been squatting with wrist straps and it helps my wrist with stability a bit but currently only squatting 240 lbs (5x5) and I'm worried if I go up much in weight and dont fix this my elbow will suffer from the wrist flexion.
Is this actually a problem or is it okay to just have bent wrists with wrist straps?
How are you gripping the bar? I used to have trouble with that until I switched to having thumbs over the bar. So your wrists are almost resting on the top of the bar
Do you wrap your thumbs around the bar when squatting? I had the same problem thanks to rippletits and it went away as soon as I gripped the bar with my thumbs around it
Christian Roberts
Dude, somewhere along the line you screwed up immensely. What's your plan now?
Camden Murphy
bulking in to oblivion until my intermediate lifts catch up with the proficient/advanced ones.
Nathan Robinson
I hate how much you get punished for high bodyweight. compared to the point where I started almost a decade ago I progressed a ton but now I am a lot heavier so these sites make my progress look a lot less impressive than it actually is
Matthew Green
lol I love these threads, really good to see that a siamese knitting board has this high of percentage of top of the line athletes
You know you shouldn't lift your back when rowing right?
Gavin Hernandez
That's the point though? You should focus on relative strength, it doesn't mean a lot that you added a pl8 to your bench if you gained 20kg for example
its literally the most fun lift there is tho. and you need sexy shoulders to impress people
Justin Diaz
>muuh relative strength thats just an excuse for manlets. manlets have much better leverage and are much lighter but because they arent as strong as tall men they come up with this sort of bullshit and restrictions so they dont feel worthless
funny isnt it? you only see weight classes where having a lot of muscle is beneficial. you never see weight classes where excessive bodyweight is detrimental. really maeks yuo thingk huhh?
Not an excuse for anything. Everybody can add strength while bulking, I wouldn't call that progress until you cut back to a normal bodyweight.
Jackson Lopez
Alright fit I've never really been on a program before, i wrestled through highschool and did meme shit our insturctor told us. With this, what program should I do with strength as the goal?
> Been lifting close to a month > Most lifts have been going up in a linear and rapid manner. > Am way stronger now than I was. > Still considered subpar.
Symmetric strength will give you a weight range for each lift for subpar as well as the other categories. You may have started out in the bottom of the bracket, but now your lifts are in the top of the bracket, still leaving you in subpar. Don't sweat it anyways, be happy that you're progressing, 1 month of lifting is next to nothing.
If the stats you posted are accurate, you probably shouldn't do any 5x5 variant unless all you're looking for is strength training. If you want muscle development as well then go with any PPL routine. As meme as David Laid is, he has good numbers on his lifts. He has a PPL routine with strength training on the first PPL of the week, and hypertrophy on the second half. I've seen that routine come up with other strength oriented bodybuilders.
Owen Russell
he dont have penor
Levi Turner
>tfw 6 months in >mostly untrained im fucked arent i
Easton Johnson
It's alright, symmetric strength gauges relative strength. So if you're overweight and you started with little to no muscle then its going to be harder to move up on symmetric strength, not necessarily that what you're doing is wrong
Cameron Martinez
We're gonna need stats and a full-body pic to be able to answer that.
Justin Robinson
ALWAYS. COUNT. THE BAR!
Jaxson Roberts
I've been lifting for 2 months and it's weird, all your purples are blue and all your blues are purple for me. We are opposites.
Christian Perez
>Slowfag finally made it all the way to blue Hooray. For some reason I can't ever seem to deadlift more than I squat though.
Deadlift more? You don't need to worry much about overworking DL until around intermediate. That's my only real beef with shit like SL that only have you DL like 5 work reps a week.
Julian Peterson
Well I could, but when I looked it up everyone said doing more volume on dls generally is counterproductive even as a novice.
Kevin Sullivan
I'm no expert, but I can't really see why. If you barely ever DL then you won't get the form down and develop the neuromuscular pathways. I could see "hey don't DL 5x5 2-3 times a week", but doing 3x5 once or twice a week at first seems like a good idea to me.
Grayson Ross
Form is fine and I've been doing this for a while despite my shit stats, You're probably right, I should just dl more.
Chase Scott
Lol what the fuck do you look like?
Dylan Murphy
I'd be willing to bet not horrible. He's obviously leg weak, but not exactly a brolifter who's never done a leg day in his life.
Aaron Sanders
Normies gains, but remarkably symmetric normie gains
Started six months ago. Presently at 135/220/315/320. I feel like this is not adequate progress. I just want to leave Blue Man behind, but can still only do 6 Chinups.
Just stop doing all the stuff you're already proficient in
Eli Collins
But I like doing deads and rows
Jonathan Jones
>65 kg bodyweight >60 kg Back Squat for 5 reps >60 kg Deadlift for 5 reps >50 kg Bench Press for 5 reps >10 Dips >30 kg Overhead Press for 5 reps >5 Chin-Ups It's alright I guess.
The row ratios on this site are all wrong. Change to weighted chin up if you want a real analysis of your back/bicep strength
Luke Foster
Ye I do both
Chase Myers
> Chinup +1% > Pendlay Row +30% Those are quite the barbell shoulder shrugs you're calling rows, user.
Matthew Diaz
user from here. This is the key to my success. Stated at 250, have cut down to 195, aiming for 170 in the long run. Losing body weight will help your Symmetric Strength more than lifting more. So do both.
Was a gamer nerd all my life, started working out at around August with 30 day workout challenge and then started lifting at around late September. Got sick at early December with Dengue Fever which made me lose 5 kilos(mostly fat, but I think a lot of my gains were lost also). Went back at around Christmas time and got consistent again.
>tfw would have been intermediate by now if I didn't get sick
Stats:
5'7" @ 75kg (Bulking until 78kg)
I hope I'm gonna make it. Working out is the only thing that's keeping me from killing myself.
