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Diet-Fitness-General Wellness Your Thoughts?

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DubCoffman62;1972213; said:
I'd actually been doing kind of a squat, I think it's called a squat cling and I use dumbells and a weighted vest. I'd also been doing the plyo squat. What killed me was the lunge with one leg elevated behind me resting on the couch. I really felt the burn. I also walk backwards up the steep inclines on one of the paved trails. That's supposed to be really good too.
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A squat clean or cling? Do you use your dumbbells for much leg work?
 
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DubCoffman62;1972552; said:
It's an exercise that starts as a hang clean, goes into a push press and ends in a front squat. And yes, I use my dumbbells for leg work and also my weighted vest and ankle weights.
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Have you ever done regular dumbbell squats? What about dumbbell deadlifts? I'm glad you are using your dumbbells for leg work. There's a million different things you can do with them,but the deads and squats are core movements that yield more gains then anything else in the lower body imo.
 
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powerlifter;1972568; said:
Have you ever done regular dumbbell squats? What about dumbbell deadlifts? I'm glad you are using your dumbbells for leg work. There's a million different things you can do with them,but the deads and squats are core movements that yield more gains then anything else in the lower body imo.
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I've done the squats, not the deadlifts. I'll check them out on you tube. I've been finding a lot of what I've incorporated into my workouts on youtube. It really helps to be able to watch them do it so you can observe proper form and technique. Not everything works for me but I've found some good stuff.
 
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DubCoffman62;1972572; said:
I've done the squats, not the deadlifts. I'll check them out on you tube. I've been finding a lot of what I've incorporated into my workouts on youtube. It really helps to be able to watch them do it so you can observe proper form and technique. Not everything works for me but I've found some good stuff.
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There certainly is a lot of great stuff on youtube. When you are checking out the deadlifts be sure to checkout both "conventional" and "sumo" style pulling. They both work great,but most prefer one over the other.
 
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powerlifter;1972575; said:
There certainly is a lot of great stuff on youtube. When you are checking out the deadlifts be sure to checkout both "conventional" and "sumo" style pulling. They both work great,but most prefer one over the other.
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I was just checking them out and I will certainly try both. You know, there's so much stuff on you tube, you see something, you try it like it so you start using it in your workout. My workouts have gone from 35-40 minutes from when I first started to 1 hour 15-20 minutes. Like I said, starting today I'm splitting them in half, lower body one day, upper the the next. What I was going to ask you was how long your average workout lasts? What would be ideal?
 
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DubCoffman62;1972579; said:
I was just checking them out and I will certainly try both. You know, there's so much stuff on you tube, you see something, you try it like it so you start using it in your workout. My workouts have gone from 35-40 minutes from when I first started to 1 hour 15-20 minutes. Like I said, starting today I'm splitting them in half, lower body one day, upper the the next. What I was going to ask you was how long your average workout lasts? What would be ideal?
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There's a lot of variables with my training that will take up time. When i'm training specifically for strength,I am in the gym 2 hours. Training for strength is a tedious process of loading and unloading weights(a lot of time more then you can lift,but isolating certain parts of the exercise,ie. board presses,rack pulls). You can't just wait a few minutes in between sets,when you are going balls deep in it. You will be weaker.Strength training is best done in groups of people that have similar goals. It's flat out dangerous imo,but there's nothing like it in the same regard.

When i'm doing a bodybuilding regimen,I still love the upper/lower split,but most of the time that's just not reasonable,because i'm doing 3-4 exercises per bodypart.

I always group at least back and legs together,because I can deadlift and squat on the same day without it deducting from recovery and straight up just being sore. It's a real pain in the ass if you squatted on monday and you're trying to pull on thursday. Most of the time i'm really feeling the squat soreness by day 2 of recovery.

I'll usually split mine up something like this.

Chest/tri's/bi's
Legs/back/abs
Chest/shoulders and any auxillary work I haven't done. (grip training,sledge hammering tires) I train chest 2x a week,because it has always yielded great results for me. If my chest is still tender I won't train it,and i'll do something else. I'm a big believer in the "listen to your body" thing. On paper it doesn't really look like that much training,but in the gym it's a whole different story. I put a ton of time in compound lifts and use the isolation lifts to really get a good solid feeling going. I also do cardio 4x a week. On average when I'm doing bodybuilding splits I'm in the gym about an hour and half.

Don't leave the gym til you are satisfied. Unless you have something else you gotta be doing there's no reason to fall in love with the clock or let it mess with your head. Your body or a piece of paper doesn't know that 3 sets was enough. You do or don't though. That instinct gets stronger with time and experience.
 
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powerlifter;1972592; said:
There's a lot of variables with my training that will take up time. When i'm training specifically for strength,I am in the gym 2 hours. Training for strength is a tedious process of loading and unloading weights(a lot of time more then you can lift,but isolating certain parts of the exercise,ie. board presses,rack pulls). You can't just wait a few minutes in between sets,when you are going balls deep in it. You will be weaker.Strength training is best done in groups of people that have similar goals. It's flat out dangerous imo,but there's nothing like it in the same regard.

When i'm doing a bodybuilding regimen,I still love the upper/lower split,but most of the time that's just not reasonable,because i'm doing 3-4 exercises per bodypart.

I always group at least back and legs together,because I can deadlift and squat on the same day without it deducting from recovery and straight up just being sore. It's a real pain in the ass if you squatted on monday and you're trying to pull on thursday. Most of the time i'm really feeling the squat soreness by day 2 of recovery.

I'll usually split mine up something like this.

Chest/tri's/bi's
Legs/back/abs
Chest/shoulders and any auxillary work I haven't done. (grip training,sledge hammering tires) I train chest 2x a week,because it has always yielded great results for me. If my chest is still tender I won't train it,and i'll do something else. I'm a big believer in the "listen to your body" thing. On paper it doesn't really look like that much training,but in the gym it's a whole different story. I put a ton of time in compound lifts and use the isolation lifts to really get a good solid feeling going. I also do cardio 4x a week. On average when I'm doing bodybuilding splits I'm in the gym about an hour and half.

Don't leave the gym til you are satisfied. Unless you have something else you gotta be doing there's no reason to fall in love with the clock or let it mess with your head. Your body or a piece of paper doesn't know that 3 sets was enough. You do or don't though. That instinct gets stronger with time and experience.
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Thanks, that's great advise. I do tend to listen to my body. There's been times that I've not done something I normally do because I felt that part was already too hashed and other times I've done extra stuff because I felt that I still had a lot in me. Sometimes I leave two or three exercises until about an hour after my initial workout, For example, I do 5 different kinds of pushups and there's times where I'm too burnt to finish them all so I go back later to do them. I'm just getting to the point to where I can do full sets of 10-12 reps of the diamond pushups both regular and feet elevated. I do all my other pushups with my weighted vest. I also usually wait an hour to work on my pull ups. I'm still using the chair and doing negative pull ups but it's slowly but surely getting easier.
 
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I need to buy more weights but I was wo thinking about giving resistance bands a try. I'd like the 90lbs powerblock but the the thought of spending 500 big ones makes my butt pucker, especially since I'm going to be spending 13 grand on corrective jaw surgery in about two weeks. Anyway, anyone use the bands and are they effective?
 
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DubCoffman62;1972703; said:
I need to buy more weights but I was wo thinking about giving resistance bands a try. I'd like the 90lbs powerblock but the the thought of spending 500 big ones makes my butt pucker, especially since I'm going to be spending 13 grand on corrective jaw surgery in about two weeks. Anyway, anyone use the bands and are they effective?
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I've owned a set of jump stretch bands for about a decade. They are awesome,and they've been put through hell.
 
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DubCoffman62;1972703; said:
I'd like the 90lbs powerblock but the the thought of spending 500 big ones makes my butt pucker, especially since I'm going to be spending 13 grand on corrective jaw surgery in about two weeks.
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i own the 90 lb. powerblock. great value. unfortunately, it would be hard to find that version for $500.
 
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OSU_Buckguy;1972755; said:
i own the 90 lb. powerblock. great value. unfortunately, it would be hard to find that version for $500.
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How much do they usually go for? I saw something similar for $399 but it was a cheap knock off. I already have the 45 lbs block, I remember that I paid between $200-$300 back in '04.
 
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