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Diet-Fitness-General Wellness Your Thoughts?

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OSU_Buckguy;1973148; said:
mark rippetoe has a bunch of deadlift videos on youtube. i would watch all of them before ever doing one deadlift, which can seriously mess you up.
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Yes, I'm gong to start off slow with my squats and when I get my back a bit more built up I'll start the lifts. I was trying to do too much, too soon with too much weight and without having mastered the proper form and technique. This will slow me down.
 
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DubCoffman62;1973147; said:
Lower back, left side. What happened was I did the deadlifts, if not a bit awkwardly. It was one my first rep on my second set of squats that it went.
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It's a tough process of learning how to lift everything even. Especially for someone who isn't used to it. Natural tendancies will make you try to "horse" the weight up instead of pulling(deads) or pushing (squats). Something you should keep in mind is that the weight isn't really an issue at this point. A word of advice without seeing you lift would be to always imagine you are pushing your feet through the floor. Not pulling the weight through your body.


OSU_Buckguy;1973148; said:
mark rippetoe has a bunch of deadlift videos on youtube. i would watch all of them before ever doing one deadlift, which can seriously mess you up.
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Yes,rippetoe and louie simmons both. Simmons transformed a garage looking building into the strongest gym in the US,which happens to be in columbus. Dave Tate is another guy you can learn a lot of great info from on youtube.

DubCoffman62;1973149; said:
Yes, I'm gong to start off slow with my squats and when I get my back a bit more built up I'll start the lifts. I was trying to do too much, too soon with too much weight and without having mastered the proper form and technique. This will slow me down.
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I know you won't want to do this,but at some point in time it would be a great asset to film yourself doing those lifts. Once you educate yourself on how the lift is supposed to be done it's a lot easier to watch yourself lift and pick apart things you'd like to do differently. A lot of my vids are in a college gym,and it looked weird as hell,but I care more about bettering myself,then what someone else thinks.

For what it's worth..Years ago I talked to one of the top heavyweight deadlifters in the world,and we were discussing form on squats and deads..His exact words were " I have to learn how to do them every single time I lift." It was a short convo but really put things into perspective.
 
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powerlifter;1973206; said:
It's a tough process of learning how to lift everything even. Especially for someone who isn't used to it. Natural tendancies will make you try to "horse" the weight up instead of pulling(deads) or pushing (squats). Something you should keep in mind is that the weight isn't really an issue at this point. A word of advice without seeing you lift would be to always imagine you are pushing your feet through the floor. Not pulling the weight through your body.




Yes,rippetoe and louie simmons both. Simmons transformed a garage looking building into the strongest gym in the US,which happens to be in columbus. Dave Tate is another guy you can learn a lot of great info from on youtube.



I know you won't want to do this,but at some point in time it would be a great asset to film yourself doing those lifts. Once you educate yourself on how the lift is supposed to be done it's a lot easier to watch yourself lift and pick apart things you'd like to do differently. A lot of my vids are in a college gym,and it looked weird as hell,but I care more about bettering myself,then what someone else thinks.

For what it's worth..Years ago I talked to one of the top heavyweight deadlifters in the world,and we were discussing form on squats and deads..His exact words were " I have to learn how to do them every single time I lift." It was a short convo but really put things into perspective.
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It really does when you consider the top heavyweight said that. At 42 my back is already very tender, starting deadlifts and squats at my age with so little knowledge or experience is a recipe for disaster. I'm going to take this very slow and deliberately. My back is mostly fine today but it could've been so much worse. Back in January or February I tweaked my back so bad that I couldn't even put shoes nor socks on my feet for a week.
 
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DubCoffman62;1973250; said:
It really does when you consider the top heavyweight said that. At 42 my back is already very tender, starting deadlifts and squats at my age with so little knowledge or experience is a recipe for disaster. I'm going to take this very slow and deliberately. My back is mostly fine today but it could've been so much worse. Back in January or February I tweaked my back so bad that I couldn't even put shoes nor socks on my feet for a week.
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I would highly recommend using rack pulls instead of deadlifts. You can slowly work down to a full deadlift from the the floor.
 
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A few summers ago I lost a good amount of weight pretty quick and now I'm left with extra skin mostly in my chest and stomach areas. I've heard you can tighten it up when you gain muscle..does anyone have any suggestions of good workouts I can do to try to tighten the skin up?
 
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BuckeyeMac;1974886; said:
Anyone try the "Cabbage Soup Diet" before? Did you have good results/like it?

I'm thinking of trying it out to lose some weight and kind of do a cleanse
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Instead of trying a diet like this just change your eating habits for good, not some predetermined amount of time. Diets are more or less pointless even when they do work because you will gain it all back once you reach your goal.
 
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buckeyescott11;1974911; said:
A few summers ago I lost a good amount of weight pretty quick and now I'm left with extra skin mostly in my chest and stomach areas. I've heard you can tighten it up when you gain muscle..does anyone have any suggestions of good workouts I can do to try to tighten the skin up?
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not a workout but i think you could rub some cabbage soup on your skin.
 
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BuckeyeMac;1974886; said:
Anyone try the "Cabbage Soup Diet" before? Did you have good results/like it?

I'm thinking of trying it out to lose some weight and kind of do a cleanse
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Try only buying food in its most basic form. Anything pre-prepared is going to be detrimental. Then again, I'm a Mother Earth News reading self-sufficient food kinda guy.

Look into the differences between local eggs versus large farm eggs, grass fed beef, etc. If you eat nothing but cabbage soup, you'll just be a flatulent, ill-tempered guy who will binge on garbage food soon after the diet ends.
 
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Crump's brother;1974959; said:
Try only buying food in its most basic form. Anything pre-prepared is going to be detrimental. Then again, I'm a Mother Earth News reading self-sufficient food kinda guy.

Look into the differences between local eggs versus large farm eggs, grass fed beef, etc. If you eat nothing but cabbage soup, you'll just be a flatulent, ill-tempered guy who will binge on garbage food soon after the diet ends.
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That's how i try to eat too, I don't buy anything that comes out of a can or a box. I keep my meals very basic, meat or eggs with a potato and a green vegetable, mainly spinach. When I do go out for pizza I go to a place that makes their crust and sauce from scratch, they also use high quality meats for their topping, the sausage is freshly ground, not those little rubble balls that most places use. Like Flocka said, it has to be a lifestyle change with proper nutrition and regular exercise or else the weight will come back in a flash. It's amazing how happy your digestive system is when you eat right, I'm very regular and almost never fart. If I do try to eat something from a can or box or eat at a place that uses prefab foods though my body rejects it immediately and I'm running for a toilet.
 
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