I have been training about two years. Squat is around 90kg for sets of five, deadlift a bit above that, and both are moving slowly rather than being stuck. Half the people at my gym wear a belt for everything including…
Every article I read says training a muscle twice a week beats once, and that the classic one body part per day split is outdated. Then I go to the gym and the biggest, most obviously advanced people there are all doing…
The movements look closely related: same plane, same joints, arms pushing away from the chest. If that is right, then a push up should be roughly a bench press with a load equal to my bodyweight, and I could think about…
The standard advice is that muscle is built during recovery, and that training the same thing every day without rest breaks you down rather than building you up. Military basic training appears to contradict this…
I have a few months of inconsistent training behind me and I have decided to commit properly. My plan was six sessions a week, splitting body parts across days, because I have the time and the motivation. Everything I…
I am 42 and I have managed to hold a daily walking habit of around ten thousand steps for several months now. Energy and mood are noticeably better and it is a routine I can sustain, which matters more to me than…
I am 37, in reasonable shape, and I lift weights consistently in a gym. A month ago I started learning to surf, and I need about three full days to recover from each lesson, more if the water is rough. That seems like a…
Rented flat with downstairs neighbours, landlord will not have a rack in the spare room, and the nearest gym is forty minutes each way. I have a doorway pull up bar, a set of loop bands and two 12kg dumbbells. I am…
Audible click in the left shoulder as the bar comes back down from lockout, roughly at eye level, every rep. Right shoulder is silent. No pain during or after, no loss of strength, and I can press the same weight as…
Eighteen months in, three sessions a week, about seventy minutes each, currently running a 5x5. The bar keeps moving so the programme is clearly working, but nothing visible has changed since roughly month nine. I do…
Linear ish program, three sessions a week. Squat has gone from 100 to 122kg in that time, deadlift is moving, and bench has been 80kg for five reps since March. I've tried adding a fourth bench day, then dropping to…
PB is about 1:52, four runs a week with the long one on Sunday. Every previous attempt at adding squats and deadlifts has wrecked my Tuesday legs and I have dropped the lifting inside three weeks each time. I am not…
Filmed myself and my lumbar spine visibly rounds in the last few inches before the bar leaves the floor, at every weight including the empty bar. It doesn't hurt and never has. Conventional stance, bar over midfoot, I'm…
I can get to the gym four times a week but I genuinely only have 45 minutes on the floor, plus warm up on the way in. Two years of training, intermediate numbers, main goal is getting stronger on squat bench deadlift…
Took eight months off and went back last Monday. Legs were fine on Tuesday, agony on Wednesday, and it's now Friday and going down stairs is still a project. I did what felt like a light session, squats with just the…