Four months, three sessions a week, almost never missed. Eating roughly the same as before. The scale is within a kilo of where it started. Clothes feel a bit different, maybe, or I am imagining it. I have no other…
Scan came back lower than my doctor wanted and the advice was resistance training, which I have never done. I walk daily and that is the extent of it. What I cannot find anywhere is what people actually did week to week…
Did my first real lower body session on Monday, squats and lunges and some hamstring work, nothing heavy but a lot more than I'm used to. Tuesday I was fine, Wednesday I could barely sit down on a chair, and it's now…
I've been on 40kg for five weeks. 3x5 at 40 is hard but doable, and 45 is a wall, I get one rep and the second stapled me last Tuesday. That's a 12% jump and it's obviously too much, but the smallest plates in this gym…
Never lifted anything in my life, joined a gym, and I have been on the treadmill for a fortnight because the free weight area at 6pm looks like a place where people know what they are doing. Three days a week is…
Trained at a gym for about eight months and could squat and deadlift a barbell reasonably, then moved somewhere with no realistic gym option. I have adjustable dumbbells that top out at 24 kg each, a flat bench and a…
Pulling 80kg for sets of 5 and my hands are the limiting factor by a mile. Last set the bar rolls out of my fingers on rep 3 and my back and legs feel like they had another two in them. I have small hands and the bar in…
Only the left side, only in the bottom third, and only under load, bodyweight squats are completely fine. It's a distinct pinch right at the front of the hip crease rather than an ache, and it goes as soon as I come up.…
I get three lunch breaks a week and 45 minutes each including changing, so realistically 35 minutes under the bar. I want to get visibly stronger and I'd also like to put on some muscle, and every programme I look at…