Workout: What did you do today?

[jimmy jazz]

Tbh I don't see anything wrong with beginners doing squat, bench, deadlift or any other compound as long as form is perfect and weight is sensible.

Have you seen some of these bench and squat failures on YouTube? There are people who are skinny beans doing hundreds of kilos, no wonder they failed. I saw one kid snap his arm. How do they decide what weight to use? I swear some people just pluck a number out of thin air and think 'that sounds good I'll lift that'.

[FETCHER.]

I done a push day at the gym today but I skipped my cardio before it. I was a bit scared of pushing myself during cardio because of the pain I had on Tuesday.

I usually have 4 days per week for the gym on my plan and due to laziness at the beginning of the week it means I need to do Friday, Saturday & Sunday now .

Edit: as above Jimmy: I agree there is nothing wrong with beginners doing the exercise so long as the weight isn't overloaded. Work on form with next to no weight then slowly increase it

[DJChameleon]

Tbh I don't see anything wrong with beginners doing squat, bench, deadlift or any other compound as long as form is perfect and weight is sensible.

This is part of the reason why it's not good for beginner's they don't know proper form and a large majority of the time are too intimidated to ask someone for help with form and they just toss whatever weight they pluck out of thin air to attempt which is another bad thing.

My back is still sore from yesterday so I did what I normally do anyways which is cardio the day after training with my PT. 20 minutes on the elliptical. I was tempted to do my jump rope routine but I will do it next week. I haven't done it in awhile.

[Guybrush]

I am a newb, but did receive some instructions on proper way to squat some years back. I'm gonna check out some YouTube vids on proper form in the coming days.

Spent a little time in our gym today doing situps, pushups, squats, bicep curls probably and whatever you call it when you're on a bench and lift manuals straight up.

Finally using our gym, so will try to do something there every day, even if it's just 10 minutes.

It's not pretty and could def use some paint or refurbishing in general, but this is what our cheap home gym looks like.



Importantly, and something you don't see in the pic, it has a TV so I can watch Seinfeld while exercising.

Otherwise, it's got some second hand stuff in it. The treadmill was too heavy and complicated to get out, so was left there by the previous owners.

Edit:

Btw, thought I might try out these 3 (as well as other stuff):

[DJChameleon]

nice set up you got there Guybrush.

I skipped out on the gym today which is usually my chest day. I'm still getting over my fever symptoms that I got from taking the covid booster on Friday.

[jimmy jazz]

So much room in there. That is great. Nice lighting and nice place to train.

If you got:

Squat stands (can get them cheap second hand)
Resistance bands
Pull up bar

You'd be sorted for basically everything. Obviously a gym is better in the sense that you have all the equipment but training alone has so many pros.

Also pleased to see you have a full length mirror in there for admiring your physique 😎

[Guybrush]

So much room in there. That is great. Nice lighting and nice place to train.

If you got:

Squat stands (can get them cheap second hand)
Resistance bands
Pull up bar

You'd be sorted for basically everything. Obviously a gym is better in the sense that you have all the equipment but training alone has so many pros.

Also pleased to see you have a full length mirror in there for admiring your physique 😎

I have one of those pull-up bars you can fit in a door frame and it seems to work, at least for the purpose of doing pullups.

I think my wife has a resistance band 😄 guess we might get some more.

The mirror is from another part of the house where it took up too much space. But of course it's important to find any little way to keep up motivation and watching the beef grow might help with that 👍

[jadis]

I am a newb, but did receive some instructions on proper way to squat some years back. I'm gonna check out some YouTube vids on proper form in the coming days.

Spent a little time in our gym today doing situps, pushups, squats, bicep curls probably and whatever you call it when you're on a bench and lift manuals straight up.

Finally using our gym, so will try to do something there every day, even if it's just 10 minutes.

It's not pretty and could def use some paint or refurbishing in general, but this is what our cheap home gym looks like.



Importantly, and something you don't see in the pic, it has a TV so I can watch Seinfeld while exercising.

Otherwise, it's got some second hand stuff in it. The treadmill was too heavy and complicated to get out, so was left there by the previous owners.

Edit:

Btw, thought I might try out these 3 (as well as other stuff):

I like the pendlay row! First time I hear about it tbh. Will try today 

[jimmy jazz]

I have one of those pull-up bars you can fit in a door frame and it seems to work, at least for the purpose of doing pullups.

I think my wife has a resistance band 😄 guess we might get some more.

The mirror is from another part of the house where it took up too much space. But of course it's important to find any little way to keep up motivation and watching the beef grow might help with that 👍

The door pullup bars are fine but you can only really do underhand grip pullups on them (also known as chin ups). To do overhand you'll need a wider grip. I don't have a pullup bar but I do them using my squat stand with a barbell on top. It's not the normal way but it works.



(Obviously need to tuck my legs up so I'm lifting my whole body)

The resistance bands you can use to assist you with pullups so whatever level you are at you can do them. And also for a load of other stuff. They are such a good tool.

Keep posting your progress mate 

[jimmy jazz]

Wanted to post this. This is a great, entertaining video that will help anyone. 10 things to avoid. Greg is the funniest fitness guy on YouTube.

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[jadis]

Wanted to post this. This is a great, entertaining video that will help anyone. 10 things to avoid. Greg is the funniest fitness guy on YouTube.

💪

I like this!

[jadis]

I hate cardio lol

The stomach exercises I do are mostly cable crunches and even there I put on way more weight than I can lift through the abs so it's more of a back exercise that also works the abs

[jadis]

This is great @DJChameleon

[DJChameleon]

This is great @DJChameleon

Good one!

[FETCHER.]

I trained legs today at the gym. My new coach has me doing some sort of cardio before I do any weights, I guess it is to keep my heart rate higher while I'm doing the weights? On any of my old plans I never used to get so sweaty/tired and the only difference I can think of is that I'm doing a decent amount of cardio before I lift anything.