Gym and fitness (9 Viewers)

[piotrr]

Hurt my knee, was in the hospital, got an x-ray. Any doctors here? Don't think it looks good.

 

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[Klin]

Why is your knee cap wearing a thong?

 

[piotrr]

Why is your knee cap wearing a thong?

It's a liberated knee (unlike the other).

 

[Klin]

lol

 

[Ford Prefect]

How much can you guys bench pull? I've moved from a resistance machine row to a bench pull and I can only manage 65kgs, as opposed to 100+ before

 

[EyeC_U]

How much can you guys bench pull? I've moved from a resistance machine row to a bench pull and I can only manage 65kgs, as opposed to 100+ before

I don't go the gym that often (I do progressive calisthenics) but last time I checked I could manage to bench press 150 kgs, pretty much twice my body weight. Just give your all, do low reps and NEVER EVER lift lighter.

 

[Zacheryah]

Bench pull ? Dont you mean bench press ?

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Hurt my knee, was in the hospital, got an x-ray. Any doctors here? Don't think it looks good.

Seems like your dokter was very close to you when he took the x-ray

 

[Martin]

I have a question for you exercise gurus. I'm back to exercising again and I've adopted a 4 day rotation.

Day 1: 1km swimming
Day 2: 1km swimming
Day 3: 1km swimming + 2-3h bike road trip
Day 4: rest

Day 5: goto Day 1

The idea is building up to the maximum level of effort on day 3, after which I feel pretty damn tired and taking a day off feels like a good decision.

Does this sound good?

Second question: I want to incorporate one session (per 4 days) on body weight strength training. Where should I put it (which day)?

 

[lgorTudor]

beware of the swimmer's knee
http://www.medic8.com/healthguide/sports-medicine/swimming/knee.html

 

[Fint]

Started taking pre-workout.

Fuckin rocket fuel it is

 

[Ford Prefect]

Bench pull ? Dont you mean bench press ?

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I have a question for you exercise gurus. I'm back to exercising again and I've adopted a 4 day rotation.

Day 1: 1km swimming
Day 2: 1km swimming
Day 3: 1km swimming + 2-3h bike road trip
Day 4: rest

Day 5: goto Day 1

The idea is building up to the maximum level of effort on day 3, after which I feel pretty damn tired and taking a day off feels like a good decision.

Does this sound good?

Second question: I want to incorporate one session (per 4 days) on body weight strength training. Where should I put it (which day)?

I don't know a lot about swimming specifically but it's a compound exercise and you aren't allowing any time for recovery, by day three your muscles will be depleted and you'll leave yourself open to injury.

 

[Martin]

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I don't know a lot about swimming specifically but it's a compound exercise and you aren't allowing any time for recovery, by day three your muscles will be depleted and you'll leave yourself open to injury.

Why do you say by day three (as opposed to by day four for instance)?

 

[ALC]

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I don't know a lot about swimming specifically but it's a compound exercise and you aren't allowing any time for recovery, by day three your muscles will be depleted and you'll leave yourself open to injury.

I think that'd be called a row

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Why do you say by day three (as opposed to by day four for instance)?

I personally think three days is fine. You might need to take a week off or take it easy every couple months or so. But three days in a row isn't too much. Maybe for a beginner but you should be able to catch up to that. Main thing is you have to remember to push yourself.

 

[Quetzalcoatl]

Started taking pre-workout.

Fuckin rocket fuel it is

Yeah I just started taking too. Shit's miraculous, but watch out for it messing up your sleep.

 

[Ford Prefect]

Why do you say by day three (as opposed to by day four for instance)?

Because day 4 was rest. You might be fine, swimming is fairly low impact if I remember correctly, but when I did cardio I cross trained when I trained 5 days on so that I rested everything properly

 

[Fint]

Yeah I just started taking too. Shit's miraculous, but watch out for it messing up your sleep.

Noted

How long before your workout to you take it btw?

 

[Quetzalcoatl]

Noted

How long before your workout to you take it btw?

Half an hour more or less.

 

[Fint]

Half an hour more or less.

Cool, thats what I thought

 

[EyeC_U]

Second question: I want to incorporate one session (per 4 days) on body weight strength training. Where should I put it (which day)?

You could distribute your bodyweight training in two or three days if you don't want to burn out or have a complete workout. When I first started I was so god damn weak, I couldn't even do a pull up or a chin up, I was so frustrated man but then I read about GTG "Grease the Groove" method. It basically consists on doing the same exercise everyday (pull ups for example) but NEVER TO FAILURE. So if you can do 10 reps of pull ups, you must only do 5 to 8 reps for each set. You can rest every 30 to 60 minutes and do it again but remember never to failure because you'll need energy and strength for the next day.

I started doing 0, after two weeks I could do one (perfect form and full ROM), by the 6th week I could 6-8 pull ups now I don't know because I moved on to more difficult exercises. Good luck mate!

 

[Ford Prefect]

You could distribute your bodyweight training in two or three days if you don't want to burn out or have a complete workout. When I first started I was so god damn weak, I couldn't even do a pull up or a chin up, I was so frustrated man but then I read about GTG "Grease the Groove" method. It basically consists on doing the same exercise everyday (pull ups for example) but NEVER TO FAILURE. So if you can do 10 reps of pull ups, you must only do 5 to 8 reps for each set. You can rest every 30 to 60 minutes and do it again but remember never to failure because you'll need energy and strength for the next day.

I started doing 0, after two weeks I could do one (perfect form and full ROM), by the 6th week I could 6-8 pull ups now I don't know because I moved on to more difficult exercises. Good luck mate!

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