Fitness

Hello, I hope this type of post is allowed here.

I'm a beginner lifter and my budget is ~$50 (USD). Any possibility of finding good lifting shoes around this price point, or am I going to have to shell out more money? :')

Any recommendations would be appreciated. Thanks!

I’ve been steadily increasing my lifting the last few months and I’ve been tracking everything exclusively in Garmin Connect. It works, but it feels like it lacks polish.

I’m looking for some way that I can program my strength workouts, have them sync with Garmin Connect (and by proxy, my watch). I want pattern matching for the sync. So if I am doing deadlift and program it that way, then the workout Garmin gets in the sync should match it to their internally classified exercise of Deadlift. This is so I don’t have to manually go in later at recategorize everything.

I don’t mind paying for a service.

I’ve tried fitbod, and while it’s a good app, it doesn’t sync with Garmin in any capacity.

I’ve looked int TrainingPeaks, and from their support documents it looks like they do everything except matching the exercises with Garmin. Haven’t paid for premium yet to test it myself yet.

I am currently using just the Garmin Connect app and creating my own workouts. This works well enough, but here are a few of my issues with it.

1. I do % based builds. So day 1 would be something like 65% of max. This is easy to do with Garmin tools. But day 2 is 65% + #10, and then 65% +20#. Garmin can’t account for this so I have to manually calculate it.

2. A cycle is often around 15 workouts. There’s no folder structure in Garmin Connect, so if you create programming for 5 different exercises, that becomes 75 custom workouts making it hard to find what your looking for. Also, I have to place each workout individually per day. I can’t set them up on a recurring schedule so all 15 show up on my calendar with 1 interaction.

I am kinda new to pull-ups and i am having a problem. So right now I can do 8 pull-ups in a row but if I try to do another set after some rest, I can only get 4 to 5 reps. Is there something I can change with my pull-up training?

Hello everyone,

I started going to the gym in February and followed the same workout plan until now. A few weeks ago I started running and it makes it difficult to keep going to the gym as often as before. I was wondering if this two days per week workout plan would be good enough to grow (or at least maintain) muscles:

Day 1: Upper body / core

• Lat pulls
• Dumbbell bench press
• Dumbbell bicep curl
• Pushdowns
• Back extensions
• Pec fly (or chest press machine)

Day 2: lower body / shoulders

• Seated leg curls
• Leg press
• Leg extensions
• Calf raises
• Side lat raises
• Dumbbell overhead press

I also start each training with incline sit-ups.

Thank you!

That seems to be what the complicated explanations boil down to.

I decided to try out a sort of full body workout targeting my chest and back after my leg workouts last week. I did the same workouts i do on my chest/back and leg days, but for some reason i was not sore at all so i tried it again in the same week and same thing. I'm shocked because my legs and core would be extremely sore after my leg workouts. After doing some research i found out that lactic acid build up was one of the culprits of doms pain, and my theory is that transitioning from lower body to upper body in the same workout might actually lower the lactic acid in the legs and delaying the pain.

Is there any weight to this theory, do you do full body workouts or do you prefer to give your lower body its own day and what pain/soreness do you feel if any after targeting your lower body.

I decided to try out a sort of full body workout targeting my chest and back after my leg workouts last week. I did the same workouts i do on my chest/back and leg days, but for some reason i was not sore at all so i tried it again in the same week and same thing. I'm shocked because my legs and core would be extremely sore after my leg workouts. After doing some research i found out that lactic acid build up was one of the culprits of doms pain, and my theory is that transitioning from lower body to upper body in the same workout might actually lower the lactic acid in the legs and delaying the pain.

tl;dr: are there any steel mace or steel club workshops or classes in or close to Northern Kentucky? I’ve tried to find them via searches on DuckDuckGo and Google; the closest I could find is a weekend workshop in October, but it’s in Pittsburgh, which is several hours away from me. I’m willing to travel, but would obviously prefer to save time and fuel if there are closer options.

The rest: Several weeks ago, I became really interested in steel club and mace workouts. I have mobility issues in one shoulder and also want to improve my grip strength so that I can make more progress with my kettlebell workouts. I’ve been using YouTube videos and resources from Onnit to learn proper form and fundamental movements and have made some progress. I use an iPad to practice and critique my form ( I record myself in slo-mo and compare it frame-by-frame) However, I would like some in-person instruction because I’m afraid of unknowingly learning bad habits.

Hello Community.

currently i'm stagnated at 90kg deadlift. I'm going twice the week to the gym.

My main issue is that the grip is difficult and shortly after that i'm not able to hold the bar.

I'm wearing gloves because after at some point the hand inside skin got so open that on the next train it began to hurt, so that I'm not able to do the workout clean.

Should i focus to do some training for the hand or try it without gloves so that the hands get trained?

Do you enjoy it? How long have you been running it? Thought about switching to something new?

Is there any way to work out what numbers I should be aiming for for each exercise?

I've got a deadlift PR for 175kg (~385lbs), I think I could squat 150kg (330lbs), maybe more, as I did it years ago.

I'm worried about bench as I'm untested. I would need about 120kg (264lbs). I've been doing dumbbell bench for 4x12 @ 17.5kg (~38lbs). Today I alao did Incline Dumbbell bench for the same sets, reps and weight.

I'm 14kg (32lbs) off with those numbers, so I'll probably tack it on the squat or redo the DL.

Does anyone have any advice?

Cheers!

I'm a tall guy with poor mobility. I've been at the gym for a year and working on my mobility every workout. I improved massively in many areas except for my ankle dorsiflexion, which still sucks. While I can go low in the squat, it requires me to lean forward and I get sore (DOMS, not pain) lower back after squatting. Recently I started using slant boards and now I can feel the squats in my quads, and my back doesn't get sore anymore. But it strains my knees a lot, even to the point of sharp pain sometimes, which prompted me to back off to very light squats for high reps to rehab. My question is, is low back soreness acceptable, or should I stick to the slant boards and strengthen my quads and knees? Any exercise ideas for ankle mobility? I'm doing goblet squats, squat holds for time, banded ankle dorsiflexion and calf static stretches after workouts.

I can post some videos if required.

I want to purchase a piece of cardio equipment to use for when the weather and/or pollen are bad so that I can do LISS. Anyone have any recs? I'm leaning towards a rower, but I'd also like to be able to have a screen to watch in case I want to watch some TV. I don't care about it havinf programs, classes I can join, or any of that stuff.

For people whose primary fitness activity is lifting or sports: how much cardio do you do? Specifically, what do you do, for how long, and how often?

My primary fitness activity is a sport (recreational, 3x a week), with lifting 2-3x a week. I'm trying to do more LISS cardio outside of these for general cardiovascular health and possibly improved stamina.

Edit: Thanks for all the replies, y'all!

I thought I'd share my favorite resource for finding workout routines, DAREBEE. It's completely free and has a bunch of different workouts for all levels. I really enjoy their RPG based workouts.

The best part is most of the workouts are body weight centered, so you don't even need access to gym equipment to get started.

Thought this was mindblowing. A lot of it was familiar to me (e.g. women need a certain level of body fat) and some of it I knew as urban legend (e.g. body fat set point theory).

However, he references studies and talks about things men might experience at 5% body fat that I never expected, like extremely low testosterone.

Hello Fellow Fitness Focused Lemmings!

I started biking more a few years ago for fitness purposes and the thrill of exploration. Strava has a feature where you can overlay all your rides on top of a map that you can pan and zoom in and out on. They call this the "Personal Heatmap". I always try to cover new ground and explore places I haven't been and (as a map nerd) it gives me a thrill to see all my tracks and even the epic long distance rides I did on trips or a few years back.

1. Does anyone else know of any other applications or programs that can do this?

I like how Strava shows the "heat" (how many times you've been through a particular route will change the color), but this is not absolutely essential for me. Most important is that I can put all my GPX files on top of a map in a giant messy web of everywhere I've been.

Extra credit goes to any recommendations of FOSS solutions because my main motivation here is to make sure that I can persist my data even if I am not using Strava anymore.

2. Additionally, if you know of any other communities on Lemmy that might be well-positioned to answer these questions, I would appreciate your insights as well.

I'm (43M) just starting my gym routine and was wondering about some guidelines where to get informed about good workout schedules, in example which group of muscles to do on which day for optimal effect?

E: I'm 176 cm (5 foot 9) / 86 kg (190 lb) now. Want to reach 80 kg (175 lb).

I want to lose that belly and work on overall fitness/muscle

For most exercises I start with smaller weight set and then increase it. Like 8rep 40kg, 3x8rep 45kg.

For pull-ups for, i do not know what reason, I selected opposite approach 9,8,7,6.

Should I better change it to something like 6 (warm up) and then do working sets of 9, 8, 7 pull ups?

I love the full body benefits of squats but I find my knees are liking them less and less these days.

I’m currently working a modified PPL, so a heavy off day.

LEGS

2x5, 1x5+ squat

3x8-12 Romanian Deadlift

3x8-12 leg press

3x8-12 leg curls

3x8-12 leg extensions

5x8-12 calf raises

I pretty much hate squats while I’m doing them. I think it’s cause they make my knees angry.

Is there something knee friendly I can replace squats with or alternate in occasionally?

What fitness/calorie app do you use (if any)?

I used to use LoseIt! but did not want to pay to upgrade to the full version without knowing how much help it would be. I’m just looking to upkeep my fitness and lose some weight in the process. It helps me to track everything and having everything on my phone makes it even easier. Also, the LoseIt! app does not take the iWatch Fitness Ring app data, so all of my workouts aren’t added in. Ideally, I’d love to have one place that can interact with my watch and phone data, where I can input my intake on a predicted schedule. If that makes any sense.

Does anybody here use anything like that? If so, what are your suggestions and thoughts? (PS, as I am new to lemmy, please let me know if this should be posted elsewhere).

Assume machines and dumbbells are open

What are your alternative exercises for squats, bench presses, and deadlifts?

What happened recently during or related to your training? Feel free to share whatever.