I finally live in a house and am going mad with the possibilities unfolding around me.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=qOplfRfSvJw

So I am going to sign up for a 15 mile race 7 months from now. The entire race is at high altitude and a lots of elevation gain. I've only done 5ks before and I always have a lot of trouble with hills. I'm wondering what level of training I'm going to need to do to get better at hills, trails, and altitude. So far my road record for distance is 6mi and my trail record is 4mi.

Am I making a mistake or not (I'm doing this either way)?

Been working out consistently for about 3 months now using a beginner plan (Grey skulls lp) and I think I'm hitting plateaus just using linear progression. I'm up to:

DL: 120kg

Squat: 120kg

Bench: 75kg

OHP: 55kg

And I've had to deload all those weights twice, so I think now is a good time to find a different routine. I was looking at 5/3/1, but I'm not really sure I understand it well and there's a lot of variations (reddit also seems vague on details cause they want you to buy the books or something, idk). The volume also looks kinda ridiculous and I don't wanna spend more than an hour and a half at the gym everytime.

So yeah, sorta progress update, sorta asking where to go next.

Build your strength in whatever way you may but remember to properly repair and recover. Get your rest, keep your diet on point, that you may train again and go even harder. Keep training friends, let us all become our strongest selves (in every way one can be strong).

What's practical and effective for self defense?

Anyone here do tough mudders?

For context: there was a time several years ago where I went 3 days a week doing a lifting routine. I think my heaviest dead lift was maybe 140lbs.

Two kids later, hernia surgery, and a change in position at work that has me sitting way more (used to do solo IT work for multiple buildings, now I have a team and do mostly back end admin work), and I've lost all my gains and put on about 20lbs.

Kids are more manageable now solo, and I'm looking to hit the gym every Monday I can.

How do I maximize this time?

Thanks in advance comrades!

This kind of a public self-reminder, but I just want everyone to remember that fitness is literally a journey. It may not feel like to today or tomorrow, hell not even next month, but you're going to see positive changes and improvement. I mean this in the least "hustle culture" way, but keep grinding everyone.

My squats passed 112.5 kg (250 lbs) on my last workout, hitting 3x5 was hard and I'm a little scared of going for 115 kg next time. Still managed 7 reps on the last set though and I was fucking sweating for it lmao. This is also the only major movement I haven't had to deload yet.

Making progress on OHP is ridiculous - someone here said they've hit 230 lbs on that and I have no idea how, you must be a monster. Like the last time I worked out, I'm hitting a wall around 50 kg (111lbs and also 3x5) - I failed the last attempt at that weight and I've reached that point again, which I'll be attempting later today. I will say that learning you have to activate your core during the lift helped a lot, but that advice kind of goes for all major lifts.

And finally, I can do a full 3 sets of pull-ups unassisted now, albeit with great effort. Overall feeling good about it and I can see my body getting kinda beefy now, but that's also because I've been eating so much food now.

I swear, every time I find the perfect brand of minimalist shoes for running with my flat feet, they get popular, then to appeal to the growing crowd slowly morph into more of an Air Jordan bodyplan. It happened with Sauconys way back in the day and now I'm watching it happen again with Altras. I'm a bit too poor to buy my running shoes in bulk. If I'm lucky maybe I can get an older model off of Ebay for cheap.

And yeah, I love my toe shoes, but those are more for trail running or just doing errands.

Title says it all, I have a friend willing to go on runs with me and get into a habit of being more active! It was a mix of running & walking today but I think I did pretty good for being a couch potato!

I found a 15 minute long rap album right when i started my 15 minutes of rowing and blasted threw both 😤😤😤😤

God I'm so strong

When i die y'all will know cause I'm gonna challenge the boatman to a race and return triumphant and immortal, if I'm not already 😤😤😤😤😤😤😤😤😤

Simple and fun workout: Do push ups while following the song's instructions. When it says Sally up, push up, when it says Sally down, go down. Don't lay down entirely but hold in a hovering down position. How long can you make it?

Doing a progressive overload routine and finally failed a deadlift set at 117.5 kg - even the deload is around the max I was at before (over a year ago or so) so I'm actually pretty psyched, even though I failed the set.

I think I was a little too scared of the weight the last time I was working out, but my form seems good now. Only issue I'm going through is the bar scraping my shins and knees, especially while lowering the weight.

829 strokes motherfuckers, god damn I was breathing like a fucking racehorse

this feat of physical prowess made possible bu the love and affection of my comrades, even the haters (especially the haters! )

I remember a while back on here someone was asking how to get to a standing ab wheel rollout and today this video came into my timeline and it has some things I personally used along with some ideas I think are pretty inventive, especially putting a band around yourself.

I'd kill to look like that but I assume drugs are involved.

Also I'm 35 and waaaaay out of shape (like walking up stairs or fairly short distance gives me sore muscles the next day lol and im over 350 lbs of almost all fat) so idk if like the timeline age wise would be bad.

i do!

Source

Hello everyone,

recently, I've started using Liftlog to monitor my gym progress. And I'm liking it so far.

There is a feature where you can post your workout for your followers and you can see others workouts as well.

so if any of you are using it feel free to add me here is my link :

https://app.liftlog.online/feed/share?id=xmpyp50n9qh1&name=p0wer

and if you're not using it and you are searching for an app for gym I highly recommend you give it a try.

Get your asses on the longboat comrades, we've got some 100% sustainable piracy to conduct

These aren't my maxes (idk how to even find what that would be), but the weight I've reached following a beginner 3x5 program. My bench has always been weak and whenever I worked out regularly in the past, I'd stall/fail past 60 kilos and get demotivated.

I have passed 100 kilos on Squats and DL before, it's about the point I got to before I got injured a year or two ago. The exciting part is I'm at this point after a little over a month of consistently going to the gym, whereas before it took about 4 to 6 months. Only thing I haven't caught up on are my Pull-ups, which have also always been difficult for me - moreso than bench actually.

No questions to ask this time, just content with my progress for now and wanted to share.

Hi all, I have been having persistent hip pain in roughly the circled spot for a few months now. I want to do something about it before it gets worse but I don't know how. It feels very tight and unpleasant when stretching and I also get pins and needles very quickly when sitting on my sit bones or a hard chair.

Another clue to the location of the discomfort: the stretch that feels best is sitting crisscross with my right foot on bottom and leaning away from my hip with my leg grounded to the floor.

I can feel my body compensating and stiffness is slowly starting to travel up my lower back.