Bodyweight Fitness: BWF Daily Discussion and Beginner/RR Questions Thread for 2021-07-22 |
- BWF Daily Discussion and Beginner/RR Questions Thread for 2021-07-22
- What exercises can you do from home, without equipment, to work on some/minor muscle build/sculpting and working on strength?
- Why couldn’t I do a single pull-up?
- How do I increase my pushups properly?
- Planche Advice/Recommendation for tall(6'1) heavyweight(210lbs) powerlifter
- Gained 5 kgs in 2 months (M23)
- hey everyone
- Struggling to gain confidence as a beginner
- Senior weight training
- 1 by 3's for push-ups and sit-ups
- Training functional strength: moving stuff above my head
- Aside from general body types. The three aforementioned most in bodybuilding,(endo ecto whatever)mentality plays the biggest key.
- Strict Bar Muscle up Volume
- Please check my row and pushup form
- Did bodyweright for 1,5 years (due to covid) with progressive overload and no caloric suprplus, gained strength, but now want to gain size as well. Did I miss on all potential size gains due to not being in a surplus?
| BWF Daily Discussion and Beginner/RR Questions Thread for 2021-07-22 Posted: 22 Jul 2021 04:00 AM PDT Welcome to the r/bodyweightfitness daily discussion thread! Feel free to post beginner questions or just about anything that's on your mind related to fitness! Reminders:
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| Posted: 22 Jul 2021 07:22 AM PDT Hey everyone, in the need of some advice. Apologies if this has been tackled in the FAQ. I might have missed it. I am fairly tall (1.97m) and skinny (74 kg) guy with a sedetary life style and want to start turning this around, slowly working and improving myself by adopting a more active lifestyle. Mainly cause I want to work more on my healt h and feel fitter than I do right now. I have recently moved out, and because of that I can't really afford to go get a gym membership. They might not be the most expensive thing in the world but I still have calculate my real expensives for a few more months before I can freely spend my money elsewhere. So I am neither able to buy some equipment. My appartment isn't that big either way, so I wouldn't be sure if I could give them space. I am a complete rookie if it comes to exercises and barely possess any strength to do even 2 or 3 push-ups with feeling like I could collapse to the ground. Getting a little tired of my pretty weak figure and want to change that. I am looking for some easy to-do-at home exercises that do not need equipment and do not take too much time (I am a student and gained a few more work hours throughout the week), to help me get more in shape. I also will be picking up swimming as my cardio workout. My main goal is to work on my cardiovascular health with swimming, and to work a bit on my strength, and hopefully on some muscle growth and toning by doing some at-home exercises. I do not expect to really become "big" by any means, cause that of course needs some more stricter dieting and heavy equipment. In terms of some exercises, I only know a few. These are:
I would think I basically have quite a "complete picture" of a somewhat-fully body work-out already, but is there maybe 1 exercise or so more that I could add to this small list that could potentially work out multiple muscle groups at once, or target a muscle(group) I missed out on? And how often you recommend me do this? Would a couple times per week be enough or should these be done each day? [link] [comments] |
| Why couldn’t I do a single pull-up? Posted: 21 Jul 2021 04:05 PM PDT I'm a 6'4" 19 year old male, I've been on a fitness journey for about 3 years now. I used to carry a lot more fat and lifted weights consistently for a couple of months so I weighed around 112kg (246 lb) at my heaviest. At this weight it was unsurprising to me that I couldn't do a pull-up/chin-up (always been a huge personal goal for me) I then lost a fair amount of weight and got down to 78.6 kg (173 lb). Now I know everyone is different etc etc but it was confusing to me that even after this loss I still couldn't manage one. I did without doubt lose muscle and strength in my cut but I still carry someeeeeee muscle (enough I would have thought) It was a New Years resolution to get a pull-up this year, I'm back up to around 100kg (225 lb). Do I need to lose weight or is it all about the training? Could my posture be holding me back? It's pretty bad due to my height [link] [comments] |
| How do I increase my pushups properly? Posted: 22 Jul 2021 09:19 AM PDT The most common advice I see is "do more pushups" which I have tried but I feel like it's the equivalent of telling someone whose trying to break a metal plate to just "hammer more". I need some kind of strategy I guess. I'm at 25 pushups currently, and I want to up that number to at least 70 by the end of the year. I'm enlisting in the Navy next year, and so I need my push-up numbers up soon. So far I've been doing that push-up circuit from howcast(diamonds to exhaustion, regulars to exhaustion, wides to exhaustion, repeat 2 more times). I only started doing it correctly like two weeks ago. I've also been doing 3 sets before I go to sleep of like 60% of my max. I'm hoping that strategy works somewhat but do y'all have any tips or alternative strategies? The last 3 months the number has only gone up 5, so it's been frustrating. [link] [comments] |
| Planche Advice/Recommendation for tall(6'1) heavyweight(210lbs) powerlifter Posted: 22 Jul 2021 07:47 AM PDT Hello all, [link] [comments] |
| Gained 5 kgs in 2 months (M23) Posted: 22 Jul 2021 11:27 AM PDT Imgur link: https://imgur.com/a/2DGFQzp I started workout by watching some bodyweight training videos on SELF's YouTube channel. They were quite fun and enthralling. After 20 days of doing the body weight training from that channel, I started searching for other proper training vids. Then I started following the videos of other channels too. I will provide the link at the end. Also, I do upper body training, abs training and legs training 2 days each and rope jumping 4 days a week ( not on leg days). Maybe I will join gym from 1st august. Links: Upper body- https://youtu.be/30c8d9smbsE Abs- https://youtu.be/V2gic0OD2bQ Legs- https://youtu.be/jcMP43qwFcs [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 22 Jul 2021 10:39 AM PDT I'm noticing a big disparity in size/ strength between my right and left arms. I work two jobs that are moderately physical. job one is at a hardware store and jo two is as an IT contractor so I'm running cable and lugging tools around. I was wondering how I decrease the disparity in size/ strength between my arms and shoulders and I feel it's noticeable and i would like to eventually start moving into more adavanced calisthenics other ancillary info: I spent the majority of my life training in martial arts and sailing so I'm used to grueling workouts and and looking for more functional strenght thank you [link] [comments] |
| Struggling to gain confidence as a beginner Posted: 22 Jul 2021 10:32 AM PDT A lil bit of background 26M, skinny fat. I started this year with the goal of changing my physique and I worked my ass off for the first two months but as any other beginner I made some mistakes, I progressed too fast in compound lifts especially benchpress and overhead press. My shoulder started hurting when lifting and I ended up seeing doctor, he gave me a cortisol injection and said no problem at all and the pain did go away temporarily. However it still to this day the joint makes a cracking sound when I move it and especially when I try pull ups etc., it actually hurts. I started doing push ups, got a pull up bar and resistance bands thinking to do BW workouts for a while and not doing lifts, now struggling to get through it again due to my shoulder pain. I got it checked already and all is fine but the pain/sound is still there and whenever I ask my doctor he just says just stop working out for a while and that while has extended for 4 months now. I lost all my gains and back to my old shape. I sometimes wake up and feel horrible looking at myself, every time I look at my pull up bar I feel bad that I can't do it but my confidence level has affected greatly because of this. Just wanted to seek advice from people here. Sorry for venting [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 21 Jul 2021 02:44 PM PDT Just because you're older doesn't mean you can't start a weight training program and expect to get results. As we age we produce less hormones which help to build muscle thus losing muscle each decade and our nervous system slows down which can decrease reaction time and that combo can also effect balance. However studies show that starting a strength training program at any age can have a positive impact on slowing down and reversing these changes. Older individuals can build muscle with a well developed routine and slow down the effects of the nervous system by being active with a good all round weight training program. The bottom line is start training with weights if you haven't to fight back against Father Time. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3117172/ #strengthtraining [link] [comments] |
| 1 by 3's for push-ups and sit-ups Posted: 21 Jul 2021 05:36 PM PDT Post baby situation here, so I feel like a beginner having to completely start fresh. I have/had a diastisis recti after a c-section and went through physical therapy for it so although it's a struggle I don't believe it'll hinder me from my goals. I need to reach my push-up and sit-up number goal (within 1 minute) in 2 months. How often should I be doing 1X3's a day to make this deadline? I did some yesterday and now today I can hardly do a single push up or sit up, maybe I did too much to soon? Currently, I'm seeing pushups are tougher than situps (oddly enough). I've been running three days a week to help strengthen my abdominal wall/lower back. Considering alternating between planks and pushups during my 1 by 3s, if that would be beneficial at all? Any other advice I should incorporate would be greatly appreciated. (Other workouts to incorporat, would I need rest days, etcetera...) [link] [comments] |
| Training functional strength: moving stuff above my head Posted: 22 Jul 2021 06:02 AM PDT So I noticed that when my hands are above my shoulders or head, it's really hard to manipulate objects, like a a 5L bottle with water or maybe a 1 kg weight, both in terms of strength and endurance. Granted, there is an inherent mechanical disadvantage to this kind of stuff, but you can surely improve it, right? So my question is, what would be the common and perhaps less common exercises to train this ability, mainly with low entry requirements? To my mind, something like a handstand seems applicable, but not sure how much, and also right now significantly beyond my abilities - can't do more than a few push ups. (Also, scared for safety, and afraid to stain the walls.) Pike push ups seem more like what I need, but I'm not sure. Also, am I severely restricting myself in terms of efficiency when choosing to focus on bodyweight stuff for this purpose, or not really? P.s. i've heard that to develop skill X best is to just do X, but in this case seems like this is a hard to formalize, quantify, and hard to avoid injury when training often activity. [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 22 Jul 2021 07:17 AM PDT My first fight in the cage was at 135, first in the ring at 131. Both I was ripped to my max potential at that weight literally. I call it me being young and hungry. But still undersized to my liking. That was when I was 16 and 17. I'm now 29, and completely confused. Gave up mma, boxing for chances at a new car, new home with slave labor. Now I'm 29, 8 years out of the gym, sloppy at 185, and desperate for answers. Is muscle memory gone? I remember being the 135 fight night 150 without cutting dumbbell benching 95s, 2-3 times without help. Now a couple times off my tow motor at work lifting 20-30 pounds for more than a few minutes makes me feel weak. Is muscle memory gone? Could I get it back? [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 21 Jul 2021 03:30 PM PDT The previous version of this was deleted because: seeking medical advice -- sorry about that, I'm rewording it to be more appropriate. I have been working on my strict bar muscle ups and started making some decent progress. I was able to do it albeit very sloppy. I've been wanting to REALLY get it down pat but each time I practice it, my biceps throb for a day or two afterwards --- sometimes even longer. I'm able to do 20-30 strict pullups and that never makes me sore. I've also done weighted pullups with 45-90 lbs and again, no soreness. I'm not clear on how something as innocuous as a strict bar muscle up is making me hurt like nothing else, but I still want to keep making progress, so my questions are:
Note: the pain is in my lower bicep/upper forearm area. [link] [comments] |
| Please check my row and pushup form Posted: 21 Jul 2021 01:21 PM PDT I'm doing the BWF primer routine. Last week I felt a slight pain in my shoulder articulations and/or tendons. I also felt my tendons clicking when rotating my arms in a circle. It's better now, but I would like to get some feedback on my form during rows and pushups to make sure I'm not doing damage due to bad form. Looking at the recording myself, I can already see that my pushup form is not great. After the first few reps it's better already. If you could help to point out what is wrong and how to fix it, that would be much appreciated. Here's the video of me doing a set of each. Thanks! [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 21 Jul 2021 03:25 PM PDT So since the closing of gyms in march 2020 I've trained at home+outside. Did the regular pushups (and weighted pushups) and pullups and also had some dumbbells which I uses for shoulder and leg workouts. Got fairly strong on the pushups and pullups, but I decided to keep my calories on maintenance level as I didn't want unwanted fat. (thought that not being in the gym and only doing bodyweight workouts would be to easy on my body, so kept the same calories for 1,5 year to not gain fat). Obviously I didn't gain anything due to maintenance calories but kept what I had from the gym which isn't much frankly, but still happy to have maintained. So the other day I thought ''I got stronger (i.e. able to do more reps and sets), but did I ruin any future muscle gains due to hitting a max number of reps'? So what if I decide to be on a caloric surplus from now on? won't it be difficult to gain muscle mass as I have made great strength gains, meaning it'll be that much more work to progress in the number of sets and reps? I kind of regretted not just adding calories, because it feels like all the work I put in is not really seen visually. Oh also decided that I don't want to go to the gym yet and instead want to add new stuff like pike pushups and diver bom pushups, that might maybe help with getting even stronger and bigger if I add more calories. I might even want to train to do the handstand and straddle press handstand, but I haven't yet decided on on when to do this. I made sure to keep my protein high to maintain what I had. And ate about the same number of carbs + fats to hit my maintenance calories. So what do you guys think? am I kind of right that I missed out on gains + mess up future potential muscular gains because I stayed on maintenance calories? Edit: Not a newbie btw, went to the gym regularly. [link] [comments] |
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