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    Bodyweight Fitness: Do people with flat feet have relatively muscular thighs and calves than people having the usual feet?

    Bodyweight Fitness: Do people with flat feet have relatively muscular thighs and calves than people having the usual feet?


    Do people with flat feet have relatively muscular thighs and calves than people having the usual feet?

    Posted: 09 Jul 2021 09:55 PM PDT

    18M, 5'8. I have flat feet myself, and my lower body is relatively muscular than my upper body, muscular thighs, and huge calves. I used to do calisthenics a while ago, now I'm just maintaining my body and working out at almost half the intensity I used to.I recently thought a lot about it, observed my friends or knowns who have flat feet, and noticed the same trend in their leg muscles. Also, I found that their forearm is relatively muscular than usual people too, which was unexpected.Is it right to assume people with flat feet have relatively muscular thighs and calves than people having the usual feet? Any thoughts?If you want, you can comment down on the same, if you have flat feet or know someone who has them.

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    How do I gain the flexibility to rep out Pistol Squats

    Posted: 10 Jul 2021 09:51 AM PDT

    I am able to do 2 reps of strict pistol squats on each leg and I believe I have the strength to do more than 5. The problem is when I start doing the third rep on my right leg, my left quad starts cramping (not extremely hard, but painful enough to make me worry). This resulted in me only doing 2 reps for my other leg as well, because I do not want to develop any muscular imbalances.

    Can you guys recommend me some movements/exercises to increase my specific flexibility for pistol squats? Or should I ditch pistol progressions in favor of shrimp squats? A full leg day routine for a PPL split that focuses on pistol squats would help also help a lot. Thanks!

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    Where to begin

    Posted: 10 Jul 2021 11:08 AM PDT

    How to start?

    So I recently got a power tower and started to workout with it. At first I was just going to keep at it during the day untill I could do a couple chin ups In a row. But recently I can't get passed one chin up with out hurting my abs to the point where I gotta hop of the bar and rest. I learned this due to my tight hips.

    I wanna know where I should go from here? I was thinking if should only focus on doing push-ups and maybe dips for now and work out my hip flexors. Would push-ups and dips help me with chin ups and push-ups? The grip for the push-ups is a bit wider than shoulder length apart.

    Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

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    How to lose my massive love handles?

    Posted: 09 Jul 2021 11:11 PM PDT

    Stats:

    Gender: Male

    Age: 19

    Weight: 79 kgs / 175lbs

    Height: 6'0

    I have always struggled with my weight since I was a child. I sort of grew into my fat rather than lose it. The only place I have fat is my stomach and love handles. I guess I have what is called skinny fat. It look's very weird and it really bothers me.

    I have been working out recently and have made some progress. I gained some muscle in my arms, legs and chest. I want to know what kind of exercises and diet I need to do to lose my love handles. Should I do more cardio and eat protein or just weight train? Any advice would be appreciated,

    Here's a link to a picture of my midsection https://imgur.com/a/fNMwzc0

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    (Beginner) How is my workout routine?

    Posted: 10 Jul 2021 11:04 AM PDT

    I've been doing exercises at home regularly for about 2 months now, but until last week I had been doing just standard push ups, squats, lunges and planks, usually in high volume (usually 10 sets x 15 push ups, 15 squats etc), 5 times a week.

    My current routine is 5 sets of 5 diamond push ups, 10 jumping squats, 10 lunges, 10 mountain climbers, 10 standard push ups and 20-30 secs of L sit (I'm following this progression and I'm currently doing the two foot supported L sit). After I complete all sets I do a 1 min plank. What are my goals? For now I'd like to gain some strength, and get bigger/more defined chest/arms.

    So is that a decent routine? I was thinking maybe I can swap the diamond push ups for pike push ups and the lunges for a pistol squat progression and alternate between these two routines?

    Maybe it's worth noting that I can't do pull ups (I can kind of do one but with bad form and I have to thrust myself up) and I don't have a pull up bar so those are out of the question for now.

    Bonus question, how is my diamond push up form (I hope you can tell from that angle)? I've watched videos on how to do it and I think my form's decent but it'd be nice to have a confirmation.

    Edit: I don't know if it matters but I'm ~191 cm (6'3) and ~94 kg (207 lbs).

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    "Locking" sensation of right shoulder when doing a pull up from a dead hang.

    Posted: 10 Jul 2021 10:49 AM PDT

    Hey guys, I am very new to this sub-reddit, in fact this is my very first post here and I was wondering if I could get some help. I recently invested in a pair of olympic rings and I have been using them for about a month now and the progress is great. I can do about 6 pullups after a long rest however when I attempt to do one from a dead hang I get a locking sensation in my right shoulder that needs to be "unlocked" in order to complete the movement. I don't not feel any pain its just discomfort. I was wondering if this is normal and goes away with continuous training Thanks in advance for the help!

    Edit: this post seems to hit close to homeLink

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    EMOM workouts

    Posted: 10 Jul 2021 03:17 AM PDT

    Hi!

    So, I have a home gym with basically a power rack, two barbells, a bench that I can use as flat or incline, dips rack, kettlebells, pull up bar, rings that hang from the pull up bar and some grip stuff :).

    So, I have been looking into EMOM workouts the last days to mix up my workouts and to save some time. I have been focusing heavily on my pull ups the last week with the following routine: 2 reps 10 sets EMOM. Will try to increase to 3 reps 10 sets EMOM (think I am able to do it). After that, 4 reps 8 sets, 10 sets and 12 sets (or something), we will see.

    However, after getting the inspiration to start EMOM with my pull ups from this board, I was thinking that I should start EMOM with other exercises as well. I was thinking, Bench press, Squats, Dips, maybe australian pull ups in rings or something.

    Before starting to program I see that people use different ways to do EMOM,

    Method 1:

    Do one exercises for let's say 5 - 10 minutes and then start a new exercises

    Method 2:

    Mix it up, let's say 20 minutes total with 4 exercises, first 1 exercises, wait out the minute, then the second exercises, then the third exercise, then the fourth exercise (it has now gone 4 minutes) and repeat this cycle.


    So, I was thinking, which way is the best to do EMOM for strength and muscle endurance? I think method 1 will be the heaviest, while method 2 is basically a normal way to superset? But I see that many crossfit people use method 2.


    Another way would probably be:

    If you have 4 exercises, do two of them EMOM and when you are finished, do the two others EMOM. This may be better for heavy lifts like Squats or bench if you combine them with maybe grip training or something that does not affect the other lift.

    I just feel that I am too green on this subject :) Anyone here who could weigh in on this?

    Would really appreciate any help.

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    Is this physique attainable with body weight workout? Can anyone achieved that physique or trained someone to achieve a body like this help me please?

    Posted: 10 Jul 2021 02:27 AM PDT

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    Im a 19 years old guy who just started into fitness and calisthenics but i really know little to no about what should i do and what i shouldn't do. I've been doing ab and shoulder workouts for last couple weeks and really seeing a tiny improvement on my body but i feel guilty for working out split without any program instead of full body. I feel like im going to grow disproportionately since im not doing any full body workouts and virtually skipping certain parts of body such as chest and arms.

    I stopped working out since last few days since i know absolutely nothing about fitness and might do something bad to my body. I would appreciate if you guys can guide me about which calisthenics workouts i should do, and how frequent i should do as an absolute beginner to turn from a skinny fat joke to the model on the photo above. I read that bodyweight workouts are essentially better because they make you more aesthetic instead of muscular, which is my number one priority. Also i dont like the concept of being dependant to the machines. But would gladly go for gym too if i have to of course.

    By the way please inform me if i should i put a NSFW tag, since the photo might be considered kinda revealing

    Thanks in advance :)

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    I change angle, timing, assistance and sometimes version of exercise in every set. Is it counter productive or does it matter? I would like to hear some opinions.

    Posted: 09 Jul 2021 10:24 PM PDT

    I do the RR and I found it's very enjoyable to vary the difficulty of an exercise in almost every set. I feared of missing out on something so this behaviour naturally developed and this is what I do for example for push ups:

    1. I grind every last rep in every set. Sometimes fail but try not to.

    2. I change timing so one set could be 8 reps, 1 second down, 1 second up. Next set could be very slow, 2 seconds concentric, 4 seconds eccentric and the reps would drop to 5.

    3. Third set I change from diamond to regular push ups with raised feet and reps go up to 12.

    4. Sometimes I would do 4 sets and in the fourth I would switch to pike push up, feet on the floor, hands on 6" blocks. I could grind about 8 reps.

    I do this mix and match for almost every exercise. Workout feels great, nice burn and I don't feel bad if I don't make exact set up as in previous workouts or wasting a set adjusting things.

    I will test my benchmarks sometimes in the future but not any time soon so I wanted to hear some opinions if this is potentially detrimental for the progress or if someone has experienced any negative or positive aspects of this.

    Thanks ahead.

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    Could I achieve this body through the Recommended Reddit programme?

    Posted: 09 Jul 2021 04:07 PM PDT

    Hello!

    I'm currently going to the gym using weights to enhance my strength and muscle mass as I hope to obtain full-body lean muscle over the next three months.

    However, I recently came across this Reddit group and I'm curious if through the programme I could achieve a body of this sort (image link below).

    I thought practically this could be a better option as I could do a lot of it at home if needs be, could it be possible to achieve this over the course of 6 months? (I'm a complete beginner to strength training only started this week).

    Or would it be better to just stick to the gym weights?

    Image: https://imgur.com/a/yAEmXxC

    Height 169cm. Weight: 62kg. Sex: Male.

    Cheers for all replies:)

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    Where To Do Weighted Pull Ups?

    Posted: 09 Jul 2021 12:53 PM PDT

    I will be getting into weighted calisthenics, but I don't have a solution for where to do pull ups or dips really. Currently I am using a pull up bar for Pull ups and rings for Dips. But I don't think the bar or the doorframe will be able to hold the weighted pull ups or dips. The most important part are the pull ups, so I really don't care about the dips. I was thinking about mounting the rings to the ceiling, but didn't find any support beams (There was no change in sound when tapping anywhere in the ceiling.) Also thought about a wall mounted pull up bar, but my walls are just drywall. I have also thought of:

    - Power Rack

    - Building A pull up bar outside

    - Going to a gym (Although this one isn't really a contender)

    So my questions is: Do you have any other suggestions or options for me?

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    ☢ Okinawa Flat Belly Tonic ☢ My Sincere Testimony About The Okinawa Flat...

    Posted: 10 Jul 2021 10:28 AM PDT

    What kinda routine to follow? I was in bed for way too long because of my injury and now wanna get back in shape

    Posted: 09 Jul 2021 04:34 PM PDT

    M18 5"8' / 55kgs | Aim : To build muscle and strength

    I should start by saying that I'm an intermediate when it comes to workout because in the past 2 years I've switched between calisthenics & gym weighted workout many times. So here's some of my records

    PR's - 75 push-ups, 40 dips, 35 squats, 18 pull-ups ( all in 1 set if you're confused )

    I got a back injury in October and Dr. recommended me to rest for 6 months and now I'm recovered and he suggested to do some stretching and all. So I spent May & June doing stretching and started these workouts too mid - June.

    Also I was restricted to travel anywhere while this tailbone injury so I just started walking and running alot.

    Now I've got access to a proper bodyweight gym in my backyard. And I've chain for weight attachments and got some weights 5-15 kg plates which I used this week for workouts.

    My diet is of 3100 calories daily consisting 150-160gm protein. Carbs, fibre and everything all perfectly fine.

    I fast on Tuesdays and I really like going on runnings once or twice a week.

    The thing is I can't really decide what split should I follow and what exercises to combine. The RR of this subreddit is kinda easy for me.

    I'm looking for someone who can advise me which split to follow because my head is all messed up and confused or I wouldn't be asking this basic question.

    DOES running count as a workout because on my Leg/lower days split I'll combine 5km run and when i get home I'll do leg workout. Would it be too much for my legs with only 1 rest day in week.

    Or should i just do Run once a week and do legs workout apart from running day twice a week?

    Thanks in advance I'm looking for helpful advice/suggestions from you guys :)

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