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Been using convict conditioning but not finding it great. I'm trying with one hand raised but looking for tips. Recently started placing feet further apart, not sure it's helping. Tried to do this with raised hand further to the side, which made it harder and I don't know if it's better or not.

Any tips you have would be great, thanks.

Occasionally I have a couple weeks that are really hard and I feel little to no progress.

Are there any methods for breaking through a plateau?

My access to in person coaches is limited, so looking for online. I'm at intermediate level and plateauing, so I'm looking for a coach who could help me break the plateau.

Any recommendations?

170 cm, 70 Kg 57, years old.

The ideal weight for my parameters is 54Kg - 72 Kg

I've like to get to the lower end of my ideal weight but if not at least 62 Kg. I want lean muscle, not bulky muscles.

I've cut bread and processed sugars. I'm sure that I'm in a caloric deficit. Eating more raw fruits and fibrous food like beans, more fish and less meat and fats. I sleep well. I drink a lot of water. No pop or coffee. Very little milk.

For snacks about 1/2 cup mixed nuts and one or two stalks of celery with a spoon of light ranch (25 calories per spoon)

I'm following my regular daily exercise routine, I go to the rock climbing gym Three times per week for two hours. I bike everywhere. After exercise in the morning I replace breakfast with a protein supplement.

I started mid July at +74 Kg which is the same weight I've had for years.

The first four weeks I lost 4 Kg. The only change, since then, the only change has been to increase exercise.

For the past week the weight has fluctuated between 69.2 to 69.8.

Is it normal for weight to plateau? Is it the increase of muscle mass which may be balancing other weight loss? Should I be more patient?

4 ways of using it come to my mind:

• Place hands on the inclined outer handles and do a pull up with arms open wide
• Place hands with palms facing the wall on the "inner" handles and do a pull up with arms at shoulder width
• Place hands with palms facing my face on the "inner" handles and do a chin up
• Place hand on the handles which point out of the wall and do a pull up / chin up (sorry don't know in this case)

Are these excercises different for the group of muscles they target? And if so, how? Is there any ranking among them from worse to better?

Also if I can do chin ups just fine but I can only do negative pull ups, which ones should I choose?

I've been experiencing some pain in my left side of the back. There is a painful sensation between the scapula and the spine, when i try to pull my scapula down (retract), At first i just ignored it but then i just took a quick break of week from pullups and i think it got better but when i started doing pullps again the pain came back. The left scapula feels less mobile when compared to the right one. Also i think i should add this, while doing a pull-up i feel no pain, it's just when i try to pull my scapula down.

Just wanna know if anyone else has suffered from this or is this something serous.

Reached 30 and the wheels started falling off. Gained 20 pounds and back pain out of nowhere, it's like a damn sitcom. I feel uncomfortable in clothes I've worn for a decade so its time to put in effort. Better late than never I guess.

I want advice on good beginner resources. I'm talking really beginner, like how many reps to do, how long between reps, what machines to hit, etc. I've been to gyms before but just kinda rode the reclined bike them made shit up when I got to the weight machines. I also am terrible at not doing too much with my back, which is almost certainly where my back pain originates from, so extra instruction on how to properly engage my core is a bonus.

The one advantage I have is that I'm very good at tracking calories. I've just gotten lazy since Covid. So I've downloaded MacroFactor to try out some new technology. I've used Waistline recently but it's just too cumbersome to add food, and I lose motivation.

Appreciate the help in advance!

P.S. the one upside to turning 30 is that I can grow a beard now. So at least I've got that going for me

Hi all,

I work on the computer, so my legs over the years have become quite skinny.

I'd like to build them, but I'm travelling full time, so no gym, and I have some injuries.

Two fused vertebrae in my neck, and two near the base of my spine.

My knees are also susceptible to injury, with fluid build up behind one of them.

So with a combination of bad knees, back and neck, how can I build my legs?

Ideally I'd like to get them quite strong. I've used an incline leg press in the past and loved it, but as I'm travelling, can't get access to that kind of gear.

Any advice appreciated.

The purpose of this study was to assess the peak GRF associated with regular push-ups, and those performed with flexed knee, feet elevated on a 30.48-cm box, feet elevated on a 60.96-cm box, hands elevated on a 30.48-cm box, and hands elevated on a 60.96-cm box for the purpose of quantifying the loads of these exercises for exercise intensity progression and to allow for the calculation of exercise load and volume in a program. This study also sought to assess if there were gender-based differences in response to these push-up variations and the relationship between subject height and peak GRF.

Hello, wanting to contribute some traffic to lemmy, I want to share my current bodyweight routine.

Based on the old Recommended Routine from /r/bodyweightfitness. I start with basic warmup including shoulder rotations, seated reach the sky, table pose etc.

Then I do 4 sets of 30 second handstand practice, with 90 second rest time between sets.

Then I do one set of 4-5 muscle ups, since I learned them once, and want to maintain the ability to do them, while realizing that it's not the best exercise for actual training (refer to Fitness FAQ on YouTube)

The actual workout consists of 3 pairs of exercises: 8 Bar/ring pullups - 6 Pistol squats 6 Banded Nordic curls - 6 Ring dips 12 Ring horizontal rows - 15 Floor pushups

I rarely do any cool down, as the session is already long enough. All this as 40+ y.o. with a BMI of 33 (obese according to the charts). Edit: attempted to space things out a bit to look better as a post.

Fork me.