BG Fitness Fanatics II: We Work Out

[FNH]

different strokes for different folks

[thetruepandagod]

Seriously. Its so stupid and dangerous. From a business stand point id kick out anyone that came in high. It's a fucking liability and lawsuit waiting to happen.

People doing clean and press while high would absolutely terrify me as a gym owner.

[AidenCarby]

Overhead squats go!

[Zetanio]

Yo fit fam.

I want to get back into swimming regularly. Anyone have any experience getting back in the pool after a long time? I haven't swum any real distance in years. I've googled up a few interval workouts but it all seems really rudimentary.

[Milkster]

Yo fit fam.

I want to get back into swimming regularly. Anyone have any experience getting back in the pool after a long time? I haven't swum any real distance in years. I've googled up a few interval workouts but it all seems really rudimentary.

There: https://www.reddit.com/r/Swimming/se...restrict_sr=on

and there: http://ruthkazez.com/swimming/ZeroTo1mile.html

[Zetanio]

There: https://www.reddit.com/r/Swimming/se...restrict_sr=on

and there: http://ruthkazez.com/swimming/ZeroTo1mile.html

I'm an idiot. Of course there's an /r/swimming.

[Boyiee]

So I'm at 170 5x5 on squat and I'm having trouble activating my glutes I guess you call it to keep from overusing my quads. My feet are out about 30 degrees, slightly over shoulder width apart, weight on heels.

I read things about spreading the floor with your knees and such. I just don't know how to make sure I'm getting the most out of the squat.

I'm getting the weight up, I'm not hitting a wall or needing to deload. It doesn't hurt. I just can't figure out activating certain groups while doing certain lifts. Deadlift the same thing, but I just squeeze my core and it doesn't feel wrong.

[Guitarman]

Jump in the air twice. After you land the 2nd time, look at your feet. That's how they should be placed when you're squatting. That's your natural foot position.

As for glutes, at the bottom of the movement, Squeeze those cheeks like you're fighting last night's Taco Bell run and push upward while squeezing. If your feet are positioned right, your back is straight, and your chin up, you should be feeling it in your glutes.

[RKenshin]

Typically have to squat decently low (at least parallel, though if you can go beyond that then even better) to really engage your glutes, or at least I usually find that to be the case. Might vary by your body type/leg length/proportions and such, but regardless, further you go into the squat the more you'll usually get them involved.

[thetruepandagod]

Disregard the absolute shit that squats are and just do barbell hipthrusts. Enjoy your glute gains.

[Milkster]

Disregard the absolute shit that squats are and just do barbell hipthrusts. Enjoy your glute gains.

Squats aren't that great for glute hypertrophy. More exercises that focus on extension of the hips rather than the flexion is what you should be looking for; Deadlifts and the variations, glute bridges, Olympic lifts, etc.

Do some single leg lifts where you keep your leg straight and lift it up behind you like 10 times each leg. That should activate them enough.

I'm about a month away from being able to 1RM 500 on Squats and 4 months from 3RM+ 500lbs. Feelsgoodman.jpeg

[Hushigoshi]

A lot of people just jump into squats without even warming up and activating glutes. Of course you can't fire off your glutes during a squat if you can't fire them off while doing nothing.

[Boyiee]

I go just below parallel and I warm up before doing them quite a bit. I have no problem activating them when I'm barless or with just the bar, even when I'm doing 20% of my working weight. Once I get over 160 it seems like I overuse my quads. I'm not doing squats just to work my glutes, I'm doing stronglifts, I just wanna make sure I'm doing things right.

I do deadlifts every other workout.

[FNH]

Picked up a fitbit charge hr off ebay for $80 and I am loving this thing. Especially combined with myfitnesspal for meals. Lost 65lbs net so far and after a few months off I am motivated to lose the rest of my excess body fat. First day I found out I do 6.5 miles just at work and by the end of the day registered 4300 burned calories. Also, I have managed to improve my heart rate dropping it to 62 resting bpm. Plus the HRM feature is helpful with experimenting getting back on EC stack(I guess I am too weak to cut natty ) as I haven't noticed a terribly high increase in my bpm.

[RKenshin]

Nice, still finding myself checking it 2-3 times a day about 2 months of ownership in.

I forgot to charge it one day, and it actually threw me off completely... missed not having the calorie and sleep tracking for a period. D:

[Guitarman]

Calves are the worst fucking place to try to add mass too. I'm walking on sticks and it looks fucking retarded.

/rant off.

[thetruepandagod]

Calves are the worst fucking place to try to add mass too. I'm walking on sticks and it looks fucking retarded.

/rant off.

[Kuya]

I'm not tall enough to do runway, but i'm tall enough to have problems growing my calves. Life is rough.

[FNH]

Nice, still finding myself checking it 2-3 times a day about 2 months of ownership in.

I forgot to charge it one day, and it actually threw me off completely... missed not having the calorie and sleep tracking for a period. D:

I check mine probably more often than I should. Not sure if that will go away with time.


RE: calves, that is the only thing that was good about being heavy. Every day was leg day. That or I had good genetics for calves.

[Guitarman]

@panda: I no joke thought the same thing when I first noticed the issue. hah.

@kuya
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RE: calves, that is the only thing that was good about being heavy. Every day was leg day. That or I had good genetics for calves.

I'm 6'0" 232lbs. Not an especially small dude, though I do NOT look my weight at all. You'd think I would have the same benefit. But NOPE.
http://www.bluegartr.com/image/jpeg;...8KUoLLWaUoP//Z