Use alt for weightlifting/fitness subs?

TheOakenshield · 2016-01-01T21:39:26+00:00

TBH, I always liked http://www.abcbodybuilding.com/

I hated asking people shit, because most are biased in the bro-science, and the idea of learning to build a better body through experimentation always appealed to me more than being told what to do (after the basics anyways)

Though I'm the kind of guy who is fascinated by a noam chomsky lecture, so reading scientific and dense reading materials on the subject appeals to me too much.

As a fellow shitty pullup-er, all I can say is keep doing them, if you can't get up, cheat up and go down slow. Eventually your body gets better at them. Plus, learning the technique (the swing, body angle etc) has made them much easier, though I still struggle.

At the end of the day, your best reading material is a notepad/jefit app beside the bench. tracking what you do and experimenting shows some amazing things.

e.g. slowing down my first half of my 5k run to a crawl gives me faster times, by waiting for the second half to work at a higher pace than otherwise.

taking the extra 2 minutes in between heavy sets of squats allows me a few hundred pounds of extra volume in a workout, even though I don't feel as winded/pumped/endorphins. What I feel isn't the same as what works.

Dropping the weight and hitting ass to grass on squats helped me throw an extra inch on my hammy flexability, and avoided back pain last year... those 3 months of workouts that I lost out on were not worth the extra 10% of weight I added.

the days I went for the full (moreso than I thought was supposed to) flex when doing DB press has done wonders for my soreness after the fact, which cut out the need for a lot of my light days. Total volume improved.

None of this I would know by asking people on forums, but by tracking workouts with sportypal, jefit etc.

It's like working on you dread with the wife, try something, see the results, and tweak until it's where you want. If everything is working fine, don't change things until they aren't

[deleted] · 2016-01-01T22:27:05+00:00

Do you ask your doctor/medic is he/she RP pro or not? Stop that. You seek for professional advice about X, ask experts about X - do not give a shit whether they are RP-aware or not.

As for bodybuilding/weightlifting/strengthsports - do not ask questions - just find answers. Everything have been asked already - you just need to read more. Are you really going to ask some anonymous bros/dudes on some forums/subs? How the hell you know what they represent by themselves?

Some suggestions

if you find some info, confirm it in multiple sources. Often some asshole claims one thing, and truth is a different.
If you are natural - be careful, lots of advices are targeted to steroid users.
if you break form, it means weight is too heavy - form needs to be correct, otherwise you are going to get either injury

do not believe me - find some trustworthy non-anonymous sources and confirm/reject them

EDIT:formatting

BluepillProfessor · 2016-01-02T03:21:40+00:00

The usual conventional advice is to have a separate alt for TRP and I think that is a guideline on the TRP sidebar. I respectfully disagree.

I have been on several subs such as /r/space and /r/spacex and have no problems at all, yet. I once had a moderator contact me when they removed a post for a minor format violation to assure me it was not because I was a MRP moderator. Mutual respect, blah blah. I don't think he was even aware of the scope of MRP.

I think TRP/MRP is going to be mainstream and part of that process is for guys to come out proudly, at least on Reddit.

mrpCamper · 2016-01-04T00:08:13+00:00

My trainer suggested doing inverted pull ups when I feel like I need to get pull ups in but have done so much other lifting during the session that I wouldn't be able to do many.

enfier · 2016-01-02T00:24:16+00:00

The weightlifting subs don't care. My entire front page is pretty much MRP, weightlifting and frugality and I've never gotten crap about it.

As for the squats, it's not cheating and it's not bad for you, but it is an indication that your form is breaking down. If you have the Starting Strength book, you might reread the chapter on squats to try and diagnose it. This video also helped a lot: https://youtu.be/U5zrloYWwxw

If those don't work, video yourself to troubleshoot and post on form check Fridays on /r/weightlifting

You may want to use an apt for that if you are posting video that could be tied back to your identity.

Title	Use alt for weightlifting/fitness subs?
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Date	January 1, 2016 8:45 PM UTC (8 years ago)
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