Replying to:Tastylemon16Glad to hear you’re doing well for yourself and speaking so
Yo thanks so much for the inspiring words! Lately I’ve been doing body weight training, you know push-ups, inverted rows, one leg squats. Nothing fancy, not counting repetitions and instead going until failure and beyond with half reps. The strength is building and I plan to add weight with a bag. Once I feel comfortable enough I’ll start preparing to learn new movements. If you have any advice for learning proper form with body weight, I’d appreciate it a lot. Thanks, wish u the best
Replying to:ClvnYo thanks so much for the inspiring words! Lately I’ve been
Honestly as a starting point you seem to be doing well with what you’ve described, half reps for additional growth is smart.
Eventually you should consider weight training, not necessarily at the gym if you don’t want to, but having some dumbbells and weight plates can do you a lot of good. A little trick when it comes to training that really increases your capability and strength is to do your normal gym sessions and whilst you are home, you can do some few sets throughout the day. If you walk past a pull-up bar, do 10 pull-ups or when you leave your room, do 10 push-ups. Over the course of a day you would have accrued many sets and reps that will only aid recovery and improve your muscles capability. Essentially just training without training sessions.
As for form, just try and avoid injury basically, don’t worry about the best possible optimisation of form, for example, doing bicep curls whilst leaning back on a bench or something like that, because it’s often barely a difference and the only real metric for progression is effort and consistency.
Replying to:Tastylemon16Honestly as a starting point you seem to be doing well with
Awesome, you answered a like everything I was wondering about. I do incorporate dumbbells into my workouts occasionally, every other workout around, and do basic exercises with them. Depending on the muscle group of the day, I’ll grab medium effort dumbbells and fit in some lateral raises, tricep extensions, overhead press, bicep curls, back rows, or some simple squats.
I’d definitely like to train myself throughout the day as mentioned and have already done that time to time. Something like 10 push-ups when I wake up and such. So I’ll for sure do that and other exercises throughout the day more often.
As for form, the reason I asked is because as a beginner it was pretty difficult getting the hang of the a few movements, especially pull movements. My arms would often strain when doing something like inverted rows or my even my shoulders would feel much too tense when trying dips. Lately ive been getting it down better, but if I’m not focused entirely, then I can easily slip up and do it improperly. I think I should take weak form or the wrong muscle being worked as a sign to slow down and make the exercise easier in some way. In other words, I feel I should focus most on building my knowledge on basics and learning how to use my body.
Thank you so much for the detailed response, it really is appreciated and will go far with me!
Replying to:ClvnAwesome, you answered a like everything I was wondering abou
Pulling movements can be tricky but it’s all about trying to focus less on controlling the weight through the arms and more through the back.
Getting used to some muscle engagement cues like flexing the lats and extending the shoulder blade will help you engage the back more.
Put your arm out in front of you and twist your wrist outwards slightly imagining you’re trying to hold a pen under your armpits, this should help engage your lats and give you the mind muscle connection a little better.
If you keep your thumb over whatever you’re holding onto like how you’d grab a baseball bat, you’ll engage the forearm muscles more as they have to work to stabilise the weight as you drag it. Instead, wrap the thumb over where you’re gripping so your thumb and fingers should line up, like you are hanging off a ledge.
Start by extending the shoulder blades slightly to stretch the back, then begin to pull the weight towards you. Imagine this chain of movement:
1. Shoulder blades
2. Back
3. Elbows
So you’ll have your shoulder blades pulled in first to engage the lats, then you’ll use the elbows to bend the arms and pull the weight towards you, depending on the movement, you may allow your torso to move backwards slightly.
The control of the movement will essentially rely on applying the control at the start to get the back engaged, then using the elbows to bend the arms and bring the weight closer, then finally with bringing the weight towards you as much as possible by using the shoulder blades and elbows.
Hopefully this helps, if you want any other tips, you can add me on Discord if you like and I’d be happy to help you.
Tastylemon16#8836
Not gonna let the struggles of another person in my life bring me down, gonna be the best version of myself no matter what!!!
Welcome back
Infinite gonna send you a file called “sonadow”
Im no king, but an artist for the community
Glad you’re back man, happy to always see you again.
Glad to have a best friend here!
THERES MY GOAT
We r so back!!!
Glad to hear you’re doing well for yourself and speaking so positively, it can be difficult but it serves you well sometimes.
If you ever need any exercise pointers let me know, I’m kind of a nerd when it comes to training, plus I have plenty of experience.
All the best
Yo thanks so much for the inspiring words! Lately I’ve been doing body weight training, you know push-ups, inverted rows, one leg squats. Nothing fancy, not counting repetitions and instead going until failure and beyond with half reps. The strength is building and I plan to add weight with a bag. Once I feel comfortable enough I’ll start preparing to learn new movements. If you have any advice for learning proper form with body weight, I’d appreciate it a lot. Thanks, wish u the best
Honestly as a starting point you seem to be doing well with what you’ve described, half reps for additional growth is smart.
Eventually you should consider weight training, not necessarily at the gym if you don’t want to, but having some dumbbells and weight plates can do you a lot of good. A little trick when it comes to training that really increases your capability and strength is to do your normal gym sessions and whilst you are home, you can do some few sets throughout the day. If you walk past a pull-up bar, do 10 pull-ups or when you leave your room, do 10 push-ups. Over the course of a day you would have accrued many sets and reps that will only aid recovery and improve your muscles capability. Essentially just training without training sessions.
As for form, just try and avoid injury basically, don’t worry about the best possible optimisation of form, for example, doing bicep curls whilst leaning back on a bench or something like that, because it’s often barely a difference and the only real metric for progression is effort and consistency.
Awesome, you answered a like everything I was wondering about. I do incorporate dumbbells into my workouts occasionally, every other workout around, and do basic exercises with them. Depending on the muscle group of the day, I’ll grab medium effort dumbbells and fit in some lateral raises, tricep extensions, overhead press, bicep curls, back rows, or some simple squats.
I’d definitely like to train myself throughout the day as mentioned and have already done that time to time. Something like 10 push-ups when I wake up and such. So I’ll for sure do that and other exercises throughout the day more often.
As for form, the reason I asked is because as a beginner it was pretty difficult getting the hang of the a few movements, especially pull movements. My arms would often strain when doing something like inverted rows or my even my shoulders would feel much too tense when trying dips. Lately ive been getting it down better, but if I’m not focused entirely, then I can easily slip up and do it improperly. I think I should take weak form or the wrong muscle being worked as a sign to slow down and make the exercise easier in some way. In other words, I feel I should focus most on building my knowledge on basics and learning how to use my body.
Thank you so much for the detailed response, it really is appreciated and will go far with me!
Pulling movements can be tricky but it’s all about trying to focus less on controlling the weight through the arms and more through the back.
Getting used to some muscle engagement cues like flexing the lats and extending the shoulder blade will help you engage the back more.
Put your arm out in front of you and twist your wrist outwards slightly imagining you’re trying to hold a pen under your armpits, this should help engage your lats and give you the mind muscle connection a little better.
If you keep your thumb over whatever you’re holding onto like how you’d grab a baseball bat, you’ll engage the forearm muscles more as they have to work to stabilise the weight as you drag it. Instead, wrap the thumb over where you’re gripping so your thumb and fingers should line up, like you are hanging off a ledge.
Start by extending the shoulder blades slightly to stretch the back, then begin to pull the weight towards you. Imagine this chain of movement:
1. Shoulder blades
2. Back
3. Elbows
So you’ll have your shoulder blades pulled in first to engage the lats, then you’ll use the elbows to bend the arms and pull the weight towards you, depending on the movement, you may allow your torso to move backwards slightly.
The control of the movement will essentially rely on applying the control at the start to get the back engaged, then using the elbows to bend the arms and bring the weight closer, then finally with bringing the weight towards you as much as possible by using the shoulder blades and elbows.
Hopefully this helps, if you want any other tips, you can add me on Discord if you like and I’d be happy to help you.
Tastylemon16#8836
Sorry for the long text, just wanted to be thorough.
No worries whatsoever! Absolutely wanted and will be screenshotted for reference. Thank you soooo much!
K sent the request on discord, thx
WELCOME BACK!
Back 4 good!!!