Welcome to our new exercise check thread for the week!
Here, we set our individual goals and share our progress with each other 😸
Trying to keep my plants alive and failing
Finally upgraded from bodyweight exercises and started hitting the gym this month. Spent the first week taking it easy while I learned how all the exercises work but now I’m going hard 4 days a week, i love it. Would love to check in with you all here to keep myself on target
I went for a biiiiiiiig walk today
I was gonna go to the gym today but my gym buddy bailed for an organizing meeting (lame), but also I’m so sore from work anyways, must have moved a few cubic yards of material with a transfer shovel.
Yesterday I got a quick 20 minute strength circuit in and I’m planning another short set tomorrow. Going to keep going! Short is better than nothing!
fuck yeah, okay, you’ve inspired me, 5 sets of psuedo-planche pushups tonight
Nice! You’re doing great!!
I’ve been doin alright… my parent came to visit for the first time in over 5 years so we took her around the area and whatnot. Walked FAR more than we usually do so big plus there, but I wasn’t doing my crunches at night. Started back up again Monday night.
how i wish everywhere was so walkable there was no alternative but to be at least kind of in shape
That’s kinda what my mom said. She’s super jealous that we can just walk to get groceries, to get coffee, or to the library among other things. We are indeed super lucky in that!
It’s funny, I live in a classic US city: walkable downtown surrounded by single family housing
But I live downtown
So I can walk anywhere, coffee, bar, library, etc. But heaven forbid I want groceries…
Running like 5 days a week instead of anything else because my shoulder still hurts. Excited to get back to strength training but damn it takes a while to heal
Should I be doing high pulls or am I already hitting the muscles? Among others, I do deadllifts, I do Bench Presses and rows, and I do shoulder Presses and shrugs.
You’re already hitting your Trapezius muscles when you do shrugs and most of the more minor muscles worked as well with the rest of what you’re doing(as long as you’re not skipping leg day). High pulls are a more explosive and dynamic version of a shrug basically so you don’t need to if you don’t want to.
Explosive exercises in general are less about creating muscle growth and more about developing raw responsive power in your muscles and they serve slightly different purposes. If you’re a competitive athlete it might be worth incorporating into your workout routine, but if you’re just working out for aesthetics or general health and fitness then shrugs are probably better. You can always keep it in your toolkit to mix up your workouts though.
I think high pulls are normally for training sticking points in Olympic lifting
