The Official Gym & Fitness Thread

No motivation? How about women? That's one of my motivations, that and being fucking skinny is annoying.

 

HAHA Well I am married so, that went out the window a while ago HAHA jk jk. I know the skinny guys have trouble bulking up too.

 

I see haha. Well there has to be something!! It takes a bit to get going, but once you become addicted... well..

 

What the shit? You look like an old man in this pic. If you didn't post it, I wouldn't believe it was you. Still kind of don't.

 

i guess that's why they never card me for beer back then.

also anybody know how i can get a clean grip for front squat, idk if i mention this before but i just can't do it no matter how hard i try. is there stretches, exercise i can do it limber up my arms to do a clean grip?

 

This might sound silly at first but it never hurts to stretch. preferably after a work out. You can also try to stretch in a bathtub while sitting down, if you have one of the long ones, just fill it up with hot/warm water that you can handle (throwing in some epsom salt is optional) and stretch like this...




but don't just limit yourself to those kinds of stretches. Stretch your abdominals too, you're sitting in a chair all day aren't you? Just stretch everything! Sitting in front of a computer all day typing, stretch your chest too.

A lot of problems can be solved by stretching. I'm not saying this is your case, but it never hurts to stretch.

 

it seems like my forearm is super tight, when i try to bent my fingers bacl to touch the bar, it feels like all my tendons are about to snap, and its a very sharp pain.

 

Yea, I think I have like two fingers on the bar when I do front squats. You do any other lifts that incorporate the front rack position? More then likely it's just a lack of mobility. Stretching should help.

In the meantime, you can wrap your lifting straps around the bar, like it was your wrist, then grip the tail a couple inches up from the bar. Using the same form as if you were in the front rack position. Your hands will just be gripping the straps instead of the bar.

 

i would really like to actually grab the bar, not just for front squats, but for stuff like clean&press or just standing barbell shoulder press. cuz right now when i do pressing movement i use my arms to hold the weight, instead of it resting on my shoulders.

 

also i can't keep my hand outside my shoulders if that makes sense. it feels like my elbow and shoulder is gonna snap when i try to do it.

 

I cant either

bought some good lifting gloves with good wrist support to hopefully stop my "crushed joint" problem
working on my form too


being small asian is such a pain

 

Yea, sounds like a mobility issue. Need to work on stretching it out. I have an article I'll post up with some stretches once I get on my computer. Has the dude Kelly from mobility wod on there I believe.

 

sweet! can't wait

 

shouldn't you buy wrist wrap instead of gloves lol

 

I wanted some support for the hand since the joint thats getting fucked is the lower thumb, where the thumb meets the wrist

wrist wraps would work, but these gloves work better

just look like a megadouche with gloves and vibrams. bahaha

 

just get a set of beats headphone and you'll be the biggest d bag in the gym lol

 

some beats and a really thin cut up t-shirt that's like a manly spaghetti strap

 

Article mentioned earlier

http://www.liftbigeatbig.com/2011/11/improving-front-rack-position.html

 

wow that works soo good, gonna try that on my push day tomorrow.