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Practicing lower body has significantly increasing my upper body capability
Following this advice, just recently I took Bulgarian Split Squat seriously:
https://martialarts.stackexchange.com/a/8853/9518
For quite some years, I was stuck with being able to do only 68 elevated ...
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RDL Form - Back Pain and Pelvic Tilt
I keep the bar/dbs close to my legs. I go slowly. I keep my spine straight. It won't help - I feel it all in my lower back. Why's that? There aren't many hamstring/glute exercises, and this rules a ...
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How much interference is there between sprinting and VO2Max work?
I'm a middle-aged field sport athlete. One possible plan for my spring training is a focus on track workouts for two purposes: raising my VO2Max and improving sprint speed. I'd like a better sense of ...
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Workout plan check
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I'm 18M. Training at this pretty small gym for ~2 years. 1.80, 77kg. The following is the workout plan I've been doing this past few months, modified from a trainer's. It's a 2 day ...
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Finding spikes for my wide foot with Morton's toe [closed]
My foot length is 25.5cm. I ordered a Nike Rival S shoes of that size for sprinting, but unfortunately they did not fit. Although my feet were loose on the tip, they were so tight from the sides. ...
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Is this enough to grow muscle? [closed]
Full body workout 3 times (mon, wed, fri) a week with 3 sets x 8 reps all the time (only increasing weights)
-> Leg press, leg curl, leg extension, chest press, lat pulldown, shoulder press, seated ...
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Reach this size in a year [duplicate]
i’m 23 at around 180cm and 80kg
I’ve been trying to reach this size for a bit but i always stagnate, either by stopping working out or not reaching the calorie needed.
Been doing research and i found ...
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Pure Cardio exercises for Rest Day
I jog around 20-25 minutes a day all 7 days of the week. Other than that I do home exercises for around 25 minutes a day. These are push-ups, planks, wall sits, bicycle crunches, standing hip ...
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What is the optimal way of increasing the number of pullups I do?
I am trying to reduce the time spent in the gym while also keeping some goals in mind from which the main one I can think of is getting stronger in pull ups. My split is push-pull-legs but only once a ...
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how do i track calories to lose weight
I am a 25 years old female about 5 ft and weigh about 75 kg. I lose weight but I am unable to maintain the weight I lost and I regain it faster. how can I lose and maintain my weight through calorie ...
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Critique my weightlifting workout plan
I'm 5'10 24yo 165lbs looking to get to around 200lbs, eating 3900 cal a day. Only 8 months in so I'm getting good response from my body but I want to fine tune my workout as much as I can. Any ...
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Is it worth trying to improve my lactate threshold or should I focus on VO2 max?
I have been using the Karvonen heart rate reserve formula for working out my training zones, but I suspect they are wrong, because I have run a half marathon at least three times now in zone 4 (...
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What is the best order of doing exercise for the same muscles - in order of increasing difficulty or decreasing?
I have been doing crunches for years, so I can do a lot of them in each set. So I added some variants
I am labelling the basic crunch with leg position as /\__ as Crunch 1 - have been doing this for ...
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Electro muscular stimulation suit, exercises - do you need them?
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Electro muscular stimulation (EMS) suit systems like Katalyst, include apps. I've got one of these Katalyst suits and have had good results with it.
The suit's videos run on an iPad or ...
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Why calves are stretched during the good morning exercise
While exercising the good morning exercise (forward hip bend), I feel a strong stretch in my calves.
How is that, despite the knees and the femur don't change position in that exercise?
Where does ...
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