QTDDTOT - Stupid Question thread

How deep should i squat, ass to grass?

PLEASE RESPOND TO MY OP QUESTION DAMNIT

>I read keto diets maintain muscles fairly good for a weightloss diet, but nowhere about it building muscle.
you won't build any significant muscle but you can improve strength if you don't starve yourself

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well good on you lads then, we all started somewhere

But is it better to just do cardio and then start my SS once I’ve reached my goal for better results?

i am not familliar with SS but if you don't lift and just drop weight with keto ( cardio ) you will lose alot of muscle

Is it even possible to make my girth one inch thicker?

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I haven’t lifted much before. In other words, I haven’t built any muscle. So would there still be a huge muscle loss to the point of auschwitz mode or will it remain rather constant?

I'd add that once you're able to several 30+ sets. Once you're able to do 100 pushups in 3 sets with minimal rest in between the you should move on to other kinds of training.

>huge muscle loss to the point of auschwitz mode
if you drop alot of weight with keto and no lifting you will be skelly mode, maybe abs will show up but you will be very thin

You are better off losing 1-2 pounds a week with lifting

if you are not accustomed try to do a bodyweight routine at home to get the feeling of lifting, then maybe do a tryout at the gym and see how you hold up against the weights. It is not that much to get accustomed to. It is really fun once you get into the groove actually

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assuming you are not morbidly obese and just overweight or lightly obese

I’m barely overweight. Hadn’t it been for the love handles, I wouldn’t seem fat
But won’t this affect my novice effect if I start to lift already?

Nah. With a barbell just below parallel. If you’re doing bodyweight squats, then go atg to work on flexibility a bit.

not really, just get a program you can get through without getting super tired and losing motivation

go atg you faggot

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As someone who has never showered in a gym, wtf is your set up user?

like what do you bring and where do you out your soaking wet shower shoes? I'm curious to know how to do it as hygienic as possible and least hassle.

Next semester I'm going to uni and gonna work out before classes

What's that lift called:
Standing on box, slowly with chin on chest rounding back downwards with kettlebell in both hands, slowly going up again.

Deficit box lifts or something?

Depends on the facilities. My gym provides towels and has an icky shower stall
I bring a change of clothes, small bottle of shower gel and rubber slippers to not get nasty fungals. I throw my gym stuff in the bag and hang it out to dry at home asap

A few months ago I stalled pretty badly on all of my main lifts, bench, squat and deadlift. I tried deloading, cutting the weight by 10%, even tried conjugate and had little to no success. So I swapped out bench for weighted dips and deadlifts for jefferson deadlifts. Yesterday I did bench and deadlifts for the first time in ages and smashed all my old numbers. I'm going to keep milking these exercises untill I stall again. My question is what should I replace my squats with?
I usually have trouble with getting it out of the hole or hitting depth. I was thinking either Bulgarian split squats, or heavy lunges. I well though about Oly style squats for a while. Anyone have any suggestions?

>be 27, spend weekend at home
>bike tour with mom
>40km
>be exhausted
>"wow user 40km, you can be very very proud of yourself! here take this and this candy!"
>shower and leave immidiately

no question but had to vent

corner of my moustache and bottom of my chin have dark black hairs, rest of my face has blond, how do I fix it?

>5'5", 130lbs
>36.3% BF

I've been cutting while lifting for a few weeks now to capitalize on noob gains, but should I be bulking instead? I don't really have any muscle to cut to.

How do I gain enough core strength to not have my upper body bend when riding a bike hard?
I have issues when riding at higher levels of torque and therefore currently have to go crazy on cadence when going fast.
I calculated that I often reach 120 rpm+ to avoid loosing energy in bending my upper body.

I know that feel, that is why I ride the about 60 km to them and 60 km back on my bike.
I need about 2x as long as with the car, but I get a little 2h cardio workout out of it.

I was 193 pounds a few weeks ago. Started cutting and lifting hard. My body isn’t very strong but I’ve noticed some gains very quickly especially in my deadlift max. Im 196 now. Can I assume I gained three pounds of muscle and I’m not just getting fatter?

That is about 1,5% of your weight, wich is well within regular fluctuation.
It could be muscle, it could be fat, it could be water or it could be shit.

You arent cuting if you have gained weight. If your strenght has gone up you might have made some small muscle gains. Doubtful in just a few weeks tho

I've been playing tennis and when I go hard i get rotator cuff inflammation. Any remedies for inflammation and any tennis players here with tips for cutting down the irritation?

I eat under 1000 cal a day mostly veg and turkey and nuts. My deadlift went from 65 to 135 and my bench went from 65 to 85. Tricep pulldown from 20 to 30
>inb4 weakling. We all started somewhere

Core all day errday. Check Peter Sagan's instagram, he posted a GoPro video of his workout.
Deficit deadlifts, stretches, side planks and all that.
Work on stretching your hamstrings

>Core all day errday
What execise exactly?
> instagram
I don´t have a account.
>Deficit deadlifts
Isn´t that mainly for your arms?
>stretches, side planks
Sounds reasonable.
> stretching your hamstrings
Oh, they get stetched a lot by my position since I ride with the saddle all the way to the rear and a verry agressive handlebar position.

1000 cal, are you trying to lose gains?

I’m trying to lose fat and gain muscle
I’m also intermittent fasting and doing low carb but not full Keto.

Here's the video, you don't need an account instagram.com/p/BjnGcKqDBSJ/

If your lower back is rounded bending down, your hammies and hips are not stretched enough. Optimal: you can touch your toes without arching your lower back

Make sure to be able to keep that up long term. It should be a complete change of diet in he long haul if you're and ex fattie, otherwise you'll gain it back in no time

>If your lower back is rounded bending down, your hammies and hips are not stretched enough.
It isn´t and my back is almost horizontal when riding in the tribars.
>you can touch your toes without arching your lower back
Can´t realy chack that, but I can touch the ground with my hand with no issue.

When I do cardio (read; runnan) should i still be taking the same protein as when I lift?
I understand the differences between whey, casein isolate etc, and ive been taking my heavy whey loads after a run; should I dose down or should I be using a different thing entirely?

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I'm bulking and noticed that my hands have started getting extremely vascular, even when cold. I thought you couldn't lose fat when bulking...?

is Yohimbine legal in europe? if so where to get it?

I have a problem, I'm lean but on my lower back I have a tiny amount of fat that when I wear stuff that isn't loose it gives a little bulge and it annoys the fuck out of me

pic related is me flexing a bit my torso, in which it makes that bulge disappear.

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Why is this happening help me get my test back fags

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Likely you are just doing well with your clean bulk.

what do you do to warm up your cuff specifically?

measure changes in weight, both body weight and lifts, in time scales of months, not weeks. You could weigh a lot less and was just having a heavy day/few hours.
Taking a shit loses like 4lbs anyway

Same problem here.
Dye it, there is not better method. Taking the shit they use to dye small patches, its a small nozzle, put some on your finger and stroke your hairs.

You need to lose all that fucking fat first, if nothing else than just to be a healthier person. If your heart has to fuel your fat ass so much, that's blood away from your muscles.
Don't bulk until you are healthy enough to do so.

fuck, can't remember. it's named after someone, i think it shares the name with a squat followed by "curl".

It's jefferson curl

How do I isolate biceps without concentration curls

What's a good routine for leg day?

Yes, jefferson curls, thanks user
love it, it hits my core. coach showed it to me but going down bending the knees. It's annoying as I need a huge ass box and everyone is looking at me. will do it straight legged from now on.

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Preacher is what you are after, but reverse curls and cable with be fine, even rows will add some beef to it.
Whats more important is your form, be strict, do full range and don't lean/swing into it. Doesn't matter what your weight is, just do it right.
And don't ever do a fuckign concentration curl, it's 2018 and you are not in an 80's montage.

Back squat 5x5 (heavy)
Zercher's 3x10
Calf raises (machine or dumbell, what you got) 3x10
Front squats 3x7
Box jumps 3x7 ~ Sit ups 3x20

remember to stretch between sets and keep core up.

Just be careful with that shit, don't get a heavy ass weight to look tough, you are stretching here and you are trying to get a slow, full range of motion.

W-what happens if I have more than 2 scoops a day?

4 scoops cmon

Yeh thanks I'm doing it at the end of my set with a 12kg dumbbell, it's tough to keep form being that exhausted anyhow. Going slow is the point

I’m a bad case of skinnyfat, very skinny arms and legs but a fair bit of fat. Should I cut of bulk? If I cut how do I look good after instead of just looking like a smaller skinnyfat?
I got told to just lift and have been doing so for 8 months, I’m stronger but still look shit

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I’m on a M/W/F strength 5x5 routine currently. I just started the routine after doing an endurance based lifting routine for 3 months or so. Because of Father’s Day and being out of town, I missed my Monday workout. So, should I wait for Wednesday to workout again or should I workout T/Thur/Saturday this week now?

Am I the only one that prefers to use dumbbells when I can. I feel a ton more activation when using lower weighted dbs for pressing and pulling movements.

lift out today, you'll be fine

Why the fuck everytime I eat oats in the morning I'm dead tired not even an hour after?
I eat with eggs and half a scoop of protein. No sugary shit added. Where's my long lasting energy?

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regular curls are good enough for me

Redpill me on minoxidil, does that stuff turn small blond hairs into thick black ones? the hair on my cheeks just wont develop

I used to weigh 243 pounds a couple of months ago. Now I'm 215. What steps should I be taking to avoid skinnyfat hell?

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Anything inherently wrong with this workout?

1RPM for bench is 145kg and 85kg for OHP

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>cable overhead pushdown
???????

I ate 70g oats made with water + pinch of iodised sea salt, 150g, one handfull blackberries, cacao and cinnamon and let me tell you, I'm still full as fuck and I ate it 2h and 20m ago, had a lifting session which went smooth, granted it's deload week, I still rushed through it with around 1m rest between sets and even exercises

>OHP is 5kg higher than mine
>Bench is 45kg higher than mine
How does this happen?

Is a 1000 calorie deficit on an otherwise balanced keto diet too much? I am around 25% bf and want to reduce it to 15-20%.

The app calls it that, I'm just doing cable pulldowns whilst leaning forwards

I do feel full. I mean I'm sluggish as hell. Ate 75g with 2 eggs and 15g protein powder.

I've got a shoulder injury due to doing bench for years with a close grip, fucked my left shoulder/bicep so it begins to tremble a lot when adding heavy weight to my lifts. I can barely do 30kg dumbbells for OHP with my.left arm

Oh.
You wanna know why? you ate oats which are complex carbs that aren't quickly absorved and fill you up, and then added 2 eggs(fat) with it which takes even longer to digest so yeah

fat makes thing longer to digest, even if you eat a banana and whey shake(fast absorbed carbs and protons) and then have some considerable amount of fat, it won't be digested quickly.

How much cardio do you do?
Did you fix your diet, or did you just add more fucking calories?

because dumbbells are harder, but they are less standardised, which is why some people prefer barbell. You're fine.

Lift for hypertrophy at times. At lot of SF problems come from people lifting exclusively for strength.
Extend this and also do endurance lifts, so reps from 12-20.
Extend this, and do your fucking cardio.

Yeah it's fine, though I'd replace a curl with a core. Doing bicep will be counteractive to your chestantris routine, but core is always a good thing to add.

How much you weigh?

82kg, 6’2. That might not sound much but my face and hip fat is too fucking much

1000 is a little much, 700 is a safer way to make sure you don't get flabby skin.
Also, eat some protein. If you are 25% at 82kg 6'2, you need a better diet plan before you think about hard cutting.

This lady at work tore her hamstring off the bone and she's not very active, regular office worker, and it got me spooked

What are ways to make sure that will never happen to me

What App is this?

My plan is like this:
130g protein
120g fat

You are underweight, your fat content is too high lad.
I am 90, 6'2 19%

Where can I get a complete routine for GVT? I'm too lazy to prepare one for myself.
I'll run it for a month since it's winter break here in the south.

75kg would land me at 21 BMI which is normal. 90kg is at over 25 which is overweight. I’ve lost weight before and keto was the most efficient way from my experience. That’s why my diet has alot of fat. I don’t want to start bulking until I’ve reached my goal weight

Guys I need some advice on my squats. I start my training with low bar squats. First I do some squats with an empty bar to warm up. Then I start adding 10kgs, do some repetitions and then repeat until I have 30kg on each side (I'm pretty weak I know). Now I want to do 5x3. The first set of 5 is no problem. After rest I try to do the second set. From the first to third rep everything is fine, usually during the fourth I feel some kind of "pop" in my right shoulder. It's difficult to describe, as if my tendon was sliding over something it shouldn't, but my right shoulder starts to hurt. (The left one is fine) I finish the rep and do the last set, but it still hurts a little bit. I can still do the rest of the training (bench, row and pull ups), but the shoulder will keep aching during the training.
Anybody got some idea what's wrong with me and how to fix it?

Whats your grip like? Poor shoulder mobility can fuck you up if your grip is too narrow.

what about swiming for gains ?

having severe migrain today 16mg codeine can i still lift?

I have slightly wide hips (still less than top of rib cage) and so I know I shouldn't do oblique work. Is there any good ab exercises I can safely do though?

My grip is pretty damn narrow (probably just only 6-7 cms away from my shoulder), also I don't really grip with my thumb around the bar, they're resting next to my fingers (like a suicide grip)
Could that be the issue? You got some advice on what to do? I've made pretty nice progress on my squat and would hate to go back. The pain is bearable, so I can push through the rest of the training (although my right arm does feel weaker after that happens)

what the tufck whey protein really is for?

Progression Workout Tracker

>I know I shouldn't do oblique work
says fucking who, cupcake?

How useful are speed deadlifts in increasing regular deadlift 1RM? I've been doing them recently to increase my speed off the floor and I'm curious if they are actually useful

they are not. Do deadlifts properly or not at all.

Unless you are training your cleans, at which point, do pulls instead.

I am not doing them in place of regular heavy deads, just as an accessory. But I guess if they're not helping much I should give them up. Any suggestion for a replacement movement that I can use as a deadlift accessory instead? Already doing high rep RDLs for hypertrophy.

What oil do you use for frying? I don’t want cancer from using shitty oil that frees radicals at low heat

I'd suggest doing sumo deads or good mornings.

Sieg heil

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