In Fitness and in Health
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Sorry to be hogging this thread, but the mere fact of documenting what I am doing is added inspiration to try harder.
2 weeks ago, my PB for leg press was 12 reps at 173kg. 10 days ago, I failed at 183.
Today, I did 213kg and felt I could go further.
I am frankly amazed.....
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@Giles and I have been motivating each other for the past few months in preparation for tuna fishing in the fall. He sends me updates on new exercises that he's trying which I try and incorporate from time to time. The progress has been good and a nice change from some of my normal goto lifts. Yesterday I added Bulgarian squats for the first time...
I don't know if I should thank him or kick his arse the next time I see him...
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Bulgarian style
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I have always loved natural weight training. In my 20s I let my weight get away from me and got to about 20 stone.
Sorted myself out and in my 30s got in pretty decent shape.
In my late 40s now but still in good shape and lifting heavy. Really just focused on functional strength now and overall health.
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Picked this plate set up for a steal from eBay a couple of days ago. Well pleased....
"OK face up to it - you're useless but generally pretty honest and straightforward . . . it's a rare combination of qualities that I have come to admire in you" - Geo 2011
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You can’t beat having stuff at home to work out.
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Nice! Looks like a complete set also. Now get a nice bar, if you are going to spend money spend it on the bar. A good bar vs a shitty bar have a day and night difference.
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@Giles I have similar weights, I remember during covid I was going to build a "home gym" and the prices were insane... I ended up just buying dumbbells and a bench, got weights like yours the next year for a lot cheaper...
I guess this could be in "rants" as it still pisses me off people taking advantage of covid lol
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@Giles. I have no experience with Mirafit. Do you know if its a bushings or bearings bar? If you want smooth fast rotation bearings are superior. If you dont aspire to do any of the fast lifts like clean power clean snatch or variations that require smooth, fast and precise turnover bushings are ok.
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I don't know if they are bearings or bushings, they have not arrived yet (and until you asked the question, I had no idea there were 2 different kinds
) . I suspect bushings, because the Mirafit ones I can find with bearings cost quite a lot more. But, for the time being, I will be restricting myself to deadlifts, Romanian deadlifst, barbell curls, pelvic thrusts and the like, none of which I will be doing fast or clean https://mirafit.co.uk/mirafit-2-olympic-barbell-weight-bar-4ft-5ft-6ft-7ft.html
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I think you might be selling yourself short on the pelvic thrusts…
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Mirafit are good quality for the money. All my bars are Rogue but I have quite a few other bits from Mirafit including dumbbells.
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For general weightlifting applications bushings bars will do the job, and require less maintenance. The only issue i usually see with low quality bars is that after a couple of months, the collars tend to get stiffer and stiffer and stiffer to the point that get almost locked up and refuse to rotate and thats not good. Also they tend to have inconsistent gnarling, meaning way too sharp or not enough.
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Anyone into training grip?
Recently bought a RGT handle from Grip Genie. The quality is far superior to the Rolling Thunder handles.
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I like that.
Yeah, grip is important to me, because if I am playing a large fish, standing up, with just a fishing belt (no chest harness attachment to the rod or reel), the first thing to fail is my grip.
What my PT, Brett has me doing to improve my grip strength, is using these on barbells, dumbbells and kettle bells for some of my exercises. I will use them at home when I am not doing lighter weights, and do large weights without them, when Brett is standing over me.
At some point, I will get the even fatter ones too....
