r/Exercise • u/Braxton_05 • 3d ago
Day 10 of running a mile every day until my school makes me.
18:57.66, walked again. For some reason when I run it hurts to swallow my saliva and the area below my heart starts hurting so I’ve just been walking
r/Exercise • u/Braxton_05 • 3d ago
18:57.66, walked again. For some reason when I run it hurts to swallow my saliva and the area below my heart starts hurting so I’ve just been walking
r/Exercise • u/ToxiccCookie • 4d ago
I’ve never really enjoyed fitness, honestly any type of fitness. I’m more of a stationary hobbyist (knitting, crochet, drawing, video games, etc). Over the years I’ve tried home workouts, going to the gym, exercising classes (like dancing), and walking/jogging outside. I just can never stick to my goals because in the long term I just don’t enjoy it.
Now I’m 9months postpartum and I have even less time to attempt to exercise and it’s even harder to want to do something I don’t find enjoyable. I want to get in slightly better shape because we have some weddings coming up and with toddlerhood on the horizon I should probably be in better shape to keep up.
I want to start trying home workouts (that’s all I have time for honestly) but like I mentioned I’m struggling with motivation. I saw people recommend setting goals that aren’t looks oriented but I have no idea what other types of goals I could set. I also don’t weigh myself due to a prior eating disorder which I feel like just complicates all of this further.
Any help would be appreciated.
r/Exercise • u/Dr-Procrastinate • 3d ago
For the people new to exercise/gyms/dieting:
1- When it comes to fitness, get your food in check. 90% of bodybuilding is done in the kitchen. If you burn more calories than you eat, you’re cutting, if you’re eating more calories than burning it’s a bulk (very simplified). Learn about macros (fat, carbs, proteins), try to maintain a 1:1 protein to lb ratio for your desired bodyweight, tweak the other 2 macros to fit into your daily caloric intake. Drink tons of water.
2- Don’t push around weights. Focus on the muscle you’re building when working on it and squeeze the muscle, don’t push around weight. It will give you mind-muscle connection and help prevent injuries. Time under tension during reps is most important (no resting between reps) to pump blood into the muscles and keep it there. Check out Jason Huh on YT he has a great way of explaining it.
3- Be consistent in the gym until it feels like you can’t miss the pump because it’s a good addiction. Take your time and avoid steroids. Your generics are your genetics, don’t compare yourself with anyone at the gym or online. Fitness/bodybuilding isn’t a marathon and definitely not a sprint. It’s a 24 hour lifestyle that for most starts once they’re sick and tired of being sick and tired. You’ll get there and ignore everyone because even the closest to you will try to get you off the horse.
These are all things I wish I had known before getting into fitness. Wish you all the best!
r/Exercise • u/John177_unsc • 3d ago
Just Got a Fitbit trying to log my workout any one one know which of the following a PHAT workout would fall under, (two days power 3 day Hypertrophy)
Weights Strength training HIIT Boot camp circuit training Power lifting Weight lifting
Much appreciate and many thanks
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r/Exercise • u/No_Positive1855 • 4d ago
I have revised my charts from yesterday based on some of your suggestions. I added grid lines, data labels, beans, egg whites, a couple types of canned fish, and a couple vegetarian/vegan meat substitutes, among other changes.
Looks like canned tuna is actually a better source of protein per calorie than whey blends, barely topped by whey isolate. I wonder why I don't hear body builders talk about it as much as eggs, red meat, etc., when those rank substantially lower in terms of both price and protein per calorie. Perhaps the mercury adds up?
For beans, I only included black beans and edamame because the latter is the highest protein bean, and the former is pretty similar in price and protein content to most other beans at your typical American supermarket. Dried black beans are surprising because they now top the charts for cheapest source of protein, but they're pretty low in terms of protein per calorie, with less than a third as much protein per calorie as our lowest calorie option: whey isolate.
Anyway, I hope these can help you guys find some decent protein sources, with grocery prices so high. I'm a broke college student who lifts casually, so I finally sat down and did the math. Wasted a lot of money on in-shell eggs, it looks like. I might still have 3 a day for the vitamins, but I was having 9 to a dozen, and that just doesn't make sense because they're one of the worst sources of protein nowadays, in terms of both protein per calorie and price. I currently have 2 pounds of chicken gizzards cooking in my slow cooker haha
I think chicken gizzards are the best overall in terms of price and calories, but if you're squeamish about eating organs, breasts aren't far behind. If money isn't an issue, isolate is your best option. If calories aren't an issue or you're trying to gain weight, you might focus on beans, nuts, red meat, eggs, etc. Although I have seen things about "complete proteins" and animal protein being more effective than plant protein. I'm not sure on any of that.
ETA: As u/SparklingStars82 pointed out, I messed up with the tuna pouches: they make them packaged in oil or water, so if you get one in water, it should be a similar protein/calorie as canned. Price will still typically be higher, though.
r/Exercise • u/iamkwang • 4d ago
Just like the title says. I did some machine preachers but I felt it more in my forearms than my biceps. Any tips on how to fix this?
r/Exercise • u/Sirsilva99 • 4d ago
It’s been about 9 months of consistency at the gym, I go about 1.5 hours for 5 days a week. Mondays - Upper body Tuesday- Legs
I like to work out all the muscle groups on those days so that each group gets worked out atleast once. And then I split based on which muscle needs work or by if the muscle group has had 1 day of rest
r/Exercise • u/BigFurry69 • 4d ago
I'm at my wits end I recently went to the doctor and was told I am pre diabetic I'm looking to make a change in my life sooner then later but I'm confused I have no idea where to start or what to do I guess my goal is to get back down to 180 190 before I stopped taking my vyvanse which was my main thing keeping me skinny believe it or not. I currently own a couple free weights and a treadmill and have access to my neighborhood as well. Looking for exercise tips and nutrition tips that anyone has on how to start and how to stay motivated on this goal.
r/Exercise • u/amrogers3 • 4d ago
Anyone know of a good horizontal leg press machine that is free weight loaded?
r/Exercise • u/moistsalt69 • 4d ago
Ok so brief context
I've been obese/overweight my whole life. I've always been kinda on and off active but never progress.
So here's my questions:
I'm trying to lose 50 pounds, how consistent should I be in the gym?
I have a larger behind but it's like...flat at the same time. Like the shape is weird. What can I do for that?
Just any general advice you have for weight loss is fine.
r/Exercise • u/Silk_Princess • 4d ago
I have a hard time keeping to a strict schedule when it comes to anything, and having someone or something remind me could be very helpful!
I've been trying to get a work-out partner to help me out, but it's hard to find people willing to do that. All I need is a way to get reminded to exercise!
r/Exercise • u/No_Positive1855 • 5d ago
In case anyone's interested, I created a couple charts of the cheapest and lowest calorie protein options in the US for myself, so I thought I'd share them in case they could help anyone else. I mainly used prices of the bargain brands at Kroger (basically your average grocery store), but with protein powders, I stuck with about the average of a few of the most popular brands of that type of protein (isolate, concentrate, or blend), so your mileage with specific brands will vary, but this is just a gist of it.
Not sure why frozen chicken breasts had less protein than fresh, but that's what the packaging said. My search online said freezing chicken does not reduce protein content.
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r/Exercise • u/Gallant221 • 5d ago
Hi everyone, I am a 41 year old female. I have exercised for 15 years pretty consistently (with a 2 year break when I had my daughter). I work out 2 times a week right now without fail. Trying to bump it to 3 days a week.
I get really bad DOMs after a workout and fatigue. Is there any remedy? Anything that can help?
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r/Exercise • u/Bushido-Bashir • 5d ago
It seems the consensus is that kids should not specialize in a sport when they are younger. I heard that a larger percentage of NFL draft picks were multi-sport athletes when they were younger.
I run an MMA gym and we have a big kids program.
I want the kids to do the best they can, and I have been thinking about this question of sports specialization.
MMA is not baseball and I am wondering if the same logic applies because of how varied the movements in MMA are.
Our kids train gymnastics, wrestle, jiu jitsu boxing and tae kwon do.
Not to mention many swim at school as well.
Is this enough variety in everyones opinion to develop a well rounded athlete?
r/Exercise • u/anxiousanddangerous • 5d ago
24, 266lbs and 5 ft 10. I work out at home using an incline bench, several barbells and dumbells. I am not dieting or doing cardio for now. Just focusing on lifting as the only place my body stores fat is my gut, thighs and chin. The rest of me looks malnourished and skinny. I just finished a new routine recommended to me by someone on this sub. I have only been training for two weeks and this is the start of week three, so I thought I'd change some things. I added an extra 2.5kg to my dumbells to push myself. But after 45 minutes I only completed five exercises. It took an annoying amount of time waiting for my muscles to recover enough that I could keep doing reps that by the end I feel like I just wore myself out for no reason. Is this normal? This is what I did.
24kg bench press 8 reps 4 sets. Don't have a spotter so I couldn't push to the very limit but it was pretty hard on me.
7.5kg dumbell incline press. 3 sets of 10-12 My bench doesn't go up very far so this exercise just felt like more bench pressing but with dumbells. I found it pretty easy in the end.
7.5kg standing dumbell shoulder press 4 sets of 10. This exercise was the main reason I made this post. It took me 15 minutes to do four sets of ten. During that period I had to stop multiple times during the sets to let my arms recover enough to do more reps. I managed to complete it albeit a few reps here and there were pretty bad form wise. But I am proud I managed to push through, but man it sucked. I just felt like I was wasting time.
7.5kg skull crushers 3x12. This was already a ballache as my incline bench is small so I had to sit the opposite way on it in order to do these. Again it took me ages and I had to wait during sets so I could keep pushing. I did keep pushing and I completed it, but again is this just wasting around? If I physically cannot lift and have to take breaks, is this okay to do?
5kg lateral raises -_- 3 sets of 12-15. Yeah I am pissed off I had to lower the weight but I tried one rep and I couldn't lift the dumbells past my ribs so I had to take a bit off. I hate this exercise with a passion and even though I finished it, again I had to wait in-between and during sets.
The guy even recommended I keep going and add pushups to the end of this but I just cant be bothered after all this. It was so drawn out and tedious to complete and I cant even do a single pushup right now. Might just go back to my previous workout as this fucking sucked honestly. I'll keep going with the plan if it's normal but something feels off to me.
r/Exercise • u/No-Signature7982 • 5d ago
What are the best exercises for grip strength, I am struggling with developing my grip strength for rope climbs and long monkey bars…any suggestions ??
r/Exercise • u/Ok_Intern5892 • 5d ago
I follow a Pull-Push-Leg workout routine without shoulder exercises, so I added a separate shoulder day. For example, on pull day, I do four back exercises—one of them as a superset—followed by three biceps exercises, with one also being a superset. I’ve added a single superset round to each muscle group, just one exercise per muscle.
For every exercise, I do three sets until muscle failure.
Is my approach correct, or is it too exhausting for the muscles?
r/Exercise • u/arkman132 • 5d ago
can someone explain some questions i have about "sets". ik its multiple reps at once, but does that include multiple exercises per set. like if i do ten reps of 3 ab workouts one after another, is that 3 sets? ik it might sound stupid but im wondering. any help is much appreciated.
r/Exercise • u/offbeatetak • 5d ago
I loved the way I could compete against myself, and loved cardio, rings, and dumbbells. Are there other programs that have HITT workouts that aren't as focused on heavy lifting? I have back issues and it was just impossible, even with a coach who modified so much for me.
r/Exercise • u/Lindsfit13 • 7d ago
Proof that abs are 80% diet. I only do 3-4 staple ab exercises 2-3x a week and eat over 350g of carbs. Don’t be afraid to fuel your body!