I use fitocracy and am doing SS I find it really easy to use. Are you saving your routines? Makes it as simple as putting in numbers which most do while posting here anyway. My username on fitocracy is same as here and I'm part of the TL group so if anyone wants to follow go ahead
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mcmartini
Australia1972 Posts
I use fitocracy and am doing SS I find it really easy to use. Are you saving your routines? Makes it as simple as putting in numbers which most do while posting here anyway. My username on fitocracy is same as here and I'm part of the TL group so if anyone wants to follow go ahead | ||
decafchicken
United States19901 Posts
I'd recommend doing both. I focused a lot on my clean at first a lot and then it took a while for my jerk to catch up. You can do jerk work off the rack but it will be a pain till you learn how to do repeat jerks and basically kill all the nerve endings in your collar bone lol. On August 09 2012 09:08 Catch wrote: I believe you can just tag things and make them a custom entry. Not too sure about this since I haven't had to do it. You can also save routines so you don't have to go through and find the same thing every time. I'm not in olympic lifting, so I don't know how bad it is for that, but I actually like fitocracy lol Its high variety and # of sets (low reps per set) make it a pain in the ass. As well as the various exercises (snatch pull + snatch+overhead squat, etc) | ||
phyre112
United States3090 Posts
On August 09 2012 09:51 decafchicken wrote: @Phyre I'd recommend doing both. I focused a lot on my clean at first a lot and then it took a while for my jerk to catch up. You can do jerk work off the rack but it will be a pain till you learn how to do repeat jerks and basically kill all the nerve endings in your collar bone lol. Its high variety and # of sets (low reps per set) make it a pain in the ass. As well as the various exercises (snatch pull + snatch+overhead squat, etc) @catch, I've used routines for simple things, like when I was doing smolov, or my push/pull split. The site is well set up for doing something like that, but their app is terrible, so I would get home and forget if I'd done 6 or 7 reps on a particular set, or "did I make all the reps on my third or fifth set of press" and I found that the farther I got in lifting, the more erratic my training began, and the more inferior fitocracy was to a simple notebook. If you're doing oly lifting, it's more that they just don't have half the lifts you'll be doing. There is no option to mark something as a "snatch pull" and there's really not something similar in there that you can log it as for giggles. If you're doing a complex of two or more partials, forget it. Again, it's inferior to a notebook - and the social aspect feels forced to the extent that I much prefer a separate thread here in TLHF. @decaf, thanks. Will get right to work smashing my collar bone into dust and doing extra jerks out of the rack, even if it will take forever. | ||
MeShiet
Canada290 Posts
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phyre112
United States3090 Posts
On August 09 2012 12:13 MeShiet wrote: @phyre112, the funniest part about learning the cnj is discovering whether you have imbalances between your left and right shoulder size. My left anterior deltoid was both weaker and smaller than my right so whenever i racked the bar at first, it'd dig into my left clavicle but my right one would be just fine. Now I have a ridiculous callus and permanent bruise there. I've been front squatting long enough to know that; I have to push just a little bit harder with my left shoulder, but I've done enough dumbbell pressing/incline pressing that there isn't much difference between the two anymore. Several hours later edit, but I don't want to double post: Just drank a whole bunch of gin (in place of the muscle relaxers that I don't have) and, rather than foam rolling my hip I took a metal dumbbell handle and ATTACKED that shit. I haven't been able to fully extend my leg in two days, but that felt amazing. Better than sex, by miles. I can tell that my SI joint is not yet back in place, because there's still some pain deep in the hip, but it's no longer radiating into the hamstring and up the spine - I can bend at the hips (lowering my back) and I can straighten my entire right leg now without shouting. I never thought to create muscle relaxation before foam rolling, and it only just hit me how to get more pressure on the spot than a foam roller allows (5lb metal stick ftw). I'm going to go do some more work on this. Hopefully the pain goes away and the joint pops back in. MAGIC I SAY! | ||
Froadac
United States6733 Posts
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Zafrumi
Switzerland1272 Posts
and I like how you can comment directly on someone's workout. doesnt feel forced at all. | ||
zatic
Zurich15240 Posts
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ShadowDrgn
United States2497 Posts
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zatic
Zurich15240 Posts
I had still hoped to bring more people to fitocracy, because as you say I really don't recognize many from this thread .. But to each his own I guess | ||
NeedsmoreCELLTECH
Netherlands1242 Posts
On August 09 2012 17:30 zatic wrote: Well, there is a thread now http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=359197 Thanks phyre! I had still hoped to bring more people to fitocracy, because as you say I really don't recognize many from this thread .. But to each his own I guess For me pen and paper is superior, as you can find the emotion (and condition of hands haha) back in the ink. If I just made a PR I'm proud of, my writing is really large and shaky and I basically sprawl all over the paper. Especially deadlift PR's are messy as my fingers are completely done. But yeah, to each their own. | ||
FFGenerations
7088 Posts
On August 09 2012 12:43 phyre112 wrote: I've been front squatting long enough to know that; I have to push just a little bit harder with my left shoulder, but I've done enough dumbbell pressing/incline pressing that there isn't much difference between the two anymore. Several hours later edit, but I don't want to double post: Just drank a whole bunch of gin (in place of the muscle relaxers that I don't have) and, rather than foam rolling my hip I took a metal dumbbell handle and ATTACKED that shit. I haven't been able to fully extend my leg in two days, but that felt amazing. Better than sex, by miles. I can tell that my SI joint is not yet back in place, because there's still some pain deep in the hip, but it's no longer radiating into the hamstring and up the spine - I can bend at the hips (lowering my back) and I can straighten my entire right leg now without shouting. I never thought to create muscle relaxation before foam rolling, and it only just hit me how to get more pressure on the spot than a foam roller allows (5lb metal stick ftw). I'm going to go do some more work on this. Hopefully the pain goes away and the joint pops back in. MAGIC I SAY! ahh, dumbell good idea. i just had a dream (i think!?) about my upper back being really nice and straight without any problems. then when i woke up properly i was SO disappointed that it felt shitty , i thought i had healed it in the night!! i want someone to stick a fist up there. will see if dumbell works :/ | ||
decafchicken
United States19901 Posts
On August 09 2012 12:13 MeShiet wrote: @phyre112, the funniest part about learning the cnj is discovering whether you have imbalances between your left and right shoulder size. My left anterior deltoid was both weaker and smaller than my right so whenever i racked the bar at first, it'd dig into my left clavicle but my right one would be just fine. Now I have a ridiculous callus and permanent bruise there. Yea my left side has taken a beating but the collar bone has a big enough bump where it has evened out now lol | ||
mordek
United States12704 Posts
On August 09 2012 02:55 mordek wrote: Let us know if the chiro helps. I'm starting a glute-specific routine specifically for strengthening the posterior sling etc. and hopefully that solves the chronic SI pain. Might help if that's what it is for you? So did a light run through of the routine yesterday, so not full sets or with any weights. Aaaand my hamstrings are sore this morning. So I think that confirms my suspicions? | ||
SoleSteeler
Canada5281 Posts
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YoucriedWolf
Sweden1456 Posts
On August 09 2012 22:00 SoleSteeler wrote: Can anyone recommend some stretches/exercises or whatever for improving hamstring mobility? I'd like to be able to touch my toes without bending my knees and do a proper, comfortable third world squat. You just said it . All the stretches that involves reaching for your toes, standing and sitting. Do squats hindu, weighted, against a wall. And if you want an answer thats more organized and not boring, most types of yoga (I personally do love bikram yoga but you're gonna get quite a bit more than you bargained for with that) and the author of the third world squats recommendation to drop to a squat position for a minute a day or however long you feel like really and hold. | ||
Necosarius
Sweden4042 Posts
On August 09 2012 22:00 SoleSteeler wrote: Can anyone recommend some stretches/exercises or whatever for improving hamstring mobility? I'd like to be able to touch my toes without bending my knees and do a proper, comfortable third world squat. When I stretched to be able to touch my toes without bending my knees I just sat with my back flat against a wall with my legs straight in front of me. I was really not flexible so that was kinda hard first Then I just started to put things under my feet when I started to get more flexible. And after that I just sat there and tried to grab my toes and pull me forward, with a straight back of course. As for squats I just did this: http://www.californiastrength.com/cal-strength-exercises/viewvideo/50/cal-strength-exercises/flexibility-exercises-for-the-lower-body-in-olympic-weightlifting | ||
Catch
United States616 Posts
On August 09 2012 09:59 phyre112 wrote: @catch, I've used routines for mple things, like when I was doing smolov, or my push/pull split. The site is well set up for doing something like that, but their app is terrible, so I would get home and forget if I'd done 6 or 7 reps on a particular set, or "did I make all the reps on my third or fifth set of press" and I found that the farther I got in lifting, the more erratic my training began, and the more inferior fitocracy was to a simple notebook. If you're doing oly lifting, it's more that they just don't have half the lifts you'll be doing. There is no option to mark something as a "snatch pull" and there's really not something similar in there that you can log it as for giggles. If you're doing a complex of two or more partials, forget it. Again, it's inferior to a notebook - and the social aspect feels forced to the extent that I much prefer a separate thread here in TLHF. @decaf, thanks. Will get right to work smashing my collar bone into dust and doing extra jerks out of the rack, even if it will take forever. Fair enough. I've run into that problem trying to log a few bodyweight exercises, so I can imagine how annoying it is for an oly lifter. I've also been there with forgetting sets and stuff. Now that I'm on madcows, which is extremely structured, I forgot about it. Lol | ||
extr3me
Norway145 Posts
Squats: 10x1 100kg 10x 140kg 5x1 180kg 1x1 210kg | ||
mordek
United States12704 Posts
extr3me, we've been asked to post weightlifting logs and specifics in this thread: http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=359197 Cheers | ||
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