Awe dang dude, sorry, will keep ya in my prayers. Speedy recovery to ya good sir. May I ask why, your back in hospital?
The UnionVGF Weightlifting/Workout Thread
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Yeah, started having pains and shortness of breath. Gonna check for a blood clot. Ct scan.
Nothing serious going on. Just some inflammation causing the pain and possible pneumonia setting in. They gave me a couple scripts that should fix me up.
I had what they call a Walking Pneumonia before New Year's. Gave me chest pains and shortness of breath. Some times the symptoms are so mild you feel good for a day, then the next day it hits you again like a ton of bricks. I took a week off from going to the gym because I almost passed out during a light bench press. Scared the s*** out of me.
First workout since my surgery this morning. Chest/triceps. Kept the bench light and did a few sets of 185 for 5.
I wound up coming down with covid at the end of last week going into the weekend. Put me down for a few days but my plan was for today to be my first workout and I was able to keep that schedule.
I was in the 2 worst places to get covid. Hospitals and airports..
I wound up coming down with covid at the end of last week going into the weekend. Put me down for a few days but my plan was for today to be my first workout and I was able to keep that schedule.
I was in the 2 worst places to get covid. Hospitals and airports..
The ultimate preworkout
I'm finally going to attempt this certification in a few months. If anyone here works on grip strength, it's a pretty cool goal to set IMO (of course it's ultimately a promotion for their equipment, but I already have it all):
-45 lbs on a pinch grip
-200 lbs single-handed on a Rolling Thunder deadlift handle (these things are a b*tch because the handle is 2 1/4" wide, and it rotates so you can't generate any torque to help you lift it)
-Fully closing a #2 Captains of Crush gripper, unaided, with one-hand.
There are only handful of people that get certified each year too:
Crushed-to-Dust!® Challenge - Certification List
ironmind.com
Boys, Bulk, and Body Ideals: Sex Differences in Weight Gain Attempts Among Adolescents in the United States
To determine the prevalence of weight gain attempts in adolescent boys in the US.Participants were 15,624 high school students from the nationally representative 2015 Youth Risk Behavior Survey.Overall, 29.6% of adolescent boys reported attempts to gain ...
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Fueled by the rise of social media and a lucrative, unregulated supplements industry, more boys and young men today are bulking up to the point of risking their overall health. A measured amount of weight training can be positive and healthy, but it's neither when body image turns into an obsession or exercise becomes excessive.
"Though its generally underrecognized, boys have body ideals just like girls do," says Jason Nagata, a pediatrician at the University of California at San Francisco who specializes in adolescent eating disorders. "The idealized masculine body type is big and muscular, and because of that, many boys are trying to get bigger and more muscular."
Nagata published research in the Journal of Adolescent Health in 2019 that found about a third of teenage boys reported trying to gain weight. The study was based on data from more than 15,000 high school students in the 2015 Youth Risk Behavior Survey. And in Current Opinion in Pediatrics in 2021, Nagata and his co-authors wrote that about 22 percent of teen boys and young men are engaging in some sort of muscle-building behavior.
The red flag for a young man or a teenage boy is when exercise or food choices lead to preoccupations or obsessions with appearance, body size, weight or exercise in a way that worsens their quality of life, Nagata says.
"It's not just the activity itself, it's also the way the activity makes them feel," Nagata stresses. "So when someone says that the exercise is really causing them more worry or preoccupation than joy, and when it starts to impair their schoolwork or social functioning, those are all red flags regardless of the actual activity, but just how they perceive it.
"I think the added pressure with social media is that with all those traditional forms — books, television, movies — back in the day, most people were living in a read-only environment," Nagata says. "For the most part, your average teenage boy would not expect to be featured in a movie or become a celebrity."
Research looking at social media effects on teenage boys found that disordered eating behavior, muscle dissatisfaction and use of steroids are associated with more time spent on Instagram. "Findings like these demonstrate that social media can create pressures for boys to display and compare their muscular physiques," Nagata says.
If social media is the fire, supplements are the gasoline. The use of muscle-building supplements is pervasive, with more than half of boys and men in adolescence through early adulthood taking protein powder or shakes.
Studies looking at boys' action figures have found that, over a 25-year period, the toys have become more muscular, with bulging biceps and broad chests. "The increase in action figure dimensions may contribute to the multifactoral development of an idealized body type that focuses on a lean, muscular physique. This occurrence may particularly influence the perceptions of preadolescent males," the researchers wrote.
When I read these kind of opinionated articles/studies, I always look up who wrote them.... Jason Nagata in the middle.Boys, Bulk, and Body Ideals: Sex Differences in Weight Gain Attempts Among Adolescents in the United States
To determine the prevalence of weight gain attempts in adolescent boys in the US.Participants were 15,624 high school students from the nationally representative 2015 Youth Risk Behavior Survey.Overall, 29.6% of adolescent boys reported attempts to gain ...
Fueled by the rise of social media and a lucrative, unregulated supplements industry, more boys and young men today are bulking up to the point of risking their overall health. A measured amount of weight training can be positive and healthy, but it's neither when body image turns into an obsession or exercise becomes excessive.
"Though its generally underrecognized, boys have body ideals just like girls do," says Jason Nagata, a pediatrician at the University of California at San Francisco who specializes in adolescent eating disorders. "The idealized masculine body type is big and muscular, and because of that, many boys are trying to get bigger and more muscular."
Nagata published research in the Journal of Adolescent Health in 2019 that found about a third of teenage boys reported trying to gain weight. The study was based on data from more than 15,000 high school students in the 2015 Youth Risk Behavior Survey. And in Current Opinion in Pediatrics in 2021, Nagata and his co-authors wrote that about 22 percent of teen boys and young men are engaging in some sort of muscle-building behavior.
The red flag for a young man or a teenage boy is when exercise or food choices lead to preoccupations or obsessions with appearance, body size, weight or exercise in a way that worsens their quality of life, Nagata says.
"It's not just the activity itself, it's also the way the activity makes them feel," Nagata stresses. "So when someone says that the exercise is really causing them more worry or preoccupation than joy, and when it starts to impair their schoolwork or social functioning, those are all red flags regardless of the actual activity, but just how they perceive it.
"I think the added pressure with social media is that with all those traditional forms — books, television, movies — back in the day, most people were living in a read-only environment," Nagata says. "For the most part, your average teenage boy would not expect to be featured in a movie or become a celebrity."
Research looking at social media effects on teenage boys found that disordered eating behavior, muscle dissatisfaction and use of steroids are associated with more time spent on Instagram. "Findings like these demonstrate that social media can create pressures for boys to display and compare their muscular physiques," Nagata says.
If social media is the fire, supplements are the gasoline. The use of muscle-building supplements is pervasive, with more than half of boys and men in adolescence through early adulthood taking protein powder or shakes.
Studies looking at boys' action figures have found that, over a 25-year period, the toys have become more muscular, with bulging biceps and broad chests. "The increase in action figure dimensions may contribute to the multifactoral development of an idealized body type that focuses on a lean, muscular physique. This occurrence may particularly influence the perceptions of preadolescent males," the researchers wrote.
*clearly guy should've "bulked" in his teens.
Stalker….
Blame it on genetics? I dono, but the first link is a government backed case study/research. Not all journalists or government employees work out.
I do remember when 300 came out tons of guys were like “yo, let’s work out….or….I wanna look like him” and I’m sure some had partners that would either tease or tell them to look like certain stars/celebrities/athletes.
Every time I see these types of studies I always think the person responsible is a little twink or a fat f***. Also, your government hardly tried to tell your countrymen to lose weight during covid even though it prob was one of the greatest reason so many people (disregarding the trimmed elderly) died in chinese lab flu, so they backing something like this doesn't make it any more trustworthy (yes, imo etc).
New bench. About 60lb heavier than my old one. I guess you can say I added 60lbs to my bench overnight...
Starting to feel strong again. Cant believe that surgery knocked me back so much. I am 54yrs old though..
Starting to feel strong again. Cant believe that surgery knocked me back so much. I am 54yrs old though..
Yes. Here is a better view. It's in the garage, so it gets a bit dirty.
Get your gas can count up.
The funny thing is I probably have about 15. There was a one week power outage and gas shortage where I live a few years ago due to a hurricane that passed through. It was a two hour wait to get gas, so I went and grabbed a bunch of gas cans and filled as many as I could to power the cars and generator.
The funny thing is I probably have about 15. There was a one week power outage and gas shortage where I live a few years ago due to a hurricane that passed through. It was a two hour wait to get gas, so I went and grabbed a bunch of gas cans and filled as many as I could to power the cars and generator.
I have enough cans to run my generator for about 6 days if needed. I dont need to keep gas for the car as long as I keep it full as much as I can. I certainly fill it up if any major storms come our way.
I have enough supplies on hand at all times that I shouldnt need to go anywhere for quite awhile. I even invested in a water filtration system so I can filter the creek water if needed.
I guess Im a prepper, but I lived through Hurricane Charley and 3 weeks with nothing.. Learned my lesson.
Saving for a whole home battery now..
What model of Rep is this? I have a a (very) cheap Amazon Basics flat bench. It's great for how inexpensive it s, but I'd really like to upgrade to a nice incline / adjustable bench.
