The Weight Lifting/Gym Thread

Yoga and pilates are a whole new way to work your body...and they're completely necessary if you truly want a well-rounded regimen IMHO. I've started doing hip abductors at the gym as well, which are typically stigmatized as a "woman's exercise" around these parts, lol. It's all about balance, and yoga and pilates will give you that in ways you can't achieve via traditional lifting.

I love isometrics, as well. When you curl biceps, go for full extension at the bottom, then at the top of your curl flex as hard as you can and slowly let the weight back down. That one mod alone will tear fibers like crazy!

Yup! I own these as well. Feet up on the chair; regs, wides, close each for a set of 45 .

When we're in the gym, we do a super-set we call "chest-sanity", where you bench the bar for 10 reps, then immediately do chest flys with dumbbells for another 10, then hop up and put your fee up on the bench and do 10 diamond pushups.

Repeat times three sets and you'll be on fire .

Rock climbing is awesome, btw!

I did a quick set of lat pulldowns/tricep pulldowns on my home equipment yesterday, and I'm wonderfully sore .

Chest-sanity sesh tomorrow.

I've gone all out before with heavy lifting and protein diet galore, but I very quickly get clumsy to look at. My own take on this, is that whenever your muscles start interfering with your flexibility, it's about time to call it quits or conversely start looking at some smaller weights and an increase in repetitions.

And that's awesome, Guldbamsen!