I’ve been blessed with invulnerable stomach and guts, but this is good to know
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I just stumbled across a website that sells weight plates and gym equipment at a very low price compared to the stuff you can find on any other website at the moment. They have good reviews and you can pay upon delivery.
Buying a barbell and 200 lb of plates would cost me just over € 200 ($ 235). I’m very much considering giving it a shot.
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I’d seize the opportunity if you have the cash for it - the situation right now is very unpredictable, and you never know what’s around the corner. You can always sell it on at a profit later if you don’t need it.
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That is a great deal compared to here. I just found a deal here which was 255lbs of weight and a shitty weight tree for $350. Most people are selling closer to $2 per pound where I’m at.
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I hope you get well soon brother
I want to start over with you all, I love you guys
I realise we all have alot in common in this section, I want to turn you into my friend, all of you, if that is possible
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for sure man. I am not sure I know you, so rest assured I have nothing against you. We love you too
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So I think weights will have to take the backseat for now. I have to order a € 220 vaccine for acarus because I have had allergy issues that prevented me from breathing too well for a while now, and it turned out to be due to that. I was expecting it to cost less but it is what it is. This is annoying enough to warrant getting fixed.
If by Christmas gyms won’t be open yet, I’ll buy them as I’ll have more money to go by.
Meanwhile, I’ve been training mostly chins and dips, plus shoulders and arms with bands and a kb. I’m doing what I can.
I’ve been dieting for three weeks now, ever since gyms closed, and I’m down about 6 lbs.
Thankfully, I’m not back to looking like I’ve never stepped into a gym yet haha
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Were you ever investigated for celiac disease?
I think so. Maybe not celiac disease per se, but if I recall correctly I didn’t appear to be intolerant to gluten.
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Hope you learn the cause soon. I would be very miffed with a doctor telling me it’s gas when I’m in agony. Maybe they are correct but then what is the nature of the gas…
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Same. A guy at the ER even tried to guilt trip me for not having gone to my doctor and rather straight to the ER and I was like, “dude I can’t stand straight for how much pain I am in, what do you think my doctor was gonna do other than scheduling an appointment with a specialist for another day.”
I have suffered from irritable bowel for as long as I can remember, even thought diarrhea and the other common symptoms (even the gut pain you normally experience) were nothing like the pain I’ve experienced this time. Gas may be due to the high amounts of diet soda I had been drinking every day, which I cut abruptly ever since the last episode. I have also been told to take priobiotics.
Anyway, this vaccine is for something else. It’s a totally unrelated issue, or at least appears to be so, that I’ve had for about five years now. Basically my nose is constantly stuffed. I have difficulties breathing through it, and sometimes I can’t smell things to well. It’s kinda like constantly having a cold, if you can imagine that.
I had been given a cortison based spray last summer and that partly alleviated the issue for a whole.
Either way, last year I went to a doctor for my gut issues and I got allergies and intolerances tested. I came out to be intolerant to milk protein, and allergic to acarus. We figured the latter might be the cause for my nose issues, so we decided to get me vaccined.
So yeah, two separate issues but I kinda got onto fixing one while investigating the other.
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Today I had something close to a decent workout for the very first time in almost a month. Not that I didn’t work out the other times, but this time I trained with a guy that managed to get his hands on a pair of 12kg/26lb dumbbells which was like dreaming after weeks on end of bands only and a fake barbell.
Here’s what we did:
Pullups + 12kg (really hadn’t done any weighted pullups in a long time)
8 sets of 3
Pullups with band
3 sets to failure (10-15 reps)
Hammer curls
4 sets to failure
1 set to failure + forced reps (did them one arm at a time helping with the other arm) + dropset to 8 kg dumbbell to failure + forced reps + a few reps with a light band to finish them off
Lateral raises
3 sets to failure with 12 kg, the last one having an added rest pause
I feel like I did some damage, even with very limited equipment. I will start training with this guy more often, together with a couple other friends of mine. Gyms are still closed, but parks are open, so we just go to one that has some pullup and dip bars. In addition to today’s workout, yesterday we did a dip based session. I tried dips with a band for the first time and they were brutal. I’m definitely a fan now.
I’ve always trained alone and had little interaction at the gym with other people. I hate training at home; so having to actually drive to a place, meet other people, maybe even socializing a bit in the process, makes me motivated to do something that otherwise right now I’d be struggling BIG TIME getting to do. So I’m really thankful to the people I’ve been training with, because they unknowingly are making this so much easier and better for me.
I also just remembered I have a 10kg/22lb weighted vest in my garage that I think it’s time to take out again. I think that with the equipment we are putting all together (bands, vests, dumbbells, pullup and dip bars) we can still make something pretty awesome happen even absent of gyms. And when they do open again, it’s time to crush the real weights again.
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Hi samsul
I’m sorry to hear about your gut issues, you put in so much effort, I hope you can solve what’s going on. Have you tried the stomach acid test, it sounds like you might benefit from HCL and pepsin. Also black seed oil pills could make you feel better, I think It’s something to look into. For me HCL and pepsin was life changing. It can be kinda expensive depending on the dose and source but it’s worth every penny
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Nope, haven’t. I’ll look into that, thank you for the suggestion
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This time I definitely lost all motivation to train.
But I think that’s okay.
With gyms closed, for the last month I’d been training in a park. Now the weather has gotten considerably worse, it’s raining all the time. Last time I went to the park the spot with pullup and dip bars was completely submerged with water. It looked like a pool more than anything else.
Add to that the fact that, for the past three days, I’ve barely eaten anything becase I wasn’t feeling well. In fact, yesterday I had a little fever, some nausea and shivers. And with the past issues I had, I will never try and force food down when I’m not feeling like eating.
Last but not least, I have a lot of mental stress going on due to an ongoing familiy issue, and I have college exams in 10 days so there’s a lot of studying happening these days.
As a result, I haven’t trained since Wednesday and even then, it was a very mediocre workout as I didn’t have access to pretty much any equipment.
I lost 5 kg / 11 lb since gyms closed, but I only look a tiny bit leaner, so I’m afraid I lost more muscle than anything else. Sure, water and glycogen too, but still…
The only thing that keeps my hopes high is the fact that, realistically, in about a month this nightmare will be over and I’ll be back in the gym. Looking at the very-long term is what really saves me here: eventually I’ll be back and so will my muscle. But still, seeing all the hard work of 5 years vanish like that in a couple of months is really depressing.
But, at the same time, I cannot be more than only mildly annoyed at all this, since as I’m typing this on my computer, I’m sitting on a chair in my living room, with heat and food, and I have a place to sleep at night. So life could be a whole lot worse and sometimes I feel silly for even being bothered with ranting.
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You will come back bigger and stronger. John McCallum and Marty Gallagher both talk about the value of time away to “soften up” before making big gains.
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I’ve seen a lot of cases where people seemed to put muscle they had previously lost back on really fast. I bet long term it’ll hardly make any difference and maybe as a bonus you’ll be able to make a big transformation and impress everyone.
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I haven’t seen the inside of a gym since March!
You know it’s objectively false that your muscles and strength disappear within a short couple of months. Sure, it may take a couple of weeks/a month or two to come back to where you were, but it isn’t gone, and as others said you’ll probably be far stronger coming back once you get going.
In any case, I feel that it is critically important to learn to not stress over things that you have no control over and to figure out what you can do with the situation you have.
If you want a goal to work towards while out of the gym, perhaps consider learning basic gymnastic floor moves? They probably won’t make you bigger and stronger, but handstands and l-sits aren’t stuff that weak people can do either.
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I’m so sorry to hear what you’re going through. I hope you feel better soon.
As the other, more qualified posters, have said, you’ll get back in no time. Your base is incredible.
We believe in you!
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Thank you all guys for your support. It’s nice to see that somebody cares. In fact, that’s really one of the best things you can wish for.
I can’t wait to be back and get better than I was before!
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