Read this before you squat
Absolutely keep exploding. How explosively you press shouldn’t impact much, if at all, on elbow pain. It’s more to do with the stresses placed on the elbow by how you position it and the parts connected to it.
Dips I’ve never had many issues with in terms of elbows. Probably the main thing to be aware of would be controlling the descent enough not to jar your elbows at the bottom.
Thanks MarkKO!
Worked on that today, the article was extensive and I wasn’t sure if I was doing it right.
C Day
Squats:
95-95-95-95-95
Focusing on form
Lunges (In Steps):
With 40 lbs:
12-12-12-12-12
If your elbows felt better, you were doing it right.
My elbows never hurt in the squats, only in the dumbbell press and lat pulldowns and sometimes the dips.
HAving said that, my elbows did feel better today tho still a bit of pain.
A Day
Incline Dumbbells:
15-20-25(6)
Dips (Counter Weight):
90-80-70-60-50
Plate Raises:
10-10-10-10-10
Pullovers:
20-25-35
*strained
Hey guys, long time no see. Been away from the gym for a LONG time trying to get my business and finances handled. I’ve gone to the gym sporadically but nothing consistent.
The reason I’m here today is to address a diet thing.
I mostly eat healthy. Always whole foods, never fast food, no sugars etc.
Earlier this year my digestive system decided it was going to rebel against all gluten and dairy. That was a bad time. But now I eat “healthier” than ever. Only gluten free bread, kefir for the digestion, chicken breasts, almonds, and bananas (that’s pretty much all I eat save for fast food when I’m in a hurry, which isn’t often).
HOWEVER, I always feel out of it. Like never enough calories, and like I’m on the verge of fainting. It doesn’t feel healthy to eat healthy.
Now, the reason for this post, is because a few weeks ago a guy I know bought me a chicken meal. Greasy fried chicken, greasy salty fries, and a pepsi for the drink. When I ate it, I felt like superman. Like I was invincible. Tons of energy that lasted me the whole rest of the day (I didn’t eat anything after that dinner)and even till 1pm the next day I wasn’t hungry and felt like I could move mountains.
It got me questioning the whole “eat healthy” thing. I mean, eating healthy has me feeling like I’m one skipped meal away from death, while eating unhealthy has me feeling like I’m invincible. I’ve started eating these chicken meals more because of how they boost me and my logic is: whatever feels better is better.
Thoughts?
Your “eating healthy” clearly isn’t providing you with enough calories and/or vitamins and minerals.
If this really is your diet:
Then you’re deficient in about a zillion things. Seriously too many to even list.
Yeah makes sense. I can’t eat a whole lot though because no gluten, no dairy, no peanuts, and I don’t make enough money to go hog wild on the veggies and other shit.
I’ve also been told too much fructose is bad, so that’s most fruits. No corn either. Tubers are supposedly bad for you, same with beans, etc. All the “healthy” advice seems to whittle my edibles down to the list I have here.
This still leaves literally thousands of food options.
Vegetables are hardly expensive. If it’s important to you then you’ll make it a priority.
It’s incredibly difficult to get too much fructose from fruit. Seriously, nobody ever became less healthy from eating fruit. You don’t need to worry about it. It is possible to get too much fructose from high fructose corn syrup that they put in processed foods, but you shouldn’t be eating that shit anyway.
There are still, for all intents and purposes, an infinite number of vegetables you could be eating, several dozen different protein sources (beef, turkey, pork, fish, eggs), and a huge variety of fats which you should absolutely be consuming.
I’m the king of minimalist diets, but the idea that the 4 foods you are consuming are the only healthy ones is just silly.
Well since you put it that way I guess I can add some fruit. But diet has long been a problem of mine because everything with high calories is on my “can’t eat” list. And I need a LOT of calories being ectomorph. Milk, peanuts, cashews, bread (with gluten). What’s left? Olive oil? Can’t drink olive oil in large quantities. Almond milk doesn’t have enough calories to justify the price, can’t eat cheese, I do eat mashed potatoes when I can. Sweet potatoes take too long to prepare, etc.
Also, vegetables don’t have calories, and to eat enough calories from fruit I’m sure would be bad.
I’ll add some fruit though for sure.
So ground beef is on your can’t eat list? Chicken thighs? Butter?
No, but you can use large quantities of it when you cook.
Literally 5 minutes in a microwave.
Are you this shitty and pathetic in all aspects of your life, or do you save your excuses purely for your physique goals?
In addition to Yogi’s comments. Rice with Chicken pan fried in tons of olive oil was a staple of mine in college.
Breakfast was 4 eggs, cheese and a bagel.
And before you say it takes too much time and costs too much… I worked full time, went to school full time and was a collegiate athlete. I paid for my own school and living expenses.
I might have spent $50-75 every two weeks on food.
Ground beef takes too long. I already eat chicken breasts as I mentioned. Last I checked Butter was dairy, which I can’t eat.
I’ll add the olive oil but it’s gonna take more than that.
I normally eat rice but I’m out of town and don’t have access to a rice cooker, and I wouldn’t want to eat unhealthy “instrant” rice now would I?
Fuck you too.
Actually I was going to say that like I stated previously, I can’t eat gluten or dairy so I can’t eat cheese or bagels.
I should mention I also eat peanut butter sometimes. For some reason I puke up peanuts but peanut butter seems ok.
What universe do you live in where this is the case? You realise it cooks faster than chicken breast, yeah? I’m curious as to what your life is like where you can’t afford vegetables or sacrifice the time to spend 5 minutes cooking some ground beef.
You mean the packets of microwave rice? Why would that be unhealthy? It’s just rice…
But you wouldn’t fuck me, would you? You’d be like “waaaa I can’t afford lube, my pectus excavatum means I can’t bang properly, getting off takes too long…”
I think you suck, and, deep down, I think you know you do too. I might actually feel sorry for you but your attitude is so snivelling and passive/aggressive that I relish, I absolutely fucking relish, how much you suck.
Every whiny post where you say you don’t have the time for this, or you can’t afford that, or you can’t do this because of whatever, you get weaker as a person and I love every god damn second of it.
So please: post more. Post much more so I can continue to derive the sick, twisted, almost sexual pleasure I get from knowing there are humans out there as defeatist and pointless as you.
It fuelssssss me. Yesssss. Posssssst much more, pleassssssse. Yogi likesssss it.
But yet…
I have NEVER seen greasy fried chicken that wasn’t dipped in flour and battered! EVvvver.
Pretty sure the problem is not gluten.
Thanks Yogi. Flagged.
I didn’t eat the skin, just the greasy meat.
Other than that no idea why it wouldn’t affect me like bread was. Or maybe it was a combo of bread and milk I dunno.
Quoted in case you try to edit it out. Thanks for stopping by.
You’re a dick, dude.
Lots of people have tried to help you. All you do is come up with excuses why you can’t do things.
You really do suck, and it’s completely on you.
I’m even out and I’ve tried to help you for over two years. You might be the laziest lil shit I’ve seen. You don’t want to succeed, you want to be justified in your current pathetic state.
What’s funny is that currently I’m working on my business and sleeping in my car. A sacrifice I needed to make to see this thing through. Yet you guys had no idea and assume I’m lazy based on legitimate health issues I have. You’ve all been flagged.