Fitness instructor explains why we shouldn’t fear the word ‘exercise’ Yahoo Sports
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Monday, October 26, 2020
Sunday, October 25, 2020
Squats and booty growth
Hi all I suspect I have an imbalance related to an old right knee injury. I get left hip pain whenever I exercise, especially after rowing. My massage therapist suggested strengthening my glutes. I’m average weight with a generous butt. I DON’T want my butt to get larger if I start increasing glute strengthening exercises. Is booty growth a myth?
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5/3/1 4B while in a deficit
M/15/6’1/180 lbs
So, I’m essentially a complete beginner, I’m a bit skinnyfat and would like to improve my physique a lot for multiple reasons.
I was recently looking into the 5/3/1 for beginners program and wondering what the effects would be if I followed it, but ate at a deficit while also getting enough protein.
Just curious on how this would all turn out because I’ve tried a good bit of different things and then eventually found out from others that what I was doing wasn’t really optimal at all or good for my goals, which are to become more lean, and then to have a more toned body
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Saturday, October 24, 2020
The dip dilemma
How do you most effectively target the chest during dips? (This is not a beginner question: keep reading)
Almost every fitness expert on youtube says to do dips with legs behind you and leaning forward to target chest and legs in front to target triceps.
For example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yN6Q1UI_xkE
Alternatively "Gironda dips" require you to keep your legs forward to get a deeper stretch and total pec activation.
See this example at 2:00 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vHUx3kQn9aI
When your legs are in front of you, it lets you sink a little bit deeper giving a greater stretch on your pecs without hurting your shoulders as much. Should this be better for chest gains then?
Anecdotally, after trying out the gironda version after a year of doing the legs behind you version I found that the gironda version is able to consistently give me a full chest pump (including upper chest) where as the other version gives me a front delt and lower chest pump. I know pump isn't a measure of effectiveness but when comparing variations of the same exercise it might be providing some insight as to which area of muscle is the focus of each variation.
Can anyone confirm my findings or offer any insight as to which one is the best for chest?
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