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Are you considered a bitch if you use the hexbar, instead of just the regular bar to dead lift?
>just started lifting this year
>my form for dead lifts has gotten better, but still not perfect
>tried hexbar for first time after someone recommended it
>can lift more/ do more reps easily
>back never comes close to curling
>>36705313
it's not a deadlift if yr using the hexbar faget
>>36705329
This, a hexbar deadlift, is closer to a leg press than to an actual deadlift, not that it isn't useful, but it just isn't the best substitute.
Hexbar basically turns the movement into a poor man's squat.
Deload your dealift weight and improve your technique, faggot.
4 year lifter here, I have a question about cardio.
If I do HIIT for 15minutes or so, or run for 30minutes, my lifting suffers greatly, but I can walk for 2+ hours non-stop and lift the same day without any loss in performance in the gym with lifting.
Why is this the case? It can't be calories burnt, because I am burning more calories in 2 hours of walking, than I am with 15minutes of HIIT or 30minutes of running. So what exactly is it about HIIT and running that fucks up my lifting performance?
Because HIIT and running ups your heart rate and walking doesn't as much.
Why would you want to walk for 2 hours?
>>36704327
>Because HIIT and running ups your heart rate and walking doesn't as much.
How does that impact performance on lifting though? There's gotta be another explaination, like HIIT/Running must use the same "training patterns" as lifting does..maybe? Like ATP or whatever? Where as walking doesn't use ATP...? I dunno.
>Why would you want to walk for 2 hours?
Because I like taking long walks, helps with...
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Muscles get damaged when put under exertion. When that happens performance drops.
What's so hard to understand?
>going to the gym for years and still nervous every single time
What kind of nervous?
>>36703855
BABY SHARK DOOT DOO
>>36703875
social anxiety nervous
>started my first bulk as a skinny fat 165lb 3 months ago
>184lb, still dyel by /fit/ standards
>come into work, working with people I haven't seen in about two months
>"wow anon you look great!", "You really bulked up!", "watch I'm not gonna work with you for another month and the next time I see you you'll be twice as jacked!"
t-thanks /fit/
>Haven't seen oeople in like 6-8 months
>wow youre huge!
>reminds me if how small i was and still am
What the fuck, how can i stop being such a little puss
>>36702522
Pics?
>tfw go to uni far from home
>be obese
>start working out and watching my diet beginning of the semester
>dropping weight like it's my job
>will have dropped at least around 50 lbs when I go back home
>gone from obese to healthy weight
>haven't told anyone back home that i'm doing this
I'm not there yet, I still have 15 lbs...
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