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@questionsforthepotter Oooooh I have mini bands and can imagine some push downs would be a great warm up, thanks for this idea

@nyar 🙏 thank you. You’re right, I should not/will not assume this will fix itself. I’ll educate myself more on elbows. I really don’t want an injury.

@beefreetwo Hi Turtle, no low bar squats currently but they are in my new program I’m starting this week so I will keep an eye on it, ty

@jbrad01x Thanks for the sub recommendation—I’ll look for it now

@silas0307 A moderate deficit (250-500 cals, instead of 500-1000) gives you the energy to lift heavy so you’ll primarily lose fat as you lose weight. It’s slower and therefore many people don’t like to do it but it’s more sustainable: since you lost it slowly, that means you modified your diet...

@mirofox Girl, you’re kicking butt! (you’re definitely kicking my butt). Sounds like other people’s advice to work on a cut is more relevant for your case.

@shirl I like the 10 and 4 suggestion—had not considered the wrist position. I will dial down accessory moves and focus on compound lifts. Thanks for taking the time on these involved recos

@predrag TIL that skull crushers might be my elbow nemesis. Super appreciate everyone who mentioned skull crushers to me!

@rapture99 NOTED! I will pay more attention to form on triceps. I’m doing ez bar skull crushers at the moment so both hands are working. Will see if I can tell if that’s a problem and maybe sub out single arm triceps exercises. Thx

@amn I’m doing ez bar skull crushers lately—will swap those out and see if it helps. Will pay attention to elbow position and be sure to lock out. Ty!!!

@amn Thank you. I really appreciate your response. I do change my programming every 8 weeks (your 3rd bullet) so I’ll look at scheduling a deload week (1st bullet) and I’ll do some research on changing up the range of motion (4th bullet) since I don’t know anything about that. I’ll also try to...

@pilgrimparson Elbow sleeves! Another thing I didn’t know about and need to learn about! Ty

@steve_yavli Oh shit. That is so obvious and I didn’t think of it. I will look up physical therapy in my health care benefits and see what I qualify for. Thanks!

Hi, all, I’m 52F, been weightlifting 10 months. I’m getting to higher dumbbell weights (yay!) but I’m also having some elbow pain. I assume my joints are slower to adapt to the weight training than my muscles. I’m overall conservative/slow paced in my lifting approach because I want to avoid...

@obet15 What podcasts were convincing to you? If you can re-find them, I’m interested to listen to them. I have a wrist device and have never looked into chest strap HR monitors. How did you choose yours? I’m building my ability to do my zone 2 sessions as running sessions with a run/walk...

@elakhim I heard it from Jordan Syatt on his Instagram account. He describes 12 cals per pound of goal weight as a moderate deficit so that it’s sustainable over time compared to bigger deficits that are hard to stick to or are too low to maintain/grow muscle. He seemed to indicate it works for...

@sunnyday67 I think it is personal to you. If I was overweight and was like, ok I have fat that I want to lose and I wanted to lose 10 pounds to see if I was happy with that version of myself, then I would weigh myself, subtract 10 pounds, then multiply that by 12 (that’s the formula I mentioned...

@basicsacademy I’m wondering if you’re eating enough. I lift weights 4x/week (upper/lower split) and get 10k steps in per day, more if possible. I’m 145 lbs, I maintain weight at 1700-1900 cals/day, try to get 100g of protein per day. I do not think I would have the energy to train eating only...

@calvinabume It’s not just that you feel like you are thinking quicker. I think you actually are thinking quicker. Like you’re firing more synapses and making connections more smoothly without the chemical drag on your systems. Nice! You could look into naltrexone re) alcohol. People use it to...