What was your “DAMN I’M GETTING STRONG” moment?
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most people are out of breath even taking the stairs, you are a superhero!@justin_holmes I started doing BJJ and I don't know how long after, less then a year I'd gone from being on the higher end of my bmi to the low end. I was getting stronger as well. The time it hit me. Some idiot parked their van right next to the bike rack, meaning I had to lift my bike over my head to get it out and around the car. I decided to try it myself first before I asked the guys. I lifted my bike over my head like it was nothing and I was amazed at myself!
As for recently. I've started taking bouldering more seriously. I just can't find a martial art class that will take me. I've got 20 years experience, black belts and it's hard to find a traditional club that's decent and will allow me to just train with them. So I'm now bouldering twice a week. I struggle badly because I have little to no grip with my left hand (nerve and tissue damage) but I've gone from doing V0s and maybe one or two V1s to topping nearly all the V1s and I've now topped a V2 and a V3 in the last week. I started climbing twice a week at the end of September. I'm so proud of myself! I did a cave climb on Wednesday and because I can now heel hook, I've been able to stick to the ceiling and move a little up there!!! My left hand can't do left dominant climbs, especially underhooks, but I'm still improving. I started a V4 last week and two weeks before got half way through a V5 (the start wasn't easy)!
As for recently. I've started taking bouldering more seriously. I just can't find a martial art class that will take me. I've got 20 years experience, black belts and it's hard to find a traditional club that's decent and will allow me to just train with them. So I'm now bouldering twice a week. I struggle badly because I have little to no grip with my left hand (nerve and tissue damage) but I've gone from doing V0s and maybe one or two V1s to topping nearly all the V1s and I've now topped a V2 and a V3 in the last week. I started climbing twice a week at the end of September. I'm so proud of myself! I did a cave climb on Wednesday and because I can now heel hook, I've been able to stick to the ceiling and move a little up there!!! My left hand can't do left dominant climbs, especially underhooks, but I'm still improving. I started a V4 last week and two weeks before got half way through a V5 (the start wasn't easy)!
changed_angel
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@justin_holmes When I carried three watermelons at once.
reginald_ringor
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@changed_angel How’d you manage the grip 
changed_angel
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@reginald_ringor One under each arm and one in the middle balanced with my hands.
reginald_ringor
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@changed_angel You must have long arms :O
justin_holmes
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@changed_angel I could only carry 3 watermelons into my mouth :,D
@justin_holmes I picked up my 230lb+ coworker and walked around with him at a party.
justin_holmes
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@endriu888 HAHA I LOVE THIS ONE for some reason I’m imagining Angela carrying Kevin from The Office
@justin_holmes Slinging a 50 lb bag of chicken feed on my shoulder like it was nothing, and then paying with it still up there felt pretty awesome.
@justin_holmes First big one was when I started warming up with the bar and was like... This can't be the right bar, it's too light. (It was the right bar.)
@justin_holmes being able to do a pull-up! a real full from dead hang all the way up and down pull-up. goddamn. it took me so long to get one, now can do several in a row! never fails to give me a kick
@oj1990 I went through the progressions here! http://www.startbodyweight.com/p/pull-up-progression.html?m=1
3x week, 3 sets of 4-8 adding one rep each time and when you get to 3x8 then move to next progression
3x week, 3 sets of 4-8 adding one rep each time and when you get to 3x8 then move to next progression
@justin_holmes I was easily able to hoist 50 lb bags of river rock from the ground to straight arm overhead and carry them to where they needed to go
@justin_holmes I went to get my usual quarterly massage and had a different masseuse than usual, who said "Are you an athlete? Your quads are kind of tender."
Silly but I was honored lol.
Silly but I was honored lol.
0834691644
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@dawn16 I love these questions.
At my check up a few years ago, my doctor asked if I was an athlete (I am not) since my resting heart rate was very low and I said I "just workout a lot." She did the normal abdominal exam and joint exam and she just kept saying "wow, you really do." And she just kept poking my abs and quads, going "wow".
Best compliments, especially since I was a chunky kid growing up and was reminded of it repeatedly every doctors appointment.
At my check up a few years ago, my doctor asked if I was an athlete (I am not) since my resting heart rate was very low and I said I "just workout a lot." She did the normal abdominal exam and joint exam and she just kept saying "wow, you really do." And she just kept poking my abs and quads, going "wow".
Best compliments, especially since I was a chunky kid growing up and was reminded of it repeatedly every doctors appointment.
justin_holmes
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@justin_holmes I did an ultra this summer and was starving but in good spirits at the end. The other times I’ve been hungry and grouchy - so hungry and happy was pretty cool.