AndyJ's Body Enhancement Thread

I set the weights so I can do three sets of ten. I started with very low weights and worked up due to arthritis. Now I’m slowly adding weight since I have the arthritis thing mostly licked.

I’m still working for "tone". At some point I’ll have to take a look at some of the muscle-building stuff. The fashion seems to be for more weight and fewer reps now, but I still have a fair way to go before I can lift a meaningful amount of weight.

The keyword would be "accessory"?

Thanks, I’ll snag a copy.

Last year I was using crutches to get around. I’ve only been able to give up the cane in a couple of months ago. I’m not exactly fired with enthusiasm for the idea of walking with extra weight, but I’m open to a reasoned explanation.

Several people have recommended him in other threads, but he jerks around like he has Tourettes or something, and he babbles. He might be trying to say something profound, but after a few minutes I’m too annoyed to pay any further attention.

Strength training is more weight less reps, bodybuilding is more reps less weight.

Yeah whatever exercise + accessory.

Hopefully you’ll hit the point where carrying more weight seems like a good idea.

Yeah Athlean-X guy can be annoying but he has specific videos on exercises that are mostly called “don’t do x like that do it like this”.

I did miss that point in your post I just seen deadlift and had a freak out. Still, anything where you are bending from the hips needs special attention to ensure the back posture is perfect. The cause might be something else though it’s just about trying to work it out. Some times someone might say something that sparks a thought or you already have what they say covered.

Followed him few years back. Once it was revealed he used fake weights for his deadlift max vids etc. I never saw another video again.
If he cheats/lie in something so pointless just for his own ego, cant trust another word such person says.

Progressive overload is all you need to aim for. That can be done in thousands of ways.
For example more reps than last time, more weight, slower reps, supersets, and this list goes on and on

Basically you should get "better" in a long run and once you hit a wall (could be months, even years) deload is in order.

I absolutely applaud you your efforts AndyJ is what Im trying to say.
Consistency is king (as is with PE).

You are better of doing little day in, day out than go hard core once in a while.
Most important is to have fun and to acctually enjoy what you are doing. If you enjoy it, you will stick with it.

Absolutely. Hey, at least I was able to tell that I was doing it wrong!

I guess I shouldn’t have been surprised that you can hurt yourself with something as simple as a barbell.

Real Life(tm): "Hold my beer and watch this!"

Yes. It happens often enough in this very thread. Something that looks like a random comment sometimes has an entirely different meaning when going back and looking at it later.

That’s how I’ve been doing it. I’m averaging five days a week.

To start with, everything *hurt*. Now, I actually feel good afterward. I’d seen people talk about that, but I figured they were crazy.

Eugene Teo, is great at even takes into consideration one’s age, physical conditions and differences in body structure when explaining his workouts. He is particularly enlightening, check him out.

You can still get plenty strong with sets of 10. I’m 62 so now I don’t like going lower than 7 reps.

10-4.

My weak area is still mostly joints, so I’ll be doing 3x10s for a while.

6-29-2023:

BPEL: 7.0"
MEG: 6.0"
BPFSL: 8-1/8"
glans: 4.5"

07-12-2023:

BPEL: 7.25"
MEG: 6.13"
glans: 4.57"

Yay… WTF? …no. I wish.

Better-than-usual EQ while measuring probably accounts for the glans, girth, and a tiny amount of the length.

I’m down to 231# now, and the fat pad is thinner and squishier. I think the miraculous quarter inch in length is due to that. And the gains last time, too. I’ve been doing whole-body measurements for over a year, and the tape says I lose size in one spot, then another. Lately it seems to have been the fat pad.

My fat pad was too thick to measure is any repeatable way; I haven’t even tried in a long time. I guess I need to look up the procedure for that. I’ve also been doing the DIY cryolipolysis thing in the pubic area; it’s about time for the effects from the last cycle to show up.

Any gains are unlikely to be from PE work; all I’ve done for the last couple of months is my usual pumping, and I had to take a break from that for a while to let some blisters heal completely.

Two hours of pushing Mr. Lawnmower under a ‘heat advisory’, then 3x10 overhead presses and 3x10 curls. About that time I heard thunder as a storm rolled in, so I went back to the house to shut down the computers. Unfortunately, after walking into the air conditioning my enthusiasm for going back out and back to the weights evaporated. I took a shower and then a three-hour nap.

Form on the overheads was much better. I guess it just takes practice I had some discomfort in the right elbow with the curl bar, but I couldn’t even rightfully call it a twinge.