Everyone wants capped delts. Nobody wants to do overhead presses.

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Everyone wants capped delts. Nobody wants to do overhead presses.

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20 hours ago, 11:50 AM

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Mirin srs, looking thick solid tight . At 36 seconds, I can’t do those rows because it enflames my tennis elbow bigly. I still do them but have to turn the dumbbells in my hands so it looks a bit like a hammer curl , but I have to adapt .

Day off today and tomorrow, cardio only , then push legs pull .

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19 hours ago, 12:33 PM

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Originally Posted By MajorTendonitis⏩

Mirin srs, looking thick solid tight . At 36 seconds, I can’t do those rows because it enflames my tennis elbow bigly. I still do them but have to turn the dumbbells in my hands so it looks a bit like a hammer curl , but I have to adapt .

Day off today and tomorrow, cardio only , then push legs pull .

Thank you. 💪🏻💪🏻

Remind me: did you ever try BPC 157/TB 500?

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19 hours ago, 12:35 PM

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Originally Posted By DrewDarden⏩

Thank you. 💪🏻💪🏻

Remind me: did you ever try BPC 157/TB 500?

Not sure . The 157 seems familiar but I’d have to look again . Maybe I better get on this , as things are burning like a beotch still . I bought an expensive sleeve ,but it’s not doing f all that I can tell

I’m winning though . That XX belt from Rouge that I bought for squatting is almost too big , and won’t go any smaller , so o may have to order an XL .
Numerous people have mentioned it looks as though I’ve lost weight , but mostly in my shoulders and chest lol . I actually noticed I lost a lot of muscle in those areas to , but my strength is increasing so whatever.

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19 hours ago, 12:38 PM

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Originally Posted By MajorTendonitis⏩

Not sure . The 157 seems familiar but I’d have to look again . Maybe I better get on this , as things are burning like a beotch still . I bought an expensive sleeve ,but it’s not doing f all that I can tell

You’d remember. It’s a daily injection.

In my opinion, it is absolutely worth considering.

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19 hours ago, 12:40 PM

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Originally Posted By DrewDarden⏩

You’d remember. It’s a daily injection.

In my opinion, it is absolutely worth considering.

Ok my bad ,I thought it was the power (which probably does F all) .
Srs I’m not really into injections , and doubtful it’s available in Canada

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19 hours ago, 12:45 PM

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Originally Posted By MajorTendonitis⏩

Ok my bad ,I thought it was the power (which probably does F all) .
Srs I’m not really into injections , and doubtful it’s available in Canada

I think I got to the bottom of my tendonitis. It was from carrying heavy wood with my arm extended (like an over/ under grip). If you're carrying material like that it can flair it up

19 hours ago, 12:49 PM

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Originally Posted By LDARidonot⏩

I think I got to the bottom of my tendonitis. It was from carrying heavy wood with my arm extended (like an over/ under grip). If you're carrying material like that it can flair it up

Well jackhammering for a few days and lifting up 5 gallon buckets of concrete made my tendonitis come back bigly. Stupid fk that I am , I could have paid these kids I know to do it and avoided all this nonsense.
To think if I spent three to four hundred dollars on labour that I probably wouldn’t have diabetes right now as I would have been active at the time .
Dun goofed majorly , and now I’m fked . Don’t mind dieting and having nothing good , but it’s the no bing drinking I fking miss srs

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19 hours ago, 12:57 PM

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Originally Posted By MajorTendonitis⏩

Well jackhammering for a few days and lifting up 5 gallon buckets of concrete made my tendonitis come back bigly. Stupid fk that I am , I could have paid these kids I know to do it and avoided all this nonsense.
To think if I spent three to four hundred dollars on labour that I probably wouldn’t have diabetes right now as I would have been active at the time .
Dun goofed majorly , and now I’m fked . Don’t mind dieting and having nothing good to, but it’s the no bing drinking I fking hate srs

It's crazy because when you're doing the work, it seems like the type of work that would build you up, and in some ways it does. But it's just so damn awkward that if you have a susceptible joint it will aggravate it.
As far as the diabetes, it sounds like you're controlling it pretty well without insulin. Perhaps 'marginal diabetes'. Keep controlling it and losing weight, maybe it will get even more manageable.

19 hours ago, 01:00 PM

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Originally Posted By LDARidonot⏩

It's crazy because when you're doing the work, it seems like the type of work that would build you up, and in some ways it does. But it's just so damn awkward that if you have a susceptible joint it will aggravate it.
As far as the diabetes, it sounds like you're controlling it pretty well without insulin. Perhaps 'marginal diabetes'. Keep controlling it and losing weight, maybe it will get even more manageable.

No insulin bruh srs . They thought that at first , but as soon as I changed my diet and exercised again everything is fine . Just can’t eat anything with sugar, so that leaves about 99.9 % of all the food unavailable in the grocery store .’you can have most vegetables though lol .

Also glad I can see again. I thought I was going blind from porn, but it turns out it was the high blood sugar.
And yes the more weight you lose and the more muscle you gain is extremely beneficial for diabetes type 2 . The doctors actually recommend resistance training.
But I want to build beer towers once in a while , and unfortunately alcohol destroys pancreas cells, so binge drinking is super detrimental

Diabetes is definitely rope fuel tbh . Surprised more haven’t

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Originally Posted By MajorTendonitis⏩

No insulin bruh srs . They thought that at first , but as soon as I changed my diet and exercised again everything is fine . Just can’t eat anyt7with sugar, so that leaves about 99.9 % of all the food unavailable in the grocery store .’you can have most vegetables though lol .

Also glad I can see again. I thought I was going blind from porn, but it turns out it was the high blood sugar

Broccoli and cheese never hurt no one. Or some well-seasoned asparagus, tomatoe, or bell pepper. Dropping weight would probably be what you want though. Sorry it took me awhile to respond, keep getting pulled. Alcohol sucks. I was sleeping and dreamed I was dying the other night.

18 hours ago, 02:03 PM

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Originally Posted By LDARidonot⏩

Broccoli and cheese never hurt no one. Or some well-seasoned asparagus, tomatoe, or bell pepper. Dropping weight would probably be what you want though. Sorry it took me awhile to respond, keep getting pulled. Alcohol sucks. I was sleeping and dreamed I was dying the other night.

Ya I’m losing weight , and haven’t been at 245 for a few decades . Although my strength is increasing , it looks like I’m losing muscle to , as 4 different people mentioned my shoulders and chest seem smaller lol .
End game is to get under 200 pounds . I don’t eat anything that elevates my blood sugar , so it shouldn’t be too difficult . Obviously it’s going to take time though and not happen overnight

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Originally Posted By MajorTendonitis⏩

Ya I’m losing weight , and haven’t been at 245 for a few decades . Although my strength is increasing , it looks like I’m losing muscle to , as 4 different people mentioned my shoulders and chest seem smaller lol .
End game is to get under 200 pounds . I don’t eat anything that elevates my blood sugar , so it shouldn’t be too difficult . Obviously it’s going to take time though and not happen overnight

Losing muscle is part of the game. As long as I've been in it, we gain and we lose, to gain again another day.

It does take time. Definitely not an overnight process, but months that can be measured in weeks, sometimes days.

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this is true i want capped delts but i get shoulder pain pressing at certain angles so i need to be careful and do lots of warming up

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Originally Posted By LAHipster1⏩

this is true i want capped delts but i get shoulder pain pressing at certain angles so i need to be careful and do lots of warming up

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How are your serratus anterior? If they aren't good or you don't know what I'm talking about, maybe try incorporating some pushups. They work to tilt the scapula back when the arms are raised overhead, keeping the humurous happy with plenty of room.

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Originally Posted By LDARidonot⏩

How are your serratus anterior? If they aren't good or you don't know what I'm talking about, maybe try incorporating some pushups. They work to tilt the scapula back when the arms are raised overhead, keeping the humurous happy with plenty of room.

interesting will try

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Originally Posted By LAHipster1⏩

interesting will try

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Fuark yea mane, I've had problems with one of my shoulders (the kind where you sleep on it wrong and think you need some advil). Not only doing pushups, but also doing side lying lateral raises (for the supraspinatus [part of the rotator cuff]), relieved me of my shoulder problems.

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Originally Posted By LAHipster1⏩

interesting will try

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And for my part, my question would be:

How do you balance your pressing/pulling?

A couple of concepts that I tend to generally follow:

1. Generally balance overhead pressing with flat/incline pressing. Pretty self-explanatory. I wouldn’t go hog wild with flat bench pressing and not use any other angles.

2. Generally balance horizontal pressing patterns with horizontal pulling patterns and vertical pressing patterns with vertical pulling patterns. In other words, if I do 50 reps of bench pressing over a given timeframe, I do about 50 reps of rows. Likewise, if I do 50 reps of overhead pressing, I generally balance that with 50 reps of pull downs/pull-ups.

That’s not to say that I have perfect shoulders by any means. I have my share of shoulder issues that you might expect from someone lifting weights for as long as I’ve been. But I’m generally able to work through/around it.

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Originally Posted By DrewDarden⏩

And for my part, my question would be:

How do you balance your pressing/pulling?

A couple of concepts that I tend to generally follow:

1. Generally balance overhead pressing with flat/incline pressing. Pretty self-explanatory. I wouldn’t go hog wild with flat bench pressing and not use any other angles.

2. Generally balance horizontal pressing patterns with horizontal pulling patterns and vertical pressing patterns with vertical pulling patterns. In other words, if I do 50 reps of bench pressing over a given timeframe, I do about 50 reps of rows. Likewise, if I do 50 reps of overhead pressing, I generally balance that with 50 reps of pull downs/pull-ups.

That’s not to say that I have perfect shoulders by any means. I have my share of shoulder issues that you might expect from someone lifting weights for as long as I’ve been. But I’m generally able to work through/around it.

thanks a lot drew very good info here

yes i think similar i try to match flat presses with equal volume of pulls most often machine rows

i don't do much vertical pressing tbh i can still do pull ups pain free if i warm up

if i warm up i'm mostly ok

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Originally Posted By DrewDarden⏩

And for my part, my question would be:

How do you balance your pressing/pulling?

A couple of concepts that I tend to generally follow:

1. Generally balance overhead pressing with flat/incline pressing. Pretty self-explanatory. I wouldn’t go hog wild with flat bench pressing and not use any other angles.

2. Generally balance horizontal pressing patterns with horizontal pulling patterns and vertical pressing patterns with vertical pulling patterns. In other words, if I do 50 reps of bench pressing over a given timeframe, I do about 50 reps of rows. Likewise, if I do 50 reps of overhead pressing, I generally balance that with 50 reps of pull downs/pull-ups.

That’s not to say that I have perfect shoulders by any means. I have my share of shoulder issues that you might expect from someone lifting weights for as long as I’ve been. But I’m generally able to work through/around it.

Good info. I definitely didn't want to overstep. I get excited sometimes. You know how I am. I did some bench, drop-set lat pulldowns, seated OHP, lying lateral raises, and barbell curls.

It felt way better than last time. The body made some adaptations (less nausea, sweat, and fatigue).

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Originally Posted By LDARidonot⏩

Good info. I definitely didn't want to overstep. I get excited sometimes. You know how I am. I did some bench, drop-set lat pulldowns, seated OHP, lying lateral raises, and barbell curls.

It felt way better than last time. The body made some adaptations (less nausea, sweat, and fatigue).

I appreciate your posts. I make these threads specifically to talk about lifting with people who lift weights. 💪🏼💪🏼