Right now… Seeing my physical therapist once a week because my insurance doesn’t cover it so I can’t go more. Then I stretch a lot at home. I pissed something off in my right hip/glute. They think it’s a combo of muscle tightness and my joint being fucky. So far I’m making progress. Before that all went to shit though I was doing 2-3 days a week of 5x5 deadlifts and squats, the first 2 sets warming up. Starting with lower weight then increase for the next then one more increase to my main weight. Then once a week I do overhead press working to 4 sets of 10 reps then increase and work back to those 4x10. I do the same with bench presses. This seems to work better for my upper body muscles and the lower rep higher weight seems more preferable to my lower body and core. I also do curls and currently are doing 4x10 twice a week with 34s. 34 because I made dumbbells out of concrete filled gallon cans formed around steel bars. Going to be making some 40s soon. I’m also working on pull ups. Can’t currently do many using proper form so it’s a work in progress. I also diy all my weight plates out of concrete, refurbished brake disks, and epoxy. Might post some pics sometime as I am very proud and don’t show them off outside of Hexbear. lol
Hell yeah comrade, we’d love to see your progress.
Its the same for me, low reps high weight, till I hit failure, then move to lighter weights. I’d be interested to see how you do the DIY weights… so far I’ve just been using cheap dumbbells.
https://files.catbox.moe/o3uhh9.jpg
Here’s a quick snip of my dumbbells. Pretty self explanatory concrete in one can, stick the bar in, cures. Made a rig to hold it upside down so the bar sits inside the other can as that concrete cured.
https://files.catbox.moe/7kj7sb.jpg
And these are some 35lb weight plates. 2inch pvc in the center fits perfectly around the end of an Olympic style barbell. Concrete in the drum then epoxy and BBs in the heat vents to even the weight. Use a shipping scale to get the weight exact. Each ones withing 0.01 of each other and their target weight.
Right now… Seeing my physical therapist once a week because my insurance doesn’t cover it so I can’t go more. Then I stretch a lot at home. I pissed something off in my right hip/glute. They think it’s a combo of muscle tightness and my joint being fucky. So far I’m making progress. Before that all went to shit though I was doing 2-3 days a week of 5x5 deadlifts and squats, the first 2 sets warming up. Starting with lower weight then increase for the next then one more increase to my main weight. Then once a week I do overhead press working to 4 sets of 10 reps then increase and work back to those 4x10. I do the same with bench presses. This seems to work better for my upper body muscles and the lower rep higher weight seems more preferable to my lower body and core. I also do curls and currently are doing 4x10 twice a week with 34s. 34 because I made dumbbells out of concrete filled gallon cans formed around steel bars. Going to be making some 40s soon. I’m also working on pull ups. Can’t currently do many using proper form so it’s a work in progress. I also diy all my weight plates out of concrete, refurbished brake disks, and epoxy. Might post some pics sometime as I am very proud and don’t show them off outside of Hexbear. lol
Hell yeah comrade, we’d love to see your progress.
Its the same for me, low reps high weight, till I hit failure, then move to lighter weights. I’d be interested to see how you do the DIY weights… so far I’ve just been using cheap dumbbells.
https://files.catbox.moe/o3uhh9.jpg Here’s a quick snip of my dumbbells. Pretty self explanatory concrete in one can, stick the bar in, cures. Made a rig to hold it upside down so the bar sits inside the other can as that concrete cured. https://files.catbox.moe/7kj7sb.jpg And these are some 35lb weight plates. 2inch pvc in the center fits perfectly around the end of an Olympic style barbell. Concrete in the drum then epoxy and BBs in the heat vents to even the weight. Use a shipping scale to get the weight exact. Each ones withing 0.01 of each other and their target weight.