Cheers CM
Lads, whats the best way to handle muscle soreness after weights? Eating, ice, stretching? Crippled after bench press day before yesterday.
Rest. I dont do many weights anymore but I used to never benchpress unless I had a good warmup done, such as rowing which exercises and warms up all the muscles in the body. Felt the recovery was longer if I hadnt the warmup done. How long had it been since you previously benchpressed?
Obviously eating right will help too.
Do you bench regularly or was it the first time in a while?
Only at it a few weeks but only really suffered after the first couple of sessions where the muscles got worked for the first time. Been ok since. Some people on here have recommended eating ice cream after training as it soothes the muscles.
Cheers lads. Second week back and upped it a bit on the weight. Probably just hurting cause im only starting back. Still could have lumped on another few k’s though so didn’t expect to be this bad. Was well warmed up with intervals on the bike, core work and pushups. I’ll leave off the ice-cream, would seem to undo the point o the gym! I’ll stick with the shake after and a good dinner. Nothin for it but rest so!
You inside in beefit now runt?
No not now, was in there earlier alright. it’s a fine gym. Not too busy tonight either.
Yeah didn’t mean now this minute. It’s grand alright, all you need is the basics and the cheapest I’ve ever come across.
What’s a good target to be able to plank for?
Is the deadlift any use for a GGA player?
Planks- Don’t know… But you should be looking at a minute, rest, minute, rest etc. 3-4 sets.
Deadlift is probably the second best all round exercise you can do, so yes. You can do low rep /heavy when going through strength/power phase… anaerobic high rep- light/ medium weight- Or just for maintenence. Form is very important here… Shoulders back, head up, feet shoulder width apart and almost touching the bar with your shins. When you pull up it should be coming straight up along your legs whereby it is actually touching the skin, this can lead to bloody knees tho (May want sweat pants)…Where a lot of people go wrong is on the way back down, they tend to loose form and bend knees or huch over too much when lowering it. Any exercise where you have to shoot up is great for all fitness puposes, but particularly for power/ explosion which you will want on the field.
[quote=“The Runt, post: 704457”]What’s a good target to be able to plank for?
Is the deadlift any use for a GGA player?[/quote]
Wexford inter county players were doing a 7 minute plank as part of their training s few years ago apparently.
Well, stay the fook away from this model so.
Definitely aim for a minute to start with and see how you get on.
I got an ab wheel about a month ago and started using it for core sessions. I was half expecting it to be useless but it’s very good I have to say. I could feel it for a few days after the first session I did with it.
I can do 3 x 1.5mins
Are you better off trying to increase the length of time you’re holding the plank for or progressing on to harder core exercises?
both I guess… Initially time, but there are loads of variations of this exercise. Resting elbows on a medicine ball, russian twist plank etc
I did a little blitz 20 min session yesterday, inspired by some teenwolf twilight actor… 5 pull ups, 10 push ups, 15 squats supposed to be body weight but I did (60kg). Aim is to do as many rounds as you can in 20 mins- I believe 17 was the record one of those actors set, I managed 8 and had come down to 10 squats by round 4. A great little work out for maintenance and I think i’ll make up two more like minded 20 minute session and let that be it for each week.
Have you given up on lifting weights?
I strained my bad shoulder the other night so not sure where to go from here. Hopefully there isn’t any real damage.
Concentrating on lower body tonight anyways.
Bench to start, dealts, then squats, lunges and calves.
Time and location don’t allow me time to a proper gym…but i’m gonna stick with the conventional compound squats,pulls, push up, deads etc and just do blitz to stay in shape.
What exercises have you been doing for the shoulder?? After you’ve rested it, you need to work on the smaller muscles around it… Have you gone to someone with it? Maybe a good sports massage and get deep into the tissue and work out tightness and then build it back up from scratch- Paul Murray sports massage is supposed to be good (http://www.paulmurray.ie/sports_massage.html). I had a few shoulder issues myself, pain running from front of shoulder down to shoulder blade any time I tried to lift anything. Happened after I dived on the ground paintballing and landed with my arm fully extented and drove the shoulder up, sounded like a pair of jeans ripping when I did it… While on holidays I went for a thai massage and she could feel the knots right on my shoulder blade and she went to town on them, pretty sore too and that was from a 5 ft 4" woman, Paul would have murdered me. But My shoulder has been much much better and back to about 90%.
Happy ending?
Went back this morning after a weeks break. The last month has been a bit of disaster.
I lost a bit of focus once I could squat and dead lift my own body weight.
5k run in 20mins is my 2013 resolution along with muscle maintenance.