pauljcote
First Post
Hello everyone. I re-began working out about last June(after basically many years off) as I lost 20lbs after lockdown and wanted to get strong. I am 65yo, 5'7 and 163 now.
I have access to my kettlebells in 35, 50 and a single 70 (I have a 100 too which I got for a hundred bucks and can take fifteen steps with as a suitcase) as well as a chinup bar, an olympic barbell set with a bench and squat rack and a hex bar plus a bunch of dumbells that go up to 50lbs.
I was getting a lot of shoulder pain from doing regular deadlifts and trying chinups and dips, but a lot of the pain has gone away after I got a sports massage and keeping going. However, a part of the solution for me was using the trap bar in lieu of the olympic bar. What I found out though was I was doing the hex bar deadlift sorta like a squat. One day I was at work where I have a kettlebell and I did some one legged deadlifts. My hamstrings got sore just using the 50lb kettlebell. So, I realized the hex bar was definitely more of a pushing squat than a pulling deadlift... But, today I tried doing the hex bar deadlift stiff legged and did a couple sets and then did some bent kneed more of a squat. Seems to me that I can hit the hamstrings doing the stiff legged and the quads doing bent legged. Never read about doing two different kinds of these so wanted to throw it out there. Has anyone tried them? I leave my straight bar loaded up for the benching and don't use it for deadlifts anymore.
I believe my body composition and strength are getting better. I still get a lot of pain trying to do dips (so I don't do them) but bench presses seem ok. overhand pullups are very hard and I was getting pain but I am making slow progress with underhand chinups or whatever they are called. Will keep doing my workouts as best as I can until Easter (when I may switch it up and do more kettlebells) doing sort of a power program with pseudo easy strength. (can't seem to do it daily or 5 days at all) What I learned so far is either I have to workout with lighter weights or take 3 days rest between workouts when doing heavy weight on deadlifts. However, using kettlebells to do easy stuff at work (my barbells are at home) like rowing, one legged deadlifts, lunges and goblet squats with pressing it up seem to keep me doing something and keep me working on getting fitter and stronger.
I like the concept of easy strength and PTTP as well as easy+often=badass and am trying to do what I can to keep progressing. I do find two arm swings pretty easy to do but the one arm ones were stressing my joints quite a bit more.... not as bad as when I restarted... getting better but I don't do one arm swings with a 50 for more than a couple sets of ten.
I can't seem to find how to get strong at overhead press. Its always been hard for me. Seems to me since I have to hold weights with my hands for my exercises, the shoulders get worked a lot, in like every exercise, and are important.
I also am curious how important is it to be doing anti glycolytic like in swings. Seems sometimes I can do 25 swings in a row or even more.
Thanks,
Paul
I have access to my kettlebells in 35, 50 and a single 70 (I have a 100 too which I got for a hundred bucks and can take fifteen steps with as a suitcase) as well as a chinup bar, an olympic barbell set with a bench and squat rack and a hex bar plus a bunch of dumbells that go up to 50lbs.
I was getting a lot of shoulder pain from doing regular deadlifts and trying chinups and dips, but a lot of the pain has gone away after I got a sports massage and keeping going. However, a part of the solution for me was using the trap bar in lieu of the olympic bar. What I found out though was I was doing the hex bar deadlift sorta like a squat. One day I was at work where I have a kettlebell and I did some one legged deadlifts. My hamstrings got sore just using the 50lb kettlebell. So, I realized the hex bar was definitely more of a pushing squat than a pulling deadlift... But, today I tried doing the hex bar deadlift stiff legged and did a couple sets and then did some bent kneed more of a squat. Seems to me that I can hit the hamstrings doing the stiff legged and the quads doing bent legged. Never read about doing two different kinds of these so wanted to throw it out there. Has anyone tried them? I leave my straight bar loaded up for the benching and don't use it for deadlifts anymore.
I believe my body composition and strength are getting better. I still get a lot of pain trying to do dips (so I don't do them) but bench presses seem ok. overhand pullups are very hard and I was getting pain but I am making slow progress with underhand chinups or whatever they are called. Will keep doing my workouts as best as I can until Easter (when I may switch it up and do more kettlebells) doing sort of a power program with pseudo easy strength. (can't seem to do it daily or 5 days at all) What I learned so far is either I have to workout with lighter weights or take 3 days rest between workouts when doing heavy weight on deadlifts. However, using kettlebells to do easy stuff at work (my barbells are at home) like rowing, one legged deadlifts, lunges and goblet squats with pressing it up seem to keep me doing something and keep me working on getting fitter and stronger.
I like the concept of easy strength and PTTP as well as easy+often=badass and am trying to do what I can to keep progressing. I do find two arm swings pretty easy to do but the one arm ones were stressing my joints quite a bit more.... not as bad as when I restarted... getting better but I don't do one arm swings with a 50 for more than a couple sets of ten.
I can't seem to find how to get strong at overhead press. Its always been hard for me. Seems to me since I have to hold weights with my hands for my exercises, the shoulders get worked a lot, in like every exercise, and are important.
I also am curious how important is it to be doing anti glycolytic like in swings. Seems sometimes I can do 25 swings in a row or even more.
Thanks,
Paul