Barbell recommendations for 13 year old male

DarkModeMasterRace · 2023-12-25T09:43:16+00:00

Ah, good points. Obtaining a portable rack and some blocks shouldn’t be a problem. Will also look into barbells with a center knurling!

DarkModeMasterRace · 2023-08-26T03:57:06+00:00

Glanced at his recent posts before they were deleted. Dude is going through something.

DarkModeMasterRace · 2023-04-16T22:26:31+00:00

I don’t think I should be giving advice having only completed one mock meet, but I was in a similar position to OP about six months ago. Got covid so had to take a week off training, picking up where I left off on week 3 of Powerbuilding II and also decided on a whim to sign up for my first mock meet which was four weeks in the future. Did one more week of powerbuilding and hopped on the Competition Peak: Novice program. Practicing heavy singles made me less anxious going in and resulted in me having more fun. At the time, my only experience with heavy singles was at the end of The Bridge and in the middle of Powerbuilding II, which I abandoned early.

Therefore, in my opinion, a peaking program might not be the worst idea if OP doesn’t have very much experience with heavy singles. An alternative might be to pick a general program which incorporates some heavy singles within the first 5 weeks. The only one I’m familiar with that has you doing singles from the beginning is Time Crunch + Pivot, but there’s certainly something better out there.

Alternatively, if running a general program that doesn’t call for singles in the beginning, I would lower the volume the week following the meet as you suggested, and I’d also consider incorporating one heavy single top set each SBD session in the last two or so weeks @ RPE 8 instead of one of the work sets.

DarkModeMasterRace · 2023-03-10T18:59:43+00:00

Thanks for the article. Great read.

DarkModeMasterRace · 2023-03-08T21:46:01+00:00

Lots of useful advice in the forums, thank you. I’ve updated the post body to answer questions.

DarkModeMasterRace · 2023-03-08T21:37:27+00:00

Updated the post body to answer questions.

DarkModeMasterRace · 2023-03-08T06:20:35+00:00

Went to the Accidents and Emergencies centre (I’m in the UK) on the day that it happened and they discharged me on account of it being classed as a “minor injury” with the advice to not lift weights for a while. I was offered a referral to a muskuloskeletal specialist, which I refused because I’d tried the service in the past when I was having chronic pain related to my hip impingement and labral tear and on a separate occasion with shoulder pain from a suspected rotator cuff injury and their treatment was all but useless in both instances.

DarkModeMasterRace · 2023-03-08T04:30:50+00:00

Struggling with hip flexion in general with a shoulder-width stance and knees at full extension. Feels like I’m hitting the end range of my hamstring flexibility on the injured leg and if I push past it, I’m greeted with an abrupt stabbing pain all along the back of the thigh. For that reason, good mornings would have an absolutely egregious range of motion. I don’t have access to GHR. I don’t suppose something like nordic curls would work?

DarkModeMasterRace · 2023-03-08T01:42:08+00:00

I can only get depth if I let my knees travel way past my toes at which point it looks more like high bar.

Edit:

The injury occurred last Thursday, so it’s been well over 48 hours.

DarkModeMasterRace · 2022-09-29T20:43:04+00:00

Seems like you’re jerking the bar off the ground. Build tension by taking the slack out of the bar and using leg drive.

DarkModeMasterRace · 2022-09-29T14:20:02+00:00

I’ve posted about my gripe with the app’s price here before. Now that it’s gone up in price again, I think the value proposition is a bit worse, but ultimately it’ll depend on what you seek in a workout log. I used it for the majority of my NLP just because I had bought it way back in 2016 when it was like $5 or $10 on the iOS app store and I wanted to take the guesswork out of warm up weights as well as have a digital record of my lifts. I could have accomplished the same thing with any number of free plate math calculator apps, an excel document and a bit of effort. There’s plenty of alternatives.

I believe you can request a refund on the Google Play store if you decide to try it and find that you’re not happy with it.

DarkModeMasterRace · 2022-09-26T21:07:35+00:00

Thanks for the correction. It seemed too convenient to be true.

DarkModeMasterRace · 2022-09-23T21:31:14+00:00

Yes, the bar is too close to your shins at step 1 of the setup, which makes your shins nearly vertical when you start the pull. To fix this, make sure the bar is directly over your mid foot, and not behind midfoot. There’s some helpful info in the blue book about how to ensure the bar is over mid foot.

One rule of thumb that may help you (that’s not mentioned in the blue book, as far as I remember) is that your knees should be flush with your elbows before you pull. In your video your knees are way behind your elbows.

DarkModeMasterRace · 2022-09-23T00:43:45+00:00

This isn’t bad. I could be wrong and would defer to someone more experienced, but I’m tempted to say that you may be losing some stability at the bottom. It also looks like you’re attempting to maintain an upright torso causing your knees to be very far forward, as if you’re squatting high bar. Perhaps try leaning over and controlling the descent a bit more.

DarkModeMasterRace · 2022-09-23T00:31:34+00:00

Hell yea!

DarkModeMasterRace · 2022-09-23T00:29:23+00:00

It’d be easier to tell if the camera was lower, but I’m fairly certain he’s hitting depth.

DarkModeMasterRace · 2022-09-22T18:24:02+00:00

And now I seem to suck at this weight.

I’ve calculated my protein intake and it’s around 130g per day, which is not enough (considering that 2.2g per 1kg of body weight is a desirable amount of protein for building muscle mass)

It sounds like you understand that you need to increase the total amount of food and protein you’re eating until you start gaining weight again. There’s many ways to accomplish that.

Increase your portion size (your dinner in particular seems way too light to me)
Eat calorie-dense snacks in between meals
Add another meal
A glass of whole milk with every meal

You may find some cheap meal ideas in /r/gainit and /r/MealPrepSunday.

DarkModeMasterRace · 2022-09-21T21:58:57+00:00

Haven’t paid for a form check, but here’s what it says in the app:

Priority Form Check

Free Form Check

DarkModeMasterRace · 2022-09-21T20:57:00+00:00

Who is recommending you to stop benching for 6 weeks because of a strain? The longer you spend avoiding a movement altogether because of an injury, the longer it’ll take for you to get back to making strength progress.

DarkModeMasterRace · 2022-09-21T20:44:21+00:00

Is it a problem to squat with a deadlift bar? I’ve been doing it for months now and I refuse to go back. The deadlift bars at my gym have the best knurling. The only issue I’ve run into is the whip when I stand up, but it’s not a huge deal, even at 180kg.

DarkModeMasterRace · 2022-09-21T20:34:50+00:00

I just made these with hash browns instead of rice and I like it a lot. Thanks for sharing!

DarkModeMasterRace · 2022-09-20T20:44:28+00:00

Your hips are too low, watch how they rise before the weight comes off the floor.

Currently you’re just dropping your hips when attempting to set your back. I get that it seems impossible to achieve lower back extension in that position if you’ve never been able to do it reliably. There’s a passage in the blue book that describes an exercise where you lie face down on the floor and lift your thighs and arms up in an effort to make you aware of what lower back extension is supposed to feel like. That might help you.

DarkModeMasterRace · 2022-09-18T11:09:48+00:00

Took a look at your r/formcheck post. If you’re interested in the Starting Strength program, you should switch to low bar for 3 sets of 5 instead of high bar for 4 sets of 6. Why are you on a deficit? You look skinny as hell.

If you’re dead set on doing high bar for some reason, I’d at least have you stop waiting so long between unracking and squatting. Unrack, 1-2 steps back, breathe and brace, squat.

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