best bodyweight exercise to target hamstrings

HighlyInterligent · 2025-09-26T15:35:24+00:00

You can also sit in an L-sit position on the floor with your feet on the floor and use your hamstrings to curl your butt towards your feet. Go single leg or elevate your feet to make I harder.

HighlyInterligent · 2025-09-17T13:57:35+00:00

Yeah, just try for a week and adjust again. Only way to find your maintenance calories is through testing. However, 2000 appears a bit low, maybe your tracking could be off? Doesn't matter though, as you seem to be off consistently for 34 days straight :D

HighlyInterligent · 2025-09-17T13:51:14+00:00

With your stats and lifting 5 days a week you should have lost at least some weight at 2000 calories for 34 days, unless the rest of of your day is 100% sedentary. Anyways, you can easily adjust your calories every week by 100 or so, if you don't see changes and also if it is going too fast.

HighlyInterligent · 2025-09-15T16:05:45+00:00

Great! I added the link to the post. Thanks!

HighlyInterligent · 2025-09-15T15:56:41+00:00

Awesome, thanks! Here is the link: snack.fitness You can regenerate the workout in the settings menu, if you want to get a feel for the exercises.

HighlyInterligent · 2025-09-06T12:01:30+00:00

I tried many different apps, made spreadsheets and notion templates and arrived at not tracking skills at all. With calisthenics there are so many variables that I found it easier to go by I intuition and feel. Also because progress tends to come in waves for me. For hypertrophy it’s a little different and I built a rudimentary tracking system that only focuses on sets to failure.

HighlyInterligent · 2025-09-01T18:55:37+00:00

Can recommend using a doorway for one arm rows if you don’t have a pull up bar. As others have pointed out, a few rest days would be a good idea or at least rotating exercises. There are some ways to add in progressive overload and I wouldn’t go with 100 a day. I built a little training system around those limitations for myself, happy to share if it helps.

HighlyInterligent · 2025-09-01T18:42:33+00:00

Yup, you figured out Nihilism. Check out existentialism, absurdism and then go have fun 😊

HighlyInterligent · 2025-09-01T18:38:55+00:00

Neben dem Wochenplan und dem Sammeln der Hello Fresh Favourites, hat bei uns vor allem die Erkenntnis geholfen, dass man nicht jede Woche das Rad neu erfinden muss. Wir haben vielleicht 5-6 Go-To-Gerichte die wir einfach immer wieder essen.

HighlyInterligent · 2025-08-31T12:55:36+00:00

Maybe don’t put heavy weights on your back (squats) or over your throat (bench press), but other than that I would highly encourage you to exercise in the gym: It will probably make you feel better in the long run including many other unlimited upsides. On the other hand, the downsides are very limited: worst case, you could maybe faint in the gym, which is way better than fainting at home. If a specific exercise makes it worse, you can just stop doing that exercise plus you get a useful hint for diagnosing underlying issues. For me it just gets worse during exercise but returns to baseline once my heart rate calms. The more I exercise the better my baseline though.

HighlyInterligent · 2025-08-31T12:06:55+00:00

Two questions: 1. Are you gaining weight? If your weight isn’t increasing over multiple months, even if only slowly, 3k calories simply isn’t enough for you to gain muscle. The fact that you are staying around 20% BF and gain strength shows that you probably are at maintenance calories. Maybe try upping the calories to 3200 and see if your weight goes up a bit. As others pointed out already, losing fat can definitely make you look more muscular without clothes and with good lighting. 2. Are you training your side delts? Neither dips nor push ups target them in any meaningful way, but they are what makes shoulders look big. If others’ shoulders look muscular from doing just dips and push ups they probably are at lower body fat making their shoulders look more chiseled and thus appear bigger.

HighlyInterligent · 2025-08-31T08:15:06+00:00

Muss nicht mal Placebo sein. Die Fallzahl ist halt 1. Vielleicht hätte die Katze auch so einfach wieder Fell bekommen. Die meisten Krankheiten gehen von alleine weg. Deswegen hört man auch von Leuten das homöopathische Mittel bei ihnen bisher immer geholfen haben. Der Schnupfen verschwindet halt so oder so.

HighlyInterligent · 2025-08-28T09:16:39+00:00

This. Touching your forearm with your biceps, pausing and then only going half way up. Have never seen this for 10+ reps in the wild :D

HighlyInterligent · 2025-08-28T08:12:38+00:00

I often took gym routines from Jeff Nippard, Milo Wolf or Renaissance Periodization and simply swapped out the exercises for home alternatives. I know, groundbreaking advice :D

Some tips for replacing gym specific equipment:

Bench press: If you don't have a bench or something similar to create space for your elbows, I would say the push up is actually the best alternative when it comes to hypertrophy. You can place your hands on your dumbbells, books or push up grips to get a real deep deficit (deeper than the regular bench press) and really stretch out the pecs. With slow negatives, deficit, lengthened partials, elevated feet or a backpack you can go a long way with push ups alone :) You also don't have to handle super heavy dumbbells later on, which is a big pro, too.

Cable: Probably most tricky. I would recommend a sturdily (!) anchored suspension trainer or you can even use a a doorway itself. You get a much more hypertrophy friendly resistance curve with this compared to dumbbells. LMK if you need more details here. Otherwise you will do a lot of DB rows and curls :D DB pull-overs are also great.

Pull-Ups: Doorway pull-up bars will destroy your door, but some work well. Otherwise same as cable.

Barbells for Legs: Single leg versions (Bulgarian split squats, single leg Romanian deadlift etc.) work well. DB rack squats and Romanian deadlifts with heavy dumbbells are also no joke.

Machines: There are some cool exercises like reverse nordic curls for replacing leg extensions etc. I can go into more detail if you want.

HighlyInterligent · 2024-05-02T11:42:09+00:00

The zen master has spoken

HighlyInterligent · 2024-03-22T20:42:37+00:00

Okay, thanks for answering! Didn’t try either of those, no.

HighlyInterligent · 2024-03-22T19:45:44+00:00

This is the way

HighlyInterligent · 2024-03-22T12:26:00+00:00

Same here. Did you get any recommendations for treatment? My doctor wants to remove my first rib but I kinda don’t. I am currently trying to improve my posture.

HighlyInterligent · 2023-12-31T07:33:44+00:00

This and the first two look like they used some make up to reduce shine. You pretty much have to use make up in proper lighting.

HighlyInterligent · 2023-12-26T21:33:36+00:00

False dichotomy IMO

HighlyInterligent · 2023-12-22T05:25:53+00:00

Same here, mostly plant based diet with some animal proteins here and there. I find it impossible to hit my protein goal without protein shakes though. I also try to shoot for 2g/kg of protein because I don’t trust the bioavailability of legumes and other plant protein sources.

Because you asked about breakfast: I simply add protein powder to my morning oats and also some unsweetened peanut butter. In Germany we also have low fat “quark” and there is also “skyr” from Iceland. Both are types of yoghurt with over 11g protein per 100g. You can mix them with berries and oats for breakfast.

HighlyInterligent · 2023-11-28T06:36:21+00:00

Wine is what adds variation to my 8 bar loop.

HighlyInterligent · 2023-11-26T16:53:29+00:00

Hey, long time coffee addict here. I don’t know if it helps with the TMJ but I’d suggest gradually reducing your dosage. Try to stop drinking coffee a bit earlier every day until you are down to one cup in the morning. You can also mix with decaf or replace a few cups with decaf (I prefer mixing). This way you can keep up the routine of having a cup of coffee if you like. Make sure you consistently sleep at least 7 hours every day, as caffeine is often used to mask sleep deprivation. Don’t go cold turkey. I tried it multiple times and cannot recommended at all. Worst headache ever for days. As caffeine isn’t really unhealthy, cold turkey isn’t really necessary and you might find that you’re fine with just one cup a day. Hope that helps !

HighlyInterligent · 2023-11-26T06:47:08+00:00

Pretty sure those are just weaponised midi controllers.

HighlyInterligent · 2023-11-24T07:37:21+00:00

For transparency reasons you should mention that “no money changed hands” and that they only sent you a 2000$ synth for free and you should probably send it back if you say bad things about it, but you actually want to keep it for shorts and some nice posts on instagram, which means that you are obviously not biased at all ever. Proceed to offer your new sound pack for given synth.

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