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Anon goes to the gym for the first time (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 4 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 44 points 4 months ago (5 children)

Deadlifts are back day exercises and I will not budge off this hill

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Deadlift is a "deadlift day" exercise

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Arms are arms, chest is chest, everything else is legs

I use resistance bands and they have pull day and push day, which seems more reasonable

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I’ve been lifting for 25 years now and have concluded that deadlifts can fit on any day.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I lift weights at home (husband accumulated a set of bars and plates and dumbbells before we got together), it's not my main workout but deadlifts are the only lift I actually honest to God enjoy. And it helps a lot with yoga.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

A lot of people start off with them and go hard but even Arnold threw them in at the end of his workout for 10 reps!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I scale the weight up as I do other things, start with unloaded 30lb bar, adding 10lb for sets of 10 until I can do only 5 reps then stop. Most stuff (curls, etc) I cannot do much weight so each exercise I drop off as I cannot do, towards the end it's literally just deadlifts, add weight, more deadlifts.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

I love it. We used to do this in high school but with seated cable pulls. I didn’t understand how to activate certain muscles at that age so I ended up with big arms instead of a big back!

That’s where the deadlifts come in..

[–] [email protected] 111 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Every exercise is a back day exercise if you do it wrong enough.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago

Don't have to do leg day if you break your back haha

[–] [email protected] 54 points 4 months ago (1 children)

That’s just your upper upper legs

[–] [email protected] 14 points 4 months ago

This is the spirit