Hello guys, I started working out yesterday and after I wake up my body hurts (got muscle pain), should i rest or is it okay to push myself to work out again?

I want to start taking creatine, and I've been doing a lot of reading about it, including how it enhances performance during training and its cognitive benefits. However, I'm particularly interested in the visible changes in body shape and appearance after I begin using creatine. Will my muscles appear more toned? I'm not necessarily aiming for that; I’m just curious about how my body’s appearance might change or evolve with creatine supplementation.

i’m a 25F, 170cm and 58kg. ive been working out for 4-5 months + on a calorie deficit and i noticed that the inches on my waist has not been reducing at ALL. im losing weight on literally every other part of the body except my waist and upper back area. i read on reddit that if there’s no change it’s genetic and there’s nothing you can do about it, but i know i can lose more because i have lost inches before WITHOUT working out, only through a calorie deficit. on the contrary i feel like ever since i started working out my waist has looked even boxier than before. currently doing 3 x 40 min strength training and 3 x 40 min HIIT a week. any tips on what exercise i should work on to lose those inches?

I am a 19 year old, 6'1 male at 100kgs. I'm currently on a calorie deficit. I am a gym newbie.

I go to the gym 4 times a week. I alternatively do upper and lower body. For upper body days I start with:

• Dumbell bench press, 4 sets.
• Then shoulder barbell press.
• Follow that up with LAT PULLDOWN
• Then biceps / forearms superset, hammer Curls and farmer Carries, where the farmer carry weights are 2.5x times heavier.
• I finish off with tricep pulldown.

I'm going to try doing Australian pullups instead of Lat pulldown to work my way up to a pullup in the future.

For lower body / leg day. I simply do squats and raised squats, along with RDLs, then cable Leg Raises or hip abduction machine. Occasionally I do Calve Raises but that shit is boring as hell.

I prefer standing exercises and avoiding machines, I currently enjoy this routine a lot as I am a beginner.

I’m pretty much a beginner. I’ve been going to the gym and lifting. I really enjoy strength training and I have successfully been increasing weight every week. I can leg press 300lbs and bench around 120. Beginner weight. I still can’t do a pull up. I struggle with basic calisthenics. I’d love to master bodyweight. What is good to incorporate before/after strength training because I do not want to reduce my training.

I've been told that the plank is not that good, and I should replace it with a different exercise because its just stationary and no movement. If so then what exercise should I replace it with?

I’m 39m and new to working out but have some dumbbells and a bench to exercise at home. I’m 6ft and between 195-200lbs and I’d consider myself skinny fat because I have a little fluff but not a huge amount.

For starting out, would it be better to do full body workouts or focus on different muscle groups each session?

I’ll probably be doing 3 sessions a week to give good rest periods and see how I feel.

Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

Whenever I perform heavy flexion/extension movements at the elbow I get a deep radiating irritation on what I'm assuming to be my radial nerve that branches off the shoulder, runs through the funny bone space at the elbow and innervates the bottom fingers. I remember the first time I felt it doing supinated curls, it felt like my nerve was being plucked like a guitar string under my bicep. I feel it in both arms though more pronounced in the right. I've had it for years now and can mostly train around it by avoiding palms up grips so I've been putting off getting it examined. But now I feel the pain when I perform close grip bench and overhead extensions. Was wondering if anyone else has gone through this, what their experience was like, if you got treated etc? Seems like a not very common condition considering the poundage training can place at the elbow.

I went to the gym consistently for a year until i was loving that hour everyday But then i had to stop for a year as i was out of town Now i want to start again tomorrow but i can hardly fit 3-4 days a week with my busy work schedule and sadly i developed the first-time fright even though it aint my first time, is that normal? I’m going to hire a coach anyway to make sure i make the most out of my time there, but i think the first week i should focus more on cardio? Just to start forming the habit of going

Any advice?

It’s not that I actually want to skip legs but I have certain limitations and would appreciate help. First, knee pains. On leg exercises that involve bending my knees like squats, leg extensions etc. There are knee pains that make it uncomfortable to progress and do the exercises at full strength. However, even if i can ignore that, I have horrible ankle dorsiflexion. I literally cant bring my knees over my toes. I’ve tried stretching and mobility exercises but they have gotten me nowhere. Now, I can still work on my hamstrings through leg curls and the like but I’ve heard its not good to have a muscle imbalance between quads and hamstrings. Any advice?

It’s been slowly getting more difficult to work on my glutes, I’ve gotten progressively more uneven in my left glute than my right. I hope I explain this in a way that makes sense, but what happens is when I try to focus on my left butt cheek my hamstring takes over and turns it into a hamstring workout. I’m talking RDL’s, hip thrusts and even glute bridges (ironically enough). I used to love training glutes, but now not so much😕

Does anyone have any advice or do I need to go get this checked?

P.s. I used to do full body every other day and have only switched to “day one, day two” program yesterday, could it be that I’ve strained it somehow or ‘overthought’ it so much my butt just… gave up?

I’m a 32 year old male , coming off of 12 years of heavy alcoholism , from a fitness standpoint I wouldn’t describe myself as overweight , I’m about 5’6 180lbs , with very little muscle after years of a sedentary harmful lifestyle , I’ve begun working out about a month ago with the intention of mass building , my program looks something like this Monday DB press 3x10 , DB incline 3x10 , machine Flies 3x10 , Tuesday Seated Row 3x10 , pulldown 3x10 , preacher curl 3x10 Thursday- shoulder press 3x10 , DB shrugs 3x10 , lat raises 3x10 tricep extensions 3x10 , Friday squats 3x10 , leg press 3x10. , leg extension 3x10 , calf raises 3x20 . I do this weight training at 4:30 am before work , and then 5-6 nights a week I ride a stationary bike for 45 minutes at about 6 pm . I’ve been drinking a protein shake immediately after weights and watching what I eat the rest of the day . Should I add anything to this routine , take anything out ? Or just stick to it ? Thinking about supplementing creatine now that it’s been a month . Thank you for any thoughts or help in advance

Can resistance bands be used for Full Body workout and Muscle Building. Also which brands will be good that'll last for 2 Years atleast?

Three day split, three sets of each

first- arms/back:

• Pull ups
• Dumbbell shrugs
• Rows
• Bicep curls
• Hammer curls
• Skull crushers

Second- Chest/shoulders

• Lateral raises
• Overhead dumbbell press
• Push ups
• Flat bench press
• Incline bench press (45°)
• Neck training

Third- Core/legs

• Hanging leg raises
• Ab wheel rollouts
• side planks
• Squats
• Deadlifts
• Calf raises

18 years old, eating right, working from home with dumbbells. Would appreciate any advice on my routine, specifically if I should be adding more Back exercises.

As a female who’s out of shape and wants to lose weight and “tone up”, can I realistically achieve my goals with some cardio and body pump or do I need to hit the weight room?

Thanks 🤩

Living in an Asian household, I cannot make my own food choices or go to the gym. This situation makes me wonder how I can effectively lose weight at home without any equipment.

The reason I'm asking is because I'm going on a 2 week vacation soon, and I have 2 hotel options

1. A hotel that's older and in a slightly busier/more traffic heavy location and doesn't have a kitchen, but has a really nice gym that includes a barbell and squat rack.
2. A different hotel that's in a much nicer location and bigger rooms + a kitchen, but has a worse gym (no barbell, only machines and free weights)

I'm wondering if it's worth staying at the slightly worse hotel just for the barbell access. If I stay at the nicer hotel, I'll be limited to doing dumbell RDLs and I don't think the dumbells they have are heavy enough. I just want to make sure I'm not losing significant amounts of strength since 2 weeks is a long time to be away. And just to clarify, they're both 5 star hotels, it's not like one of them is a luxury hotel and the other is a run down motel or something lol.

hello, I'd like to know if there's a way to incorporate strenghtening my core in my every day life? for example, when im scratching my back using my hands, im making it more and more flexible, making me able to touch my fingers behind my back. or another example, wringing my clothes after washing them makes my grip stronger.

how do i strengthen my core but still not need to have a full-blown workout session and instead have a daily habit of doing it without thinking?

I was warming up my lats with lat pulldown on an easy weight. On one of the reps when my lat was stretched at the top, somehow I stretched more than I should have, and I felt a pop deep in my left lat (where my lat and trap overlap).

It was a small sharp pain, then it felt like it filled with fluid, and it’s been a dull pain ever since. Around an hour after I felt a pins and needles sensation for a few minutes, then back to a dull pain. It felt like a very small muscle or tendon/ligament popped/tore.

I tore my ACL a few years back, and it feels very similar to that feeling, just on a lesser scale of pain.

Anyone know what it could be?

Hi, ive had shoulder impingement for 10 years. This year ive been relatively pain free with doing YTWL exercises and decided to get a personal trainer. First day of push, my rotator cuffs was firing and 2 days after ive experienced excruciating impingement pain. Not being able to rotate my arm past my shoulder width and it trying to 'rebound' back inwards. This is the 5th day and its starting to ease up now and feeling better.

Now im stuck whether it was just doms in my shoulder rotator causing all this pain and impingement , or if it was actually impingement. I Dont know whether to do another push day or not.

for example, after first pull day, i couldnt put my arms straight for about a week. So could something similar be happening here where DOMS in rotator cuffs making not full mobility of them which then causing impingement, but over time it would be better once the DOMS stop

It wasnt exactly a 'heavy' push day

10kg smith machine bench press, 4kg shoulder press dumbell, 1kg lateral raises, 10kg press machine.

https://imgur.com/a/xTCZrvr

with 2 days (day 2 and day 4) being (mainly) Core and Calves workout day (not as strict though. just on days im feeling it) and rest on day 6 and 7.

the main focus is the 3 day / week workout schedule outlined. but im wondering if i can get some critic on this.

The caveat is that i do NOT go to the gym (For circumstances that is not debatable or the purpose of the thread.) and I only have dumbbells weighing (lbs) 3/5/15/25 along with a basic workout bench.

my stats are 32 y.o. Male 5'6" ~~173 lbs. i do not have much experience working out and casually started in November of last year, along with intermittent fasting (I eat 1 meal a day, anything i want). I was about 195ish pounds last year.

Main goal for my workout is to lose weight for health reasons. But with that said, figured might as well build some muscle.

can I get any critic or anything that might be an issue?

I’ve always enjoyed working out, but I have a really hard time doing it consistently and I want to start going to my local gym. I used to work out daily, about a thirty minute routine and then an hour walk for my dogs. However, I would get extremely burnt out and working out would feel like a chore after a few months. So now I’m feeling the urge to start working out again, but I don’t want to burn out again. I’d like to bulk up on muscle, which I presume will be harder since I’m a woman. Any advice on where to get started with working out/fighting burn out is appreciated!!

I don't think that in everyday movement have I ever used my hamstrings in the way that they are used in leg curls and Nordic hamstring curls. These exercises seem unnatural. Are they good for functional fitness? I'm not interested in building muscle size, just being able to jump and hike fast up steep trails (with and without heavy packs).

Recently I've noticed that my both my arms pop all the time. For example, whenever I do a tricep extension I can feel and hear my elbow pop every single time. Whenever I do anything that involves my arm it usually pops every single extension or contraction. I used to shoot a bow and it would happen then and throw off my game. Is this normal? Is there anyway to stop this because it annoys the fuck out of me?

I know that best way to grow glutes is using weights and eating a lot of protein and eating in a surplus. I remember seeing a lot of gymfluencers (hence why I’m sceptical) do banded glute exercises such as clamshells, dokey kicks, fire hydrants etc. Are these actually useful for muscle growth/ strength or are they useless?

I don’t know if this is the right sub for this question/concern.

So, I’m trying to lose weight I’m 255 pounds and my body goal is 147 pounds. I’m 20 years old. I have no motivation/ strength to get me going to working out. I do work full time, and majority I only get 1 day off at my current job + plus I work from 11am to 7pm at night. 6 days a week.

I would like to go out on runs once I’m off work but I live out in the country, and I live mostly around sugar cane at night wolfs, snakes and on some occasions gators as well come out on the roads so I get scared easily. Yes I am I guy. And I don’t like working out inside because there is about 6 of us in my household. I hate being bothered/ feeling embarrassed.

The reason I want to change myself is because all I do once I get home from work is eat fattening foods and drink nothing but soda. Because that’s all my family buys when they shop for the house. I’m not coming on here to get bashed or talked down by you guys, just some simple tricks and advice would help. I really want to change myself for that better but just have no motivation/ discipline. Please let me know what I can do to change myself for the better.

I am a 19m and have always been in shape, I played soccer, baseball,basketball, indoor soccer, and track and wrestling so I was fit year around I took some time off the gym for like 6 months due to personal reasons and now I’m back and my heart rate is getting high, just on walking on the treadmill it’s going up to 120-145 while not even trying at all, like literally walking then today I tested it out on the stairmaster for 3 minutes and it got all the way up to 185, and also idk if I’m thinking about it too much but the back of my head feels a little weird somthing, not exactly dizziness, just wondering do you think this is normal? My family also has a history of heart problems

Okay so i dislocated a couple of my fingers and dont have movement in my hand for 4-6 weeks, how can i maintain? i weigh 140 5'6 and im a guy, i know a diet helps, currently have my splits as legs 3 days a week and abs and cardio the other 3. But will i lose much muscle up top or will it somewhat be near what im at now?

I could use some advice on my workout routine. I've been training for a while, but instead of getting stronger, I’ve actually felt weaker recently. I've lost some weight, but it seems like it’s been more muscle than fat. My strength has noticeably gone down, and even though I exercise and do cardio(barely), I still get tired just walking up the stairs.

One area that’s particularly weak is my lower back. I also get a weird pain sensation in my lower back after or during a workout, I’m not sure wether her its cause of bad form or that its just soreness but it could be because I haven’t trained it much, and I can tell it’s affecting both my lifts and my overall stability. I know adding some cardio could help with the stamina issue, but I’m unsure how to incorporate it without sacrificing even more strength.

Does anyone have advice on how to balance strength training and cardio, especially with a weak lower back? Or maybe recommend a routine to help me build muscle and strengthen while building endurance.

Thanks for any tips you have!

I recently started working out four days ago and I also started a calorie deficit four days ago. Four days ago I was 117 or 118 smth like that now I'm 113.8. Is this a normal weight change?