Post your dumb gym mistakes so that we can learn from them. >gained

What the fuck did you expect?

>1st day in the gym
>OHP 1pl8
>proceed to injure self
I got it up though

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>>39205577
>>gained 10 pounds from weight gainer but didn't lift

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>deadlifted with rounded back
>painful neck and back injury that still affects me today
>mfw it was 135 pounds

>turn neck to check mirror for form during heavy deadlift
Couldn't change neck position for 2 weeks after that pulled muscle.

>>39205577

>went way too hard on my first session setting expectations way too high and pulled a muscle in my left arm
>never went back until about a year later

That was very painful, could barely drive home afterwards (all the way in 3rd) and couldn't move it properly for almost a week.

>benched heavy several days a week
A nice elbow tendonitis for 5 weeks so far now, fucking great, cant do shit

>>39205659
aww dude this

>>39205618
This. Although it was a little heavier than that.

Don't try to teach yourself how to squat and dead if you've never done it before. Get somebody that knows what going on to teach you. If you HAVE to learn it on your own for whatever reason, use baby weights and video yourself. Forget the ego.

>>39205659
You should record yourself on your cellphone when you deadlift. Really helps with not fucking your neck and getting better with the form. Other dyels in the gym never give good DL advice.

Didn't just kill myself instead of trying to fix this pointless life.

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I spent the first 8 months home-gymming with just dumbells and bodyweight because I let social anxiety get the best of me

What a difference a real gym makes

>>39205618
>mfw
some absolute retard tried to pull 4pl8 + change and didn't know how to use his belt or his straps. He also he the worst form I ever saw and he wasn't hurt. AND he does this regularly.

>>39206060
it catches up eventually

>>39205577
You probably did put on some more muscle just that when you cut you loose that same amount.

>>39205577
Didn't ever do rotator cuff exercises and hurt it benching.
Also, eating proper macros is more important than lifting at all.

>>39205993
Don't be a pussy mate, yesterday I pass out in the gym, going again tomorrow.

>>39206524
>Didn't ever do rotator cuff exercises
Such as what?

>>39207044
Such as scarecrows or cuban presses

>>39207050
Thanks, going for a new PR today on bench, want to be careful.

Didn't do ab work the first two years I lifted

>>39207061
Honestly I don't know if it helped with how much weight I lift but I definitely feel better when dipping and benchpressing.

>>39207044
Banded YTWLs

>>39205577
Going to the gym 4 times a week.
Eat nothing but noodles. I was a cheap ass. I was happy losing weight but I was already skinny. Fun thing is that my strength still grew.

>>39207044
>>39207080
https://youtu.be/IKc6hwPvsHg?t=9m47s

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>>39207061
Also good luck man! You'll do great!

>be me
>Be doing some for of bench press where you put plates on your stomach and press them
>I could get 3 on myself with a little difficulty but then the time came to add another (which I had laying on the ground next to me
> Friend asked if I wanted help I say nah and proceed to reach across and down with weights on me
>Get ahold of the plate, try to pull it up and "pop", my shoulder can't out of the socket
>Can't move arm on its own so I lift it up with my other arm
>It clicks and goes back in.
>Never get it checked out
>Now I have bad impingement

>>39205693
>5 weeks
Mine lasted a year, get on my level fage

>>39207092
>>39207080

Alan is the owner of my gym, I should probably watch this anyways.

>>39207079
I do dips with my bench days.

>>39207094
t-thanks

>>39205659
>squatting
>see my phone suddenly light up out of the corner of my eye
>turn to look at it without thinking to see if it was something that required immediate attention
>FUCK MY NECK
>it wasn't even important

>>39205684
Britbong shifting with his left hand. Kek

>>39205577

>haven't worked out for a while
>don't stretch at all
>go to gym, do some bench press and pec flys
>wake up next day with severe DOMS

>>39207098
You fucking retard. You were lifting the weights up by themselves? Just why?

>>39205577
>thinking tear in my shoulder was just me nearing failure on OHP every shoulder day
>thinking popping/snapping sound in shoulder was a cracking joint like fingers or something
>thinking not being able to take tshirt off for 5 hours after shoulder day because of said tear was just sore muscles

>using dmaa before cardio

>thinking 100mg viagra as 10mg so took two instead of cutting into quarters

>fell for gomad

>>39207152
You count the bar!? WTF!!

>bench press
>push back neck into the bench


Had a sore neck for the first 6 months of lifting before I finally corrected it.

>>39206060
>Using belts and straps

Found the cuck

>>39207256

Don't you NEED belts and straps once you push around like 6,7,8 plates?

started SS in my university gym

I almost fell over doing squats for like 8 of my sessions starting out

tried to OHP the same as I found I could bench and almost killed myself

i still don't know if im doing my squats and deadlifts correctly though because im too autistic to ask for help in person or get someone to film me

>>39207272
If you're a bitch maybe.

Wtf dudes.

/fit/ has to be the dumbest board in this shit-hole.

>>39207104
>Not knowing the difference between tendonitis and tendonosis
>Shart in mart detected

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>fell for the eat big to get meme while skinny fat
>Just got fatter
>Also fell for the no rest days and train erryday/brosplit meme
I'm finally doing a proper routine though and still stuck in cutting hell but hey it's working

>Squating
>Imbelishing my rest days
>Going for 2 rather then 1 on SL
>Get to around 160lb Squat
>Going good for 3 in
>Suddenly tap some weird ass resivoir of strength
>Bust out my final reps with great explosiveness
>notice a twingy pain in my groin/upper thighs

>apparently I'm squatting too wide
>can't close in my squat. Fucking don't think mobility routines are worth the paper they're printed on.

Anyone actually done any of them and had them work? I tried that couch stretch thing and just got a whole lotta painsville.

>>39207280
What's your pr? 15 cheetos at once?

>>39207216
I have that popping sound in shoulder, did you figure out what it was?

>>39207444
For me it's my labrum.

How my doctor found out was (after many many years of damage) a simple test where he told me to relax my arm and he brought it upwards in front of me (while straight). I hesitated and pulled back before he even reached 90 degrees because I knew from experience it wouldn't be able to do that without me adjusting. 2nd time I let him do it and the thing popped completely out of place and he got the shock of his life lol.

So yeah. If you can't lift your arm forward past 90 degrees without bending your arm and adjusting your shoulder/it popping around in your joint then it's probably your labrum.

>>39207362
I rep 4pl8 but I use standard grip, no belt, no gloves, no straps.

I use chalk though

>>39207486
I'm not waiting for surgery btw. Should put me out of the game for a long time but apparently if I don't fix it soon I'll end up never being able to lift again in a few years.

>reguallry locked my knees while doing 10pl8 on each side
>left knee has never been the same

>>39205577
My mistakes:
>was convinced i have to Squat every training, first exercise, always
Thiskillstheman.jpg
>bulked with 3200kcal while my TDEE was 2000kcal
( got too fat)
>didn't do pushups & chinups over the week at home
(seriously do them, but never to failure, just accumulate lost of volume, helped tremendously)

>>39207491
I'm now*

Fucking hell

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>>39207498
>20 pl8 squat
wait what?

>>39207520
leg pres

Went armwrestling and tried to get girls in the room miring my strenght... tore my brachialis muscle... Never gonna do arm wrestling again

Cant properly live with this injury

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>>39205993
>I spent the first 8 months home-gymming with just dumbells and bodyweight because I let social anxiety get the best of me
>dumbbells
>bodyweight

Literally all you need to get /fit/ (not kali muscle tier ofc).

You can have what upperbody you want with a simple set of 2 dumbbells.

OFC you will not workout the legs and shit too much or as easily as arms or back but who gives a fuck about them, amrite?

>>39207599
get 2 kettlebells and door pullup bar... you can do a lot at home.

>>39207152
No, the lift I was doing is a viable thing. It's like close grip bench. I didn't get hurt from that.

>All these people who blew their ass out deadlifting

jesus fuck

>>39207336
All of this.

>>39205993
IDK, I went from atrophy mode to 1/2/3/4 for reps in the gym but cancelled two months ago and bought dumbbells (massive MRSA epidemic, the fucktard owner was diluting the lysol too much to save <100$ a month.) Did GSLP and then Canditos 6 week programme at thee gym, now I'm on Scoobys PPL DB routine (with some tweaks.) The gains haven't slowed down much, if anything I've worked out some balance issues I had. The only consideration is that you need DBs that actually go heavy enough. Stuff like single leg deads was a bit awkward at first, but they're are not as memey as they seemed.

>>39207502
>my TDEE was 2000kcal
Are you a squirrel?

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>>39205607
1st day and you lift one plate ?

Please go.

>>39207216
I've got all that shit. left shoulder is the popper.

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>>39207715
Was 61kg back then while 173cm tall
So im not far from squirrel

>>39207787
i'm naturally strong and you are probably naturally little. pls go manlet dyel.

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>manlet
>doing pull ups
>decide to go on the higher one because another manlet is taking the lower one
>use my quads and jump up
>left hand slips off, right hand grabs and pulls my shoulder out of socket

Yes that happened. Still can't do a proper pull-up a year later. The manlet meme is unfortunately very real in some cases

>>39207887
>173cm tall
>173cm
>tall
>not a rodent
sure thing, mate.

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>>39207945
My goal body
Can i do it natty?

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>>39207962

>>39207912

Translation: you were a fatass with strong legs from hauling your fat gut around and you push pressed the almighty christ out of it

>>39205577
Wasted almost a year doing meme dumbbell and machine exercices some meathead told me to do. Wasted another year fixing muscle imbalances

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>>39205709
I learned to deadlift and squat just fine lmao at dumb fags who aren't intelligent enough to use proper form

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>>39207104
Fuck dude my elbows are really starting to be achey when I lift and sometimes afterwards too.
I've noticed it's especially bad during tricep stuff like tricep extensions and skullcrushers and ESPECIALLY dips but also to a lesser extend bench press curls and chin/pull ups. What do I do?
I don't want to ignore my arms because they need work more than anything else, but I think if I keep pushing myself through this pain I'm gonna really fuck my elbows ><

I've started wearing one of those pressure band thingies to try and help and it does a teeny bit..

HALP ANON PLS

>>39207489
Ye what this guy said I 1 rep 6 plate, straps are gay, belt is okay for bracing but u don't need it just chalk and alternate grip senpai

>>39207277
you better fucking stop or you'll pop a disc or some shit. You'll fuck up your back bro

>>39207029
You're the new fat guy who did some cardio, right?

>>39207216
What happened after your viagra escapades?

>>39208136
I hope you eat fish oil

>>39208263
I think so, I also did a few machines before that happened.

oh boy

>not sleeping enough = gains deplete
>not using myfitnesspal and food scale sooner
>cutting during noob phase = abs shown mass goes
>eating too much = fat to muscle gain ratio fucked
>ego lifting = visit to snap city
>not replacing power cleans with rows sooner
>not asking to work in = wasted time
>not buying a used squat plug = cheaper

those are about it

>>39208287
Had to stop fucking after about 40 minutes because the girl told me the vein on my head was freaking her out.

Looked in the mirror and got freaked out myself... Tried to sleep it off but couldn't get to sleep because of the headache and my vision was blurry/nose felt blocked.

Tried doing pushups to get rid of the boner after a few hours. I thought that if I get a pump in my arms and chest that it would take some of the blood away from my cock but I was wrong. I just ended up passing out and woke up with the boner gone a few hours later.

Nothing seriously bad happened though. Just a very important lesson to always read the label... DESU I should have known from the "100" written on the fucking pill lol.

doing only Olympic lifting.
Wish i could still scratch my back with my right hand

How do I deadlift without rounding my back

Never stretched and ignored hip flexor pain while squatting. Not a serious injury but I hurt my hip flexor bad enough to stop squatting for a long time.

>>39208579
Oh geez that sounds scary. You think that shit helps with getting a pump in the gym?

>not mixing dat viagra in your preworkout
>call it Jack3d off

>>39208519
>eating too much
this is me. traumatized of being a skellington now i try to compensate
>buying used squat plugs
fucking poorfags

>>39208761
I've heard it can be good for pump if used alone... Although I wouldn't mix it with your preworkout. If your preworkout has any form of nitrates in it then you'll likely die lol.

>>39208698
do bodyweight lower back exercises first, such as bridges

>>39205577
Not calculating my TDEE - 500 right away. I estimated high so I'm adjusting everything lower now that I've lost a bit. I guess I consider it a step-down but adjusting all my portions is annoying.

>>39205969
this

trying to shave my balls on arms day

>>39207092
oooh yea. I always just did band pull aparts from nbs fitness but these made my mobility increase dramatically. Especially the W and L of it. Felt weak as shit first time i did them. Should be included in the sticky imo.

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>>39208761

>>39207354
Had a very similar issue, - pinching type pain in the crease of my stronger leg, starting at lock out and eventually would also hurt at the bottom.

I jumped into a lot of mobility stuff but determined what cured me was actually stretching outer hip with pigeon yoga pose (just get down into it and sit for like 2 mins, repeat if desired) and foam rolling (all legs, make sure to hit pretty much everything in the hip region). If you're tall like me narrowing your stance may help.

>>39208164
>alternate grip
gl on your trip to snap city

>start SS
>ask budybuilder gym owner to check my form on deadlifting
>tell me to drop SS and tell me to do 4x15 OHP/curls and some machine and squats
>do it two days
>third day I wake up and I can't move my arms
>like, I can't even blow my nose or close my hands

I'm taking a couple days to rest and then I'm going back to SS, fuck that faggot.
The advice is stick to your program.

>>39207336
wait would you rather cut? im skinny fat and tryna eat big.....

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>spend previous two nights with fuck all sleep
>feel pretty much fine throughout work
>hit the gym
>Lifts suddenly turn to shit
>can barely finish sets
>have to drop weights
>suddenly start hallucinating Bane and Scooby, one telling me now's not to the time for rest, the other chiding me for thinking about skipping cardio
>mfw

>>39210179
This is me as well.
Have been to Auschwitz and now I'm trying to get out but don't know what to eat. I think cookies are making me fat but how am I gonna hit my cal limit?

Also I think I started low and have been slowly moving up. I fucking hate fat and it's all I have.
155lbs and 6'2" and still fucking belly fat.

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>>39207231
>Counting the pl8s

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Did SL 5x5 without doing chest accessories on the side, my chest and bicepts literally doubled in size after 1 month of using couple of machines.

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>>39208761
CMOOOON
LETS GET DICK

>>39205709
>Don't try to teach yourself how to squat and dead if you've never done it before. Get somebody that knows what going on to teach you. If you HAVE to learn it on your own for whatever reason, use baby weights and video yourself. Forget the ego.

This. My first time I was watching people squat 2, 3 plates... I was like, ok I'll try 1pl8 just to get the hang of it. Big mistake. I did manage to "good morning" it up there but I pulled something in my neck and it still hurts to this day sometimes.

>>39207502
>squat every day
>stuff your face
>never do arms

So basically Starting Strength?

>>39207622
yeah you did

>>39207244
I don't think I consciously push my neck back but now I'm scared I do what is the correct position??

>>39207216
>>thinking 100mg viagra as 10mg so took two instead of cutting into quarters

Bruh 100mg itself is enough to make you cum 10 times over

>2nd time ever benching
>225
>4 reps
Was doing half reps and today i realize how retarded I looked back then.

>>39211550
>second time ever benching
>40 lbs

me today

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>>39211584
>second day on fitness
>believing e-stats

>>39211631
I had already been lifting for a while just never did barbel bench only dumbbell.

>>39208021

I could rep 135 on the bench with full range of motion/no spot when I started. I also have a 400 pound bench at 200 now. Maybe you are just genetically inferior. Don't feel bad, most people are average.

>>39208691
Explain.
>>39208698
Fix your form. Do posterior chain, back (as in upper such as lats/traps and erectorsr), and weighted ab work. It's most likely form, but you are going to visit snap city if you don't work on getting a freaky back/abs while still deadlifting.

>>39205577
>bicep isolation curl machine thingy

>pad for your elbows to rest on while you curl

>lean back against machine with my butt on that pad and proceed to curl

>>39207244
>>39211443
My bro used to do this subconsciously. Gave him some pretty bad headaches.

He fixed is shit by, you know, not pushing his head back against the bench.

>>39211675
You could bench the same as you could OHP?

Was this information supposed to make it sound like you didn't push press?

>>39208709
Strangely, glute work will help tremendously with this. Not joking. In addition to stretching your hip flexor, do glute isolation.

>>39210112
no you are to weak to jump on a hypertrophy program because you're a beginner, get 1/2/3/4 the do his program

>>39211756
Did you flunk the fifth grade? I am obviously a different person than the 135 OHP guy.

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>>39211887
Checked

Different anon, thanks for the advice fampai, I was wondering how long I should go before doing hypertrophic routines

>>39205577
>Never keeping a consistent workout or not including cardio to lose weight
>Lifting till the point of pain, couldn't bend arms alot for a week

I'm still making a dumb mistake but no one has given me an answer here so I'm just continuing with what I know. I've been doing SL on a cut so all of my lifts went up at first but then quickly stalled. I want to continue cutting but I don't want my lifts to go down, so I'm continuing to do 5x5 at my current working weights. Every couple weeks I'll try go up a little in weight but I'm not really following the program properly at this point with the deloads and switching to 3x5 etc.

>>39205618
>highschool football coach wanted us to try deadlift for the first time
>what better way than by having us find our max on a difficult exercise that we weren't trained on

and that's how I pulled the shit out of my back and couldn't play for like 3 months

>>39210179
Don't bulk if your skinny fat you'll just put on more fat, cut down on bf first the slow bulk. Start 200 calories above maintenance when starting slow bulk, if you don't gain any mass after 2-3 weeks, then increase your calorie intake again by 200 calories, until you find the right amount. And if you slow bulk do it clean, no sugar, sweets, soda, candy, any of that, it'll suck but after a while you'll get used to it and if you slip up and eat something not on your diet then adjust your calories for the rest of the day. I'd say just stick to meat, chicken, vegetables, rice/simple carbs, oatmeal should be fine just try not to go overboard.

>>39211014
How so? No point during the lift did the injury occur.

>>39205577
>Tried 10 hour gym workout when I was natty
>Didn't eat
>Snorted creatine
>Forgot to wear squat plugs often
>Got completely ripped and squatted way too much weight and nearly killed myself 4 years ago

>these are the people I interact with every day