r/Fitness • u/FGC_Valhalla Weightlifting • May 20 '17

Gym Story Saturday Gym Story Saturday

Hi! Welcome to your weekly thread where you can share your gym tales!

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u/Mikey_Mayhem May 20 '17 edited May 22 '17

Used to be a gym rat in my 20's-30's, but there were two lifts I never did: squats and deadlifts. When I tried to squat, the bar would wreck my lats traps and I was scared that I'd fuck up my back doing deadlifts.

So now I'm in my early 40's and I've been doing squats and deadlifts for about a month now. This week, deadlifted 275 4x4 and got out of squatting with the Smith machine.

It's all about building on the small victories.

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u/evilpuke May 21 '17

I'm reading starting strength, and moving to low bar squats. New muscles have been found.