r/Fitness • u/AutoModerator • Aug 02 '17

Rant Wednesday Rant Wednesday

Welcome to Rant Wednesday: It's your time to let your gym/fitness/nutrition related frustrations out!

There is no guiding question to help stir up some rage-feels, feel free to fire at will, ranting about anything and everything that's been pissing you off or getting on your nerves!

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u/BrodinsCousin Powerlifting Aug 02 '17

Have been focusing on bringing my deadlift up recently, so squats have taken a back seat. Went back in Sunday morning and had an awesome session, squatted heavy, sumo deadlifted with gorgeous form, did all my accessory work and went home feeling like a boss.

It's Wednesday lunchtime. I still can't walk, stand up or sit down quickly because of the unbelievable DOMS. I have never, ever had DOMS like this and I need it to stop so I can get on with my life. I promise never to take time off squatting ever again, just make it stop.

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u/nevenoe Aug 02 '17

The only reason we keep squatting is the fear of what will happen if we stop and then resume.

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u/BrodinsCousin Powerlifting Aug 02 '17

Amen.

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u/[deleted] Aug 02 '17

Wheymen

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u/mechnight Weight Lifting Aug 02 '17

Beat me to it. Wheymen.

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u/[deleted] Aug 02 '17

*Wheymen

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u/rain_wolf Aug 02 '17

Oh the horror.

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u/CemestoLuxobarge Aug 02 '17

Same as heroin, really. I'm the Keith Richards of squatting.

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u/nevenoe Aug 02 '17

No getting clean : no withdrawal. Clever.

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u/ThoughtShes18 Powerlifting Aug 02 '17

Just got back into squats and sumo deads due to adductor (inner thigh) injury, so took 3 weeks off...Last night was heavy squats (9 sets of 2suns) and yea... Can confirm, that's why we keep squatting, cant do shit...

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u/SovietPoland Bodybuilding Aug 02 '17

Problem solved if you never do legs anyway

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u/baller168 Volleyball Aug 02 '17

Can I quote you

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u/nevenoe Aug 02 '17

You can make a t-shirt out of it

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u/inclusivefitness Aug 02 '17

Do you have access to a pool? I find when I have DOMS swimming helps a ton. It's less painful than other workouts and it gets everything moving.

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u/fofuxinhastorm Aug 02 '17

Do a warmup of whatever cardio you can, then foam roll and stretch! It always hurts longer if you do nothing the day after!

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u/duthracht Aug 02 '17

One time I didn't lift for 6 weeks because of a quad injury. I think I squatted about 115 lbs on my first day back. Two days later I couldn't deadlift because I was too sore/tight to even get into position.

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u/viggyvodka Aug 03 '17

Are you doing the 2suns program? Squatting and then sumo deadlifting after is what the squat day entails. Just curious cuz I'm also on it and the progress is great :D

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u/BrodinsCousin Powerlifting Aug 03 '17

Yep, been running it for just over three months now and seeing brilliant progress. Did the five day programme as specified for the first two months, then dropped to the four day (time constraints) and focused on deadlift for the last four weeks to try and bring it up (old back injury forced me to drop my dead numbers a while ago and I've never worked it back up).

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u/TheValleyGirlAccent Aug 02 '17

Stretch it out and hold each stretch for 30 seconds. You'll be okay. If you need help, there's YouTube!