Message from @The Enlightened Shepherd
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tops, they get hit 2x/week
instead do bench press one day
deadlift other day
then 1 day rest
then again
overhead
then squat
and rest
etc
I am not lifting weights much at all right now
career too intense
instead I am just doing calisthenics but being really hardass about it
military mindset
in the rest day you can introduce exercises withouth much weight, such as dumbells, boxing, pull ups
I go in phases of lifting vs nonlifting
but I am always working out hard
whenever i got injured in gym it was always due to lack of focus
which is as a rule due to bad sleep or having drinked previous nights
even though i injured myself only lightly 2 times in a span of 2 years
overstreched muscle, fixed with massage
basically, i drift away with my thoughts while working out, then i start doing pull ups and "pumping" my way through repetitions withouth taking care to descend and pull myself up without excessive, erratic motions
when my joints are most worn, I do isometric calisthenics
they are brutal but very easy on joints
if I had to boil it down to one sentence, the key to making calisthenics not gay is to do isometrics
holding half a push up for 5 minutes is infinity times harder than just doing 200 of them
and less taxing on joints
before retiring
my secret to developing self-confidence in combat
it really does approach weight lifting levels of hardassness if done right
strenghten your forearm !
yeah
I do grip exercises every pull day
what are you, military? MMA? boxing?
I'm sort of self-taught in boxing for years
boxing
Though I'm looking towards possibility of learning a proper martial technique
what does that mean
"proper martial technique"
Boxing is done within confined set of rules which are excellent to learn striking properly
But are not as applicable to real life as other techniques
you genuinely believe boxing is not as applicable to real life as some martial art from asia?