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Feb 2017
11:35pm, 24 Feb 2017
23,555 posts
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SPR
I'm claiming intermediate as I bet most of the squats in their database aren't full squats 
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Feb 2017
7:20pm, 26 Feb 2017
673 posts
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idle_wilder
Just started watching this thread - started with a PT about a month ago, who is very into weight lifting, and he's had me starting far more strength work - apparently, I'm a natural dead-lifter I've really been enjoying it so far!
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Feb 2017
7:29pm, 26 Feb 2017
35,588 posts
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Velociraptor
You're the opposite of me, then, i_w. I'm anatomically as incapable of doing a conventional deadlift as I am of doing deep squats without having my heels raised.
It's quite fun, isn't it? I've sometimes come back from a run and thought, "That was an hour of my life I'll never get back," but I've never come away from a lifting session thinking, "I wish I hadn't bothered doing that."
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Feb 2017
7:50pm, 26 Feb 2017
1,035 posts
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fraggle
I should come back to this thread again - I too have been using a PT for the last two months, and I love the squats and dead lifts. I did have to laugh the other week, as he loaded some relatively small weights onto the bar (7.5 kg each end) and I bemoaned the fact that everyone would be staring at the diddy weights I was using. "No, he said, if anyones staring, its because you're doing squats, and thursday isn't squat day" ? apparently thursday (our usual time) is not 'lower body day' so I am yet again going against the flow
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Feb 2017
7:58pm, 26 Feb 2017
675 posts
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idle_wilder
He has me deadlifting and rack squatting to try to wake up my glutes - I'm pretty quad-led, and get everything around my knee stronger. I really like it! I would never have gone into the weights area at the gym on my own before, but did a quick lot of rack squats this morning when it was quieter, and I couldn't get in to the TRX rack to deadlift, due to classes.
Squats take a bit more work, especially when I lose concentration and forget what I'm doing, then wobble. Deadlifted 55kg last week (cancelled this week, as full of the cold).
I had a similar moan to the PT a couple of weeks ago fraggle, when he had to get me a step to put my feet on whilst using the chest press machine!
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Feb 2017
8:09pm, 26 Feb 2017
35,590 posts
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Velociraptor
I'd like to say that nobody pays any attention to what anyone else is doing in the weights area of the gym, but I know that's not true because the internet is full of people slagging other gym users off for bad technique/hogging the machines/using pink neoprene-coated dumbbells/picking their nose and wiping the bogies on the equipment.
FWIW, when I do squats at the moment I've got a 4kg dumbbell in each hand and am conscious that I really ought to be doing skipping or step-ups instead because none of the sports I do require my legs and  to be any bigger but some explosive speed would make a difference to all of them.
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Feb 2017
9:52am, 27 Feb 2017
3,144 posts
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SharonD
I got over worrying about other gym users looking/ judging what I'm up to by reminding myself I'm there to train for athletics, not to get a certain shape, lift a certain weight etc I'm there to build strength and power for my event and there is no point putting a heavy weight on the end of the bar if that results in a snail-like movement for me as that's just going to teach me to move slowly which is the last thing I need on a track
That said I'm moving into a max rep phase soon so I WILL need to remind myself to push within what I can shift at pace.
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Feb 2017
1:34pm, 27 Feb 2017
23,562 posts
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SPR
Everyone starts from somewhere so laughing at someone for using 'light' weights is silly. Still happens I'm sure, but my impression at least previously was that it's more likely to happen to guys and women in many instances are/were guided to light weights due to the bulking myth.
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Feb 2017
10:55am, 28 Feb 2017
50 posts
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V23
Hi everyone - I'm relatively new to the forums and am very happy to have just found this one
Apologies if this is a question that's been asked a million times already, but I was wondering if any of you have found a good way to plan and record your workouts that you wouldn't mind sharing? I'd like something that I can have in the gym with me to keep my workouts more structured. Thanks in advance!
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Feb 2017
11:05am, 28 Feb 2017
7,339 posts
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lammo
I use a notebook and pen, then an excel sheet
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