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Re: We’re all just temporarily abled

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mise_en_place wrote: post #89
nwiswell wrote: post #63

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> You mention some pretty scary KG numbers there > I just wanted to mention to readers that even squatting a ‘measly’ 50KG or deadlifting 30KG Yes -- this is really important to contextualize. Barbell resistance training is actually two things: 1) A method of exercise that has a variety of well-quantified health benefits including improvements in strength, bone density, and connective tissue. More muscle also means y…

It's also relative to your body weight. A 150 kg squat for someone who weighs 118 kg (i.e. me) is not that impressive. Whereas an 80 kg squat if you weigh 80 kg is extremely impressive. You should be aiming to lift 1x-1.5x your body weight, over time.

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Re: We’re all just temporarily abled

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Post by pulpfictional »

piva00 wrote: post #137
pulpfictional wrote: post #131

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What's the plan to stay injury-free? I don't know any bodybuilders.

You can either choose to lift until you find a sweet spot of strength you are content with and not push past it, avoiding injury from ever-heavier lifts. Or you'll want to progress slower when you are at intermediate-advanced level, lifting is pretty safe as a sport if you do it with proper form until you get to the upper boundaries. Rest well, eat enough, don't push it when something is feeling a "little weird" with…

Thank you!

Re: We’re all just temporarily abled

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Post by psychoslave »

> 1 in 5 people currently have a disability. 100% of people will have some form of disability in their lifetime.

That would mean no one will ever die in their best abilities. I think that is a claim that can easily proven wrong, for any reasonable definition of best abilities.

Re: We’re all just temporarily abled

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Post by rqtwteye »

pulpfictional wrote: post #131
ekidd wrote: post #118

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I powerlifed for years, with a truly excellent coach for much of that time. For what it was worth, she was Starting Strength certified and a successful international masters competitor. She fixed a subtle problem with my deadlift using nothing but the wrinkles on my T-shirt; my recovery improved dramatically. At 40, I was stronger than I was as a high school wrestler. I loved lifting. I remember casually picking up a…

What's the plan to stay injury-free? I don't know any bodybuilders.

From some age on (40-50?) you have to train to maintain, not to improve. Some can train really hard up to old age but most people tend to accumulate nagging injuries that can take away the ability to train at all.

Re: We’re all just temporarily abled

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Post by rayxi271828 »

throwaway4good wrote: post #132
ekidd wrote: post #118

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I powerlifed for years, with a truly excellent coach for much of that time. For what it was worth, she was Starting Strength certified and a successful international masters competitor. She fixed a subtle problem with my deadlift using nothing but the wrinkles on my T-shirt; my recovery improved dramatically. At 40, I was stronger than I was as a high school wrestler. I loved lifting. I remember casually picking up a…

I used to do karate. There were all these character who had seemingly superhuman physical fitness yet they would die really early. I always wondered why was that? Now I believe that a lot of physical training isn't that healthy. And if you put your whole personal identity on your physical abilities then when your abilities start to decline, as they naturally do from age 40 and up, you may spiral out of control and li…

Were you referring to people like Andy Hug of Kyokushinkai?

I believe he suffered from an illness, but in general I suppose having a full-contact punching and kicking bouts with gigantic men isn't very good for your long-term health anyway. Especially in Kyokushin where they have (had?) no weight classes.

Re: We’re all just temporarily abled

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Post by ChrisMarshallNY »

I'm really big on accessibility support. The demographic that I Serve tends to have a statistically higher level of challenges than your average audience.

One trick that I'm doing, in the app that I'm working on now, is that I have a "long-press help" feature.

I have a long-press gesture recognizer attached to the main view, and, when a long-press event is received, I find the shallowest view under that press, and examine it for the accessibility label and hint support. If it does not have any, I back up to its parent, etc.

If I find a label and hint, I use them to populate a popover, pointing at the target, and trigger a haptic. This popover has whatever is in the label (the popover title), and hint (detailed popover body).

This encourages me to make sure that as many items as possible, have accessibility support. It also is a lot easier to test, than running voiceover (which I need to do anyway, as sometimes, text does not speak the way we think).

I also localize my accessibility[0].

[0] https://github.com/RiftValleySoftware/RVS_Generic_Swift_Tool...

Re: We’re all just temporarily abled

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Post by rebuilder »

5d41402abc4b wrote: post #8
tastysandwich wrote: post #6

One of the best things I ever did was get strong through a basic barbell training program called Starting Strength. Squat, deadlift, overhead press, bench press, chinups, eat, sleep. It really is that easy. Highly recommend it for anyone interested. 1. Any back pain I had disappeared completely. 2. When I have to lift something awkward (eg, furniture), I don't injure myself. If you can deadlift 200KG, awkwardly leani…

My knee pain gets worse when i squat. How old are you?

Knee pain can be from a variety of causes, some of which have to do with the actual joint and some of which don't. For example, medial knee pain can be, to name two options, an MCL tear or just an inflammation of the bursal sac. I had the latter when getting back into exercise after a long break (I'm now 40), and was really worried I had busted my knees. In the end, switching to front squats for a bit and working on mobility as well as paying attention to posture when lifting helped with it.

Point being, if you don't know what's causing your knee pain, it's probably a good idea to figure it out first, then think about what could help.

Re: We’re all just temporarily abled

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Post by rayxi271828 »

piva00 wrote: post #137
pulpfictional wrote: post #131

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What's the plan to stay injury-free? I don't know any bodybuilders.

You can either choose to lift until you find a sweet spot of strength you are content with and not push past it, avoiding injury from ever-heavier lifts. Or you'll want to progress slower when you are at intermediate-advanced level, lifting is pretty safe as a sport if you do it with proper form until you get to the upper boundaries. Rest well, eat enough, don't push it when something is feeling a "little weird" with…

I wonder how to tell whether one's reached that sweet spot. Is it when the lift hasn't increased for months?

And of course there's the variable of age as well.

Re: We’re all just temporarily abled

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Post by zemvpferreira »

oarfish wrote: post #136
ekidd wrote: post #118

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I powerlifed for years, with a truly excellent coach for much of that time. For what it was worth, she was Starting Strength certified and a successful international masters competitor. She fixed a subtle problem with my deadlift using nothing but the wrinkles on my T-shirt; my recovery improved dramatically. At 40, I was stronger than I was as a high school wrestler. I loved lifting. I remember casually picking up a…

Your experience is surely valid, but I wouldn't just generalize this to the population at large. When you say "powerlifters", are those people who compete or just people who train? I can imagine this to make a difference. And in any case, I wouldn't take Rippetoe as an example of good scientific programming these days. It's good for getting people into lifting, but Starting Strength has a powerlifting fetish for no g…

I can review myself in ekidd's experience. I've been in the gym for 20 years and plenty of stronger (but not competitive) people I know picked up injuries from grinding out tough sets of 5 or 3. Heck I have two abdominal hernias and a 'sensitive' back that gives me problems from time to time that I can directly blame deadlift PRs for, even with great technique.

The gym is generally a safe hobby, but scientific bodybuilding, with its large sets, slow eccentrics and focus on the stretch is definitely the safest way to lift for longevity.

Re: We’re all just temporarily abled

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Post by wouldbecouldbe »

tastysandwich wrote: post #6

One of the best things I ever did was get strong through a basic barbell training program called Starting Strength. Squat, deadlift, overhead press, bench press, chinups, eat, sleep. It really is that easy. Highly recommend it for anyone interested. 1. Any back pain I had disappeared completely. 2. When I have to lift something awkward (eg, furniture), I don't injure myself. If you can deadlift 200KG, awkwardly leani…

For normal people, please lift, it's amazing, but just don't go too heavy, especially with squats & dead lifts. The risk is too high.

Get to squat 150kg is highly likely to cause back injuries for a vast majority of the people.

Whereas lifting 50% of max reps with higher reps will get you similar benefits, in most cases even more muscle growth, without the high risk of injuries.

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