I'll go out on a limb and say it's a 2.5" best belt, if it's not a 3". Even the source you cited uses a properly fitting belt for deadlifts...

What effect does weed have on your metabolism?

Does anyone have a daily stretch routine that they do when they get out of bed in the morning? Feel like I've terrible flexibility from sitting in a chair all day (can barely sit cross legged for any long period of time)

Check out:
https://examine.com/supplements/marijuana/
and
https://examine.com/nutrition/the-sc...your-appetite/

You could do some general foam rolling, but also look to see what you are doing the rest of day (ten minutes of stretches in the am won't do jack if you spend the next 10 hours in a chair).

https://ericcressey.com/prolonged-sitting-posture

Look in to the stretching aspects of Neanderthal No More.

Thanks for that, but neither link really answers my question. I can't seem to find any information on how it affects metabolism specifically. In other words, I'm aware of all those possible effects of marijuana, including the munchies. I want to know how my metabolism changes while stoned, regardless of food, and thereafter.

If you're smoking that much you think it matters...metabolism is the least of your concerns.

Yes, it increases temporarily just like a stim and like stims your body adjusts and the effect is less if you use it too frequently.

Thanks. I guess there's not much data out there on it yet. I smoke semi regularly but I started working out like I used to again. I just didn't wanna kill my metabolism post workout if it keeps me from burning calories

Any effects are transient, from what I have read, as well as from my own experiences. Slight increases in heart rate and blood pressure are common.

It is possible that there can be minor hormonal effects including testosterone reduction, this is according to a course on Marijuana at Umass. I don't have the source for that though

Personally I had to quit because of the effect on my appetite

Random comment on this, I take a pretty high dose of magnesium and find it has a significant effect on my digestion, basically totally prevents constipation even if I accidentally have low fiber days.

I'm going to a 6 day PPL split. Should I do the same routine or should I do heavy low rep for one day and low high rep for the other? Or just do normal reps and mix up exercises?

I think the only member of the forum to do a program like that was rAv. It's the first few weeks of his log. There's a preponderance of data to suggest that a 3 or 4 day program would be better for general strength. Generally, it's only very advanced athletes and bodybuilders doing 6 day routines, but not a generic PPL program, rather something of their coach's design.

Ok, I'll take a look at that. I should say I'm not a beginner and had being doing a 4 day split for years. Care much more about GAINZ than strength right now. I figured I'll probably have to find a few programs and then tailor it to my needs.

Gus,

I'd check out Jeff Nippard's video series on his PPL progression; it should give you some good ideas.

Generally, given you'll just have two push days and two leg days per week, having your main lift being a bench variant, an OHP variant, a squat variant, and a DL variant would fit my eye, and having your main pull exercise alternate between a horizontal and vertical pushing exercise also seems like a decent starting point. After that, volume and intensity kind of depend on your goals; if you're interested in hypertrophy, lower intensity and higher volume is probably where you should lean towards. Accessories should reside at the intersection of what you "need" and what you enjoy; easy enough to swap around/substitute every few months or so.

Thanks, Monte. Exactly the kind of advice I'm looking for.

Cheers!

I’m not one to demonize cannabis but I’d be Leary taking a site that sells cannabis products as credible


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Hey guys, I was deadlifting today and hurt my back. I did my first set and it actually felt really good and was feeling confident about adding more weight next workout. Then my second set things seemed to be going fine, but on the 2nd rep my back just kind of gave out and said "nope". It wasn't a feeling like trying and failing to lift more weight, more like my lower right back just shut off and wouldn't exert force normally.

Immediately after putting the weight down I was walking kind of gingerly and could feel some pain in my lower right back specifically (the actual pain was never too bad, but the level of stiffness was pretty unusual). I decided to just end the workout after that. It's been a couple hours now and it doesn't feel too bad, can walk and stuff normally now, but there's definitely some level of unnatural stiffness/soreness.

1. What kind of "injury" did I have?

2. How long before I can go back to deadlifting without being an idiot?

3. Other than obviously trying to monitor/improve my form, what can I do to avoid this happening again? I've been doing 3 sets of 5 reps on DL every workout, is that too much? (only 3 workouts/week)

1. probable impossible to know without an mri or something

2. your next workout. load up 25-30% of your normal working weight (might mean needing to prop the loaded barbell on plates to get the right height), and see if you can do a set of 10 to 20 reps without worsening pain. Use strict form. If this isn't possible then pull from high blocks or rack pins, finding whatever range of motion you can do without worsening pain. In either case, do 3 to 5 sets of 10 to 20 reps and repeat this 2 or 3 days a week, increasing the weight a little each time.

3. other than fixing your form, not much. 3x5 3 days a week is probably too much if the working weight is more than a little challenging for you. Most intermediate trainees DL 1-2x per week, with one of the days being a DL variant with lighter weight.

I’m in a similar situation with deadlifts and had a similar if not identical injury around a month or so back. I did what Renton suggested after being referred to the Starr protocol, but I started the very next day as soon as the injury was easing a little and worked it everyday doing RDLs mostly. It cleared up crazy fast and got to 100% very quickly. I was going to stay out of the gym entirely for a week or so before I found out about the starr thing, but that’s the wrong approach.

Hi all,

I have been doing madcow for 4ish years now pretty regularly. Work stuff and life stuff happens, and I have had to take a couple weeks off from lifting, and then take 10ish percent off my top weights for a reset. Only a couple of times have I hit a wall where I was at new all time highs and had trouble recovering from the lifting I was doing, and it was always right before, like, Christmas vacation or the birth of my baby girl or something where I would inevitably be taking some time off from the gym, and so then I would just deload and get back doing the same thing when I could again.

Right now, I am more or less at:

Squat: 400x3
DL: 410x5
Bench: 245x4
Row: 247.5x4
Press:147.5x4

All are at or near all time highs, but the last few sessions in the gym have been just terrible, not even necessarily able to do what I had previously done, let alone progress. So, obviously I could just deload and go again. But also, only my squat is up much from my previous all time high (+10 lbs). The rest are about the same, so it also makes me wonder if this is as far as I can go with this plan (or maybe I just have a terminal case of the olds). Are there other programs people switch to at a point like this?

Wook,

Good progress thus far! Very respectable numbers.

Basically, you've reached a point where the applied stress isn't enough for you to adapt, for a myriad of reasons. I would listen to the barbell medicine podcasts on programming (3 parter, kinda log, but interesting). Here's the first.



Basic cliff notes are: you need more volume and you probably need to drop your average intensity on your sets. It'll pay off in the long run.

+1

Damn, nice numbers Wookie! Age/height/weight?