Ask HN: What are you doing to improve your health?

Re:Ask HN: What are you doing to improve your health? by tel on Friday April 10, 2015 @12:10PM (#9355245)

I've been doing 5x5 for about a month now. Everything except OH Press has been tracking very nicely---a bit of challenge but I can always make it through with a focus on form and be prepared for next workout.

But I'd like to understand better your concern about volume. If I face this deficiency, what will it feel like? How should I get around it?

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Re:Ask HN: What are you doing to improve your health? by londonymous on Saturday April 11, 2015 @12:09PM (#9359736)

I had problems with the OH Press just because the minimum increase when you're starting out is so much relative to the total weight. I think I started out at 25kg so with the smallest plates at 1.25kg, the first few increases were around 10% each — tough to pull off every week.

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Re:Ask HN: What are you doing to improve your health? by tel on Saturday April 11, 2015 @05:25PM (#9360909)

That's a good point. I kept attributing it to missing form, which is probably not half bad to focus on, but maybe this is more of a mere "suck it up and go" sort of situation, haha

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