@Solanine sorry I’m late to the conversation with this.
I’ve read @Dan531 and @Gorden responses to you and your replies to them.
I’m not a trainer either but I do have a trainer I work with who is helping me train for international martial arts competitions and I wholeheartedly agree with Dan and Gorden in that your schedule seems wrong. It’s out of synchronisation to allow your body to recover.
Pain, no matter what is your body telling you something is wrong. If a trainer is dismissing that then they are risking you making what might be a slight injury worse. You know your body, you know if it’s pain or soreness, we’ve all had a sore muscle at some point in our lives and anyone in this thread who has had an injury will tell you there as a massive difference between soreness and pain and you are saying it’s pain, you know it’s pain, you will have felt sore at some point to know the difference. Don’t allow them to dismiss it, they are there to work for you to get you healthy not to risk you getting injured.
When you go to the gym remember the phrase, “it’s about getting results not getting hurt”. If they are not stopping you from hurting they are not gaining you any results. Pain means you will use other muscles to counteract and compensate in order to achieve the goal so you increase injury potential, you don’t get the results the exercise is intended for and the injured muscle / tendon or whatever it is does not get a chance to repair itself and will simply remain injured and eventually will repair incorrectly and affect your performance levels or ability to move properly etc. your pain receptors will switch off the pain but the injury won’t have gone.
I would advise speaking to a doctor or physiotherapist and let them take a proper musculoskeletal check of where your pain is.
Dan, Gorden, great advice from you guys, well done for looking out for her.
Few weeks ago I bought myself 4kg kettlebell. Wanted to check if it’s my thing or not. Well, it is my thing I don’t have much time so those 30min full body workouts on yt are great for me. Some time ago I upgraded to 6kg, and last 2 or 3 workouts I’m using 8kg
It’s still not much, but it’s honest work
I love them as well, especially because finally I found something I can use, I can’t workout with classic dumbbells cause I can’t grab them with my left hand. Well, I can, but in very limited way.
My first two kettles are cheapy ones from Action (I think you also have Action in Germany, or not?), but with 8kg I decided to invest a little. I think I’m gonna buy 6kg better quality also.
Last years of gym was intense. I almost never skipped workouts. I bulked from 76kg to 82+
I still drinked alcohol, but almost always found a way for few workouts a week.
I did not wanted to go further, my goal now is concentrate more on running. That weight does not helps me with running. I am less flexible and very slow. So overall changing my diet, lifting less weights, running more.
Sort of doing a cutting phase
@BrOKenWolf thank you for giving me such an insightful reply!!
So i left the trainers for all the aforementioned reasons and never paid the two extra classes I did and they never called me back. I think they realised they screw up…
Also i asked for a program and NEVER got it.
The trainer that had me would NOT even say hi to me and he just was like oh you are gonna start training with this other trainer.
The worst part? My mum paid for my sessions, he did not say hi to my mum. If i catch him outside, he is done for!
Anyhow, I found a workout plan online (3 days hypertrophy - 2 days of power), paid for the membership at a better gym, with better equipment, instead of paying the so-called “trainer”, I am now ok week two of this plan and honestly it’s great!
That’s all for now.
I will definitely post on here if i come up with any questions.
You all are so knowledgeable, I am quite lucky to have you
Take care <3
I’ve never actually gone back and read this thread from the beginning, gonna do that the next couple days. Probably so many great missed tips on here from the past few years
K guys, wee Xmas gift to myself. Was also my goal for this year. Four years ago I got serious w lifting. I had started 1.5 years before that, did some crazy antics to lift while also full blown drinking, insane to think about now. Then I took the first 4 months of my sobriety off lifting cos I wanted my sobriety to stand on its own feet.
I remember my first sober new year’s that I celebrated w a run and a novice leg day in some hotel gym where we were staying w the dogs in Poland at the beach. It felt so good to get back. Here’s my documentation, I was doing some 60kg! :')
Deadlifting has always been by favourite and I’ve long anticipated getting into the advanced section for my weight. It’s just a number, but at the same time this one means a lot to me, somehow.
I have to take time off lifting when I’m too depressed or disturbed. That’s ok. I also had knee issues in September. My squat is still not back where it was before that. Also ok. Now my new commuting life and trying to be productive in my degree are taking a lot of time away from it and I hate that. To take any hard won progress and forward movement with the backward or stagnation or diversion is one of the many many things lifting has taught me. As in forced my terrible perfectionist idealist naive mind to accept. And w that to accept, form a relationship w and love my own body which is sth I never ever thought I’d say. Ever.
Whenever I “want” to celebrate I come up w so many reasons why I shouldn’t. Like there’s some punishment or shame just around the corner. Strange. Or that I could be so much better at my age, had I done things differently. Whatever. Posting despite these feelings and hopefully also now no more stupid flags!
Your one rep max is just shy of 300 lbs ? That’s fuckin badass. Great job.
See this is why I was so against having the who wore it best mini-skirt competition with her @Dan531
I don’t have much time so those 30min full body workouts on yt are great for me. Some time ago I upgraded to 6kg, and last 2 or 3 workouts I’m using 8kg 
Love kettle bells. Have a little kettlebell family at home.
Was also my goal for this year. 
Four years ago I got serious w lifting. I had started 1.5 years before that, did some crazy antics to lift while also full blown drinking, insane to think about now. Then I took the first 4 months of my sobriety off lifting cos I wanted my sobriety to stand on its own feet.
