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oascany@lemmy.world 7 hours agoThis is why form is the most important thing when you’re working out. Everything else comes after. You have to stretch and learn good form. The cool thing about form is that it’s only something you’re learning for the first few months, after that you will naturally be good at finding the correct form in most new exercises because you understand the basics of what you’re doing.
Yup. After taking a few years off after my shoulder surgery I started back at basically 0 weight, or 2.5lb if 0 didn’t make sense. I did 4 sets of 25 reps for each exercise with perfect form, and only stepped up the weight by 2.5lb when I could do all 100 reps without discomfort.
I’m still taking it slow, but I’m back up to 1 plate as my 15rm with squats, deadlifts, and bench press without pain. Hopefully I’ll be back to my pre-surgery 15rm of 2 plates soon.
Yes that is important I guess. I’m not really a workout person. Just something that bothers me is many people think that pain equals gain, but in reality pain equals destroying your telemeres and your body even if it takes years to manifest because your body is so amazing at keeping itself alive and in a good state.
WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.today 6 hours ago
I finally reached 55 KG, and I’m running around with steel parts back at work. It’s fun…