Random Fitness Questions

Ty. Just ordered a few of those. Appreciated.

The original point made by the OP above seems to have been missed. The issue raised was with the T-Shirts, not anti-perspirant/deodrant. I've often had heavy cotton (think Fruit of the loom style) T-shirts that seemed to be impossible to get the smell out of, even after washing. The problem was particularly bad when using the cream/stick deodrants which acted as a magnet for the sweat.

Last year i twanged a hamstring, anything beyond walking hurt, yet I could hop on a bike and cycle into wicklow and felt nothing, putting my foot down to stop at lights was the only thing.

Some sideways running would be more practical than that first machine if up do any sort of outdoors running maybe a bit of band or mobility work, might help prevent groin strain

You don't need to target every single muscle individually. Vast majority of them can be hit with multi-joint exercises. On top of that, I don't know of any reason why you would need every muscle to be trained the same amount, unless that's your goal?

Many of them do have a strength imbalance, as do most people. It's good to train your full body but it's not something I'd be concerned about from an injury perspective. Unless you plan on attempting some out-of-the-blue maximal hip adductions. 😁

As above adductors and a small muscle group, but they are used in a lot of movements. Particularly initiating flexion and rotation.

Hamstrings are knee flexion and hip extension. Walking, running, jumping, anything where you bend a knee or straighten your hip. I'm not sure why cycling is the benchmark. But the upward section of pedaling is knee flexion and hip extension. More important with clips.

Cyclists do often have imbalances. Or another way, optimal strength strength development for cycling, could be very imbalanced generally.

As for how to train them. Horse stance squats, horse stance push presses and loaded tailors pose are all adductor heavy exercises (and often used to strength adductors in order to do the splits).

I want Lane 5's training plan

Being the only one who can get into a start position probably helps 😂

Prolonged driving, it absolutely breaks me tbh, no proble :(s after squats, RDL etc but that leaves me in bits :(

For many people it does, but that's part of the ageing process. Our musculoskeletal structures get weaker and worse at resisting the force of gravity. Hence the classic hunchback granny look. Maybe a certain amount of that can be staved off with resistance training. Again, we don't really know.

Stretching the hamstrings likely has no connection to any of that though.

Yeahhh... AthleanX isn't exactly evidence based fitness information. I'll admit he's good at sounding like he knows what he's talking about though.

I don't know where he came up with it. There's two types of quacks in the fitness industry: ones who know they're wrong and just want to make an easy buck, and ones who think they're right but don't realise because they're getting results for people.

The limited studies that are available on using exercise to change posture will on average show that it doesn't work. http://www.greglehman.ca/blog/2012/05/17/the-limitations-of-specificity-defending-the-plank-and-the-curl-up

Despite the fact that video shows no before or after to verify if his posture changed, I'll take him at his word. So really all we know is that the guy's posture changed, not that it was specifically because he did those exercises. Maybe Jeff made him more aware of his posture and the guy chose to start changing how he moved.

The first article is based on a popular theory from Yanda known as upper/lower cross syndrome. It's a nice sounding theory, but there's no support for it. It still gets taught to musculoskeletal health professionals and parroted despite its lack of scientific support.

You'll notice the second article has actual research citations, and unsurprisingly comes to the conclusion that posture isn't likely to be changed by exercise. We don't even have evidence that one type of posture is better/worse for pain. The more you delve into the research on musculoskeletal health, the more you realise that a lot of the claims made by physios/therapist/chiros etc. have no backing.

Just so you know, that 'guy' is Mark Wahlberg 😂

As for your Q. It's probably not what you want to hear, but maybe that's just how your stomach looks 🤷‍♂️ Losing belly fat is one thing, but you seem to be talking about posture. I would contend that it's anatomically normal for a human belly to protrude and that what you see in a Calvin Klein ad is not indicative of how a normal stomach looks. The idea that the girl in the video has a 'belly' is insane. She just isn't trying to flex when she's talking.

I did a post on this exact topic recently that involved me getting my nips out

https://www.instagram.com/p/CU45etRsR6q/