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Related to the topic of working out as a form of gender-affirming care as a transmasc non-binary person, here are some of my recent progress photos. Most of these show about 1 year of progress
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Related to the topic of working out as a form of gender-affirming care as a transmasc non-binary person, here are some of my recent progress photos. Most of these show about 1 year of progress
as a butch what workouts generally work for you to increase your strength and muscle definition? I’m struggling to find what works and after a long break I feel like I’ve lost so much progress. (Plus I can’t find the right form for bicep curls and it’s making me tweak)
Preacher curls might help you with your bicep struggles. You are by design locked into position to target your bicep. I'm by no means a workout expert, whats most important to me is having a routine that I can do consistently.
I also added a day where I do primarily delt stuff and its helped a lot with getting them more cappy.
-lat raise
-bent rear fly
-upright row
-shoulder press
-dumbell row
Admittedly Ive been struggling with my shoulder lately but im trying not to get discouraged.
You also probably didn't lose as much progress as you think! It takes a while for you to lose a lot of muscle.
It will come back 🙂↕️
Skipping leg day forever. I'm in so much pain. How do y'all handle this.
My muscles TRICKED ME. Yesterday, they were like "wows, feels great! No pains at alls!"
Now I can't move my legs.
What are we doing???
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I just started doing HEMA, is there any workouts I can do so I’m not worn out at the end of a single bout?
You probably won't like this answer but, running.
Understand I'm RELATIVELY new to HEMA (less than 2 years) and also fairly new to being non-sedentary (couldn't run a mile before this year and only started sort of working out ~3 years ago), so I am not an expert. But Sparring WIPED me when I started. I cross trained with climbing for several months, figuring strength and balance were the trick, especially since my arms and back were sore CONSTANTLY at first. And climbing helped like, a tiny bit, but I still had zero capacity for long or multiple bouts. Then I picked up regular running specifically to increase my endurance for steel kit HEMA. In 3 months of regular cardio I went from fencing like, 2 bouts a day max before I was too wiped to continue, to fencing 5-6 high intensity bouts in a day with a energy to spare.
And, honestly, running sucked ass at first. I took 5 months to complete a "9 week" couch-to-5k program. I walked over 90% of my miles for the first month. But holy shit, I feel like a fucking Olympian in the ring. Even when my technique needs work I'm literally running circles around fencers whose only cardio is fencing.
Strength is good too, but I hate weights so I do body weight stuff around climbing. Exercises focused on the upper back and shoulders are useful specifically for longsword. These can be low-weight, since swords aren't honestly that heavy (although strength can be useful in tourney bouts, strength building is a different story from 'doing bouts without feeling like death'). Bicep and tricep curls, chest presses and overhead rows will all make it so your arms/back/shoulders don't get tired. But for me, and for a lot of new fencers, the limiting factor is cardio, cardio, cardio. Do more cardio. Take as much time as you need to build up to regular and comfortable cardio, but. Seriously. Do cardio.
I’m not following any real training plan right now but my goals are to get stronger, increase muscle definition, and get better at running.
Here are my current stats
5’2”
138lbs
Squat 200lbs
Deadlift 205lbs
Bench press 125lbs
OHP 60lbs
1 mile run time 11 minutes
5k time 34 minutes
10k time 1 hour and 12 minutes
1/2 marathon time 2 hours and 48 minutes
It can only get better from here!
did my half-marathon today! finished in 2 hrs 21 mins which is about what i was expecting, and while i was lowkey hoping to finish under 2 hrs 20 mins, i did also start my period literally half an hour before the race and felt like i had knives in my thighs the first few kilometres which is ofc a great way to kick things off, so all things considered i'm satisfied :P