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Abyssis ([personal profile] abyssinia) wrote in [community profile] lifting_heavy_things 2013-12-14 06:40 pm (UTC)

Yay lifting! Lifting is awesome and I'm glad you're enjoying it, though I'm sad that online group sounds awful.

I still do my lifting with a coach (I go to a crossfit gym but do a lot of the lifting / olympic lifting classes with our super awesome strength coach) and I find that super helpful with form corrections and suggestions, especially when I was learning. If it's at all in your budget and local availability, even a few sessions with a good lifting coach can be really useful. Sometimes it's hard to feel/notice form problems in yourself.

I don't know much about stronglifts or this inner circle, but some resources that you might like, though I'm not sure they're quite what you're looking for:

1) I read breaking muscle (http://breakingmuscle.com/) a lot. I like some of the authors/coaches more than others, but there are definite pearls of wisdom (and occasionally idiocy) and it's pretty good with gender/age/body type/etc issues. There's discussion of anatomy and how to choose coaches and form modifications and lots of packaged workout suggestions for a range of goals.

2) One of the coaches there whose articles I've liked has an online weightlifting academy here: http://weightliftingacademy.com/ - note that I have not really used this site and can't vouch for anything about it.

3) http://www.stumptuous.com/ seems to only update sporadically, but has good tips

Hopefully some of that will be helpful.

(also, goblet squats are supposed to be awesome for helping develop proper form - that's awesome that you've figured out how to modify what works for you)

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