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I have had an on and off love affair with weight lifting for years.

I have never made a lot of strength gains, though.

Recently I started doing the Armstrong Pullup program, but my shoulder started tweaking in the 3rd week. Hoping to rest it and get back to that. Then I hope to do a Starting Strength variation. Maybe I can "get it right" this time! It hasn't seemed very intuitive to me so far.

Anybody lift?

I do and it takes about 6 months of regular lifting to really see any results. Once you do you have to maintain it or you will lose it.

Go weightlifting three times a week (see earlier post about gym conditions). Some things may help your problem:

1) Make sure that you warm up and do your stretching exercises first.

2) Never lift alone, always lift with a buddy behind you in case it goes bad.

3) Make it a smooth movement up AND down, if you can't manage the smooth movement then increase the reps and decrease the weight until you can.

4) If you injure yourself put an icepack on it immediately. If after two days you still have limited movement then report to a hospital.

5) If you use machines instead of weights and there are safety features such as limit stops then use them.

6) No drugs.

Vanilla_Slice

I've been lifting since I was 16 or 17, and I'm a non-competitive bodybuilder. It seems like something out-of-character for an Aspie, but it's a big part of my life. I built a gym at our ranch, and I work out on a split routine 4 days/week.

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About the shoulder tweaking thing; check your form is correct and don't do more reps than you safely can. Sometimes I can do more or less, it goes up and down, so be mindful of your body, and don't rigidly follow the numbers of a program. Personally I like bodyweight exercises a lot, but I pick up the weights now and then.

Love it. I can bench my own weight But I've injured my shoulder so I can't lift anything at the moment, which sucks.

I started lifting when I was 15. I actually can see huge (numbers wise, my muscles barely change in size) results even the day after I pickup weights for the first time in a long time. Only problem is I seem to hit a wall when I get to fairly heavy weights. I have managed to beat my "wall" a couple times doing only 1-2 rep sets for a couple days.

My shoulder used to really hold me back, it has been dis-locatable since I was 12 or 13. Which makes for a good laugh on halloween but I couldn't hand clean more than 95-115lbs for the longest time because it would dislocate fairly painfully.

My lung spontaneously collapsed when I was 17 and that was the end of me weightlifting for months and months and even then I was stupid to pick up a bar so soon after figuring out on my own that lifting 10lbs with my left arm could make my lung hurt again. However I had just lost a girlfriend who I had proposed to (stupidly) so I really didn't care about the consequences. As a result I broke my hand clean limit, I managed to clean and jerk 180lbs, myself only weighing 160lbs and to my disadvantage I'm also 6'0". The most I've ever squatted was 300lbs, the most I've ever benched was probably 180 or 190 and I could at my peak deadlift at least 235lbs. Nothing significantly bad happened as a result though I think my lung did hurt multiple times and I ignored it and told my mom that I felt perfect.

I am in my 5th cycle of 5/3/1 & love it. At 44 YO I have never been stronger in any point in my life. My current 1RMs are a 305 bench, 405 squat & 500 deadlift. Its a great program for not just adding strength but some nice mass as well.

I was a skinny kid, but deceptively strong.

I started lifting when I was about 14, (more than 30 years now).

Three years later I was built like a boxer.

I was a weight training instructor in my early 20s.

I set my bench press record aged 23 at 120kg and finally managed to finally break it, 20 years later when I hoisted 130kg.

I generally go with 3 times a week (every other day) and I use 'negatives', which means I get twice the results in half the time.

I only do upper body weight training as long distance cycling takes care of my legs.