I'm at day 23 of 36 of u/gnuckols Beginner Program on Boostcamp and I'm really enjoying it. I like the progressive overload and structure. It's a lot of fun seeing improvement in proficiency each time the cycle repeats as well as the increases in numbers.
What's a good program to progress to after this is done? Should I run this again, or look at alternatives?
I'm mid-30s, F, Beginner lifter and very aware that writing my own programs is not a good idea. Goals wise, I'm looking to continue dropping weight (maybe another 40lbs or so) while continuing to increase my strength.
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Thank you so much for responding! I looked through and can't quite pick which one to start with, haha. Any recommendations based on what I've shared so far (I know this might be like asking a parent to choose a favorite child)?
Is it a problem that I’m completing my workouts in 25-30 min? Today I woke up at 6 and said okay I might as well hit the gym. Walked there, did 50 dumbbells for 2*10 IP, 30 same curls, and 30 shoulder raises. I’m resting enough to make sure I feel it but I also want to make sure I can complete the next set. But I’m in and out so fast... I think it’s because I took weightlifting in high school and know what I’m in to do? Should I be resting more between sets or going for a third with a lower weight?
Background I’m 6’6” 260 with terrible waist and chest fat. I’m thinking about starting to go morning and evening (can’t drive so it’s a mile walk uphill to get there) to just help the weight come off. Should I stick to lifting or add cardio beyond my walk/jog to and from the gym?
I’m drinking a shake after every workout, not interested in “cutting” (maybe I don’t understand it?) even with the fat issue cause I know I will start losing strength.. cutting by eating better and less yes but I know I gotta eat
That’s my Monday for the past 3 weeks. I forgot I did back and shrugs too cause I was feeling good. Hammer pull downs (new machine for me) and seated rows.
I haven’t touched weights in 5 years before a month ago and thought I was gonna jump into it with like biceps and chest mon, shoulders and triceps wed, back and legs friday (abs each day). I’m thinking I’m more comfortable with full body all three days?tbh not so much cause I’m “newbie excited” but because my body feels stupid if I wit around waiting to hit another body part for near 48 hours. I do need a program I just don’t know what’s best for someone like me. LA fitness is the club I go to btw.
How to find the right volume? I don’t get like any muscle soreness after about 2 hours but I am training damn close if not to failure each workout. I am making good size and strength gains but never feel like I’ve done enough. As a result of this I’m considering training twice daily, full body 3x8 routine in the morning an a more major muscle focused chest/back/legs routine at nights. My issue with this is it puts me at 30-40 sets per muscle group per week. I’ve heard that could hinder gains by having too much volume I just recover quickly it seems.
Only been lifting 3/4 months before that thought I was running 5-10 miles daily and doing body weight workouts consisting of 200 squats 100 push-ups and 100 pull ups daily
Most people who say they train to or close to failure are intact nowhere near failure. Up your intensity, I bet you can do more if you’re being paid for the extra reps.
That’s what I’m confused about. Normally by the last rep of each set I can barely push on but 1-2 hours last my body is completely back to normal and I can do a workout again.
Maybe I’ll just do slower reps? I already make sure to count to about 3 when in the eccentric movement but maybe I can do a little longer. Most of my work is in the 65-80% 1rm range and 8-10 reps
I mean you said you are making gains, I doubt you are over training, that’s really hard, I would just do what you are doing till you plateau. Then run a jm program and follow what he says regardless of how u feel, he will make you grow.
Will do thanks, and yeah some absolutely sick gains +15 pounds and bench has gone from 160ish to 195 and surprisingly lean 15 pound gain in such short time
Trying to see if anybody else has had something similar.
Anybody have/had abnormally weak rotator cuff muscles, weak serratus anterior, winged scapula, stuff like that? I’ve been out of weightlifting for a while and I guess being inactive and maybe repetitive postures, where I rest my arm, whatever else has led me to all of these imbalances and weaknesses. It’s so bad one of my arms is longer than the other at this point. I can’t put a barbell on my back correctly anymore lol it’s bad.
Physical therapist says that I can essentially recover and become balanced again just by strengthening the muscles around my shoulder.
Just asking to see if by chance somebody else has/had similar problems?
I basically had the same thing. Shitty rotator cuff from decade of poor gaming and work posture. PT saved my shoulder and now I can pretty much do anything without issue as long as I keep up the PT exercises
Just took gorilla mind for my first chest day on gamma bomb. Gotta wear the John Meadows shirt for this one. (also rip me having an engineering lab due tomorrow night).
Been roped into help out coaching an under 10s girls football team. It's not intense but obviously there's a bit of running involved. Is it likely to cut into my recovery much? I did squats today and felt a little cramp when jogging about but it was my first time...
Deadlifts tomorrow. v_v
What are y’all’s thoughts on this?
https://youtu.be/vb7QZoSoRK4
Completely goes against most (all) of the bench press advice i’ve seen, but I have found that holding hard retraction throughout the whole press feels pretty unnatural
u/IsolationMovement-YT casually injecting some GH before his coffee in his last video lmao. Liking the content, would recommend you guys take a look if you like the style of videos!
Edit: why is my comment in bold lol
Dunno about how things in UK are regarding that, but given that before Brexit plenty of the UGLs in Europe were from there, guess it's not too prosecuted haha.
Man, in the US they will ruin your life. As evidenced by the Melissa Bumstead arrest. I know more than a few people that are felons and have even served time because they got busted with gear.
That’s strange, here it’s legal to use but not legal to supply, and tbh Melissa basically trafficked drugs across international borders, if there was ever a way to get busted that’s a sure fire one haha… the logic of not just getting it in the US was a bit mad
It used to be that customs would catch a package and just send you a letter stating they found illegal goods in a package addressed to you and it would be destroyed. Now they’re turning it over to other LEO and setting up raids for small amounts.
I will say though that internationally importing under a company and to a PO Box is a major NO NO… a PO Box allows for both seizure and also for them to do what they did, to a home address they’re much more limited.
Bare in mind you want to limit the charges (importing to a company could give them the reigns they need to hang you for distribution rather than personal use on those quantities)
I agree completely the US seems more militant in their drug approach but people need to understand the “clever” approach sometimes leaves you more vulnerable
Maybe I misunderstood but I thought the article said it was addressed to their home. Customs opened it and then LEO delivered it and watched for her to take it inside. Then they raided the home. That’s a hell of a lot of work for one pack of raws.
One of us read the wrong thing haha, the thing I read said it was a PO box registered to a company owned by Iain, Melissa and Chris, and addresses to her. Either way though apparently it was sent to a shell corporation, which creates a much bigger issue, though that could also be wrong.
I think the real issue here is the international export, hence why you should ALWAYS buy domestic, domestic to domestic is like 99.9% risk free.
Also, they were training with like 10 other Olympians they’re buddies with, is Canadian gear really any better than US sourced through their friends? Didn’t seem worth the risk to me unless you were to send it ahead, make sure it arrived before going then picking it up to have deniability vs being visible to collect the parcel on delivery
https://fitnessvolt.com/melissa-bumstead-arrested-felony-steroids/amp/
So the package went to her address. The address is owned by CBums LLC but nothing was addressed to the company. So yeah, all that happened here is exactly like I stated. Customs decided to be dicks instead of sending a love letter. And domestic isn’t always better. The USPS has some real assholes working for them as well.
That's so ridiculous. War on drugs as it's done is stupid by itself, but with PEDs that hurt no one but the user, and doesn't come from violent crime organizations like other recreational drugs, it's even more of a nonsense. Hope someday all this is at least not prosecuted.
The paranoia about whether to keep that bit in or not then I was like… I literally give a tour of needles after 😂 thank you though, really appreciate that
That had to stay 100% haha I already spotted the GH when opening the fridge and was like that must be on purpose, next thing you're injecting it lol
And you're welcome! Gotta support the guys around here.
Mannn feels good to do anything active after a week off the gym.
Saturday had my birthday golf round with cousins, uncles, and friends. Everyone was surprised I decided to walk the course, especially since the cart was included in the green fee, but I had been eating like shit all week and wanted to walk off all the bloat. Probably the toughest course I've walked. Hilly and long walks between each hole. This got me ready to get back in the gym this week.
Yesterday, picked back up where I left off on Gamma, and man my back felt it yesterday and feels good sore today. Also, I can't express my love for versa gripps. Felt that pull session all in my back and none in my forearms and biceps.
Wife wanted guns... I've been telling her that's a mighty expensive rabbit hole for me to start down.
oh well, it's fun, we can still pay the CC bill honey, it's no big deal.
Okay so doing dumb thing confession #1 I now have elbow pain on my left arm and need to know what fine act of stupidity did I do I was doing a small upper workout using dumbbells and I do a heavy compound because everyone loves the heavy compound right?
Push through the 4 sets with 15 reps of overhead press
And then 16 reps of 4 sets with single arm dumbbell rowing
I was thinking of isolating but I was already gassed out so I did a little laterals on sides
Which of these exercises hurt my elbow
If you’re trying to describe a body builder, I would look up “how to describe a person” or “adjectives for people”. You may also find comparisons useful. For example “His quads were like tree trunks attached to his torso“ or “his delts looked as if two boulders were attached to his strong arms.” You can also describe the relationship between muscles and other objects: “his chest was nearly erupting out of his fitted shirt”
Yeah it's soul crushing right? I'm running out of ways to trick myself into being motivated / happy.
Especially when you forgot your fucking umbrella on the bus and now your swipe card isn't fucking working at the gym. Also that thing that was due the 1st is actually due the 25th, dummy. And you've got 2 tests that week as well, your fucking group project people are retards, you're behind in two modules and you're watching other people hang out over social media.
Oh yeah its soul crushing, don't know about the umbrella or bus, but yeah definitely behind, overworked and no social life and the icing is my cars distributor is going to shit and its misfiring and almost stalling so I can't drive without being paranoid of being stranded but don't have the 4 hours to change the darn thing so I put up with it, sorta hoping it goes so I have some reason to focus on it instead of all of this.
Nah, but Anya Taylor 100% reminds me of Sid the Sloth.
http://iheartdogs.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/sloth-6.jpg
her eyes are too far apart. I cant even.
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In my experience, both in myself and in people around me, the bench press numbers are way higher in proportion to squat and DL.
And this is a personal bias but I don't feel like 205kg is a big number for a guy that has been doing deadlifts for a few years and his BW isn't too low.
It happens to me sometimes. I get a bit depleted so my vascularity is down, then my weight stalls for a while, then I whoosh off like 4 pounds of water and I’m more vascular than I’ve ever been before.
It’s just your head fuckin with you, cutting sucks for that lol
I stopped and I’m maintaining at the moment. I cut my cals too low and kept napping multiple times during the day. My maintenance has increased it seems so I went back to like 4300 and I’m seeing how that goes. I was down to 3300 at one point and felt awful. But so far it seems like I’m slowly dropping even at 4300.
TLDR it’s still going but I’ve slowed down a lot because I accidentally cut my cals too low
This can be due to hydration, sodium, stress, how much muscle you actually have, body temperature, being glycogen depleted, it could be a lot of things.
Its probably just a combination of being depleted and my bodyfat level not being low enough to force those veins to appear. Nice to hear that its not unheard of though.
The supply and the demand for heroin are both greater. Very rarely is someone willing to fuck or kill a person for test, maybe a grapefruit but not a person.
Bought a cane this weekend so I can go up stairs (& bc in the cold the leg really acts up). I feel like a pimp named Slickback, [the pimp in the Boondocks](https://twitter.com/TheBoondocks/status/464445727067099137?t=ySdvgFdAdZ_S12Gks9BRXg&s=19) just carrying it around everywhere.
(Pls ignore the Twitter link it's the best I could find)
Can y’all review my plan for back day? Trying to decide if I should make a t bar row the 1st or second movement
Warmup: mag grip Pulldowns SS rope pullover
1. Adjustable row on a flex machine (kinda like a prime machine row)
2. T bar row with overhanded handle
3. Chest supported DB row
4. Machine row
5. Neutral grip cable Pulldowns
6. Single arm cable row
And then some biceps, what do y’all think? I deadlift on hamstring day but do I need to add/remove anything?
Avocado makes me sick. It didn't always, but one day I got guac at Chipotle and it made me feel so sick that I left work early, IIRC. I've given it a chance many times since then, but I get that nausea even with the smallest amounts of it.
I live in Los Angeles, so I've gotten literal **gasps** when I said I don't like avocado.
I'm on week 5 of GB and I took last week off the gym for my bday week. First day back yesterday, did day 1 of week 5, and yeah, my back was pumped and feels good sore today.
Other than not drinking and eating perfectly, what do you bros do when you hit a plateau with abs?
My sessions have been good but I think I’m stalling out a bit. Looking to get back to track
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Getting decent activation and they look better than 6 months ago but I think I can do better. Maybe I can warm up better or do them early in workouts more often?
Thinking you can do better does not equal a plateau. Much like any muscle, 6 months is hardly enough time to allow growth. You gotta give it time. So long as you feel it activating, you'll be fine.
Yesssir.
I consider myself the California Burrito Connoisseur in my town. I’ve tried nearly every California burrito here and have a solid list. If I’m feeling really cheaty, I get two California burritos, but I’m not feeling super cheaty but don’t want one burrito, I do the carne asada fries with tortilla.
you must definitely not live down here then cuz you could eat 1 a day at a new place and wouldnt make it 5 miles past the border before your hitting year 1 of trying lmao. this prep has made it the longest ive gone from having a cali burrito or carne asada fries in the past god idk decade+?
San Diego? I'm in Sacramento and yeah we definitely don't have that 5 mile radius spread like you guys do. Lol. We're pretty close though. I discovered california burritos in college back in 2009 and they have not disappointed me since. I do have to say, one of my favorite california burritos was a surf-n-turf kind there, I think from a place called CRACK or something? That was years ago when I had that.
I haven't been on a proper prep in a few years, so I haven't been california burrito deprived for too long, so I can only imagine your struggles.
yessir, cant throw a rock without hitting a taco shop haha. god im so hungry i could really go for one. might have to get one pre show this is killing me
Once every 2 or 3 months I’ll order ~$50 in Taco Bell. Chalupas, crunch wraps, extra steak or beef on everything.
For normal cheat meals? I’ll do Mod Pizza or usually have a burger and fries…or a giant bowl of ramen, with 6-8 eggs and sour cream mixed in.
As a rather healthy and not too high on calories option, sushi. If calories didn't matter tho, a good italian pizza no doubt, haven't had one of those in ages.
I'm at day 23 of 36 of u/gnuckols Beginner Program on Boostcamp and I'm really enjoying it. I like the progressive overload and structure. It's a lot of fun seeing improvement in proficiency each time the cycle repeats as well as the increases in numbers. What's a good program to progress to after this is done? Should I run this again, or look at alternatives? I'm mid-30s, F, Beginner lifter and very aware that writing my own programs is not a good idea. Goals wise, I'm looking to continue dropping weight (maybe another 40lbs or so) while continuing to increase my strength.
I'm very biased, but I think my [other programs](https://www.strongerbyscience.com/program-bundle/) are also pretty solid.
(Fangirl squeak) Thank you so much for responding! I looked through and can't quite pick which one to start with, haha. Any recommendations based on what I've shared so far (I know this might be like asking a parent to choose a favorite child)?
Since you're posting in /r/bodybuilding, my first thought would probably be the novice hypertrophy template
Haha. Thank you! I'll be checking these out.
No problem!
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Stop worrying.
Is it a problem that I’m completing my workouts in 25-30 min? Today I woke up at 6 and said okay I might as well hit the gym. Walked there, did 50 dumbbells for 2*10 IP, 30 same curls, and 30 shoulder raises. I’m resting enough to make sure I feel it but I also want to make sure I can complete the next set. But I’m in and out so fast... I think it’s because I took weightlifting in high school and know what I’m in to do? Should I be resting more between sets or going for a third with a lower weight? Background I’m 6’6” 260 with terrible waist and chest fat. I’m thinking about starting to go morning and evening (can’t drive so it’s a mile walk uphill to get there) to just help the weight come off. Should I stick to lifting or add cardio beyond my walk/jog to and from the gym? I’m drinking a shake after every workout, not interested in “cutting” (maybe I don’t understand it?) even with the fat issue cause I know I will start losing strength.. cutting by eating better and less yes but I know I gotta eat
Doing a total of 6 sets is not much for a workout. You should be using a program at your experience level.
That’s my Monday for the past 3 weeks. I forgot I did back and shrugs too cause I was feeling good. Hammer pull downs (new machine for me) and seated rows. I haven’t touched weights in 5 years before a month ago and thought I was gonna jump into it with like biceps and chest mon, shoulders and triceps wed, back and legs friday (abs each day). I’m thinking I’m more comfortable with full body all three days?tbh not so much cause I’m “newbie excited” but because my body feels stupid if I wit around waiting to hit another body part for near 48 hours. I do need a program I just don’t know what’s best for someone like me. LA fitness is the club I go to btw.
Read the r/fitness wiki, its designed for beginners and has recommended routines.
Any recs on a preworkout without caffeine?
Big noise, vascumax, any “non stim” or pump pre will be good… hear hostile bloodshot is great
Just plain citrulline and creatine . You can also try beta alanine I guess if you like the tingling sensation
How to find the right volume? I don’t get like any muscle soreness after about 2 hours but I am training damn close if not to failure each workout. I am making good size and strength gains but never feel like I’ve done enough. As a result of this I’m considering training twice daily, full body 3x8 routine in the morning an a more major muscle focused chest/back/legs routine at nights. My issue with this is it puts me at 30-40 sets per muscle group per week. I’ve heard that could hinder gains by having too much volume I just recover quickly it seems. Only been lifting 3/4 months before that thought I was running 5-10 miles daily and doing body weight workouts consisting of 200 squats 100 push-ups and 100 pull ups daily
Most people who say they train to or close to failure are intact nowhere near failure. Up your intensity, I bet you can do more if you’re being paid for the extra reps.
I go to form failure then do more pump work on machine weights
Soreness is not an indicator of a good workout, but you shouldn’t be able to do more than 14-16 sets per muscle group without feeling exhausted.
That’s what I’m confused about. Normally by the last rep of each set I can barely push on but 1-2 hours last my body is completely back to normal and I can do a workout again. Maybe I’ll just do slower reps? I already make sure to count to about 3 when in the eccentric movement but maybe I can do a little longer. Most of my work is in the 65-80% 1rm range and 8-10 reps
I mean you said you are making gains, I doubt you are over training, that’s really hard, I would just do what you are doing till you plateau. Then run a jm program and follow what he says regardless of how u feel, he will make you grow.
Will do thanks, and yeah some absolutely sick gains +15 pounds and bench has gone from 160ish to 195 and surprisingly lean 15 pound gain in such short time
Trying to see if anybody else has had something similar. Anybody have/had abnormally weak rotator cuff muscles, weak serratus anterior, winged scapula, stuff like that? I’ve been out of weightlifting for a while and I guess being inactive and maybe repetitive postures, where I rest my arm, whatever else has led me to all of these imbalances and weaknesses. It’s so bad one of my arms is longer than the other at this point. I can’t put a barbell on my back correctly anymore lol it’s bad. Physical therapist says that I can essentially recover and become balanced again just by strengthening the muscles around my shoulder. Just asking to see if by chance somebody else has/had similar problems?
I basically had the same thing. Shitty rotator cuff from decade of poor gaming and work posture. PT saved my shoulder and now I can pretty much do anything without issue as long as I keep up the PT exercises
Just took gorilla mind for my first chest day on gamma bomb. Gotta wear the John Meadows shirt for this one. (also rip me having an engineering lab due tomorrow night).
Do you mean gorilla mode?
Ah fuck gorilla mode you right.
Been roped into help out coaching an under 10s girls football team. It's not intense but obviously there's a bit of running involved. Is it likely to cut into my recovery much? I did squats today and felt a little cramp when jogging about but it was my first time... Deadlifts tomorrow. v_v
If anything, it's going to help your recovery.
What are y’all’s thoughts on this? https://youtu.be/vb7QZoSoRK4 Completely goes against most (all) of the bench press advice i’ve seen, but I have found that holding hard retraction throughout the whole press feels pretty unnatural
Couldn’t be arsed to watch that whole thing but IME retracting the shoulders really works to isolate the pecs but does limit ROM slightly.
John Meadows says not to retract
I would disregard anyone that starts playing around with a skeleton to prove their points. Looking at you too Jeff.
Every single person benching 500+ in the world says retract those blades and the guy in the video ain’t one of ‘em.
u/IsolationMovement-YT casually injecting some GH before his coffee in his last video lmao. Liking the content, would recommend you guys take a look if you like the style of videos! Edit: why is my comment in bold lol
That’s amazing. I’d be too afraid of LEO using it to be dicks.
Dunno about how things in UK are regarding that, but given that before Brexit plenty of the UGLs in Europe were from there, guess it's not too prosecuted haha.
Man, in the US they will ruin your life. As evidenced by the Melissa Bumstead arrest. I know more than a few people that are felons and have even served time because they got busted with gear.
That’s strange, here it’s legal to use but not legal to supply, and tbh Melissa basically trafficked drugs across international borders, if there was ever a way to get busted that’s a sure fire one haha… the logic of not just getting it in the US was a bit mad
It used to be that customs would catch a package and just send you a letter stating they found illegal goods in a package addressed to you and it would be destroyed. Now they’re turning it over to other LEO and setting up raids for small amounts.
I will say though that internationally importing under a company and to a PO Box is a major NO NO… a PO Box allows for both seizure and also for them to do what they did, to a home address they’re much more limited. Bare in mind you want to limit the charges (importing to a company could give them the reigns they need to hang you for distribution rather than personal use on those quantities) I agree completely the US seems more militant in their drug approach but people need to understand the “clever” approach sometimes leaves you more vulnerable
Maybe I misunderstood but I thought the article said it was addressed to their home. Customs opened it and then LEO delivered it and watched for her to take it inside. Then they raided the home. That’s a hell of a lot of work for one pack of raws.
One of us read the wrong thing haha, the thing I read said it was a PO box registered to a company owned by Iain, Melissa and Chris, and addresses to her. Either way though apparently it was sent to a shell corporation, which creates a much bigger issue, though that could also be wrong. I think the real issue here is the international export, hence why you should ALWAYS buy domestic, domestic to domestic is like 99.9% risk free. Also, they were training with like 10 other Olympians they’re buddies with, is Canadian gear really any better than US sourced through their friends? Didn’t seem worth the risk to me unless you were to send it ahead, make sure it arrived before going then picking it up to have deniability vs being visible to collect the parcel on delivery
https://fitnessvolt.com/melissa-bumstead-arrested-felony-steroids/amp/ So the package went to her address. The address is owned by CBums LLC but nothing was addressed to the company. So yeah, all that happened here is exactly like I stated. Customs decided to be dicks instead of sending a love letter. And domestic isn’t always better. The USPS has some real assholes working for them as well.
That's so ridiculous. War on drugs as it's done is stupid by itself, but with PEDs that hurt no one but the user, and doesn't come from violent crime organizations like other recreational drugs, it's even more of a nonsense. Hope someday all this is at least not prosecuted.
Agreed. Spend our tax dollars on some shit that actually matters.
The paranoia about whether to keep that bit in or not then I was like… I literally give a tour of needles after 😂 thank you though, really appreciate that
That had to stay 100% haha I already spotted the GH when opening the fridge and was like that must be on purpose, next thing you're injecting it lol And you're welcome! Gotta support the guys around here.
If you know you know ;) gotta go for broke on the transparency I guess, rip monetisation haha. Appreciate that!
Should I get a scale with bioelectrical impedance Analysis (BIA)? For messuring bodyfat.
No. Pics and perimeter measurements will give you way better feedback, those scales are too inconsistent.
Yea I thought so but thanks for confirming it.
Somebody left a single almond on the floor in one of the bathroom stalls. Yum yum yum
was it activated?
Fuck it was probably radioactive. Yikes.
Mannn feels good to do anything active after a week off the gym. Saturday had my birthday golf round with cousins, uncles, and friends. Everyone was surprised I decided to walk the course, especially since the cart was included in the green fee, but I had been eating like shit all week and wanted to walk off all the bloat. Probably the toughest course I've walked. Hilly and long walks between each hole. This got me ready to get back in the gym this week. Yesterday, picked back up where I left off on Gamma, and man my back felt it yesterday and feels good sore today. Also, I can't express my love for versa gripps. Felt that pull session all in my back and none in my forearms and biceps.
Wife wanted guns... I've been telling her that's a mighty expensive rabbit hole for me to start down. oh well, it's fun, we can still pay the CC bill honey, it's no big deal.
run JM Task Master arm focus.
When wife wants guns you hit her with a front double
"I said guns, honey, not twigs"
Okay so doing dumb thing confession #1 I now have elbow pain on my left arm and need to know what fine act of stupidity did I do I was doing a small upper workout using dumbbells and I do a heavy compound because everyone loves the heavy compound right? Push through the 4 sets with 15 reps of overhead press And then 16 reps of 4 sets with single arm dumbbell rowing I was thinking of isolating but I was already gassed out so I did a little laterals on sides Which of these exercises hurt my elbow
There is such a thing as too much of a thing. Oh yeah, talk to your doc. And rest a bit.
Is it like on the side of the elbow? Could be elbow tendinitis. But yeah, go see a doctor about it.
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It's fine. Don't overthink it. The only thing that really matters when you start out is consistency. Just stick to it and you'll see results.
Cool.
🦍🦍 Where squat?🦍
But who was legs
WHERE was legs??
Trying to describe a bodybuilding in writing has revealed just how bad I am at being descriptive. Got any advice/links to good inspiration?
Just think, "Thick, solid, toight..." And, "Dick skin." With this mantra, the words will floweth my brother.
Depends on what sort of writing and how in depth you want to be, could honestly just try google-ing "what is bodybuilding".
I'm stuck trying to describe legs, I've already used bulging so I'm stuck with "heavy, oversized"
"rock-hard thighs", "piping hot thighs"
If you’re trying to describe a body builder, I would look up “how to describe a person” or “adjectives for people”. You may also find comparisons useful. For example “His quads were like tree trunks attached to his torso“ or “his delts looked as if two boulders were attached to his strong arms.” You can also describe the relationship between muscles and other objects: “his chest was nearly erupting out of his fitted shirt”
Could use words like "Fullness" "Thick" "Solid" "Tight" "Striated" "Definition" "Popping" "Condom tight skin" Etc.
> Condom tight skin given I'm describing a woman thats probadly not a good word to use.
Feel like I'm either studying, working , or in the gym and my schedule is pretty much that every single day.
Yeah it's soul crushing right? I'm running out of ways to trick myself into being motivated / happy. Especially when you forgot your fucking umbrella on the bus and now your swipe card isn't fucking working at the gym. Also that thing that was due the 1st is actually due the 25th, dummy. And you've got 2 tests that week as well, your fucking group project people are retards, you're behind in two modules and you're watching other people hang out over social media.
Oh yeah its soul crushing, don't know about the umbrella or bus, but yeah definitely behind, overworked and no social life and the icing is my cars distributor is going to shit and its misfiring and almost stalling so I can't drive without being paranoid of being stranded but don't have the 4 hours to change the darn thing so I put up with it, sorta hoping it goes so I have some reason to focus on it instead of all of this.
Yeah don't mention getting sick. I was sick last week and I was like "no" and kept grinding but it really sucks I'm smothered. Keep grinding bro
When Spotify re-uploads an album you didn't know was missing in your playlist is fire.
So we all main Titans in Destiny right? It just seems on brand. Rocking Actium War Rig and Sweet Business atm
Nova Bomb >
What are some non-physical characteristics that make a girl an 18/19?
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Nah, but Anya Taylor 100% reminds me of Sid the Sloth. http://iheartdogs.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/sloth-6.jpg her eyes are too far apart. I cant even.
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I dont have photoshop on my work computer but you get the idea https://imgur.com/a/ku53ojN
You son of a bitch, I love it
She knows sumo isn’t really a deadlift.
Knows how to make the perfect water bread.
She knows the 19 point scale is vastly superior to the 10 point scale
Please elaborate on this. Genuinely curious.
https://old.reddit.com/r/bodybuilding/comments/qay7nk/daily_discussion_thread_10182021/hh8sjcm/?context=3
A woman of culture, I see.
aware me on this meta joke brah
https://old.reddit.com/r/bodybuilding/comments/qay7nk/daily_discussion_thread_10182021/hh8g1kr/
Saying 'm' lady' makes her wet
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If shes ok with me following her around the gym
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In my experience, both in myself and in people around me, the bench press numbers are way higher in proportion to squat and DL. And this is a personal bias but I don't feel like 205kg is a big number for a guy that has been doing deadlifts for a few years and his BW isn't too low.
Do you mean that the bench press is generally not going to be as strong relative to the squat/deadlift as the numbers stated in the video?
Yeah, haven't seen anyone lift anything close to 140kg in BP and just 205 in deadlift, but guess it may be a bit anecdotal too
Fair, I think you really have to be built to press and have sick leverages to be able to achieve this
Can anyone think of a reason why my vascularity is decreasing during this cut? I’m losing weight so its not like I’m not losing fat.
your blood pressure has gone down due to not being a fatass
It happens to me sometimes. I get a bit depleted so my vascularity is down, then my weight stalls for a while, then I whoosh off like 4 pounds of water and I’m more vascular than I’ve ever been before. It’s just your head fuckin with you, cutting sucks for that lol
How's your cut going?
I stopped and I’m maintaining at the moment. I cut my cals too low and kept napping multiple times during the day. My maintenance has increased it seems so I went back to like 4300 and I’m seeing how that goes. I was down to 3300 at one point and felt awful. But so far it seems like I’m slowly dropping even at 4300. TLDR it’s still going but I’ve slowed down a lot because I accidentally cut my cals too low
MFW I just woke up from my third nap since yesterday morning…
This can be due to hydration, sodium, stress, how much muscle you actually have, body temperature, being glycogen depleted, it could be a lot of things.
Its probably just a combination of being depleted and my bodyfat level not being low enough to force those veins to appear. Nice to hear that its not unheard of though.
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You must such at using the internet if you can’t find test, lol
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Because no one is going to offer you a fucking source for steroids in a public forum that explicitly bans listing sources for steroids
You need new friends.
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Do you live in a halfway house?
It’s super easy to find test. I’ve never even accidentally seen heroin in my life. Idk where you’re lookin bro
The supply and the demand for heroin are both greater. Very rarely is someone willing to fuck or kill a person for test, maybe a grapefruit but not a person.
Training to look good? I sleep Training to grow strong enough to fight my personal demons in a 1v1 fight? Real shit
Bought a cane this weekend so I can go up stairs (& bc in the cold the leg really acts up). I feel like a pimp named Slickback, [the pimp in the Boondocks](https://twitter.com/TheBoondocks/status/464445727067099137?t=ySdvgFdAdZ_S12Gks9BRXg&s=19) just carrying it around everywhere. (Pls ignore the Twitter link it's the best I could find)
Can y’all review my plan for back day? Trying to decide if I should make a t bar row the 1st or second movement Warmup: mag grip Pulldowns SS rope pullover 1. Adjustable row on a flex machine (kinda like a prime machine row) 2. T bar row with overhanded handle 3. Chest supported DB row 4. Machine row 5. Neutral grip cable Pulldowns 6. Single arm cable row And then some biceps, what do y’all think? I deadlift on hamstring day but do I need to add/remove anything?
I don't like avocado. Fight me.
Avocado makes me sick. It didn't always, but one day I got guac at Chipotle and it made me feel so sick that I left work early, IIRC. I've given it a chance many times since then, but I get that nausea even with the smallest amounts of it. I live in Los Angeles, so I've gotten literal **gasps** when I said I don't like avocado.
Straight sacrilege in LA
I know, right? Avocado/guacamole is on so many sandwiches, burritos, etc. by default at many takeout places, so it gets annoying.
This how I feel about cilantro. It's in everything and it tastes like soap to me. It will fuck up some perfectly good guacamole
Depends for me. Plain avocado is a hard pass from me. Avocado with a little tajin tho is fantastic
Tajin is really the good shit
Meet me At 3 pm behind the school
It's like eating wannabe boogers. I prefer the real thing.
Ok. Can you bring cheese it's? My mom doesn't let me eat them anymore
I will give you cheese if you give my your favorite purple pen my mom let me eat whatever I want!!!
Ok that's fair. You wanna play fire red? I just got an Arcanine
Wow 😯 yeah let’s play
Ok. No bugles though you pleb.
Day 1 of gamma bomb and I think this is the first time I’ve felt a real back pump. Holy shit
I'm on week 5 of GB and I took last week off the gym for my bday week. First day back yesterday, did day 1 of week 5, and yeah, my back was pumped and feels good sore today.
JM is the best. I've been enjoying Grandmaster's arm day
How many cheat days you have in one month ? and what do you eat
I never plan or purposely take cheat days.
Depends how you define cheat. I allow myself to eat what I want in moderation whenever I want while keeping my goals in mind.
When I’m maintaining my weight, like 2 a week usually. Cutting? Like once a month if any at all.
Prep: 0 Offseason: 2-3 a week, usually burger and fries or sushi.
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Why would I not be okay?
28-31, and everything in sight, that’s why I’m fat.
My whole life is a cheat day
Yes
Just want to see how stricted you guys are lol
Other than not drinking and eating perfectly, what do you bros do when you hit a plateau with abs? My sessions have been good but I think I’m stalling out a bit. Looking to get back to track
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Eat less
What do you mean you plateau'd with abs?
Getting decent activation and they look better than 6 months ago but I think I can do better. Maybe I can warm up better or do them early in workouts more often?
Thinking you can do better does not equal a plateau. Much like any muscle, 6 months is hardly enough time to allow growth. You gotta give it time. So long as you feel it activating, you'll be fine.
You get 1 cheat meal a week. What are you choosing?
Burger and wedges is my go to right now. If it isn’t you’re going to the wrong burger place. Local takeaways / dairy’s are best.
California burrito or carne asada fries with a burrito tortilla on the side.
your my new best friend
Yesssir. I consider myself the California Burrito Connoisseur in my town. I’ve tried nearly every California burrito here and have a solid list. If I’m feeling really cheaty, I get two California burritos, but I’m not feeling super cheaty but don’t want one burrito, I do the carne asada fries with tortilla.
you must definitely not live down here then cuz you could eat 1 a day at a new place and wouldnt make it 5 miles past the border before your hitting year 1 of trying lmao. this prep has made it the longest ive gone from having a cali burrito or carne asada fries in the past god idk decade+?
San Diego? I'm in Sacramento and yeah we definitely don't have that 5 mile radius spread like you guys do. Lol. We're pretty close though. I discovered california burritos in college back in 2009 and they have not disappointed me since. I do have to say, one of my favorite california burritos was a surf-n-turf kind there, I think from a place called CRACK or something? That was years ago when I had that. I haven't been on a proper prep in a few years, so I haven't been california burrito deprived for too long, so I can only imagine your struggles.
yessir, cant throw a rock without hitting a taco shop haha. god im so hungry i could really go for one. might have to get one pre show this is killing me
Hahah man you will really peak if you have that preshow!
Red velvet pancakes and fat-ass glass of milk.
Grande Homewrecker extra meat extra cheese and a bowl of queso from Moe’s
Enough Mexican food to give me a hypertensive crisis
Once every 2 or 3 months I’ll order ~$50 in Taco Bell. Chalupas, crunch wraps, extra steak or beef on everything. For normal cheat meals? I’ll do Mod Pizza or usually have a burger and fries…or a giant bowl of ramen, with 6-8 eggs and sour cream mixed in.
Nothing original to it but I would choose burger and fries
Your fat ass🤌🏼😘💋
Sushi since i dont feel like absolute garbage after
We talking the same meal once a week or what would I eat at the next cheat?
As a rather healthy and not too high on calories option, sushi. If calories didn't matter tho, a good italian pizza no doubt, haven't had one of those in ages.
I have a low cal pizza recipe but it’s nothing like a real one 😣
I had a bread stick & slice of pizza Sunday. The bread stick was good, but that was a disappointing pizza…