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Plus I know it's not too difficult for me to lose fat on a cut cycle, I dropped from 190 down to 165 last time in about 3 months. And when I start doing that again I'll be starting from a much different body shape than I had at the beginning of the last cycle. (through my funhouse self-delusion glasses at least)
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UnfurledSails posted:The utility is that you are pretty sure you are not missing out on any muscle gains from your workouts, so you get 2 lbs/month or whatever your genetic potential is, and the rest is fat. If you are lean bulking you are not gaining as much fat, but maybe some of that muscle gain potential is going to waste as well. Okay but that's like a 1:5 muscle-to-fat gain ratio at best, which seems pretty extreme. Even if you wanted to be on the safe side, wouldn't it make more sense to cut that ratio down, like, a lot?
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Some people don't give a poo poo and trust that they will shed the fat later. Can't blame them tho eating whatever the hell you want and lifting heavy is really fun
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Nothing is more fun than having abs
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One must first have abs inside. Only once you truly have sick rear end abs within yourself you can have true abs on the outside
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We've gone over this. I'm not fat, I'm cultivating mass.
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Sep 27, 2017 17:10
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Time posted:Nothing is more fun than having abs
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Successfully slid into the DM's of one of the hottest physique girls in my gym We did it
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Gettin fat rules and is my favorite time of year
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Powerlifting crew was still at the gym 24 hours later with their poo poo all over the place and the sweat stain on the fattest guy's back had turned yellow.
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Defiant Sally posted:Successfully slid into the DM's of one of the hottest physique girls in my gym Good move OP just make sure the DMs don't turn into the FZ (friend zone)
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Defiant Sally posted:Successfully slid into the DM's of one of the hottest physique girls in my gym game recognize game
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Sometimes I'm almost done with my reps and some idiot looks me in the eye like challenging me and I must continue reps until he gives in first Had to do 20 tricep pulldowns instead of 8 yesterday
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Our insecurities make us stronger.
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Anybody need pre-gym psych up videos because I just found some good poo poo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VndO1qpq3kg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hl2zm_pDIdc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1yqE5RG86zo
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Chief McHeath posted:lol if you aren't basically blacked out and seeing red during your sets completely unable to hear anything
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I see you guys are also using the RP hypertrophy template. I'm on the last week of mesocycle 2 (just before deload) and by the end of the workout I'm catatonic. Today's 6 sets of lat pull-downs were absolutely brutal. And then I got to do 6 sets of pull-ups afterwards, and then 6 of land mine rows. I feel sick.
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Bro thats just weakness leaving the body bro
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I hate lat pulldowns; for some reason they just never feel right. I've just been doing more pull ups to make up for it(and rows and such as well)
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Mix up your grips. Neutral grip does nothing for be but wide grip and underhand rule.
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Try using a V handle and do ultra slow reps with a strong contraction at the bottom and a complete stretch at the top. My lats are fried after my sets of pull downs.
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I'll give it a go tomorrow as a volume/finisher thing but I think I'll keep pullups my main pull movement in the vertical plane e: oh yeah, I just remembered supinated lat pulldowns bother my wrist. However it's been a while since I tried them. Ever since I started doing shoulder dislocators with a stick my wrists haven't acted up at all. Drunk Driver Dad fucked around with this message at 11:39 on Sep 28, 2017 |
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Cobra Commander posted:Try using a V handle and do ultra slow reps with a strong contraction at the bottom and a complete stretch at the top. My lats are fried after my sets of pull downs. Those are my favorite. I do wide grip first because it's my weaker lift then I really load up on v handle. Get a good bicep burn, too.
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Rodenthar Drothman posted:1500 was doable for a bit over a month for me, 5'8 and was 150something but slimmed way down for abs. Lost some muscle in the arms and chest for it. Goddamn dude that's crazy to me. I'm the exact height as you and weigh 170 and I feel I'm going to disappear into nothing if I go down 10 more pounds, and here you are going for a cut at 150.
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UnfurledSails posted:Goddamn dude that's crazy to me. I'm the exact height as you and weigh 170 and I feel I'm going to disappear into nothing if I go down 10 more pounds, and here you are going for a cut at 150. Frame size matters a lot. Those of us with small wrists and ankles are going to be on the lighter side of the spectrum.
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Anti-Hero posted:Frame size matters a lot. Those of us with small wrists and ankles are going to be on the lighter side of the spectrum. The lighter guys always have small legs.
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UnfurledSails posted:Goddamn dude that's crazy to me. I'm the exact height as you and weigh 170 and I feel I'm going to disappear into nothing if I go down 10 more pounds, and here you are going for a cut at 150. I've since put on more muscle, so I'm around 160-165 now. A cut to have abs would bring me down to the mid 150s now. At my trimmest i was 147 lbs, had pretty good definition (and abs) but was definitely... small. Not planning on seriously cutting anytime soon, still putting on more muscle Also this Anti-Hero posted:Frame size matters a lot. Those of us with small wrists and ankles are going to be on the lighter side of the spectrum. Just a small dude with dainty wrists. I'm surprised 405 deadlift didn't rip my arms off.
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Imagine being 169 and doing 420
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Jabronie posted:Imagine being 169 and doing 420 What if you were 6'9" too????
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Hey so Hundreds of push-ups per day y/n ??
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Data Graham posted:Hey so Sex practice ?
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Hey some people are really into armpit muscles ok
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Data Graham posted:Hey so Maybe if you put a couple of plates on your back.
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Pesmerga posted:I see you guys are also using the RP hypertrophy template. I'm on the last week of mesocycle 2 (just before deload) and by the end of the workout I'm catatonic. Today's 6 sets of lat pull-downs were absolutely brutal. And then I got to do 6 sets of pull-ups afterwards, and then 6 of land mine rows. Day 1 of meso 2 on the advanced leg program starts tomorrow. A mere 26 sets on the first day of the first week. I pray for a swift end.
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Goal: bodyweight bench press Attempted to leap the gap between 169 and 184 represented by the next heaviest combination of plates available Succeeded only in tweaking my neck 
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I tried underhand lat pulldown tonight. I did indeed feel it more in my lats a little better. Which is weird, usually when doing pullups underhand I feel my biceps getting more involved but seemed to not be so much the case on lat pulldown. Wrists felt good, so I think the shoulder dislocations have helped my wrist mobility a good bit which was an unexpected surprise.Data Graham posted:Goal: bodyweight bench press You'll get it soon, friend! So why do you have to jump from 169-184? No 5s or 10s? I'm right there with you. I'm weighing between 192-195 depending on how much creatine I've eaten lately and if I've shat. My last bench set I got 155x8 so I'm probably right there at a bodyweight bench for 1 rep max. Drunk Driver Dad fucked around with this message at 09:47 on Sep 29, 2017 |
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Drop the weight when doing underhand and keep thoracic extension, underhand has become my favorite way to do pulldowns after I mastered the technique. I can bang out alot of wide grip pullups, so that's the only kind I do anymore. I tried out this new-to-the-gym/older leg machine tonight, my glutes are going to be fried when I wake up.  It's like a leverage squat machine but WAY gnarlier, steeper angle, and even without any weight added its still pretty difficult.
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Yeah I started with 105(usually did about 120x10 before) and went slow and let it stretch my lats out at the top. Some dude at one of the local gyms actually posted a video of doing lat pulldowns, one handed, underhand kneeling on the floor at the regular weight stack. It looked like it might work pretty good but I don't really do one handed variations of things most of the time unless there's a big benefit. Time constraints and all. edit: how much do you lean back? Like I had a slight bit of lean, it was like a super incline bench press(maybe 80 degrees if vertical would be 90) in terms of plane of motion. Should I lean more forward and make it more vertical? Drunk Driver Dad fucked around with this message at 09:56 on Sep 29, 2017 |
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Drunk Driver Dad posted:You'll get it soon, friend! So why do you have to jump from 169-184? No 5s or 10s? I'm right there with you. I'm weighing between 192-195 depending on how much creatine I've eaten lately and if I've shat. My last bench set I got 155x8 so I'm probably right there at a bodyweight bench for 1 rep max. Yeah, 169 is 44 (bar) + (45 + 10 + 5 + 2.5) * 2. That's all the plates I have except for a couple of 25s, and 44 + 25 + 25 = 184. Maybe I can hang some bags of oranges off the ends or something to get me across the chasm But yeah, it'll come. 3x8 is doable at 169 much more easily than it was a week or so ago; even if all I can think while I'm doing it is Paper Diamonds posted:You either finish the rep, or you die.
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Back when I had one of those lovely cheap weight sets that had 20s as the biggest "plate" I'd fill up a milk jug with water and hang off them. I think a gallon jug of water is 8 lbs IIRC. Then I wanted to add another milk jug but there wasn't room so I'd jam a stick into the bar(cheap 5 lbs bar that was hollow) and hang the 2nd one off the stick
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