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sassassin posted:You could stay a little taller and let your knees drift a little more imo. Might help your back. no, never done front squats
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ham_sanitizer posted:no, never done front squats Don't they're awful. High bar instructional video with funny accents: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dW5-C1fsMjk
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I'm trying to make beef stew tonight. Every time my weekend off rolls around, I try to make at least 1 thing, a few meals to freeze and take to work. I figure after a bit of this, making a few different meals won't seem so hard to someone as incompetent as me and I can start straight up making enough food to eat completely healthy for my 11 day work weeks. So far I can make a pork shoulder, chicken and rice and now I'm attempting beef stew, so I'm not far in to my experiment yet. I also bought some kiwis because that Jeff Nippard video intrigued me, I was going to cut up some to freeze to put into my protein shakes but jesus they are expensive. They were almost a dollar each.
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Meal prep is easier when you're unemployed.
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I bought a pressure cooker and put meat and things other than meat inside and press go and always have delicious mush around
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sassassin posted:Meal prep is easier when you're unemployed. but then i can't afford the food unless i can wrangle a sugar daddy. not you.
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Drunk Driver Dad posted:but then i can't afford the food unless i can wrangle a sugar daddy. not you. Just look at most of the old mill towns for cheap housing. $800/mo can get you a 1300 sq ft 3 bedroom in some of the heroin capitals of the state. They take all of this away when you get a job unless you have a family. Then maybe you'll get EBT and if your employer sucks they'll give you some healthcare assistance. You probably can't find a job in the places with housing that cheap which is another problem, too. Where I live now housing is like twice as expensive as the place I grew up. 
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Originally my goal was to save up money and buy a house but I've been toying with the idea of save up a lot of money and move out of Alabama. Maybe I can get a job winding motors somewhere in a good state like MA or CO. edit: I hate hot humid weather as well. I'd like to live somewhere frigid. Or with gloomy skies. Gloomy weather makes me legit happy for some odd reason and I get depressed during the summers here. Drunk Driver Dad fucked around with this message at 01:04 on Oct 16, 2017 |
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Oct 16, 2017 01:01
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Move to Ohio. Just kidding, no one should ever move here.
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Drunk Driver Dad posted:Originally my goal was to save up money and buy a house but I've been toying with the idea of save up a lot of money and move out of Alabama. Maybe I can get a job winding motors somewhere in a good state like MA or CO. Some would say our only good weather is a few weeks of autumn and a few weeks of spring. Personally, I also like the winter when I don't have to shovel snow to get to work. Mostly because I'm an idiot who doesn't appreciate things without a strong contrast. So freezing my balls off outside then going into a warm house is a real good transition to me. Constipated posted:Move to Ohio. Khorne fucked around with this message at 02:33 on Oct 16, 2017 |
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Where in Ohio specifically? There are certainly worse places to live. My county is overdose capital of America, literally everyone I know has family members that have died from opiates. It's gotten pretty loving ridiculous. I do love the small rural towns though, away from the lovely parts of the cities/burbs.
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Drunk Driver Dad posted:Alabama lmao leave alabama asap your lifts will probably go up by 30% if you do
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holy crap I just tried the kiwis for the first time and I think they are up there with green apples as my favorite fruit. Sucks they cost so much though. Do you guys think it would curdle the milk if I blend them into a protein shake? I've done strawberries before and those were fine.
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Considering strawberries are mildly acidic while kiwis are highly acidic... maybe.
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Drunk Driver Dad posted:holy crap I just tried the kiwis for the first time and I think they are up there with green apples as my favorite fruit. Sucks they cost so much though. They will but I’ve eaten Lemon yogurt so who cares, humans eat everything I heard a guy ate a plane once
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Khorne posted:Move to MA. EBT is easy as poo poo to get and they give you like $300/mo for food. No joke. You get free healthcare too with $5 copay on medications or something. No copay on doctors visits or most other stuff. what exercise can imrpove my boot strapping
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I've been doing stronglifts for like 9 months now and still don't have abs, what gives?? Although my diet consists of whatever the hell i want, so that might be why
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Get abs in the kitchen.
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Like, I get grunting when you're really exerting yourself but what's with this dude who has to cry/scream WRAAAA WRAAAAHHHRRRR every fuckin rep? Same guy has to yell "push push push yeah push get it get it" at his training partner who never makes a drat sound. Do fitness apps give you extra points for decibels or something cause this guy just has to be loud as gently caress about everything.
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Chief McHeath posted:Like, I get grunting when you're really exerting yourself but what's with this dude who has to cry/scream WRAAAA WRAAAAHHHRRRR every fuckin rep? Same guy has to yell "push push push yeah push get it get it" at his training partner who never makes a drat sound. Do fitness apps give you extra points for decibels or something cause this guy just has to be loud as gently caress about everything. Sounds like someone stocked up on preworkout powder before they got rid of the DMAA
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It's way more important to be seen and heard at the gym. Actually working out is optional.
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Jabronie posted:what exercise can imrpove my boot strapping
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I take issue with people who bitch about grunting but only really with people doing super heavy compound work like powerlifting. When im doing top sets on bench or deads i always grunt a bit amd a spotter yelling at you is loving amazingly helpful. Bros grunting and hissing with dumbell curls can get in the fire
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If you don't yell at your muscles they won't grow to their full potential, every muscleman knows this.
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The powerlifting clique living in my gym do a lot of hype talk and back slapping before, during and after lifts but its all a bit forced and awkward and it doesn't look like any of them actually enjoy it
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I train almost exclusively solo because i'm a loner sperglord. The one or two times ive had someone give me a yell helped more than i could have imagined. From now on all my big 1rm's i'm going to recruit someone to scream at me and give me a dozen of the best with a cat-o'-nine-tails
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Sludge Tank posted:a spotter yelling at you is loving amazingly helpful. It's the only reason i hit my pr in bench. God i miss my workout partner. lovely person or not, the dude got me to lift bigger
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Give me your number and I will call you when you work out and scream at you. This goes for anyone in this thread, just put it on speaker and tell me how many reps you are going for.
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I just have headphones on with recordings of my dad screaming obscenities at me, to push me beyond normal human limits
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I need to find a new gym, ugh everything around me gets insanely crowded after work, or they're extremely lame (planet fitness near me has 3 squat racks, all assisted) found one place that just opened but it looks expensive my last gym was perfect: $25/month, no contract, no frills bullshit gym for body builders. 5 Squat racks (only 1 assisted), 3 benches, people pairing up to get their workouts done quickly, no one bothering anyone now it seems like I'll end up doing some garbage Planet Fitness poo poo with a contract that requires 5 pints of blood to break out of, only to get stressed out by the lug alarm because I like to grunt when I lift
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Sludge Tank posted:I take issue with people who bitch about grunting but only really with people doing super heavy compound work like powerlifting. When im doing top sets on bench or deads i always grunt a bit amd a spotter yelling at you is loving amazingly helpful. Lol go embarrass yourself at a powerlifting gym then. In the city rec center you sound like an attention seeker.
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yesterday there was a guy doing stone over bar in jeans. another guy in jeans trying to do good mornings with the ssb and he sounded like he was dying. naturally they started talking to each other about deadlifts
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Sludge Tank posted:Whats a lug alarm At Planet Fitness if you make too much noise an alarm goes off to shame you into being quiet. Also no stringer tank tops because you might intimidate someone by being in shape and comfortable with your body.
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The 247 gym im a member of, and the only one i can afford thought it was genius to put the olympic platforms on the 1st floor, directly above a taxation office below, and all the treadmills and bikes on the ground floor. So whenever someone so much as sneezes in the actual squat/dead/oly training area the office downstairs complains and the gym gets threatened with eviction. I got a two week ban without warning for doing deadlifts. I argued and said i was using the equipment exactly as its meant to be and I was met with "its in the contract not to drop weights" On the olympic platforms Designed to have weights dropped on them Nowadays they just straight up ban anyone doing deadlifts with no warning at all. I offered to help move all the loving platforms downstairs to the ground floor seeing as that made way more sense. No idea what they were thinking. Sludge Tank fucked around with this message at 14:59 on Oct 16, 2017 |
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Apprentice Dick posted:At Planet Fitness if you make too much noise an alarm goes off to shame you into being quiet. Also no stringer tank tops because you might intimidate someone by being in shape and comfortable with your body. That sounds so Orwellian but I 100% agree with the no stringer tops rule I loving hate those things.
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No noise rules at Retro but they have "NO CHALK" signs everywhere which is kind of funny. No olympic platforms or whatever though so deadlifting makes a ton of noise, I give no fucks though I really, really need to work on fixing my squat form. I've tried every trick in the book but I'm still going up with my hips before my chest and straining my lower back. It's frustrating that I can deadlift 205x5 no problem but squatting 115x5 is a monumental challenge. e: really the biggest issue at my gym is the lack of racks (1 squat rack, 1 power rack, 2 bench racks, 3 smith machines for some bizarre reason), and the fact that the trainers there don't know anything about anything. I'm too much of a self-conscious weenie to get someone to take a form check video for me, but the last few bits of advice I got from the mega-swole dudebros who are always there were really not good (advice #1 was "always look up at the ceiling during squats" and advice #2 was "do squats in the smith rack to improve your form"), and it'd be really nice to be able to ask someone who actually knows what they're doing to give me some advice. I'd be willing to pay for a couple of training sessions just to have a professional fix my form, but not the people who work at my gym, sadly. Snow Cone Capone fucked around with this message at 15:25 on Oct 16, 2017 |
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i just lean my phone against my water bottle or stick it inside my other pair of shoes and put the shoe on something 
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Winnie the poo poo posted:i just lean my phone against my water bottle or stick it inside my other pair of shoes and put the shoe on something True, not a bad idea, but I'd really love to have someone actually standing next to me as I squat and being like "ok do this/don't do this/move like this"
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Sludge Tank posted:That sounds so Orwellian but I 100% agree with the no stringer tops rule I loving hate those things. I have issue with dudes sweating and having naked skin all over the bench then not bothering to wipe it down so i can get behind no dumb vests please. also my friend won't stop wearing one and he's not swole. SAD.
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