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skimothy milkerson posted:one of the constants in the getting stronger and bigger world is to hang back a bit and slowly progress. in general you should be working well within your ability and getting better at that level. I think Dan John said something like this: increase your "80%" effort, not your 100% effort. take something that is kind of hard, and make that easy, then repeat it's really difficult to marry this up with the "culture" of "chasing PRs" and "lmao 1 plaet bech dyel" but it's 100% the right way to live your life
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People who go hard all the time don't last long. Everyone who's been in the game long enough knows that it's the right way.
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it’s not hard for me because I am not 23 anymore which sounds snarkier than I mean it to but it’s the same as all other bullshit you just gotta tune it out
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well why not posted:it's really difficult to marry this up with the "culture" of "chasing PRs" and "lmao 1 plaet bech dyel" but it's 100% the right way to live your life yeah its so hard to detach from the fantasy world of social media and also separate the good, tangible, material that doesn't live anywhere else
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ultrafilter posted:People who go hard all the time don't last long. Everyone who's been in the game long enough knows that it's the right way. yeah the lesson is "Always Be Chillin". even loving starting strength says this but doesn't promote it enough
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Sep 21, 2023 04:05
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DELETE CASCADE posted:i appreciate the post and also the followup. i think i'm extra nervous because my dad hurt his back shoveling snow in the blizzard of 96 and he was never the same afterward what you’re doing is good and if anything protective against doing a dad
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most of my adult injuries are from overtraining, take care of you selfs because as you age the recovery only get longer and less effective
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Sep 21, 2023 16:43
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 i've had these portable pullup bar things for a while (duonamic eleviia) and I really like them. they actually feel more robust than the usual iron gym style doorframe bar and because they're so easy to put up and down I put them away after use, thus avoiding my apartment looking like a college dorm room
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Sep 21, 2023 22:03
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big shtick energy posted:
I have an iron gym bar in the closet, but since I have an actual gym membership I just do my pullups there.
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qirex posted:most of my adult injuries are from overtraining, take care of you selfs because as you age the recovery only get longer and less effective
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i checked my body fat with some skin calipers. 20.2% allegedly, but the guy in the mirror/monitor looks way fatter anyhow thinking of strategically modifying my eating habits. I want to actually see some muscles
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I eat out waaay too often, eat too much bread, and need to cut out sugary coffee drinks and booze. I’m pretty active otherwise. walking everyday and lifting 3 days a week
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strong recommendation for using a calorie tracker like LoseIt: I've lost 10lbs since midsummer with no major intentional changes to my diet or exercise routines except for modulating the amounts of what I'm eating to more or less fit in my daily calorie budget
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Dijkstracula posted:strong recommendation for using a calorie tracker like LoseIt: I've lost 10lbs since midsummer with no major intentional changes to my diet or exercise routines except for modulating the amounts of what I'm eating to more or less fit in my daily calorie budget yeah, I’m gonna start tracking. if I can break my fast food habit I think it’ll go a long ways. weather should start cooling down here soon so I also look forward to longer walks with my doggo
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akadajet posted:yeah, I’m gonna start tracking. if I can break my fast food habit I think it’ll go a long ways. weather should start cooling down here soon so I also look forward to longer walks with my doggo Tracking is great for breaking out of calorie-dense habits imo because I learned pretty quickly that not many things taste good enough to counterbalance the feeling of "jesus loving christ that meal was 1300 fuckin' calories" as you log what you thought was a reasonable McLunch
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Dijkstracula posted:Tracking is great for breaking out of calorie-dense habits imo because I learned pretty quickly that not many things taste good enough to counterbalance the feeling of "jesus loving christ that meal was 1300 fuckin' calories" as you log what you thought was a reasonable McLunch yeah. bread is always the worst offender, too. which sucks because I love bread
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akadajet posted:yeah. bread is always the worst offender, too. which sucks because I love bread bread rules, that's why I don't keep it in the freezer anymore because if I want to throw myself off by going ham on half a loaf of it I better be getting the best possible product for the calories
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There's a little meal prep business close by I'm gonna try. The hardest part about dieting is meal planning imo.
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meal planning always sucks. it helps to keep a list of foods you like to cook and then just make a "menu" once you get enough variety built up. I wrote an app years back that would just randomly make me a menu from a list of meals
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dieting when you're the one cooking is easy-mode. difficult is when someone else cooks dinner and you need to work around that. of course you can always just...go cook dinner, but that's gonna be dependent on family dynmic, most saliently if there's a young kid that'll be bummed that Dad gets [x] but he has to eat [y] (regardless of what x is)
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Sep 25, 2023 22:09
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took my dog on a 1.6 mile walk this morning. about to go again this evening. I call this "cardio"
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day 5 of eating a calorie deficit.... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bUiPCFopDJM&t=273s
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last Monday I weighed 206.4 today I weighed in at 202.2
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starting week 2 of weightlifting class today, may today be the Day I finally enter my himbo phase
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inshallah brother
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weighed in this morning at 200.2 I think my goal is to be 170. I want my doctor to stop calling my liver “fatty” 
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I’ve gotten really bad about exercise again. trying to learn to curtail my snack cravings into coffee or tea
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Silver Alicorn posted:I’ve gotten really bad about exercise again. trying to learn to curtail my snack cravings into coffee or tea I’m walking a bunch. it’s easy and my dog enjoys going with me
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Dijkstracula posted:starting week 2 of weightlifting class today, may today be the Day I finally enter my himbo phase its really good to maintain himbocity towards lifts imo, and doing them begets that positivity like best thing for my mental ever
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akadajet posted:I’m walking a bunch. it’s easy and my dog enjoys going with me I walk at work when I get the chance. doesn’t feel like much though. my current goal is to get on the exercise bike for at least two hours total on weekends, and work up to at least 30 mins on weeknights too
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my father-in-law does his standup meetings or whatever on his exercise bike.
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tried elevated lunges on the smith machine yesterday and boy i’m feeling it today
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I went to the doctor yesterday who did some tests and confirmed it was almost certainly just a back spasm and nothing serious like a pinched nerve. I have some back stretches to do and will probably continue to take it easy for another month with just machine weights and jogging
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donated blood today. fun fact: there are like 600 calories lost in giving blood. and if you donate enough they'll probably give you some nice t-shirts 4 the gym.
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lost calories? you mean lost gains
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Dijkstracula posted:starting week 2 of weightlifting class today, may today be the Day I finally enter my himbo phase hell yeah fellow weightlifting class-goer, I've been going twice a week for six weeks now 💪
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DELETE CASCADE posted:lost calories? you mean lost gains if you lose fat ur muscles are more visible
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akadajet posted:if you lose fat ur muscles are more visible The Machinist (2004, dir. B. Anderson)
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inset posted:hell yeah fellow weightlifting class-goer, I've been going twice a week for six weeks now 💪 Nice, is it powerlifting or something like trx? I need to get back into group workouts. I need people there to motivate me or I just bro out on the chest fly machine 
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ADINSX posted:Nice, is it powerlifting or something like trx? mine so far is just basic lifts but the coaches are on the powerlifting team on campus so I think ultimately that’s what we will end up transitioning into
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