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Jul 23, 2005

Your human mentality cries out for vengeance and thrives on the violence you say you can hardly endure.
To answer the question, I’d choose 3 exercises out of reverse crunch, hanging leg raises, decline crunch, ab wheel or cable crunch, and do 3 sets of each, working up to like 20 reps each set. I like to do at least one “abs from the bottom” and one “abs from the top” movement just to cover the angles. I guess also prepare to have to cut pretty hard if you want actual definition

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Jul 23, 2005

Your human mentality cries out for vengeance and thrives on the violence you say you can hardly endure.
Abs I have always found recover pretty quickly, so I end up doing them two on, one off (on my 4 day split). Just hit it on days when you feel they're recovered sufficiently to get through it I guess?

edit: also it's nice to rotate the exercises out from time to time, to keep things fresh.

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Jul 23, 2005

Your human mentality cries out for vengeance and thrives on the violence you say you can hardly endure.
I have golfer’s elbow and found that regular rehab exercises with a flexbar were the key to managing it (I do em 3ish times a day every day) but there are also a host of sleeves you can get to give extra support, or look into an ArmAid for a self forearm massage. I get brutal knots in about 6 specific spots in my forearms/triceps so I try and massage these daily with a hard massage tool, although I’m not sure if this will translate to tendinitis

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Jul 23, 2005

Your human mentality cries out for vengeance and thrives on the violence you say you can hardly endure.
I’m about to start Meadows’ Creeping Death 2 program, praying for a swift death via hypertrophy. Although it’ll be nice to get back to a PPL program

Guyver posted:

loving chicken shortage has 40lbs cases of blsl breasts at $84 now.

Might as well spend the extra $1/lbs and get whole eye of round or brisket.

I’m always blown away by how cheap American (I assume) food is, cause this is still 25% cheaper than chicken in Australia

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Jul 23, 2005

Your human mentality cries out for vengeance and thrives on the violence you say you can hardly endure.

naw seated OHP is where it's at, follow up with heavy rear end DB side delt raises just for the bottom of the movement and boy howdy; :clint:

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Jul 23, 2005

Your human mentality cries out for vengeance and thrives on the violence you say you can hardly endure.
I just got one of those cheap eBay massage guns and spent 3 minutes blasting my neck with it and now I can turn my head around like Linda Blair, 10/10 A++++ seller

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Jul 23, 2005

Your human mentality cries out for vengeance and thrives on the violence you say you can hardly endure.
Most preworkouts cap caffeine at 350mg because apparently more than that has a vasoconstriction effect which is bad for pumps. Although I’d assume it ultimately depends on your weight and, like, whether you care about pumps.

bird with big dick posted:

How does it work on, uh, other areas?

Tbh it has more of a reciprocating motion than a vibrating one so the only other use is pummeling my taint to trick my body into thinking I’ve done a full hour on the stationary bike

Concatenation fucked around with this message at 00:34 on Jun 27, 2021

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Jul 23, 2005

Your human mentality cries out for vengeance and thrives on the violence you say you can hardly endure.
consider leaving one or two reaps in reserve for better recovery

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Jul 23, 2005

Your human mentality cries out for vengeance and thrives on the violence you say you can hardly endure.

drat those look pretty rad. Can you drop plates off them without putting them back in the holder? like say if you were doing a bunch of side delt raise dropsets could you just eject plates all over the place like spent magazines

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Jul 23, 2005

Your human mentality cries out for vengeance and thrives on the violence you say you can hardly endure.
RIP to a real one. Goddamn

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Jul 23, 2005

Your human mentality cries out for vengeance and thrives on the violence you say you can hardly endure.
Cronometer is highly regarded as it tracks micronutrients as well, although I still use mfp :effort:

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Jul 23, 2005

Your human mentality cries out for vengeance and thrives on the violence you say you can hardly endure.
that's a lot of fuckin rice

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Jul 23, 2005

Your human mentality cries out for vengeance and thrives on the violence you say you can hardly endure.
1750 calories seems like quite a steep deficit to jump into, how much did you typically eat before all of this?

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Jul 23, 2005

Your human mentality cries out for vengeance and thrives on the violence you say you can hardly endure.
guys I just started wearing this new stringer and it's now soaked in sweat can I take gymshark to consumer affairs y/n

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Jul 23, 2005

Your human mentality cries out for vengeance and thrives on the violence you say you can hardly endure.

nooneofconsequence posted:

I started working in close, neutral grip dumbbell floor press at the end of my chest days after seeing it in a Juji vid (I think they said they got it from Meadows). It’s been good but nothing special, and I’ve only got to 40s with few interstitial weights. The past month I’ve been super setting it with close grip paused bench so my triceps are toast first and omg it’s so good. Every part of my pec is sore. I’m using light weights, too, and I still typically fail the 5th set. That’s my golden tidbit, thanks for listening.

I’m going to try exactly this superset, thanks. Although, lying on my gym’s floor eughh

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Jul 23, 2005

Your human mentality cries out for vengeance and thrives on the violence you say you can hardly endure.
43g of sodium a day will give you a god tier pump so I say do it

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Jul 23, 2005

Your human mentality cries out for vengeance and thrives on the violence you say you can hardly endure.
gently caress yeah. Nice one mate

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Jul 23, 2005

Your human mentality cries out for vengeance and thrives on the violence you say you can hardly endure.

DJ Fuckboy Supreme posted:

After a long time away from the exercise, I resumed deadlifting. 265x5x3 isn't going to blow anyone's mind lmao, but I feel really good about keeping a straight back & good form.

Now if only my tendonitis would kindly piss off I could resume pull exercises

Look into a Theraband Flexbar and the Tyler twist/Reverse Tyler twist exercises, doing these a couple times a day keeps my golfer's elbow in check

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Jul 23, 2005

Your human mentality cries out for vengeance and thrives on the violence you say you can hardly endure.
Dogg just lol if you aren't in a tunnel vision of alpha gpc for your entire workout and only peripherally aware of anything other than your music and your pump

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Jul 23, 2005

Your human mentality cries out for vengeance and thrives on the violence you say you can hardly endure.
Also like, avoid the magical fungus cooties on your gym floor by just wearing shoes yourself?? Which you are already doing????

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Jul 23, 2005

Your human mentality cries out for vengeance and thrives on the violence you say you can hardly endure.

Big Mouth Billy Basshole posted:

What's the best work out attire you've seen at the gym? I once saw a dude in a t-shirt, jeans, and leather dress shoes come in and blast out heavy reps of floor presses with zero warm-up. Just absolute king poo poo.

Adidas tracksuit, beanie and speed dealers while barbell benching. I can understand the sunnies actually because there are some bright rear end lights over the free weight area at my gym

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Jul 23, 2005

Your human mentality cries out for vengeance and thrives on the violence you say you can hardly endure.
Have you heard of my good friend Tilapia

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Jul 23, 2005

Your human mentality cries out for vengeance and thrives on the violence you say you can hardly endure.

Constipated posted:

Anyone have one of those jackhammer type muscle massager thingies? I want one but there is like a billion different kinds, and I don't know which ones are garbage.

I have a generic $50 ebay one and it's decent, I don't think there are any real differences between any of them

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Jul 23, 2005

Your human mentality cries out for vengeance and thrives on the violence you say you can hardly endure.
Every time I see this I notice something new, the hanging grip exerciser things lmao

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Jul 23, 2005

Your human mentality cries out for vengeance and thrives on the violence you say you can hardly endure.

Milo and POTUS posted:

What is supposed to help it? It's been nearly 6 months and while it's gotten better certainly, it still acts up enough that I don't wanna risk it. I wanna get back on my upper body dammit! I missed all the cold weather.

Anyway, planks should be fine since I'm not hinging my elbow right

Yo get a theraband flexbar (the green one, most likely) and google an exercise/stretch called the reverse tyler twist. Doing these a few times a day has kept my golfer’s elbow in check enough for me to go hard on the lifting again, it’s like loving magic

Edit: for extra credit you can use the lacrosse ball, hard massage tool or Armaid to poke out your triceps/forearm knots which provides some extra relief if you have super tight muscles

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Jul 23, 2005

Your human mentality cries out for vengeance and thrives on the violence you say you can hardly endure.
I quite like:
- lat pulldowns but using two of those soft nylon single handles, with a supinated grip in front of you and squeezing at the bottom for a second or two.
- old school dumbbell pullovers but attach a band to it and keep going to below chest level (hard to explain, there’s a meadows/milos video on it)
- cable rows using the lat pulldown wide bar and making sure to lean forward and stretch to all gently caress at the bottom of each rep

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Jul 23, 2005

Your human mentality cries out for vengeance and thrives on the violence you say you can hardly endure.
Isn’t maca mostly used for providing a lot of unsolicited boners?

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Jul 23, 2005

Your human mentality cries out for vengeance and thrives on the violence you say you can hardly endure.
You may enjoy the content of Eugene Teo; he's about as chill as it gets

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Jul 23, 2005

Your human mentality cries out for vengeance and thrives on the violence you say you can hardly endure.
On holiday atm and managed to hit 4 days in a row yesterday because of a nearby community centre gym full of old school Apex machines. Thought the pin loaded leg press would suck but I managed to coax some decent range of motion out of the seat and it's actually pretty sweet on 20+ rep sets.
Downside: having to work in imperial. The gently caress is a "lb"????

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Jul 23, 2005

Your human mentality cries out for vengeance and thrives on the violence you say you can hardly endure.
2-3 sets of machine fly concentrating on getting a good contraction (pause and flex in the shortened position for a moment)
2-3 sets of DB fly (or incline DB fly) pausing in the stretch position for a moment. Bend your elbows, no one cares, just get that stretch.

Or like 2 sets of DB twist press on about 60% of what you’d use for a DB bench press, making sure to go slowly and really flex the living poo poo out of your pecs on every rep. Keep a slow negative and make sure you feel it in your pecs through the whole ROM.

Add dropsets in later weeks of your training cycle.

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Jul 23, 2005

Your human mentality cries out for vengeance and thrives on the violence you say you can hardly endure.

crackhaed posted:

am I the only one who does all pressing movements with a suicide grip? never even come close to dropping the bar and my wrist is so much more stable

I also do this. Much nicer on my wrists and elbows.

Actually I also pull thumbless so the only thing my thumbs are used for in the gym is signalling whether equipment is free

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Jul 23, 2005

Your human mentality cries out for vengeance and thrives on the violence you say you can hardly endure.
lotta folks doing an exclusively thumb-based workout at my gym today

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Jul 23, 2005

Your human mentality cries out for vengeance and thrives on the violence you say you can hardly endure.
Pretty sure that video is making fun of fitness influencers constantly coming up with new One Weird Trick ways to misuse the equipment in order to drive engagement among their audience of people who haven't figured out how to put in consistent effort. Always fun seeing the Athlean X fans out themselves with that dipshit sideways single dumbell curl

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Jul 23, 2005

Your human mentality cries out for vengeance and thrives on the violence you say you can hardly endure.
DB rear delt row, squeeze at the top. Find the angle and hand position that works for you. Machine rear delt fly is also great if you have access to a pec deck that will do these

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Jul 23, 2005

Your human mentality cries out for vengeance and thrives on the violence you say you can hardly endure.
Sounds like golfer's elbow perhaps? Or one
of that family of forearm tendon bullshit

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Jul 23, 2005

Your human mentality cries out for vengeance and thrives on the violence you say you can hardly endure.
yeah wouldn't want to clutter this thread up with too many posts

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Jul 23, 2005

Your human mentality cries out for vengeance and thrives on the violence you say you can hardly endure.
Don't worry, Iain Valliere took 7th at the Olympia two years in a row with non-existent calves

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Jul 23, 2005

Your human mentality cries out for vengeance and thrives on the violence you say you can hardly endure.
Tomorrow I’m going to go to the gym AND read a book, draw a picture, play music and talk with friends, checkmate pencilneck

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