Essential Random Gym Thoughts Revisited...

Son Goku

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This new gym is $50 a month more expensive with 1/4th the equipment :francis:

And they want a full year’s payment up front too...

I’d use my work gym but the barbell lifts are all on the smith machine :hhh:

Might look into a boxing gym instead for the next couple of months...

EDIT: Why the aversion to fasting? I’d say the majority of Americans could use one ore two days without food :yeshrug:

I do it from time to time. I find it good for mental clarity and just giving my stomach a break from digestion.

Part of my issue with it is most folks don't have a clue about nutrition in general (i.e. prolly don't know how many cals are in a gram of fat). :francis:


Combine that lack of knowledge with a general lack of training effort/intensity and it's no wonder "fasts work": it's cause your ass isn't eating all that food you weren't actually burning off in the first place. :beli: :mjlol:


Go back to your usual scheduled eating habits and the weight will prolly follow. :snoop:
 

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Idk, I think we’ve had this convo in this thread before but the moment people mention a benefit of a fast e.g. mental clarity, feeling lighter etc there seems to be another camp with knives out looking to constantly refute the claims.

Fasting isn’t for everyone but I won’t knock anyone that wants to cut back for a bit.
I said my piece on fasting before so I won't go into it again. I'll just say that the bolded doesn't get said enough when ever someone brings up fasting. People treat it as the end all, be all.
 

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Box squat 205 in the Steve Smiff machine, heavyset brehs. :mjlol:


#Plate-Watching :mjgrin:


Edit: Make up your own ab exercises but still have a fupa, spicy cacettes. :deadmanny:

Walk up to the rack with the :smugdraper: look, load a wheel on each side, then proceed to cut the ROM in half on *both* the way up and down. :skip:
 
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Between hooping, not eating enough when I pop out, dropping creatine and getting sick last week a nikka done fukked around and got frail:snoop:
Hit 225 x4 :mjcry:asked the only breh in the gym for a spot and dude helped me waste a set by grabbing the shyt out the bar (why do mfs do this shyt?)
Finna be a long road back
At least I got this six pack doe:mjcry:
 

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Idk, I think we’ve had this convo in this thread before but the moment people mention a benefit of a fast e.g. mental clarity, feeling lighter etc there seems to be another camp with knives out looking to constantly refute the claims.

Fasting isn’t for everyone but I won’t knock anyone that wants to cut back for a bit.

Fasting is def good for you...it goes hand in hand with the cardio i like to do
 

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Between hooping, not eating enough when I pop out, dropping creatine and getting sick last week a nikka done fukked around and got frail:snoop:
Hit 225 x4 :mjcry:asked the only breh in the gym for a spot and dude helped me waste a set by grabbing the shyt out the bar (why do mfs do this shyt?)
Finna be a long road back
At least I got this six pack doe:mjcry:

:ufdup: + :dead:

Did you tell him before hand? Dude prolly thought he was saving your life. Went about his business like ":youngsabo: I saved that dude from certain death :wow:".
 

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squatting every day?!!...gotdamn!!! :damn:

Yes. :unimpressed:

I've posted several times about the Squat Erryday/The Bulgarian Method for Powerlifting on here before. I also have a pretty decent series of write-ups over on NT (one is below).

The program fries your CNS and joints more than your actual muscles but is great for increasing your PLT and 1RM numbers on the Big Five barbell lifts (six if you throw in front squats).


Novel post/rant-


Last squat erryday update:


Started on 6 Aug. Last day will be Saturday.


Squat 1RM went from a grindy 390 to a slow 510 (wrapped). That's 120 lbs. in 11 weeks, with a lifetime pr of 50#.


Pendlay Row 1RM went up by 25 lbs. Vertical pulling (chin-ups/pull-ups) seems to have decreased.


Bench has only gone up 20 lbs. in 8 weeks. I've been doing Smolov Jr since the beginning of the month, will post results after this week and some off days.


Deadlift actually regressed by about 15 lbs., probably since the frequency, intensity, and volume all decreased compared to my normal training programs. Also doesn't help that the lower back and quads were never 100% recovered when I pulled. Overhead press is likely down as well (haven't been training it seriously).
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Final thoughts:

1) Don't do this if you are not an accomplished squatter/have suspect form. The frequency will hone good form but will wreck you if your form is bad.


2) Do not do this if you are not used to high frequency training. If you don't already squat/deadlift religiously 3+ times a week, I would not recommend this.


Warning: Heavy weights beat you up and heavy training often tends to lead to overuse injuries. I would not recommend this if you have a physically demanding job or tend to get injured often.


3) Most of the gains were neural. I did put on some size, mostly in the upper legs and chest, but this program won't turn you into the Hulk. Regular hypertrophy splits are far superior for size.


4) Program is relatively imbalanced and I think the lifts show this. Idk how you could do enough hamstring work to balance a quad-dominant squat without frying the lower back. The more benching you do, the more back and rear delt work you need to maintain shoulder health and balance. I feel like eventually you'd need to break this up into 2 sessions: 1 for squat and bench and 1 for rows/chins/pulldowns, face pulls, hamstring work, biceps, core, etc.


5) This program is not the end all be all, especially for powerlifting, but it can be used to bring up a lagging lift relatively quickly.


5a) Of all the programs I have personally run, high volume PPLs, the Arnold Split (Chest/Back; Arms/Delts; Legs twice a week), and PHAT (with extra volume) are far superior for hypertrophy. A bro split could probably produce the same size gains, provided you have enough volume in it and actually do the leg day. Even with back-off sets and lifting 6, 7 days a week, there just simply isn't enough volume to drive large amounts of hypertrophy.


5b) Of the programs I have personally run for strength gains, only 5/3/1 Who Was CNS came close to this. I won't include peaking programs like Smolov/Jr., as they are not designed to be ran indefinitely (this theoretically could be). Only beginner full body LP programs like SS and SL 5x5 would have you progressing faster, but if you can still make linear gains this program is not for you yet anyway.


6) Seems like DL, Row, and Bench improve most on moderate frequency (2x per week for DL; 2-3x max for Bench). SQ seems to lag at only 1x/week and improves decently @ 2x. Anything more than 3x and it takes off like a rocket. YMMV.



tl;dr: Program works but is not ideal for aesthetics or powerlifting. Not sure what percentage of the largely neural gains will diminish once frequency decreases. If you do this, recommend following up with a hypertrophy program to transmute as much of the strength gains into size gains.

I've since modified my training to have heavier deadlift and bench singles and started rotating low-bar, front, and high-bar back squats.

DL and bench regression are no longer an issue, at the cost of slight drops in back squat 1RM (but increased front squat singles).
 

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:ufdup: + :dead:

Did you tell him before hand? Dude prolly thought he was saving your life. Went about his business like ":youngsabo: I saved that dude from certain death :wow:".
Usually I would make it clear I just want a lift off but boy was literally on the bench right next to me and saw me:dahell:
I don’t ask for spots a lot but when I do the brehs always do that shyt
nikkas really think I wanna see if they can curl 2 plates :stopitslime:
 

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@Neo The Resurrected ONE No, I don't respect any calis workouts or programs, because calis are inferior for achieving my goals (size, strength), which I have deemed to be more worthy than other goals. I used to do the same typa shyt and got almost nowhere. I picked up a barbell and things became better. Life became better. I became better.:smugdraper:


I know the gains you're seeing are :ooh: status, but they fail in comparison to lifting heavy things up and putting them back down. I've taken folks who were :wtb: about lifting and transformed them too; calis would not have yielded the same results.:sas1:


Oh well. Do what you will. As long as you're not a fat fukk then I won't truly hate on you, even if I think your choice of exercise (calis only, long-distance running, swimming, etc.), is inferior to lifting. :ufdup: :yeshrug:
 
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@Neo The Resurrected ONE No, I don't respect any calis workouts or programs, because calis are inferior for achieving my goals (size, strength), which I have deemed to be more worthy than other goals. I used to do the same typa shyt and got almost nowhere. I picked up a barbell and things became better. Life became better. I became better.:smugdraper:


I know the gains you're seeing are :ooh: status, but they fail in comparison to lifting heavy things up and putting them back down. I've taken folks who were :wtb: about lifting and transformed them too; calis would not have yielded the same results.:sas1:


Oh well. Do what you will. As long as you're not a fat fukk then I won't truly hate on you, even if I think your choice of exercise (calis only, long-distance running, swimming, etc.), is inferior to lifting. :ufdup: :yeshrug:






I would lift AND do calis if it wasn't for COVID. I just don't have any home gym equipment any more and these white folks and c00ns down my way are nasty as hell.

They was being nasty in the gym BEFORE covid, I can only imagine what it's like now.

I ain't trying to be in a hospital sucking for air breh :dame:
 

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I would lift AND do calis if it wasn't for COVID. I just don't have any home gym equipment any more and these white folks and c00ns down my way are nasty as hell.

They was being nasty in the gym BEFORE covid, I can only imagine what it's like now.

I ain't trying to be in a hospital sucking for air breh :dame:

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Kewl. You got it.

I haven't been in a hospital sucking for air either but :hubie:.


:dame:
 
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