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DeepFriedSquid posted...

I've been off CE for a few years and I'm glad to see that PPP is still killing it in the weight room. You were a massive inspiration for me, and I appreciate all the lifting knowledge you've shared with CE. And shit Pinky you're turning into an inspiration for me too, when the fuck did you get so strong? Lol

I'm still pretty weak but I've been at this consistently for more or less 2 years making sure I get the fundamentals right so its been going alright!

Idk some people grow like fucking weeds. I remember reading a study where untrained men were given the same lifting program and while all saw gains, the proportion of gains were different, i.e. bottom 25 percentile saw 10% gains, median saw 30% gains, top 25 percentile saw 80% gains.

My feeling about genetics is that for people who want to be athletes or have bodybuilder level gains then genetics is everything. For people who just want to get really strong and look good naked, genetics makes things easier or harder, but isn't a dealbreaker.

My favourite example of this is a guy on reddit called MythicalStrength, who is a natural lifter with factually average genetics, but looks like this:

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/9/8/6/AADfCWAAEVGK.jpg

How do I know he's natural with average genetics? Because he's been training like the fucking terminator for 20 years (his full blog and videos of his methodology freely available) and his powerlifting total is 1430, which is factually mediocre.

He's not even that big - 180lbs i think. Just strong and lean.

My point here is that if your goals are mediocre then you only need mediocre genetics to get there, time allowing.

Turtlebread posted...

Im 6ft 205lbs which is the heaviest Ive ever been

even if I have been stressed and lacking sleep I should be further along than I am after 10 years

idk about the bench, genetics

I'm always a bit reluctant when people blame their genetics because usually they just haven't tried very hard but I dunno, sounds like you have.

Turtlebread posted...

Working out is actually fucking bullshit

b 300
s 260
d 350

these are my stats after 10 years

it just doesnt work for some people man

Think I remember you saying this before. And you definitely routed out diet/protein/stress/sleep as factors? Like have you ever tried bulking?

Anyway a 300lb bench isn't bad at all dude. Also how is it bigger than your squat and nearly bigger than your dl, lol

Southernfatman posted...

I started working out a bit yesterday. I've started and gave up many, many times over the years. Just doing some petty stuff with some dumbbells. For the first time though, I didn't feel like complete crap after the workout and the next day after doing it. I actually felt good for the first time ever when I got done yesterday. I was basically this:

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/9/1/1/AAO8B9AAEVE_.jpg

I was you for about 15 years and something changed when I hit 33. It might have been a change in priorities, but ultimately a change in what I thought training had to be was the most useful thing.

This podcast episode helped me a lot:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q8K7ifs2Db4

Cliffnotes:

• consistency beats optimal every time. 3 crappy workouts a week for a year will always net significantly more gains than 6x a week for 2 months and then burnout.
• build momentum (like a snowball down a hill) by starting out smaller and slower than you think is necessary. Figure out a level of exercise you can maintain with little to no mental energy every day of the week. For me that was basically 20 minutes of not very heavy exercise per day for 3 months to start with. As long as I did something - even if it was 15 minutes of walking or 10 minutes of yoga - that was enough to start with.
• Make habit building the number 1 objective, long before making muscle gains.

Basically I used to go super hard and heavy and then quit and wondered why I could never get the knack of it. That was the wrong approach.

CM_Ponch posted...

PPP, how do i get bigger forearms/wrists?

I can answer this one!

1. Train them like any other muscle - specifically and with some sort of progressive overload. Specific wrist exercises might be wrist curls.
2. Indirect exercises like deadlifts, rows, pullups or farmers carries. Only problem here is that you typically dont want your grip to be the point of failure for these exercises. Like presumably you row to make your back bigger, not make your wrists bigger.
3. Move wrist exercises up the order on your program. 3 lazy sets at the end of a workout probably isn't enough.
4. Eat, brah
5. Bow to the genetics gods

Hey pow pow, advice on not good morning-ing my squats as I do here (reps 4 onwards are particularly bad).

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/lVmuiM5O74g

I suspect it's that I'm not actively bracing when coming out of the hole?

--Zero- posted...

Please do show me what its like to have fun at parties by taking someone elses fun too seriously?

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/6/5/7/AAZy5LAAD5Lx.jpg

--Zero- posted...

I bet youre a blast at parties.

So much to unpack here lol

apolloooo posted...

I havent watched the trailer, what happened?

People who didn't like the first game are mad that people who liked the first game will like this one

OP in particular has made at least 3 topics about it in the last hour. Very sane, very normal

Standard nerd nonsense

There's a lot of people out there who don't want to come to the party at all and who dislike social gatherings as a rule but will still insist that it meets their expectations of fun

The straights are not ok

remandramdoll posted...

Even if she loses, nowhere is safe from that sort of hateful rhetoric.

True but I've always felt a little proud of scotland in terms of social progressiveness. Like a small thing, nearly every pub I go into now has gender neutral bathrooms, because generally speaking I don't think people have any argument to make about it here

If that level of hateful shite permeates Scotland then no where is safe

Pow_Pow_Punishment posted...

I swear I remember your name from the Martial Arts board a long time ago regarding working-out, but anyway damn, a 400 deadlift in 2 years is impressive.

Thanks. I have weirdly strong pulling power relative to everything else. Built like an orangutan.

I used to post there occasionally - was into fighting and dieting but not training

You are a beast, my dude.

I started training like 2 years ago. Deadift 1rm id at 400lbs now. My bench sucks. Squats are middling.

Scarecrow17 posted...

The squat rack next to me was free. Yes, there were weights still on the bar but if he has asked me if someone was using the other rack, I would have told him no. Its not like I was even casually coaching my friend. It took not even 5 minutes to show him deadlift form.
I dont hog any of the gym equipment. If someone wants to use the equipment Im using, all they have to do is ask to hop in and Ill be cool with it.

I'll say again that his behaviour was way out of line and thats basically all there is to it, but since we're here -

most people could bust out a set or two of squats in 5 minutes, so I'd definitely be annoyed if someone had their stuff in the squat rack and they just weren't using it. Although if there was another squat rack free then no idea what his issue as.

He was definitely way in the wrong but squat racks are precious, depending on availability/busyness I'd be pretty annoyed if someone was casually coaching someone how to deadlift next to the squat rack while also hogging the squat rack.

VampireCoyote posted...

youre free to not agree with me but in my view:
Innocent until proven guilty.

What do you make of the weird, creepy texts he sent underage girls and previous employees. A reminder that you are a person that is allowed to feel things out in an intuitive way and not a judge in a court of law who has to make legal decisions.

VampireCoyote posted...

Innocent until proven guilty.

That is a legal term. We don't all have to start liking the guy, he's clearly a creepy somewhat abusive motherfucker at the very least.

pegusus123456 posted...

I wanted to finish a replay of the original before playing the REmake, but here it is 18 hours before it releases and I'm only at the start of the castle.

SMH at being an adult and not being able to no-life a video game like I used to be able to.

Not even sure its worth it. The original just hasnt aged that well.

CE's infantile understanding of how the domestic violence legal process works is never not depressing

Fucking wild how many people are seriously invested in who you're allowed to fuck and love.

There's a video on YouTube called remember 1999 or remember 1998 ans it's such a bop

Last night I WAS racist.

A friend of mine said that she discovered that Fetlife is common in Kenya and we both expressed surprise at this, and then simultaneously realised we were probably looking at it subconsciously with a colonial mindset.

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/4/9/3/AAeIipAAEJgF.jpg

boxoto posted...

as far as board game nights/game nights go, I've only been a part of a few, but if you can get a decent group (just a group of family and/or friends whose company you enjoy), they can be really fun.

even if they're all as new to it as you are.

I think I enjoy the idea of them more than the reality.

What my idea is: bunch of nerdy friends wholesomely engaging in light competition and banter
Reality: no no, now that you've landed on the green square you have to skip two turns and roll the dice 3 times and then divide your dice score by the amount of red cards you have in your fund pile, and then place the top scoring red card into the non-fund pile but only if your gateway card begins with a vowel

I get interesting person envy. Like I know some people who spend their precious free time developing crafts, reading enriching books, foraging for wild foods, doing art, having board game nights

Me...I just go to the gym, play videogames, indulging in weird kink behaviour and watch absolute trash on Netflix. I am a trashcan

R1masher posted...

Oh, I thought you were mad
*updates spreadsheet*

don't tell sunhawk

Because of it we got RE2, RE4, Shadow of the Colossus, Demon Souls, Link's Awakening, FFVII, etc.

I'm not even that mad at old games getting a minor update like Dark Souls, FFX, etc.

Some games are such masterpieces that you just wish you could play them with a new coat of paint. If you're gonna be mad, be mad at like, sports games that don't even bother updating the assets in each year's iteration

That game was so, SO fucking good.

Pogo_Marimo posted...

Nope. Truth be told, the chakram is incredibly sparse in the historical record and seems to almost entirely be associated with an underlying cultural and religious motivation for it's use--The earliest evidence of the chakram comes from ancient religious texts which ascribes to them magical or mythological status. Aside from that, they are extremely rare in a historical context compared to essentially any other South Asian weapon until the 16th century when Sikh's seemed to bring them back into popularity for a time. From a practicality standpoint this actually makes a lot of sense:

The chakram would be an abysmal weapon against even inexpensive types of armor like padded jackets and simple steel helms. It has neither the mass, speed, nor acute striking surface to even penetration or bludgeon through thick linen. It does not cut like a traditional bladed weapon which is pulled across a target, so it has to bite into it's target like an axe--For which it is poorly suited due to it's very even mass distribution. A soldier equiped with a comprehensive mail armor would have nothing to fear aside from extremely fortuitous throws, and even just a shield could drop that possibility to essentially zero.

What was happening in the 16th century, however? The introduction of firearms as the primary weapon of war, which pushed the balance of power away from heavily armored infantry and cavalry formations to mass groups of lightly equipped infantry with muskets. This at least made the use of chakram somewhat viable as a harassment tool, but given that references to it in the historical record seem to imply it has more of a novelty rather than a decisive battlefield tactic, it's unsurprising why it's usage did not spread much outside of the Sikh and occasional Hindu culture.

We have to remember that humans are not perfectly rational creatures and that differences in cultural touchstones like tools is not always due to some ecological or socio-economic pressure--Sometimes humans are driven by creativity to ascribe arbitrary value to a practice or item well beyond it's practical value.

Like I said, mall ninja shit

Definitely seems like one of those weapons from antiquity that was so impractical that it would be next to useless.

Mall ninja shit circa 1500 ad

Yeah :(

God_of_6strings posted...

Yeah I remember you making that topic. I wouldn't worry about that. You get creatine just by eating red meat and seafood. Like the user above said, it's not steroids.

Sure but I'm not eating steak every day, which is about as much creatine as you get from loading creatine daily.

I dunno I'm still on the fence. It's probably nothing but my gains are still coming easily enough that it doesn't feel like a dial I need to tweak yet, if that makes sense.

DeepFriedSquid posted...

Guys it's not steroids, creatine barely does anything other than make you retain water weight

It's like a 5% strength gain based on studies, it's so cheap it's hard to say no to free gains

The fact that the effect on strength in minimal is why I'm not very motivated to take it.

Meanwhile, it directly increases DHT production, and DHT is the trigger which can cause hair loss for people with the genetic predisposition to it. So when I dig into the literature on it I see so many conflicting reports, and think...nah you know what, I don't care if my deadlift goes up 20lbs if it means there's a chance my hairline visibly recedes.

God_of_6strings posted...

Not that I'm opposed to using creatine. It's just that I'm still gaining without it. When I get to a point where I can't make any more gains without creatine, I'll start using it again. It's been about a decade since I've used it as well.

I have this fear that if I start taking creatine my hair will start to thin and recede more quickly, and the gains from it are pretty minimal. I can't find any conclusive evidence one way or the other about how creatine affects hairloss.

God_of_6strings posted...

The lifting program I'm doing isn't designed for someone trying to get his most aesthetic physique. It's a program designed to get you at your strongest as quickly as possible. Every single workout, I have to lift more weight than I did in the previous workout. In order to do that, I'm eating around 4000 calories per day.

That being said, I don't look like a fatty or anything. Hell, first thing in the morning, when I'm my most de-bloated, I usually don't have a protruding gut at all. Here's a pic I took earlier this week.
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/9/2/1/AAfV4dAAESJp.jpg

Here's me 2 months ago, a little later in the day (and pre-haircut lol). I'm pretty bloated from all my meals in this pic, so this is about as big as my gut gets throughout the day. I think I was around 207 in this pic.
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/9/2/2/AAfV4dAAESJq.jpg

Impressive guns my dude. As I suspected you are broad. I'm all limbs.

God_of_6strings posted...

Squats: 245 for 3 sets of 5
Standing Shoulder Press: 115 for 3 sets of 5
Bench: 225 for 3 sets of 5
Deadlift: 315 for 1 set of 5

These numbers are wild to me. How is your bench so strong, your squat that decent but your deadlift that low, no offense.

For reference my bench 1RM is like 180lbs and my deadlift is 400. We must have very different body shapes. I have a crappy shoulder injury that makes all pressing really difficult though.

Technically no. Sex work isn't inherently wrong or bad and peoplr are free to make their own choices, but in practise...probably yes, definitely in most cases. You don't meet many strippers who came from good family homes. Chicken egg argument.

I base this on strip club strippers though. Like the ones run by crime syndicates. If you just get naked on OF then who cares.

I can understand the feeling of safety but rationally I don't think owning a gun for a home invasion makes a lot of sense, in most cases.

This is so fucking sad.

Lokison posted...

I don't get what your trying to say here..

I was saying all generations think the previous and next one are silly because that's how it's always been. I wasn't defending anything or anyone. I also made the point that I dressed in a way I think is ridiculous these days; I'm eating my own words.

I'm saying don't be like the boomers. be a rad dad. support the kids in their dumb choices that don't matter, let them jump on fashion trends and live in the moment. Don't be weird about it just because you don't get it. You're not supposed to get it, that's kinda the point.

COVxy posted...

Didn't you make a topic about broccoli haired teens taking over your gym?

Nope.

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/400-current-events/80375881

I did say in that topic "As for broccoli hair, I remember how silly I found older men haircuts when I was a teen, I guess everything is relative.", though.

Lokison posted...

Yes, that's what happens. We grow up and see the younger generation look stupid because they're to young to know Broccoli Hair looks ridiculous.

I was a goth kid in high-school and wore plenty of make-up. I look back at that with embarresmanent, but pride. That's how shit works. Sorry we don't like your broccoli hair.

Hey remember when you were a teenager and some fat man twice your age wearing dad jeans and a thinning hairline said your fashion choices are stupid and you were like "oh yeah you're right, I hadn't considered that. Thanks for the insight".

Remember all the times that happened

In universe answer: maybe the force compelled him to leave it alone because he had the capacity to be good

Actual answer: lucas just wasnt a great writer