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NFUN posted...

apparently I can do at least 30 but didn't push past that to see my limit

Thats really good man! If thats something you dont do often you could probably knock it up to 50+ within a pretty small time frame of doing high reps daily

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NFUN posted...

in a row or in sets?

In a row

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Welcome to another fitness poll! Last one was on pullups, and it was nice to see over half of the responders can do 2+! Good job board 8!

This one is for pushups. If you can do a lot but feel one of the bottom two applies more to you, go with that one!

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You people need to get a life get a job

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Selling it to the banks is probably the best outcome for everyone

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azuarc posted...

Pull-ups are definitely challenging. If I want to feel better about myself, I switch to chin-ups.

This man gyms

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Nice to see that more than half of board 8 can do more than 1 pull up! And for the four who can do 1, thats awesome! And for those who cant, you definitely can with some time and for those who dont care thats great too!

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azuarc posted...

Do you want me to answer now, or how many I could do in March before the gyms closed?

Whatever works for you homie!

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Yeah i always start my pull days (exercises with pulling movements that target the back/biceps for those who dont know) with pull ups as they are the best back exercise in my opinion and the amount you can do drops off like a motherfucker after even a litter exertion

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For most people chin ups are slightly easier than pull ups

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banananor posted...

I always get confused

are pullups the ones where your arms are in front of you with your palms facing inwards, or are they the ones with your arms extended sideways, with your palms facing outwards?

Pullups are palms outward Chin ups are palms inward

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Sorry i also missed the part saying with just weights. You can do plenty of lat work with weights. Rows, pullovers, also pull ups use biceps a bit too so any sort of curls

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NFUN posted...

Effort how? Most lat exercises I've seen you need equipment for. What can you do with just weights if you can't do pullups?

I tried at one point trying to effectively use a weight balanced by using my legs to help but it didn't work very well

Negative pullups (not to be confused witb assisted pullup)

https://www.healthline.com/health/negative-pull-ups#tips

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GenesisSaga posted...

-1

After attempting even one you'd probably have to pull me up off the gym floor.

With a little effort and patience you might surprise yourself and get to where you can do some!

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Snrkiko posted...

6-10 still despite not having worked out regularly in a long ass time

back when i was in shape i could do 20-25

25 is just wild to me. No matter how strong ive gotten i always seem to cap around 18-20. And the confusing part was i could be adding 15-25 pounds and could still bang out 20 but even with no weight my body wouldnt go any further

Nowadays im sitting at around 14-15 body weight and 6-10 with added weight of 25 to 45

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This has been a common topic in the weightlifting topic so i am curious as to how the rest of the board fares with them

For the strong folk doing weighted pull ups it can just be based off what you would consider your working weight. I know everyone is different, so whatever weight feels like applies to you in this highly scientific poll

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My lift today was

Weighted pull ups 20lbsx9x6x4x3
Bent over row 120x20x3
Barbell curl 65x20 70x15 75x12 80x9 85x5
Lateral raises 25x17 25x15 25x13
Lat pull down 125x12x3 145x6
Seated cable row 80x12x3
Overhead cable row 50x10 50x8 50x6
Face pulls 25x12x3
Cable curls 50x12x3

A lot of stuff is still light but im jusr starting from the ground up and making 5 pound or 2 rep progressions each sessions. No rush at all in building meaningless numbers up at the moment

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azuarc posted...

Gym? What's a gym? Oh, that big building that's been closed for over three months now? =/

I spent a small chunk of my contest prize on a weighted vest and a chin-up bar that hasn't come yet. I'm wondering if I should invest more in fitness-related items. I really have no idea how else to spend $1000 on Amazon since I never shop online. In theory the gyms should open soon, but until then I'm just going on a daily walk and/or run.

I've always been someone who was decent at running, but I never truly became a runner. I finished a half-marathon a couple years ago in sub-2, but that was kind of my high water mark. I'm mostly comfortable running about a 9:30 pace, and it would be nice to run faster. In the last week or two, it seems like my runs have been closer toward 8:45, so I guess all this focus on nothing but running is doing some good? I haven't really had any long runs, though. This is mostly over 2-mile intervals. Running with a vest will be an experience, though.

Pull up bar is a fantastic investment. Has it come yet?

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Snrkiko posted...

it's been 3 months since i worked out

did deadlifts yesterday

i am so weak

You know how it goes man, keep coming back and things will catch up

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Leg day was decent today. My quads and hammies are starting to fill back in after the losses from quarantine. My booty never left as not even covid can contain that

I still am struggling some days with stamina as after the deads/back squats today i was running on empty. I had programmed front squats and split squats but had to carve them out again. Did a lil calf and add/abductor accessory work

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charmander6000 posted...

So the hot spots are currently, South America, South Asia and... South Africa

I'm sensing a pattern

Yes I know USA, Russia and the Middle East are also hot spots...

Winter is coming

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NFUN posted...

guess vgm songs and scream nonsense about sports and nothing else

I see
UltimaterializerX posted...

No gym lately. Fuck New Jersey.

:(

If you find your way in VA anytime soon we can make it happen and show the children how to move daddy weight

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PS have you been able to get to the gym at all lately or nah?

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I can see how that would be a less positive experience than mine. I see so much drama about this discord thing but ive never been involved. What do they do there?

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Gyms are reopening in a lot of places! Ive been at mine for a few weeks now and a lot of good gains have been coming in

Doing a lot of rear delt work with face pulls and cable rows. Banged out some nice weighted pullup sets with 45x8 25x10 and BWx12. Did some rows at 205 and switched up my form a bit to pull it into closer to my chest and i definitely feel it more. Barbell curls are starting to get their strength back but i have always struggled with them due to having baby wrists. 95x7x3 and then 65x16x2. A lot of other stuff today. Have made some new friends due to the crowds changing. Excited for deadlifts tomorrow!

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Moonroof posted...

Its not weightlifting (though Im doing that 3x/week plus boxing classes) but Ive been running a lot lately. Ive always been a sprinter so anything more than 400m (or one lap) is annoying to me. The local track has been closed since April due to COVID so Ive been running 1-3 miles about four days a week. I was improving my times every week or so for each interval, but now I find myself bored.

I get in my head with the longer distances and think Im going to hop the fence so I can go back to my sprints.

Im envious of people like you who can make running happen and not give up on it quickly like myself

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Barrett

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Theres even a quick moment of him doing the 2 hand thing in that video LOL

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https://youtu.be/s-s7eG2ckN4

Its rubio!

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FFDragon posted...

you'll learn about a spectrum alright

A+

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ChaosTonyV4 posted...

Honestly guys, unless the economy makes a swift turnaround, or some scandal pops up for Joe, Im starting to think Trump could throw in the towel before November 3rd.

He can claim the system is actually rigged, make a big stink about mail-in voting, and step down without having to get blown out in an election against Sleepy Joe.

Thats something i never considered and actually makes sense lol. He would rather say he left a rigged game and didnt actually lose (and believe me he would milk that shit FOR YEARS) than walk into certain defeat

On a related note to what we were talking about one of my favorite trump moments was him making fun of rubio drinking water. Now hes the punchline for it

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MoogleKupo141 posted...

trump does something silly and liberals are like look at this silly thing he did and his weirdo reply guys like the dr. Eugene Gu are on every tweet like shut up, you did (silly thing)
and then these conservatives whose whole identities are tied up in trump being great have to start defending the silly thing and saying oh did (silly thing) trigger you snowflakes

and then Trump himself has to respond to the response to the silly thing he did by being more silly and we just all end up dumber

so now we have people praising the guys ability to drink a glass of water. we live in the dumbest possible reality.

A+

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Corrik7 posted...

I doubt as many are as willing as you think.

Well i typically venture in there once a week or so currently by volume alone i have less odds of getting caught up in something than someone who is a bit more regular such as yourself

But seriously, there have been people in that topic who i have strongly disagreed with and got rude with in the past like tony and there are people who have said outright that they dont like me like ushimororyu (i cant remember his exact name but you know who it is) or nfun but we are still able to have respectful conversations. They are good people and i have a lot of respect for them. The one dude i blocked would blow a gasket if i did so much as exhaled so getting rid of that toxic behavior made it way better not just for me but for everyone else, as they werent having to watch the constant temper tantrums derail any mature conversations that we were trying to have

Much love to you all! I learn a lot about the full spectrum of politics from you all

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To be fair i am one of the more famous idiots here so you should expect nothing less

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Jakyl25 posted...

I believe that he, as a true narcissist, is fueled by validation.

When his rallies were packed and frequent, he was constantly at peak energy.

After being stuck at home for months and then with his big return he was looking forward to being somewhat of a flop, hes running low.

I think he also figured out pretty quickly that he is doomed

2016 had him getting crushed in the polls and in the media. But those rallies were packed and energetic as hell and showed that there was something big coming for him

Now hes even more behind in the polls and the public and it looks like the "silent majority" thing is not coming to the rescue this time

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Im not entirely sure how much of a "character" it was as the dude did have a ton of energy back then for a guy his age. I dont know zilch about his actual health but if i can have half the zest for anything like he did 4 years ago when im in my 70s then ill be happy

He has definitely lost a chunk of that steam thought. A combination of natural oldness, the presidency, and the consequences of how shit his presidency has been


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LOL neon that is a fairly accurate description of the first option

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Jakyl25 posted...

https://twitter.com/thehill/status/1274585675845828611?s=21

Trump looking downtrodden

Dude has aged

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UltimaterializerX posted...

There is more than one troll in there, plus 90% of the topic is just posting trash from Twitter. That is not a real discussion at all.

Who else would you say is a troll there? Yeah people have mostly far left opinions there which i disagree with but aside from Mr L who is just wanting to start fights they have been willing to have nuanced conversations with me

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Ulti i will say my experience and view of that topic increased significantly simply by blocking the main troll there. Its amazing how one bad apple can make everyone look bad. For the most part they are reasonable and pleasant people

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Time is a flat circle and at some point there will be an epop revolution again

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Yall werent ready for my spaced out messages and way of speaking but now its how the whole world types. I pioneered a global movement

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Board8chat was great

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Raka_Putra posted...

People who participate in UoTY are called e-popers.

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ninkendo posted...

mer came back once on discord and was like "never contact me again"

too good for us now

I feel like a proud father. I told that boy during "The Meeting" that his approach had to be more gorilla and he finally learned like a decade later

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merSHINEnomine

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SineNomine

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MoogleKupo141 posted...

but we need more people who think drunk driving is ok in the sheets

A+

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Sess
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Driving while smoking also is a serious risk and repeat offenders of that also should be diverted into treatment

Im hoping that the percent of people who drink/smoke/harder drugs and then drive out of just straight stupidity/immaturity fades away as this generation seems to be more serious about not doing it than previous ones. The percent that are legitimate addicts though is always going to be a struggle. Hopefully we can win that fight in the long run

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I dont want this to come across negatively as thats not the tone im shooting for, but i do want to say that blocking a person in this topic who was constantly wanting to fight people instead of listening to other view points and presenting your own really helped me see everything in this topic in a much better light. Now that is my character flaw that i was allowing his issues affect how i was viewing other people in here, but i just am making the observation that one super toxic person can really infect everyone else when things get passionate in topics like this. I have a lot of respect for all the people in here and i enjoy reading the things you all say and appreciate the different perspectives. It helps me get a more well rounded view point and colors in my blind spots

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