Everyone should reflect upon their ideas on effective reps or RIR (or HIT for that matter) while participating in an unholy BodyPump session, making each rep count in good form. It’s a near death experience trying to keep too much muscle mass oxygenated while having too much weight on the bar. God, I just love these acts of rebellion, in order to thrash my stupid muscle bound ego.
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This is an unexpected perspective I ran into today.
I was thinking about your RIR idea at the gym today, and was trying to see what trying to keep 3 or 4 in the tank felt like mentally and physically without calculating weight precentages.
Anyway, a guy I kind of know as a gym bro (bigger than me, so I listen when he talks) came up to give me shit about being a pussy at the end of my sets. I explained what I was trying to feel out, and he said (paraphrased) “Bro, it’s video game workouts. People are so conditioned to get rewards by checking shit off lists and opening a fucking treasure chest that they’ll do 6 reps or 12 reps with the same weights and expect different results because they think they completed the same level on some different made-up bullshit difficulty. It’s just updated participation trophy mindset, but everyone is fucking saturated with it outside the gym.”
Random, but this is the randomness thread.
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The RPE/RIR thinking gets really difficult after there’s more than just 1-2 left in the tank. Most seasoned lifters can usually say “there was couple more reps left”, but thinking if there was 3-4 or 5 reps is really hard.
I do follow RPE in my lifts, but they aren’t the core of the progression. I don’t actually make big adjustments to lifts concerning what RPE I give to them. But it’s good to notice that set you did this week with 20lbs heavier weight did not feel any harder.
If people do make it some kind of reward hunting, I can see it goes south pretty fast. I think it’s just more defined way to think how “hard” something was. Because after a point everything feels “hard” and “heavy”.
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I’m sorry I inspired you to do a lame workout. lol.
No, I love talking shit with that guy. And it’s always interesting to try something new to learn. I had a good workout.
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If liking AI-generated Motown is wrong, I don’t want to be right.
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Poor Timmy. That was close!
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Ok, this is just funny/sad.
I was making some ChatGPT images to promote content on social media. I asked for a fit woman holding up a sign. I got this:
Nice. Then, I wanted to make her a little overweight (maybe to promote a fat loss article). ChatGPT refused. The word “overweight” set off the censors.
I asked it how to create the image and not violate the wokey-woke policies. It said that I could not say fat or even overweight. I had to say (wait for it), “plus-sized fitness model.”
Huh? Okay fine, I said, use that prompt. It created this:
Ah yes, fitness model. What’s crazy is that it created an obese woman. I didn’t even want that, just slightly overweight.
ChatGPT also addressed that I might be wanting to show “body diversity”. It liked that but chastised me for saying overweight.
So, ChatGPT is finding itself in a bit of a pickle. It wants to show body diversity but you can’t really ask for that… because fat is offensive and gross. Which is it, ChatGPT?
Grok is a little different, probably due to Elon Musk. Heck, you create any female image there and it automatically makes the woman a bombshell… and you might see a boob whether you asked for it or not. Elon is a rascal. 
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I just feel like pointing out that this woman, in both photos, has a stupidly long left forearm.
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That’s definitely moving from, mmmm, cute looking girl to one weathered/old little elf/dude. Now, for an example of a woman that magically turned into a dude, check out Chaz Bono! If I didn’t know any better, I would just assume that it was an actual guy. Ellen Page needed that doctor:
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Saw this on facebook, and I’m not sure who it’s for
Like, I dig the whole “rainbow bridge” thing for pet owners, but is this supposed to make someone grieving for their pet feel better? That their pet is in the afterlife wishing death upon them? Should I be in a rush to die so I can reconnect with my lost pets?
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This actually looks very similar to my brother. 
Random: life is better without back squats and standard deadlifts.
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What does it give you if you ask for a woman with an average build?
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Heresy! …but also true for most people once they drop their tribal thinking (and learn some alternatives).
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I’ll give that a shot later and see what happens. AIs are tricky though since they “learn” the user. Since I use it for work, it might automatically give me super fit images. For a while there, every female image it made was a super fit redhead, because I use pics of my wife to experiment with different artistic styles. 
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It might not do much for marketing, but you could probably try a wider range of “artistic styles”? Versions copying Picasso, Goya, Rubens, Bob Ross, LeRoy Nieman, Monet, Matisse, Klee, Final Fantasy, Da Vinci, Andrea del Sarto…