Nah, not just you man. A lot of threads are going in different directions these days. Even my “your principles” thread has been veering off at times.
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I’ll try to help out with this. I’ve got a 4 week old at home plus a toddler, so I just noticed that we have a check-in thread. I’ll get a video or two this week and then contribute to get us back on track.
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If you’re talking about current trends this wouldn’t surprise me at all. The invention of internet porn has induced a generation of unrealistic sexual expectations amongst current youth. Furthermore, when you’ve got unlimited access to methods of “release” there might be less incentive to actually… Go out and meet women.
I don’t think pornography is a bad thing per se, but it wouldn’t surprise me if it serves as a demotivating factor amongst youth when trying to procure a mate.
This isn’t Playboy anymore, online pornography is considerably more graphic. My hypothesis could be wrong, I haven’t seen any solid data to back up what I think here.
Move this on over to PWI, bud. This isn’t the thread for this.
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Ok. To get us back on track, I have an actual “check in” video for us:
By way of explanation, I have spent the last several months with a different training focus than most of my time on this site. A couple years of pushing my max deadlift (which I do love…) without as much regard for bodyweight and health left me a bit too husky, and with a back that was getting cranky.
I have dropped 40 pounds in six months, from 258.6 on February 4 to a morning weight of 218.6 today. For most of the summer my training has been a daily walk and a slew of pull-ups and kettlebell presses. One of my “that would be neat to achieve someday” goals that feels good to pursue right now is some of the StrongFirst standards; one that feels within reach this year is strict pressing the Beast (48kg/106 pounds). If I combine that strength with my final bodyweight goal of getting and staying under 210, that would be a half-bodyweight one-armed press, which seems cool. Anyways, all of that said, here’s the video from this morning:
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I’ve been lucky in that the only affect COVID has had on my training is that I can always commit to 4 days a week and still keep up on cardio/mobility. Only issue is that it is more stressful than “normal” life and sometimes I end up having 1-3 drinks a night after work to unwind a bit. So I’m bigger, stronger, in better cardio shape, and fatter than I was before COVID. Not all bad. Lifting videos below.
505 Deadlift from late May
460 Squat from late May
460 Conventional Deadlift from last week
I haven’t really done anything video-worthy on upper body lifts other than missing a 310 bench.
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Damn you’re strong. That squat was super narrow, also
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Thanks man. Yeah, I have to squat narrow like that and get my legs involved more than some people. My spine is deformed and as soon as I widen my stance much beyond what it was in the video I have a lot of trouble keeping my pelvis from tilting. If it tilts forward, I can jam my vertebrae into my spinal cord and that hurts. A lot. If anything, I’ve been a stronger squatter with this narrow stance anyway, so I’m not too upset about it 
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I’ve still been slowly coming down in weight. 188 this morning. I’ve got a bit of a lower back tweak at the moment, so I’ve really been training my conditioning for the past couple of months. 8 months of eating carnivore.
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Look at them quads, bro!
Very nice job.
Here’s a 405 x 3 deadlift and a hard attempt at rep #4 (if you watch long enough). BW 160.
https://www.instagram.com/p/CD1utNwAbZJ/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link
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Hell yeah dude!
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I’m working at 500 for sure…I didn’t expect a base building program to work this well!
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It’s awesome to see things looking up for you
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i always get a kick at you celebrating after completing the lift. Lol. Good one dude!
Yeah, for a while there I thought I wasn’t gonna make it through. I’m pretty much out though. I move into my dorm in 8 days.
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Now that was an RPE of 11! 
Good lifting, man. 
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I almost got a seizure watching all that shaking hahaha
@liftangryordie500 good work buddy!
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