I’m sure you’ll do well, but no matter what grade you get on a test, hard work and extra effort will never be “in vain”. I work with blue collar guys who are worth their weight in gold, and engineers who are worth fuck all. A work ethic and the right mindset will take you wherever you want to go. Good job aiming high, buddy.
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Other than behind the neck presses in the smith machine and the occasional smith machine version of the scrape-the-rack press popularized by Meadows, I don’t do any other form of overhead pressing anymore.
I think I’ve gone back to my roots. My old, big gym bro friends from way back only did BHN presses and some form smith of machine “pin press” that Charles Glass does.
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Real confession:
I normally skip dips on arm day. My thought process is as follows:
“Do I feel like breaking a sweat today? I don’t see the potential returns surpassing the alternatives too much. Fuck it.”
Flame free.
Edit:
Doing dips for overall upperbody development isn’t the same as doing them just for arms, at least when I do them, so relax, dips fanboyz.
Confessing that my brain stopped working last night.
Every few weeks I make pizza. Usually 3 but yesterday we only had enough stuff for 2 bases. I decided to use 3 toppings worth on the 2 pizzas.
We have pepperoni and I usually open 2 packs and portion it into 3 even piles. I figured I would do the same and then divide the 3rd pile between the other two piles.
Then I looked at my 2 piles and I looked at the 2 open packets and I thought: I’m a dunce lol
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@T3hPwnisher I dare you not to laugh
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Hah! Not taking that dare at all. I give Mark credit: he’s amazing at getting people to talk about him. One of the most popular authors for beginners of all time.
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Yeah I don’t agree with everything he says. But I do respect the guy.
I was actually throwing shade at him there, haha. I think he’s great at writing things that beginners want to hear and buy. That’s about it.
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Oh I picked up on it…
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I like that last one! Power cleans above all others!
I confess that Freedom Units might have cost me my goals of 2/3/4/5 plates. Had I used kilograms instead of pounds, I might’ve had three out of four. Sadly, I can only claim one unless push press counts for the press.
I’ve benched 305 twice but never 315. I could’ve hit 308, though. I probably could’ve hit 396 on squat at one point, too.
Stupid American measuring system.
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Just use smaller plates!
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Someone needs to photoshop his face onto that Buddy Christ figure.
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Been watching Strength Wars. I can’t decide if I’m watching because I’m admiring all these big dudes performing all these feats of strength or just taking pleasure in thinking, “Haha I’m glad I’m not that guy!” when they’re reduced to grinding out singles after reaching failure too soon without resting when they should have. Probably both.
But seriously, strong dudes… are usually pretty big too. Not sure why there’s so been much shit about strength vs hypertrophy training going on all these years.
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The host has a hell of a shouting voice. Good pick
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Nerds. Too much RPG stat allocation.
I still remember all our threads about “Those big weak bodybuilders at the gym I can outlift”. No one likes the fact that muscle takes a long time to build, because how am I going to quickly feel superior to everyone else in this new hobby I just started? I know! I’ll focus on 1rms in a few key lifts rather than on actually being big and strong. Because you can improve your skill on a lift in a matter of weeks and see huge jumps on weight moved, whereas muscle takes a LONG time to build, and who has time for that?
Same thing with the dudes that only care about how mobile and flexible they are. You can get very decently mobile in a few weeks of dedicated stretching and mobility work: still takes a long time to get big.
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I know the thread your referencing…been bitting my tongue on one of the post. One on specifically how bodybuilding training and say powerlifting are so different. Considering the examples were inaccurate and showed their lack of actual experience and lack of training knowledge. Reading that persons post one phrase came to my mind…
But I can’t since i made a oath to myself not to interact with that individual
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I’m actually talking about one from around 2016 that showed up in my classics, but that other one is also dumb.
As soon as people hear “bodybuilder” or “powerlifter”, their brains switch off. Heck, I get a little chapped when people refer to me as a strongman, because they go backwards about it: “Oh, you do XYZ because you’re a strongman”.
No, I compete in strongman BECAUSE I do XYZ. It’s the only sport out there that rewards anything close to how I prefer to train and my own personal goals. Strongman in particular is so varied that you can’t do stupidly prescriptive thinking like that, but boy to people try. And powerlifters before gear got crazy were ridiculously jacked, and bodybuilders have always been strong. People wanna say “meathead” like it means lower intelligence, but how come all these big dumb strong guys managed to figure it all out while these super smart science backed dudes STILL can’t get jacked.
I always go back to the (very poor taste) Jamie Lewis quote: Lifting weights is so simple that they do it in the special olympics.
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yeah… im talking the new one. I have last count how many times that thread has popped up in various versions on here. One of the things is a constant is on this shit… no one ever point out the concept of off season training.
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Right?! The whole notion of any sort of periodization doesn’t exist on the internet. I constantly have that discussion with kids in training. “How long can I train for hypertrophy before I need to switch out?” Dude, you will KNOW when you’re done training for hypertrophy: your hands will be raw and chapped from doing dishes all the time for all the food you have to keep cooking and eating and your jaw will have developed tendinitis, to say nothing of the fact you’re tired of feeling beat to hell from training so goddamn hard and your job can no longer support your sleep schedule.
But powerlifting is just the big 3, bodybuilding is nothing but cable machines and circuit workouts, and strongman only lift stones. No way these dudes are all just making gains with the basics in the off season.
Speaking of gains in the off season, I confess I just found my next cheat meal
“– Eat the Stellanator, which is the burger, taller than a baby, consists of (6) 6.5 oz burger patties, 6 fried eggs, 12 pieces of bacon, 6 pieces of cheese, grilled onions, lettuce, tomatoes, jalepenos, and Peanut Butter all on a bun served with a basket of fries. There is a 45 minute time limit. Hundreds have tried, but few have won.”
Time limits are what I hate about food challenges. I’ve done a few, and always get beat by the clock. I’m a damn fast eater too, but carbs always slow me way down. But this is close to home for me, and so tempting…probably because I’m deep in a diet, haha.
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