I confess that, after stepping on the scale this morning, I’m the lightest I’ve been in 3 years (sub 180lbs). I also confess that, my physique is by no means impressive, but I’m glad that in the past three years I’ve made my body look quite different at this weight than it used to.
What I’m not looking forward to doing is assembling my gym this evening after the local anesthetic wears off my just operated on toe. Must be done though.
I’m the same. I LOVE the beginning of the journey: it’s so exciting. And I LOVE the idea of giving someone “the keys to the kingdom” from the start: letting them learn from my mistakes and setting them up for success EARLY so that they can just crush it. And, so often, it’s just a complete and total letdown as they just fight, bicker, argue, act condescending, etc etc.
There are a few exceptions, and they make it all worthwhile. @samul is absolutely crushing it, and has taken a lot of advice to heart. There have been a few others as well.
My confession: if I get good news from my docs in January, I am doing this challenge
An hour is a reasonable time limit: usually these things are way too fast.
I read Steak and Destroy and I feel as if it still applies
This is part of the reason I have become so jaded… I mean honestly why even bother anymore? Thats been my mind set.
Agree 100% the young man has done a great job.
Isn’t that fairly serious?
On a related note, I have carried a cough for nearly 6 months and it seems to have finally gone away… WTF is that about?
There’s a study I’ve linked before somewhere in TN that found the saliva swab test is just as (definitely) if not slightly more (possible) accurate than the touch the brain stem test.
(edit: linked the study)
I confess that I am a child.
I ordered some supercharged peanut/almond butter from a company called “Nuts n’ More”. It’s good stuff: worth ordering and having delivered.
I’m away at work, the Mrs is home. Apparently, my delivery from the company arrived. She decided to notify me by texting the following
“Your nut butter came”
It took me quite a while to stop laughing at my desk.
I find that even if they dont do this, they often just don’t want to believe what you tell them. The simple and effective advice often involves telling them about hard work and keeping it simple. But very few newbies want to hear this, they want to do fancy exercises and seemingly complicated approaches to training even if they don’t produce results. I feel like if most newbies started weight training like they would another sport they would get better results.
Confession my biggest training regret is not joining the weightlifting team at university (school).
I confess I’m tempted to eat a pack of pop tarts just because I can “get away with it”
I regret every poptart I did not eat at your age.
The problem is not the nutrition
I’m wary of the processing and chemicals
That’s why I avoid them now, and regret avoiding them then.
But think about the happiness it will bring. I’m with @T3hPwnisher on this one. I regret every poptart I did not eat when I was younger.
Confession: I don’t know why it’s such a chore for me to count past 8 reps. I find it mentally draining lol
There’s numbers in lifting beyond 5?
I rarely count past 2 
a set of 8 ends up being “one two, two, two…”
On the pop tart thing - the few times I have had them I remember them being underwhelming
Also I somehow managed to get a small burn on my lower bicep while prepping dinner
Ima get lost counting like that lol. I can manage that with two 5s, but with 2s? You’re weird 
@alex44938 did you try toasting them? lightly toasted strawberry frosted poptarts are really good!
oil spatter?
try them frozen
I can attest from many rounds of research that nothing warms up the body better after 2 hours of shoveling snow than blueberry poptarts fresh out of the toaster. Frozen pizza is a far but admirable second choice.
Cherry, meanwhile, is the most anabolic flavor, and best used for powerlifting meets and strongman competitions between events.
Your mastery of poptarts is amazing. Hahaha
