It’s going great - my workouts consist of one half rep every 67 years and I gained 34 pounds of muscle in my left leg halfway through the first workout, so you could say I’m progressing.
Also, in that case, that planet health dude is hilarious.
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Doin the freakin robot on a bosu ball! 
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So the question is, why aren’t any of these dudes winning contests somewhere? Why do they all look like they could seriously use 12lbs of muscle to look like they lift?
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There are arguments for low volume and HIT - I just think they’d be more effective without the hyperbole.
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Yeah, don’t - I’m derailing here. Have a couple lifting confessions to get off my chest here in a bit anyway.
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Yeah, but you’ve done tons of leg work and squatted 4+ plates, so you’ve earned the right to call an “audibro”, which I’m coining as a term to describe when you’re supposed to do something useful/brutal/leg related and it gets switched to arms.
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I confess, I become a total amnesiac the second things go sideways in life and/or training. It always comes back to the same 2 root causes, but I wallow in pity for a month or so before remembering that I know how to fix me. Sleep and perspective go a long way…
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I like to say I’m really good at learning my lesson. I’m so good, in fact, I’ve learnt the same lessons 30 times or more.
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Audibro? Please elaborate, this sounds like it could be a fun label!
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I think the theories have some merit. Not a lot, but some. The biggest advocates either got big before becoming advocates or didn’t actually do HIT in practice if you look at their training. Yates, for example, used the useful part. Train really, really hard and then allow enough recovery. But he trained 4 times a week, not 4 times a month. So, some merit, but not “As advertised”. I think that if you choose to train to failure (Or past it), that’s fine given that you know your body and let it recover before doing it again. Good plan in many ways for hypertrophy, not so good for some other endeavours.
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Audibro sounds like a play on “Audible” - if I get the gist, which is what a Quarterback does when he gets to the line of scrimmage and changes the play based on something in the Defense that indicates the play that the coach called won’t work.
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@hardartery nailed it. The full term would be “calling an audibro”. Instead of getting to the line of scrimmage and changing the play based on something in the Defense that indicates the play that the coach called wont work, I get to the gym and change the workout based on being lazy and preferring to see my arms look big for an hour.
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My school is making us decided whether or not to return spring semester.
I confess that the only reason I want to go is that there’s a chance the gym will stay open…
Doing meal prep. I had 2 slabs of fresh mince in the snow cooker and forgot to put sauce on. So the slabs cooked whole. I had 2 kinda brown cooked mince bricks.
I added sause and stuff but I have had to cut the slabs into chunks to get them into tuppa wear.
Brilliant.
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I made coffee the other day and left the coffee pot next to the machine after pouring the water in and came back to a full pot of coffee all over my counter and the floor.
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I used to do that with my espresso machine enough times to no longer have one.
This is how I cook meat sauce for pasta. I do a giant hamburger, then bash it up into chunks after adding the sauce.
It’s like rustic meatballs, much better than breaking it all up at the start, you get a much better char.
Looking into alternative barbell storage solutions. In the past I’ve just landed lags into the framing and placed the bars on those. Crude, but effective. All the lags I brought from my old house to the new one are bent at this stage, and a couple inches too long since there’s no longer any drywall to account for.
They’re the most cost effective option, so I’m probably going that route again since it’ll run me about $30 or so. But has mounted bars in a similarly cheap way? I was also considering using lumber and mounting that to the framing, but I’m not sure it’d hold up over time.
@ouroboro_s made a really nice bar rack maybe she can chime in.
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Confession?
I’m totally prepping for the coming apocalypse.
Also - I’m putting money away in retirement accounts.
Got both bases covered - whew
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