This is why I’m so grateful for my Catholic education, where I was taught to feel ashamed of my body no matter HOW it looked.
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Yeah my sympathy goes out to them it really does…
Fuck the poor bastard over there that had his face burned off in a house fire.
Where addressing true body image issues…
For the love of God
I once heard a interesting take on these leaders of the moment. Most of them could give two shits less about the people involved. They are just wanting too surrounded themselves with people that will support their own little fantasy world.
I finished all the work I have for a week. It feels so nice, and strange, to have my plate cleared
Confession today I need to squat, knowing they’re front squats and knowing I have to do conditioning first, I procrastinated long enough this morning to need to start work instead, it’s lunch time and I know I have to go and do it, even the Mrs has told me to go out and train, I’m dreading it. I’m dreading it so much that my procrastination this morning was was cleaning…
Now I’m procrastinating on the forums…
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I’m with you on that. 100% 
I did it… It was worse than I imagined I’m every way possible.
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We have this kinda slippery slope mental condition going on at the minute. Where people want to equate “you’re risking complications at this bodyweight” with “lose the pork fatso”. There are shades here.
I don’t think there is any reason to denegrate someone for being fat. That’s not helpful but it is also not helpful to keep information about risks to their health from them.
For example, COVID disproportionately harms land whales, millions have probably died because they spent half a year having take out delivered to their door and staying away from places people exercise instead of dropping 50lbs.
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I used to love training to this song, something like 10 years ago. I’ve spent friggin 3 years looking for it - every 3 or 4 months I’d waste an evening or three looking for it but I just couldn’t remember it enough to find it.
Now I found it and I regret everything WTF?!?! Haha (still going to train to it 
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I’m guessing it would be too much to ask them to rename the movement as Beautiful at any size? Because at the end of the day this is what it’s all about it seems.
Separate the health aspect from it…
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If only ppl were so open minded…
honestly I agree with this. Beauty is subjective, so you can be considered/think of yourself as beautiful regardless of size. Health, is NOT subjective.
I think this ties into the bigger issue of ppl conflating aesthetics/athletics with health
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Probably one of the biggest misconception around.
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That was like the national dubstep anthem for damn near a decade. The older dubstep is…mostly what paved the way for the newer stuff you hear today. I’m too fond of nightcore anymore, but the OGs like that one I won’t ever not listen to.
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I confess this took me 21 years to “get”, and I JUST realized it doing a set of lateral raises.
You have to be STRONG to make isolation exercises work: not weak. The joke is that isolation exercises are used by weak lifters while the strong dudes do compounds, but I get WHY people tell new lifters not to bother with isolation work: if you’re not strong, you wont’ be able to get anything out of it.
I was doing a set of 20 with 10lb plates. I’ve pressed 265lbs over my head before. Can I MOVE more than 10lbs on a lateral raise? Hell yeah. Can I do is while ISOLATING my middle delts? Hell no. And that’s the key. Weak trainees are just going to fling their hands out to the side while holding the weights in hopes it will magically make their shoulders grow, but to actually isolate the muscle, you have to have enough strength in you to move JUST that muscle and really stress it.
I suddenly get why such strong dudes can move such light weights and get such great results: they’re not light weights at all.
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So you’re saying that when someone who’s pressing 100lb is doing lat rises they are using more then their middle delts to move the weight?
Makes sense. Ties in with something I saw Wendler write once about the difference between the guys that can curl 50lb and guys that make a 50lb curl count. If you can row 100/125lb /arm you’re less not going to be cheating as much. And you’re bicep does not need your body to compensate to get the weight up.
I just feel guilt and fear. I confess(lol) I managed to complete some Deep Water sets by imagining my old priest from Belgium would come over and slap me if I gave up halfway. The dude had one hell of a temper.
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It’s why I used to stress that people who don’t know how to fully activate a muscle shouldn’t rely on high rep sets and drop sets to “feel the burn” before learning how to do so but no one listened so I gave up.
IME, if one can use a weight heavy enough to cause failure while getting a good pump from 8 reps, that’s when one has fully figured out the MMC for the target muscle. Then one can do whatever set/rep combo he/she wants.
I certainly wouldn’t advise anyone strong enough to use over 60lb dumbbells for side raises for lower reps to do for long periods of time but that’s only because of shoulder health, nothing to do with fiber distribution or shit like that. Just use higher reps and slower negatives or supersets and trisets and stuff. They’ll give the same effect while maintaining shoulder health.
The important part is that the dude already CAN use 60lb dumbbells AND get a pump if he wants to.
Sometimes some “cheating” is warranted. The starting of a side raise is mostly your supraspa… supraspin… other, more fragile part of your shoulder doing most of the work. A little controlled boost at the start to get the weight up to around 45 degrees can help for delt activation.
If anyone has doubts, try using bands or chains and you’ll see the difference. Hell, use a really light band in combination with dumbbells if you want.
At worst, you’ll just look like a Clown Dick to other gym goers but who gives a fuck.
@whang Clown Dick. Never forget.
For curls, I really don’t like starting from a dead hang because of the potential for a bicep tear if I’m going heavy so sometimes I cheat a bit during the last reps when I get tired and inadvertently lower the weight all the way.
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As a disclaimer, I completely get Wendler’s point and I agree with it wholeheartedly. The problem is people think in extremes because of the lack of nuance on the internet while others just mimick what big people do in the gym without actually striking a conversation with them and asking WHY they do certain things that way.
An old dude asked me how I developed my lats and I probably would still be training with him if COVID didn’t hit. He was shocked to hear that I don’t do much vertical pulling since I have a shoulder problem which he also has.
I showed him how to do cable rows properly with emphasis on the lats. He couldn’t get it until I told him to lean forward really far during the negative and feel the stretch on his lats while keeping his lower back neutral before pulling and moving his body back to the upright position. That’s when he finally got it. He also didn’t have to lean forward so far anymore after it finally “clicked”.
Then he was able to apply that to T-bar rows and other stuff. It would look like he was “cheating” to anyone watching him.
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This is about Brits:
My confession is I believe the other two thirds are washing them less regularly.
I can understand not washing pants after every wear, but sheets just once a year? 
Mine are done every 2 weeks. I can even tell you my sheets are due to be replaced this coming Friday. If you change your bed clothes less than once a month you’re filth.
And pants need to be changed often. Like daily.
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