And how do people expect most beginners to learn shit like proper squat technique when they’re expected to go to failure at least half the time with such relatively high loads? It completely nullifies the justification for doing these lifts at high frequency.
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This. I am absolutely amazed at just how many grown-ass adults have no idea.
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Does this work? Asking for a friend.
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Yep, many people assume cooking is hard. Not true at all. It’s pretty easy to make great tasting food.
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Takes a big time commitment tho.
From going to the store, to prep, cooking time, storage, clean up…
My son was impressed with Dwayne Johnson’s physique, I told it it would be awesome to have a trainer AND a cook……
And I am sure he never has to do the dishes
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With the meals I’m making in a hotel room, I got zero sympathy for non-cookers
Mini chicken tacos w/fat free cheese, avocado, fire roasted tomatoes and greek yogurt.
And that’s just when I don’t want to eat the chicken out of the can, haha.
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Wow did I just see @BrickHead back in here. Hows life?
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I was in a social thing at work, the discussion got onto cooking and I was stunned how few people cooked. Not ‘I don’t cook’ = once a week. Literally months and months between cooking, one person hadn’t cooked for ‘at least 3 years’ and was thinking about a place with no kitchen. This wasn’t only single people, my brain doesn’t process this
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They were raised by wolves.
Check his IG. Pretty darn jacked n vascular looking for a middle age dude doing calisthenics in his garage.
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Hey, I’m good. Thank you.
I write a post in here but by accident hit the delete button by accident when scrolling around here again and reading my post after I posted.
I said one piece of silly advice was to LARP as a powerlifter before moving onto a traditional bodybuilding split routine.
My upper body training these days is nearly all progressive calisthenics. I say progressive because people tend to think calisthenics is simply pullups, push-ups, BW rows. My current goals are to get a full planche (might take one to two years, who knows, and full front lever.
So a workout will include skill (like a tucked planche), then strength (lever) and then exercises for size.
I don’t know if I’ll do calisthenics forever but I was having serious motivation problems for lifting after over two decades of the same stuff over and over again. I even attended a few Crossfit sessions at my gym awhile back. I came across some of the big YT street/calisthenics stuff and it looked really fun so I tried some of it and loved it. I follow Austin Dunham, Red Delta, Simon Ata, Daniel Vadnal and some others.
I still hit the gym for legs and sometimes upper body because the upper level of my gym is a Crossfit area which is great for BW stuff because they have parallets, lots of bars of varying heights, a stall bar, KB’s, plyos boxes.
Leg day is with weights but no barbell squats and deadlifts. I really don’t respond well to heavy bilateral leg training anymore unless except for hip thrusts or leg press. I don’t have any back, or hip or knee problems but back squats, barbell RDL’s, and deadlifts make me feel awful for too long after. And I was pretty good at squatting for a long time.
My last leg day was:
Bulgarian split squat
Single leg RDL
Machine hip thrust
Machine abduction
I got Base Bar B-bars for my garage. I’m gonna get dumbbells and a bench soon and likely put up a ceiling chin-up bar for rings and Blast Straps (these are awesome).
Sorry if I derailed thread but you did ask how I’m doing. How are you?
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I am really good thank you. Training is solid, still trying to make this old man stronger. It sounds like the new training path has given you some great new motivation.
These things are the devil but great for leg development.
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A hurt lifter is a shrinking lifter. EDIT: As stu says below, if you do get hurt, keep going on all the other stuff to live to fight another day…
Sleep like it’s your job.
Ben Bruno - Single leg skater squats with heavyish weight.
Do Face-pulls, with neutral facing grip and the thumbs pointing back over your shoulders
And well, since I have a fondness for the good old days when Paul Carter was all about just straight up solid advice; he responded to a query of mine about bulking and told me I was too old for that shit and I should just stay lean and work to hold onto what I have, with any extra muscle as a bonus.
Bad advice - I tend to wipe the hard drive of stuff I don’t agree with, so…I got nuthin’
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Here’s another one of mine that I find myself repeating over the years to clients (usually injured or unable to do everything they need to):
“If you can’t make progress, at least don’t lose ground”
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Good one. I saved several articles on single- leg training by Ben Bruno and I have benefited greatly from them. It is partly from his writings that I finally concluded that I don’t have to do exercises that wreck me.
Like you, I’m never bulking again. I also once thought, from poor advice, that mega bulks somehow lead to exceptional muscular gains when the fat is stripped off.
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Without derailing the thread too much (hopefully!) please could you expand on this? I’m a little surprised to see this featuring on the best advice ever list!
Agreed on the too old for that shit when it comes to bulking!
I really rate facepulls to keep the shoulders healthy, the posture good, and I find if gives me good growth on both my rear and side delts with zero pain. All upsides and no downside.
The reference to thumbs: I just added that because I believe the advice that doing facepull the more usual way of holding a rope so that the thumb side of the hands are being pulled away from you contributes to an inward rotation of the shoulders. I find it best to do them with a suspension arrangement rather than a cable machine, for accommodating resistance.
Excuse me OP for the parenthasis…
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I think, but not sure yet, that: “gains increase linearly with reps as one approaches failure but fatigue increases exponentially approaching failure”…may be a classic in the making.
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couldn’t agree more: 1-5 not too bad, 6-7 getting quite hard 7-8 can I make it? 9-10 should have stopped at 8 
I really like this. I have heard over and over of people taking a 6 month break because they hurt their wrist, or shoulder or whatever. They may be limited on some stuff, but there is so much they could be working on.