I love the fact that it’s OK to walk around butt ass naked in the lock room. There is literally no etiquette rules. Lots of things have changed over the years, but the locker room? Nope, still good as the day it was created.
Exactly! If more people actually go and get real coaching in OL and do it for at least 1 year, there won’t be any confusion about what “strength training” vs “hypertrophy training” really entails.
I believe building muscle and getting big is so bloody simple as long as you can tie your own shoelaces and count to 20, you can do it. I know borderline retards who have.
Cutting to single digit bodyfat levels, however, is not. But assuming one starts in his late teens to early 20s and spends several YEARS building mass, he should be able to afford a qualified professional to help him with it by then.
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You talkin bout me Brah?
Just kidding, I never give diet plans. But, I do tell dudes to eat more when I’m a skinny fuck myself.
However, I did give a dude advice on his 600 pound Dead Lift on Facebook (his back was rounding), but, I did preface it with the fact that my 1RM was 295, lol.
He was actually gracious about it.
You’re everything that’s wrong with the world. Nothing ruins your day more than walking into the gym first thing in the morning, opening the change room door, only to be greeted by a naked man facing the wrong way, bending over to dry his feet.
Every thread must have its exceptions… 
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Rep ranges do matter and I don’t mean it in the 3-6 for strength and 8-12 for hypertrophy crap.
First off, you can get stronger in all rep ranges, anyone who believes that they must keep their reps below 5 for strength gains or between 8-12 for hypertrophy gains has a flawed understanding of training.
Secondly, the biggest difference (for me) about rep ranges are the mental toughness aspects of it. Plus who doesn’t wanna respond to a question such as “How much do you squat bruh?” with “Oh, I just squatted 405 the other day, for 20 reps. After my top set.”
Lastly, if you do a honest set of 20, you’ll definitely feel something burning up. In my extremely limited experience, it’d be the underdeveloped muscles used (or barely used) during the movement.
9 out of 10 times, if someone (that’s quite a lot of people actually) lifts more than me, I refuse to give them advice unless specifically asked. I should be the one taking notes, not you.
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The front entrance to our big-ass commercial gym always has traffic flowing through it, so you can expect to courteously hold the door for the person behind you as you enter or exit.
Once, upon reaching the threshold, I checked behind me to see if I needed to hold it for someone…about 6 paces behind me was a dude with a desperately contrived man bun. I let the door go and just kept walking to my car. I don’t know why.
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Gash how much I hate that one
Although I think most people associate strength with 1 rm,which is why they say that crap
I progress more, training my arms everyday than x2
I confess that I have a deep desire to offer unsolicited advice to a group of guys who have been finding a way to fuck up everything they do, which is mostly a lot of ego lifting. I only care because they are being consistent.
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I find that the more I learn about lifting, the slower the results come.
In high school was where I made the most progress on bench when I hit it 6-7 times a week, with wildly varying rep ranges & sets. Only when I learned about the concept of over-training and the need for variety did it stall.
I gained the most size when all I did was alternate everyday between “squats” (quarter squats) and dips for as many sets of 8-12 as I could muster.
Agreed.
Particularly, YMCAs seem to require at least one old, hairy naked dude that likes to clip his toenails in the locker room.
Not sure what is behind this phenomenon, but I know it is a fact.
I sincerely wonder what @Yogi1 looks like. He’s on here quite a fair bit and gives out mostly decent advice as far as I’ve read but one can’t help but wonder.
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He’s a fatty McFatterson.
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“mostly decent advice”?
Jeez…
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Well, you’ve yet to teach me the meaning of life so…
The older you get, the less you care what others think.
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I firmly believe that unless you’re overweight, you have no business cutting if you have less than 1-2 years in the gym and have a mediocre base.
Too many people say to cut down body fat first then lean bulk just to make your body more insulin sensitive and because it’s easier to control fat gains versus muscle…
Meanwhile those who should not be cutting end up looking weak and more skinny at a low weight they originally didn’t want to begin with!
Slow bulk, build a nice base of muscle, gain more muscle, then cut, then lean bulk to maintain without cycling the bulk/cut phases.
1-2 years is a long time though,especially for younger people and rtelling them not to cut for all this time can discourage them
Imo if a beginner wants to cut,even if it’s not the most optimal thing to dolet him do it
something about crushing your enemies and hearing the lamentations of their women. I forget exactly how it goes
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