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@distantthoughts I'm mostly following a 4-day upper/lower (which is more like a upper/full body in practice) written by an influencer on YouTube/Instagram with nearly 50k subs. The programmer has barbell back squats, barbell RDLs and Leg Press all in one day. But I feel like that trifecta of...

@aeri20 Yea I wish I had OP's physique. As a novice (though some of my lifts are in intermediate territory now), it blows my mind how much harder it is for more experienced lifters to make additional gains. I can understand OP feeling like he's spinning his wheels after 16 months. In my first...

@distantthoughts As long as I need to. I was doing a Full Body yesterday with Barbell Back Squats, Romanian Deadlifts, Leg Press. I found myself not being ready after 3 minutes in between working sets of RDLs because I was still exhausted and thirsty after 3 warm-up sets + 3 working sets of...

@erniedavid 355 subs and he's put out content since 2021. (Granted the vast majority of his videos were released only within the last couple months). The algorithm hasn't rewarded him I see. His most viewed video (2.5k) is from a month ago taking shots at Natural Hypertrophy. Calling him a fake...

@polarbearwear These are all compound movements except for the cable flys you do at the end. On compounds you're only as strong as your weakest link. You might have a tricep or shoulder weakness holding you back. Do you feel your chest much when you do pressing movements? Is it really your chest...

@junior59 I've seen so many people fuck their shoulder up with seated db shoulder press. Which is why I don't like doing that movement. I do it standing (downside is that it's easier to cheat and allegedly not as effective for growing the front delts from what Ive heard) or use the seated...

@primary0 I'm trying a cut now with 1.6g/kg. That said it's not like I have a ton of gains to lose anyways. lmfao. But I don't measure absolutely everything so I tend to err on the side of eating more on most days. Why 1.6g/kg? Because meat and meat by-products are expensive in Canada and carbs...

@sugarcookies This is why for cuts I don't think it's a good thing to aim for a target calorie deficit throughout the cut. But instead to set like a -1% body weight per week goal. Because it will get progressively harder to lose 2 lbs/week as you go down in weight. But it will be easier to go...

@leyanis At 5'9" 150 lbs it's too risky to attempt cutting to 8% body fat from 12%. The risk of muscle mass loss is high. The reward of being lean at that size isn't that great from a purely bodybuilding perspective as opposed to an endurance running perspective. If you have been cutting up...

@leyanis I don't know anything about running marathons. Is going up in weight going to negatively impact your performance in the marathon? Just like many things in life, there are trade offs. If you try to cut from 10-12% bf, there is a much higher chance of losing gains compared to cutting at...

@leyanis Yeah I would bulk at a 300 daily calorie surplus until 172+ lbs (this is going to take awhile. Bulks are supposed to be slow when natural) and then cut later. Normally lifters who have 3-5 years of experience (intermediate to advanced) would gain more than 1 lb of body fat to 1 lb of...

@leyanis If you are 5'9" 150 10-12% bf your FFMI is 19.83-20.28. A 20-21 FFMI at 10-18% bf would put you in the athlete or intermediate lifter category. 20-22 FFMI is above average. 18-20 is average musculature. 20 FFMI puts you in the 75th percentile. So you're more muscular than 25% of men. At...

@pinetowntree For abs/obliques, is high reps lower weight really the way to go versus higher weight less reps or what? My goal is for my abs and Adonis Belt to show more. Granted I know that low body fat % is part of the deal too for that. I've been doing 8-9 reps, up to 90 second rest if...

@harpazo777 Are you referring to that tingly feeling in your brain when you go close to failure on leg press? I hate that. I find that this stopped happening when I train leg press deeper into leg/full body day after I work up a sweat. It's like my CNS gets lubricated. So as long as you...

@doks Apparently Joe Rogan does Keto and tried Carnivore. And he's jacked (though it would be interesting to see what his macros looked like back when he accumulated that muscle mass). But I don't understand why Joe would make shit harder for himself like that. So as long as Joe eats 1.8g...

@william3 Does wide grip lat pulldown help target Lats better? I asked ChatGPT why I'm feeling forearms and Biceps on lat pulldowns. Even though i did hammer curls and bicep curls previously to exhaust forearms and biceps. ChatGPT told me to widen my grip to reduce bicep and forearm engagement...