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@silsophi Damn that sucks. Ah well. Genetics is a bell curve. There's people with great genetics & people who will never look particularly impressive. Maybe there's another hobby that can fulfill your interests

@cybernetic I know what you mean. I've been lifting for 16 years and I only bench press 12kg!

@dawn16 Probably no less than twice and no more often than four times. But because of how little training them impacts other muscles, you've got a lot of freedom to choose.

@spykat19 The 'strength standards' of leaving the novice stage which people throw around are 1/2/3/4 plate ohp, bench, squat, deadlift. Regardless of the issue of trying to use a catch-all for defining when any particular person leaves the novice stage, I think the ratio is pretty good for the...

@aeri20 This is an obvious one. I much prefer to see people argue over the ethics of using two cable pulleys at once, much more nuanced.

@paparazi257 Howdy Eric! What are your thoughts on short biased movements being just as effective as lengthened biased movements with the condition that you go to failure and then do a few partials on the short biased movement? This is compared to lengthened biased movements just going to...

@dod2017 GVS is... Different. He trains with the intensity of a HIT guy but trains nearly every day with usually multiple sets per exercise. He's a freaky dude. I'd never be able to recover from that

@uniqueperception Jeff at his own father's funeral like 'Three things I learned from my dad, before his untimely death - first, fishing trips. I find these to be an excellent way to refresh & reset before a busy work block.'

@jdez Literally just kinesthetic awareness. Your cardio is shot from 20 rep squats, ok maybe go heavier. Your joints hurt from 5 rep lateral raises, ok go lighter. Your 8 reps on shrugs means the set is over in 12 seconds due to the intrinsically short ROM, ok maybe do more reps.

@cybernetic Maybe incrementally. It's depends how much muscle you can expect to gain over time. 0.1lb a week is around a 50 calorie surplus, 5.2lb a year. If you think 10lb is realistic for you, then you should up the calories, obviously, because that weight isn't coming out of thin air. If...

@paparazi257 Does anybody here do sternum pulldowns? Like a close grip underhand lat pulldown, but you lean back as you pull and bring the bar to your sternum just under your pecs.

@bobo_mcpherson That's just called being wrong about some things & right about some things. It's not an enigma, it's actually a massive proportion of the human race. Mike is a great example of a guy with some good theories and also some bunk.

@becknps Bodybuilding is like baking. You've got various ingredients that build the ultimate product. You might think, 'This cookbook has 3 sets of vanilla essence, 3 sets of flour & 3 sets of eggs. But I'm really trying to prioritize that vanilla flavour in this cake, so I'll double what the...

@leiner This. There's gotta be a lot of stars aligning for this to be ok. Training a lot of body parts on the day, long warmup, resting long, a busy gym, genetically working well with high volumes, etc etc

@becknps Stuff I've tried personally: Single set quadruple drop set training - didn't do anything for me. I think if you've got the fortitude to go to failure & then to failure on a dropset or some partials, that's basically as hard as you could ever possibly need to work in the gym in any one...

@prcg345 Two things, firstly it's easier to look jacked proportionally when you're short, secondly, if you look about the same as a shorter guy but you're just taller, you're beating him every time. Even if you've got say 2% less muscle mass, but you're 4 inches taller, it'll probably go to you...

@wmsgil Well I always prefer to see a superset where the lifts are really really different, like a lateral raise & a calf raise, or a leg curl and a lying tricep extension. So I'm concerned that your chest work supersets with curls, & your rows superset with tricep work, could cause a little...

@wmsgil The only problem here is that you're asking for our permission to do this. You've obviously thought about this quite hard, why not just give it a go?

@rosejan1 Availability I guess. If all the cables are busy. Also light dumbbells may go up in smaller increments than a cable so could be useful for weight selection.

@yoli24 The side delt one - I like the idea of laying on the bench like that, but doing one rep in front of your body & one rep behind back & forward to me just reeks of over complication.