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@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.

@jinxy Whether leg press is a better quad builder than squats comes down to body mechanics primarily. If you have short femurs and great ankle mobility, (& sufficient hip mobility), you can squat deep & induce tremendous tension on the quads & glutes respectively. Now lets say you have that -...

@knowledgeisnotignorant I'm not a big fan of the ones in your example pics specifically & the reason is that the lever which the plates attach to is pointed at about a 45 degree angle towards the floor & when you lift the weight, it gets to be about parallel with the floor, which means it's...

@sashacat I said they were hardest, or very hard, around the longest part. I'd definitely challenge you on that if you think otherwise

@johnlxyz Maybe like three times a year. But my training is really low volume, single set on most exercises.

@jgeral0172 Something I take from the lengthened position thing, is that it actually reinforces why a lot of the old basic movements are good. Squat, Deadlifts/RDLs, barbell/dumbbell Bench Press, OHP, JM press for the tris, T-bar Rows, good old fashioned preacher curls - these are all movements...

@joyseeker16 Idk, ask them

@alexisfaith27 Yep, they're just posturing. Getting your sense of masculinity caught up in your training philosophy is a dangerous mistake

@booboo222 Oh there's probably a dozen iterations of how it could work. What you said is one of them. Another example is a split which trains your entire body over two days, done with 3 workouts a week, so 1.5X frequency per muscle group. Or an Arnold Split done fewer than 6 days a week. Lots of...

@booboo222 I think that just one thing that people can miss when they change from a UL or PPL or similar to a bro split is the question of how they'd perform on a split training each muscle twice every 8-12 days. Going from 2X a week to 1X a week is a big switch & it's possible that it could get...

@confusedgirl98 Yeah. If CNS fatigue doesn't really exist for lifting weights, then that just means that some other phenomenon is causing your body to not be able to recover from going over a certain amount of total work. Same outcome with a different word.

@sugarcookies Agreed & I'd go as far to say that this 'progress' is majority inflammation-induced water weight gain. Which furthers the point of not expecting the 'progress' to continue because you can only get so inflamed before you either tap out or you start to experience health problems.

@sjw He's giving us the back double Jason Genova pose

@vakf Slightly tough question because we have to draw lines somewhere. I'd say in most cases you don't want to aim for less than a 1:1 muscle to fat gain ratio. If you can only gain 8lb of muscle in a year, I wouldn't intentionally seek to gain more than 16lb over the course of that year...

@jamierite74 Here's what I think: This is true, from a certain point of view, but not quite the point of view that you're practicing presently. Gaining muscle as an advanced lifter is hard, so we should be in a surplus, but this surplus should be in proportion to the amount of muscle we can...

@aeri20 This. Doing other people's prewritten routines when you've been lifting for 4 years is crazy. Surely at this point one would know what split they enjoy & have goldilocks'd their way to something approximating the right amount of volume & frequency.

@orchardllc We don't know what scale you have & we don't know how it determines what it determines. Could you tell us what your lifts were at 200lb vs 180? Tell us how much they've changed if they have.

@jamierite74 The answer to this is to essentially spend about 10.5 months of the year in a very slight surplus followed by a 7ish week cut losing 2lb a week. Excess calories above a very small surplus will do almost nothing for you as an advanced lifter.

@theodor98 Agree on all counts. I train like this, having gone from the other method, & I've got nothing but good things to say about it from a results standpoint. Though I only do 5-11 sets a week per muscle. When I think about set difficulty on a spectrum I think it goes from being useful in...