@Alfred-22 waaaaaaaay too much volume in my opinion. It's going to be really hard for you to progressively add weight on your compound lifts doing 10x10 reps

I would highly recommend cutting your volume in half and just doubling your lift frequency

I would still deadlift on squat day since it is a posterior chain dominant lift so it works perfectly in conjunction with squats, but 10x10 on squats AND deads is asking for an injury.

Oosh I missed the 10x10 part

That’s 200 reps of the two biggest lifts

I was considering going to 5 x 10

I really wanted to try a really high volume with big lifts. Just kind of see how my body reacts

This definitely isnt a long term plan. Just 6 weeks of radically high volume and then maybe decrease volume by half. AFter I would go back to standard strength training.

I am considering the criticism. I will be sticking with the 10 x 10 for the main compound lift but I will decrease the other exercises to 3 x 10.

@Nick-NJ @Deleted User How is that

I'm by no means an expert, but I'm just curious, cause I've never seen a program with this high volume

- why? what's the purpose?

How is your body meant to react?

high volume means lots of hypertrophy

I hope you get shredded like a Greek god

Yes but 10x10 just seems extreme.

I've seen people who do it

ik this little black dude, Richard hawthorne i think

he does that with deadlift

he's incredibly strong pound for pound

https://youtu.be/FkRkPigvO9Y

That guys name is Richard Hawthorne? ahaha, that's awesome

Man. That's seriously impressive.

high volume training has its benefits, i try to do my strength sets first, then do 5x10 of a decent weight

the pump gets unreal

and it really helps engrain form

oh and always beltless

Yes no belt. Hypertrophy is the goal. It will be interesting to see how my muscles respond to the training. I just finished my first set of 100 reps for Bench and holy crap. 5 sets in the pump was nice. 8 sets in I could feel anything. I would only recommend this if you have a Goode strength base

What's the benefit of belt/no belt?

Belt is good for heavy lifts. Contrary to popular opinion using a belt doesn't really weaken your core.

However I just don't see any need to use a belt for weight you push in high volume training

Belt exists mostly for safety and for helping maintain internal pressure during a lift by giving your core something to push against

The safety thing is mostly for 90%+

I'll only use a belt for like overloading my hammies and glutes during squats so i don't have to worry about my back

or when going for a pr

Does anyone have tips for getting/staying motivated to work out and excerise? Especially during those cold weeks of December when you just want to stay in and feast every day

Was on XC team in high school. When I was 15 I was in he best shape of my life and I really want to take up running and swimming again

@Warren H you’re not always gonna be motivated. It’s more about discipline. Telling yourself that these days, when you really don’t feel like going, they’re the most important

Set a schedule and really dedicate yourself to it. You’ll always feel better after it’s done

What do you mean by discipline? Like forming a habit of working out on certain days

And thanks @Ekdromoi

Sticking to it and not deviating just because you don’t necessarily feel like it (As long as you’re not legitimately sick or injured or anything). Motivation isn’y necessarily something you can force to happen. I used to think so but I realized that it’s really all by chance or by circumstance that you feel “motivation”. Training is more about discipline and not doing it because you “feel” like it. Do it because you know you have to, and that you should, with the knowledge that you will be better for it afterward

Watch shit like this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ysylVPq81l4

Or this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=spsS0b76Ok8

The number of videos like this are endless. It puts you in a foul mood but sometimes that's what it takes.

Haha yeah those will definitely get me fired up

The vast majority of us would like to think that we'd intervene in situations like these but, it seems, most people do not. One of the things that will increase your chances of doing so is having confidence in your physicality. I train like I do not because I want to be a bad ass but because I never want to live with myself if something like this happens and, like most people, I just stand there. There's never any telling until the moment arises but I want to put myself in the best possible position to help if I'm needed.

I imagine if a guy like @Nick-NJ, @Robtheroman, @Tyler0317, @Deleted User or a lot of the boys here were present in that first video. At least one of those two skinny pricks in the first video is gonna get *mauled*. Also helps to remember that @Reinhard Wolff has been clear about his expectations for our physical fitness.

The IE servers in general (and especially the pagan server for me in particular) are great motivation. @Warren H You have to make it part of your mindset. Given my ideology and values, I'd be a (WEAK) hypocrite if I didn't constantly pursue to better myself. I want to learn, grow, become stronger.

@Deleted User what about the pagan server motivates you? I've been looking for that as well on the server as a way to be empowered and motivated myself

Well that's something you have to look inwards for, but. Paganism has this metaphysical European strength to it. Honor thy ancestors, the Western 'sun and steel'

Have these stuck to my fridge.

👆 👆 👆

@Deleted User pagan server?… invite?

@Deleted User I am Admin in it. I'll DM you.

👌🏻

@Havamal respectfully request invite to pagan server

Dm'd

I know it's into the future quite a ways, but I'd definitely like to plan for another Warrior Dash group run, if you and anyone else are interested @Deleted User

If anyone else plays tennis, we should add a channel!

@Deleted User Let's play tennis together

I'm in Pennsylvania

Ya buddy! 🎾 I’ll bring my Blade to the IE conference in March.

@Deleted User

Alright I'll bring mine too

Terrible Test Tennis

Do they play tennis in Texas?

just the indians and asians

It’s about as Anglo a sport as it gets.

featured in Shakespeare's Henry V, when the King of France sent Henry a chest full of tennis balls as a taunt

KING HENRY V
“We are glad the Dauphin is so pleasant with us;
His present and your pains we thank you for:
When we have march'd our rackets to these balls,
We will, in France, by God's grace, play a set
Shall strike his father's crown into the hazard.
Tell him he hath made a match with such a wrangler
That all the courts of France will be disturb'd
With chaces.”

I’m sensing an IE tennis tourney come March.

👏🏻

@Warren H `To whom have I spoken? To my son? My son is only a part of my Folk. The wisdom of a thousand generations slumbers in you. Waken it and you have found the key which will open the doors of your truest aspirations. Only he who esteems himself is worthy of being a man.`

`Only he is a man who bears the living past and future in himself, for only he is able to stand above the present hour. And only he who is master of the present is successful; he alone is fulfilled. As only in fulfillment is divinity. Thus sayeth the Voice of our Ancestors…`

You know, I’ve been thinking about the girl thing for you single lads and I’ve been thinking more and more that female athletes are a good stock. They are generally physically fit but, more to the point, they tend to have a strong sense of self, aren’t quite so “degenerate,” and have experience with working on a “team” so to speak. Looking back over my life, most of the female athletes I’ve known (I don’t mean cheerleaders) have been pretty solid people. Just a thought. Not to mention there’s an innate sexual chemistry between males and females in athletics. What’s more, sharing a sport (or sports in general) gives you a low-pressure, non-sexualized platform in which to interact.

Semi competitive intramural sports is a good place to meet wimminz

What do you suggest for someone like myself who doesn't have intramural sports at my community college? I don't want to be the stereotype dude trying meet someone at the local gym lol

If you like martial arts (boxing, BJJ, mma)...I’ve been surprised at the number of pretty girls that train. Someone suggested running clubs and there are lots of girls into outdoor sports too.

I've been thinking about a running club. I used to do XC in high school and I've been wanting to get back in shape. However my area is a suburb/town and malt kids move away for college so I'm worried it might just be full of mom's 😅😂 but im sure it doesn't hurt to check it out.

*all the kids

I played kickball and flag football with adult leagues

Just look for adult sports leagues

Any basketball players in here?

If it is all moms, they might be willing to introduce you to their daughters if you're an upstanding young lad

@Pat-MA

Just because blacks dominate basketball doesnt mean its not a good game. In fact that shows it requires much athleticism because they are the best at it

Wat

@Pat-MA#7757 agree; there used to be a time that I could dunk, but I was never very good at the sport

Wat x2

@Deleted User anytime a white kid can dunk, that is a lot of respect!

2nd day of a 7 day water fast. Sleepy sleepy

>water fast

uhh

good luck