If squatting and deadlifting same day I only warm up once but I still follow the 60 70 80

Local generic gym ie 24 hr

Generally local generic gyms have better environments better hours and more amenities such as a sauna and have less plebes

But it's really about whatever place is convenient enough for you to make a habit out of going

Close to work or close to home

Might garner a discount or something

Worth checking out

Yeah, there will always be someone there who can explain which machines are what

I pay 45.99 per month for 24 hour fitness

Not sure what YMCA costs but I imagine it's less

Nah aspirin isn't necessary

Whatever it takes

Yeah 620

This was last March though

Haven't competed since

Soviet style training techniques and old fashioned hard work

Lb for lb Nick has me beat! It would be a valiant contest to be sure

Why?

Your shoulders might have been lacking in pressing power and the incline bench helped your shoulders catch up

Do you usually fail heavy reps on the bottom or top half of the rom?

I don't do decline and haven't done it in years

Incline I do once in a blue moon

I just bench, flies, and dumbbell press

Bench is better for strength because you can load greater weights, dumbbell will correct any muscular imbalances which is good for injury prevention and symmetry. Barbell works your triceps more, dumbbell works your biceps more (I know it's a pressing movement but studies show high levels of bicep activation in dumbbell press).

Especially if you follow a 4-2 tempo with dumbbell it's really good for hypertrophy due to time under tension

Let me know if you need me to extrapolate that further

@Nick-NJ My last meet was SPF, but the one before that was USPA

You?

Is USAPL tested?

My first comp I came in 2nd but the guy who beat me was Tee Popoola and he set a world record so I felt good about it

I always just train lighter but go anyway to "force the weakness out" but I'm old fashioned like that

Fuaaaark epic

Just ordered, I love that stuff

I can feel my test levels rising already

Still working my way through the Horus Heresy and that's a long read so the Cimmerian will be a welcome fermata

I should do a tested fed because competing against guys on gear is a little skewed haha

Scivation Xtend

For BCAA

Green apple flave

@Zyzz

After

Running after lifting boosts hgh production

Hell yeah

@Gaius Mucius Scaevola SBD makes the best kneesleeves

What exercises do you need it for

One thing to make sure is you're not doing "gay wrist", aka letting your wrist bend backwards on exercises like bench press. You want your hands and wrists to be in line to maximize force output and reduce joint stress

Just a fun tip for everyone. Also you can say fag wrist if you're into that

Mirin cuts

T Rex arms checking in, bench 4x a week

Deficit deadlift and rackpulls for me today lads, what're you all training in the temple today?

10/10

Show us the vid my dude

Is it weird that I've never trained Sumo

I just bring myself to do it

Haha damn I would never squat anything but lowbar in competition

So I can squat morning the weight if I need to

I buy organic when I can afford it

Ideally you should eat all organic/local

Minimize toxins in the body and be your healthiest self!

It's probably general assumption for most normie males

Fitmales are probably doing fine buy maybe slightly hampered by xenoestrogens

But*

People are fatter and doing more sedentary work, eating way more carbohydrates and less saturated fats and protein

Yeah exactly @Deleted User

People who don't workout and eat right might have a portion of their grandfather's test but I think most of us in here are doing okay.

If you're working out, eating right, getting adequate sleep, flirting with women and competing with other males in some form you're probably fine

Yes it is

It's not perfect but it's better than a standard scale

Kind of like a whitepills For working out channel?

Quotes, pics, inspirational books, videos

That's a good point William

This server is the reason I squeezed in a training session today between my two jobs

Hips looks fine to me

Deadlifts work grip strength. Deadlifts might "work the same muscles" but they work them in a different way. Doing only squats is not a substitute for deadlifts. Barbell rows work your biceps but just because they work the same muscles doesn't mean they're a substitute for specific bicep exercises. Adding another heavy, full body lift to your workout will only make you stronger

As for guides, I would look up anything by Boris Sheiko

With proper form and starting off light, and focusing on getting the form first, you won't hurt your back, and are just as safe as you are doing a squat

Good squats. Really try to push through your heels, they're coming up as you go down

@Warren H The FFL workout will get you in amazing shape if you can make it work for you. No gym needed. (If you can, lifting is still great and you should get a membership)

French Foreign Legion

Just got the best parking spot at the gym I've ever had

We're all gonna make it lads

Mirin rest day

I use the Reebok lifters and they were only like 90

People lift in socks because you get more contact with the ground and don't have a soft shoe throwing off your balance/making your area you are pushing off smaller

As long as you're using the metrics provided by the same measuring device, then that's all that matters for assessing progress

13% is a dream for me, so congrats man

Never been below 20... currently counting calories on the road to 220lbs from 250

234 at the moment

Is the bloatmaxx worth the lack of aesthetics?

Kind of. Haha

God damn that's a lot of calories

Power bulk?

BENCH DAYYY

Best time is probably right when you wake up

But mostly it's about doing it same time every day

This is my lifting routine for the week

Just don't base your weight goals or diet on what you weigh that day

I'm a big proponent of weighing yourself every day so you have more data

So you know which days you've shit before weighing, drank the night before (degenerate), etc