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While studies of people who tried to lose weight and succeeded long term sometimes show a low percentage succeeding, you have to take the methodology into account. Of the people who say "yeah I'm gonna try to lose weight" the percentage that will maintain a long-term change in lifestyle to try change their body composition is pretty small. There is a gulf between wanting to do something and actually walking the walk and it's not surprising that most people don't care to cross it.
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I tried a free Ju Jitsu class today and oh boy, not for me. This particular gym does maybe 15 minutes of warmup and 45 minutes of trying out new moves, I think "ok, cool, now we're just about at the hour and we're done". Nope, that's when sparring starts, and that seems to go on for another 30 minutes. I say I think because I got about 3 partners in (you spend 3 to 5 minutes with each) and ended up so exhausted I tapped out of the class entirely, I was sitting on the side line getting water and they didn't look like they were warming down. I could tell it wasn't for me. Its a great workout, but exhausting in a non satisfying way for me. Plus I don't know if I can get past the close human contact inherent to ground stuff. I think I'll go back to boxing but I'm also realizing that any combat sport is going to be in that band of effort that I'm really bad at: I can exert a moderate amount of effort for an hour no problem jogging and running, I can expend maximum effort for 10-30 seconds or so lifting, but that middle ground of expending high effort for a few minutes is so miserable.
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In other news: I got into a pretty good chest routine and I'm looking for feedback: Bench press (incline or regular, sometimes I do pause bench here): 5 sets of 5, I have a hard time going past 90% here cause I rarely have a spot. Dumbbell press, heavy weight: 3 sets of AMRAP TRX Rows: 5 sets of 5 (not really chest but I think it works in pretty good) Pectoral Fly Cable machine: 3 sets of 8 Deltoid fly (same machine but backwards): 3 sets of 8 I end up pretty sore by the end of it, I think previously I just wasn't doing enough volume for my chest exercises: I gave a lot of effort during my sets but never really felt sore the next day, now that's changed (in a good way)
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Share Bear posted:but like, EVERY time? like you do a set and you full pull and drop each one. they do it so everyone knows they're lifting and can see what a cool person they are. same reason why the idiots at work who still smoke will buy a pack and smack the bottom of it for 20 minutes before opening it.
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martial arts can be a fast way to fitness, but it’s really only fast because you’re doing so much drat work at such a high intensity also I know multiple people who have torn their acl/lcl doing jujitsu
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ADINSX posted:In other news: I got into a pretty good chest routine and I'm looking for feedback: this seems like a lot to me but maybe i'm not doing nearly enough
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Aug 11, 2022 06:45
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carry on then posted:this seems like a lot to me but maybe i'm not doing nearly enough It doesn’t take too long, I have some legs stuff in there too to round out those days and the entire workout takes a little over an hour
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ADINSX posted:It doesn’t take too long, I have some legs stuff in there too to round out those days and the entire workout takes a little over an hour I reread it and it looks like you’re doing 3 lifts that target the chest, same as me, so I guess it must be rests and warmups that make mine take about that long without the other stuff. I probably underestimate how much time it takes me to reconfigure the plates on my dumbbells too. Big downside of a home set instead of a full rack of them
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Aug 11, 2022 18:25
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rearranging dumbbells suck but gently caress having a whole rack of them at home
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aight hit my yearly goals, celebrated with a falafel gyro, maybe will have a beer later one guy did the drop thing again but he was in vastly better shape than i was so i dont know, its probably peacocking
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what is the drop thing
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barkbell posted:what is the drop thing you do a deadlift (like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-4qRntuXBSc). instead of returning the weight to the floor in a smooth compound motion, you kind of drop where one would start bending their knees. you do this repeatedly. you are not lifting large amounts/single max reps of weight.
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AnimeIsTrash posted:I asked in another thread but I wanted some more advice, is there any stretching or something else I can do to help fix my wrist position during squats? I noticed I was overextending my wrists quite a bit so I went back down to 1 plate and now find it really hard to maintain a neutral wrist. the answer was i need to stop using the stupid nonadjustable squat rack 
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AnimeIsTrash posted:the answer was i need to stop using the stupid nonadjustable squat rack oh yeah that things a death trap, the one with the rails that guide it right
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Share Bear posted:oh yeah that things a death trap, the one with the rails that guide it right A smith machine? Or are you talking about a squat rack that just has locked-in pegs (making the initial lift and set-down afterwards awkward.)?
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oh ya some people dont train the eccentric on the deadlift
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Aug 25, 2022 00:21
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i train the eccentric every time i work out
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Share Bear posted:oh yeah that things a death trap, the one with the rails that guide it right No it's not a smith machine. Non adjustable meaning you can't really mess with any of the preset heights, one of these: 
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whoever invented that thing should be put down. who in the world decided THAT was better than having holes for j-cups?
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AnimeIsTrash posted:No it's not a smith machine. Non adjustable meaning you can't really mess with any of the preset heights, one of these: i feel smith machines are bad as if that wasnt obvious
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alright gently caress this poo poo I got kinda fat again it's time to lose some goddamned weight for real this time. been chatting with a cute girl on bumble who's super into the same poo poo as me and I want to shed some of this dad bod height: 5'4" (yeah get your jokes in you lanky shits) starting weight: 154 lbs target weight: 130 lbs I've set fitbit up to calculate a 500 kcal/day deficit so in theory that's 24 weeks to my target weight. winter's gonna gently caress me up a bit because of the general lack of outdoor exercise I can do but there's a gym with some cardio machines and poo poo in my apartment building so I'm gonna do my best to take advantage of it. also gonna get some weights in because holy poo poo my upper body strength needs to be less garbo
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i’ll support ya bro - you can do it. 🫡
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AnimeIsTrash posted:No it's not a smith machine. Non adjustable meaning you can't really mess with any of the preset heights, one of these: takes the same floor space as a power rack, but has none of the benefits. so of course all the gyms buy em
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Kazinsal posted:alright gently caress this poo poo I got kinda fat again it's time to lose some goddamned weight for real this time. been chatting with a cute girl on bumble who's super into the same poo poo as me and I want to shed some of this dad bod how's this been going?
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got in a good double kettlebell workout this morning.
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my balls are huge too
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post hole digger posted:got in a good double kettlebell workout this morning. u beat off this morning 
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I Sure Could Go For Some BELLS Right Now
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the man tries to keep you down by taking away your richard scarry avs
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if your balls weigh ten pounds each and make clanking noises please go see a doctor
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qirex posted:if your balls weigh ten pounds each and make clanking noises please go see a doctor no
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keep coming back to the idea of using meth to bootstrap into fitness
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echinopsis posted:keep coming back to the idea of using meth to bootstrap into fitness this is the kind of outside the box thinking I come to this thread for
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echinopsis posted:keep coming back to the idea of using meth to bootstrap into fitness In the gym we just call it “preworkout”.
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echinopsis posted:keep coming back to the idea of using meth to bootstrap into fitness dudes rock
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echinopsis posted:keep coming back to the idea of using meth to bootstrap into fitness Angeldust investor
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end of the year bump
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started going to high intensity interval training with some friends in the lab earlier this semester; for the first time in my life I actually have some definition in my arms still about 25 pounds heavier than pre-FAANG and pre-pandemic but I guess it's a process
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good poo poo
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