How'd your training go?

[Renascent]

I inclined BB pressed 225 for a 10RM.

weird, lifetime PR.

I'd be proud of it.

Nice job.

[AlexG332]

He aggravated my low back injury
Guess it's back to set of 15 with one plate

[mouse]

You spend your 20's making mistakes, your 30's living them down and then you get stable and start actually living in your 40's.

Shit I was supposed to stop that in my 20's?

Fuck.


I haven't touched a barbell in a little over a week now. This might be the longest lapse in training I can remember. Normally people take time off to deload or feel better but after spending the last seven days doing our fence install when I'm not at work I'm getting to be pretty burnt and probably feel more beat up than during the worst parts of training. Basically I've been waking up, work 10 hours, come home and immediately I'm out doing the fence until the sun goes down and it's catching up to me.

Ironically I've probably been getting more 'exercise' though and my belt fits better than it has in weeks.

Hopefully wrapping this project up today and tomorrow with my father in law, and then back to a more 'normal schedule and training.

[Hardartery]

You spend your 20's making mistakes, your 30's living them down and then you get stable and start actually living in your 40's.

Shit I was supposed to stop that in my 20's?

Fuck.


I haven't touched a barbell in a little over a week now. This might be the longest lapse in training I can remember. Normally people take time off to deload or feel better but after spending the last seven days doing our fence install when I'm not at work I'm getting to be pretty burnt and probably feel more beat up than during the worst parts of training. Basically I've been waking up, work 10 hours, come home and immediately I'm out doing the fence until the sun goes down and it's catching up to me.

Ironically I've probably been getting more 'exercise' though and my belt fits better than it has in weeks.

Hopefully wrapping this project up today and tomorrow with my father in law, and then back to a more 'normal schedule and training.

I lost 15 lbs doing remodel stuff on the inlaws new house and was sore the entire time. It's probably good for me, but it gets old real fast.

[mouse]

You spend your 20's making mistakes, your 30's living them down and then you get stable and start actually living in your 40's.

Shit I was supposed to stop that in my 20's?

Fuck.


I haven't touched a barbell in a little over a week now. This might be the longest lapse in training I can remember. Normally people take time off to deload or feel better but after spending the last seven days doing our fence install when I'm not at work I'm getting to be pretty burnt and probably feel more beat up than during the worst parts of training. Basically I've been waking up, work 10 hours, come home and immediately I'm out doing the fence until the sun goes down and it's catching up to me.

Ironically I've probably been getting more 'exercise' though and my belt fits better than it has in weeks.

Hopefully wrapping this project up today and tomorrow with my father in law, and then back to a more 'normal schedule and training.

I lost 15 lbs doing remodel stuff on the inlaws new house and was sore the entire time. It's probably good for me, but it gets old real fast.

Yeah it does, we got a lot done today, about 99% finished. Just have to wrap up the stick ties and hog rings and then a little bit of landscaping but I'm pretty happy with how it came out...

My hands are BEAT though...

[EggMcMuffin]

I really hadn't appreciated how much training kept me on a somewhat even emotional keel until I stopped doing it since like, June. Feel restless all the time, feel pointless more so than usual. It's nice being "strong".

There's something really morbidly funny about having some dude with coke bottle glasses who literally hates himself outlifting like 90% of the gym. Like I remember seeing these dudes all puffed up and overconfident getting super hyped to pull 315 and some guy who has a body like a call center worker, smells like shit and is thinking about ways to kill himself and make it look like an accident is maxing out at like 405 before then pulling 345 for 3x4. I kinda miss that. It always made me feel like I could at least sorta do something that other people couldn't, even if most dudes would easily surpass me if they weren't out getting drunk and having actual social lives. I have never been even sorta good at anything, so I really see my 445lb pull in December as a straight up miracle, like something that only happened due to the stars aligning or something

I'm realizing I may (and may is a big "if") have actual, literal autism so I'm probably going to have to start training again to cope with that fact...

[Culican]

I was going to comment that about half the people I see in the gym seem to be autistic. So I figured, "What the hell," and found an online test for adult autism. Don't know if it is accurate but I got pegged at borderline autistic.

Edit: At my age I have no plans to do anything about it.

It was the first one that came up when I googled it. Online test for adult autism

[EggMcMuffin]

I was going to comment that about half the people I see in the gym seem to be autistic. So I figured, "What the hell," and found an online test for adult autism. Don't know if it is accurate but I got pegged at borderline autistic.

Edit: At my age I have no plans to do anything about it.

It was the first one that came up when I googled it. Online test for adult autism

I've always thought most of psychiatry is voodoo BS, but I've had so much marked and persistent difficulty with socializing that I have to wonder. Multiple people (including almost every single therapist I have seen) have told me I seem like I'm on the spectrum, and I've always felt like other people made like no fucking sense. I dunno. I'm almost 30 and still have the exact same interpersonal deficits that I had when I was 15 and it's not like I haven't tried to be more personable or like, well adjusted. I just don't seem to get it. Who knows. Either way, I don't think it seems to matter. Labels don't make a difference.

[Hardartery]

I was going to comment that about half the people I see in the gym seem to be autistic. So I figured, "What the hell," and found an online test for adult autism. Don't know if it is accurate but I got pegged at borderline autistic.

Edit: At my age I have no plans to do anything about it.

It was the first one that came up when I googled it. Online test for adult autism

I've always thought most of psychiatry is voodoo BS, but I've had so much marked and persistent difficulty with socializing that I have to wonder. Multiple people (including almost every single therapist I have seen) have told me I seem like I'm on the spectrum, and I've always felt like other people made like no fucking sense. I dunno. I'm almost 30 and still have the exact same interpersonal deficits that I had when I was 15 and it's not like I haven't tried to be more personable or like, well adjusted. I just don't seem to get it. Who knows. Either way, I don't think it seems to matter. Labels don't make a difference.

You are in an echo chamber of people likely to be on the spectrum in some way, señor Muffin of Extraordinary Volume. Just sayin....many of us cope through lifting for one reason or another.

[Culican]

I took another online test. Result: Probable autism or Asperger's.

[AlanMackey]

I took another online test. Result: Probable autism or Asperger's.

Apparently, nowadays being somewhat antisocial equals being on the spectrum.

[Culican]

I took another online test. Result: Probable autism or Asperger's.

Apparently, nowadays being somewhat antisocial equals being on the spectrum.

Yep, I checked that I "Slightly agreed" that I didn't care for social chit-chat, I preferred to be alone, and that I tended to get deeply involved in subjects and I guess that sealed my diagnosis.

[mouse]

I took another online test. Result: Probable autism or Asperger's.

Apparently, nowadays being somewhat antisocial equals being on the spectrum.

My wife and I have had some quasi-serious conversations about the possibility of autism so out of curiosity I took the test, and went so far as to have my wife take the test... but answering as if the questions were framed about me.

It confirmed what I already knew.

I probably don't have autism but my wife totally thinks I probably have autism.

[Hardartery]

I took another online test. Result: Probable autism or Asperger's.

Apparently, nowadays being somewhat antisocial equals being on the spectrum.

My wife and I have had some quasi-serious conversations about the possibility of autism so out of curiosity I took the test, and went so far as to have my wife take the test... but answering as if the questions were framed about me.

It confirmed what I already knew.

I probably don't have autism but my wife totally thinks I probably have autism.

[AlanMackey]

My wife and I have had some quasi-serious conversations about the possibility of autism so out of curiosity I took the test, and went so far as to have my wife take the test... but answering as if the questions were framed about me.

It confirmed what I already knew.

I probably don't have autism but my wife totally thinks I probably have autism.

[GeoffBUK]

27 is nearly 30, 40 is nearly 50 and 60 is nearly dead and eternity is.....

Anyway weight loss success story, finally broke down to 171lbs. Onward to 166lbs. I don't seem to lose all that much strength, seems like I have a lot of superflous fat

Well, muffin man, having been 27, 30, 40 and now 50, I can tell you that no part of that statement is correct. Time flies when you're having fun, but these things are not "Nearly" each other. I don't mean from a physical ability viewpoint, that really hasn't changed a lot from 27 to 50. It has changed, but not that much. But the man I was at 27 is in a different universe from the man I am at 50, and the man I was at 40, and the man I was at 30. You spend your 20's making mistakes, your 30's living them down and then you get stable and start actually living in your 40's. Relax, you are a long way from dead.

And then you have a midlife crisis, Like I am!!

[SnakePlissken]

I took another online test. Result: Probable autism or Asperger's.

Apparently, nowadays being somewhat antisocial equals being on the spectrum.

Took the test and I'm right between borderline and having autism lol. Most of the questions just felt like it was asking me "are you introverted and organized."

Questions like "do you feel nervous before meeting new people" like who doesn't feel some level of nervousness before they meet someone like a new roommate or going on a first date?

[chrisd]

I took another online test. Result: Probable autism or Asperger's.

Apparently, nowadays being somewhat antisocial equals being on the spectrum.

Took the test and I'm right between borderline and having autism lol. Most of the questions just felt like it was asking me "are you introverted and organized."

Questions like "do you feel nervous before meeting new people" like who doesn't feel some level of nervousness before they meet someone like a new roommate or going on a first date?

If the online test is the Baron-Cohen inventory, it's not meant to be a test. It was devised as a research method to see if correlations could be found with other test methods, such as structured interviews.

There are plenty of other reasons for not being around people all the time or wanting to socialise with the ones that are present.

Just for fun, here's another test. https://s3.amazonaws.com/he-assets-prod ... aunch.html

ooooh, and another http://traumadissociation.com/des

[DCR]

It was shit. At my last session, I got the idea that my touch point when benching was too low. In retrospect it’s hard even to articulate where I got that idea. Some combination of shit I’d read previously about raw bench form, noticing that I tended to touch higher until the weight got heavy and suspecting that I was cheating my form, and some sloppy reps over the past few session that made me think that I was unstable and needed to clean something up. This was all idiocy.

To be clear about what changed: Usually, after I unrack, the bar sits over my throat before I begin the descent, and touches just beneath my sternum. In my last session, after I unracked, the bar sat over my eyes before each descent, and the touch point was at my nipples.

The result: spasms in my right shoulder for the past two days, and today barely being able to bench 225 (usually warm up weight). After the shoulder rolled on a nearly failed rep, and some miserable attempted singles that a terrible spotter took from me, I restarted with 135 and did a few sets of 5 with my “old” form, to which I will be returning permanently despite what the internet has to say. And by will be returning, I mean maybe next week, because I can tell that the shoulder is fuct and I’m gonna need a few days of ice and excessive pulling work.

This hobby sucks.

[Hardartery]

It was shit. At my last session, I got the idea that my touch point when benching was too low. In retrospect it’s hard even to articulate where I got that idea. Some combination of shit I’d read previously about raw bench form, noticing that I tended to touch higher until the weight got heavy and suspecting that I was cheating my form, and some sloppy reps over the past few session that made me think that I was unstable and needed to clean something up. This was all idiocy.

To be clear about what changed: Usually, after I unrack, the bar sits over my throat before I begin the descent, and touches just beneath my sternum. In my last session, after I unracked, the bar sat over my eyes before each descent, and the touch point was at my nipples.

The result: spasms in my right shoulder for the past two days, and today barely being able to bench 225 (usually warm up weight). After the shoulder rolled on a nearly failed rep, and some miserable attempted singles that a terrible spotter took from me, I restarted with 135 and did a few sets of 5 with my “old” form, to which I will be returning permanently despite what the internet has to say. And by will be returning, I mean maybe next week, because I can tell that the shoulder is fuct and I’m gonna need a few days of ice and excessive pulling work.

This hobby sucks.

The whole bar path thing confuses me, frankly. I Squat in a vertical path over my line of force (Varies between mid-foot and ankle generally speaking). I DL in a vertical path as close to direclty over my line of force production as possible, which is as close to the shins as you can get away with for most people. OHP is again, in the straightest possible vertical path above my point of force production. Push Press is going to ideally be in direct vertical line with the force production of the feet (See Squats). I'm not a doctor, but I cannot understand how the bar being anywhere but in line of my force production (Somewhere over the pecs/anterior delts) at the bottom is a good idea for performing the Bench Press. Sure, there are arguments about the arc path at the top being somehow beneficial, which I don't believe for a second is universal, but why would I touch at point that is ineffecient biomechanically to initiate the press? Unless maybe shoulder pain is your "Thing". I don't care what elbow flare someone uses or does not use, I still believe the best spot to touch for almost everyone would have to be somewhere between the bottom of the pec and mid-pec.