I'm checking with a mod to see what's up.Hardartery wrote: ↑Tue Mar 28, 2023 6:18 amI got that too a few weeks ago, had to start using a VPN to post on the forum.
Was mostly wondering aloud if anyone else experienced the same issue.
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I'm checking with a mod to see what's up.Hardartery wrote: ↑Tue Mar 28, 2023 6:18 amI got that too a few weeks ago, had to start using a VPN to post on the forum.
Thanks. Wanted some top doubles but was feeling kinda beat up for some reason.
For real. Further to our discussion upstairs. Pretty much gotta be jacked up to bench big weight.
This is my new favourite term for what I have previously done to myself.
I’ve suspected that not doing this has been (one of) my problem(s) for some time. Jumping on this bench program involving some assistance (as opposed to just endlessly benching like an idiot) is a step in the right direction, I hope. In the past, the issue was that I could do compound upper body movements til I was blue in the face with no issue, but a little direct arm work and my elbows hated me. Hopefully I’ve learned a bit since then and can work into it.MarkKO wrote: ↑Fri Apr 14, 2023 7:33 pmThis is my new favourite term for what I have previously done to myself.
I think there is going to come a point where I have to bite the bullet and train the living crap out of my arms.
Same haha. We’re the same height, he weighs a bit less than me, and yet he benches substantially more. Fucking guy.It has become very important to me to keep up with @Renascent on bench. I think I'm just about there but it's touch and go ATM.
I don't know what height difference we have, if any but I'm some 10-15 pounds heavier so yeah, I need to make sure I don't fall behind.DCR wrote: ↑Fri Apr 14, 2023 8:06 pmI’ve suspected that not doing this has been (one of) my problem(s) for some time. Jumping on this bench program involving some assistance (as opposed to just endlessly benching like an idiot) is a step in the right direction, I hope. In the past, the issue was that I could do compound upper body movements til I was blue in the face with no issue, but a little direct arm work and my elbows hated me. Hopefully I’ve learned a bit since then and can work into it.MarkKO wrote: ↑Fri Apr 14, 2023 7:33 pmThis is my new favourite term for what I have previously done to myself.
I think there is going to come a point where I have to bite the bullet and train the living crap out of my arms.
Same haha. We’re the same height, he weighs a bit less than me, and yet he benches substantially more. Fucking guy.It has become very important to me to keep up with @Renascent on bench. I think I'm just about there but it's touch and go ATM.
I'll take the compliment, but the weird thing is that my lifting has become sporadic enough that I haven't been hammering the usual accessory stuff like I did in the recent past. Maybe there was some "novel" stimulus from the pull-ups earlier in the week?
I was at my all-time heaviest around this time last year -- 197 lbs or thereabout. Some of it was quite obviously fat, which I didn't mind at all. I've always been wary of increasing my grocery bill for the sake of seeing my lift totals increase, so weight gain has always been painfully slow and incremental, but we ate a lot of takeout for about a month before last summer.
I believe that's a phrase that was popularized by former Rippetoe adherents to describe the result of the overly enthusiastic consumption of whole milk and sheet cakes.MarkKO wrote: ↑Fri Apr 14, 2023 7:33 pmThis is my new favourite term for what I have previously done to myself.
I think there is going to come a point where I have to bite the bullet and train the living crap out of my arms.
It has become very important to me to keep up with @Renascent on bench. I think I'm just about there but it's touch and go ATM.
I'm somewhere between 5'6" and 5'7", last time I checked.MarkKO wrote: ↑Fri Apr 14, 2023 8:38 pmI don't know what height difference we have, if any but I'm some 10-15 pounds heavier so yeah, I need to make sure I don't fall behind.DCR wrote: ↑Fri Apr 14, 2023 8:06 pmI’ve suspected that not doing this has been (one of) my problem(s) for some time. Jumping on this bench program involving some assistance (as opposed to just endlessly benching like an idiot) is a step in the right direction, I hope. In the past, the issue was that I could do compound upper body movements til I was blue in the face with no issue, but a little direct arm work and my elbows hated me. Hopefully I’ve learned a bit since then and can work into it.MarkKO wrote: ↑Fri Apr 14, 2023 7:33 pmThis is my new favourite term for what I have previously done to myself.
I think there is going to come a point where I have to bite the bullet and train the living crap out of my arms.
Same haha. We’re the same height, he weighs a bit less than me, and yet he benches substantially more. Fucking guy.It has become very important to me to keep up with @Renascent on bench. I think I'm just about there but it's touch and go ATM.
Let alone the time @Renascent decides to start wearing a belt and then I'll need to watch my deadlift as well.