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I’m only in my second year so I’m still pretty green at this, so take what I say with a grain of salt. That said as a 220lb athlete it takes About 3000-4000 calories a day (clean calories too), about 10-12 hours of training per week, and around 1.5-2 hours a week dedicated to active recovery, as well as regular weekly…

For men it's also the skinny craze that drives me nuts finding stuff. I have a friend who's mid thigh measures the same as my upper arm, we are pretty close to the same height too. Everything seems made for either overweight people or super skinny people, there's not much middle ground for even slightly athletic men in…

No my reminders are off

There is no option for that under push notifications

My deadlift programming is actually stupid simple, I do a warm up set of 5 at 315, 1 rep at 405, and then a PR attempt (either 1RM or 3RM). 4th set is usually just a 500 pull and hold. On leg day I do farmers carrys with handles so those are basically trap bar rack pulls. I do a deadlift and hold for 15 seconds at the end.…

Occasionally I do sets of 10 at 315 superset with beating a tire with a hammer.

If your trainer is recommending machines over free weights, fire them. Anyone who knows anything knows that compound movements are the base of strength.

I actually love working out not so much a routine or a habit as something I actually enjoy to the point where I get down if I don't. Like I've been sick since Saturday morning- I took Saturday as a rest day and only rode bike Sunday and yesterday...I actually miss the weights right now, to the point where I probably will…

The last 2 days I just rode my bike because I'm sick and I felt weak so I didn't want to waste a lifting day. Cold isn't gone tho so today I'm saying screw it and going to train legs anyways...which is going to suck, but whatever I've been out of the gym since Friday I can't take it anymore.

I'm not a teacher but I work 5 - 12 hour days at a labor job. I NEVER sit down after work (outside of driving) until I'm done with everything. The first thing I do when I walk in the door is take pre-workout, change, write my errands/to do list, and then go to the gym. Afterward I take care of everything on that list, the…

I bank close to 1000 cals of my 3000 cal cutting diet for before bed snacks that usually include a protein cookie, cheese, almonds, turkey, Greek yogurt, a beef stick, and a few tablespoons of peanut butter

Rule number one of deadlifts...go to the bathroom first, just in case...even if you don't think you have to.

This is a thread that needs to stay current Bump

Grunting really does help if you're at 9.5+ RPE, IDC what anyone says.

I drink light beer and straight whiskey...that's it. Honestly, as I've gotten older that's really all I like anymore anyway, cutting or not.

No, I don't do a lot of ab work. Occasionally I'll jump on the pull-up bar in my kitchen and do some windshield wipers or knee to elbows to make sure I still can, but I play with heavy logs, flip a massive tire, farmers walk heavy, deadlift heavy, and squat heavy - all without a lifting belt, ...among other things. My core…

Lol I train in a strongman/powerlifting gym that has dudes doing 630+ for reps. It's checked my ego a lot and compared to them I'm a baby. I MIGHT be in the 50th percentile on strength at my gym. Maybe.

Non-lifters do not understand the complete bruise to the ego and bad mood that comes with failure of a deadlift PR.

@quiksylver296 For me the appeal of strongman/strongwoman over PL is all the cool stuff...logs, tossing kegs, stones, yokes and farmers, flipping tires that are near 800lbs...it's just fun. Also I'm a terrible bencher and there is no bench in strongman so that's awesome.

Whatever works. I'm a pretty naturally built deadlifter because I have ape arms. Terrible for bench though.

I've built and my program from years of experience and knowing what works for me...I tweak it daily depending on time constraints as well.

I've tried telling this to so many people, yet no one seems to believe that.

I'm a firm believer in Animal Flex. I've been taking it for years, my joints feel pretty good considering the abuse they've gone through. I definitely notice if I run out and dont take it for a week.

Conventional, always. Sumo isn't allowed in strongman...not that I ever pulled sumo before I set my eyes on that stuff anyway.

Personally, I just train lifting days in order, IE shoulders/accessories/back/chest/legs etc. I don't ever worry about what day of the week it falls. Life happens...sometimes you've gotta work late, or run extra errands, or fix a vehicle etc. Just pick up the next day where you left off. Edit. I would just skip a rest day

Nice. Whats the record? And What weight class would the record be in? I'm still a baby deadlifter comparatively, best PR is 527 and I hit 500 for 2 for the first time yesterday. I'm planning on competing in the local strongman circuit at 100kg class...I've got 6lbs left to cut (from a fasted, dehydrated state...more like…

When I was doing my big cut from 300 to 230, I consistently lost 10lbs a month...but I had to go to extreme measures to do it. I nixed my social life, trained every day, and ate almost the same exact things at the same times every day, day in, day out, getting my macro goals within single digits always. I then haphazardly…

The only problem I personally have with working out late is the pre-workout wires me and makes it hard to sleep sometimes.

I'm bipolar with a history of polysubstance abuse issues (and they're not all history). Lifting is the backbone of my mental health - with it comes the motivation to eat for a goal, which leads to drinking less, which prevents me from chain smoking like a freight train. It's also just therapy. Music and weightlifting is…