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Being strong will inevitably make you heavier.

i saw this and thought, briefly, that i should make it my new sig. and then i was like, nah, the line i have in there now is way better.

but still, this is one of the weirdest sentences ever posted on this forum.

the thing of it is, entropy does keep a cool head and keeps to his plans. he comes on here and freaks the fuck out over tiny shit and gets all hyperbolic about wasting months of training and whatnot. and then he just keeps on keeping on and getting PR's. so maybe he just needs adarq.org to vent and we should all stop reacting to it because he generally doesn't seem to be carrying that venting over into changing his workouts every two weeks.

just a question about the squat

I just did 55kg first set was good up to 5 reps, but form was a bit shaky.

so i should do a weight which i can do with good form and complete the required sets and reps i.e. 3x5, 4x5, 4x8 and also a weight which when squatting there is no grinding and slow movement when going up but should be done without grinding fluid one movement and with good depth and good form, until then i can move up a weight.

so i should go back down a weight to around 45-50kg and do it that way and if i fail, it should become easier the next time i attempt it as hypertrophy was induced even though if i failed in completing the rep as required.

what is wrong with you.

god damn

my brother is being discharged from the hospital tomorrow after three weeks and he's moving to vermont to be in a long-term place up there, so i went to hang out with him tonight instead of working out. gonna do mobility stuff now. appetite is low. will do a two-fer tomorrow: sprint/jump and then weights later.

Woah. Cool. What do you even do, again?

http:// www. akd . org/

add an "n" after the "d" and remove spaces. not tryna let this place ever show up when someone searches that url. my organization is the US face of the whole rest of what's on that website and a lot of other stuff, because the site is not very good. i do mostly environment stuff -- disaster risk reduction, disaster response, renewable energy, (human) habitat improvement -- and integrated (i.e., multi-sectoral) programs.

so there is a moderate likelihood that i'll move to afghanistan later this year. if that happens, i will continue to train but it's unclear how. at the very least i'd hope to get a bar, some weights, a rack with a pull up bar, and a solid floor. that would allow me to at least power lift and maybe focus on getting reasonably strong for a while. and get really good at jumping rope and depth jumps/SVJ. would be good to have the old 1-2-3-4-5* numbers at a reasonable bodyweight, say, 190. i wouldn't be over there more than a year, i don't think, and if i came back and refocused on jumping and sprinting but with legitimately greater strength, that'd be cool.

no guarantee that it happens but my colleagues over there are trying to recruit me and the siren song is pretty strong. this is something i've wanted to do for a long time. plus no one could touch my swag if i made "faizabad barbell club" t-shirts. for, you know, myself.

also, i've been fantasizing about buying a house. that would be significantly easier after a year of higher salary+no taxes overseas.

*this means:
+100 pull up
200 overhead press
300 bench
400 squat
500 dead lift

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i'm glad you've decided to abandon near-max-effort DLs from months of not practicing them as a way to improve back strength.