Biceps are for the girls. Triceps are the true workhorse of the arms. I spend the vast majority of my workout on dips. Rarely do any curls.
Received my Pioneer belt yesterday, but it was wrong. They sent me a regular single prong (vs new pioneer cut) in the wrong color leather. They're now sending me the correct cut with the correct leather, and letting me keep the original one. That's customer service. So now I get two Pioneer belts, haha. Quality is top-notch though as you would expect.
Here's just a quick picture I took to send to Pioneer. As you can see, it came in two-toned dyed leather with just a normal single prong design. They are remaking it with a saddle tan leather with no fade and of course the pioneer cut.
Really getting my sumo start positioning dialed in. Everything up to 405 is coming off the floor before I start pulling.
pretty sure you don't wanna come across a monster man drinking beer/lifting huge boulders and carrying a gun
I'm completely shocked. Been trying to do it for weeks and just lazily tried today. Been feeling skrong pulling reps. I try pull the first one and make a point of slamming the bar down and digging for another. After the 2nd set of hookgrip I tore my callus bad and didn't want to choke on the 3rd set so i grabbed the strapons
385 squat, 255 bench, 415 deadlift = 1,055 lbs. All personal records, pretty proud of myself. I think I had a shot at 405 on squat but didn’t want to burn myself out right at the start
Lifting heavy and trying intermittent fasting is really hard. Keep waking up around 2am with my stomach on fire I’m so hungry
I separated my shoulder years ago and think it's hamperning a lot of my lifts.it never really healed right. I think I need to see an orthopedic or do some PT.
stop intermittent fasting then. The only reason to ever do it is if it makes things easier psychologically, and it doesn’t sound like it is doing that.
It makes you feel slimmer and you spend longer portions of your day with lower insulin levels therefore increasing your opportunity to burn fat, so it’s far from just the psychological impact
That’s been disproven by some more recent literature. I think something that may help is spreading protein across your day, but only eating your carbs in your peri-training window. So protein at every meal then 30% of carbs before training, 10% during, and 50% after
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5371748/ I shouldn’t say completely disproven, but that maybe the effects were overblown a bit. A lot to dig through and unpack, but I think a lot of insulin sensitivity studies relative to IF have been with obese individuals. “However IF was not associated with changes in peripheral glucose uptake or hepatic insulin sensitivity assessed with a hyperinsulinaemic clamp, or lipid or protein metabolism. Heilbronn et al. [47] ”
Literature review on animal studies (which is where most of of the beneficial physiological claims come from): http://www.lift-heavy.com/intermittent-fasting/ On the human side, this is the only study I know of in trained individuals. Insulin is lower but so is testosterone. There were no significant differences in body composition when taking into account calories (the IF group ate slightly less): https://translational-medicine.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12967-016-1044-0
That's pretty much the rp strength line of thought. (Not trying to hate or anything) I try to follow it, but I'll save some carbs at night to eat with my cottage cheese.