Obviously, but that's harder than I thought.
There's a narrow gap between not enough weight meaning a hilarious amount of reps to exhaustion and quick recovery and too much weight with risk of injury or sheer inability to lift it at all.
Seriously, 2 consecutive days at the gym for 2h with the result of being able to lift more in the end than the beginning is odd. Simply ran out of time. No exhaustion, no soreness.

Hiked 25km on Saturday without much stopping. Haven't done this for a year or so. The body took it reasonably well but is literally butthurt now. I rushed host to the point of literally running uphill. We were chased by an elderly couple with Nordic Walking sticks that went exactly our speed. They were freaking fast. Good thing they took a different path or we would have been stuck with them for most of the tour.

this.
i have no idea what Alice is doing but i am sure its weird. like everything she does.

What you're saying sounds great, keep it up. Being sore isn't everything, it's just one thing you can use to recognize that gains are being made. Being sore in the muscles specifically, a little soreness in the joints isn't necessarily bad but that really shouldn't happen. Soreness in the muscles indicates something like damage or swelling that will signal the muscles to grow more to prevent that from happening just like the pain from acid build up, the burn, will indicate the circulation isn't enough to keep up with the capacity of the muscles and will trigger more vessels to form ideally.

I am not a medical scientist so take that with a grain of salt, but in my experience, both muscle soreness and the burn tend to decrease faster than even 4 days a week can keep up with, so then you have to change up the exercises.

Also, you do want to touch everything at least once a cycle but that doesn't mean you can't double up and concentrate on others.

2 hours plus 30 minutes of cardio or so, even three days a week isn't enough to make quick gains in everything but clearly it's enough to make quick gains in weak things and if concentrated on, anything, a fewthings even.

I have been seeing week over week gains in shoulders and a few other things like triceps by 10-20% real gains with good form, that's insane for going only 2 days a week and that's without any supplements other than vitamins and amino loaded protein powder pre-workout, neither of which do anything if your diet is already up to par. I saw no difference when I skip these or before and aftera run. I'm trying to avoid anything you can't just get with diet and I'm eating beef almost daily.

The key is push till you can't push even at 50-75% obviously if you can do 100 you missed something, it's too light. If one setting you can do 100 and the next notch up you can't do 1 that means your equipment sucks and you need to do something else. There's a dozen ways to exercise any one muscle group, this might be too boring to think about but find an alternative. It's fun for me.

The goal isn't to look like Dave Bautista, that bro is 240lbs, but if you are 240lbs then maybe. But no one should honestly weigh 240lbs unless they want to devote their life to weightlifting and all the issues that go with keeping that unnecessary weight.



The goal should be to be maximally healthy at a healthy weight to prevent age related skelital/muscular health issues associated with being a soy boi or big chungas.

I had to cut calories, my weight was creeping up. I need to go back to taking my weight every day.

Same happens here.
Damn BodyOS and its eating habits. I feel it got a lot to do with free time and being at home. Whenever we're busy and somewhere out there's literally no time to eat. But being at home brings the opportunity to eat constantly. The fridge is full. Gotta buy less. But now's Easter, only opportunity to really eat sweets aside from Christmas Season because Famliy festivities. I'm probably gonna order host to take another intermittent fasting session with 600kcal per day afterwards. It will be necessary.

When I'm on a diet, I always get cramps too, I wish I knew what I was missing. I do take vitamins.

Lack of magnesium, calcium, water are the usual suspects but cramps can be weird. It's often hard to determine the source. Never have those luckily.

the gym gramps has disappeared i wonder if he died but i dont wanna ask

Same at the gym here. There are people who are there without exception when we come and we come at completely different times. Some are beasts and some look absolute garbage and are weaker than host.

I'm afraid we're also on this path. Body looks significantly better than a year ago but this significance is marginal.
In the end working out doesn't lead to muscle growth. Hormone release leads to muscle growth. And if this isn't triggered you can work yourself to death without any result. Certainly that's different for everyone and some just havve bad luck  in the genetic lottery.

I already said one of our main issues probably is being too careful. We just recently found out the body can lift twice as much than previously thought after a proper warm-up. So we gotta cut down on exercise types to do the same exercise twice or three times a set of 6 with 15-12-10-8-6-4 reps. In consecutive runs going down to 10-10-10-8-8-8 or something with heavier weight.

Hey, I'm not a man!



I may be a tupper and a monster - but I certainly am not a man! Is Ashley a man?
I also don't work out at at the gym. I just give orders.
Hmm, maybe I should?

And I didn't mean it that way. But seeing certain people look so shit after going to the gym more than us it makes me think. Mostly how to avoid ending up like that. Obviously it's possible to exercise a lot without achieving anything. Just like studying without learning anything. Not applying enough weight certainly was a mistake. But I only figured it out after doing exercises over and over again that the body could lift more at a second round of sets.