Quote from: JonDnD on December 03, 2023, 07:30:45 PMThis shit aint normal 

I have Ice in my driveway from hail this afternoon still

Quote from: Mr. Impossible on December 03, 2023, 06:15:31 PMYeah, it's the origin of the American version of the monster verse stuff. It's actually good. They are doing a good job of using a TV season to tell a story. It's more human based and luckily the writing and acting are solid. Took me a sec to realize that Kurt Russell and his son were playing the same character.

The main girl is probably the prettiest Japanese woman I've ever seen.

She's also in this show I'm looking forward to Shogun.

Agreed with everything. Idk if you watched invasion but you might find that chick hot too haha. 

Quote from: Twinblade on December 03, 2023, 03:26:00 PMIm doing slow and eccentric on most of the exercises I do. I see people go crazy like on the Lat Pulldown and yank the bar down while leaning all the way back and then bringing it back up at the same speed.....and I just can't fathom how that can be effective.

I've seen some pretty in shape people with absolutely awful form and I often wonder the same. 

Quote from: Twinblade on December 03, 2023, 03:23:56 PMMy main goal right now is aesthetics/strength. Getting healthier would be a natural side effect of that training, but If it was my focus then I would just do cardio and barely touch weights (which I definitely don't want to do).

Dumbbells will give you better aesthetics and strength due to stabilizer muscles (muscle groups between main muscles that help you... stabilize) But do what works best for you, your body, and confidence

Quote from: David P on December 03, 2023, 02:40:33 PMLmao, when your 6 years development Bethesda RPG can't even move hardware and the softwares sales are down because of Gamepass.

Here comes the PS2-playing Cows, watch out y'all

Quote from: lynux3 on December 03, 2023, 06:59:33 AM72 hours later... 22K views. Dipshitmij says this franchise is still a golden egg.

Well halo sucks and I'm 100% not defending it but it was the most watched show on paramount.

Season 2s trailer (looks dogshit) has 1.5 million views in 18 hours so it's a bit more popular apparently than 22k views.

Quote from: lynux3 on December 03, 2023, 08:09:31 AMRight? Even Master Queef revealed himself before ghostz did his ugly mug.

Where's your ugly mug? 

Quote from: -GD-X on December 03, 2023, 12:13:46 PMSo, I trained Friday, took a rest day yesterday, and I will be doing legs this morning. With warm up and a few ramp up sets, my workout won't exceed 35 minutes. Quality > quantity (for me). I just can't do high volume anymore.

I'm usually there for sub 40 mins too. I've posted my work outs many times but it's basically 4-7 exercises a day (8-20 reps, 3 sets) targeting a body part. Lots of supersetting. I do wanna switch it up to pull/push types tho. Stuck in my old ass ways tho and never feel like doing new shit or say I'll start it next week.. which I never do. 🥲

Quote from: Twinblade on December 03, 2023, 05:46:55 AMUltimately it depends on the person and whether they have any pre-existing injuries. Dumbbell shoulder presses for example just kill my right shoulder, even just lifting the dumbbells up to get into position is too strenuous for me.

A guy I worked with at my last job introduced me to overhead presses using the barbell on a smith machine and I haven't gone back to dumbbells since. Sure it might not be as efficient but I can lift a decent amount of weight with minimal pain and thats good enough for me.

That said I can probably do most lower body exercises with dumbbells and not have any issues.

What if you go down in weight on overhead dumbbell press? Does any weight hurt it? Ie 10lb dumbells shouldn't ever be causing pain. But it's a bit odd you're not getting any with all with on the smith machine. 

If you can do low weight with the dumbbells I'd just stick with that and begin to rebuild it. You'll get stronger & the gym isn't a strength factory it's for improving health. Lift what you're comfortable with. Some (most?) days I get much better workouts using lighter weights. 

So I'm on episode 3 of monarch and this is my third post about it. Fitting. 

This show is extremely well done tho. Outside of the very opening scene in woods I've been extremely impressed this is a tv show and not some type of movie budget 

Quote from: Twinblade on December 03, 2023, 04:12:38 AMAre there any differences between barbell and dumbbell RDLs?

Stabilizer muscles bro

Dumbbells>> For everything as a general rule 

Quote from: Mr. Impossible on December 02, 2023, 10:31:29 PM

This Godzilla reboot has been on my radar for a minute. The reviews are finally coming in a supposedly its the best Godzilla movie ever made. This isn't like the new Hollywood ones where he's some hero monster, dude is legit the villain and is a fucking menace. Can't wait.

Have you watched the monarch show on Apple TV? Seems Godzilla based

That one battle scene was kinda cool

They need more of those if I were to guess. That's all I watched 

Buncha femboys in Europe 

I train 5 days a week

My body is probably fundamentally broken at this point. I seem to tear or pull something about every other week. Probably need to stretch better


But I continue training. Nothing really bad but boy my back should be fun to have in 15 or so years.