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not a software engineer or consultant girlboss but a secret third thing

@demiurgently really opened my eyes that pregnancy just affects women in wildly different ways and someone having a harder time has nothing to do with them being lazy or undisciplined or something

@demiurgently and now that i'm towards the end (33w) i am struggling to eat and gain weight bc of the physical discomfort on top of gestational diabetes making it even harder to eat anything. it's not like i'm avoiding the weight gain from superior self control, i can't even if i want to

i basically cant be in a calorie deficit & also breastfeed my baby, so i fall into the latter group dont have a lot of patience for bros on here who insist women can just bounce back after pregnancy. sometimes doing a good thing for ur baby means looking chopped for a while

@sgodofsk this is gonna make me sound so boomer but they also expect to be able to afford an apt with no roommates in a trendy city. i graduated with a pretty good starting salary and moved to rural Texas and it never occurred to me not to have roommates! I didn’t live alone til after 30

The fact that colleges have really nice food and expensive gyms and other nice amenities gives a rude awakening to new grads when they suddenly see their real consumption drop by 50% upon graduation. It makes them feel poor when they're not.

@AlexGodofsky the doctors that you used to be able to pay to get your medical marijuana card can now pivot to offering Certified Gay cards!

This list of ways to prove you are gay is extremely funny, especially for what it leaves out.

@ouranometrian2 ppl have a lot of weird incorrect beliefs about how no one had diseases in the past like cancers and heart disease etc. humans have always been suffering from those issues, we actually can survive them much better now!

I dont feel like fertility issues are more common now that in the past and here is my reasoning: 1: many people got diseases that we know today negatively affect fertility. People dont get those diseases in the first world. 2: there are a lot of fairy tales, folk tales, religious scripture, and prayers around fertility..or I should say lacking fertility. Seems like it must have been a common enough issue that we kept writing about it and praying to who ever about it 3: there are medical writings about various "treatments" for it from antiquity

A woman at the store this morning asked if she could lift something for me and I know it’s bc I look pregnant but the weight lifter in me was seething

@sadmoonanalog i tell my husband one of my favorite things about being with him is that i enjoy being with him just going to the grocery store. v true that the right person makes the mundane life stuff enjoyable

@SarAllyce @FattyNoNatty This is true the last time I tried halo top was like 10 years ago or something during a keto phase and it was so hard. I have been buying it recently (gestational diabetes 😭) and was shocked at how good the texture was

Bought a Ninja Creami last year. Went all out. Made some great healthy ice cream. Halo Top is still better and way easier.

@sadmoonanalog “cringe” is a psyop don’t let them get you

@SarAllyce right!! and i think of people like holly holm. looks insanely jacked when prepped for a fight etc but every woman would love to look like she does outside of the gym

@SarAllyce okay fr though i think these kinds of comparisons are so important bc girls who think "oh no too i don't want to look too muscular" about the left pic but would love to look like the right pic don't understand this

@SarAllyce @SagesBasics also you still build grip strength when doing lifts with straps! when i worked my deadlift up to almost 300 lbs i was doing the top sets with straps, and doing my warmups without, and by the end my warmups were higher than my earlier top sets without straps...

Walking lunges. Went up from 25lbs in each hand to 30lbs this week. Ngl, my hands & grip are killing me

@sadmoonanalog I’m kind of obsessed with her I just think she has the best aura

@sam_gzstrength > his Deadlfit max is 215lbs 💀💀💀

There's two types of people when it comes to back tweaks 1) The Back Tweak Chad "Coach I tweaked my back this weekend, planning on doing my prescribed weights because it'll probably make me feel better. If I need too I'll adjust loads or modify the lift to a tolerable level so I can keep training" His back is better by the end of the week 2) The Perpetual Glassback "Coach I felt some stiffness in my back this weekend! I booked an MRI with my doctor and he said it's likely a slipped disc or a subluxed pelvis. I need to stop lifting so heavy (his Deadlfit max is 215lbs) completely for a while and I'll circle back with you later" Guy goes years without just getting strong

@sam_gzstrength i see people saying oh i got hurt doing deadlifts in starting strength and then they say they were 5x5 deadlifts bruh

Most people never read or understand Starting Strength past the first "Phase" Do some Willy nilly version of the lifts squatting high, improper set up Push pressing Benching flat And doing trap bar deadlifts because someone told them trap bars are better for their back And drink a gallon of milk Get fat, dont get strong, blame program and Rippetoe for being mean

@doctorcalf @yosoymario91 This is true. I really did not know what it felt like to actually really TRY to lift a heavy weight. Your brain tells you to give up before you even get close and you think “it feels hard so I can’t lift it”. I needed a coach to teach me to push through that.

@yosoymario91 Especially for beginners. If you only have 1-3 years of less, you can probably do more volume

Even though I'm a fan of Mentzer and Yates and HIT, I don't think doing only 2 working sets per muscle group provides enough stimulus for most people. You're simply not training hard enough. If you watch Blood & Guts with Dorian, you can see that he literally gives everything to every set and every rep. He has a great quote: "Imagine you're doing a set, and you're doing absolutely as much as you can, and you think that you've failed. But some nasty looking dude comes up and puts a gun right to your head and said, 'if you don't do one more rep, I'm gonna blow your brains out.' Could you do one more?" The average person simply can't train with that mindset or intensity. They never come close to true failure and probably leave at least 2–3 RIR on the table. I'm not deluding myself, I know I can't train with that level of intensity either. So I stick to around 8–10 working sets per muscle group total (sometimes spread across more than one session). For example: 3 sets of flat bench, 3 sets of incline, and 3 sets of flies for chest. It works for me. I've been growing consistently and progressing on my lifts. This is why training experience and knowing your own body are so important. Some approaches work great for certain people and not for others.

@SarAllyce It PISSES ME OFF so much when ppl want to talk about fertility rate and it’s always directed at the women. Women usually want to settle down and have kids earlier but we have this beaten out of us bc we better not scare the men off!

@SarAllyce Bulky is such a psyop it’s almost never bc they have too much muscle. They just aren’t as lean as they want to be

@SarAllyce also when girls are getting bulky from lifting weights it’s bc they are just adding muscle without losing fat or even adding fat as well by over eating. Ask me how I know lol. You still look better adding muscle without losing fat but it does make u bigger! U just gotta eat less