Big Runners

@MrPitbull07 I do it every day. I have 2 currently. I've owned racing H 5 speed, regular H pattern 4, 5, and 6 speeds, and a short throw close ratio 6. I dislike automatic transmissions, though I'll admit they're easier to drive when I'm injured.

Be honest... could you jump into a stick-shift car and drive it without a problem right now?

@psypharmacopeia Enough Scotch, and you feel like you can beat Hafþór in the Deadlift. 🤣🤣🤣

People that say good night sleep and hydration can replace a pre-workout, have never had a fucking real pre-workout in their life. Go try something like Crack Barbarian or Mr. White or Judgment Day, and tell me how that compared to being well rested and having a glass of water.

@9mmsmg @DavieParkl37761 See? Just like JFK, who started the President's council on physical fitness. The guy died at 48.

@DavieParkl37761 Louie died four years ago.

I am an anti machine grug in terms of weightlifting. These four machines are awesome, though. 1. Reverse hyper - Single best machine on earth. Every gym should have one. Peak spinal health and stability. 2. Belt squat machine - Louie Simmons invented it and you should always listen to Louie. 3. Hamner Strength vertical incline press - I have never found a machine that hits better than dumbell incline presses, but this is very close. 4. T-Bar row - Who doesn't want a big back?

@Degen_CPA Possible. It's not a random sample of the population, by any stretch.

72% of twitter thinks they’re above 110 IQ

@OneBadDude_ Definitely not genuine.

I’ve never in my life seen a group of conservatives cover their faces and coordinate wardrobes to go protest. Are these guys really conservatives, or are they just trying to make conservatives look bad? With bad actors everywhere, question everything.

@LatentRift @wydyama Well, you don't know anyone who really likes driving for its own sake. It helps to have learned on a sports car at 18, not on a clapped out pickup with a bad clutch.

@wydyama I’m convinced anyone who says they love driving manual cars are saying to because of their ego and little more. Why not let’s hand crank cars to start them if it’s all about being “involved.”

There’s no way y’all like driving manual everyday

@wydyama Yup. I've had manuals my entire adult life, and I don't like automatic transmissions. You just don't care about the driving experience, which I happen to enjoy. I prefer to be immersed in it, and frankly I don't drive as well when I'm not. My mind gets bored.

@Spoon_town Absolutely

How someone answers this question will tell you if anything else they have to say about guns is worth listening to.

@HeidiBriones @SaaS_Veritas "All sex is rape." I've heard this from a hot woman. You think she looked as good after that?

@SaaS_Veritas Who says you gotta marry her?

Some men overthink everything. I'll say, "She's hot. Nice boobs and round butt," and they'll go, "Yeah, but I don't like her politics." ... Bro, what?

@HeidiBriones Seriously? There's no turn-off like a woke woman. It's related to the Hot/Crazy Matrix. If you don't know what a woman is, you're either too stupid or too crazy.

@sonnydyer94 @CNviolations Perfectly legal. Some states even allow lane splitting in traffic. That depends on the state. But it's considered to be generally safer to ride a bit faster than cars are going. I'm licensed to ride a bike on the road, but I only own an off road bike. Too much traffic here.

@Pointer_Chaser @CNviolations Just gonna ignore the motorbike swerving from lane to lane beforehand?

Who's in the wrong here?

@amishescapee Worrying about what other people think, is the dumbest reason to make such decisions.

Every woman I know who doesn’t have children desperately wants them but is terrified that if they choose the wrong man and it doesn’t work out they’ll be demonized as single mothers. They’re selecting very carefully and that’s not an easy or quick thing for men or women to do.

@MarketPalmer_ Divorce

Recently learned that 25% of 60-year old doctors have a net worth below $1 million. How…?

@wolfstrength It would seem to me that, if your anthropometry makes squatting more difficult than average, discovering how to do it, with your body being what it is, could be life-changing in a positive way.

One of the myths that won't die is that "not everyone is built to squat." Sometimes it's presented more sophisticatedly, as "acetabular depth and femoral neck angle vary between individuals. Some people genuinely can't squat without hip impingement regardless of technique." This is one of those things that's factual but not truthful. There is variance in these things between individuals, and you can theoretically find someone whose internal hip anatomy is such that squatting is contraindicated. But in practice, those people are so rare as to be non-existent. It might be good to keep in mind as a severe outlier possibility, but 99.99% of the time when someone says this, it's covering for a lack of ability in doing or coaching the squat. I used to be one of the people who thought this. I've posted before how many of the fitness and lifting experts I read in the late 2000s into the early 2010s would constantly write articles to the effect of: "Squatting is great but not everyone can do it. Here's 7 great alternatives to work the legs instead!" I bought it at first because they were well respected experts who trained athletes and serious lifters, who traveled nationally and even internationally to lecture. Then I learned how to actually coach the squat, and magically and mysteriously, never encountered such a person. To this day I have coached a total of ONE such person out of several thousand, for whom this MIGHT have been an issue. I'm not 100% sure, but only one for whom it's a possibility. Out of thousands. And it took 7-8 years of full time coaching, well over 2000 people in between, after I stopped reading those articles to even encounter this one single MAYBE. The sample size is too big to be a coincidence. When you take into account the many thousands more who have attended SS Seminars and Training Camps over the past 15 years all of whom can be taught to squat to depth within a single session, the idea becomes absurd. This is a classic example of pseudo sophistication covering for a lack of practical knowledge in how to actually coach. Do such people exist? Probably. I will stipulate for the sake of argument that they do. But they are such a tiny % of the population that for practical purposes, the chances of a given coach ever encountering one are nil. It's like Whipple’s disease. It's good to know it exists, but if you started diagnosing people with it whenever they have joint pain or diarrhea, you'll be doing 99.99% of your patients a massive disservice. Meanwhile this line parroted by coaches who don't know how to coach the squat, has been used as excuse by many people who can squat just fine, to avoid it. It can't die soon enough.

@GBNT1952 Dave Smith? Scott Horton?

What do you call people who are vehemently against war no matter the threat or necessity, actively telling people to not vote for candidates on the right, pushing for fully government funded healthcare and other social programs, and fully backing Islamists tied to the Muslim Brotherhood to hinder our strategic alliances?

@Hybridathlete Also, subjective perceptions are really important for motivation. A total noob taking his bench from 65 to 95, will feel like he is really becoming a different person, within weeks. Losing 3 lbs in the same period without gaining muscle, won't feel good at all.

@Pointer_Chaser Yep. And if someone's main goal is to add muscle mass and they are already very under-muscled, telling them they need to start by getting even skinnier and likely worse looking is not a good plan.

If you've never lifted, your BMI is <22, and you want a better physique, you should not start with a cut. I don't care how skinny-fat you look. At a BMI of <22, you are under-muscled. If adding muscle mass is the long term goal, you need to start lifting ASAP.

@EmilioMrcxds @Hybridathlete Why not? Everything depends on context! Gaining muscle when you're at >30% body fat, and eating at a deficit, is really easy. 20% isn't bad. What you can do when you're at 13% and trying for 7% is radically different from when you're at 35% shooting for <20%.

@Hybridathlete But lifting weights while in a calorie deficit shouldn't be the move?

@gregogallagher Bench tends to benefit from girth, due to angles and leverages. I dropped from 245 to 200 and my bench went down. Granted, that was from 325 to 315... but that 315 felt harder. So this is a mixed bag.

If you bench 250 lbs for 5 And weigh 200 lbs And you cut to 180 and bench press goes down to 225 lbs for 5. Relative strength is the same. This is terrible. Relative strength must improve or you are losing too much muscle. Body composition improves when relative strength increases.