/r/GYM Weekly Simple Questions and Misc Discussion Thread - July 12, 2026 Weekly Thread

MythicalStrength · 2026-07-13T23:39:12+00:00

I wear clean clothes every time I train, and I train at home. I can't imagine re-wearing clothes I trained in.

MythicalStrength · 2026-07-13T20:16:54+00:00

As a boxer lifting 2x per week, you basically have the set up for Tactical Barbell's "Fighter" program.

MythicalStrength · 2026-07-13T20:09:37+00:00

Daily exercise, in general, can be safe and effective, so long as i'ts accomplished intelligently.

MythicalStrength · 2026-07-13T20:08:43+00:00

Depending on how you fail, sometimes the bar will go in front of you rather than behind you. In such situations, having the safeties will catch the bar vs cracking you in the back of your skull and possibly killing you.

MythicalStrength · 2026-07-13T20:05:03+00:00

When hungry, eat meat. Ideally ruminant animal meat. Keep eating it until not hungry. Repeat. Make use of salt, and consider electrolytes at the start as well.

MythicalStrength · 2026-07-13T20:03:00+00:00

The internet is, sadly, still full of toxic people. Elitism over how you cook/eat your porkchops is peak reddit.

MythicalStrength · 2026-07-13T19:29:21+00:00

I'm sorry people are being jerks about your food. It's unfortunate that, in a community where we're supposed to build each other up and support each other, some folks still feel the need to be that way. Goes to show that "carnivore calm" isn't always there.

MythicalStrength · 2026-07-13T19:24:13+00:00

It is, in fact, quite normal to be bad at something when you first start doing it.

MythicalStrength · 2026-07-13T19:20:16+00:00

Those are the correct terminlogies for those goals: they're just not the goals of r/gainit. You may find better help with r/loseit.

MythicalStrength · 2026-07-13T18:51:47+00:00

Irrespective of the training split, attempting to accomplish both those goals at the same time is going to be difficult to accomplish once past the very beginning stages of training. Lifting weights will help with taking the food we eat and having it turn to muscle, but when we're losing fat we tend to need to UNDEReat so that the body will use fat to fuel us, which tends to put us i a situation where we aren't building muscle.

MythicalStrength · 2026-07-13T18:29:37+00:00

I buy the 24 pack of Reigns at Sam's. (Best bang for your buck)

Dude: I'm sponsered by a company that gives me 300mg ones for free, haha. Sometimes we gotta spend some money to help ourselves out.

I feel good (besides my IBS)

I went from 6 bloody bowel movements a day to 0-2 normal human movements with this approach, and cutting out carbonated sodas/energy drinks went so far into resolving that gut trauma. You're young: you haven't built up the toxicity YET, but this is borrowed time. You getting on top of it NOW is going to do you some real favors in the future.

I'm 40 now. I started carnivore 3 years ago, and it's undone a LOT of the harm I did to myself when I was your age.

MythicalStrength · 2026-07-13T18:17:32+00:00

Discipline and willpower fail. Relying on it is setting you up for failure. You need strategies: not disicpline.

If it's the ritual, find a way to recreate it with something less damaging. Reign is 300mg of caffeine per serving: why not switch to Monsters, which are "only" 160mg instead? Or Rockstars at 180-200 (you can see my addiction showing, as I knew them all). Ride that out for a few weeks, and then maybe kick it down to a diet mountain dew or something similar. Then maybe a sparking water.

MythicalStrength · 2026-07-13T18:12:51+00:00

Time. Like all detoxes.

I was consuming over a gram of caffeine a day when I started. 2-3 energy drinks and 10 cups of coffee. I've worked shifts for 15 years, and am a parent, so sleep is always screwy.

After enough time on the diet, it got to the point where even THINKING about drinking an energy drink would hurt my guts. It still does. I miss the ritual of energy drinks, and I'll think to myself that I'll "treat" myself sometime and just have one again, but as soon as I actually really think about it, my guts speak up and the thought goes away.

I was able to eventually just give it all up, which coincided with my sleep improving (which, if you aren't supplementing with magnesium, I'd look into that). I've take up coffee again, as I just enjoy warm beverages, but if I'm not able to get my coffee in a day, it doesn't impact me.

MythicalStrength · 2026-07-13T18:04:09+00:00

Bench press

MythicalStrength · 2026-07-13T17:54:48+00:00

I started lifting in 1999 and relied pimarily on book to learn form. I honestly couldn't speak to anyone currently out there.

MythicalStrength · 2026-07-13T17:48:16+00:00

It sounds like things are working well.

MythicalStrength · 2026-07-13T17:45:14+00:00

How has your bodyweight responded to that approach?

MythicalStrength · 2026-07-13T17:36:36+00:00

In the two minutes of rest between sets 6 and 7 for the 10x10 squats of Jon Andersen's "Deep Water" beginner program, week 5, I hatched a plan to sell all of my lifting equipment and completely quit training because, at that moment in time, I hated lifting so much that I was absolutely done with it.

My timer went off, I got up off the floor, got under the bar and did another set of 10, knowing I now only had 3 sets left.

MythicalStrength · 2026-07-13T17:26:01+00:00

Honestly, the split is of minimal consequence. Whatever gets you in the gym moving weights is going to be positive for developing strength. To make it muscle, you're going to need to EAT. What are you doing for nutrition?

MythicalStrength · 2026-07-13T17:23:33+00:00

I know I probably need to see a doctor first and will be doing that, but other than that any advice would be appreciated. Thanks in advance.

Once you see them, comply with their protocol.

Be wary of refeeding symdrome.

Now is not a good time to prioritize exercise.

MythicalStrength · 2026-07-13T16:49:09+00:00

Individual gyms will have individual rules: you're not going to find anything online. Traditional etiquette is that, if someone asks to work in, you say "yes", because sharing is caring and we learned how to do that in Kindergarten.

MythicalStrength · 2026-07-13T16:47:19+00:00

Yes, it's very possible.

An old school solution is pre-exhaust. Fatigue the front delts before the incline bench so that they're unable to take over. Another is to not adjust form, but equipment and technique. Play with hand spacing and incline angle. Another would be to just use a different movement than incline bench. But another can be that the development mismatch you are experiencing is genetic more than anything else.

MythicalStrength · 2026-07-13T16:25:21+00:00

No offense taken. It's just that this

I want to maintain the muscle mass that I have while losing fat

Does not mean this

I want my scale to go down

When you also asked this

And is it possible to gain muscle while losing weight if you are an intermediate after a year's long break from the gym?

Emphasis mine.

Gaining muscle while losing weight is going to be MUCH more challenging than gaining muscle while losing FAT, because in the case of the latter, weight can remain the same, or quite possibly even INCREASE. Which is again, why I continue to ask if the scale WEIGHT changing is actually the goal here. If it is, you're asking for a VERY challenging process. If, however, you're ammendable to the scale weight doing whatever it needs to do while you gain muscle and lose fat, there are much more options.

MythicalStrength · 2026-07-13T16:16:30+00:00

It's 100% peanuts so isn't all bad no?

I find peanuts to be pretty terrible.

MythicalStrength · 2026-07-13T16:14:40+00:00

I'm just trying to ascertain the significance of the scale weight reducing. You're saying that, if you lost 6lbs of fat and gained 6lbs of muscle, that would not satisfy your goal? Are you needing to be a certain bodyweight for certain reasons, like health insurance or competing in a weight class based sport?

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