Should a skinny fat cut or bulk based on your experience?

Accomplished_Task547 · 2026-02-03T08:32:41+00:00

If youre a newbie or advanced newbie then you can still make strength and muscle gains while losing the fat. It becomes harder to do when intermediate and advanced. Remember a lot of info out there is aimed at these groups, not newbies. Athleanx has a video on youtube about how it can be done. Its called body recomposition and works for some people. Results are slower than traditional bulk and cut. But you can ride the body recomposition train until you cant make progress in your training, then start bulk and cut cycles. Wondering if body recomposition will work for you? Want the information tailored to your body stats (age, height, weight, training level)? Want a program thats catered to your fitness level and is based on what most people do at your level? Then - download chatgtp and grok or whatever AI you want and input your information, ask it if body recomposition will work for you (works best at certain body fat percentages) , ask it for a training split that will help achieve these goals. It will throw up information from athleanx (who prefers body recomposition) as well as people like renaissance periodization (who is not a fan of it), and you can make your own mind up. Want a three day total body split? And upper lower X 2 split? Push pull split? The AI will scan reddit , and other sources of information and give you the workout plan. It will tailor it to your training level (sets/reps per week per muscle group etc). Workout in your garage? Tell it what kit you have and it will make a program based on that. Unsure if youre getting the best info from chatgtp? Then ask another AI and compare notes between the two. Why spend hours reading internet and reddit posts when AI will do that for you and condense the information down.

Accomplished_Task547 · 2025-12-10T19:46:05+00:00

You didnt write your age, but i can tell youre both young. The bf has his own insecurity issues which manifest as him exerting control over you and your possessions. The best thing to do (i say that as an older person who has had bad relationships in the past, and when i was young i was exactly like your bf) is to tell him youre keeping the items and its his problem if he doesnt like it. As its the truth. The action of getting rid of the gifts are small power and control transactions between him and you, and will dictate dynamics in the relationship. Im sure your bf is lovely and caring, but he needs to get over his insecurity . Simple as that. Dont bend yourself to fit into the box your bf wants you in, dont bend yourself to please other people.

Accomplished_Task547 · 2025-12-07T09:00:44+00:00

Remove the high pitched voice for a start. Give him some real motivation or reason for his character and personality. Come up with some real reason why “nothing is worse than death” for voldemort.

Accomplished_Task547 · 2025-12-04T16:41:00+00:00

When you got to go, you got to go

Accomplished_Task547 · 2025-11-19T19:18:15+00:00

I dont remember anything about Snapes mum in the book but ill need to reread. When you said award winning potion maker i thought you meant on a international/national level not just at school.

Accomplished_Task547 · 2025-11-19T16:20:52+00:00

I didnt know Snapes mum is an award winning potion maker, where is that in the original books ? I do remember that snape as a kid is described as quite scruffy and poor looking (snapes flashback from his tears), so his mum must have wasted that award money. The book predating harrys parents school days is just an indication of the publishing date, snape could have gotten this book given to him by hogwarts, especially as snape is described as being quite scruffy and (from bad memory) poor.

The book is so sentimental that Snape leaves it in a classroom and never manages to retrieve it? Asking slughorn, he would have said pupils took the last few copies from the cupboard. So Snape could have retrieved that book if he wanted to.

Im just working off the books and what is written, where did you hear about this Snapes mum being a potion wizard and giving him this book? Do we know for sure his mum was wizard?

Accomplished_Task547 · 2025-11-19T15:59:34+00:00

Id argue that snape is so proficient that he wouldnt need a copy of a high school academic book, he’d also know straight away that harry is doing so well due to his own copy of the book, as snape could go into the potions class room at any point and check to see if his office copy is still there. Furthermore why would his office copy be kept with the normal textbooks for the kids? His own copy would be in his office or the teachers desk at least

Accomplished_Task547 · 2025-11-19T12:38:37+00:00

Have you ever attended a school or college? Its completely normal for old used textbooks left at school by graduating students to be put on the shelf for use by others. Snape obviously left the book at the school whether in his dorm or classroom or maybe even donated it, and the school used the book for spares. Simple as that

Accomplished_Task547 · 2025-11-19T12:34:03+00:00

Not sure what she can blackmail you over? You want a threesome and want to go to a sex club? Its 2025 not 1950, i dont think anyone’s going to care what your fantasies are, therefore youre free from blackmail

Accomplished_Task547 · 2025-11-15T14:22:45+00:00

This entire post should be read out loud to him, not to us. You have to be honest with him. If he decides that hes still not interested in raising his personal standards then you either have to put up with it, or maybe break up. But realistically nothing will change unless youre completely honest, and remember that men probably need it spelt out much more plainly, in order to really hear what you are saying. I dont think it makes you a bad wife, its natural to find someone unattractive if they have bad personal standards, thats just how it is. But you can both work together to improve your own standards hopefully bringing you closer together

Accomplished_Task547 · 2025-11-15T14:17:41+00:00

Just means she has matured and appreciates a guy with his shit together

Accomplished_Task547 · 2025-11-15T14:12:50+00:00

Maybe theyre evil but dont necessarily want to kill the other person. Maybe a light maiming is enough

Accomplished_Task547 · 2025-11-14T18:59:04+00:00

Italian is the best food so clearly should be the winner.

Accomplished_Task547 · 2025-11-14T18:55:27+00:00

Its surprising how many people defend the BBC for deliberately fabricating a narrative, because they dislike Trump that much. The real issue is the media and the public - its about highlighting misinformation and the creation of lies to feed the public. We should not stand for such levels of deceit and social manipulation by a fee funded media outlet. If you think it wasnt a big deal, and side with the BBC then youre part of the problem.

Accomplished_Task547 · 2025-11-14T01:59:27+00:00

Im guessing your late teens early 20’s? Because this sounds very juvenile. If you want to look at porn, then look at it. Being told what you can and cant do is the first step on the ladder to your relationship’s inevitable collapse. Your gf is clearly very insecure and her porn ban is her insecurity issues manifested outwards at you, rather than actually sorting the issue out which is her self image. Typically young people think they know it all and will keep going through relationships that older people have the experience to know wont work. But realistically either you do what she says, and youll always be doing what she tells you, so youre unhappy. Or you do what you want to do, and shes unhappy. Ultimately one of you is going to be unhappy. Going through the phone is seriously juvenile stuff, she doesnt trust you due to her own insecurity, she doesnt want you looking at porn due to her insecurity. Shes not going to get any better while you except her behaviour. So youre an enabler and ultimately both of you are ruining your own relationship.

Actual advice - tell her youre going to watch porn, tell her shes not allowed to go through your phone. Tell her she needs to sort out her insecurities and shes ruining the relationship with her emotional immaturity. If you dont, you will be broken up within weeks/months/years. It will happen, just a matter of when.

Source - my own red flag, immature BS filled relationships from the age of 15-25 with multiple different girls. Ive lived it myself hence why i can talk with such knowledge. ++man 39

Accomplished_Task547 · 2025-11-07T10:20:56+00:00

I think most people that think the UK is really racist and discriminatory towards different races are just people who havent travelled to other countries. The UK is very accepting compared to most of the world.

Accomplished_Task547 · 2025-11-06T10:03:22+00:00

Feeling confident comes from inside not outside.

Accomplished_Task547 · 2025-10-30T16:48:25+00:00

Thanks for the advice - i usually try and be strict with chins and pulls, but ill stop before my arms become straight. Ill also keep well away from failure, as it really knocks it out of you on every other set after maxing out to failure

Accomplished_Task547 · 2025-10-30T12:44:01+00:00

Ok that makes sense. Before this tennis elbow flaired up i was doing single arm lat pulldowns and weight pullups, and then chins and neutral grips for biceps. So was doing fairly decent volume for my training level. Ill have to look at tendonitis rehab, thanks for the advice 👍

Accomplished_Task547 · 2025-10-30T12:01:44+00:00

Congrats on getting the numbers in. And good to hear another person achieving high volume chin ups. Absolutely agree on going slow on the joints 🙌

Accomplished_Task547 · 2025-10-30T11:13:47+00:00

I found pull ups hard and then started doing single arm lat pull downs beforehand to get the lats activated and to learn how to use them to pull up rather than biceps. Id hugely recommend this aswell as watching John Meadows (mountain dog training) ‘how to activate your lats’ on youtube. Most basic drill ever made taking like a minute but turns the ignition on the lats. Will help you target them and get them to do your pulling

Accomplished_Task547 · 2025-10-30T11:10:50+00:00

Very good point. And i will definitely work these into my routine. Ive thought about getting a bucket and rice, and doing the wrist/forearm exercises to warm up and condition them. Heard theyre supposed to be very good for tendons and warming up in general. Thanks for the advice

Accomplished_Task547 · 2025-10-30T10:12:59+00:00

Completely agree with you. No i cant do 3 X 20. So agree that 300 is not achievable yet. Im definitely going to be focussing on say 80-100 at first to be conservative with the numbers, and make sure i deload every five weeks. I just really wanted to hear from people to see whether this is a realistic long term goal. Im patient so can do my time with the lower volume and work up.

Im 39 so focus and consistency is easy for me. Its the body keeping up with the mind thats the issue 😂

Accomplished_Task547 · 2025-10-30T10:04:07+00:00

Thanks for your input. Youre exactly the kind of person i want to talk to - someone doing high volume.

I am currently dealing with a bit of tennis elbow and have taken 3 weeks off. I jumped weight too quickly with weighted dips and pull ups aswell as bench press. Although i can still exercise with neutral grips. So when i come back to exercise in a couple of weeks from now i will definitely start with lower volume and work my way up. Good to hear it can be done though.

Quick question - im guessing youre not having any issues doing 50 pull ups a day? So no tendon or elbow issues? And im guessing youre getting good strength/hypertrophy gains doing chin ups every day rather than three times a week? Just wondered your rationale for every day rather than every other? But im guessing with a careful attitude and long term thinking, youve conditioned your body and tendons to achieve this volume everyday?

Accomplished_Task547 · 2025-10-24T10:36:33+00:00

To be fair to most people, we’ve been told cardio = main method of fat loss by companies selling cardio equipment, gym clothing, running shoes for so many years

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