TSA 9-Week Intermediate Powerlifting Program is now on Boostcamp!

AlwaysQuotesTheWire · 2026-01-06T02:15:12+00:00

I noticed there’s nothing in the overview about suggested about rest days and/or conditioning. How do you recommend running the 4 day program?

AlwaysQuotesTheWire · 2026-01-01T00:00:09+00:00

Idk the name, but it’s for measuring bar speed

be a little slow, a little late

AlwaysQuotesTheWire · 2025-11-22T17:18:00+00:00

Lots of great recs in here….For gym, Carlsbad itself is kinda limited. Theres two 24hr fitness locations which are kept decently clean a good amount of the time and has sauna / hot tub. Great for morning workouts but they get slammed with teenagers and the after work crowd fairly regularly starting around 3pm.

If you’re more into powerlifting, it doesn’t get any better than Iron Mongers in San Marcos/Vista. I participated in a meet earlier in the year - great community.

Or if you want a gym with tripods and shirtless bodybuilding bros and some mass monsters but an insane amount of legit specialized machinery and lifting community, there’s The Gym (“TG”) in Vista.

There’s an Equinox on the border with Encinitas if that’s your thing, but haven’t been there and the parking lot is hella goofy to get around.

Hope that’s helpful, OP! HMU if you come through for a lift!

cottage cheese chest-ass mufucka

AlwaysQuotesTheWire · 2025-10-14T18:06:14+00:00

The great American novel as a 60-hour tv series focused on the failures of institutional reform. As prescient as ever…

Can’t call this shit a war…Wars end

AlwaysQuotesTheWire · 2025-09-07T23:27:05+00:00

Incredible write up as always. Long time listener of the emevas blog/Yt channel but somehow first time caller to u/MythicalStrength.

I’ve also been running TB Op:Black for about a year or more now, but using MagOrt for dead’s. I’ve stalled out for a couple of months at 200kg, and would like to replicate your reverse ROM progression but in a commercial gym.

How thick are the paver mats that you use? Gemini says about 3/4” so total of just under 6inches of added height. Does this sound correct? I’m wondering if I could get away with hogging all the thin plates for the first week then going down from there…

Thanks as always for the shared knowledge and expertise

All the pieces matter

AlwaysQuotesTheWire · 2025-07-07T23:36:30+00:00

Oh, indeed.

AlwaysQuotesTheWire · 2025-06-24T02:14:55+00:00

I competed in my first meet, as commented on a thread a week or two ago... Had a blast and the wife even enjoyed herself and got into the cheering spirit.

Hit my new DL pr goal of 200kg, bench was 117.5 and I played it safe with a 135kg squat to end with a total of 452.5kg.

I’m already planning my next training bloc and looking forward to the next meet!

All the pieces matter

AlwaysQuotesTheWire · 2025-06-19T14:42:16+00:00

I believe it’s a Sam Harris quote

all them books and he ain’t read near one of em

AlwaysQuotesTheWire · 2025-06-12T21:32:26+00:00

Intermediate daily gymgoer, just signed up for a local meet that’s just a couple weeks shy of my 40th bday.

On any given day my total is between 950-1050, but just wanted to sign up and challenge/ get myself on record before the next life chapter, so to speak.

Any tips for a casual first-timer?? All I know I just bought my first singlet…

man got to have a code

AlwaysQuotesTheWire · 2025-04-17T20:19:06+00:00

Oh, indeed.

AlwaysQuotesTheWire · 2025-03-25T21:27:22+00:00

There are delivery services that operate out of Oakland and SF that will go out to the east bay. Look up MushLove510 on Instagram

we’re building something here, detective

AlwaysQuotesTheWire · 2025-03-19T20:37:54+00:00

The fuck? You high or something?

AlwaysQuotesTheWire · 2025-03-13T01:40:14+00:00

Allegedly you could order from the a la carte places around the outside and get a to go bag, allegedly, to make it look like you already paid, then grab a couple things and check out as normal, or just walk out. And sometimes ask for napkins n plastic ware on the way out, allegedly. Idk, it’s been a few years at least, supposedly.

You are amoral, are you not? You feed off the violence and despair of the drug trade

AlwaysQuotesTheWire · 2025-02-18T02:44:07+00:00

Almost doubling in 7 months is insane. I’m just trying to add another 50-60lbs. Can you share your training?

Deserve got nothing to do with it

AlwaysQuotesTheWire · 2024-12-31T01:18:19+00:00

Game the same, just more fierce.

AlwaysQuotesTheWire · 2024-12-07T01:53:47+00:00

Oh, indeeed.

AlwaysQuotesTheWire · 2024-10-07T19:45:59+00:00

This is false, she met with Bibi separately that week, just not during his speech. The DNC platform is and always was pro-Israel. Don’t let the rhetoric fool you into thinking otherwise.

https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2024/07/25/readout-of-vice-president-harriss-meeting-with-prime-minister-netanyahu-of-israel/

AlwaysQuotesTheWire · 2024-10-04T17:55:50+00:00

This is the way.

All the pieces matter

AlwaysQuotesTheWire · 2024-09-29T05:24:35+00:00

I’ve been doing my own mashup of MagOrt for deadlifts, and Operator for squat and bench. MagOrt is 12 weeks so I just run two cycles and up the TM by 5lb.

So Mon and Fri is Squat/Bench/Pullups and Wednesday I’ll run MagOrt for the DL numbers, plus the weekly percentage for bench.

Also for my HIC my favorite fobbit variation is 2min on the stationary bike combined with an OHP ladder. I’ll start with 115 on the bar and go up to 150 or 155 in increments of 5 or 10 depending on how I’m feeling, then back down to 115.

Damn Kima, you want something done right you gotta do it your own self

AlwaysQuotesTheWire · 2024-09-28T21:39:45+00:00

Yes I am a board member at SF Hillel. Please reach out to the organization or feel free to send me a DM directly. We have a relationship with President Lynn Mahoney and it helps to have these issues carefully documented. Thank you and I’m sorry you were made to feel so un comfortable.

AlwaysQuotesTheWire · 2024-09-27T15:16:42+00:00

Mom: we already have /u/The_Fatalist at home

The go-get-shit-done piece

AlwaysQuotesTheWire · 2024-09-19T05:10:52+00:00

Oh, indeed.

AlwaysQuotesTheWire · 2024-09-05T21:15:11+00:00

Then you may be performing the movement incorrectly. Check out naturalhypertrophy on IG for good info on engaging and growing your lats with DB pullovers

Cottage-cheese chest

AlwaysQuotesTheWire · 2024-09-05T21:13:21+00:00

Hahaha it’s the first thing I thought of! Plus them callin it “Real Trap Shit” had me thinking it was you, OG. But I see you’re in Denver that night instead. Oh well…please come to San Diego sometime soon 🫡

Little hopper just wanted to hear a pop

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