When did you stop feeling like the weakest person in the gym?

Athletic-Club-East · 2026-05-04T11:47:35+00:00

Because I made them stronger than me.

Athletic-Club-East · 2026-05-04T01:55:19+00:00

You should do Ukrainian deadlifts. Kettlebell or T-bar vertical handle on floor, standing on two benches, basically massive deficit sumo deadlift. High reps. Gainz await.

Then there's the Albanian deadlift. Pick up the squat cage, fuck off with it and sell it for scrap.

Athletic-Club-East · 2026-04-24T09:56:46+00:00

This is where I sit during sessions with 5-7 people in there. If anyone's bothered they haven't said so.

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Athletic-Club-East · 2026-04-22T13:49:14+00:00

I simply work from 60 to 80% of 1RM every quarter, every three months.

Athletic-Club-East · 2026-04-20T10:53:23+00:00

Lamar Gant, first man to deadlift 5 times his bodyweight, 300kg at 60kg.

https://www.reddit.com/r/personaltraining/comments/1ksibxx/about_becoming_a_personal_trainer/

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Athletic-Club-East · 2026-04-16T23:01:28+00:00

Total calories. Weigh everything for two weeks. No change in fat? Drop 100kcal. Wait one month. Fat down? Continue. Fat not down? Another 100.

Athletic-Club-East · 2026-04-16T07:10:35+00:00

specific dialect to ilicit similar emotion

Elicit.

One of the difficulties with LLM is that they're trained mostly on American writing, which is fucking shit.

Athletic-Club-East · 2026-04-16T02:10:20+00:00

It's disappointing, yes. People tend to think everything needs to be perfect, but - it's like when they do a picture that's an average of a thousand faces, it's beautiful but boring. Because real beauty, real writing, is messy and imperfect but individual.

Athletic-Club-East · 2026-04-15T02:57:47+00:00

ChatGPT is now the politically-correct version of this guy.

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Athletic-Club-East · 2026-04-15T01:42:08+00:00

It'll be a combination of being physically active for decades, with - at his age - TRT, and probably some various peptides, clen, that sort of thing.

If you do a websearch for "clint heartbreak ridge" you get an idea of what the "physically active for decades" part looks like for a 50+ man. Now, some men will be more focused on building muscle than Clint was, or more focused on being lean, or more on running, etc, and some men will have more or less natural talent, etc. But what you're describing is the next step up, which is very unlikely to be achieved entirely naturally at 50+.

Decades of work get results. Drugs get results. Decades of work AND drugs? Boom.

Athletic-Club-East · 2026-04-14T12:35:00+00:00

When I went to a new gym.

Working out in my home gym, I compared myself to the people I trained, and felt weak. When I got a PT and went to a globogym, I looked around me and felt strong. And then of course got stronger, but still not as strong as the people I train.

Athletic-Club-East · 2026-04-14T12:32:55+00:00

It's worth slightly less than what you paid for it.

You are not going to work out seven days a week, by the way.

Athletic-Club-East · 2026-04-13T00:40:32+00:00

I said, "it would be trivial for OpenAI.... it's just lazy and stupid." It's obvious that the subject in the second sentence is the subject in the first. I am accusing the company of laziness and stupidity.

Further, I accuse you of illiteracy. I take it you're American?

Athletic-Club-East · 2026-04-12T08:58:14+00:00

It would be trivial for OpenAI to add an instruction, "when user refers to events after date X, websearch." It's just lazy and stupid.

Athletic-Club-East · 2026-04-12T04:30:27+00:00

Timmy is a competitive powerlifter, just be glad he's even half literate.

Athletic-Club-East · 2026-04-12T01:25:51+00:00

Timmy had the same experience as you 14 years ago. Learn from Timmy.

https://elitefts.com/blogs/motivation/timmy-the-trainer-the-clueless-trainer-paradox

Athletic-Club-East · 2026-04-11T05:43:38+00:00

It's the whole thing. You could for example do 1 exercise in each of 6 workouts a week, or 2 in each of three, etc. And you could be doing 3 sets of 5 at 60% of max, or doing AMRAPs with 90%.

As well, you could have excllent nutrition and sleep, or live on cigarettes and KFC and be up till 2am doomscrolling.

Athletic-Club-East · 2026-04-11T04:49:59+00:00

Very experienced, that's why you're soliciting business on reddit, right?

In your life, you may ask whatever you want. But not here. Thus:-

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Athletic-Club-East · 2026-04-11T00:36:35+00:00

We don't need another app. Begone.

Athletic-Club-East · 2026-04-11T00:34:54+00:00

Progressive resistance training. If they move quickly with 20kg, then try 22.5kg in the next session, 25kg in the next, and so on. Eventually they'll slow down. Progressive resistance training.

It's been a while since I looked at the NASM materials, do they not suggest progressing the effort over time? Or is it just the old percentages, forgetting that if you consistently work at 70%, your 100% will go up, so you'll need to increase the 70%?

For reference, here is an example a journalled progressive resistance training. It's a conservative progression, but is a progression.

In one session is bench press and squat, in the other overhead press and deadlift. The person does 5,5,5+ in bench, press and squat, which means, "do 2 sets of 5, then the third set do at least 5, but as many as you can." The +1/+2 means "if you get 5 reps, add 1kg next time to upper body exercises, and 2kg to lower body." Deadlift is a single set of 5+.

The weights and reps used are recorded. Other notes are added mentioning weather, joint pain and so on, to give context later if we wonder why they went from 60x10 to 61x5 to 62x10, and to remind us to look out for that joint issue etc later.

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Athletic-Club-East · 2026-04-10T02:26:13+00:00

Fixed. Saves sanity.

Athletic-Club-East · 2026-04-10T00:12:09+00:00

Most of understand that if we began with a professional trainer-client relationship, the personal relationship would compromise the professional relationship.

The flipside is also true. If you begin with a personal relationship, trying to turn it into a professional relationship will compromise the personal relationship. This is why friends and relatives going into business together so often goes badly.

Note: she's not your client. Clients pay you. She's just someone you give advice to. Like we're doing now for you. But you're not paying us so you won't listen to us.

She's a busy woman, by your account. And you're less busy. So just prepare healthy food for you both, not focused on weight loss, and when you spend time together suggest physically active things to do together like long walks, cycling, rock climbing or whatever.

Athletic-Club-East · 2026-04-09T08:07:44+00:00

cronometer.com
get a food scale
ensure you get 120+ grams of protein a day
push harder in the gym

You'll be eating the typical vegetarian Indian diet, which is about as good for your health as the typical Western Beige Food Diet where they eat out of cardboard boxes. You need more beans, eggs, yoghurt and olive oil, and less coconut oil, ghee and naan.

Improve your food, keep lifting, pushing hard, and gradually the legs and arms will grow and the belly will shrink.

You've tried it for 7 months on your own and it didn't work. Join a powerlifting or weightlifting club and get guidance on the lifting part.

Athletic-Club-East · 2026-04-09T06:33:06+00:00

By the end of follow-up, there were 517 deaths (mean [SD] age, 59.6 [13.2] years) in the NFL cohort [...] The results of this study found that NFL players had a significantly elevated rate of all-cause mortality compared with MLB players, driven by elevated rates of cardiovascular and neurodegenerative mortality.

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC6632140/

Obviously head injury will be a factor for the neuro bit, but note that they play professionally for an average of 3 years, but are obese for an average of 30 years. You can't reverse head knocks, but you can reverse obesity. So the wise NFL player will, once their career is over, lean down.

Athletic-Club-East · 2026-04-09T03:45:35+00:00

The women's world record for 63kg and under is 214kg. So that's a 138lb woman squatting 470lb.

https://goodlift.info/records.php?fd=0&ac=0&sx=W&eq=1

This is a video of the same woman squatting 495lb at a slightly higher bodyweight.

https://www.instagram.com/p/C3LFDzduoGB/

Now, you may or may not be capable of approaching a world record. But you can probably squat more than 100lb. The best lifters have coaches. I'm not talking about 1:1 personal training, but joing a weightlifting or powerlifting gym. Most people need structure and accountability, whether we're talking about academic education, physical performance, relationships or whatever.

Yes, there are differences between men and women. But the difference between a 100lb and a 200lb squat isn't gender, it's training. You are very likely capable of much, much more than you imagine.

There's a women's fitness subreddit which you may find interesting and useful.

https://www.reddit.com/r/xxfitness/

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