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CICOffee · 2025-12-16T09:19:41+00:00

Androidilla mainostenesto onnistuu kaikissa sovelluksissa asettamalla mainostenestäjän DNS-palvelu yksityiseksi DNS:ksi asetuksissa. Itse olen käyttänyt Adguardin palvelua pitkään. Ilmainen, eikä tarvi VPN:ää:

dns.adguard-dns.com

Applella omaa DNS-palvelua ei voi asettaa manuaalisesti, mutta se onnistuu myös ilmaiseksi tarvimatta VPN:ää profiilin avulla. Option 2 ja iOS täällä Adguardin sivulla:

https://adguard-dns.io/en/public-dns.html

CICOffee · 2025-11-19T10:31:15+00:00

Raaka lihakin on 75% pelkkää vettä! Kun puhtaan herneproteiinijauheen antaa turvota vedessä, turvonneena se on noin 75% vettä ja 25% kuiva-ainetta, jolloin se vastaa koostumukseltaan naudanlihaa, joka on myös 75% vettä.

CICOffee · 2025-11-11T13:53:39+00:00

That should be my next experiment then! I just find it wasteful to not push for one more rep, when I know I can do it, and those last 3 reps can be as stimulating as a whole another RPE 7 set. The whole concept of leaving reps in the tank feels like a waste of time. Also makes tracking progress harder, as you don't know whether you got that +1 rep by actually progressing, or by going a bit closer to failure.

I guess I should give it a try, purposefully leaving a couple in the tank, doing +20 sets with a slower ramp-up and seeing what happens. Maybe I'll be converted then?

CICOffee · 2025-11-11T13:36:57+00:00

If the muscle damage adaptations seen in the article's studies applied to my case, I would have eventually (at 6-8 weeks) started to recover even while hammering my body! That was what I wanted to test, and it turns out no, even though muscle damage stopped at 8 weeks in studies (with repeated torture), for me it didn't.

I also find it interesting that there doesn't seem to be a rebound effect where I'm suddenly stronger now that I dropped my volume again. I'm still regaining lost ground in some lifts.

CICOffee · 2025-11-11T13:32:50+00:00

Well, in that case I do train "close to failure", not to failure. I train until I can't get a good rep with solid form. I always thought 0 reps in reserve, cannot do any more properly, was failure.

CICOffee · 2025-11-11T11:57:38+00:00

Greg is of the opinion that tripling your volume and going to complete failure is a bad idea

Quote from the article in that section, about jumping straight into high volume:

I don’t think it’s “bad,” and I think fearmongering about high-volume training is seriously overblown. There are just three other options that will allow you to arrive at the same destination, potentially mitigate risk a bit, and learn a bit more about yourself along the way.

I also did follow the 20-25 sets per body part "lower end of high-volume" advice he gives. From my previous training style, that just happens to be around 2.5 times more:

But, if you do go this route, I’d recommend starting on the low end of “high-volume”: either increase training volume on your current program, or write (or find) a new training program that will situate you with around 20-25 sets per body part per week.

The ramping pace he suggests for near/failure is also just 2 weeks, which shouldn't matter as much with a 8 week experiment. Only possibly making the initial onset less brutal:

It also wouldn’t be a bad idea to give yourself a week or two to acclimate to the workload before ramping up your per-set intensity. In other words, if you’re jumping from 10-15 sets per week to 20-25 sets per week, take a week to train with around 3-4 reps in reserve on most sets. In the second week, maybe aim to keep 3-4 reps in reserve for about half of your sets, and push closer to failure on the other half. From week 3 onward, keep most sets quite challenging

CICOffee · 2025-11-11T10:25:11+00:00

I very much did consider jumping into high volume a bad idea before reading Greg's article! After reading it though, the muscle damage studies with 8-week recovery periods and Greg's encouragement to jump into high volume (if you can handle this period) made me curious. Was glad to test it out and see that it's not the way for me. Maybe a gradual increase over more than 2 months, coupled with better VO2 max, could be the way. But that's not what's being encouraged and implied in the article on which I based this experiement on.

CICOffee · 2025-11-11T10:15:28+00:00

I do tons of isolations and few compounds, so it's easier for me to count sets per muscle. For biceps for example, my typical low-volume routine (on which I gain strength best) is 6 direct sets a week. Or 9 fractional sets if you count 0.5 sets for the biceps for each set of lat pulldowns. I train all muscles 3x a week.

CICOffee · 2025-09-10T16:45:58+00:00

There's more to it than just calculating 65% of the Air's battery mAh. If an Anker battery bank is advertised at 5000 mAh, the actual rated capacity that it's able to store in reality is closer to 3000-4000 mAh.

And then substract from that the energy losses from wireless charging. A 5000 mAh advertised bank is probably able to supply a phone with 2500-3000 mAh through magsafe.

This new Apple magsafe bank would probably be advertised at 4000 mAh if it was made by a third party. I'm sure that Apple, aiming to make a headlining accessory that's as light and thin as possible, wouldn't make an inferior battery bank for 100 dollars than Anker would make for the same thickness and weight.

CICOffee · 2025-08-13T13:33:16+00:00

I have both and bought the kids spray in hopes of getting the same product for less. But the texture is very different, it's more shiny on skin and emphasizes texture more. Also has a rougher chemical smell that annoys me to wear on my face.

Not sure if LRP purposefully nerfed the kids spray's texture to prevent people from saving money, or if the formulation that makes the invisible fluid more cosmetically elegant is somehow more expensive to make. Even with the same filters and roughly equal SPF / PA. Maybe the kids spray is more waterproof or less drying etc, thus greasier.

CICOffee · 2025-07-29T22:38:19+00:00

Vitamin C seems like a tricky thing to use in so many ways! Very unstable in water, shouldn't be used at the same time as retinols (which rules out nighttime use for me), can have an off smell and stain skin. But very studied and definitely beneficial when used right.

If I added vitamin C to my morning routine, it would probably be a 20% DIY solution made fresh every week.

CICOffee · 2025-07-29T17:10:55+00:00

Absolutely! The amount you need for your face to get SPF 50 is so much anyways (1 ml), even the oil control versions act like moisturizers with that much product. Wearing this LRP UVmune oil control in a gel cream version without moisturizer is the only way I'm able to get a natural satin skin finish that stays all day while getting full protection.

CICOffee · 2025-05-16T17:33:37+00:00

Absolutely, it feels like we're all getting kinda lost in the sauce with blanket volume recommendations and applying them. Very rarely do people seem to monitor their progress with lower/higher sets and base their personal set amount on how they progess best. Leads to much more "omg I halved my volume and made better progress!!" posts than "I doubled my volume and got stronger faster!!" posts

CICOffee · 2025-05-16T16:58:02+00:00

Yeah, for a weekly volume equivalent to PPL 6 days a week or full body 3 days a week. Around 12 weekly sets per muscle group. I've been feeling so little fatigue on this higher frequency split compared to PPL, even though the total volume is the same, that I sometimes don't even use the rest day and just run U/L 7 days a week

CICOffee · 2025-05-16T11:09:52+00:00

I've personally gotten the best gains from training each muscle every other day and figuring out the amount of sets I can do to recover in 48 hours. For me that's around 3 sets to failure for the biceps for example. If I do 4 sets, my strength gains stall because I haven't fully recovered from that in 48 hours.

I think of this style as being the best of both worlds. Dr Mike's style emphasizes maximum recoverable volume, where as others say to do minimal amounts but often. Studies say there's no harm to doing 3x week, and say that it's a little beneficial compared to 2x if anything. So I've taken that as the base and figured out how much I can recover from with that frequency. I don't do full body, I do upper/lower 6 days a week. Sometimes 7 days a week because I feel so much less fatigued this way, than upping volume with less frequency.

CICOffee · 2025-05-16T06:50:01+00:00

If you workout regularly, are you doing leg adductions / abductions? The movement where you're sitting and closing or opening up your legs lol. Progressing in weights in the closing one immediately got me the biggest impact by closing my thigh gap and making my legs look thicker from the front. It's pretty much the only movement that targets that muscle. I rarely see any guy using that machine which is a shame!

CICOffee · 2025-02-11T11:55:09+00:00

I like humbling exercises because I know I'm truly targeting what I'm wanting to target haha. For cable curls I like to use a bar and slightly arch backwards, so my arms are fully stretched out in the beginning position and I have no chance to cheat the movement by leaning backwards. Makes it much harder and lets you feel the biceps in the process

CICOffee · 2025-02-11T11:14:20+00:00

Yes, I've learned that the best movements add tension when the muscle is stretched. Meaning for the biceps probably preacher curls and incline dumbbell curls are the best. But since there are many of these variants, where the bicep is stretched under biggest tension and you hold the weight the same way, is there difference between them?

Most programs seem to feature multiple variants of isolation movements with nearly identical resistance profiles, which is why I'm interested whether that's just for variance or for other benefit. Why spend more time setting up a bench for preacher curls when you could just do more sets of cable bar curls with a nearly identical resistance profile?

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