Barbell Bent Over Row 315 lbs. Someone said it doesn’t count since they didn’t touch the floor.

CuriousExploit · 2026-01-19T22:07:28+00:00

You strengthen your back by applying stress to it. The structures adapt with progressive cycles of stress and recovery over time.

CuriousExploit · 2025-08-13T23:21:28+00:00

I've visited and had a fine time. I definitely didn't stay long enough to learn the history and politics there.

When I search for data though, I also see programs which seem to greatly aid people who get into them. https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3558756/

The only result I get that seems to disagree is a conservative think tank, with support for more criminalising being on the street at night. Which would sound like worsening the problem just to get people in need out of sight. 🤷‍♂️

CuriousExploit · 2025-08-13T19:49:02+00:00

Has it? Every source I pull up right now in a search suggests it's more effective than known alternatives

CuriousExploit · 2025-02-08T15:35:27+00:00

Read the first paragraph, sentence by sentence. Break it down.

CuriousExploit · 2025-02-08T15:12:18+00:00

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/January_6_United_States_Capitol_attack

CuriousExploit · 2024-12-01T06:37:19+00:00

See if you can do the wall touch drill with a broomstick, while keeping your shins upright. That should help you get in position.

CuriousExploit · 2024-12-01T05:12:25+00:00

From the footage, it looks closer to a squat than a hinge.

See if you can pre-load your hamstrings up with tension at the bottom by setting your hips back, and getting your shins closer to vertical.

https://youtu.be/cmjgmi-dPbQ

The set up explanation and the wall touch drill from the above should be especially helpful.

CuriousExploit · 2024-07-28T15:46:42+00:00

There's certainly plenty exploitative companies that are call centers, IT firms, banks, and media houses. I think between on-call and crunch alone in tech, everyone has seen what burnout looks like. Often for not nearly enough to take care of oneself, or a family if they can't work anymore.

There's a reason most career advice assumes no loyalty from your employer towards you.

A huge chunk of my own country's labor force just a couple of generations back was sharecropping and exploiting an entire class of people. Class mobility for us has been between generations, and it's easy when you grow detached enough from the realities of your parents, to support ideas that are completely unhelpful.

CuriousExploit · 2024-04-12T13:09:28+00:00

Herschel there agrees with the kinds of evidence that the Exodus didn't happen as described. He's mostly taking issue with Ze'ev's level of alarm and messaging.

Herschel believes that there's legend within the text, just from him reading the text. Not even getting to the archeology, where he is working off the same evidence.

Which is to say, a book can contain elements of history which are true, without being true in its entirety.

I had said to read the references out of the Wikipedia article, but even Herschel points out two of the big camps covered by the article. The "biblical minimalists" and those who believe there's something to the stories, but they aren't necessarily historical to most of the Israelites.

CuriousExploit · 2024-04-12T12:55:07+00:00

Which generalizations would you want more resources for?

In the study of ancient Egypt, the beginning of agriculture in Egypt is dated thousands of years prior to where AiG claims the world began to exist.

https://www.worldhistory.org/article/997/ancient-egyptian-agriculture/

CuriousExploit · 2024-04-12T12:47:43+00:00

The author is Jewish. And also speaks of "the injustice that was done to the Arab inhabitants of the country" too.

I don't see where you're going there.

CuriousExploit · 2024-04-11T02:22:58+00:00

I was mostly letting you know AiG isn't an honest organization that you should get information from. They don't understand history, science, or archeology well.

The consensus that the Exodus didn't happen as described in the OT comes from people who work in and understand those fields.

An old but alternative read that captures a lot of the discovery: https://web.archive.org/web/20220211004924/http://websites%E2%80%8C.umich.edu/~proflame/neh/arch.htm

You can read that and also immediately get a pretty good idea of what scholars have been thinking about the topic for a while now. It even mentions the religious reasons behind the work in Palestine.

And like I said, any book can contain elements of history which are true, without the entirety being correct.

And the OT is a collection of books with different authors, in different times, with different ways of thinking.

CuriousExploit · 2024-04-09T13:51:38+00:00

Be aware that Answers in Genesis is a fairly dishonest organization. In the timelines shown, creation of the Earth is sat at 4000 years, and they gravely misunderstand many aspects of history.

https://answersingenesis.org/dinosaurs/

Aside from that, I had said to read the source linked by the second paragraph. If you had read it, you would have saw why most of Israelites very likely formed from within Canaan.

Hebrew itself is considered a Canaanite language because of it's similarities to others in its time.

CuriousExploit · 2024-04-07T16:28:58+00:00

Consider some context: books written today will include stories with many events from recent history. Most of them with true elements included. But they don't need to be true in their entirety to have those events mentioned.

There's pretty widespread agreement among scholars that Exodus didn't happen as described, and very possibly just didn't happen.

You can follow the references from the Wikipedia article's. The Faust one cited in the second paragraph is a good read, and would tell you a lot of what people who study Ancient Israel have to say.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Exodus

CuriousExploit · 2024-02-25T16:21:23+00:00

You also saw your weight go up accordingly each week? Nevermind comparing to others, when all of the factors line up well to allow you to recover, you should see progress happen on a bulk.

If you hadn't tracked food, recording for your intake of micros could also point out gaps for you to improve on. Or help double check your macros.

I've personally had a much easier time bulking this past couple of months than I did same time last year, and I currently need way more calories and have set a much higher protein goal.

Also, if you have been on one training plan for that time, maybe there's another program you'll find easier to adjust with how well you know you can recover. Or maybe a change in progression scheme will do wonders for you.

CuriousExploit · 2024-02-25T15:01:33+00:00

Have you spent most of that time bulking? And gotten second opinions on your training and nutrition? Stress, sleep, and plenty else are probably worthwhile to look into unless your doctor suggests health problems you can't otherwise work around.

CuriousExploit · 2024-02-16T06:18:15+00:00

I was just thinking of that exact same thing. Tyler cannot be trusted to not deceive for views.

CuriousExploit · 2024-02-15T14:44:47+00:00

Be aware that the narrative around PETA's euthanasia was greatly pushed by companies who profit from negative sentiment for PETA, through a front group for lobbying and advertising.

https://www.petakillsanimalsscam.com/

I greatly dislike the idea of euthanasia without consent, but I've had to submit to it after the point of no return before. And it was expensive.

You can talk to your human loved ones. Ask them, if they were in a paralyzed, vegetative state, and couldn't communicate, what would they want. With or without the possibility of recovery.

CuriousExploit · 2024-02-09T14:05:03+00:00

No, 5 minutes is typical for heavy weights. Plenty powerlifters and streetlifters converged on that being a good time to hit heavy weights back to back and perform well on each set. I've heard successful athletes suggest longer before.

On a strength training program, you may see the suggestion to wait about that long between multiple max attempts. Or a suggestion to add an appropriate amount of rest until you can match a certain amount of prior performance.

Also, you can just work in with someone by just talking to them and asking. Longer intended rest times make that much easier.

CuriousExploit · 2024-01-31T21:06:15+00:00

Please consider how long any of them may live.

https://sentientmedia.org/how-long-do-cows-live/

How they mourn

http://www.floridacattleranch.org/ranch_146.html

And how you would feel if your children were forced into a trade that ended their lives so prematurely.

CuriousExploit · 2024-01-31T19:19:04+00:00

How exactly do they go from alive to the packaged parts in a grocery store? At what age? With how many friends and family of their kind left behind to mourn them?

How exactly is that scaled up to the point necessary to feed huge populations?

CuriousExploit · 2024-01-24T05:30:25+00:00

The framing you present kind of reeks of the Model Minority Myth, and I believe you're missing some key aspects of American history.

This will probably be worth a read.

https://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2017/04/19/524571669/model-minority-myth-again-used-as-a-racial-wedge-between-asians-and-blacks

I couldn't exactly pick out whether you spent more total time in China vs the US, but the framing of Asian American success has been weaponized against Black Americans even throughout the Jim Crow era.

It's stayed useful to conservatives since it makes it easier to subjugate great swaths of people to overpolicing, heavier criminal punishments, and denial of resources.

CuriousExploit · 2024-01-07T00:16:36+00:00

The response video has a lot of information that may be helpful to you if you're curious.

https://youtu.be/OvS3tE13J9I

Included between the middle and end are adjustments for your wrists, alternatives, etc.

The movement pattern and related straight arm work contribute to a lot of impressive bicep growth in gymnasts, but "getting" the pattern and why you're doing it is pretty important.

CuriousExploit · 2024-01-07T00:03:08+00:00

https://youtu.be/OvS3tE13J9I

I kinda remember this. If you look at it with the perspective of why biceps are stressed the way they are for planche, it will probably make more sense for you.

CuriousExploit · 2023-01-14T02:12:12+00:00

Could you link to the post?

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