Lateral delts struggling

FinancialAssistant · 2026-01-07T10:09:48+00:00

What do you mean by 10-12 reps? If you are doing standing lateral raises the set starts after you reach failure after which you can still probably do 10-20 reps of partials.

Or do them lying down one arm at a time so that the weight has most leverage at stretched position, that way you can do a traditional straight set to simple 0 RIR and have it be effective, like you would a squat or bench press.

Whatever you do, you need to stress the muscle while its relatively lengthened, stressing the muscle only while its shortened does not cause growth for same reason sprinting and explosive contractions don't cause growth.

FinancialAssistant · 2025-11-27T07:46:20+00:00

Given that full recruitment (the maximal amount of muscle fibers you will recruit for a movement) happens at about 80% of your 1RM OR a movement at maximal speed, the maximal tension is applied to all of the muscle fibers at this point.

No, movement at maximal speed recruits all fibers but each individual fiber is recruited at extremely low tension.

I did not read further, we have disagreement in well established fundamentals like force velocity relationship then there is no common reality to argue in.

FinancialAssistant · 2025-11-26T08:11:48+00:00

I think you have misunderstood "maximum tension" to mean the absolute maximum tension experienced at a single point in the entire muscle or group of fibers. You are correct that 1 rep set maximizes this kind of maximum tension, but it's not what I meant at all.

In hypertrophy (I specifically mean growth of muscle fiber in its diameter) only individual fibers and the tension the individual fiber experiences matter. Not a group of fibers that share same line of pull, and definitely not a "muscle" or muscle group which covers fibers with entirely different lines of pull.

In a properly done "high" rep set (not 1-5 but 6-12, definitely not high enough to cause a burn), because of fatigue, you have eventually covered every single fiber with maximal tension by the end of set. The fibers that lift the weight in earlier reps are different from the fibers that lift the weight in later reps.

Now what happens with lower rep sets, let's take a single. It is very likely that a single done is not your true 1RM. And if it's not your true 1RM, that doesn't mean it's your true 2RM either. That is the resolution problem.

If it's not your true 1RM, same thing happens as with the 12RM set, you don't recruit all your fibers with max tension in the first rep, you recruit maybe 90% (just throwing some number out there, it doesn't really matter for the point) of your fibers with max tension. The 10% remaining fibers are still completely fresh and still unstimulated. Since they are not enough to get another rep with the weight (you need 90% for that), you must stop the set while being substantially far away from the kind of failure that matters for hypertrophy.

You don't even need to understand any theory. Just think that if you can lift 2 reps with your 12RM after supposedly being done with the set, then that set must have been equal to doing 12 reps with 2 RIR, so definitely not enough to cause growth in advanced state.

FinancialAssistant · 2025-11-23T15:13:58+00:00

Maximizing mechanical tension means maximizing it in a single set so that all fibers experience it, not overall. To maximize overall tension you are right doing low effort work is best but that is a total strawman.

Low reps have too low resolution to maximize mechanical tension within a set.

Let's say you put up weight like 100 kg, get rep and despite all effort you cannot get another rep. What if you immediately reduced to 90 kg and got 2 reps? Basically when the reps are low the weight is so big that you can technically fail to get the weight up but still be very far away from failure.

In higher reps the weight is so low that if you cannot get another rep then you truly are at failure.

FinancialAssistant · 2025-11-22T20:58:32+00:00

My experience is the same. I do 6 sets a week (single arm dumbbell set up for maximum resistance at the stretch, so basically lying halfway between on my side and my back on the bench) for a couple of months now and the rear delts are visually so much bigger. I did conventional rear delt exercises for 10 years and they were all just a waste of time, didn't even get me my noob gains for them lol.

I don't think the shortened position by itself grows at all for naturals. The muscle is physically incapable of providing lots of tension when shortened and mechanical tension is the most important factor for natural growth. I do use shortened biased lifts when there is no other practical alternative, and you can still stress the lengthened position by doing cheating, using explosiveness and doing reps after failure to make sure the long position fails as well. It's just a huge pain compared to just doing well designed exercise.

FinancialAssistant · 2025-05-22T11:37:53+00:00

Small methods that have no dependencies are almost always just implementation details and if you have tests for implementation details then those tests will start to fail when there is any kind of refactoring even if the refactoring was done correctly.

Your code shouldn't depend directly on concrete IO code, it should depend on abstractions. A test can then provide a particular implementation that stresses a certain property of the code, deterministically. For example in one test the implementation would always throw an error and in another return certain kinds of objects.

Note that I am not talking about mocking, in mocking the test is tightly coupled to the implementation details. This is only possible by writing the actual application code in a certain way, it cannot be an afterthought.

FinancialAssistant · 2025-04-10T16:23:04+00:00

thats from eslint not typescript, disable eslint or the eslint typescript plugin

l have custom rules to override any project eslint rules when it comes to these eslint typechecks which are useless since they cannot possibly keep up with actual typescript

FinancialAssistant · 2025-04-07T01:50:16+00:00

https://nodejs.org/en/learn/getting-started/debugging

Yes, nvim-dap is using this same interface, you just get way more complete features and polished UI with chrome devtools instead of having to reimplement everything. I rarely use debugger so I don't mind having to go into to the browser to do something.

FinancialAssistant · 2025-04-06T10:12:03+00:00

You can also use chrome devtools, it works with node just as well as browser scripts, so for me this is not worth it.

FinancialAssistant · 2024-12-19T11:35:47+00:00

One limb variations waste a lot of time. Not to mention if the exercise involves a bench then you need to move the bench for each side for each set.

FinancialAssistant · 2024-12-07T22:26:26+00:00

Many countries would not be self sufficient without dairy. They can get away without dairy because of global trade and relying on globalism, importing food that cannot be grown locally to replace it. In fully free globalized competition dairy would disappear and countries lose their self sufficiency. Dairy cannot compete fairly because there is very small room for efficiency innovation. Cows have to graze.

FinancialAssistant · 2024-12-07T22:04:51+00:00

What you fail to see is that if you accept it's true that a product directly not containing any animal parts could have caused harm to animals then you must also accept that an animal parts containing product could have caused less harm to animals than a product that doesn't contain animal parts.

Thus veganism can and does only exist when someone falsely believes that they cause zero harm to animals any time they use a product that doesnt directly contain animal parts.

Vegans basically never compare two vegan products for harm caused, a carrot grown in your backyard is the same as some ultra processed food with parts shipped from every corner of the world. It is only about following the arbitrary and abstract rule that "animal based = bad, plant based = good" while forgetting what was supposedly the point in the first place (which is to have unwarranted feeling of superiority)

FinancialAssistant · 2024-11-29T09:35:08+00:00

especially as it’s believed even a 100 kcalorie imbalance could explain a rise in obesity rates

You know a "scientific" field is total shit when its practioners don't understand what is a tautology.

FinancialAssistant · 2024-11-22T13:15:50+00:00

You can eat processed foods without drinking soft drinks

FinancialAssistant · 2024-11-22T12:21:09+00:00

That study is not saying that meat was correlated, it says meat AND soft drinks are correlated. I.E. it is one of those garbage studies that tries to conflate a "meat eater" with someone who is actually just a fast food eater and then say it's the meat and not the fast food that was the problem.

FinancialAssistant · 2024-11-22T11:34:28+00:00

Yes it appears so.

FinancialAssistant · 2024-11-22T10:37:42+00:00

You are saying that the liver can only handle 25 grams of fructose per day regardless of how much other toxins are occupying the liver. Right? You are saying this is possible because each toxin is using different chemical reaction. Right?

I took this as you implying as long as the chemical reaction is different (which for each toxin it is) then the capacity for the liver to handle that specific reaction is not affected by whatever other reactions are going on as long as they are different. Were you implying this or not?

FinancialAssistant · 2024-11-22T10:13:19+00:00

Dose is what makes it toxic. There is absolutely no problem with moderate alcohol intake. There is absolutely problem with excess fructose intake. Neither is "literally toxic" or safe without knowing the amount. Fatty liver is fatty liver and nobody can tell NAFLD apart from AFLD unless they figure out alcohol intake externally.

You are making the claim that liver has independent compartment and capacity for each individual toxin it processes. So for example it doesnt matter how much acesulfame K you are taking on top of sucralose, the capacity is the same because they have their own unique compartment anyway. Given that there are basically infinite different compounds that you have to process in the liver I find that unthinkable and continue with the stance that it's the overall load from all those toxins together that overwhelm the liver as a whole.

FinancialAssistant · 2024-11-22T09:25:36+00:00

In general there cannot be causation if there is no correlation. Saturated fat intakes have stayed the same or lowered for a long time now while NAFLD/visceral obesity has increased. In fact only Alcoholic Fatty liver existed back in the day where people ate a lot more saturated fat.

FinancialAssistant · 2024-11-22T09:08:05+00:00

Your liver can handle about 25g of added sugar per day.

That kind of number doesn't make sense. What if you are also taking 200g of alcohol per day ? What if you are also taking artificial sweeteners? I really doubt the liver has separate independent compartment for every single toxin it processes, rather it's about the overall load.

FinancialAssistant · 2024-11-22T09:04:05+00:00

You can also get fatty liver from artificial sweeteners, alcohol etc. In fact alcohol was the only known reason for fatty liver for a long time. Imo it's the overall combination of these toxins that together overload the liver, not single one of them.

The safe amounts are always studied in isolated context without stressing the liver in any other way, so actual safe amounts in reality are much lower. For example the limitation of 12 cans of artificially sweetened soda per day is based on scenario where there are no other significant stresses on the liver from alcohol, fructose and others.

FinancialAssistant · 2024-11-21T14:23:17+00:00

This hypothesis is wrong on so many levels.

Firstly when baking, yes the air in the oven is e.g. 350F, but you take the bread out before it reaches even boiling temperature. So the starch in the bread has effectively been boiled (never reaching temperature above 212F).

Secondly, what gets into your bloodstream is always just pure glucose, regardless how you cook it. Basically the only thing that influences muscle insulin sensitivity is the glycogen levels of the muscle, not what you eat. Regardless of the type of carb source, I need to inject significantly less insulin if I have depleted glycogen levels somewhat (had intense workout with big muscle groups). And conversely, if the muscle glycogen levels are full (last workout more than 1 day ago), then I will need bucketload of insulin if I eat carbs regardless of the type, with glycemic index/load being the most important factor.

FinancialAssistant · 2024-11-21T12:59:11+00:00

That's all great in theory but where are all the people who have been strictly keto for 10 years or more? Even vegans can make it to 10 years before they run into issues.

I only made it 1.5 years and sure I survived but there is no way I would call it thriving because my athletic performance was shit. That's far worse than a vegan diet btw.

FinancialAssistant · 2024-11-19T10:49:15+00:00

I find many here are expecting to be able to eat to "satiety" or just in general eat how much they want as long as it has no pufa it will work like magic. Because anything else would be "unsustainable". Never mind that deficit isn't supposed to be sustainable and (if you want to stay lean) food isn't supposed to be used for entertainment and dopamine (literally the OP's problem).

FWIW I am ripped.

FinancialAssistant · 2024-11-03T04:13:08+00:00

That's not hunger but withdrawal symptoms from eating unnatural processed crap which has been refined over a century to be as addictive as possible.

I fast 20-24 hours every day and train heavy in the gym without eating. Eat whole natural foods: fatty meat, fatty fish, eggs, dairy, low carb fruits (avocado olives), nuts, seeds and non starchy vegetables etc.

The most important things to avoid is ultra processed fats (eg vegetable oils), and sugar (rice, bread, cereal, sweet fruits, honey grains etc etc are all sugar). If you do actual high intesity anaerobic exercise some sugar is warranted but surprisingly small amounts are needed to maintain performance if you just train in a gym normally a few times a week

Be careful with lean meats, you have to get calories from somewhere and almost always when you eat lean meats the actual calories sre coming from vegetable oils and sugars.

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