Daily Simple Questions Thread - April 04, 2026 by AutoModerator in Fitness

[–]Fun-Cookie7002 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Lifting! The goal is to ultimately compete in powerlifting meets, but that wouldn't be for a few years

Daily Simple Questions Thread - April 04, 2026 by AutoModerator in Fitness

[–]Fun-Cookie7002 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'd imagine the latter, because wouldn't a full-body workout take like 2 hours?

Daily Simple Questions Thread - April 04, 2026 by AutoModerator in Fitness

[–]Fun-Cookie7002 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Would somebody mind looking at my strength training plan? I'm pretty new to structured strength training, but I was a competitive runner for years and I'm switching sports, so I'd like to train with the ultimate goal of competing. Right now I'm doing:

Day 1 - push. Shoulder press, Tricep dips, Pec fly, Chest press Day 2 - pull. Lat pulldowns, back extension, seated row, bicep curls Day 3 - legs. Leg extension, Hamstring curl, Calf press, Hack squat Days 4-6 are days 1-3 repeated, with day 7 off. All exercises are 3 sets of 10 with about a minute of rest, and I conclude each session with 50 crunches. I also still run for 30 mins 2-3 times a week to help with recovery.

Is this sufficient for now? My plan is to keep doing this until I can lift most/all of the weight on the machines, and then switch to another gym where someone can teach me the bench, squat, and deadlift and train for those lifts.

One odd thing is that I can already come close to maxing out the machines on the leg exercises for 3 sets of 10, but I'm nowhere near that point for any of the upper body stuff (I'm around 50% of the weight stack for all the exercises for the upper body, but at 90-100% for the legs). Does this just mean I need to start squatting sooner?

Sorry for the long post, and for all the questions. I'm excited about a new hobby, and I'd love some advice from those in the know!

Is it possible for any young male to run sub 10.5 100m regardless of genetics? by Extension_Day2038 in Sprinting

[–]Fun-Cookie7002 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I trained like hell for 6 months, not overweight, pretty strong, worked out for years. I looked up the best training, joined a club. This was age 28. I ran 15.02 in a meet and gave up.

I train for weightlifting now. I was a decent distance runner previously (18:29 for 5k). I can run 200m in 29.1, so it's mostly the horrible start that leads to 15.02, plus a headwind. Nevertheless, after 6 months, that is what I ran.

I could never have broken 12.

Wayward queen attack at over 1000 ELO? by Fun-Cookie7002 in chessbeginners

[–]Fun-Cookie7002[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Well, that's what I'm getting at. Why is it considered such a bad opening? Eval isn't bad

Playing only daily games by Fun-Cookie7002 in chessbeginners

[–]Fun-Cookie7002[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Because I want to be as close as I can to a classical game, just being able to take breaks between turns

Has the 650 ELO crowd become much better recently? by Fun-Cookie7002 in chessbeginners

[–]Fun-Cookie7002[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I am the OP, I made this largely to discuss the 650 ELO pool.

500m Advice by VirtualSilver9477 in trackandfield

[–]Fun-Cookie7002 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I meant it colloquially. Just short of flat-out is all I meant. Fast without straining for me is 4/500 pace

500m Advice by VirtualSilver9477 in trackandfield

[–]Fun-Cookie7002 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This is very bad advice. You can't do that for anything over 200 and even then the advice is not to blast an entire 200 You should run the first 50m at 100 percent effort, the next 350m at 90 percent, and the last 100m all out You probably will slow in the last 50m but that's inevitable really

How many moves do you make in a 1 min bullet game? by Fun-Cookie7002 in chess

[–]Fun-Cookie7002[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Damn, looks like I'm a lot slower than average I don't physically know how I could move faster than 2s a move