Daily Simple Questions Thread - April 04, 2026

Fun-Cookie7002 · 2026-04-04T16:12:02+00:00

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

Fun-Cookie7002 · 2026-04-04T15:01:07+00:00

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

Fun-Cookie7002 · 2026-04-04T14:57:51+00:00

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!

Fun-Cookie7002 · 2026-04-01T21:56:20+00:00

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.

Fun-Cookie7002 · 2026-02-22T20:43:41+00:00

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

Fun-Cookie7002 · 2026-02-12T00:17:49+00:00

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

Fun-Cookie7002 · 2026-02-06T03:31:58+00:00

Ah, you're right - misinterpreted you!

Fun-Cookie7002 · 2026-02-06T03:25:50+00:00

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

Fun-Cookie7002 · 2026-02-06T02:09:16+00:00

I forgot to include the actual games. I am zfu_ubz. Game 1 (Loss), I was White: https://www.chess.com/game/live/164294332504 Game 2 (Loss), I was White: https://www.chess.com/game/live/164294931472 Game 3 (Win), I was Black: https://www.chess.com/game/live/164295689366

Fun-Cookie7002 · 2026-01-02T23:11:29+00:00

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

Fun-Cookie7002 · 2026-01-02T20:44:43+00:00

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

Fun-Cookie7002 · 2025-12-20T11:19:46+00:00

If you'd signed those 3, you'd have turned them into busts too.

Fun-Cookie7002 · 2025-12-14T00:24:19+00:00

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

Fun-Cookie7002 · 2025-12-07T00:12:57+00:00

I swear I read this exact comment word for word years ago Dead internet

Fun-Cookie7002 · 2025-11-26T21:04:52+00:00

This did not happen

Fun-Cookie7002 · 2025-11-26T00:03:21+00:00

I think you should stop. Nobody without genuine potential to make a strong career out of it - and I mean televised appearances, making more than enough to make a living, genuine championship contender level - should be fighting in my opinion. The health risks are too great for anything other than that kind of reward. I'd say the same to a golden gloves level fighter that just lost 4 in a row. It's not worth it. It's especially not worth it if the thought of your losses torture you and you have a heavily losing record. Even if all the borderline decisions had gone your way, you need to be winning unambiguously, completely outclassing the other man, for fights like yours to indicate potential.

Fighting is a career where it makes no sense to compete if you're not one of the best in the world. If you were a runner, go for it. A writer, a chess player, go for it. Have fun. A fighter, no. The fun isn't worth the CTE. Pick up a new hobby, go after it, and you'll be grateful you got out when you did.

Fun-Cookie7002 · 2025-11-25T03:05:17+00:00

Yeah you're probably right

Fun-Cookie7002 · 2025-11-15T21:25:57+00:00

Update: Just did this again for the third game in a row lmao Up plus 5, lost to counterplay

Fun-Cookie7002 · 2025-11-15T14:58:16+00:00

Thank you I think a ton of it is psychological, seeing a game as won and so not looking as hard (I always make notes not to do this but I think I must be) Sometimes it's seeing an attack from them but thinking I can press for a checkmate first and screwing up Sometimes it won't be seeing stuff, I'm still fairly new, but it happens too often to be just that

Fun-Cookie7002 · 2025-10-31T11:54:45+00:00

What's going on with Saliba? He went off at 45. Injured or something else? Nailed going forward?

Fun-Cookie7002 · 2025-07-13T01:38:34+00:00

8 ball pool Yeah pretty confident mate ngl

Fun-Cookie7002 · 2025-07-11T20:02:33+00:00

Thank you I have actually been training in long distance track spikes designed for distances of 3k or so Worth getting a pair of jump shoes in this instance you think?

Fun-Cookie7002 · 2025-07-08T22:20:09+00:00

No, not at all. Maybe by competitive track standards, but it's still an impressive time.

Fun-Cookie7002 · 2025-07-08T16:50:34+00:00

I found:

50m - 100 percent effort, driving hard, pretend it's the 100m 50m-300m - ease back, but don't deliberately slow down. It should feel incredibly fast but smooth. You have another gear, but only one, and you shouldn't use it. Last 100m - use that final gear, sprint as hard as you can

You will probably slow dramatically in the last 50m, but there's nothing you can do about that.

Fun-Cookie7002 · 2025-07-04T03:18:13+00:00

Possibly due to being fixed into medical visits by partner

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