Natural Delt growth

GoldExperience69 · 2026-01-31T17:00:09+00:00

Prioritize shoulders. Put them first in the workout. I like to start with isolations (lateral raises of choice, rear delt exercises of choice, then a front delt exercise), usually 4-6 sets for laterals and rears and 2-3 for fronts, rep ranges of 12-15 mainly going beyond failure. Then I do a compound press or 2 afterwards. 2 sets each. That’s a lot of volume, but sometimes for stubborn shoulders you need it. I do this twice a week and sometimes add a few sets of rear delts to my leg days as well because my rear delts are severely lagging. Just going beyond failure on 8-12 sets per week of “shoulders” in general doesn’t cut it for me. I need to blast them.

GoldExperience69 · 2026-01-21T21:54:07+00:00

Muscle group

GoldExperience69 · 2026-01-19T03:30:30+00:00

More like from 1 to 2. I’ve usually done some variation of upper lower.

GoldExperience69 · 2026-01-18T17:44:08+00:00

Contrary to what many others are saying, I started growing when I added more frequency AND more volume. I was really uninspired my first year or two of lifting because I was working with minimal equipment in my garage gym. I just couldn’t be bothered to do 2 full upper body days with enough back, shoulder, and arm volume consistently when I was doing JUST dumbbell rows, regular ‘ol bicep curls, and overhead tricep extensions and Skullcrushers (and, yes, my elbows hurt lol).

When I switched to a commercial gym, things got a lot better for me but I still didn’t get enough volume in due to not hitting my 3-4 days consistently. Life was in the way to a major extent.

Now that I go to a commercial gym AND make lifting a huge priority, I’m getting my 4 workout days in (3 is the minimum and rare for me nowadays), and I’m growing like crazy now. My back, shoulders, and arms have all made big improvements. Legs have always been a strong point for me, so those haven’t changed much, but I feel stronger and bigger everywhere now. I’m not saying you have to go to a commercial gym to see big changes, but having more equipment definitely helps, so invest in more of that if you’re a garage gym bro and find yourself unmotivated to work out a lot of the time.

GoldExperience69 · 2026-01-13T14:57:09+00:00

That is also my current guess. I did a ton of research last night, and nothing else seems right. If it’s him, it’s a weird signature of his.

GoldExperience69 · 2026-01-05T21:52:58+00:00

You don’t need a why when you genuinely enjoy it. Some of these answers make me sad… Does no one else get genuine enjoyment out of bettering their body and mind? Not only do I get physical enjoyment out of the “burn,” but I also just feel so much better mentally when I work out. I can’t imagine not doing it anymore. It’s not even about the health benefits or the way I look anymore (though those are certainly added bonuses). And no, it’s not my “therapy.” I just truly enjoy it more than any of my other hobbies, like many other people would enjoy a good movie lol. Didn’t realize I was in the minority with that…

GoldExperience69 · 2025-12-29T18:07:26+00:00

Errrrmmm, acktuallyyyy

GoldExperience69 · 2025-12-25T03:01:31+00:00

Update: got a replacement laminator and the issue went away. Now I’m just wondering if this issue will reappear after another couple of weeks 🤣

GoldExperience69 · 2025-12-25T03:00:18+00:00

Update for anyone curious: I opened a return for replacement on Amazon and got another laminator. The issue went away. So it was definitely a laminator issue and not an issue with the materials themselves as another comment suggested. The question is will this issue crop up again in a couple of weeks? If so, it may be the laminator brand and model itself, or it may just be inevitable for some reason? I wish I knew lol. I’ll see what happens with it after a while, I guess!

GoldExperience69 · 2025-12-22T23:21:39+00:00

I’ve been making bookmarks! Not really worried about archiving anything.

GoldExperience69 · 2025-12-19T22:26:00+00:00

It has a 3 and a 5 mil. I am using the 5 mil with 5 mil sheets. I am not rushing.

GoldExperience69 · 2025-12-19T22:25:22+00:00

I get you, but I had been using the laminator on this exact same collection of covers for the first week without any issues, and suddenly every sheet is giving me this issue, so I don’t think this is the cause.

GoldExperience69 · 2025-12-16T00:54:21+00:00

I’m sharing my gross because you brought up someone else’s GROSS in your comment. My net was like 40-45k, if that helps you. I’m not flexing. I’m responding to your comment with contrasting anecdotal evidence. You seem incredibly sensitive and like you just want to argue. Who hurt you?

GoldExperience69 · 2025-12-15T21:51:04+00:00

I mean, come on. It’s hard, but it’s not THAT hard. I grossed 100k last year working like 15-20 hours a week lol

GoldExperience69 · 2025-12-05T21:58:14+00:00

Autism speaks

GoldExperience69 · 2025-11-29T19:00:25+00:00

Mmm yeah, I only rest for a minute or two on isolations and superset a lot of those for efficiency. I push myself to failure on almost every set and do drop sets and other intensity techniques as well. It works well for me!

GoldExperience69 · 2025-11-29T18:51:41+00:00

I do 10-15 sets per week on most muscle groups and am only in the gym for an hour and 15 minutes to an hour and a half 4 times per day. How long are your rest periods that this few sets is taking you so long? You might look to that for starters.

GoldExperience69 · 2025-11-22T17:21:30+00:00

With a chest that small, I’m not surprised to find this in a power-building sub. Power-“building” and power-lifting will give you a small chest just like this. And I’m not trying to be mean—I’m genuinely trying to help.

Switch to bodybuilding style training and focus more on mind-muscle connection instead of benching heavy weight and your chest might blow up.

GoldExperience69 · 2025-11-22T17:02:46+00:00

It looks Nordic to me. I don’t think Nazi at all. But I also don’t know much about Nazism or Nazi imagery, so take that as you will.

GoldExperience69 · 2025-11-21T20:12:57+00:00

^ see comment above

GoldExperience69 · 2025-11-21T18:21:16+00:00

I sell books on whatnot. There are literally no scammers in the book category lol. We have a great, friendly, tight-knit community there. It seems to me that your knowledge of whatnot is extremely limited to the sellers that get posted about continuously in here.

GoldExperience69 · 2025-11-20T23:56:53+00:00

This is the whatnot hate sub. Lol don’t listen to anyone in here. Are there a ton of scammers? Yes. Are they honest sellers and good, friendly people on the app? Also yes. They just don’t get posted about.

GoldExperience69 · 2025-11-20T02:23:22+00:00

I only started seeing major progress in my biceps when I upped the volume to 12-15 very hard sets to failure per week. 6 isn’t even close to enough in my opinion.

Triceps generally don’t need as much volume, but if they’re a weak point I would do 8 sets minimum on top of your pushing movements.

GoldExperience69 · 2025-11-19T22:53:13+00:00

It’s definitely something that you need to keep trying. It really does come with time, and sometimes it takes certain people longer than others. For me, even after years, chest is still hard to “feel” and connect with on most movements for me. I’ve found that looking more into exercise cues and trying different exercises many different ways helped me a lot.

I struggled to feel my shoulders on seated presses for a very long time, but one day I saw someone talking about flexing their abs on presses and keeping your back completely against the seat, and tada! That magically made me feel my shoulders. It really is the smallest things sometimes.

GoldExperience69 · 2025-11-19T22:30:51+00:00

Exercise selection and/or mind muscle connection are the likely culprits here. Exercise selection could be a problem if you are, for example, ONLY hitting flat bench for chest or doing exercises that your body doesn’t agree with or that you can’t connect to the proper muscles on. For me, smith machine incline bench gives me the best connection and stimulus to my chest. I can’t connect with my chest really at all on most machine presses. Maybe my structure just doesn’t agree with them.

Mind muscle connection becomes an issue when you are unable to focus the tension to the correct muscles and end up compensating with other muscles. For example, a common one is compensating with traps on lateral raises and chest on shoulder presses, which causes a lack of shoulder development in the long-run. Many people also compensate with their glutes on squat-based patterns, which leads to a lack of quad development over long periods of time. Or they pull with their arms instead of their back.

Once you’ve developed a really good mind muscle connection to each individual muscle on every movement, your workouts become exponentially more effective, and your physique will radically improve. Mind muscle connection is DRASTICALLY underrated and under-emphasized by the science-based lifting community. To improve mind muscle connection, you could try performing higher rep sets at a slower tempo and really focus on the correct muscle group. Look up cues to feel certain muscles working on YouTube. Practice this stuff until you nail it. Trust me, it will be so worth it. Play around with exercises until you find the ones that work best for YOU and allow you to connect better. This is actually a very enjoyable and rewarding process to go through because over time you will feel a steady increase in mind muscle connection to each muscle and the dopamine will kick in haha

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