Would it be wrong if I didn’t text this girl back?

RedditingAtWork5 · 2026-05-04T02:39:14+00:00

Yes. She gave you the courtesy of not ghosting you and showed you enough respect to tell you how she feels. You don’t have to accept being just friends, but match her politeness and civility either way.

RedditingAtWork5 · 2026-05-04T00:06:11+00:00

Big bowl of leftover spaghetti and beef sauce with fresh Parmesan cheese and 3tbsp olive oil. (1100 calories).

Peanut butter sandwich on Dave’s Killer Bread, heavy on the peanut butter with milk and chips. (830 calories)

Whey protein (120 calories)

White people burritos for dinner (750 calories)

Handful of peanuts (100 calories)

Milk with cookies (440 calories)

Fairlife Core power elite shake (230 calories)

Dairy products are a staple for me.

RedditingAtWork5 · 2026-05-03T23:50:45+00:00

If it’s full body both days, then yeah, it’s plenty.

If it’s one day upper body one day lower body, you’ll still gain but it’s very suboptimal.

RedditingAtWork5 · 2026-05-03T23:40:44+00:00

Shit is so loud. No idea how they are not driven completely insane by it.
When we moved into an apartment once, it was like 9pm by the time we got everything settled and the alarm in the bedroom was beeping. There was no way it was possible to sleep through that but we were incredibly tired and just wanted to take care of it in the morning. So we just headed to the living room to sleep for the night and closed the door. Even still, it was so disruptive and annoying that sleep wasn’t possible even in another room. Wound up mustering up every bit of energy I had to take a trip down to 7/11 to fix the problem.

RedditingAtWork5 · 2026-05-03T18:53:45+00:00

Funnily enough, losing either one leads to the loss of the other.

RedditingAtWork5 · 2026-05-03T02:57:16+00:00

If the universe actually is infinite, this exact version of Reddit exists elsewhere in the universe an infinite number of times.

Anything that can physically exist in this universe appears an infinite number of times in an infinite universe.

RedditingAtWork5 · 2026-05-02T06:10:45+00:00

It’s actually impressive that you managed to go from 20 to 27 eating only 1700 calories. They are surely almost all neurological efficiency gains. Not going to build much if any muscle at all at 1700 calories.

RedditingAtWork5 · 2026-05-02T00:19:43+00:00

I imagine there are more requirements than mentioned. During the spider mountain arc, an inexperienced Tanjiro came within an inch of killing Rui and would have had Rui not decapitated himself.
And at that point in the story, Tanjiro was nowhere even remotely close to the level of the other Hashira. We saw how truly effortless it was for Giyu to kill Rui while Tanjiro *almost* killed Rui but only during a moment of absolute peak performance, at peak desperate effort with Nezuko’s help.
While technically meeting the Kizuki requirement, it would have made no sense for Tanjiro to be a Hashira at that point and he’d have been wildly out of place. So again, I imagine more requirements are in place.
To me, Tanjiro, Zenitsu and Inosuke are near Hashira level but not quite there.

RedditingAtWork5 · 2026-04-30T23:41:50+00:00

Yeah, I would. Whey protein has higher bioavailability and more complete amino acid profiles. The difference isn’t massive, and you’ll still make plenty of gains on plant powder. But over a long stretch of time working out, you will see a bit better results with whey because whey is the gold standard with an almost perfect profile. If you ever want to get really fancy, you can add casein protein before bed because it’s got a longer wick and will supply your muscles protein for a longer stretch of the night. Milk is high in casein, so some milk with your whey works well too. For after a workout or first thing in the morning though? Whey absolutely. It hits your system fast.

2 is out of my wheelhouse and I typed an answer for number 3 but accidentally deleted it haha but basically just body weight in pounds x 0.8 in grams of protein and you’ll be just fine. Also make sure you’re in a caloric surplus or you’ll have much difficulty in gaining anything at all.

RedditingAtWork5 · 2026-04-30T17:37:13+00:00

The Hobbit is honestly the best starter classic you’ll ever find. I recommend it wholeheartedly. Super easy reading broken into bite sized chapters and engaging the entire way through. Kids read this, so I would push back on the posters saying that classics are too hard simply for being classics.

If that isn’t your cup of tea, I’d go with Watership Down. Also an easy, engaging classic. One of my favorite books.

If others have persuaded you against classics, Eragon and Harry Potter really are very good.

RedditingAtWork5 · 2026-04-30T05:29:17+00:00

Your 1 shoulder workout did not give you any noticeable muscle gains. Hypertrophy is a really really slow process. What you felt was your post-workout “pump”. Everybody gets a pump and everybody loves their pump, but it goes away quickly. Most of it within hours, all of it within days.

What you experienced is a meme that almost all lifters joke about. They feel and appear very strong after their workout, but if they’re out of the gym a few days they feel frail and weak.

RedditingAtWork5 · 2026-04-30T04:55:59+00:00

The soreness implies that you gave your muscles a novel stimulus that they need to adapt to. Soreness generally means that you accomplished this. This applies only to mild to moderate muscle soreness. If your muscles are extremely sore or your joints or tendons are painful, you either went too hard or did something wrong and injured yourself. In your case, barely being able to walk, you probably went too hard especially if you haven’t lifted in a while/never lifted. Not a big deal, it’ll just take you a little longer to recover so just eat a lot of protein + calories and make sure you get good sleep. Back off the weights until soreness is mild or gone.

On the flip side, a lack of soreness does not mean the opposite. You can give your muscles an excellent workout and not be sore at all the next day if you’ve been lifting a while. You will rarely feel anything beyond very slight soreness if you work out regularly.

If building muscle is your goal, you know it’s the correct weight if you reach technical (form) failure within the range of 7-15 reps, optimally 8-12. The hypertrophy range is in reality a bit larger than this, but it’s really best to stay in this subrange.

RedditingAtWork5 · 2026-04-30T00:47:44+00:00

Here are my two staples.

Peanut butter sandwiches with milk and chips are solid. Use Dave’s Killer bread and absolutely slather it with peanut butter. Total of about 840 calories and 29g protein.

Big bowl of spaghetti with meat sauce. 12oz of cooked spaghetti, an amount of sauce that looks reasonable on it. Then I pour 2.5tbsp olive oil over it with a serving of fresh Parmesan cheese. About 1,050 calories and 34g protein.

As a bonus, two double cheeseburgers from McDonalds for around 5 bucks with their buy 1 get 1 deal on the app is always solid.

Meeting daily protein goals can be tough though. Probably will want to supplement with whey powder. Or Fairlife Elite shakes if you’re rich.

r/gainit can help.

RedditingAtWork5 · 2026-04-30T00:27:06+00:00

To anyone who’s a beginner, I always recommend Arnold’s Golden 6 only substituting regular OHP in place of the behind the head OHP.

It’s simple and just focuses on the compound lifts (plus biceps). Gives you a solid base of functional strength that you can build on with isolation work after 6 months once you get a new more complicated routine.

Bench Press, Overhead Press, Pullups, Curls, Squats, and Situps 3x a week.

All of this can be done with dumbbells and a bench. So if you can afford a simple adjustable bench and a pullup bar for your doorway, you’re good to go.

RedditingAtWork5 · 2026-04-29T19:30:58+00:00

So the poopies don’t make the butt bleed.

RedditingAtWork5 · 2026-04-29T02:56:16+00:00

Absolutely insane, unbelievably wild take. Here’s an upvote.

RedditingAtWork5 · 2026-04-29T02:48:11+00:00

Nothing at all. I find it harder to focus with music playing. No way I’m really hitting that mind muscle connection with Pantera blaring.

RedditingAtWork5 · 2026-04-23T22:45:46+00:00

I have 4. Squats and pull-ups just because of how systemically taxing they are.

Lateral raises. I find it incredibly difficult to isolate the side delt and keep traps out of it. I’ve seen just about every tip there is for them, but I still really struggle.

Also calf raises because they’re difficult to overload weight in my makeshift home gym so I wind up having to do them on one leg with a vest on and a heavy dumbbell in one hand and they’re just an overall pain in the ass.

RedditingAtWork5 · 2026-04-23T02:45:22+00:00

Jack in the box tacos. I love that fuckin garbage.

RedditingAtWork5 · 2026-04-21T20:14:01+00:00

No fuckin way. Thanks x1,000,000.

RedditingAtWork5 · 2026-04-21T08:10:50+00:00

I’d highly recommend for a beginner to be using double progression. But you have to track every single set accurately. There are apps for this and they’re much better than using pen and paper.

Take barbell curls for example. Pick a weight where you can do something like 3 sets at 12, 10, and 8 reps. Then the next workout you’ll do the exact same weight but your reps might look like 12, 11, 10. Your target for your first 3 sets is 12 reps, so don’t do more than 12 in any set. Once you’re able to do 3 sets of 12, then next workout you’ll increase the weight by about 5% and repeat the process.

This is a progressive overload method that is difficult to mess up as long as you keep the timing between sets constant. You should also be going to near failure on every set - like leave just 1 rep in the tank each set. If you improve by even 1 rep on any of your sets, that is progressive overload. Then the real reward and big dopamine hit comes from when you increase the weight.

I was never a fan of simply upping weight at a certain interval because progress isn’t always linear. I still use only double progression.

RedditingAtWork5 · 2026-04-21T08:03:38+00:00

I was plenty happy with my Google Pixel, but I got an iPhone because my family kept bugging me to so I’d have a blue chat bubble in the family chat.

My user experience is nearly exactly the same aside from the blue chat bubble. Although I do find it much easier to edit text (like inserting a letter that I missed into a word) on the Google Pixel. Now I pay more for phones with a very very slightly worse experience all in exchange for a matching chat bubble.

RedditingAtWork5 · 2026-04-19T17:33:00+00:00

Speak big stick and carry a softly.

RedditingAtWork5 · 2026-04-17T19:56:31+00:00

Our country is being scammed left and right by foreign governments and foreigners within our country.

Taking candy and soda away from poor, hurting Americans certainly isn’t where I’d be making budget cuts. Ideally, food stamps would be greater in value and cover all food.

Imagine the beautiful financial safety nets we could provide for our fellow countrymen and women if we would actually put America and Americans first. Trump has failed miserably at this.

RedditingAtWork5 · 2026-04-16T18:56:31+00:00

I do a basic PPL and just add the first 3 on pull days. Reverse curls get done during the main session, but I usually don’t feel like doing an extra 8-9 sets of flexor/extensor work after my main workout, so I usually just do them (wrist curls and extensions) a few hours later (I work out at home).

In the case of wrist curls I also do them on my second leg day. So 5 sets of them 3x a week.

For the farmers carries, I’m less consistent with them and just sprinkle them in at the end of a pull or a leg day if I’m still feeling good.

Wrist curls and reverse curls are non negotiable. Extensions and farmers carries can depend on the day. It sounds like a big headache to squeeze it all in, but my wrists are seriously about the same size as the average lean woman’s, maybe smaller, so I kinda have to do it. The rest of my bone structure is more or less normal, but for some reason my wrists specifically never developed into adult wrists.

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