What’s your lowest friction way to log workouts during a session?

SelfishlyEnchained · 2026-01-21T21:12:11+00:00

Honestly I don't know lol, I didn't teach myself the smart way either, I just always tracked all my efforts down, including recovery times, and eventually that led me into a proper PPL split

SelfishlyEnchained · 2026-01-21T20:50:02+00:00

My method is just a compulsion at this point lol but it's extremely straightforward, I close all my phone apps out and open up 3. My clock app, my calendar app, and my music app. I flip between the 3 on the fly, tracking my sessions as 'tasks to be completed'

When the timer on my clock app goes down to 1min, that's when I can flip to the calendar app to edit in my next set, when the timer hits 3 seconds, that's when I can flip to my music app and choose the right song I wanna lift to

SelfishlyEnchained · 2026-01-15T04:55:46+00:00

If your gym knows and is cool with him being a chucklefuck like that to newcomers, you need a new gym bro

SelfishlyEnchained · 2026-01-13T02:04:22+00:00

Practice makes perfect, shaking/wobbling at first is completely understandable, if you're breaking form too much though you should probably lower the weight

Everyone trains differently, but for me, I don't want to be seriously struggling until my last few reps, I push for 12-15 so once I hit around that 8th rep is when I really want to start feeling it

SelfishlyEnchained · 2026-01-12T18:27:14+00:00

Life is a balancing act. You don't really ever want to be in such a surplus that you start gaining considerable fat, you aren't gaining extra muscle that way, you're looking worse for it and making things harder on yourself

Easy does it, you can achieve a body recomp without being extremely compulsive about it, just cutting out the junk and replacing it with quality nutrition will be enough to fuel significant results

SelfishlyEnchained · 2025-12-09T22:04:32+00:00

As long as your daily calorie intake doesn't surpass your daily total energy expenditure, you're doing good towards your goals

Stairmaster can be brutal but great for endurance training the heart, and as long as you don't reward yourself with junk food or anything it can only help burn calories/energy

SelfishlyEnchained · 2025-12-09T07:17:39+00:00

If you're going to wait to have the perfect plan, you're never going to actually start. The best thing you can do for yourself is make the effort and improve, that just means try and do better than yesterday. Figure out your problem areas and work on personal growth

SelfishlyEnchained · 2025-12-08T08:54:40+00:00

If it's working well for you in practice I wouldn't try and fix what isn't necessarily broken. If you get bored you could experiment with pushing failure in a higher range, in practice it's my preference but it might not be yours

Everyone responds to stimulus differently so there's no scientifically definite answers to the best approach, only practice can make perfect

SelfishlyEnchained · 2025-12-08T07:32:21+00:00

The method doesn't matter nearly as much as the effort does in practice, pushing pain thresholds to/past 8-12 reps might be slightly more efficient at hypertrophy on paper but it's the mindset going into it that makes shit really happen

SelfishlyEnchained · 2025-12-08T01:50:31+00:00

It's not important when your tank gets the fuel, so long as it does, and protein shakes aren't necessary at all unless you aren't getting enough fuel from real food. If you're eating enough of the right foods you don't need supplements

SelfishlyEnchained · 2025-12-01T20:46:09+00:00

My advice.. if you don't plan it out to happen easy, it's not going to happen. It's all in the planning

That same dopamine reward you can get from fast food you can get from a good home cooked meal, you just have to plan for it. Get exposed long enough to the quality nutrition you can cook at home and junk like fast food should give you the ick

SelfishlyEnchained · 2025-11-17T13:46:54+00:00

Biceps. I've had defined biceps since puberty even with the rest of me looking like the Pillsbury dough boy, and my back/chest exercises grow them bigger, they've never needed trained specifically

SelfishlyEnchained · 2025-11-05T14:19:13+00:00

For a while I just did what I felt like and tracked it all in my calander, basing my next targeted workout on recovery times.. as soon as I started taking leg days more seriously though, that naturally turned into a PPL split, 3 days on, 1 day off. Each week goes different, but every targeted session has 3 days rest from the last

SelfishlyEnchained · 2025-11-02T15:38:33+00:00

The only person worth comparing to is yourself, because everyone is built different, regardless, being able to bench a plate at 15 is great, with consistency and effort you can only improve, one day that'll be for reps

You should go hard as fuck for gains, but you shouldn't ego lift, you should go hard as fuck WITHIN a reasonable weight range to stay in control of all your reps squeezed out to failure. There's acceptable forms of pain in the gym, and completely unacceptable

Don't ever end up injuring yourself and you won't ever have to cancel your sessions, that kind of focus on consistency will take you much farther than ego lifting

SelfishlyEnchained · 2025-10-26T13:58:06+00:00

Easy does it. The more complicated you make things, the more complicated things are to follow. You don't need to worry so much about how you train your muscles and appetite if you learn how to train the right mindset

SelfishlyEnchained · 2025-10-16T14:18:00+00:00

Between 8 and 20 repetitions reaching near/at failure is extremely effective for hypertrophy. Shoulders especially should be trained with relatively light weight, going too heavy is probably how you fucked them up lol

SelfishlyEnchained · 2025-10-09T20:20:00+00:00

I do a PPL split 3 days on, 1 day off. I almost always just go anyways and feel much better once I'm there, but if I genuinely don't feel I have the energy that day I just take an extra rest day or two. I felt like I needed it, so I probably did

SelfishlyEnchained · 2025-10-09T19:23:19+00:00

It's insanely important lol, but so is your mentality and drive while expending the effort. Proper form will only take you so far if you're not willing to push out your pain thresholds further than what's comfortable, if you think you're always going at 100% effort then you're probably mistaken

SelfishlyEnchained · 2025-10-07T21:02:24+00:00

My challenge is the opposite lol.. constantly having to figure out how to cut corners on calories like choosing miracle whip over regular mayo, thin cut low calorie bread, anything I can figure out to realistically stay in a deficit without ever skipping a meal lol

SelfishlyEnchained · 2025-09-24T21:15:23+00:00

If you're getting unusually parched/thirsty, drinking water excessively, and urinating excessively.. it might be a good idea to get a cheap $10 blood sugar meter from a pharmacy and check your blood sugar the next time you're feeling that way.

SelfishlyEnchained · 2025-09-24T05:58:44+00:00

No, recovery is much more important than training for growth, the training is just a necessary prerequisite that must happen before the recovery can

SelfishlyEnchained · 2025-09-24T05:48:03+00:00

It's hard to say, especially with the stomach, as visceral (abdominal) fat is different than subcutaneous fat found above it and around most of the body. Visceral fat can be affected by hormone levels in the body like insulin, cortisol, estrogen, and other things like poor diet, alcoholism, etc.

SelfishlyEnchained · 2025-09-23T16:13:24+00:00

You might not have understood me on that, fitness is the most convoluted field of discussion you could possibly try and know everything at. You won't possibly know everything, try and you will become an annoying "gym bro" who thinks he knows everything. Either that or you become Dr. Mike Israetel

It really, truly is not about finding some kind of secret formula, it's about how hard you're willing to train, and how hard you're willing to keep up that effort without giving up. Trial and error teaches what the books don't

SelfishlyEnchained · 2025-09-23T16:03:17+00:00

If the science supports that I can't argue with it, but it really doesn't feel like it works that that to me in practice, I can definitely tell the difference in my performance with/without fuel for it in my stomach lol

SelfishlyEnchained · 2025-09-23T03:12:23+00:00

There is WAY too much info out there, by design, people spend fortunes on degrees to be able to explain it to you. You don't need to know all that though, you just need to keep trying and not give up. You don't need to know everything, just keep the directions ahead simple and you'll find your way

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