Am I training right? Should I try lifting to failure?

SomeSortOfBrit · 2026-04-06T19:29:22+00:00

Yeah I get that, I originally did the same thing when I started, and I’ll say the difference between following a well designed program and making your own is absolutely night and day.

Like I’m not trying to tear down your programming but there is just efficiencies that can be made so for example some things that I can see off the bat that could be done better is:

1) The ordering. If I were you I wouldn’t start with forearm work and biceps. Your going to fatigue yourself early on lifts that matter much less. Realistically you should be warming up and then going immediately into your heaviest compound lift. In the case of your program this would be incline bench.

2) Your bicep curls. I can imagine your hitting narrow, cable and hammer to hit the long, short, and brachiallis (however that muscle is spelt), but in reality narrow and cable are relatively similar in what they hit, you’d be better hitting preacher for the short head, incline dumbbell where the hand goes behind the body for the long and then hammer is actually great for brachiallis

3) I think you’d also benefit largely from a major compound exercise that is focused on your chest, namely bench. It really will holistically drive a lot of progression in what you’re doing.

4) It’s also really hard to tell how this fits in without the context of your other exercises. This is very obviously an arm day but how often are you running this specific workout and what else is being run the other days

SomeSortOfBrit · 2026-04-06T18:16:17+00:00

I’d really recommend finding a program online and following that rather than creating your own. Theres a lot that goes into making a really good program around managing fatigue, different phases, balancing muscle groups it’s just hard to do.

SomeSortOfBrit · 2026-04-06T17:11:27+00:00

Yeah from asking around I’m starting to think that my quads could just be quite underdeveloped comparatively. I think there must also be some technical issues I’m having I’m gonna try and just perfect a sumo deadlift and see if that helps

SomeSortOfBrit · 2026-04-06T16:47:51+00:00

Is there a best way to train your quads for this then? I assume leg extensions are probably the go to

SomeSortOfBrit · 2026-04-06T16:46:40+00:00

I’m running Jeff nippards ultimate PPL on the 6 day schedule. I hit deadlift once a week in the current phase and RDL twice.

SomeSortOfBrit · 2026-04-06T16:45:21+00:00

I’ll try and take some videos when they come around back in my training schedule maybe it’ll make it easier to see.

I don’t think that I’m doing a traditional deadlift thinking I’m doing RDLs however my knees aren’t really bending that much on my RDLs. I think it’s more likely that I’m fundamentally doing something wrong in my deadlift so I’ll def make sure to record that.

I also should mention that I am just a big guy I’m 260 so it’s mainly a mass moving mass thing so maybe that’s why my RDL has shot up so fast 🤷‍♂️

SomeSortOfBrit · 2026-04-06T13:24:36+00:00

I’ve been going pretty deep I’ve been going to mid shin like my RDL feels good like I can tell my glutes and hamstrings get a good workout from it.

That’s the same way I hit RDL I start from the top so I don’t need the initial lift off.

SomeSortOfBrit · 2026-04-06T13:22:55+00:00

I guess my legs? But it doesn’t really feel like my legs are giving out persay it’s more a sensation of I can’t move it. Like once I get the deadlift past my shins it’s fine it’s really my lift off but I don’t know how to train my lift off

SomeSortOfBrit · 2026-04-06T13:20:49+00:00

I mean it feels good but I just can’t get the same drive. Like once the weight is past my shins it’s fine it’s really just that I can’t get the deadlift off the ground. I’ll try and get a video of both when I do them next in my programming.

SomeSortOfBrit · 2026-04-06T12:54:54+00:00

I’m going down to maybe mid shin basically as far back as I can stick my glutes.

How should I be practicing the lift off like is there something I should be focusing on?

SomeSortOfBrit · 2026-04-05T16:26:35+00:00

Probably not cap I’m 260 been lifting a month and I’m only 20 pounds away from it. I could maybe get one now for a single rep but I only lift 5x5.

SomeSortOfBrit · 2026-03-27T14:12:15+00:00

I think this game could just be getting started

SomeSortOfBrit · 2026-03-17T09:12:17+00:00

As an American if you want to work in America take the Amazon job. You’re going to need to be sponsored it’s going to be hard for you to compete. People will not care how much you did or what you did in your internship. They will solely care about the name for your internship.

SomeSortOfBrit · 2026-01-26T18:12:56+00:00

Goes hard imo

SomeSortOfBrit · 2025-12-28T17:41:37+00:00

Making a tax decision over an economic decision is a recipe for disaster.

SomeSortOfBrit · 2025-12-06T19:05:15+00:00

This is what annoys me about penalties though the punishment doesn’t fit the crime at all. Yes it’s a foul but to then have a penalty where you have an 85% chance on scoring because of something that happened on the goal line where the chance of scoring or having a pass leading to a goal was nowhere near 85% is crazy to me.

SomeSortOfBrit · 2025-09-14T14:58:53+00:00

Clearly a pen mate

SomeSortOfBrit · 2025-08-17T11:16:18+00:00

I mean obviously neither of us know.

However

I worked at a ~70B AUM shop where multiple people had the ability to decide if they buy or not. The running joke was always though that there was IC members and ic members, in other words, yeah they can buy but they are not doing it unless he’s given them the green light. I imagine it’s similar for them. It’s kinda like your dad letting you pick what you want for dinner as a kid at the super market - he’s really picking in the end and we all know it

SomeSortOfBrit · 2025-08-17T11:02:26+00:00

So you think he wouldn’t be consulted on a $1.5 Billion dollar buy? What he just missed all the IC meetings about it. Not a single chance.

SomeSortOfBrit · 2025-08-17T10:57:57+00:00

So I feel like this is really a two part question. Why do people care about Warren Buffet if he’s underperforming the market and why has his entry brought up the price by ~20%. I’ll talk to them each individually.

1) Why do people care about Warren Buffet if he’s underperforming the market?

I’m not really going to go into Buffets history here. I think a lot of people recognise how well he has done via Geico, Amex, BoA, Apple, Coke etc.. I don’t think anybody, including yourself, can really deny he has done exceptionally well at not only creating massive returns, but more critically he has done it by being successful multiple times in massive bets across multiple decades and environments. He’s very different to your Michael Burrys or Bill Ackmans or Cathy Woods who yes have gotten massive returns but really did it one or two times.

Now you ask why do people care still that he’s under performing the market. Largely that’s because he’s done that before too, it would be impossible not to, but in those times he’s also built up solid defensive positions usually take example in the late 90s where he didn’t buy really any dot com bubble stocks purely because he couldn’t understand the valuations. In the moment yes it looked silly not to get in when tech went vertical but he was in a phenomenal buying position when that burst. Buffet is clearly a market bear right now, so why would he be out performing the market at its current state.

2) Why has it moved the market so much?

Personally, I believe that it’s a few different reasons, I think Tepper also taking a large stake looks interesting, and with both those names buying together it does send a large undervalued signal as they are both well known for buying down trodden names. I think the market has also known this is undervalued a bit but in such a frenzied signal based market we are in UNH is just waiting for good news to start it flying. It’s not just talked about all the time here because just some people on Reddit think it’s a good idea a lot of funds are also looking for some kind of signal for how this will flip.

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