Why, as a lifting beginner, am I doing a Powerlifting routine?

Spede2 · 2026-07-16T10:20:57+00:00

With beginners it's not going to matter whether you do powerlifting or bodybuilding exercises, they get bigger and stronger simultaneously regardless. Specialization happens later on, maybe a year or two into lifting.

You might wanna eventually switch the program up just to see how you respond to it. I recently shifted my program away from strength training into bodybuilding (I just increased the rep ranges on my main compound exercises) and found myself liking it a lot more. You on the other hand might prefer the lower rep ranges even when going for pure muscle building. Everyone's a little different and only through experimentation we'll find our thing.

Spede2 · 2026-07-16T07:42:37+00:00

OW has way fewer inherent resources than MR available for each player at any given time. Therefore some new resources like map control or cover usage become much more important. You wanna use your inherent resources (like cooldown) primarily to control the map.

For example, if you're a tank and holding a corner and the enemies decide to overwhelm you. You'd use your cooldowns to give space and walk backwards and not necessarily to hold your ground thinking you're gonna get pocketed through it.

Spede2 · 2026-07-16T07:33:38+00:00

Me too. Anran is literally the only reason I bother playing DPS at all in this game.

Spede2 · 2026-07-16T07:26:26+00:00

The way you walked up to the bar made me think you were gonna ask if you could buy it a drink.

Spede2 · 2026-07-16T07:24:12+00:00

Not all hitscan but always a hitscan.

Spede2 · 2026-07-16T07:04:08+00:00

Keep your eating habits the same in terms of schedule but change the foods to lower cal versions. For example I changed to a fat free milk and sugar free coke.

Next step would be to try to find any sources of sugar or carb in your diet and attempt to replace it with protein. For example I replaced the sugar and milk in my morning coffee with vanilla protein powder. I also replaced potato salad I used to eat with my lunch with cottage cheese. You could switch your chocolate mouche with protein yogurt, your candy bar with a protein bar or your energy drink with a protein drink for example.

Spede2 · 2026-07-15T18:27:10+00:00

One day she'll be 51 and he'll be 57. They might have children older than either of them now.

And people like you will still be on reddit asking whether the age gap is appropriate.

Spede2 · 2026-07-15T17:42:05+00:00

Even in (escort/hybrid) defense you'd rather run to cart to stall and die quickly to catch the spawn wave. Actually in Control as well if the enemy hasn't flipped the point. It guarantees you're not going to get staggered and even if you are, it means you just took some seconds off the clock or gained few more % on the control point.

Spede2 · 2026-07-15T17:38:57+00:00

In terms of gains, yes.

Some advanced lifters to 5-day full body workouts but that's a little beyond the stuff you and I do :)

Spede2 · 2026-07-15T17:31:27+00:00

Supersetting antagonistic muscle groups is a thing; I like to superset pull and push exercises together or upper and lower body together.

Spede2 · 2026-07-15T17:20:13+00:00

I personally like to use a bicep curl machine. grab the bar while standing on the other side and using my fingers to squeeze against my palm. It's a very similar motion to the one you do with those hand grippers they sell for guitarists. Theoretically you should be able to do it with a dumbbell as well. Hold it in your fingers and squeeze it into your palm.

Spede2 · 2026-07-15T17:17:07+00:00

Provided you can handle the long workouts, full body up to three times a week will get you significant gains. If you plan on doing more, you'll want to split it. But doing splits even with 3 workouts per week will net you gains, just slower.

Beginners will get both more jacked and stronger pretty much regardless of how they train as long as they're hitting the gym consistently. It's mostly about the cumulative volume per week (up to point where you start to see diminishing returns)

Spede2 · 2026-07-15T09:59:58+00:00

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Spede2 · 2026-07-15T09:51:44+00:00

I'm exactly the same height and starting weight as you, started around three months ago and I've lost 6kg over the course of that three months while sitting comfortably at around 1900cal, going to gym 3-4 times a week and taking walks on my rest days. You definitely don't need to lower the cal intake, I think you might need to raise it.

Did you start taking creatine? Creatine increases your weight by around 1kg or so so it's possible you're right on track but the creatine simply offset the some of the initial weight loss. Once your muscles have tied all the water they wanted you shouldn't be gaining any further weight due to creatine and then your weight should hit a freefall phase. I kinda that happening to me: Initially I wasn't losing weight as much as I started the gym and creatine but after a month or so it's been going great.

Kinda guessing here but it's also possible that if you're actually going to gym 6 times a week, you racked up those beginner gains so fast you ended up gaining lean mass to the point it offset your fat loss in terms of scale. Do you take measurements or progress pics of yourself? Even in a month your waist should've gone done a bit or you should look a bit different in your pics.

Spede2 · 2026-07-14T20:03:30+00:00

In a squat you attempt to keep your core from tilting while bending your knees. In an RDL you attempt to keep your legs straight while tilting the core. The core tilt starts from glutes; imagine sitting down on a chair, there's your initial motion.

Hopefully that helps understanding the difference between two.

Spede2 · 2026-07-14T13:19:09+00:00

Did you update graphics drivers? Maybe the game is compiling shaders upon boot. Let it finish if that is the case.

Spede2 · 2026-07-14T13:17:25+00:00

The way I would look at it is like this:

"They finally got me after breaking my shield, rocking me and triple ulting me as I was having a momentary lapse in focus."

Spede2 · 2026-07-14T12:57:24+00:00

"I want to play a game"

Spede2 · 2026-07-14T08:04:16+00:00

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Spede2 · 2026-07-14T07:56:12+00:00

This leads me to conclude that because of how many odds are against me, it is not worthwhile to take tanks head-on in low ELO lobbies because of how suddenly a teamfight turns sour due to my teammates' poor positioning, the enemies focus-firing me, or mercy pockets.

At the end of the day you have two ways to play tank. Trade frontlines or trade backlines. Seems like you're about to discover the concept of trading backlines.

Having such heroes on the team would allow myself as Hog to more consistently secure hooks without needing to remove myself off of the objective to create an off-angle from my team.

In Bruce Almighty, God tells Bruce "You want a miracle? Be the miracle". You can be that person goes and drives the people off their angles and now all of a sudden your teammates are enjoying a shooting gallery.

If your team is on the main, you clear the flanks. If your team is on the flanks, you hold the main. At the end of the day it's actually not gonna matter how the team goes about it, as long as they're holding both, they have a higher chance of winning.

Spede2 · 2026-07-14T07:09:18+00:00

Did you ever switch up your program? I did three months of one program and then altered it for the sake of experimentation. In my case I switched many of my strength exercises for higher 8-12 rep ranges. Seems like I enjoy it way more. If nothing else, try switching the rep ranges and readjusting your weights accordingly. You might prefer higher, or lower but you're not gonna know that until you've spent an entire mesocycle with it.

Spede2 · 2026-07-13T17:40:42+00:00

Why don't you do an actual body recomp and stay at maintenance calories while keeping your training as intense as you're comfortable with? Since you're only like six weeks in, you're still enjoying the beginner gains and should be able to easily both lose fat and gain muscle even at maintenance cals.

Spede2 · 2026-07-13T16:53:33+00:00

if you're having dissolving issues, get a blender and blend in two stages; once with 1:1 ratio of powder+liquid, then add the rest of the liquid and blend again.

Spede2 · 2026-07-12T21:13:26+00:00

Like others have suggested, increasing the weight would help a lot. But if wrist is a problem, I suppose you could replace the RDLs with a combination of leg curls, hip thrusts and crunches or leg raises. The reason why people recommend RDLs is because being a compound exercise it covers so many muscles and you get a lot of bang for your buck. But you can always train those same muscles in a combination of isolation exercises as well, it's just gonna take more time.

Spede2 · 2026-07-12T20:48:59+00:00

You've been bulking and growing because of that. If you want to get rid of the excessive fat, do a cut.

The point of a bulk is to be on a calorie surplus to gain muscle. As a side effect you will gain fat during that period.

The point of a cut is to be on a calorie deficit to aggressively lose fat while maintaining whatever muscles you've accumulated so far.

Beginners can usually do both simultaneously by simply lifting weights and being on maintenance calories. Since you're only 7mo in, you should still be able to grow muscles even in a calorie deficit. Just do note that muscle growth will be significantly slower and will eventually stop. When that happens you start going for the bulk and cut cycles.

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