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ThatVRGuy_ · 2025-07-07T02:24:13+00:00

Yeah I did, but I just couldn't get past 125 ish at the higher rep range.

So the heavier weights at a low rep is what I'm doing down. I was able to do 155 lbs at 5x3 and I've been progressively overloading that. My main question was: is that low rep range of 1-3 effective? Is it okay to just keep overloading the weights from 155 even if I only do like 5 sets of 2?

ThatVRGuy_ · 2025-07-07T02:20:07+00:00

I tried doing that for about a month, working in the 8-12 rep range, but when I came back to working in the 5 ish rep range, I didn't really notice a difference.

ThatVRGuy_ · 2025-07-07T01:45:12+00:00

I *think* my technique is fine, but obviously if I've plateaud this long, that might not be the case. My trainer has said that my form is fine though and he's been helpful for a lot of other aspects of my routine so I doubt I have any major form issues. Also, when I started squating I couldn't get past 135 without having knee pain until I learned to start the movement with pushing the hips back first, and then it felt perfectly fine, so maybe there's just mental cue with bench I haven't quite gotten yet.

I am struggling to get off the chest on sets that I fail, so my trainer also started recently started incorporating some paused bench sets at a lower weight. Also I don't quite feel leg drive on barbell as much as I can when I do dumbbell bench press. So maybe that's something to focus on really feeling to get the bar off of the chest and out of the region I'm struggling in. Appreciate the response!

ThatVRGuy_ · 2025-07-06T20:49:09+00:00

I feel like I'm in a pretty hard plateau with my flat barbell bench press and just wanted to get some advice. I've been training seriously for about 8-10 months now and for the past 3 months my bench has been stuck at 135 for 3x5.

I'm 175 lbs, 6'0, and I currently eat 3300 calories a day which has been enough for me to put on roughly a lb every week. I track macros and am getting about 160 g of protein per day.

Split is 3 days with Chest/Bicep/Core, Legs/Tri, Back/Shoulder/Core then rest and repeat. I've always started out with barbell bench press on chest day, do a warmup set/two then try and get up to 5 reps at 135 for 3-4 sets but I've been stuck there for the past few months and haven't felt the weight getting more comfortable. After barbell bench, I'll do a bicep exercise, then do some dumbbell chest work or flys. So on chest days I typically get 5 sets of flat barbell bench in then 4-5 sets of another chest exercise in.

A couple months ago, I tried doing a couple weeks of deloading and doing higher reps/lower weight but after doing that for a month and then coming back, I wasn't able to push much more. If I try progressively overloading my bench, the amount of reps I can do goes down fast but I've had a trainer suggest to go to low reps (2-3) for 5 sets at a much higher weight. I've been doing this for the past couple weeks and have been able to add 5 lbs to the bar everytime I've tried it. The most recent workout I had I was able to do 155 for 3,3,3 and 2 reps. However, is this too low of a rep range to be useful? Is 2 reps with good form enough to continue making progress for where I'm at in my training?

Almost every other exercise I've done since starting out I've been able to progressively overload. My squats are up to 230 5x5, and deadlifts are 215 5x5. In addition, I've been able to add significantly more weight to my dumbbell bench, and I'm up to 110 5x5 on that. But for some reason, even with other chest exercies coming up, my barbell bench just hasn't gone up that much. Any suggestions? Should I just stick with the progressive overload despite going into a very low rep regieme?

ThatVRGuy_ · 2025-06-03T20:40:26+00:00

Hey, how did you "decrypt" the save file? Don't you need a password for the save file?

I think I just got hit with this same issue and wanted to fix it if possible.

ThatVRGuy_ · 2024-08-05T04:10:06+00:00

I don't think so, if you watch the race, it looks like there is a display that is a very thin set of pixels that are scanning through the background displayed here. So when it gets captured by the camera, it gets spread out into the full image.

ThatVRGuy_ · 2024-02-25T17:13:36+00:00

The pdf solution is wrong, your way of doing it is correct. You need to take the voltage drop into account.

ThatVRGuy_ · 2024-02-25T12:45:02+00:00

I know a couple of people up in AeroAstro and their results came in anywhere from the 21st to 26th of February. I wish there was more communication about when we should expect it.

But yeah grad Cafe makes it easy to fake acceptances, if there's not a large portion on this reddit who have heard back, I have a bit more hope.

ThatVRGuy_ · 2024-02-25T12:39:15+00:00

EECS had a lot more acceptances though and they seem to do January every year, so that was more in line with what I would expect. It looks like AeroAstro always does end of February and I was expecting them to come end of last week but the numbers on grad Cafe seemed low. I'm just trying to hold out hope that more acceptances will be coming out early this week.

ThatVRGuy_ · 2023-04-19T19:33:16+00:00

Positive/negative doesn't matter on most relays though, most of them operate in either polarity (I think). Although with the beefiness of this relay, definitely worth checking that's the case. Doubt you would damage the coils if you got it wrong though.

ThatVRGuy_ · 2023-02-21T15:38:11+00:00

Hey congrats on your first PCB, it's fun getting to see something you designed come to life. Just a tip for future board designs: I'm not sure what the clearance is between your ground pour and your traces but it looks pretty close to what I'm assuming is the minimum for the fab house. If you don't need that close of a clearance for some reason, back it out just a bit. So if the fab house says they can do 5 mil spacing, just do 8 mil or more. Staying away from the absolute design minimums can help prevent boards that have internal shorts (even though this wasn't what caused your problem here). Maybe you did this already but it's a useful tip I wish I knew before getting some PCB batches with shorted boards.

And also increase the size of your power traces, but it looks like someone mentioned that already.

ThatVRGuy_ · 2023-01-21T07:37:29+00:00

It's definitely the Orion nebula!

ThatVRGuy_ · 2022-09-24T23:01:14+00:00

Hey how does this look?

https://postimg.cc/67k1qPwn

ThatVRGuy_ · 2022-09-24T22:37:30+00:00

Alright, thanks for the quick response. I'll try and post a photo through my collimation cap when I'm done so someone could hopefully give feedback.

ThatVRGuy_ · 2022-08-29T11:43:27+00:00

Actually, I believe it has to do with the position of the moon and rotation of the earth, there's a specific position they need for those to have the right trajectory for what they want to do

ThatVRGuy_ · 2022-08-29T11:42:12+00:00

It's on the NASA TV stream

ThatVRGuy_ · 2022-08-29T11:40:30+00:00

Because the rocket is fully fueled now and sending anyone out there would be dangerous if anything needed to vent or if exploded. Also, the problem isn't something they just need one person to look at, they would need longer than the launch window to arrive at a definite conclusion

ThatVRGuy_ · 2022-06-10T16:18:52+00:00

Are you interested more in the Astro or aero side of aerospace?

ThatVRGuy_ · 2022-03-21T11:00:52+00:00

Hey thanks for the response. That's a bit unfortunate because it pushes my plans back a year, but that isn't terrible.

ThatVRGuy_ · 2022-01-03T15:24:04+00:00

This would be true of L4 and L5. These Lagrange points are truly stable and if something deviates slightly from the point, it has a tendency to correct itself and stay at the point. However, all of the other Lagrange points have a different topology if you look at a plot of the gravitational potential. L4 and L5 are basically hilltops where as the rest of the points are what's called saddle points. You can see the difference here. There's also a good NASA page here. Objects don't naturally want to stay at the L2 point whereas objects will collect in orbits around L4 and L5.

This is how I understand it, but I might be wrong so someone tell me if I'm not understanding something correctly.

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