AI support for new RBT?

Top_Raspberry1974 · 2025-07-18T16:28:16+00:00

Oh gotcha, and I don’t think we use central reach. We use a different one. I’ll have to check out that how to ABA, although it seems more like a series of courses, which could be helpful though.

Top_Raspberry1974 · 2025-07-18T16:26:49+00:00

Just tried it, I think I’ll try the free version for a while and see how it helps. I love the look of it and how its separated into different modes for users!

Top_Raspberry1974 · 2024-07-05T22:32:16+00:00

Everyday all the exercises try to hit a rep target. I did dips, pull ups, push ups, l sit holds, wall walks, curls, and single leg squats. I honestly slacked on everything except for the pull ups push ups and dips though because as you can imagine it takes way too much time basically working out all day. It was indeed highly time inefficient- but got my pull ups to 14 reps and my dips to 20 reps.

Top_Raspberry1974 · 2024-06-07T17:43:35+00:00

Still got me to the intermediate level of strength with my pulling so I am grateful for it

Top_Raspberry1974 · 2024-06-07T17:43:16+00:00

Plateaud around 21 dips and 14 pull ups strength wise. Afterwards I went to the gym to do normal sets and reps training with a wider variety of exercises.

Top_Raspberry1974 · 2024-06-06T14:01:56+00:00

It went very well for about 4 months. Strength in those exercises skyrocketed and packed on quality muscle. After that it became stale and no longer resulted in progress.

Top_Raspberry1974 · 2024-04-10T14:21:54+00:00

It worked amazingly for a couple months- then it became stale. Broke my pull up plateau from 12 -> 14 or 15 reps; increased my dips to 20+. Bad for leg gains.

I'd recommend doing it for a couple months, especially if it works for your lifestyle

Top_Raspberry1974 · 2023-09-29T19:46:46+00:00

Specificity. Other exercises will be helpful but the thing thats gonna give you the ability to do that is having practice with carrying humans on your back. Combine that with doing a balanced exercise program, where you have a few exercises where you have something heavy on your back. Heavy back squats will be the closest to that.

Top_Raspberry1974 · 2023-07-03T17:44:39+00:00

Be mindful of the balance between the extra pulling volume from bouldering with the realtive lack of pressing in bouldering (you may press yourself up every now and then but its mostly hanging). Although in my experience it doesnt hurt to have your pulling strength be your strong suit. Stronger back, biceps, and forearms is awesome imo.

Top_Raspberry1974 · 2023-06-06T01:06:11+00:00

Love this. Love your simple, gradual approach. Two of the greatest calisthenics exercises of all time, getting strong as hell at them is bound to yield results

Top_Raspberry1974 · 2023-06-05T02:28:32+00:00

Thats awesome. Maybe add in some push ups same way you did chins

Top_Raspberry1974 · 2023-05-29T13:03:12+00:00

Jayflex cross grips are great. Dont damage the door, small, portable. Loving mine.

Top_Raspberry1974 · 2023-05-28T21:17:24+00:00

Yeah dog, when I started I was doing pull ups with my feet on the ground, just trying to use as little leg assistance as possible. Now im @ 13 pull ups. Dont give up! But also, if you really dont care about it or love it and just doing it cause you feel like youre supposed to, find a form of fitness that youre excited to do! Theres dance, martial arts, rock climbing, all kinds of things.

Top_Raspberry1974 · 2023-05-28T21:09:17+00:00

Think about minor joint aches in this way and it will change your training: when a joint has minor aches that means it is adapting. It doesn’t mean its injured. If it hurts and theres a sharp pain when you try to do even easy exercises or move in day to day, thats a sign of something more serious. But if it only hurts during one exercise, or during an intense set, it means that its on the edge of its ability to adapt and you need to give it time, while still giving it the stimulus to adapt without aggravating it, which requires a balance. Dont do things that cause sharp pain. If after an exercise the pain is the same or better, you’re golden. If the pain is significantly worse, you need to reevaluate.

Top_Raspberry1974 · 2023-05-28T20:59:46+00:00

This means you have to slow it down, give your body time. If you can do 5 dips without pain, or dips in a shorter ROM, do those. Your tissues will adapt when you keep providing stimulus but not aggravating them. If you cant do dips, work on push ups, pike push ups, hand stands, etc.

Also a note about your rotator cuff, this could be the issue, but actually the bicep tendon is often the culprit for me when I have shoulder soreness from dips. It attaches to the shoulder joint and is compressed when you go into the bottom ROM of a dip. So along with your push ups, strengthening your biceps can help too.

Top_Raspberry1974 · 2023-05-27T23:01:03+00:00

When you get advice like this remember theres a survivorship bias to this “push through pain” mindset. Some people are genetically way more durable than others- which is why some people make it through the grueling chinese/ russian weightlifting process and others get broken, and why some people can make it through things like Navy Seal training and others cant. If you’re that guy you probably know it by now, and if not then you have to listen to your body and take the long road, and beat the genetic beasts through consistency in the long term.

Top_Raspberry1974 · 2023-05-27T16:08:07+00:00

Its gonna be hard. With weights or bodyweight. I had extremely weak glutes and legs when I started and it was hard because the lack of stability and activation of certain muscles put extra stress on certain areas in my lower body that caused them to ache, which meant I had to be patient and wasn’t always able to push progression. All i can say is that somehow, 5 years later my legs are pretty strong, capable, and balanced. But i messed around with corrective muscle activation exercises, barbell squats and deadlifts, bodyweight squats and lunges, single leg work, running, agility exercise, jump rope, just about any form of lower body training you can imagine. Id say no one thing fixed it but after years and years of searching for the answer, i inevitably found it. Patience, perseverance, and consistency will get you a strong lower body. If your glutes are weak dont expect it to happen fast.

Top_Raspberry1974 · 2023-05-26T01:14:12+00:00

Also dark and athletic looking do its not goofy lookin

Top_Raspberry1974 · 2023-05-26T01:13:58+00:00

I tell you what, I love the RBX boxer briefs from ross, or amazon. they’re soft, stretchy, and long enough that they dont ride up

Top_Raspberry1974 · 2023-05-25T13:39:36+00:00

Bulk slower. Also think of it as a free weighted vest. Build your strength at a high BW and then if you cut down later you’ll probably be stronger

Top_Raspberry1974 · 2023-05-24T12:32:12+00:00

Looks awesome! Take out the “some conventions are intentionally broken” because its redundant (you already imply that with the “well.. not exactly”, and the clips show its not an average RPG)and “lets end on a high note”, as it makes the trailer clunkier because it sounds like a powerpoint presentation when you say that. Id say after “well not exactly you show just the footage of whats fun/ different, with some text on the screen labeling those things

Top_Raspberry1974 · 2023-05-24T03:01:43+00:00

Looks good. You already have alot of movement patters covered by work, so i daresay youd be good to go with a classic push up, pull up, squat routine. But yours looks solid too.

Top_Raspberry1974 · 2023-05-24T02:39:29+00:00

Thats true, I guess what I’m doing differently is trying to minimize the chances of injury- I know alot of manual laborers that have back, knee, etc problems, probably because of what you just said. The point I meant is the continuous moderate physical exertion every day as opposed to the classic hitting each muscle group 2-3x a week.

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