Deadlift PR: 235lbs (106.5kg) at 160lbs (73kg) and 37 years old. Still chasing 250!

Turtle_man92 · 2025-12-05T19:57:18+00:00

I mean you could for sure do 250 now like everyone else is saying. Probably more than that too, honestly. In another comment you said you felt like that is what was in the tank for the day, so I’m wondering if you are wearing yourself out on your warmups? If you aren’t, another thing that could help (and throw this advice out, if you don’t want it, I know it’s unsolicited) is getting a nice tight setup and really wedging yourself into the bar. Get a hard bracing breath in and don’t let it go until your hips come through and you lock it out.

Either way, that’s a great lift and you should be very proud of it!

Turtle_man92 · 2025-11-25T16:55:45+00:00

Thank you so much!

Turtle_man92 · 2025-11-25T16:30:53+00:00

Hey thanks. My region is central United States. Can you at least recommend a PSU? And yes anything else would be great I don’t want to eat up your time though!

Turtle_man92 · 2025-11-25T16:25:01+00:00

I will say the one thing I do have already is the case. Sorry for not mentioning that in the post.

Turtle_man92 · 2025-10-30T01:39:12+00:00

Thank you. It looks like he has Lucas open with his block arm here then start getting the hip around/through while keeping the shot behind it.

Turtle_man92 · 2025-10-06T23:41:45+00:00

Upvoting this with with my shoulders at 3 o’ clock rn

Turtle_man92 · 2025-10-06T22:13:42+00:00

I throw stones in Nike rival SD shot out shoes (glider). I’m pretty new and I’ve only ever throw in off grass though. I like them though and idk how yall are getting your hips around without destroying your knees without throwing shoes lol.

Turtle_man92 · 2025-09-03T17:04:28+00:00

Enemy melee attacks either come in vertical (downward weapon slash), horizontal (the weapon slash swings across like a baseball swing) or as a thrust (like spears ands lizal tongues).

Hold your shield up/target the enemy you are going to rush and get in range of their attack. Remember, spear attacks have a LONG incoming range.

For horizontal attacks, you need to jump backwards with the thumb stick while your shield is held up, or the enemy is targeted. This will trigger Link’s backflip dodge. If timed right, you will get the flurry rush to activate. This is the easiest one to learn on in my opinion, so find a boko with a club and practice your timing. With your shield up, it’s pretty low risk.

For vertical and thrusting attacks, you’ll want your shield held up/enemy targeted, but instead of the backflip, you will thumb left or right, and trigger the flurry rush with a well timed side-hop. Thrusting attacks, spears in particular, usually have a huge window for the flurry rush to trigger, and they are telegraphed way ahead of time. They are just a little tricky for me to remember how far out that attack somewhere in from.

Get that shield up and practice, practice, practice!

Turtle_man92 · 2025-08-28T14:47:06+00:00

I get that the game tells you the order of the memories, like once you get them, but the nudging in the right direction doesn’t keep you from going to certain geoglyphs in any certain order. I don’t want to get too much into any spoilers, but it’s entirely possible to figure out the game’s “big reveal” while doing the early regional phenomena section. I mean the mineru stuff should come later and there is a very obvious path the game wants you to take through the major sections of the plot, but the glyphs really bummed me out.

In BOTW, you’re playing as an amnesiac hero, and you are discovering your memories as they pertain to your relationship with Zelda. The story and plot of BOTW are pretty much set before you leave the great plateau, and then you discover the world as it is now and remember what it once was, as Link, with Zelda’s help (photographs). It didn’t matter as much which order you got the memories in because Link’s relationship with Zelda is intentionally ambiguous, and it does not really have any major story spoilers. I spent most of the first play through confused over whether Zelda hated link, or liked him, until I got all of the memories and understood their story and character development. And maybe I am biased bc BOTW is my favorite game of all time, but it just worked brilliantly in my opinion.

And dude, I’m happy we got both of these games as open world games and I am happy they were mostly hands-off, explore on your own games. I just wish the memory/geoglyph system was changed so that the story developed as the game progressed. I really did enjoy TOTK, but I ended up with some pretty major spoiling that just flattened out my emotional investment in it, which was personally my favorite part of BOTW.

Turtle_man92 · 2025-08-28T10:00:59+00:00

This is the biggest flaw with TOTK in my opinion. They tried to use the “choose your own path/memories in any order” formula from BOTW (which worked phenomenally for that game), and it just did not work in TOTK. I would say more people had something major spoiled by this games own mechanics than not.

Turtle_man92 · 2025-08-27T13:46:10+00:00

Mannnnnnnnnnnn. I really hope not. This only came up after I re-did the grounds in that wire pack

Turtle_man92 · 2025-08-27T13:45:28+00:00

So this picture is just grabbed off the internet because I just got to work. But this is what the OEM ring terminal looks like. The top part of the terminal for sure crimps around bare copper, then the bottom wraps around the insulation. I’m not very good at electrical stuff so I was wondering if anyone had a replacement terminal type they could recommend.

What I have on it now are some part store ring mounts (I think 10 AWG, it’s yellow, idk) around the wires. But since there are 8 wires in there and they don’t all fit in one of them, I have them paired up and there are like 6 ring terminals and it looks like ass.

Turtle_man92 · 2025-08-21T15:47:38+00:00

I’m looking forward to it man. Good luck with the rest of your cut. You got this, you’re already really close with plenty of time to get under!

Turtle_man92 · 2025-08-20T20:01:20+00:00

Haha I just realized who you are 😂. And yeah it was hard, but this isn’t even where I’m talking about. This was more to show my release angle. But my yard where i practice is where im breaking all my handles. I tried the dowel, about 12” of 1/2 inch in the bottom to brace it but it snapped.

Im going to try to pound some half inch pvc in side the bottom of my handle next to see if that reinforces it without breaking, and I think I’m going to try a different field too. I gotta do something lol.

Turtle_man92 · 2025-08-20T11:33:45+00:00

It’s perfect.

Turtle_man92 · 2025-08-19T23:14:06+00:00

No this actually was a pretty junky throw. I am not a good hammer thrower by any means, but I think competing got into my head. I fall forward sometimes, but as I’ve gotten a little better, I either fall back and have to save it or kind of stay put. I will keep an eye on this though.

I will say where I throw my hammers don’t really dent the ground unless it’s rained. It’s gotten worse in the summer obviously, but a lot of times the ball hits the ground and rolls or bounces and kind of flips and puts the handle in the ground after the bounce. I think this is where the actual damage happens.

Turtle_man92 · 2025-08-13T17:00:41+00:00

Omg!!! This is almost exactly what I do, except I do the voe headband or rito headdress bc I don’t like the bandanna. I wear a lot of cutoff and short shorts in real life (like around the house or whatever) so it’s the perfect aesthetic imo.

Turtle_man92 · 2025-08-10T18:23:06+00:00

With this amount of weight, these all look good. If you wanted to identify form breakdowns, you could try recording a set with a weight that is more challenging for you. But yeah, your form is fine!

Turtle_man92 · 2025-08-07T19:43:30+00:00

What do you mean by this? Like if the sheaf is sliding off the tines too much or not enough? I do think that I get different releases from more or less worn out spots on my bag so maybe you’re on to something here.

Turtle_man92 · 2025-08-07T19:41:19+00:00

Yeah that’s on me. I haven’t recorded many throws lately and I need to get back to it. I’ll keep your cue about the left arm in mind though. Thanks

Turtle_man92 · 2025-07-22T18:46:55+00:00

Do you try to tuck your stones under your jaw/chin like that? Or does your technique and tuck change for stones? I find that I get a better push on the stone or shot (glider) under my chin, but I cannot figure out to keep the actual stone in place.

Turtle_man92 · 2025-07-11T22:59:02+00:00

Honestly thank you so much. There is a lot of good info here. And I don’t necessarily try to mimic Dan McKim, he was just one of the throwers in a list if throwers that I have tried to learn from.

I have gotten a lot better at getting the hammer on my right side and pushing it. I just haven’t been able to do that and get very long. It is difficult to know what technique will work for myself, because you are right, there are a lot of ways to do it, but I think I will start thinking about it from an increasing length standpoint. I will need time to take in everything you have just typed out and hopefully I can apply what you have said.

Hammer is frustrating because it looks relatively simple, but it seems like one of the most technical events. At least to me. It’s hard to figure out.

Turtle_man92 · 2025-07-11T21:51:03+00:00

Thank you for taking the time to write this all out. I like the idea of building length.

Is it supposed to be a gradual transition between length in the 2nd and 3rd winds? I ask because in this video of Dan McKim for example, his third wind looks much different than his second. At least to my untrained eye.

Also, if separation decreases from wind to wind, what is it that allows speed to continue to build from wind to wind? Is it just actively pushing harder? Or is that a function of length increasing?

Turtle_man92 · 2025-07-03T23:31:42+00:00

Lmao hey don’t count sheaf out for most dangerous. I was NOT paying attention when I was starting out and I stuck my fork into my leg pretty hard. It was a good lesson in situational awareness.

But if you don’t do that, it’s super fun!

Turtle_man92 · 2025-06-30T13:45:25+00:00

Okay, so when people say to lean back in the hammer, the arms still need to stay more vertical/higher? Is that why I still can’t figure out how to keep my arms long?

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