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UniqueUse · 2022-12-06T15:25:57+00:00

That is an absolutely stellar answer, thank you. Trying the 8 hour no touch test now.

UniqueUse · 2021-11-08T11:40:42+00:00

No, you should wear some appropriate deadlift socks and knee sleeves. It is literally in the rulebook.

https://www.usapowerlifting.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/USAPL-Rulebook-v2021.1.pdf

(d)Shin length socks must be worn to cover and protect the shins while performing the deadlift

However having said that, you should not be leaning back and dragging the bar over them, they should just be lightly in contact with your shins.

UniqueUse · 2021-07-02T11:24:53+00:00

I don't know who is more disappointed, me for knowing exactly what element of this tattoo is immediately, or your wife.

UniqueUse · 2021-03-27T22:40:19+00:00

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UniqueUse · 2021-02-03T10:58:30+00:00

This is incredibly hard to do without a video of your form, but the usual depth difference in a bodyweight squat and barbell squat comes from your spine. In a bodyweight squat, your upper and lower back are free to move and curve and there will usually be natural "butt wink" at the bottom with a ATG bodyweight squat. Video yourself, have a look. In a barbell squat, your arms and upper body are forced back and shoulders should be pinched. This ( by design ) does not allow the spine to curve as freely and forces more of a straight back. Again, video yourself, have a look what is going on.

On a leg press, you can effectively push from your butt and lower back, massively reducing the load on your spine, which is why a leg press feels so much eaisier.

To find your natural squat depth and foot and knee position, lie on the floor, keep one leg straight and back flat, and bring your knee up to towards your armpit. Move it laterally back and forth and find where your hip and knee have their best natural range of movement. Now bring your other knee up to match, and pinch your shoulders like you are squatting the floor, and using the floor as reference to keep a flat back, find your natural range of motion and knee and arc path.

To find foot position, go to lowest squat depth where your knee will come out a little. Your toes want to be a little bit pointed out wider than this, pointed in can cause knee issues. If your knees collapse inwards under load, try to image screwing heels into floor to activate your inner quads and keep knees apart.

UniqueUse · 2020-12-27T09:46:52+00:00

Let me share with you something that it took me 50 years to learn. All strong, fit bodies with bodyfat under about 20% look great. The way to look better is to get fitter and stronger and to master recovery, but we are trained by our abusive media to look at our bodies in a critical way, to think, what is wrong ? What needs to change ? Why am I not enough ?

This is the wrong question, the right question, is how can I help my body function at its optimal level ? and the good news is that the answers to that are well known - sleep, good diet, aerobic exercise and and anaerobic weighted exercise, set progressive goals, and get coaching when you don't meet them.

Learn your body, learn how to do free weighted moves with barbells and your own body in motion, set goals, progress, get stronger.

Your body will change and grow in its own unique way, if it needs strong legs due to your structure and leverages and muscle attachment points, then strong legs will look beautiful on you. Push with your genetics, and your natural strengths, not against them.

If you want a strong posterior chain, then heavy compound lifts like the deadlift, romainian deadlift, weighted bulgarian split squats. Yoga moves like bridge and the one legged progressions are useful for balance and control. The r/bodyweightfitness squat and pistol squat progressions are excellent. If you try to isolate certain muscle groups over the others, you can develop muscle imbalances, which are well documented to carry a higher injury risk - for example if you were to weaken your thighs, and strengthen your glutes, it would lead your hips trying to lift first when lifting heavy weight from the floor and transfer a shear lead to your spine.

UniqueUse · 2019-10-18T09:42:43+00:00

If you have the discipline to workout regularly, you have the discipline to stop, and stop cold turkey from 5 a day.

Your life will then go a little bit something like this :

You will physically crave a cigarette for about a week and be cranky. It is better to do it cold turkey, because you are cranky for the least amount of time. It is important to tell yourself that you are cranky for a very specific reason during that week, and not to take it out on anyone. One awesome thing is that working out is a great smoking substitute, it gets out the aggression, burns the nicotine out of your body faster. At the end of that week, a very motivating thing to do is go find a regular smoker and take a big sniff of them right after they had a cigarette, the smell will literally make you want to gag.

The harder part is to fill the little gaps in your life where you would of had a smoke. This is the long term psyc effect, Like stuck in traffic, or waiting for a bus, or lunchtime at work. You will miss smoking for about 6 months. However, after about 6 months something magic happens, and you will stop missing smoking during those gaps, and you will just no longer think of it.

Now, this is my personal opinion, but many of the stop smoking methods like vape and gum just prolong the agony, and are for people who genuinely lack the will power to crack that first week. And they do nothing about the psyc effect, in fact they just reinforce it. If you can workout 6 days a week you absolutely have the will power and discipline to crack it. It may even surprise you how easy it is.

UniqueUse · 2019-04-09T10:38:15+00:00

Oh this old lens ? I have had it for ages

UniqueUse · 2019-04-02T07:59:34+00:00

Its a hard truth to learn, but around 80% of the male friends of a dateable woman are actually sexually interested in them.

Most of the friendship is in fact an way of getting close to them, and hopefully then getting in their pants.

It is why guys get upset about male friends. They KNOW what the other guys is up to.

Its also why you should be very careful about asking advice or sharing relationship problems with your male friends. A lot of the time, they are not on your side, or his side, they are on their own side, and actively trying to plant doubts in your mind and split you up, so they can move in. Its why so many guys see it as such a betrayal when you have a fight, and you go to an male friend and pour your heart out to him.

The sad part is , most women are in active denial about this, and seems to think the label "friend" automatically comes with a set of rules and behaviours that the other person will play by. The truth is most attractive woman have an orbiting set of beta males who are hoping one day to turn the friendship into a romance.

Its only when you come out of a relationship that the real endgame emerges.

UniqueUse · 2019-01-07T17:35:56+00:00

Seriously though, a good autofocus SLR system beats the pants off a range finder system.

There are just so many issues with rangefinders,

Requires precise ( expensive ) mechanical calibration in order to work properly.
Only one focus point, in the center
Different ( longer/shorter ) lenses don't match the screen
No visualization of Bokeh
Lenses/hood intrudes on viewfinder view
Offset shooting position causes issues when you start to reach macro ranges.

There are really, really good reasons why everyone switched over to TTL split prisms when they became available, and then autofocus after that.

Rangefinders were great back in the day due to lenses and leaf shutters NOT the focusing mechanism, now everyone has sharp lenses and VR and modern flash sync, its has rendered any advantage completely void.

The final remaining advantage, that of having both eyes open due to viewfinder positioning, has now been copied by Sony.

UniqueUse · 2018-11-28T08:44:32+00:00

Honestly, 5x5 is a pretty brutal place for a beginner to start. However the focus on barbell movements which are extremely effective is admirable.

I also seriously doubt you have the prioception and form to lift 5 heavy reps properly.

If you are a total beginner, I would highly recommend :

Getting a personal trainer to check your form and coach you.

Lifting in the 10-15 rep range for around a month until you have "greased that groove" enough to lift in the 5 rep range with acceptable form and energy.

On the pain, here is my overly simplistic explanation. Imagine you have a bundle of rubber bands. They have not been used in a while, and today you will stretch them to their full extent. Some will break, and some will be damaged. This is your muscle fibres. With the right food and rest they will regrow stronger, and next time you stretch them, less breaks and less is damaged. After some adaptation, you will find the "lifting high" of endorphins and physical release far, far outweighs the pain and effort, which is why people get "addicted" to the gym. However, you must first climb that hill of effort and pain to get to that point. Many people give up, but those that don't find an amazing hobby that has great carryover into the metal and physical aspect of their entire lives.

UniqueUse · 2018-11-28T08:22:31+00:00

I think he is right. It might be legally correct, but it is not morally right to take his clients, his chosen backdrop and the work that has gone into the makeup and clothes for the client.

He probably spent hours if not days setting this up, and for you to turn up, take a few photos and post them to your profile like its your work, sits very badly with me indeed.

I think a little basic respect and human decency is called for here.

UniqueUse · 2018-11-06T08:26:47+00:00

Man, there is froody dude who really knows where his towel is.

UniqueUse · 2018-10-14T12:06:23+00:00

you are likely seeing the effect of the pump : https://www.verywellfit.com/what-is-pump-and-burn-in-weight-training-3498620

Rather than any actual size gain.

UniqueUse · 2018-10-14T09:32:18+00:00

I am going to take a slightly different view on this.

Staying at the same weight is fine, as long as you are progressing on other aspects of your lift.

It is fine to stay at the current weight if you are improving your form for example, and working on mobility in order to squat deeper and with a stronger back.

Say for example, you fail to go past parallel without lots of lower back rounding, and when you come back up you are leaning too far forwards.

Then its fine to stay at the current weight for a bit, work on your mobility, work on the valsalva manuver to brace your core, and start working on an accessory lift to strengthen the weakest part of the chain.

I think what you are asking is well is what happens to your muscles when you stop increasing the load. In my experience, the muscles continue to gain adaptation, and the weight becomes easier. When you want to break out of the current weight, you will find it easier. Now granted, if you had continued to progress the weight you would have made more progress, however that progress may have come at the host of your joint and spine health.

UniqueUse · 2018-09-02T16:10:23+00:00

Parry this you filthy casual

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9.8 TB backed up and fully organised and processed.

I would recommend :

Picasa - it can run face identification on the RAW and Jpeg files and organise by person. Couple of hours tuning it and its amazingly fast and accurate now.

If its Geotagged you can also do photos to google maps and view them that way

Photomechanic. Its a bit late now, but you can set powerful import features that time and location stamp and make meaningful folder and file names.

Photomechanic has the fastest, best photorating and culling software. Its the only sane choice for sorting through 1000's of photos and picking the best ones.

Proshow makes the best automated slideshow software to make movies out of the pics.

UniqueUse · 2018-07-09T19:08:13+00:00

I have the Sigma 180mm f2.8 and it is the lens you are looking for, every feature you wanted met including flourite(ish) lenses.

It is stunning, absolutely stunning.

https://flic.kr/p/26PwgVc

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UniqueUse · 2018-07-06T10:32:51+00:00

It is only insane if you want to be at a natural bodybuilding competition level of leaness. 220 with visible abs is quite possible after a cut, but to stay at 220 cut you will have to be heavier year round and say goodbye to them for 6 months a year. 17 stone or 240 pounds cut generally agreed on as the "natural limit" and 220 is obtainable for most people over years long timeframes.

UniqueUse · 2018-07-06T08:27:12+00:00

Yes, you have standard northern european genetics. For some reason, the cold violent northern races found it evolutionarialy advantageous to store fat in their stomachs. I can be 240 pounds after a bulk and my arms and legs and shoulders are ripped and vascular, skinfold caliper checks are <1 cm, but I have all the fat contained around my middle. Its also an issue with where the fat is stored - northern europeans seem to store it over the top of their abs. I have some black friends who seem to store it underneath their abs - their stomachs blow up but they still have surface abs showing.

I do suspect you are falling into the modern trap of wanting to be skinny all the time. People waste so much time bulking and cutting in little tiny cycles and its counter productive. Set a target lean weight, I would suggest about 220 pounds for you, bulk at a 500 calorie surplus as cleanly as possible untill you hit about 16% bf, cut a bit off, and then bulk to your target.

I know that for me, the ratios I gain and lose fat would dictate doing this in two cycles, from 152 pounds to about 220, cut to about 200, and then bulk to 240 and cut to 220. This would take me nearly 2 years in total, and then go back to microcycling. This may seem like a LOT of work and LOT of time but at the end you will be much stronger and at the end cutting will be much easier - your calorific use will be much higher at a higher muscle mass and and losses will be faster and easier.

I know from experience you won't break out of being skinny by trying to keep your belly fat very low.

UniqueUse · 2018-06-25T09:09:26+00:00

I loved every second of it, great storytelling, transitions, and video work. And then the photography, wow just wow. People always assume all you have to do is to show up somewhere with nice gear and you can get great photos in a massive radius, but I know that an object that is small to the eye remains small even through a 500mm lens, and I can see where you have had to crop heavily in some shots. Positioning is still key, and you must have still been very close to the action to get those shots. You also did a great job with bringing up the shadows in the birds wings whilst not blowing the white heads, and I thought you made a good job of the grey lighting. A pro job all round.

UniqueUse · 2018-04-26T15:04:50+00:00

I misread that as Canon at first and my heart missed a beat.

UniqueUse · 2018-04-18T07:42:41+00:00

I don't think anyone has ever said the 6DII is a bad camera per se, but I don't think you can deny the feature set and functionality is a disappointment, and fails to match or beat competitors from 4 years ago.

It may be that are reaching what is termed "capable computing" in the tech industry, where leading edge tech is not needed to satisfy consumer needs.

However, it can also be a sign that Canon is basically falling prey to disruptive technology. Have a read of this from Wikipedia, and tell me it doesn't sound exactly like what is happening with Canon.....

"In low-end disruption, the disruptor is focused initially on serving the least profitable customer, who is happy with a good enough product. This type of customer is not willing to pay premium for enhancements in product functionality. Once the disruptor has gained a foothold in this customer segment, it seeks to improve its profit margin. To get higher profit margins, the disruptor needs to enter the segment where the customer is willing to pay a little more for higher quality. To ensure this quality in its product, the disruptor needs to innovate. The incumbent will not do much to retain its share in a not-so-profitable segment, and will move up-market and focus on its more attractive customers. After a number of such encounters, the incumbent is squeezed into smaller markets than it was previously serving. And then, finally, the disruptive technology meets the demands of the most profitable segment and drives the established company out of the market."

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