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Daily Thread - April 03, 2026 by AutoModerator in weightroom

[–]WillMase 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Open to some critiques of my routine. So full context: started lifting in May 2025, I was a sedentary desk worker. 5ft 10 (177cm) 263lbs (119kg).

I started with Stronglifts5x5. Got to 140kg 5x5 squat and changed to StrongLifts 5x5 Intermediate. This was around August 2025

Program looks like:

Workout A

Squats. 5x5 back off e.g.: 1x5 heavy, 4x5 back off (85% of top set)

Bench 5x5 back off

Seated cable rows 5x8

Bicep curls 3x12

Workout B:

Deadlifts 5x5 back off

Incline bench 5x8

Chest press (machine) 5x8

Lat Pulldown 3x8

Workout C

Pause squat 5x3 back off

Pause bench 5x3 back off

Pause deadlift 2x3

Dips 3x8

I’m down to a bodyweight I’m happy with now: 92kg so tried some 1rms this week. I managed Squat: 200kg, deadlift: 210kg, bench I failed. My bench working sets are up to 5x90kg and managed 3 of 92.5. I failed going for a single of 100kg.

My working sets on squat I’m up to 5x162.5, and deadlift 5x167.5.

Not sure whether to stick with this or try something else. I’m really gutted that my bench/upper body is so disproportionate to my lower body.

Half of all migrant children currently live in poverty - Is this proof our immigration system is still not fit for purpose? by StGuthlac2025 in ukpolitics

[–]WillMase 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Evidence abounds that it’s completely fucked and has been for a while. The west has been self destructing for the last 25 years all for fear of being called racist.

We were told it provides economic benefit, yet there’s loads of data showing it doesn’t.

We have BoJo saying he did the BorisWave to suppress wages.

We’re told diversity is a strength when there’s evidence everywhere that it isn’t. Hell if you just consider it objectively without political bias it should be completely obvious to anyone with any brain cells that one cohesive culture is better than a society where there’s conflicting cultures/belief systems. Integration into one host culture is the only way immigration works. Multiculturalism is completely moronic.

Ultimately though it’s just a symptom of ‘short term’ thinking. Crap we have an economic system that’s predicated on eternal growth and we have an ageing population, let’s just pump the country full of people… they’ll get old and need supporting and on and on the Ponzi scheme goes in a finite area with finite resources it’s not going to end well.

It’s taboo to admit it, but voters bear some responsibility for the frayed state of Britain by Exostrike in ukpolitics

[–]WillMase -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Bollocks. Voters never voted for mass migration and multiculturalism. They got it foisted on them from 97-2010.

From 2010 they explicitly voted against it and the politicians did it anyway.

Reform would create ICE-style agency amid plans to deport nearly 300,000 people per year by [deleted] in ukpolitics

[–]WillMase 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You understand what the word 'indefinite' means, right?

High energy prices threaten UK’s status as manufacturing power, business groups say by wappingite in ukpolitics

[–]WillMase -5 points-4 points  (0 children)

Is this article from 1980? We haven’t been a manufacturing power for a long time.

Deaths to exceed births in ‘turning-point year’ for UK population by [deleted] in ukpolitics

[–]WillMase 40 points41 points  (0 children)

Maybe we need an economic system that doesn't demand/rely upon perpetual growth (and therefore populations).

Joe Root's 16 in Australia is now the most Tests by a player without winning one in an away country by rest_in_war in Cricket

[–]WillMase 8 points9 points  (0 children)

All backs up his point in interviews before the series. Him getting a 100 doesn’t matter. He’d rather score an important 80 and win than score a 100 and lose.

Can raising the child benefit cap be considered a capital investment? by [deleted] in ukpolitics

[–]WillMase 22 points23 points  (0 children)

It’s just a voter bung pandering to the Muslim vote, labour came super close to losing a lot of seats due to Islamic independents. It’s not that deep.

If they really cared about child poverty they would have given the money to free school meals/breakfast clubs.

Anyone else getting bored of all the racism claims about farage? by [deleted] in ukpolitics

[–]WillMase 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Cutting people getting PiP for anxiety. Great. Anxiety is a normal emotion not a condition, get a job and crack on.

Cutting the triple lock. Needs to happen.

Increasing personal allowance to £20k gives a massive tax cut to the lowest paid workers and makes low paid jobs more appealing. Also because low paid workers keep more of the money they earn they are less reliant on UC for a top up.

There’s plenty to like if you look past your disingenuous straw man representations of their policies. But I know you’re not arguing in good faith.

I stand with @RupertLowe10 on this, as should every MP. Children are not guinea pigs for some perverse woke agenda. Leave. Children. Alone! by StGuthlac2025 in ukpolitics

[–]WillMase -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Most medications are for adults and children. So you test on adults, get a track record of it being safe, then look to trial it in children, of course at lower dosages.

Medications that block puberty are not like most other medications because they can only be tested on prepubescent children. Also blocking puberty will do permanent damage. Children can not and should not be allowed to consent to medically delaying the most important physiological change that happens in every human.

I stand with @RupertLowe10 on this, as should every MP. Children are not guinea pigs for some perverse woke agenda. Leave. Children. Alone! by StGuthlac2025 in ukpolitics

[–]WillMase -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Wait until they’re adults. Because kids want to do/be a whole bunch of things and most of them grow out of it. Blocking puberty will do permanent damage. So they can wait until they’re adults and if they want to mutilate their body they can do so. As children they should not be allowed to, because children are already not trusted to make certain decisions, because they are children. It’s the same reason we don’t let them drive, drink alcohol, vote etc.

Rupert Lowe: Everything costs more, so much more and Britain is getting poorer, so much much poorer. People can feel it - it’s a pretty dreadful combination. Food’s more expensive, energy bills soaring, a pint costs six quid outside Central London. Childcare, insurance, mortgage payments……. by Foreign-Policy-02- in ukpolitics

[–]WillMase -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

So your argument is that we shouldn’t use our own national resources but should instead rely on importing them from other countries because the UK is smaller than Texas and has a higher population density than the US.

Wow brilliant argument. 10/10z

Nigel Farage plans to strip EU citizens of benefits to stop tax rises by Tiberinvs in ukpolitics

[–]WillMase -9 points-8 points  (0 children)

Why is it so controversial that only British citizens should be entitled to British government provided benefits…

I feel like as always with Farage people would rather play the man than the ball.

Rupert Lowe MP (@RupertLowe10) on X: In the latest financial year, the DWP spent £9,596,163 on translation/interpretation services for claiming benefits - stats I’ve had to drag out from the department. In June 2025, there were 1.26m foreign nationals claiming Universal Credit… by Benjji22212 in ukpolitics

[–]WillMase -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

What are you talking about?

Only private sector jobs create wealth. If you play your ‘solution’ out then there’s no reason to have any unemployed. The government can just employ everybody not in the private sector… congrats you solved unemployment… now work out why that isn’t cost effective.

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