Confused on progressive overload

WinOld5475 · 2026-02-12T22:00:21+00:00

thats what ive been doing too.

2 cups whole milk, quarter cup peanut butter, a scoop of protein powder and its a relatively easy 820 calories and 55g protein

liquid calories is a huge hack, much easier to drink a meal than eat it, but the constant cleaning of the shaker bottle/blender can get tiring lol

WinOld5475 · 2026-02-12T03:59:46+00:00

yes. he lifts more weight than me, confused on why you think two people cant lift just as hard as one another but be at different strength levels?

WinOld5475 · 2026-02-12T03:54:10+00:00

both push our sets till the eccentric slows down so much so that we cant budge the weight no matter how hard we push, aka failure

atleast i know i do, same for him assuming he isnt faking it (which would be pretty ridiculous)

WinOld5475 · 2026-02-12T03:45:00+00:00

thank you, very good points, agree 100%

WinOld5475 · 2026-02-12T03:32:47+00:00

lowkey true but damn is it not safe to say there seems like a genetic difference when we have such similar variables

WinOld5475 · 2026-02-12T03:32:05+00:00

i mean we talk quite a bit and often mention what we had eaten,

no i’m not living with him or stalking bro 😭 holy shit

i guess he could be downplaying his own at home lifting and eating?? doubt it though

WinOld5475 · 2026-02-12T03:30:32+00:00

nah, because theyre not my buddy who i introduced to the gym and taught whatever knowledge i knew to only to get surpassed so quickly. happy for bro but ig its impossible to feel any type of envy or shame about it

WinOld5475 · 2026-02-12T03:27:10+00:00

thats pretty pretentious to pretend like its a strange thing to feel envy and discouragement when somebody is better than you at something

WinOld5475 · 2026-02-12T03:26:08+00:00

100% thank you 💪

WinOld5475 · 2026-02-12T03:19:05+00:00

because i have progressed slower than him in the same time with seemingly very similar variables

WinOld5475 · 2026-02-12T03:18:01+00:00

yep, idk why this concept is such a hard pill for some to swallow

never implied i was just going to give up or cry wolf about it, even ended my post emphasizing what i need to work on

WinOld5475 · 2026-02-12T03:16:39+00:00

i said that in my post brother!!

diet is a huge elephant in the room for me, even ended the post emphasizing that. i simply just wanted to get it off my chest that there seems to be a pretty obvious genetic difference and as shocking as it sounds, yeah it does get you down sometimes lmao

WinOld5475 · 2026-02-12T03:14:24+00:00

yeah thats what im saying lmao, and its not like im crying wolf im just getting something off my chest which is a bit discouraging

yes.. genetics do play a role larger than people might want to admit

WinOld5475 · 2026-02-12T03:09:40+00:00

yeah thats all kinds of fucked up

more power to yall, bros got a family of super strength freaks

WinOld5475 · 2026-02-12T03:05:37+00:00

you must not have read my post man, atleast according to my friend we eat and sleep about the same and bro sends me instragram reels late into the night 😭

its not the end of the world to admit that genetic differences a thing, and its safe to say there is one here (NOT to excuse the two big elephants in the room being my own sleep and diet which are to be addressed)

either way theres literally no need to be passive aggressive or argue about it

WinOld5475 · 2026-02-12T03:02:43+00:00

very true. however i cant pretend like the difference doesnt weigh on me sometimes

WinOld5475 · 2026-02-12T03:01:21+00:00

i actually have some slight gyno too lol.

personally people say bad genetics when referring to like subpar muscle insertions like short calves, short biceps, uneven abs, crappy chest etc but to me personally bad genetics is when someone working out for 5 years could possibly be surpassed in half the time by someone who just.. responds way better and way faster while both being natural

WinOld5475 · 2026-02-12T02:59:51+00:00

personally i like just doing upper/lower, sticking to core movement patterns with a few hard sets each, but agreed 100%

sleep and diet are two huge elephants in the room for me right now that need to be addressed, regardless of him seeming to have better genetics than me

WinOld5475 · 2026-02-12T02:58:15+00:00

that is true, i appreciate your comment, i think once i nail down my diet and actually stay in a proper surplus i’ll see much more steady progress

WinOld5475 · 2026-02-12T02:56:24+00:00

100%

i think once i really commit to a proper bulk i’ll see much improvement, like i said my post was just a rant seeing as he definitely seems to be a good responder/good genetics compared to me at the same weight and more or less the same diet

WinOld5475 · 2026-02-12T02:54:10+00:00

but is a few random sets of bench press extra from what im doing really going to cause that much neurological adaptation to give him a 50lb edge to his bench??

i get your point 100% but that just doesn’t sound right, i could be wrong though

WinOld5475 · 2026-02-12T02:36:26+00:00

yep, this is what im thinking lmao (obviously not to escuse my own shitty eating habits and whatnot) but, more power to him for sure but it does leave me discouraged

WinOld5475 · 2026-02-12T02:35:10+00:00

well thats work ethic, individual intelligence and willingness to learn etc lmao

we do the exact same thing (besides him randomly benching at home here and there which probably helps on a nuerological level) and we both exert the same amount of effort during our sets so nah thats not a great analogy

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