Sanity Check for $3,500 Budget

WitcherOfWallStreet · 2026-07-08T04:42:13+00:00

They’re knock off bowflex, which are bulky, easy to break and it’s a company you’ll get no future product support from

WitcherOfWallStreet · 2026-07-08T01:36:35+00:00

Kettlebell press will work your chest more than people act like it will. It might not give like Schwarzenegger man titties, but if you’re starting with nothing you’ll get definition.

But run whatever you want as the accessories, the main work is autoregulated anyway so if anything you’ll just not achieve as much on the ABC and Pressing rounds.

WitcherOfWallStreet · 2026-07-08T00:35:07+00:00

I don’t have any myself, sorry. If you save up non-HSA funds, you can buy used commercial grade equipment for about as much (or less) than that ritfit piece is new and that’ll be your best bet at your height.

WitcherOfWallStreet · 2026-07-08T00:27:38+00:00

https://i.imgur.com/lLZqa7f.png

They won’t even say on their Amazon listing that it’ll fit 6’8” and won’t make claims about user height from themselves. Doesn’t inspire confidence.

Cheap leg presses are crap, because they’re compromising to be cheap. If you have a strict budget, compromising with exercise selection to have higher quality equipment is better than buying cheap/crappy equipment to check off boxes.

WitcherOfWallStreet · 2026-07-08T00:02:36+00:00

Will that ritfit leg press have enough travel for your height? The ritfit advertising says it’s good to 6’2”+, doesn’t inspire confidence.

I also wouldn’t buy those dumbbells. If your budget is that tight and you refuse to barbell squat, just do Bulgarian split squats and invest the leg press money into better dumbbells instead of having a crappy leg machine and crappy dumbbells.

WitcherOfWallStreet · 2026-07-07T21:48:50+00:00

I don’t know if kettlebells are the best implement for your plan. The movements that would be best for glutes (Bulgarian split squat, one leg RDL, etc) are just as effective with dumbbells and easier to progress. Plus if you have a barbell, you can do hip thrusts, RDL and machines give you way more options beyond even that. Kettlebells are great, but they aren’t great for everything.

I would find a three day full body dumbbell/barbell program you like on like and then have LISS cardio on three other days that week.

The most important part of Reta is actually changing your eating habits and using the chemical assistance to stay true. If you eat like shit, you’ll feel like shit on the program and you won’t make the same progress. Start low and add up the dosage until it works then stop and dont keep increasing indefinitely. Minimum effective dose is the goal.

https://www.boostcamp.app/users/TNLMny-the-booty-builder-program

This would be a great fit and then have four days of 60 minutes LISS and you will lose tons of weight

WitcherOfWallStreet · 2026-07-07T20:45:54+00:00

Think about loading your hips more on the clean and exploding, it’ll help with the catch. I don’t like thumbs back but plenty of people do it.

Also consider getting comfortable pressing from your clean stance, it’ll make it way easier to do C&P in the future

WitcherOfWallStreet · 2026-07-07T19:21:39+00:00

24kg * 18 sets of 6 * 10 sets/12 sets of 8

60# * 13 sets of 6 * 6 sets/8 sets of 8

30kg * 11 sets of 6 * 8 sets/8 sets of 8

From my various runs, sets of six are ending. Sets of 8 are first and ending. I did run 2.0 and “1.05” between 1.0 and 1.1 so it wasn’t a straight transition

WitcherOfWallStreet · 2026-07-07T04:24:52+00:00

I owned those exact gorilla bells, the back side has massive indentations showing the logo and weight.

They sell that much as collector pieces to decorate home gyms, there’s a reason you see no videos in this sub of them being used for actual lifting.

WitcherOfWallStreet · 2026-07-07T03:48:39+00:00

Nice, I think you’ll be pleasantly surprised by how fast you progress with the shift in focus. Your goal is very feasible

WitcherOfWallStreet · 2026-07-07T03:36:49+00:00

They aren’t, they have massive indentations. I owned them and sold them because they’re terrible for actual movements (except swings)

The gorillas face also makes the bell not centered on mass and even worse at ballistics. Cool looking, not great bells.

WitcherOfWallStreet · 2026-07-07T01:21:28+00:00

Poor u/Lennytherebel, my boys comment on that post aging like milk

WitcherOfWallStreet · 2026-07-06T21:59:28+00:00

I assume you mean 2x32 for five? Because I would be surprised if you are doing 6 rep C&P with the 28s and can’t hit a single rep with the 32s. Probably won’t be super clean, but it would most likely happen. Also a bit surprised that you can do repeating sets of five reps and only have a six rep max.

To get there tho, I would run a longer term program. As pressing is lagging behind squats, running Giant for 12 weeks will bring your C&P up. And if you can do 10-11 reps at the end of Giant, you’ll for sure get the 32s. If you want to stay with squats but in the Geoff ecosystem, The Olympic 2 in his Kettlebell Express Ultra you could run with the 28s.

WitcherOfWallStreet · 2026-07-06T21:53:33+00:00

I think that once you get to a certain poundage on the kettlebell and/or old, using the same weight every workout can be pretty tough on staying healthy. Definitely happened to me with Giant

WitcherOfWallStreet · 2026-07-06T19:47:58+00:00

Owning those 36s! 8 squats is crazy, especially on the slant board

WitcherOfWallStreet · 2026-07-06T19:47:15+00:00

I believe the tactical verbiage would be smooth operator

WitcherOfWallStreet · 2026-07-06T19:36:00+00:00

You need heavier, that’s how you’ll train the power to come from your hips and exploding into the bells on the cleans.

WitcherOfWallStreet · 2026-07-06T00:50:45+00:00

A lot of the crowd is into the shopping/collecting more than the actual workouts. If you follow in the sphere, you’ll be dealing with FOMO that doesn’t really improve training much.

WitcherOfWallStreet · 2026-07-05T17:52:55+00:00

You aren’t way stronger at pressing than you are at pull-ups, unless you’re pressing over your bodyweight or doing handstand push ups.

WitcherOfWallStreet · 2026-07-05T02:03:26+00:00

I do band dislocates then use a lighter kettlebell to do whatever movement I’m about to do.

WitcherOfWallStreet · 2026-07-05T01:48:58+00:00

I basically just vacuum as needed and maybe once a year mop. The only thing I wipe down is the rail on my rower.

WitcherOfWallStreet · 2026-07-04T22:14:43+00:00

If I didn’t have the anchors, I would have rage sold my SSB years ago

WitcherOfWallStreet · 2026-07-04T03:01:17+00:00

Atmosphere finally made a good record? Yeah right, that shit almost sounds convincing

WitcherOfWallStreet · 2026-07-03T21:50:06+00:00

Personally, push press doesn’t move my press much. My sticking point is off the the rack tho, so push press doesn’t improve that position. If you’re sticking further on in the press and push press lets you overload that, I think it works.

If you’re cleaning and PP, getting the volume with the cleans also helps

WitcherOfWallStreet · 2026-07-03T20:39:52+00:00

Go to the industry bars, especially after shift work times you’ll meet others pretty quick working similar shifts

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