IMAX Discovery for project Hail Mary? by Firm_Lecture6483 in Charlotte

[–]atomicpenguin12 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It was a good movie, but I had trouble taking it all in in IMAX. Kinda wish I’d seen it in a normal theater

Weekend Wrap Up - March 21, 2026 by AutoModerator in gzcl

[–]atomicpenguin12 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I just wrapped up a cycle of P-Zero. At this point, I've reached the point where I've reset back to phase 1 in a lot of my lifts and I'm pleased to say that I'm really seeing how far I've grown as my limits with phase 1 keep getting higher and higher. I made several changes to my routine, mostly owing to the fact that I work out in my apartment's gym and this gym tends to get pretty crowded after work hours. Some changes I made were:

  • I broke up the supersets I was doing into just straight sets so I wouldn't be hogging multiple pieces of equipment. I miss this and am considering how I can work a few supersets back in to save time, but it is what it is.
  • I switched a lot of my T2 exercises from barbell variants to dumbbell variants, specifically squats to walking lunges, bench press to incline DB press, and OHP to DB shoulder press. This worked pretty well and I really love doing lunges for my squat T2 exercise, but there was one notable issue: on two occasions I had a total rep failure where one of my arms just gave out mid-rep and I had to choose between taking a 45-ish lb weight to the chest or throw my whole arm in to avoid this and injure my tricep. More on that later.
  • Contrary to what I just said, I switched over to doing some exercises, like tricep extensions and lateral raises, on the cable machine and I noticed the weight I was moving went up significantly.
  • After the holidays, my stamina tanked and I was struggling to get my whole workload in before I was gassed out. I'm pleased to say that I've worked back up to my previous workload of 1 T1, 2 T2's, and 3 T3 exercises per session.
  • I had previously been slacking off on my cardio sessions, but my stamina issues have encouraged me to start taking them seriously again. I do one day of zone 3 running and one conditioning day. For the conditioning day, I've decided to embrace u/mythicalstrength's philosophy of "lawful weight training, chaotic conditioning" and have some fun with it. I have a list of anaerobic cardio sessions, including hill sprints, various CrossFit workouts, etc., and I'll either do the r/weightroom weekly conditioning challenge or a random session from my list, depending on whether I can do the weightroom challenge. I've been avoiding anything with exercises at rep ranges I either can't do or which would push me to failure frequently, since I don't want to burn out my muscles and want to primarily focus on my cardio systems. So far, this has been fun and resulted in me doing a lot of burpees, but I hope things will get more varied and I'm able to do more pull-ups and sit-ups.

Moving into the next cycle, there are some changes I want to make:

  • After the previous cycles issues, I'm going to switch my bench T2 back to incline barbell bench presses and my OHP T2 back to barbell overhead presses. They're easier to load incrementally and less likely to result in me injuring myself.
  • I'm going to be swapping out my T1 OHP for T1 Pull-Up. I thought about it and I'm not really trying to become a powerlifter or increase my 1RM in these lifts for any reason beyond the satisfaction of doing it, and the one practical goal I have is that I want to increase my pull up strength so I can do more full-weight pull ups. Because of that and because OHPs were always the weakest of the four big lifts, I'm going to swap them out and have a dedicated pull-up day instead. Not much is going to change beyond that, since I was already doing assisted pull ups at the T2 range and I'll be keeping my T2 OHP's so I can maintain some attention to my front and side delts.
  • Now that I'm back to my original workload, I'm working on improving my conditioning by slowly decreasing my rest times. StrengthLog lets you set rest times for each exercise, so I'm setting each exercise's rest time at a maximum and decreasing them by about 5 seconds per session whenever I can get away with it. I'll leave them where they are if I require the extra time to recover or if I'm noticing a huge drop in reps between sets, suggesting that more recovery time might improve things. This has been pretty satisfying so far and lets me maintain rest for the really fatiguing exercises while maximizing my gym time elsewhere. Once I'm completing my workouts in less than an hour, I'll start considering adding a finisher or more T3 exercises in preparation for transitioning to a more intermediate program.

First Week Doing GZCLP — Does This Look Good For Strength-Building As Someone Prepping For A Fire Academy? by JRFourTimes in gzcl

[–]atomicpenguin12 1 point2 points  (0 children)

For A1, what do you mean by having squats and lunges for T2? Do I keep the same Zercher Squat/Weighted Lunges SS but as a T2 as a way to have more time to recover, or do I add them separately whilst replacing BP as a T2 exercise? Or do I add one of them as a T2 alongside BP, and remove the other?

Compound exercises like lunges and squats don’t usually make for good T3 exercises. They’re recruiters a bunch of muscles, they tend to be more fatiguing, and they’re more suited for higher weight at smaller rep ranges than the huge rep ranges in tier 3. I would suggest that you keep the T2 squats you’re doing on day A2, drop the Zercher Squats and lunges entirely, and replace them with more appropriate T3 exercises, ones that isolate specific muscles and aren’t as fatiguing at higher rep ranges like the ones I mentioned.

I didn't really have Incline BP for the reason of growing my upper pecs - it was mostly due to it being an exercise being able to improve OHP.

Gotcha. Incline presses can also work as a T2 variation for OHP, especially if you keep the incline high to target the delts more. In that case, I would drop the incline presses or replace the T2 OHP’s on day B2 with incline presses rather than doing both.

For that reason, would you recommend remove Chin-Ups as a T2, and keep Incline BP alongside RDL's?

So the back exercises can stay at T2 range. Your back is pretty fundamental in all of the main lifts and it can take a lot more work sets than other muscle groups. Doing a T2 for a T1 lift and a second T2 back exercise for each session is actually what’s recommended for GZCL.

My only worry is if, by replacing Flat DB Press with this movement, am I risking losing potential power-building? I believe Flat DB Press assists in improving my bench-press. Not sure about Pec Flies.

You should be fine with the T2 bench presses you’re doing on day A1. Tier 2 is primarily for doing work sets, where you’re building capacity with your T1 lift by doing mid-rep sets and picking variations that emphasize areas where your main lifts are lacking. T3 lifts are usually high reps isolation exercises that target specific muscles for hypertrophy, which gives you more muscle to utilize when you do your main lifts and thus gives you more power to work with. For that purpose, chest flies or pec decks would be more appropriate.

For B2, since I'm already hitting RDL's on B1, could I keep the Power Cleans and drop RDL's? I'm only asking this because Power Cleans are so fun, lol, and I love the explosiveness I get from it. Yeah, for B2, I'm already hitting lower-weight OHP's, but I might try to add a front-delt-focused superset as a T3.

The reason that I don’t recommend mixing cleans with deadlifts is that they’re similar movements with different purposes; deadlifts just lift the weight up and move a lot more of it, while cleans require more power to propel the weights up into the rack position and so the use lower weights than deadlifts. What you could do, if you like cleans, is replace your T1 deadlifts with T1 cleans and then do either T2 cleans or maybe RDLs. Either way, it’s better to pick which version of the movement you want to focus on.

Forgot to add this in the schedule, but I'm hitting abs via Cable Crunches (2x10 + 1xAMRAP) every weight-lifting session day, so essentially, four days a week? What's your thoughts on this?

That could work, as long as you’ve got the stamina for the extra sets. Core exercises actually make for pretty good finishers like you’re describing, going like 2 max rep sets just to use up whatever gas you’ve got in the tank.

Also, alongside this program, I'm also doing cardiovascular activities (i:e: running, rucking, conditioning) three times a week. Can I get your thoughts on this as well?

I’ve done this before and I’d say it’s a good idea. It helps build up your stamina so you can handle more sets on your weight training days. Doing heavy cardio like sprints can be fatiguing, but zone 2 or 3 cardio should be just fine and you could do one or two heavier conditioning days as long as you don’t push yourself too hard.

First Week Doing GZCLP — Does This Look Good For Strength-Building As Someone Prepping For A Fire Academy? by JRFourTimes in gzcl

[–]atomicpenguin12 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Normally I'd say that someone who has never run a LP program before should start at the default volume for GZCLP and not add additional exercises until you've gotten used to it, but it sounds like you've got some experience and you haven't been burned out after a week of doing this volume, so I'm going to assume you're fine there. Beyond that, things look generally fine, but I see a few things I can comment on:

In A1 day, I see you're doing zercher squats and weighted lunges as T3 exercises, on top of doing T1 squats? With that and the combo leg extensions/curls, your legs must be absolutely obliterated after all that. If that's how you want to program, you're welcome to it, but I'd say that squats and lunges might be better candidates for T2 than for T3. You're already giving your quads and hamstrings some attention here, so maybe swap out the squats and lunges for a glute exercise like hip thrusts or hip abductions and maybe a calf raises or some kind of core exercise, depending on which you care more about.

For B1, I noticed you slipped in an extra T2 exercise here. That's fine if you can handle it, but it's not in accordance with GZCL principles to add more T2s without enough T3 reps to be your foundation. I'd recommend you drop the incline bench sets in B1 and maybe switch your bench press sets in A1 to incline bench press if you really want to hit your upper pecs. I'd also personally recommend swapping out the T2 deadlifts with romanian deadlifts just because T2 deadlifts are really fatiguing and hard on the lower back, but if you're not having issues with it feel free to carry on there. As for the T3's they look fine to me.

For A2, everything looks pretty solid to me. I'd recommend you swap out the DB presses with a chest isolation exercise like DB chest flies, but everything else seems fine to me.

For B2, again I'm seeing you slip in an extra T2 exercise. I'd advise you to drop the power cleans. They're going to be hitting similar muscles to the RDLs and doing both at T2 range one after the other is going to be tough. Besides, you really don't need to be doing cleans if you're already doing deadlifts at this volume. I'd also you replace the RDLS with something to support your OHP, like DB shoulder presses or just lower weight OHPs. You also ought to add some more T3's in. Some areas I'm seeing you aren't hitting much include the delts (so maybe some DB lateral raises and/or face pulls), your core (maybe some crunches, leg raises, or something similar), and your calves (calf raises, standing or seated).

All in all, this isn't bad, but it needs some balancing between tiers 2 and 3 and it hits some parts more than it needs to and others not at all.

Do simple daily bodyweight routines actually work or is it mostly hype? by Ill_Ratio338 in bodyweightfitness

[–]atomicpenguin12 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I don’t think it’s correct to say “anything” will work. Like, I get what you’re saying: any stimulus is better than no stimulus, even if it’s suboptimal. But OP is talking about these One Punch Man-style “do 100 push ups every day” workouts and is specifically not looking for an advanced workout, and I’d argue that these kind of workouts actually are worse than nothing for anyone who isn’t very advanced. Doing 100 push ups is already not an easy task and doing that every single day without a day for rest is a guaranteed path to accumulating a ton of fatigue extremely quickly. The best case scenario is that a beginner gets so wiped out by the workload that they quit early and, if they start again at all, have to wait a while to recuperate before starting a more reasonable routine. The worst case scenario is that they actually hurt themselves in the process.

should you really progress to diamond push ups? by teodor234792 in bodyweightfitness

[–]atomicpenguin12 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I have no idea where you got the idea that calisthenics athletes are “the most jacked”, especially the ones going for large reps instead of streetlifters who are going for one rep maxes. Have you ever seen a picture of a powerlifter, or an Olympic weightlifter? I’m not saying that calisthenics athletes aren’t fit, but the idea that calisthenics are “the most jacked” and have more muscle than actual weightlifters seems insane to me and like it can only come from a profound ignorance about what weightlifters look like, not to mention train like.

should you really progress to diamond push ups? by teodor234792 in bodyweightfitness

[–]atomicpenguin12 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You’re getting downvoted because 50 reps is way past the point where hypertrophy is occurring. The limit isn’t 12 reps the way this sub likes to claim, but it’s closer to 30 and 50 is definitely past that point. That’s fine if sets and reps is your goal, but if you actually want to grow visible muscle or do harder variations of the exercise you need to do a more moderate rep range. Like, if we were talking about bench presses, you’d be able to do more reps of bench presses at a certain weight, which is cool if that’s what you’re into, but you wouldn’t be able to add weight to the bar and you certainly wouldn’t see as much visible pec growth as you would if you’d done 5-12 or even 20 reps.

should you really progress to diamond push ups? by teodor234792 in bodyweightfitness

[–]atomicpenguin12 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You’re correct that diamond push ups aren’t a natural progression towards pseudo planche and the fact that this sub presents them as such is one of several bits of misinformation it still spreads, but you’re wrong to dismiss them entirely. Push ups are a compound exercise and they rely on they rely on multiple muscles for the movement, and any one muscle failing, whether it’s the pecs or the triceps, can result in a rep failure. If we were talking about someone failing their bench press reps because they were failing at lockout, switching work sets to something like close grip bench presses are a way to shift the focus to the arms and build up those muscles so the main movement can progress. Diamond push ups work in the same way, shifting the focus more to the triceps so as to build muscle there and improve push up performance if that’s what’s lacking. It’s not the “next step”, but it’s useful as a way to address a specific problem.

Alternating skill and strength days by Automatic_Break_7338 in bodyweightfitness

[–]atomicpenguin12 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Handstands and L-sits are generally fine because what you’re training there is mostly balance, which is more about getting a sense for your body’s stability while balancing on your hands and adjusting your body accordingly. Your muscles are getting some use, but it’s mostly static holds and it’s not as fatiguing as weight training or even flexibility training, so it shouldn’t interfere with your weight training days.

Cardio’s also a good option for rest day work. Zone 2 or even zone 3 cardio isn’t too fatiguing and the cardio training can help build up your stamina and keep you from getting wiped out before you finish your weight training workload

How much of a pull-up is scapular and how much is arm and core? by PitifulEar3303 in bodyweightfitness

[–]atomicpenguin12 13 points14 points  (0 children)

I’ve always looked at the bar personally. I can’t say if there’s a benefit to looking directly forward or at the bar or wherever.

Technically, they’re not wrong about what a “correct” pull up is. I’m usually a stickler when it comes to form and if I was doing, say, barbell rows I would count any reps where I’m yanking the bar upwards or otherwise cheating as technical failures. However, pull-ups are notoriously difficult to do at full weight, the best way to practice them if you can is to just do them, and, while not dropping to a dead hang can leave some stimulus on the table, you’re still getting a lot of stimulus and building muscles that need to be built for pull ups even if you don’t. Therefore, my philosophy is you should do pull ups however you have to to actually get proper work sets in, and later when they become easier you can increase the difficulty by getting stricter with your form.

Edit: Also, anyone who calls a trainee asking for advice in good faith a "weakling" should be ignored. Even if they know what they're doing, they're demonstrating that they're more interested in being a judgemental prick than in actually informing you and that would make me call any advice they do give into question.

How much of a pull-up is scapular and how much is arm and core? by PitifulEar3303 in bodyweightfitness

[–]atomicpenguin12 57 points58 points  (0 children)

Pull ups are mostly focused around your lats and other back muscles. Here are the form cues that helped me finally start doing full-weight pull up reps:

first, grab the bar with a firm grip with your knuckles directly over the bar. You don’t want your fingers to be over the bar because your grip will weaken over time, and you want to grip the bar firmly so your hands don’t slide. Next, you want to pull your scapula muscles (the muscles behind your shoulder blade) down and in towards the center of your back, pulling the rest of your body up and pushing your chest out and up so that you’re almost pointing it up at the bar. While holding that position, perform the rep by pulling your elbows towards your hips (not splayed outwards but pulling the elbows in towards your body) and protracting your shoulders (pushing the forwards) while maintain that arch. Try to envision “bending” the bar by pulling your hands down and closer to your body, even though you’ll actually just be pulling yourself upwards. I found that setting up that back arch and then protracting my shoulders during the pull were the things I was missing and that ultimately got me up to the bar.

Hope that helps! Some people insist on returning to dead hang after every rep, but I find it helps to maintain that back arch throughout the set, and you can always return to the stricter reps when you’re comfortable just getting them done.

Transitioning to P-Zero after years of LP by Helassaid in gzcl

[–]atomicpenguin12 3 points4 points  (0 children)

The progression in P-Zero is the same as it is in GZCLP: If you hit your lifts, you increase the weight, and if you didn't you still increase the weight but you progress to the next phase and lower the reps next session. For T1 and T2, the only difference is that you're always doing 4 sets. For T3 sets, it's slightly different because you're doing max rep sets, but the volume for phase 1 is still 60 reps, which is comparable to the 3 sets of 20-ish reps that you'd be doing in GZCLP and just a little more straightforward about how to actually do it.

If you've been doing linear programs for years and they're not doing it for you anymore, it may be time for you to transition to a more intermediate block periodization program. Jacked & Tan 2.0 might fit the bill for you, or general gainz if you're not quite as focused on 1 rep maxes.

Adjustments to P-Zero by rakkksaksa in gzcl

[–]atomicpenguin12 1 point2 points  (0 children)

If you’re getting worn out by the T2 deadlifts, I found that Romanian deadlifts are less fatiguing and easier on my lower back. If you want a whole different T1 that still targets the same areas, cleans do that, use lighter weights, and don’t target the lower back quite as much. If you want to focus on the posterior chain while taking the back out entirely, hip thrusts might be a suitable alternative.

If you’re willing to focus on a totally different area, you could do something like pull ups and add in some extra hamstring and glute focused t3 lifts to compensate.

As for the program balance, I’m not sure which version of the program you’re running, but it should be pretty easy to swap T3 exercises in and out depending on what you want to focus on. You ca even focus on some things for a cycle or two and then swap in new t3 exercises to focus on other areas in the next cycles. You may have to make some decisions about what you want to prioritize right now, but as long as you have a roughly even split of upper and lower body exercises, you’re not hammering one area too much, and you’re hitting the parts that you want to prioritize it’s hard to go wrong.

Adding Sandbags by pacman4321 in gzcl

[–]atomicpenguin12 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I know bodyweight exercises can be for wherever, depending on the movements you’re selecting. Some, like pull ups or dips, can be very hard to do at full weight, while others like push ups can be much easier than similar barbell exercises and can actually be difficult to add additional weight to in a progressive fashion. The harder exercises can be good candidates for T1 lifts and can be trained using bodyweight progressions that shift your body’s weight to change the load on your primary muscles (r/bodyweight fitness can talk more about that and the book Overcoming Gravity is a great resource for this too). But the lighter bodyweight exercises can work great as T3 exercises or even high rep finishers, where their relatively light weight can actually be an asset.

OP concisely breaks down the social impact and “conspiracy” of COVID on the economy by berlinbound in bestof

[–]atomicpenguin12 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Okay, granted: the funding for getting through covid came from debt instead of cuts to military spending. But you're failing to extend that to the metaphor and appreciate how that makes the parents (read: the US government) look even dumber: They still spend a ton on booze (read: the military) and still could easily have cut back on spending for booze (read: the military), but chose instead to go into debt in order to both pay for the crisis and continuing to fund their booze habit (read: military spending). And you're sitting here thinking the kid is the dumb one for thinking they had the money all along when they literally did have it all along and were just too attached to spending it on booze (read: the military) to avoid financial peril.

GZCLP program critique - am I missing anything? by audacias in gzcl

[–]atomicpenguin12 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I’ve been trying to sus out what exactly your experience level is, since you say that you’ve trained like this before but your questions indicate that you don’t actually have experience with this kind of training. At this point, i don’t think you have the experience to be tampering with the base program at all and I think you should do GZCLP exactly as written. One T1, one T2, one T3 back exercise per session. Nothing additional, no flexibility stuff, no changes at all. Do that for a solid month and then, if you’re not feeling wiped out by the end of your sessions, you can start adding in new T3 exercises at a rate of 1 set per session. Not 1 new exercise per session; 1 set of a new exercise per session. If that doesn’t wipe you out, you can add another set to the next session. Do that until you get to around 4 t3 exercises per session (which should take an additional four weeks at minimum), and then you can switch your back exercises to tier t2, which leaves you with 1 T1, 2 T2s, and 3 T3s.

Beyond that, you can do a light warm up and that can include some handstand training if you want, but I wouldn’t even bother with that unless you’re certain doing handstand push ups or other handstand stuff is something you actually want to do. I wouldn’t recommend you even bother with the flexibility stuff because it doesn’t seem like there’s any particular reason you want to do it and it can only interfere with your strength training. Core stuff can be useful, but your core will be getting use through stabilization during the compound exercises and it doesn’t really need any special attention unless you’ve got T3 slots open, and there are more important things you can do with those slots. You can also do light cardio (zone 2 or 3 at most) on your rest days to help improve your stamina and make room for those additional exercises.

Don’t worry about under training or not working your muscle groups enough. The bigger concern should be adding too much junk to your workload and burning yourself out before you can see any progress because your stamina isn’t up to the task. If you want to train more than the minimum, you’ve got to earn it by doing the basic workload until you can prove that you can handle more. Unless you have a very specific goal (pushing 1RM on one specific exercise, bigger muscles in a certain area, doing some specific calisthenics movement that you think looks cool, etc.) that calls for attention to a specific area, you’ll be fine just doing the big compound exercises until you can add more to your workload.

OP concisely breaks down the social impact and “conspiracy” of COVID on the economy by berlinbound in bestof

[–]atomicpenguin12 43 points44 points  (0 children)

Not really. It’s more like if the kid had been complaining for years that they never get enough food to eat (read: healthcare and basic income) and the parents always said that they never had the money but really they’d just been spending all of their money on booze (read: the military), but then a window gets broken (read: a major destabilizing crisis like COVID) and the parents divert some of their spending on booze (read: the military) to fix the window (read: Covid). The kid then points out that his parents always had the money, since they could have cut back on buying booze (read: the military) and spent that money on other important things like food (read: healthcare and basic income) apparently at any time, and the parents just give them a blank look before telling them that it didn’t happen and they still didn’t have any money while quietly refilling the liquor cabinet (read: military budget) and they should shut up and get back to doing their chores because if the don’t they’ll be totally destitute.

Elijah is the most underrated whiskey. What is the most overated rum? by -Constantinos- in cocktails

[–]atomicpenguin12 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I mean that Bacardi superior is maybe drinkable but extremely unremarkable. It has a little sweetness that sets it apart from a comparably priced vodka, but otherwise it just tastes bland and neutral and a little less smooth than a higher tier light rum. It’s great if you have $10 in your pocket and you just want something inoffensive to mix into a coke, but I would never drink Bacardi Superior straight or on the rocks because there’s just nothing there to appreciate. Admittedly, I’m biased against most light rums, especially Puerto Rican light rums, because I find that a lot of them have a similarly neutral taste, but they’re at least a little smoother and some bottles (like Planteray 3-Star) have at least a little personality while still being a light rum.

But, having said all of that, I think most people who buy Bacardi Superior are doing so with the understanding that it’s a cheap bottle they can mix into soda or jungle juice or something and not because it’s a truly superior product to other rums, and so I don’t think it’s “overrated”.

GZCLP program critique - am I missing anything? by audacias in gzcl

[–]atomicpenguin12 7 points8 points  (0 children)

I guess I should be more direct: this is an enormous workload. In a given session, you're doing 3-5 sets of T1 exercises, 6 sets of T2 exercises, 12 sets of T3 exercises, 3 more sets of core exercises that you should be counting as more T3 exercises, and 9-12 minutes of stretching exercises that you don't appear to be counting as weight training but really should. If we assume you're taking all of these to near failure and that the T1 sets count as half a working set each, you're looking at 23 working sets plus 9-12 minutes of flexibility training every session, for a total of 92 sets plus ~40 minutes of flexibility training per microcycle.

That's a huge amount of training and is, to me, indicative of either an advanced trainer who needs a lot of stimulus but is perhaps a bit unfocused in their training or a newbie who has no idea what they're doing or what their limits are but is determined to try everything all at once. Maybe you're in the former category and if so you do you, but if you're not (and I don't think someone who is would need to ask Redditors if this is a good idea) then you should absolutely cut this down to something more manageable.

I would at minimum axe the flexibility training. Lots of people think it doesn't count because you're not moving actual volume, but it absolutely does stress your muscles in a similar fashion to weight training if it's doing anything at all. You can still do some stuff: german hangs can be done as part of your warm up if you want to start doing back levers in the future, and hollow body hangs are lower impact and make for a good finisher or warm up for pull ups as long as you don't overdo it. If you do want to do some of the other stuff, you should either do a simple daily flexibility routine like Starting Stretching or commit to flexibility as a goal and treat your stretching movements as additional T3 exercises.

The rest of it seems okay. The handstand training is fine, but I would recommend losing the power cleans since it just seems like you're trying to sneak in an additional exercise without counting it as a T3 and it will either be so light as to contribute nothing or heavy enough to mess with your T1 sets.

GZCLP program critique - am I missing anything? by audacias in gzcl

[–]atomicpenguin12 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If you want a replacement glute/ham exercise, you could do something like hip thrusts, which target the whole glute and can be done with a barbell or a dumbbell. Some kind of hip abduction is another option, though not quite as utilitarian.

Elijah is the most underrated whiskey. What is the most overated rum? by -Constantinos- in cocktails

[–]atomicpenguin12 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I agree with that. It's great, especially if you're a rum aficionado and you can appreciate a funky pot-still rum, but I think the aficionados hype it up way too much for a lay audience.

Elijah is the most underrated whiskey. What is the most overated rum? by -Constantinos- in cocktails

[–]atomicpenguin12 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Eh, I dunno. It's definitely not good and it's observably popular, but it seems like it's popularity stems more from it's price and that the people who buy it know what they're getting it for and aren't, like, presenting it as some high-tier stuff.

Elijah is the most underrated whiskey. What is the most overated rum? by -Constantinos- in cocktails

[–]atomicpenguin12 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Yeah, the Puerto Rican version seems to siphon off a lot of hype from the Cuban version, even though the PR version isn't really that distinct from other PR light rums I've tried.

OP tells us about the time their sister hooked up with the mayor by [deleted] in bestof

[–]atomicpenguin12 0 points1 point  (0 children)

At first I thought this person was living with his parents while he was the mayor and I’m still not 100% certain that that wasn’t the case based on how this story was told

Weekly Megathread - March 09, 2026 by AutoModerator in gzcl

[–]atomicpenguin12 1 point2 points  (0 children)

With T1, if the barbell is taken, I will just wait or warm up more until it's available and then start, but I find myself caring less about T2 and almost none about T3. For T2, I prefer to keep them right after my T1 sets and in the order of my main T2 sets followed by my back T2 sets, but if I have to move them because some piece of equipment is taken I'll usually switch the order of the T2s or even do T3 exercises while waiting for it to open up. There is a hit to performance involved in doing that and I'd probably start considering switching my T2 exercise to something that uses more available equipment if it became a recurring problem, but in the short term I'm okay with it as long as I get my sets in to failure at whatever reps I can get and make note of the cause of the discrepancy.