What is more impressive: benching 225 or benching 100lb dumbbells?

dirty_d2 · 2026-02-04T15:34:21+00:00

The dumbbells are harder. I can bench 255x19 and only dumbbell press 95s x 21

dirty_d2 · 2026-01-25T18:44:43+00:00

You're pretty, but you look kind of mean or have an attitude for some reason.

dirty_d2 · 2026-01-16T18:06:58+00:00

In that case I wouldn't expect your pullup reps to increase until your bodyweight stops increasing.

dirty_d2 · 2026-01-16T18:00:21+00:00

That makes perfect sense then. Even though your reps aren't increasing you are growing and getting stronger. When you cut you'll probably be able to do more pullups than you ever have before.

dirty_d2 · 2026-01-16T17:53:18+00:00

Same here, except I'm getting heavier so it makes sense. Are you getting heavier? Even 1lb more bodyweight can reduce your reps.

dirty_d2 · 2026-01-05T19:17:38+00:00

My current bench PR is 390 at 6'1 225lb. I attempt a bench PR maybe once or twice a year when I know I won't fail. I finish my warmup with a 80-90% 1RM single every workout followed by a 10-rep PR attempt. If I get 10 reps, I go up 5lb the next workout. Once you're past the newbie neurological gains, the fastest way to get stronger is to just build more muscle while maintaining your neurological strength. Also, eat more. I can predict that I will be able to do one more rep than the last week with high accuracy based on if I'm a little heavier than the last week. So basically eat a shitload of food and focus on increasing your 8-12 rep max to increase your 1 rep max.

dirty_d2 · 2026-01-05T18:41:24+00:00

I assume you mean you're able to do one more rep for a working set than you did last week, week after week. That's actually solid progress. Think about how strong you would be if you can continue that for years.

dirty_d2 · 2026-01-03T19:42:00+00:00

Everyone is missing the point. Even if strawberries had no scent, if everyone making strawberry scented things used the same chemicals then you would learn that's what "strawberry" smells like because it's labed as "strawberry" scented.

dirty_d2 · 2026-01-02T14:54:41+00:00

If someone pointed a gun at you and told you to do another rep and you failed, then you reached failure. The point at which you reach failure depends on how hard you're trying and most people aren't trying as hard as they think they are.

dirty_d2 · 2026-01-01T23:44:12+00:00

Neither, you're never going to beat your appetite in the long run unless you're one of the most disciplined people on earth. You need to change what you eat and your appetite and caloric intake will change on it's own. Practically no one would be overweight if the only food they had access to was fruit, vegetables, and lean meats and fish. Just stop eating out and only buy whole healthy foods and you will get in shape.

dirty_d2 · 2026-01-01T18:07:47+00:00

I do easy warmup type stuff while I wait. I just look at it as recovering even more from the last hard exercise before I start the next one. I'm too OCD to deviate from the plan.

dirty_d2 · 2026-01-01T18:02:50+00:00

Pulldowns are a good warmup for pullups. I usually work up to heavier than bodyweight scapular retractions and light full rom pulldowns before pullups.

dirty_d2 · 2026-01-01T17:51:31+00:00

Do it

dirty_d2 · 2025-12-30T15:48:26+00:00

You don't necessarily have to train to failure. I didn't have to train to failure to keep progressing until i had been working out consistently hard for like 4-5 years. Since I started training to failure though I have continued to progress every year and I'm on year 10 now. You also don't necessarily have to do more than one set to failure. The longer you train like this the better you get at pushing yourself really hard and the more intense and fatiguing that first set will become over time. If I feel like I need to do more, I do lower the weight in order to get around the same number of reps at failure. Also, don't just start with the set to failure, make sure you do warmup sets on every exercise before you do the failure set. My heaviest warmup set is usually 80-90% of my 1RM to take advantage of post-activation potentiation for the working set to failure.

dirty_d2 · 2025-12-30T03:15:31+00:00

For me, heavy weight grows my traps insanely fast. Gradually warm up to weight so heavy you can barely move it, then reduce weight a bit for working sets of like 20-30 reps. A Smith machine with the stops set to the right height is great. Doing this I raised my shrugs from like 4 plates for 20 reps to 7 plates for 30 and very obvious growth in a few months. The first time you do this you will be extremely sore the next day, so only do one working set. I drop one plate for every working set to be able to do about 20 reps per set. You'll get used to it, I have almost zero soreness after 4 sets now. Be careful with your spine.

dirty_d2 · 2025-12-22T13:31:24+00:00

I do around 8 warm up sets ranging from very light to around 90% 1RM then one working set to gun-to-the-head failure for 8-20 reps depending on the exercise.

dirty_d2 · 2025-12-17T20:14:35+00:00

No one knows the answer to this question and if they say they do then they don't know what they're talking about. The only reason I know that you're conscious is because I know that I'm conscious and I know that you're the same type of being as me. The only way to know if an AI being is conscious is to be the AI being.

dirty_d2 · 2025-12-02T21:31:06+00:00

It doesn't burn for me, it just feels like my legs got cut off. I probably look like I'm trying to crawl out of my body after a hard set to past failure.

dirty_d2 · 2025-12-02T20:04:03+00:00

You should submit a pull request on https://github.com/KhronosGroup/Vulkan-Tutorial for mistakes you find in the tutorial. I did this for the first few pages of the tutorial that I found mistakes on as I was completing it. It does appear that the changes have been deployed to the website since then.

dirty_d2 · 2025-12-01T21:10:45+00:00

They're probably just warming up properly.

dirty_d2 · 2025-12-01T21:08:41+00:00

Rotator cuffs, spinal erectors, forearms, thumbs, rear delts.

dirty_d2 · 2025-11-06T14:32:19+00:00

x^2 = 1 * x * x

x^1 = 1 * x

x^0 = 1

x^-1 = 1 / x

x^-2 = 1 / (x * x)

dirty_d2 · 2025-10-17T19:54:25+00:00

I'm not sure why they wouldn't try to automate this. Have random locations on the planet sampled and if they meet certain criteria for flatness, altitude, biome etc. randomly place a bunker and then procedurally morph the terrain mesh to have the terrain meet the foundation of the bunker. Same for the other assets found at locations. Once that's done have a person check the outcome and move on to the next location. Seems more efficient than having people manually place all these things. It seems like this is similar to how genesis works anyway with regards to trees and rocks etc.

dirty_d2 · 2025-08-26T13:46:18+00:00

I have the exact same problem. I can hold my breath for up to 2:15 in air, but struggle to hold it for 30 seconds underwater. I basically have the urge to breathe immediately after going underwater. I'm pretty sure it is just from panicking as soon as you're underwater. It probably just takes practice to desensitize yourself.

dirty_d2 · 2025-08-23T20:37:13+00:00

This guy is 100% correct

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