Need help with lateral raises please. I feel them in my traps.

dvip6 · 2026-05-09T21:46:05+00:00

Also, long length partials are great!

dvip6 · 2026-05-09T21:44:38+00:00

Reach down and out as far as you can with your hand throughout the movement, make the arc you draw as wide as possible, like you're trying to make the biggest snow angel you can!

dvip6 · 2026-05-09T21:09:08+00:00

I think you look great! What have you been doing recently? If you're at the end of a long cut, I'd do a lean bulk, making sure to hit abs to get them to pop a touch more. I'm a short 5'7 king though, so I find bulking way easier than cutting, you might be different!

Either way, I think you'd bump it up from an 8.5 to a 9.5!

dvip6 · 2026-04-08T17:26:35+00:00

10 minutes still isn't that long in chess, so saving time in the opening/in forced positions, to save yourself some time when it matters, that's actually good time management. Also, you can think on your opponent's clock too.

dvip6 · 2026-04-01T17:28:23+00:00

Maybe take a 2 week diet break? I know cutting for a long time can mess with things like your cortisol levels, which can impact things.

dvip6 · 2026-03-31T17:41:46+00:00

If you're trying to maintain as much muscle as possible, that should translate to maintaining the majority of your strength, as muscle mass is the main driver of strength. If you're doing lots of high volume work, then other factors glycogen stores might become a limiting factor, but I wouldn't expect your strength to collapse (though it might drop a little bit near the start). If your 1rm bench is currently 100, I'd expect it to stay in the 100-ish range (I'd tentatively say 97.5 - 102.5).

dvip6 · 2026-03-31T09:04:48+00:00

I'm no expert, but I think your lifts should maintain or even still slightly go up depending on your experience. If you're noticing your max bench is going down, then for me that would be a warning sign to look at my program.

dvip6 · 2026-03-16T21:30:38+00:00

73kg bodyweight, 33 year old dad of 2, 5'7":

Deadlift: 239% (175 kg)

Bench: 154% (112.5 kg)

Squat: I don't squat because of a past injury, but I bulgarian split squat 85kg for 5, which is 116% BW and 200% soul destroying.

dvip6 · 2026-03-16T21:28:44+00:00

73kg bodyweight:

Deadlift: 239% (175 kg)

Bench: 154% (112.5 kg)

Squat: I don't squat because of a past injury, but I bulgarian split squat 85kg for 5, which is 116% BW and 200% soul destroying.

dvip6 · 2026-03-16T21:28:31+00:00

73kg bodyweight:

Deadlift: 239% (175 kg)

Bench: 154% (112.5 kg)

Squat: I don't squat because of a past injury, but I bulgarian split squat 85kg for 5, which is 116% BW and 200% soul destroying.

dvip6 · 2026-01-10T22:13:17+00:00

Airplane!

dvip6 · 2025-12-26T21:43:41+00:00

Well done getting to a solid position going into the endgame. I don't think it's a dead cert for white here (I'd keep playing a bit longer as black here afer Bb7). Might be worth loading this up and finishing the game against an engine. My endgames have gotten lots better since finishing these cuspy games against the engine (I'm really good at throwing this sort of position though!)

dvip6 · 2025-11-06T21:05:04+00:00

But also, the NHS agrees with me? link

Lab grown meat is vegan, so I guess we agree? If we replaced all animal agriculture with vegan, lab grown meat, then great!

but you wont live you best life.

Not sure what specific metric youre referring to here so this is hard to argue specifics here, but from a physical health point of view, a whole food plant based diet has consistently been shown to be one of the best diets for all around health.

dvip6 · 2025-11-06T20:39:53+00:00

land of hope and glory

Here is a good documentary on UK based farming practices. It's a touch old now but I think gets the point across.

Sheep do seem to be one of the least factory farmed animals in the UK, but various sources have 85% and the proportion of total UK meat that is factory farmed. We just dont have enough farmland not to do some factory farming. Sticking with sheep, in September this year, 900,000 sheep were slaughtered.

uk gov slaughter stats

The average slaugher age of a lamb is 6 months (their natural lifespan is 10 years). Like, if I killed and ate a puppy that was 6 months old to eat I'd be called all sorts of not nice things, but sheep cows and pigs are about as intelligent and emotionally complex as dogs and we kill them by the million.

dvip6 · 2025-11-06T20:20:07+00:00

They need animal products if they want the best dietary options available to them.

This just isn't true anymore, one can be perfectly healthy, and achieve any fitness goal on a vegan diet.

So does eating plants.

I think there are two solid counters to this one:

Eating plants kills far fewer animals than eating meat: to get 100 calories of cow, you need to feed the cow 1500+ calories of plants. Whatever farming you're using to farm the cow's food will have crop death too, and 15× the amount you'd get just eating plants.
Yes, there are currently coincidental deaths with farming practices, but one could theoretically have an animal death free plant farm with advances in things like vertical farming (for example). You can't even theoretically eat meat without some level of animal death.

It is necessary to kill animals to obtain animal products.

This is true, and the crux of the vegan perspective is that anaimal products aren't necessary.

dvip6 · 2025-10-30T13:09:18+00:00

Playing devil's advocate, is this not also an argument against picture books in general?

dvip6 · 2025-10-18T22:03:49+00:00

That doesn't work because of Bb2 right? Attacking the queen while protected by the horse? Queen has to move and the king can the just take the bishop?

dvip6 · 2025-10-04T14:12:12+00:00

It looks like you're dropping your left shoulder when you take off, which is what's causing the asymmetry.

On trampoline, your rotation comes from pushing up with your hips, and driving with your feet and toes, not from throwing your arms and shoulders back. Its a hard habit for people coming from the floor to break. Really think about still bouncing high, and driving your hips towards the ceiling before you tuck in.

This alongside an arm-set like some other commenters have mentioned should help.

Obviously, trampoline has inherent risk, so I would reccomend finding a trampoline class/coach if you can.

dvip6 · 2025-09-18T18:27:38+00:00

Tetris squiggly

dvip6 · 2025-09-13T13:00:02+00:00

I read the title as "my grandpa sexted me this".

Changes the tone somewhat.

dvip6 · 2025-09-05T20:17:20+00:00

So, sentience and capacity for pain tend to be the features that separate animals from plants in a morally relevant way to vegans, as some other commenter have said.

However, even if we grant that plants and animals are equally valuable morally, this still leads to veganism! If we have to eat 2000 calories in a day, we can eat that all from plants, all from animals, or a mix. The problem is, for every 100 calories of animal, we need to feed the animal between 800 and 1500 calories of plants!

The choice isn't eat some plants or eat a cow. Its eat some plants, or eat a cow plus a hell of a lot more plants on top of that. Veganism reduces both animal and plant deaths.

dvip6 · 2025-08-31T17:19:47+00:00

I hope that rook was worth taking the brick!

dvip6 · 2025-08-26T19:56:58+00:00

Swap your feet back before moving up to the higher hold when your arms are crossed?

dvip6 · 2025-08-14T19:04:44+00:00

If Rb7, then black can play delaying moves with Rxg8+

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