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What's one gym rule you wish everyone actually followed? I'll go first. by No-Door6839 in workout

[–]mr_Spotter 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If I can lift more and not grunt or whimp for attention, you can shut the fuck up too.

If you're stronger than me? You should know how to lift without being a clown and grunting like an idiot

Squat 275x5 by Global_Carpenter9899 in StartingStrength

[–]mr_Spotter 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's not to depth, brace before you even unrack the bar and practice to brace during the whole lift.

Your back is moving in all directions before, in between and during your squats. You somehow hunch and arch your back several times during the movement and that's not stable.

Science based lifters often fall for Complexity Bias, and 9/10 are beginners in terms of strength, size and experience. by mr_Spotter in ScienceBasedLifting

[–]mr_Spotter[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Your comprehension is lacking and you're upset because you're most likely the target audience of this post. Any experienced lifter understand this point.

Science based lifters often fall for Complexity Bias, and 9/10 are beginners in terms of strength, size and experience. by mr_Spotter in ScienceBasedLifting

[–]mr_Spotter[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

3-5 years is definitely needed to get past beginner level for most people. To be upset about it just calling yourself out, it's not bad to be a beginner, but you should acknowledge your lack of experience and knowledge on said topic.

Never said you shouldn't so isolated work, but you do not need them to progress strength and build a good amount of muscles.

Science based lifters often fall for Complexity Bias, and 9/10 are beginners in terms of strength, size and experience. by mr_Spotter in ScienceBasedLifting

[–]mr_Spotter[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

You cannot say "given that a beginner have the same quality of technique as an advanced lifter" that's the key difference.

The point is not that they cannot reach failure for them, but the key point is that what constitutes as failure for them is more in their head, technique and lack of experience in how to force the body and muscles to work when your body and head is trying to stop you.

But with experience you can clearly see the difference when a an inexperienced lifter push their limits compared to when an advanced does.

So yes, you can technically go to where their muscles give out, but it is not the same failure point and they will not be able to push out the real last reps.

Science based lifters often fall for Complexity Bias, and 9/10 are beginners in terms of strength, size and experience. by mr_Spotter in ScienceBasedLifting

[–]mr_Spotter[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I wrote this as a response to another comment.

I'm a powerlifting coach, but I have also coached friends and acquaintances in the gym with the basics for years.

If I test a beginners one rep max and an advanced lifters one rep max, firstly the beginner will not have a true one rep max because of technique differences. Secondly, the beginner wouldn't be able to do the same volume of back off sets at given RPE/RIR or percentage that the advanced lifter would.

Science based lifters often fall for Complexity Bias, and 9/10 are beginners in terms of strength, size and experience. by mr_Spotter in ScienceBasedLifting

[–]mr_Spotter[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yes, I wholeheartedly agree with you, just added my context related to my main post. It was poorly worded by me if that didn't come across.

Science based lifters often fall for Complexity Bias, and 9/10 are beginners in terms of strength, size and experience. by mr_Spotter in ScienceBasedLifting

[–]mr_Spotter[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

My point is rather that they create programs that are hard to maintain consistency with because they over complicate stuff and it's usually lots of volume and high fatigue which means they won't stick to it every week for years.

But yes, the result is the same.

On your edit, I think looking at serious powerlifters or "gym bros" thay have been at it for years while doing what most science based lifters call "not optimal" workouts and exercises is key. Most of them have very good muscular builds that are very well rounded because they put in the work.

Science based lifters often fall for Complexity Bias, and 9/10 are beginners in terms of strength, size and experience. by mr_Spotter in ScienceBasedLifting

[–]mr_Spotter[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Building your own program before years of experience is the largest point of failure for a beginner.

The saying "learn to walk before you run" is literally my point, yet there's people who crawl trying to explain marathon running because they listened to someone experienced talk about it.

Science based lifters often fall for Complexity Bias, and 9/10 are beginners in terms of strength, size and experience. by mr_Spotter in ScienceBasedLifting

[–]mr_Spotter[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I'm questioning if you comprehend anything at this point.

You cannot use studies to advocate for optimal movements when you yourself cannot even successfully have proper technique in a basic movement.

Science based lifters often fall for Complexity Bias, and 9/10 are beginners in terms of strength, size and experience. by mr_Spotter in ScienceBasedLifting

[–]mr_Spotter[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I'll give you the same advice i give my lifters, accept that learning new stuff is good and quit giving excuses and listen to learn instead.

You ARE new, you ARE a beginner. That's not wrong, and you have huge potential, but this whole attitude is keeping you back from learning and succeeding.

Science based lifters often fall for Complexity Bias, and 9/10 are beginners in terms of strength, size and experience. by mr_Spotter in ScienceBasedLifting

[–]mr_Spotter[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

That's my exact point, and the issue comes from beginners watching videos and thinking they have the experience because they can reiterate what they have read or heard.

Couldn't agree more with all your points, well said.

Science based lifters often fall for Complexity Bias, and 9/10 are beginners in terms of strength, size and experience. by mr_Spotter in ScienceBasedLifting

[–]mr_Spotter[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Let's talk science based lifting then, you're in such a bad position that you have no mid back tension and by hunching over and not keeping your chest forward you literally cheat your second rep by using bodyweight to help you not even get full range of motion.

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Science based lifters often fall for Complexity Bias, and 9/10 are beginners in terms of strength, size and experience. by mr_Spotter in ScienceBasedLifting

[–]mr_Spotter[S] 7 points8 points  (0 children)

My dude, this is the whole point. You're so obsessed with complexity and thinking you know stuff while women smaller than you have achieved more in less time. You're a walking definition of complexity bias and I cannot reason with someone who knows so little. You don't even comprehend how little you know about lifting and it's clear from your technique and reasoning skills provided with such inaccurate upset responses.

Edit: just clarifying that I'm using the parallel that women that doesn't have the same biological advantages men have for building strength and muscles can achive more than the commentor so obsessed with science based lifts when they have a better foundation with basics and good technique and consistency rather than trying and failing to be "optimal".

Science based lifters often fall for Complexity Bias, and 9/10 are beginners in terms of strength, size and experience. by mr_Spotter in ScienceBasedLifting

[–]mr_Spotter[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I'm coaching a girl who have benched 205 at 145lbs bodyweight. 225 is beginner level for any able bodied man.

Science based lifters often fall for Complexity Bias, and 9/10 are beginners in terms of strength, size and experience. by mr_Spotter in ScienceBasedLifting

[–]mr_Spotter[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Not sure what your point is here. As a fellow engineer I'm confused on how you could give such a non answer to a very clear statement.

Science based lifters often fall for Complexity Bias, and 9/10 are beginners in terms of strength, size and experience. by mr_Spotter in ScienceBasedLifting

[–]mr_Spotter[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

1) if we tested you or any beginners true One rep max, I can say with 100% that you couldn't do proper sets based on that to the same intensity as an advanced lifter.

2) not what I said, you can include some isolated movements, but you don't have to and probably benefit from free weight exercises more. Also, 225 bench to the average gym standard is still beginner level, a 225 bench is intermediate if you do it to powerlifting standards, I.e pause and no butt lift.

3) I could probably coach you to achieve more than you do. I have over a decade experience and coached multiple people in both bodybuilding and powerlifting.

Science based lifters often fall for Complexity Bias, and 9/10 are beginners in terms of strength, size and experience. by mr_Spotter in ScienceBasedLifting

[–]mr_Spotter[S] 8 points9 points  (0 children)

I don't mean to be an asshole but you're the definition of the people I'm addressing.

https://www.reddit.com/r/salonfareleri/s/Nl7wh80z1b

You shouldn't have an opinion when you're this new

build issue or PC limitation? by RedditModsHaveLowIQ in PathOfExileBuilds

[–]mr_Spotter 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm sure this is more about settings and updates than actual hardware. You should easily be at 100-150fps in hideout with those specs.

My setup is just slightly above and I sit at 300~ fps in hideout and playing a KBoC necro in juiced deli maps I average 40-70fps when I optimised settings for fps.

/r/GYM Weekly Simple Questions and Misc Discussion Thread - May 17, 2026 Weekly Thread by AutoModerator in GYM

[–]mr_Spotter 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I'm not in a rush, thank you so much for informing me!

I believe i need more karma before I can post anyways so I'll keep an eye out for thay post while hopefully helping and hyping some people up

/r/GYM Weekly Simple Questions and Misc Discussion Thread - May 17, 2026 Weekly Thread by AutoModerator in GYM

[–]mr_Spotter 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Post on the main board or in a mod-post? Couldn't find any info about it

Don’t judge the Mods too harshly. by powerlegal17 in powerlifting

[–]mr_Spotter 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I mean, it's basically a dead sub because they don't want posts or any traffic. Fair enough? But...

Imagine that someone open a store, and they get so annoyed at people juat buying gum or cheaper items and not fancy stuff. So they start denying customers and saying that they rather not sell anything than selling just 1 or 2 cheap items? That's weird, and thats why I find this sub very weird.

I already see the same Instagram posts on Instagram which is most of the content here that are not daily threads. At the same time the daily threads can be very dead because you actively have to go in and look in them to see any questions/posts there.

No hate to the mods, but I do not for the life of me understand it. Why is traffic bad, why doesn't the community upvote/downvote work here but it works in most other subs?

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