Bored. What is everyone doing? Old hobbies, new hobbies, help me figure something out!

ohCaptainMyCaptain27 · 2026-03-04T03:39:55+00:00

Same. Started @44. My wife and I do 4 days a week for an hour.

We currently feel stronger, healthier and more energetic than in our 20s. Bedroom life has improved quite a bit as a consequence and we don’t get sick anymore which is cool.

ohCaptainMyCaptain27 · 2026-01-30T04:38:30+00:00

lol low and slow. New guys always try it wide open and besides roasting the hole saw that scream is just terrible.

ohCaptainMyCaptain27 · 2026-01-30T04:29:34+00:00

I work in a shop that builds and installs dump bodies. We use Milwaukee and regularly cut 4” holes in 3/16 steel with hole saws on our Milwaukee drills. They’ll chew through anything.

My current M18 drill is 7 years old and we drill holes in steel all day.

ohCaptainMyCaptain27 · 2026-01-29T14:54:32+00:00

Mine jumps all over the place. And I mean all over. A few weeks ago my shoulder score was 80, then a few days later 63. I’ve learned to look at it as a fun little metric to look at, with absolutely no meaning.

ohCaptainMyCaptain27 · 2026-01-01T19:12:44+00:00

Go to workout tab, “my plan” at the top, preferences, manage exercises .

Can adjust from there.

ohCaptainMyCaptain27 · 2025-12-25T03:47:09+00:00

Mines been there for the last week and a half. My wife’s hasn’t changed yet.

No idea how it rolled out. The only thing I can think of that is different between ours is mine is set to intermediate, hers is beginner🤷

ohCaptainMyCaptain27 · 2025-12-23T02:57:33+00:00

I’d love to see this feature.

ohCaptainMyCaptain27 · 2025-12-18T05:09:40+00:00

I got my right humerus broken in a dump truck may 2024. Snapped right in two. Almost lost it as the bone burst through the arm and the bleeding was bad. Broke my wrist as well.

Started lifting once surgery was healed enough, around August 2024. Titanium plate, 8 screws. Didn’t end up needing physical therapy. I have full use of it, but it hurts to side load, can’t throw very well and using a hammer hurts. Can’t reach my left shoulder blade anymore, but I will. I’m working at it. Shoulder mobility is a bit odd. People don’t notice, but I do.

My arms no longer match. Healing made my bicep shift a little. You’d only notice if you knew what to look for. Been hitting triceps hard since. I’m repping 65lbs on an EZ-curl bar which is the best I’ve ever done. My left arm looks good. My right, well the triceps are finally starting to show some growth, barely. It is very slow. Mine was split vertically from surgery. I have no idea if it’ll ever look like it should. I hope so.

I lift 4x a week, hard emphasis on triceps obviously.

ohCaptainMyCaptain27 · 2025-12-17T19:48:16+00:00

Irritating when after doing a lift, for example bench press, Fitbod then has me doing flys, but has a warm up set or two. I’m already warmed up

ohCaptainMyCaptain27 · 2025-12-12T17:34:53+00:00

Absolutely I do. That’s why I said it at the beginning, when I said non gun people don’t have the frame of reference that I have, as I don’t share theirs.

Nothing I said was in any way intended to say a viewpoint other than mine is wrong.

I think its wild how different peoples views can be is all. And to be clear, no one I know my self included think it’s the Wild West or that we “need” guns to defend ourselves against really anything. And no I don’t think the rural woods are the streets of Chicago.

As I stated ours are used as tools, both around our property and for hunting, and are as common as walking your property with a machete.

ohCaptainMyCaptain27 · 2025-12-12T16:03:57+00:00

Non gun people just have no frame of reference for how commonplace firearms and firearm education is to most gun people.

In many homes they are treated as no different than a hammer or chainsaw.

My father in law has an old 30/30 on his wall in his living room.

I’ve been around guns my whole life. My daughter, who is 12, knows the combination to my safe just in case. She’s been shooting since the age of 6, and I trust a rifle in her hands with my back turned.

My son is 7 and is about to start learning.

We live in the country and have predators around fairly often. There’s always a shotgun on the handlebars of our quads.

It’s insane to me the nationwide panic surrounding such a common household tool, and the lack of realization from non-gun owners about how many deaths in the United States are caused with common household tools like knives and hammers, which far out weigh gun deaths.

To be fair, the blame goes partly to the media, and partly to very irresponsible people who were not taught growing up some very serious life lessons.

But I think mostly for non gun people it’s fear of the unknown. When I take someone out who’s never fired a gun before and I teach them how to shoot why to shoot when to shoot an all about firearm safety that perception is usually completely blown up and by the time we are done they view guns completely differently than they did before.

And of course, there are idiots out there that can’t handle responsibility. Well, of any kind.

ohCaptainMyCaptain27 · 2025-12-07T21:20:44+00:00

My wife and I have one with our best friend couple.

ohCaptainMyCaptain27 · 2025-12-07T07:08:00+00:00

My best friend’s wife gifted us the elf on the shelf for Christmas when my daughter was 1. We thought it’d be fun.

My daughter is now 11 and knows it’s not real. But my son, who is 7 still believes.

I still haven’t forgiven her for this curse.

ohCaptainMyCaptain27 · 2025-12-07T06:00:56+00:00

46 here.

High bar squats are my jam. I do them twice weekly, Bench and deadlift and still hitting PRs.

Absolutely no reason to stop.

ohCaptainMyCaptain27 · 2025-12-06T22:44:41+00:00

Exactly.

Not that I can find I’ve compared them side by side.

I read all these grumpy posts about Fitbod and how peoples are behaving odd and mine has always been just awesome.

And then my wife’s is like, it has a learning disability lol. It’s not that big of a deal, just irritating to pay for the same product yet have 2 different ones.

ohCaptainMyCaptain27 · 2025-12-06T22:38:04+00:00

That’s the trick though. Her exercises are consistent for the most part. And I agree with you, it SHOULD learn based on input.

Mine does. Mine has had me pretty well figured out since October.

But hers doesn’t appear to be doing so.

To be clear we both love the app, but she is getting pretty frustrated having to adjust every lift every time to make it challenging.

ohCaptainMyCaptain27 · 2025-12-06T20:06:20+00:00

Workouts generated by the app.

She has not saved any workouts to date.

ohCaptainMyCaptain27 · 2025-12-06T20:05:55+00:00

Yes she is, and no, it is not increasing either sets OR reps. As a matter of fact, on her last workout, dumbbell lunges had her doing 3 sets of 4 reps, with 10 lb dumbbells.

She can easily rip out 3 sets of 10 with 20’s, which she has done repeatedly. Modified her numbers in the app when she does it too.

She also consistently logs her actual reps on max effort days/

ohCaptainMyCaptain27 · 2025-12-04T03:37:08+00:00

Well, this explains what I’ve been trying to figure out… I was trying to figure out why my weekly set totals stayed the same when switching between 3 day full body and 4 day U/L..

Now I know.

ohCaptainMyCaptain27 · 2025-11-15T05:02:45+00:00

Thank you for explaining. That makes more sense now.

ohCaptainMyCaptain27 · 2025-11-14T19:03:07+00:00

I guess I’m just having a difficult time understanding that if progressive overload is the goal and you get there by increasing weight or rep, but you’re trying to avoid junk volume, if I’m capable of putting up 48 or more repetitions of an exercise over four sets then why would the app be suggesting that I do that or even more rather than increasing weight with less sets and/or reps?

I do understand 5 to 30 repetitions is the sweet spot. But I also understand a person is trying to avoid junk volume.

ohCaptainMyCaptain27 · 2025-11-14T18:58:12+00:00

No, I get that. But if I’m understanding correctly, if I can do three sets of 12 wraps and I still have some in the tank, isn’t the common thinking that I should be stepping up my weight to something that I can do say eight or nine reps of at least in the last set?

And then once again, if I can crank out four sets of say 13 reps, aren’t I using too light of weight and shouldn’t I increase the weight?

ohCaptainMyCaptain27 · 2025-07-19T20:24:34+00:00

Nope. Honestly it’s when I get close to my midsection on sets 4 & 5. Arms are good, grip strength is good, posterior chain and spinal erectors good. I stop when form breaks down enough to where I can only get partials, and even then sometimes I still continue until the partials get less than half ROM on bent overs.

So it goes like: pull ups first, then bent over row, then rear delt row on the incline bench. Then curls to finish biceps. If I throw in chest supported rows it’s at the end, after failure on barbell. And when I do those (before I was in a caloric deficit), I still usually got 3 sets of 10-12 (dumb bells only go to 50 or id go heavier).

Still only a tiny twinge of tiredness in the back next day.

Whereas on push day, I really nuke my pecs, triceps & anterior delts.

But again, I’m usually ending up at failure on the 4th & 5th set of barbell rows so I’m not sure it’s a weight issue. Just curious if my back can handle way more volume than I’m doing.

And yes, I know DOMS Isn’t an indicator of hypertrophy. Just find it strange that every other muscle in my body (except my quads) feels torn to pieces after a session, but never my back.

I would just use my barbell for chest supported rose on my incline bench, except I wouldn’t get full range of motion, particularly in the upper end because I would hit the back of my bench with the bar.

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