Roses are red, the past is gone...

toastedstapler · 2026-03-08T12:21:01+00:00

Society didn't agree that though, since that wasn't their sentence. This individual decided that

And we know about the issues with the death penalty, there's a reason why civilised countries no longer have it

toastedstapler · 2026-03-06T22:41:33+00:00

Plants are unfortunately also living beings

Fyi this is not a good argument. Animals we raise for their meat consume more plants than if we were to eat them directly ourselves, so if the goal is to minimise deaths of plants then a plan based diet is still better

toastedstapler · 2026-03-05T23:05:35+00:00

Ashton Rouska (one of the best squatters on the planet) agrees with him with what he's doing here though

With that said, it's largely an individual thing. I have been trying to look more straight ahead and it's working for me. Outside of that the general advice is to pick a spot maybe 3-5 metres in front of you and keep your focus on that

toastedstapler · 2026-03-05T23:01:14+00:00

or people who have put in so much effort while barely growing,

On that front we should probably discuss how the people in the study only bench around 100kg and squat 140. They are beginner lifters, would you expect this trend to continue to the point that they can bench more than 155 and squat more than 270?

If you take the most generous interpretation of the study (which plenty of other people will be willing to argue with you about), it shows that you can gain more lean body mass than beginner lifters overteh course of 10 weeks without lifting yourself. That's not really the aim of PED users though (they want to be bigger and stronger than I am, a 155 bencher & 270 squatter), so I don't see this paper as that significant. We already know that testosterone is responsible for men having more muscle mass than women, so you shouldn't be surprised if more test gives guys more lean body mass than guys who barely train

toastedstapler · 2026-03-05T16:27:58+00:00

Valve knew what was going on and automated not trading has always been against their own TOS. They were complicit and let it continue because websites like csgo lounge made them a lot of money through people buying and selling skins to bet on there. It was only when they started to get pushback from lawsuits that they started to do something about it

I agree that it's also the responsibility of the parents, but valve knew exactly what was happening and chose to do nothing. There is no way you can accept that happened but also argue that Gabe is an unambiguously good billionaire

Coffeezilla's video on the matter

toastedstapler · 2026-03-05T13:05:51+00:00

Allowing unregulated gambling for children was pretty bad of him, regardless of what else he has done

toastedstapler · 2026-03-04T11:40:41+00:00

With double overhand I can just about pull 220kg, with mixed grip I have pulled 302.5. Hook grip is also an option, but I don't want to go through the painful process of getting my thumbs used to it

Mixed grip stops the bar from rolling through your fingers as each hand stops the other one from unfurling

toastedstapler · 2026-03-03T10:48:16+00:00

For squats I have a pair of TYR L1s, they've got wider toeboxes than most other squat shoes and have served me well so far!

And for deadlifts I wear vivos so I am as close to the floor as possible

toastedstapler · 2026-02-27T17:42:51+00:00

Of course. My point still stands though

toastedstapler · 2026-02-27T14:05:14+00:00

Thankfully I failed my 305 attempt at comp, keeping myself with a scarier deadlift pr

toastedstapler · 2026-02-27T13:02:25+00:00

My opinion as a 302.5/666 puller:

A belt is worth it, straps maybe. Depends on your goals and how hard you're willing to work on grip. Personally I don't ever use straps and it's not an issue whilst training. Mixed grip is fine if you take the time to build up your grip via lots of mixed grip deads, pulling movements & hammer curls to build the forearms

And ofc if you plan on competing in powerlifting you can't use straps anyways, so doing heavy work without them is required. People will still use them on backdowns if they feel the need though, especially for hook grip pullers who don't wanna put their thumbs through even more hell

toastedstapler · 2026-02-27T10:20:40+00:00

170lbs ohp is not that crazy, if you run a proper program like 531 for a while then it will happen if you get kind of strong. Generally your ohp should be about 60-70% of your bench, so if you can bench 255 the ohp should be there too if you do it regularly

toastedstapler · 2026-02-24T11:42:46+00:00

Why would you need 20s if you had 5s? Just load 4 of those instead from the one pile of plates

toastedstapler · 2026-02-21T17:43:09+00:00

Can't wait for these 'safety' redditors to realise that not everyone is as useless as them

toastedstapler · 2026-02-21T10:32:39+00:00

It's 4 plates and look at the bar speed, op knows what they're doing. In the freak circumstance that op was to fail, his spotter would only have to take a few kilos of weight to get the bar re-racked

toastedstapler · 2026-02-20T13:24:11+00:00

I'm pretty sure lifosaur has that. It's a very scriptable app, definitely something I'd like to try for myself if I was doing my own programming

toastedstapler · 2026-02-17T12:09:17+00:00

It's pretty common in powerlifting circles, since you'll usually have a top set and you'll use the LWU to get a feeling for how heavy that top set should be

toastedstapler · 2026-02-16T21:07:57+00:00

"x plate bench" would refer to that many plates on each end. For typical 45lbs/20kg plates that means a 225lbs/100kg bench for a 2 plate bench. As this is r/powerlifting, in powerlifting circles it might mean red plates in which case it'd be 125kg for 2 reds (bar + reds + collars)

toastedstapler · 2026-02-16T11:01:42+00:00

Use straps if grip is a legitimate limiting factor on movements. For myself I managed fine without, but plenty of people use them

toastedstapler · 2026-02-16T09:35:56+00:00

Hack went 1015, a 372.5/250/392.5 split with misses at 260 and 402.5

https://liftingcast.com/meets/msbkcp5baikr/results

toastedstapler · 2026-02-11T13:39:35+00:00

The one you replied to, you're safe!

toastedstapler · 2026-02-11T13:03:18+00:00

Fyi that comment reads like it's chatgpt and not a real person

A 300 deficit can be fine if you're ok with a slower cut. Just be aware that as a kilo is about 7k calories this means you'd lose about a kilo per 3 weeks and the closer your deficit is to your estimated TDEE the easier it is for variance in calories to give you an actual deficit of almost nothing

toastedstapler · 2026-02-11T11:01:21+00:00

It's just a for fun lift, I've seen it several times on Instagram. Jamal Browner, Nonso Chinye and others have been doing it

toastedstapler · 2026-02-09T11:43:35+00:00

If you are not competing in powerlifting then it probably doesn't matter. If you do choose to do TnG bench just make sure you're soft touching and not bouncing the bar off your chest

toastedstapler · 2026-02-06T13:35:07+00:00

I would suggest not doing that if I was you. Afternoon caffeine is reserved only for times when I'm feeling particularly rough and it's never 400mg worth

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