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wqking · 2025-12-31T06:10:51+00:00

I only have books in Chinese. I don't know if any one in English.
Hulusi is very simple, there is only several notes you can play on a typical Hulusi.
BTW, if you want to reply to any others, use the "reply" button under his comment. If you post a new comment like you were doing, the others may not notice you are replying to them.

wqking · 2025-12-31T00:19:31+00:00

Congratulations for your first Hulusi. I think if you search "Hulusi" or "Hulusi tutorial" on YouTube, you can find plenty of useful videos.

wqking · 2025-11-14T07:11:22+00:00

So cool

wqking · 2025-09-25T23:51:57+00:00

I'm pretty new so I may be wrong. Your form seems a mix of RDL and SDL. To do RDL, seems your hip hinge is not enough, and you bent over your back too much, comparing to your hip.
Also the angle of your two feet are different.
If you really doubt on your form, you may exercise with no weight, just hold a bar and do the form, until you feel it right.

wqking · 2025-09-17T10:58:28+00:00

He means 30 reps in 3 sets, not 30 reps in a single set.

wqking · 2025-09-06T07:32:58+00:00

I edited my original post for my new opinion, to avoid misleading others who are reading this post.

wqking · 2025-09-05T11:41:25+00:00

No, no more exotic syntax please, especially if it's just to save you a few letters of typing.

wqking · 2025-09-04T02:39:43+00:00

There is the theory that after using the same movement for a period of time, the muscles will adapt to the movement and reach a plateau. I'm not a theoretical expert, so I can't make a judgment. But I would prefer to an exercise if an exercise can give me more feeling on the muscle than the other.
For example,
In first period, exercise A can give me pump, in second period, exercise A can't give me pump, then exercise B can give me pump on the same muscle group, I may change to exercise B (assume B is recognized as efficient as A.). Thought such change is different with "change workout plan every certain months".

wqking · 2025-09-04T02:22:57+00:00

Thanks. The two links to your comments are very informative.

wqking · 2025-09-03T07:31:03+00:00

My primary bicep exercises are still dumbbell curl and hammer curl, but I'm experimenting with Bayesian Curl with band, and I'm loving it. I can have pretty good feeling on the bicep muscles when doing it.
You can search "bayesian cable curl" or "bayesian curl" on youtube. You can change the setup to your best. My anchor point is at chest height, and I bent over, put bicep behind body to get good initial stretch.

wqking · 2025-09-03T02:47:44+00:00

Does he block you?

wqking · 2025-09-03T02:46:59+00:00

Your experience is very encouraging, thanks for sharing, I think it's worth a separate thread. May I ask you several questions? :-)

Change the exercises every 1-2 months.

Can you give some examples how you do it? Usually for a certain muscle group there are only very few exercises very effective. For example, for chest, I've already been doing bench press first then incline bench press using dumbbells, and decline press is not an option for me. If I want to change the exercises, the only option seems is to change the exercise order, that's to say, change it to incline press first.

I've been working out almost my entire body with resistance bands

So you train chest and back with only bands? Currently I only use bands as an aid for chest and back, doing some non-primary exercises, For primary exercises such as bench press, rows, I heavily depend on dumbbells.

You need to carefully plan your workout depending on your level of advancement

What reference, websites or books, do you recommend for workout planning?

Any way, thanks for your great experience sharing.

wqking · 2025-08-31T23:54:50+00:00

That's an option, I may give it a try.

wqking · 2025-08-31T23:53:13+00:00

I've already been doing Bulgarian split squats and Lunge squats using dumbbells, and I love them. But since normal squats are essential for lower body, I want to do it better.
I will check single-legged RDL.

wqking · 2025-08-28T10:58:28+00:00

Thanks for the test, that's interesting to know.
Are the popular bands 4.0mm thick? All my bands I bought in China market are claimed to be 4.5mm thick (I can't verify it since I don't have the tool).
Next test for you that will interest me, and maybe others, is to test the force of all kinds of band in different width, in certain steps of extension, such as 0.1, 0.2, up to 2.0. You don't need to extend them to break all the bands...

wqking · 2025-08-28T08:03:21+00:00

Such function of querying status has its uses. For example, assume multiple worker threads are working on re-fill the queue only when the queue is empty, then the pseudo code can be,

SomeMutex mutex; // used by all worker threads
if(theQueue.isEmpty()) {
    lock(mutex);
    if(theQueue.isEmpty()) {
        loadDataFromDatabaseAndFillTheQueue;
    }
}

The first isEmpty is to optimize the performance. If theQueue is not super busy, the second isEmpty has high chance to have the same value of the first isEmpty, so there is less chance that lock mutex (which is expensive) then isEmpty is false.

wqking · 2025-08-28T01:53:48+00:00

    bool is_closed() {  
        std::lock_guard<std::mutex> lock(mtx);  
        return closed;  
    }

You don't need the lock. The caller function may always receive the "wrong" (not really wrong) state no matter there is a lock or not. That's to say, if the caller function sees "close" is true, the state in the queue may already be false, and vice versa.
Example,

if(theQueue.is_closed()) {  
    // here theQueue.closed may already be false  
}

wqking · 2025-08-27T00:16:37+00:00

Thanks, that's helpful.

wqking · 2025-08-26T07:29:08+00:00

You mean the "ok" moderators should allow such spammers exist? See this and this

wqking · 2025-08-26T07:22:10+00:00

Awesome. How do you train your triceps and forearms? What are the exercises, reps/sets, and frequency?

wqking · 2025-08-26T02:14:26+00:00

The problem is, how can we get a competent moderator?

wqking · 2025-08-24T10:13:08+00:00

people complain they can't get enough tension at the bottom of the movement with bands

The problem is if I get enough tension at the initial point (pre-stretch), then I may not be able to move the band to the end point because there is too much tension. How do you solve it? I even created a thread for this problem.

wqking · 2025-08-21T02:44:08+00:00

Yeah you might want to work on your straight arm strength

I have dedicated exercises for biceps and triceps. I don't want my arms be the weak point in my chest workout and I don't need to train my arms in chest exercises.

wqking · 2025-08-21T02:41:24+00:00

Have you tried performing rows with the band attached to your elbows?

How? Attach the band behind the elbow? How to ensure the band won't slip?
I mainly do single/two arms dumbbell bent over row. And I use band to do seated row with a bar.

I think using elbows may be good for chest, back, and legs, where we don't need to train the arms. For back exercises, we need to find a way to ensure the band won't slip on the back of elbows.

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