Agreed! Can i take this minute as an opportunity to ask Lune to vacate our thread? Pretty positive place until he comes in to stir the pot. Buh bye now!

You don't need a medical degree (which I do possess). You just have to put aside the ego and be able to put time into research. The science is there. There's a reason why powerlifters don't max cold and do a progression.

Anyways, I'm usually pretty chill in this thread. And it's something I'm very passionate about. Especially when it comes to helping other people get their gainz. But if you come on here and straight up tell me I don't know what I'm talking about because you're a physical therapist without the facts, you're going to have a hard time.

Can you blame shim, though?

Typical liberal faggotry. Ze read it in a book somewhere..or wait...im not sure if it was a book...maybe it was...oh yeah it was nothing. Ze read it in nothing, and it feels right, to the gut, so there....truthiness.

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Perhaps overtraining? Remember that these workout programs are designed for 20 year old athletes on a cocktail of designer steroids, and that recovery is what makes you stronger, not working out.

Ouch. Somehow Lune as a dandy PT fits his postings perfectly.

Are you seriously suggesting that one should go straight from the locker room to try a max squat? At some point one needs to apply common sense with or without citations (as much as I hate to agree with Mead on anything).

Ze's not "serious" about anything. Ze's just spitballing contrarian positions hoping to stumble upon some virtue signalling acceptance from the homo-hive. Nothing to see here just the village idiot phishing for attn.

I do other leg exercises too, like on my back day (well, the second back day) I like to do rack pulls. I do reverse lunges as well, calf raises, and the leg press. I try not to do leg curls or leg extension because ive heard theyre both not very good for you, but that's basically it for leg stuff. I do a little bit of banded work occasionally, idk what the exercise is called but you squat down and walk sideways with a band around your legs.

But yeah I know some people like larry wheels do a one rep of their warm ups so that they can work up to their weights, but I feel like im nowhere near that level to justify it lol

But yeah for recovery I typically go about 4 days before I hit legs again, if not 5, but I guess I don't really understand deloading very well. For the last 2 years ive just been trying to drive forward and haven't really looked into that.

I've actually steered clear of this thread for precisely this reason, because I tend to be a pretty negative poster, that is, until I saw negativeposting by Mead and couldn't resist. Like flies to shit, sorry. I'll leave it alone

No, I'm not. All I'm saying is we don't know if working up to your max on lifts instead of starting with max after your warmup is the optimal way to do things.

Literally helped a guy with a stroke learn how to walk again today, and helped teach a family how to range their son with a TBI to prevent contractures so they could take him home from the hospital safely. Yea, it involved "massaging" a tendon to facilitate reflexive inhibition of muscle tone. If that makes me a masseuse, so be it... it's a pretty fun job.

Nothing I posted was negative. The replies are still in the thread. You're just a salty dude who thinks he's got the answers.

Once again, you don't know because you haven't bothered to do the research.

Hell yeah. That’s an awesome job. You give people their lives back and get to hurt people, too!

My friend who was studying to be a PT invited me to his neuromuscular junctions class once and I got to see an upper body cadaver. Was pretty damn cool. Love anatomy.