u/Grogon2

Doing all exercises 5x5

Monday:

Squats 5x5

Incline Bench 5x5

Rows 5x5

Lateral Raises 3x12-20

Leg Extensions 3x12-20

Wednesdsy:

OHP 5x5

Pull Ups 5x5

RDLs 5x5

Face Pulls 3x12-20

Leg Curls 3x12-20

Friday:

Deadlift 5x5

Bench Press 5x5

Rows 5x5

Pulldowns 5x5

Pushdowns 3x12-20

Curls 3x12-20

I need to get huge fast

Growing up playing Battlefield Vietnam, 2142 and BF3/4, this is the game I really wanted.

The pacing is perfect, it's not slow and it's not too fast.

I wake up, make a coffee, play 1-2 rounds before hitting the gym and 4 AM and the /chat is like 20 years ago, totally unchanged and calming trash talk.

Love this game and out of all Battlefields I have played no Battlefield ever was this good 7 months after release. It usually took way longer to get the other BFs to this polishness.

The skins aren't too weird, the maps so far were decent but not awesome but with the Golmud Railway and whats coming up and the reworks of Sobek City I am just excited.

Sure a bit of fine tuning with recoil, vehicle balance ye but other than that it's awesome.

It's a 9/11 game so far.
With above it's a 10/11.

It would be 11/11 if closed weapons was the default mode.

Natural beginner here, started training in December 2024 so around 1.5 years now.

I havent really had much success with Push Pull Legs tbh, probably recovery issues I guess. The weird thing is my workouts werent even super high volume. Usually only 4 exercises per workout.

Push Day A was stuff like:

• Incline BB Bench
• Seated DB Press
• DB Bench
• Skullcrushers

Push Day B:

• Standing OHP
• Seated Incline DB Press
• Chest Flys
• Pushdowns

Pull and Legs were kinda the same idea. One heavier compound, one secondary compound with a bit less weight, then 2 isolation exercises in higher reps. Usually barbell movement first and DB variant second.

The thing is I honestly cant even tell if my strength gains were actual muscle gains or just finally learning how to use the muscles properly lol.

For example:
Started benching with literally just the empty bar.
Now I can do 5x5 with 60 kg.

But who knows, maybe I couldve already done that a year ago if my technique wasnt trash.

Same with pull ups.
At first I was doing like 5 sets of 1 rep, maybe 2 reps if I was lucky.
Now Im at:
7 / 7 / 6 / 5 / 4

But visually? I legit think I look worse than a year ago.

Arms went from 35.6 cm down to 32.5 cm.
Belly only went from 95 cm to 92.5 cm... huge success lmao.

Im eating high protein too, minimum 180g every day.
Calories around 1800 most days, sometimes a bit more.
Currently 81 kg at 175 cm.

So yeah idk. Strength went up for sure, but physique wise I kinda feel like I regressed somehow.

What also makes absolute 0 sense to me is the kcal part. I tracked my kcal intake for 4 weeks and I was around 1800 kcal per day. If I listen to many others, I should be eating WAY MORE to gain weight (muscle) but at the same time I am not losing fat at all right now.

Could it be that 1800 kcal is really my surplus at 175 cm hight and 81 kg bodyweight? That sounds kind of low to me, but since the scale can judge this better than me, according to that thing I am currently gianing 500g of weight each week since I am on 1800 kcal. That means I am in a surplus or else I wouldn't be gaining 2 kg this month.

Again: 175 cm, 81 kg weight and maximum 1800 kcal since 4 weeks and my weight has gone up by 2.1 kg. Thats 500 (a bit more) gram of bodyweight per week, which sounds kind of insane for only 1800 kcal?

Either way, my main question:
Whats a good workout plan for someone like me who has time (6x a week) but trying to aim for monday to friday? I want to gain muscle, lose fat.... and I want to focus on OHP (standing barbell) gains and pull ups.

Edit:

My current plan I am following since 4 weeks is an A/ B Split 3x a week.

Monday:
5x3+ Barbell Squats
3x5 Incline Barbell Press
3x5 Barbell Rows
3x15 Lateral Raises
3x15 Face Pulls

Tuesday:
I run about 1 hour at 150-170 hbpm, usually around 12 kilometers

Wednesday:
1x5 Top Set Deadlift with 2x5-8 Back Off Sets
3x5 OHP Barbell
3x5 Pull Ups (weighted currently at 2.5 kg)
3x10 Leg Curls and Extensions Super Set

Thursday:
I climb 3 hours in a boulder hall

Friday:
5x5 Pull Ups (weighted)
3x10 Incline BB Bench Press
3x10 Front Squats
3x10 T Bar Rows
3x10 Landmine (Unilateral) Shoulder Press
4x15 Hammer Curls & 4x10 Skullcrushers Super Set

I know I need recovery, but sometimes I am so bored on saturday I just run another 2 hours, sometimes a bit more depending on mood at 120-130 hbpm.

Last saturday I ran 24 kilometers. But I think it's ruining my recovery... but dunno what to do if I am bored.

Was really thinking going back to PPL 6x a week but then I notice my recovery even more trash and won't get anywhere. How can I recover better to get more workouts in besides taking TRT

[supprimé]

In short I don't mean time, but in the matches I played I noticed a few things.

I try to aim for 2-3 lands, 2-3 lower cards, 1 mid card and 1 higher card.

Like I said I am new but this is what I have been doing all day. But what I noticed, while I win and lose 50% rate the matches seem to be kind of over around turn 6.

The only thing that saved me (or my opponent) were random cards to draw more cards to the hand or some kind of board cleaner spells.

It's not like Hearthstone where you try to attack and prioritise targets or maybe even ignore targets... you basically only attack if you are damn sure to win the attack or want to remove an enemies instant that he is holding.

I know it's not deep knowledge and I am sure their is more to this, but I am afraid of digging too deep into this game cause I am afraid matches are only 10-20 minutes.

I can also say - for the record of my total matches of 30 so far - that I lost 90% of the matches I had to mulligan at the beginning starting with 6 cards.

Dunno is this fun? I really want to get into this game cause of the local scene in my town but I just wonder if it's worth it.

EDTT:

Overall my experience in Magic Arena were more "meh". I also only played premade decks since I have absolutely 0 clue of deck building. So I am assuming here that my opponents were also "noobs" with hidden MMR and using premade decks as well.
This could probably result in "meh" matches perhaps.

It all boiled down to flooding the board as fast as possible with minions and trying to rush down the enemy and hoping he doesn't get a large creature out if he chose "Large"Deck... or trying to block as many goblins as possible when they were playing this Goblin Deck and somehow get a huge minion out in time to block more.

And if a larger minion shows up, just pray that you have or soon draw a card to remove it somehow and buy time with blocking 1/1's.

Drawing too many Lands while enemy has a Flyer and also gets his second Flyer out while you draw another Cat is also very nice.

I dunnooooooo I suck in this game, I really hope the premade decks are just boring...

This game surely requires a lot of skill, not denying that at all. Especially knowing your own and enemy decks (obviously...) but dunno, never got to the point a match "ramped" up to "late game". It was all over mostly around round 5 or 6.

Im just curious why people and professionals say that. They keep saying stuff like: "Most of them have 3-4 reps and don't know it".

I go to the gym since a year, so Im still a beginner, but today I was really curious to see if it's true or not.

I used the 30 kg Dumbbells for Bench Press, my goal was 3 sets of 5-8.

First Set I did 7, I went controlled down and try to push up but nothing moved after a second. Not even slowly.. I still kept pushing and pushing but nothing, so I slowly went back down and stopped at 7 reps.

Next set, same happend at 6 reps. I couldnt do my 7th rep, it immediatly stopped at 6.5 again. Kept pushing, but after a few seconds I quit pushing cause it didnt even move slowly and my right arm was falling to the side.

Third set same, just at 4 reps. I wasnt able to get the 5th rep.

By this logic to me I was at true failure on each set cause nothing moved. I don't know why someone would say I am not hitting failure and have 2-3 reps in me, if I clearly can't move the weight at all no matter how I try.

So my question really is: Why do most intermediate/ advanced lifters so beginners don't go to failure? In my opinion beginners go to failure cause they don't know when to stop anyways... or am I missing something?

Or if you want me to waste 10 more runs, how about place the glyph upgrade dude in the town so I can get my upgrades after leaving the pit instantly?

This might not be anything new or so, but I always wondered about normal things back then and now.

I remember my mom dancing around public malls doing all kind of weird moves.

She never cared. That was esrly 2000s.

Today I asked her if she still does it and to my suprise she said "only at home".

I asked why.

She said with a straight vice "cause I am scared to do it..."

3 second silence

"... you know, I dont want to end up online in a random reel"

I think people running around with the ability to record anything at anytime is really really bad.

Its not only dancing. I was at the gym the other day and I also said to myself "I wont be trying to spider curl lol cause I might end up in a gym fail vid"

I think a lot more people have this issue and dont really no why but the reason is ppl are scared of being filmed and no one knows that it is a main reason why ppl are so boring in public nowadays.

What are your thoughts?

I think we are living like in the wild west with that technology. This needs some rules somehow but at the same time its nice to film anything you want at any moment

I OHP 5x50 kg, can do 8/7/5-6 Pull Ups (3 sets) but my bench press is like 60 kg?

I used a weight they said +20-30% of my OHP, but wasnt even able to get 3 reps on 60 kg.

One of the best devs ever. Thanks for fixing druid.