u/Grogon2

Seems like tracking got me the most success so far... I quit tracking cause all apps throw ads on me and it got annoying, so I was always just "counting protein" and nothing else for a while.

But I noticed even while tracking it wasn't 100% correct... but my approach was basically:

My maintainance is 2300 kcal.

If I have a target of 2100 kcal for a deficit and I am cutting and I tracked 1900 kcal, I'd rather not eat anything anymore and hope I am around 2100 maximum.

If I was "bulking" I tried to aim for 2500 kcal and if I was around 2300 kcal I just ate an extra donut or something just to reach 2500-2600.

Is this the right approach if I start tracking again?

I am not sure if I can 100% accuratly track at all (Olive Oil, Take out,...) so I just assume and depend on my goal. If I know I need below 2100 and I counted 1800 I just won't eat or reduce the size so its around 2100 and if I bulk I just make sure to get more than 2300 and to be safe eat a spoon of peanut butter before bed to get the 2.6k+

But other than that I think I was always atleast 150-300 kcal "off" of my calculated stuff I put in the app. Thats why I basically always went for 1800 kcal during a cut instead of 2100 and went for 2600+ to be safe if I wanted to bulk.

To me it seems easier to go "overboard" in either direction than trying to stay in a slight deficit or slight surplus. Dunno... am I just bad at tracking, maybe?

Thats a reason why I am asking if tracking is even worth it for me in my case... lol

I bought a house and I have to pay 25 years to the bank.

It's crazy, cause the amount is like 400.000 €.

But what makes my mind always go crazy is the fact that some celebrities, rich dudes,... etc. just earn that amount in a few minutes (or seconds).

It's like a life decision for me and had to think months about investing it. Others can just buy it in a second and forget about it.

If they would just give me 400.000 I'd be happy lol

Ya'll I'm gonna be honest with ya'll, if it takes 30 decades to start a match cause of intro that you skip but still isn't skipped til the match finally starts people will quit.

You can't give us a game made that requires 8 minutes (even with full match 12/12) to finally start cause "Warlock" can't quit talking

Yeah dunno, wanted to ask if it's just my country in a nutshell or what am I doing wrong?

I earn about 4100 € (after taxes) each month which is quite decent for living in germany.
My house credit is about 1200 €, my other expenses (internet, electricity, water, etc.) about 700 € and groceries about 600 € a month.

Thats a total of 2500 € month I gotta pay.

Then I need to save some money for emergencies (house, yard, any other stuff like insurances for house, me, ...) and I have 500 € left for the month (hobbies).

HOW WILL I EVER BE ABLE TO SAVE UP TO 24.000 € for an electric vehicle??????????????

I am really earning decent money, a lot of people have way less than I do in my country and I can't even dream of buying an electric vehicle in the next 10 years.

Here I am still rocking my Toyota Yaris 2006 and can't afford a new car at all while all age 18-22s are driving some gozu godlike e cars, how they doing it?

It sounds crazy and I never believed it when ppl told me these stories.

I recently was at a smaller city in germany and I swear I had been there before.

I never was there but I told ny wife there is a bakery that starts with A somewhere here and 20 minutes later a bakery "Anton" appears.

I couldnt remember anything of that place but it was still kind of familiar.

Hilarious enough the owner of the bakery died 3 years before I was born. I told my wife that was me but Im not sure lol.

For more context I love baking but never made it my profession cause I kept saying its hard work and not worth it. I always bake with barely any recipes and it all turns out good. My family says I could be a baker.

What makes it even more weird I told my mom this experience, turns out we have family from that town but she and her mother (my grandma) moved 70 km away from that place 50 years ago when she was 13. My grandma died and she has no contact to anyone in that area

I hope, I hope. Im a year in and still a tiny light in the gym.

I did my first 3x8 with 30 kg dumbbell each Hand on bench press, last year I couldnt unrack them properly.

Wish me luck guys I love gym just hope I wont stay forever mini

Wie ist da generell der durchschnitts Bürger?

Man hört ja immer, dass es Tradition ist und dazu gehört. Also stört es anscheinend vielen gar nicht?

Mit welchem Wertverlust kann ich denn da rechnen (Neubau), wenn ich es doch wieder verkaufen möchte? Ist ein Verkauf in der heutigen Zeit überhaupt dann möglich?

Wenn jetzt 50% der potentiellen Käufer abspringen wegen Kirchglocken, hätte ich ja mit 50% Glocken liebhaber ja wieder ordentlich Käufer.

Kirchglocken verstummen und meine Ortschaft ist eher .... pro Glocken. Verstummen ist also keine Option. Aber kaufen tuts von denen natürlich auch keiner?

Hallo,

ich habe ein Haus mit 3 Fach Verglasung und Schallschutzklasse 5 einbauen lassen.

Trotz Schallschutzklasse 5 (50db) hört man immer noch die Kirchglocken ziemlich laut (die haben "nur" 45 db laut Messung).

Da die Kirche bei uns um 05:30, 9 Uhr, 11 Uhr, 12 Uhr, 18 Uhr und 20 Uhr je 3 Minuten durchläutet und auch in der Nacht die Uhrzeit angongt (viertel stündlich 1-4 Schläge + Uhrzeit) werde ich langsam gaga.

Ich dachte an Dämmung in eine Folie packen und so ausschneiden wie die Fenster sind und immer rein stopfen vorm schlafen.

Gibts eine andere Möglichkeit?

Edit:
Wegen den Kirchglocken, falls jemand etwas schreibt:
Wir haben mit der Pfarrerin gesprochen, nach einer Umfrage stellte sich heraus, dass zwei Anwohner (ü80) dagegen waren diese abzuschalten. Nun müssen wir damit leben... also da lässt sich erst was ändern sobald die gestorben sind. Solange müssen wir und 5 andere Nachbarn uns damit ärgern und irgendwie selbst helfen.

... could I structure it properly?

I tried Upper Lower this week but I noticed after 5 exercises I am just exhausted.

I like doing 3-4 exercises per workout, but this seems to not work well since I need 1 exercise for chest, 1 for lat, 1 for upper back, 1 for shoulders. Plus I need arms...

So an upper day is usually minimum 6-8 exercises, which is way too much for me.

What are your thoughts on this?

Monday:

• Barbell Bench 3x5-8
• Bent Over Row (Barbell) 3x6-10
• Overhead Extension Cable 3x8-12
• Dumbbell Hammer Curls 3x8-12
• Lateral Raises 2x12-20

Wednesday

• Overhead Barbell Press (standing) 3x5-8
• Lat Pulldown 3x6-10
• Chest Flyes 3x8-15
• Reverse Flyes 3x8-15
• Lateral Raises 2x12-20

Friday:

• Incline Dumbbell Bench 3x6-10
• Pull Ups 3x6-10
• T Bar Rows 3x6-10
• EZ Bar Skullcrushers 3x6-10
• EZ Bar Curls 3x6-10

It's monday to friday, since I cant guarantee sat + sunday.

Monday:

• 3x5-8 Barbell Bench
• 3x5-8 Bent Over Row
• 2x6-10 Incline DB Bench
• 2x6-10 Lat Pulldowns
• 2x8-15 Cable Overhead Extensions
• 2x8-15 Dumbbell Hammer Curls
• 2x12-20 Lateral Raises
• 2x12-20 Reverse Flyes Machine

Tuesday

• 3x5-8 Deadlift
• 2x5-8 Bulgarian Splitsquats
• 3x6-10 Leg Press
• 2x8-15 Leg Curls (unilateral)
• 4x8-15 Calf Raises (seated)

Thursday:

• 3x5-8 Overhead Barbell Press
• 3x6-10 Lat Pulldowns
• 3x6-10 Dips
• 2x6-10 T Bar Chest Supported Rows
• 2x8-15 Chest Flyes (machine)
• 2x8-15 Cable Hammer Curls (bilateral now)
• 2x8-15 Skullcrushers

Friday:

• 3x5-8 Squat
• 3x6-10 RDL
• 2x8-15 Leg Extensions (unilateral)
• 2x8-15 Leg Curls (unilateral)
• 4x8-15 Calf Raises Super set with 2x12+ Lateral Raises and the 3.+4. Set Super Set 2x12+ Face Pulls

Hey I buy fruit of the loom boxers in "L" and I usually wear "M" but I use "L" for squatting.

They all pop after a while.

Any ideas what underwear to buy/ use for squating??

I see if I go close and low I hit different muscle than wide and high.

Should I just vary set to set or change every 12 weeks? Dunno...

What stance Hits same as leg extension? I do leg ext leg B, with Leg A I do leg press. What stance I use?

I can't edit my thread

https://www.reddit.com/r/Petloss/comments/1vjbrk2/today_should_have_been_a_good_day_but_its_not/?sort=new

Today we went to visit him, he was still breathing hard and all of is vitals weren't stabilising anymore. We basically just drove there to put him down.

The vet brought my wife our little yorkie and the moment she held him and kissed him he stopped breathing and fell asleep.

We didnt have to put him down, to me and my wife it looked like he had no pain and the vet said: "He took the decision for you and was probably waiting to see you one last time"

My wife is totally down, because of what I explained in the previous thread. She went inside to prepare a meal and in the mean time our blind dog wandered off and fell into the pond which was quite a distance away and he had never wandered the yard anymore since a year (he is blind, deaf,...).

She is feeling so guilty I try to explain her its not her fault and that it could have happend to anyone.

Hope she will get over this soon..

We leave our dog on a cooling matt every day. I was on my way to work, my wife let the dog stay outside (small yorkie) cause the house was still heated up and outside was fresh air and he was sleeping.

Turns out he woke up and walked straight into the pond. Luckily my wife found him and somehow got him to breathe again and went to the emergency with him.

Now our little dog is at the vet hospital tonight and he almost drowned. We arent sure how long he was in the water. I left work and drove with her, took my shirt off and wrapped him with my t shirt so he heats up a bit.

She feels so bad for not keeping an eye on him. He never actually wanders around since he is blind and cant hear anything since a year.

The worst thing: today is wifes birthday. We gotta wait til tomorrow night for more information. At the doctors he had 37.1°C body temp again and a little bit of water in lunges, but he was looking at us. Hope he survives tomorrow... or else she wont be happy again and feel guilty forever. I try to tell her she cant be everywhere and nobody would have thought he'd walk so far off since he never walks around anymore.

I will update this in 24 Hours with an edit if someone is interested if he made it.

But for now cross fingers that all goes well please... I wish I could somehow cheer my wife up.

I am at my nightshift again, my coworkers stayed longer for me. I am grateful for such colleagues. Right now I can only think of my wifes "screaming and crying" when she called me right before I showed up to my work.

Small Edit:
I still shiver when she said she jumped into the pond to fish him out and he was just a wet noodle and she started resuscitating him. Our little 1.4 kg yorkshire. When we left the emergency earlier he was atleast licking his paws. I really hope he makes it... the vet said right now its looking good but he cant guarantee anything cause of the dogs age and sometimes the situation can change rapidly...

Started gym over a year and a half ago.

I stll only bench 70 kg for 3 reps.

I started at 20 kg but to be really fair: MAYBE I could have already do e 60 kg back then but was too afraid to try.

My Cable Overhead Tricep Extension at end of my workout is sitting at 22 kg for 12 reps.

I tried ms Max rep Squat and did 100 kg today.

Deadlift only 105 kg but adding more feels like my soul wants to exit my body through my eyes for a single rep.

I wont give up but I gotta say I dont notice much difference to last year physiquewise. A bit of strength came I guess but it also could be just better form.

I weight 83 kg, 175cm tall. Im skinny but also fat on belly and chest area.

If I bulk I will get fatter and if I cut I wont gain muscles. Im lost.

The only thing Im happy about is that I love going to the gym and its a routine now.

I have a wife, a good job (nurse) that I love, and have a house with.. a huge debt.

Cool so far.

Wife and job are the only things that are good though.

Since we built this house though I feel kind of lost. I was always hoping the company is right and the sound of the church bells won't be heard with all the insulation and the extra sound proof windows.

Shi.t sucks, I got a house that I love cause it's built how we wanted it but I can't take the church bells anymore.

And on top of that I can't sell the house. I tried selling it once just for fun, but nobody is interested cause of the close church that rings bells 24/7.

So my problem is I cant even move out cause I have enough to pay my bank credit for the house but not enough for a new apartment or something smaller.

How screwed am I?

If I could turn back time I would have never signed the contract to build a house at that location. Now its just burnt money and Im paying for it the next 20 years.

In my country I cant do anything against it. Church bells arent considered noise here.
And the neighbor next to me is 80 years old and loves it. He even voted against turning them off a few years ago when another neighbor tried to elimante the sound.

IM SO STUPID

Hey...

I tried many programs or lets say routines but dunno... never got warm with them.

I think I will stick to Upper Lower for a while and see how it goes. I prefer PPL but tbh I only can go to the gym 5 days a week (mon to friday) so instead of that Ill just do Upper Lower with an optional Cardio + Arms day on Saturday.

My goal is to lose weight to 75 kg but keep muscles/ gain muscles. I weight 83.2 kg and 175 cm tall, male. Skinny arms, skinny legs, but a belly (94 cm waist curently).

I dunno if I am able to cut without turning into a skeleton, but at the same time I can't bulk either cause of my man boobs and my waist.

So dunno... my approach is following:

Upper Lower Cardio Upper Lower (Saturday and Sunday Rest, or optional: Saturday Cardio + Arms)

Upper A: Monday

• 3x5-8 Heavy Barbell Bench
• 3x6-10 T Bar Rows (Wide Grip, Chest supported)
• 3x6-10 Seated Dumbbell OHP
• 3x10-15 Unilateral Lat Pulldown
• 3x10-15 Bilateral Overhead Cable Extensions
• 3x10-15 Unilateral Dumbbell Hammer Curls
• 2x12-20 Lateral Raises
• 2x12-20 Cable Face Pulls

Lower A: Tuesday

• 1x5 Heavy Deadlift, followed by 2x5-8 Back Off Sets
• 3x6-10 Leg Press
• 3x10-15 Unilateral Leg Curls
• 3x10-15 Calf Raises Smithmachine Super Set Leg Raises 3x10-15

Wednesday: Cardio 60 Min LISS followed by 3x10-15 Cable Crunches

Upper B: Thursday

• 3x5-8 Heavy OHP Barbell
• 3x5-8 Bent Over Barbell Rows
• 3x6-10 Incline Dumbbell Bench Press
• 3x6-10 Bilateral Lat Pulldown MAG Grip
• 3x10-15 Cable Flyes
• 3x10-15 Unilateral Dumbbell Overhead Extensions
• 3x10-15 Bilateral Cable Hammer Curls
• 2x12-20 Lateral Raises

Lower B: Friday

• 3x5-8 Heavy Squats
• 3x6-10 Bilateral Leg Curls
• 3x10-15 Unilateral Leg Extensions
• 3x10-15 Calf Raises Smithmachine Super Set Leg Raises 3x10-15

Optional Saturday:

• 45 Min LISS
• 2x10-15 EZ Bar Skullcrushers
• 2x10-15 EZ Bar Curls
• 2x10-15 Unilateral Cable Overhead Extensions
• 2x10-15 Unilateral Incline Dumbbell Curls

Sunday: Rest

Think Ill skip saturday most of the time, but if Im bored I guess I can do it. But I think recovery would be better?

Any suggestions?

I really need my arms to not be sticks. I look like a poke man. If you take a pencil and draw an X and place a circle on it with a smilie in it thats how I look.

This is my physique:
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Thinking about moving laterals/ face pulls to lower days.

Think this is okay?

Upper:
3x5-8 Barbell Bench
3x6-10 Seated Cable Rows
3x6-10 Incline DB Press
3x10-15 Lat Pulldowns
3x10-15 Cable Overhead Extensions
3x10-15 Cable Hammer Curls

So this is total of 6 exercises. If I would add laterals and cable face pulls I'd already be doing them in a fatigued state as 7th and 8th exercise.

My Lower days only have like 4-5 exercises.

Lower:
3x5-8 Deadlift
3x6-10 Leg Press
3x10-15 Leg Curls
3x10-15 Calf Raises

Now I would just add laterals and face pulls during my calf raises. Think thats doable?

... fun, laughter, jolly, friendship and overall less toxic and more cozy environment.

I remember back in Starcraft early 2000s where it was:

"Hey man, I didn't see your zergling rush coming, you played really great - good game well played mate! :-)"

Or back in Quake:
"Nice shot dude, wow that was insane!"

Or Team Fortress 2:
"Your team played really good, nice match everyone had a blast!"

I can't quote everything I remember obviously but now it's all about winning, hacking, calling people "Noob" or telling them to get good.

It's all so serious now.

Back then I remember coming home from school launching a quick match of Warsow or Call of Duty 2 and just having fun, enjoying the game with my friends and the strangers in the lobby.
Left 4 Dead 2 was also a thing and we had fun.

Now I just tried playing Battlefield and I was flying quite well (little bird pro back in Bf3) and he basically just called me Noob the whole time.

Yeah overall I just miss the good old 2000s early gaming era.
I had a lot of fun in Diablo 2 LoD Duel games, Warcraft 3 1v1s, early WoW was great fun til Cataclysm (after that I quit, not cause the game was bad but because I had no time anymore).