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In maximal strength training, what is the purpose of having a day where you push yourself to the max, and then having lighter workout days while your body is recovering?
It's counter-intuitive to me why someone training for max lifts would want to train with lighter weights at times. Instead of having light days because your body isn't recovered, shouldn't you just take the day off instead?
What functional purpose does a light workout serve?
Theories:
Does the CNS take longer to recover than the muscular system, and somewhat lighter workouts allow you to still train muscle without taxing the CNS as much?
Or perhaps training at a variety of weight/rep ranges is required for advanced lifters who need more stimulus to force gains in strength?
Either way as I understand it it only seems to really be necessary for advanced lifters whose gains have started to taper off, correct?
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>>37399646
Imthink your first hypothesis is correct.
I also think it allows more frequent training without as much injury. Mshit is pretty taxing on the joints and ligaments and shit
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>>37399646
lifting heavy weights is a skill, skills require frequent practice
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>>37399646
The lighter workouts still offer some training stimulus. Total tonnage/volume is important, just as percentage is. If you squat 150 for a max, a session of 100kg squats at 3x5 is still 1500kg of tonnage, even if you're too fatigued to max out.
Anecdotally, I think it's quite important just to maintain flexibility and practice the movements. If I take a week off I'm always tight and my form is slightly rusty.
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true alphas thread high test pls go 2016-06-02 01:55:09 Post No.37399632
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true alphas thread high test pls go
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i used to be beta and have my grandma drive me around
now im alpha as fuck and when i drive her to bridge, all of her friends compliment me on how i have filled out and become very handsome
often i will go to the beach or the zoo and once when i was looking at the zebras there was a nice lady who asked me if i was from that area and if i came to the zoo often i think that she was interested in me but i told her i had to go to the bathroom. i didnt go to the bathroom i went to the kiosk and bought a frozen coke and then went to the monkey enclosure because that is my favourite
i think my brother harold is the most beta person i know often he will talk to the homeless man at the bus shelter just so that he has someone to talk to i think that he needs to make some more friends. often i invite him to come drive gran to bridge with me so that he can meet my grandmas older bridge lady friends but he is afraid of being the passenger in cars because he doesnt like how the seat feels on the back of his knees i think that he needs to listen to my mother who tells him that he should wear a thicker pair of pants when he rides in the car but he wont listen. he is the most beta
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>>37399632
Dude... this is obviously bait, but zoo... frozen coke. This sounds like that legendary 4chan cat fish dude.
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>>37399632
Nice blog faggot
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>>37399632
Wow this is some old pasta, I remember this from like 2009
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>at gym
>this fucking faggot walks in about to start fucking up everyones gains
>hes between you and the door but hasnt seen you
Are you confident enough in your gains to try and stop him?
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>>37399528
He can't pull the trigger. He isn't strong enough to pull that slav gagillion pound trigger pull.
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>>37399528
>only 9mm
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>>37399528
Throw a handful of protein powder in his face then run to my car. Drive home and have chicken tendies with mom
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Who else drinks every night and wont give up, but also hits the gym 5 days a week?
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Stop seeking validation for your unhealthy lifestyle on chinese cartoon images boards and get some help.
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>>37399483
my blood work came back fine
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>>37399497
If your doctor told you it's okay to drink every night you need to find a new doctor.
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Anyone Been A /Best Man/ At A Wedding before? 2016-06-02 01:30:33 Post No.37399386
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Anyone Been A /Best Man/ At A Wedding before?
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my buddy just asked me to be his best man and I'm nervous as fuck. How can I look aesthetic as fuck for the wedding? Obviously I know the obvious shit like get lean, whiten teeth, get a haircut, get suit tailored, etc.
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>>37399386
I have, op, but it was when I was dyel, I just did my hair and shined my shoes, just the normal stuff. Do you have a speech prepared? At the end of mine I said that they had a kid on the way already when they didn't.
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>>37399637
you have to give a speech? Fuckkkkkkk. Is that like madatory?
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>>37399386
I'm the best man wherever I go.
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Anybody have experience with exertion headaches? Apparently all I can do is take time off but I don't want to take a break from the gym, what am I supposed to do for 2 weeks? Just sit here and let my gains fade away?
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i do, normally i try to understand which excercice gives me these headaches and i change it
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>>37399321
>trying to cook herself to death on a rainy day
I got exertion headaches really bad from pullups for a while.
In my case it was only pullups that did it, and I think it was because my form was shitty and I'd tense up my neck unnecessarily.
If you can determine a specific exercise is doing it I'd say ease off that one a bit and try to determine how you're triggering them.
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Do you drink enough water?
How good of an excercise is skateboarding? I want to get fit and was wondering about skateboarding
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it took a shit on my knees.
it only offers a benefit as cardio really, and there's way better forms of cardio.
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>Skateboarding
You might as well buy a house and settle down in Snap City
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Does anybody have really good experience cutting water weight?
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GSP has shitty insertions
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>>37399184
and he still looks great :)
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This thread is about cutting water weight, not for fagging on GSP.
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Mode me.
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>>37399148
i like your shoulders.
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roided faggot who is insecure with his masculinity
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So desperate for validation you might as well be a girl-mode
/fit/
Why can't we ban middle aged women from entering the gym?
Really, they are the reason my gym is crowded, and they look so shitty
>Pic related, I wish they all looked like this one
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>>37399109
all they do is cardio and meme machines how could they possibly get in your way
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>>37399158
They use all the benches in my gym, it annoys me
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>>37399158
They also talk about how "meatheads" are gross in the sauna, from my experience.
I just wanted to remind all of you that lifting will get you a girlfriend.
>we are all going to make it
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HOLY FUCK FREDDY DID IT
DOES ANY HAVE THE IMAGE YOU KNOW THE ONE
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she's a 6/10
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welcome to hell. good luck.
when will you betas realize MGTOW is the way to go?
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The mum looked at me as if i were autistic when i said i was getting kitchen scales so i could count calories, and a coffee grinder so i could grind sunflower kernels -- gotta grind them because the body may not properly digest sunflower kernels that haven't been chewed properly :)
This isn't abnormal to any of you normies, right? (abnormies reading this post need not respond -- no offense haha :) x)
You guys also weigh your food to make sure you're eating the right amount of food, don't you?
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If you 'own' everything you do then nobody will really care. The difference between Chad and retard is how confidently you do something.
If you really are a tard, just playfully make fun back at anyone who makes fun of your actions. If you let them stop you then that's playing into the idea that you are weird. So like I said, turn it back on them, and imply they are the weird one.
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>>37398906
My mom called me an autist when I started using my scale too but that's just banter man
If I don't weigh my food she nags me now
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Please tell me you have a good 0.001 mg scale and not that 1g scale you fat fuck
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Unbalanced bench press 2016-06-02 00:29:54 Post No.37398790
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I've been told that the bar isn't balanced when I bench, have an arm stronger than the other due to fapping 6 times a day probably, the weaker arm lifts struggles and lifts slower.
Is that a common issue with most lifters?
Would it be a good idea to use one of these with only the weaker arm?
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No. Use dumbbells instead.
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>>37398790
dumbbells, dumbass
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>>37400076
Funny, I've heard that when starting to lift your dominant hand will be bigger but they'll even out over time.
>*record scratch*
>freeze frame
>Yep, that's me, Zyzz. You're probably wondering how I got into this situation.
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>If you want to find out, we've got to go back to the beginning.
>*rewinding sound effect and static*
>Whoa whoa! Too far!
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So there I was, jacking it to some weird fat chick porn (for high test) and then me mum came knocking on the door
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>>37398762
2autist4zyzz
It's a "pear-shaped, polo-wearing, brown dyel steps in front of my clearly designated mirror space while talking on his cell phone" episode
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>lifting in front the mirror
>realize you are ugly
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>>37398638
Shut the fuck up with your meme episode shit and tumblr frog face you scum.
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Two old dudes were talking about me when I walked into the locker room. I know they were talking about me because one of them was saying, "That son of a bitch smokes" and I am the only smoker in my gym (yes, I'm trying to quit) and they went quiet as soon as they saw me.
The one old dude always gives people unwanted advice and points out he was a lineman for the Michigan Panthers football team. He always tells me I'm trying too hard.
It bothers me that I don't know what they were saying about me.