Recent content by Evaniel

Seems like you've been moving the needle on the incline press. Nice!

Made it in yesterday and today. Still struggling with sinus stuff, so I took it VERY easy: nothing close to failure. I found that during the workout, my sinuses opened up quite a lot more, so that's good. It's been humbling, but that's okay.

Still congested, but I need to start back up. I'm using today as a reset button, thinking of it as starting over. I'll use baby weights to reacclimate this week, and then I'll start back progressively overloading. I'm going back to the Nippard Essentials 5x/week program: U,L,P,P,L. That's...

I just have a cheap pair of Gym Reapers, and they do the job well. I'll use them for dumbbell rows, too. TBH, I should probably train my wrists and grip strength a little better, but there're only so many hours in the day! :P

I've taken to using wrist straps for RDLs, and it's a pretty tremendous quality of life improvement.

Still sick. Hoping to get back on Saturday. :/

The Mentzer D&D set was my first experience, but I had borrowed it from my cousin. This was my first purchase, made with that sweet, sweet paper route money.

You apparently tagged me out once you recovered from being sick; I've been home sick with a cough and throat thing. DO IT FOR ME!

I've been doing 2 sets for most exercises (save for 1 set "finishers" for chest and back) for awhile now, and I've found something similar. One thing I might go back to for bench is having the first set be my "strength" set (4-6 rep range) and my second being a lighter and closer to failure set...

I'm cheap and just use the free version of MyFitnessPal, but @darjr's recommendation for MacroFactor seems to be the popular choice.

What kind of yoga are you doing?

Upper 2 Wednesday, January 14, 2026 at 6:10 PM Bench Press (Smith Machine) Set 1: 245 lb × 8 Set 2: 245 lb × 8 Pull Up Set 1: 9 reps 45 lbs Bent Over One Arm Row (Dumbbell) Set 1: 105 lb × 10 Set 2: 105 lb × 10 Lateral Raise (Cable) Set 1: 40 lb × 6 Set 2: 35 lb × 9 Incline Curl (Dumbbell)...

I'm so glad to see you sticking with it. That said, rest is important, too!

I just finished a replay of Resident Evil Village to whet my appetite before RE9 comes out (soon!). Other than that, I've been puttering around on Marvel Rivals (mostly the AI practice mode), but I've lost interest. I was also playing the Silent Hill 2 remake, and I was really excited for it...