Recent content by Evaniel

I feel like I'm on a bit of a hamster wheel lately. I know I need to track calories and protein, and I've done so successfully in the past. Lately, however, when I get a day or two in, the wheels fall off completely. Because I'm not tracking that stuff, I feel like I'm not making meaningful...

Saturday Upper Saturday, Oct 11, 2025 at 10:13am Bench Press (Smith Machine) Set 1: 245 lbs x 6 Set 2: 225 lbs x 10 Set 3: 225 lbs x 10 Lat Pulldown (Machine) Set 1: 200 lbs x 12 Set 2: 200 lbs x 12 Seated Cable Row - V Grip (Cable) Set 1: 175 lbs x 12 Set 2: 175 lbs x 12 Shoulder Press...

Feeling called out here

I was feeling my elbow in the last set of preacher curls (not sure what the bar weighed). Combined with how my knees felt after Sunday, I'm a bit worried about combining an increase in volume with lowering the rep range and going heavier for some movements. I've only just begun and I'm already...

Tuesday Pull Tuesday, October 7, 2025 at 9:57 AM Pull Up Set 1: +25 lb × 9 Set 2: +25 lb × 10 Seated Row (Machine) Set 1: 150 lb × 10 Set 2: 150 lb × 10 Set 3: 150 lb × 8 Bent Over One Arm Row (Dumbbell) Set 1: 90 lb × 12 Set 2: 90 lb × 12 Reverse Fly (Dumbbell) Set 1: 45 lb × 10 Set 2: 45...

Sunday Lower Sunday, Oct 05, 2025 at 12:20pm Hack Squat (Machine) Set 1: 330 lbs x 8 Set 2: 330 lbs x 8 Set 3: 330 lbs x 10 Romanian Deadlift (Barbell) Set 1: 225 lbs x 6 Set 2: 225 lbs x 8 Set 3: 225 lbs x 8 Lying Leg Curl (Machine) Set 1: 135 lbs x 8 Set 2: 135 lbs x 6 Leg Extension...

It is taking everything in me not to approach the young person on the leg extension and say “in the time it’s taken you to complete one set and a rest, I’ve completed 4 on other machines while waiting for you to stop playing on your phone.”

My forever hot-take is that 2e gets a bad rap.

Saturday Upper Saturday, Oct 04, 2025 at 10:33am Bench Press (Smith Machine) Set 1: 225 lbs x 10 Set 2: 225 lbs x 8 Set 3: 225 lbs x 9 Cable Fly Crossovers Set 1: 40 lbs x 12 Set 2: 40 lbs x 11 Lat Pulldown (Machine) Set 1: 220 lbs x 8 Set 2: 220 lbs x 8 Set 3: 220 lbs x 10 Seated Cable Row...

About 10 years ago, I played with a group that used the Perrin conventions (both sides going through each step). It baffled me because how are melee characters going to interrupt casting?

Can you say more about this? I'm unfamiliar.

I use compression elbow sleeves on most upper body exercises, and I use knee wraps for presses/squats. That seemed to help. I've also lightened my loads and upped my reps in general. Cutting down volume and using drop sets also seems to have done wonders.

Nice! Are you using a spotter? A rack with a catch? How close to failure are you getting? I'd typically open my Saturday workout with bench, but I've never consistently had a spotter so I always ended up leaving a rep or two in the tank. I've recently switched over to the smith machine for...

Sunday Lower Sunday, Sep 28, 2025 at 12:03pm Hack Squat (Machine) Set 1: 310 lbs x 10 Set 2: 310 lbs x 10 Set 3: 310 lbs x 12 Lying Leg Curl (Machine) Set 1: 130 lbs x 10 Set 2: 130 lbs x 10 Calf Extension (Machine) Set 1: 175 lbs x 17 Set 2: 175 lbs x 17 Crunch (Machine) Set 1: 115 lbs x 12...