Recent content by Evaniel

Aaaaaand that was the final straw. I planned my workouts over break accounting for the student gym's limited hours. I went today and discovered that the lot was closed for a game they didn't bother to announce. Again. I went back to the townie gym and reactivated my membership. The equipment...

I've switched to hack squats and never looked back. You're making me want to swap B'bell BO Rows back in now. shakes fist

I prefer standard array and point buy for the games that I run to avoid drama and hurt feelings (much like @Clint_L). However, when I get a chance to roll? Let's go! I recently played an X-Crawl Classic character with a 3 Intelligence but slightly-above-average scores in Stamina and...

That all makes sense. I haven't done B-O BB Rows in awhile; they're one of those exercises that's too easy for me to get in my head over: "am I cheating? Is my back rounding? Are my knees supposed to move? Am I feeling this the right way?"

2025 was a good year with some lessons learned. Pretty much all of my gaming is online (Roll20) these days as my closer friends have left the area for good jobs. -Sunday Night is my "main" game of regular players that I DM for. We played Dungeons of Drakkenheim using the 5e 2024 rules. It was a...

Upper 2 Tuesday, December 16, 2025 at 5:41 PM Bench Press (Barbell) Set 1: 225 lb × 10 Set 2: 225 lb × 8 Pull Up Set 1: +35 lb × 9 Set 2: +35 lb × 7 Overhead Press (Dumbbell) Set 1: 60 lb × 10 Set 2: 60 lb × 10 Seated Row (Cable) Set 1: 190 lb × 9 Set 2: 190 lb × 8 Preacher Curl (Dumbbell)...

What kind of scale are you using? I'm asking you and @Scribe about this stuff because I'm--very reluctantly--getting back to cutting and would like to make sure I'm not losing too much muscle. Like Scribe, I'm guessing I'm around 20%.

Do you have a goal for BF%? What do you estimate is your current BF%?

You'll be missed!

I'd offer another vote for Forge of Fury. I'll also say that I really, really enjoyed Ythryn from Rime of the Frost Maiden. I don't find extended dungeon crawls with the 5e rules to be very fun, but Ythryn's approach as a broad, shallow sandbox of mini-dungeons works really well for it. My group...

Castle Amber, gold dragon friend.

Speaking just for myself, I think you have the right of it. Progressive overload isn't about never going back, and a lot of the periodization schemes I see--like "wave" approaches--have their ups and downs: after a "peaking" week and deload, they generally have you start back lighter. Starting...

Deloads are important if you've been training to failure, and it looks like you're doing it right! And I feel you on the wanting to push harder. That said, that urge motivates me when I go back to my regular sessions and definitely helps with burnout. (Also, your endurance is impressive! Every...

Regaining leg strength, but they’ve always been my weakest point. I am a short person with long, skinny legs: basically an elf. Lower 2 Thursday, December 11, 2025 at 5:58 PM Leg Press Set 1: 455 lb × 10 Set 2: 455 lb × 10 Romanian Deadlift (Barbell) Set 1: 235 lb × 10 Set 2: 235 lb × 10 Leg...

I'm a lifelong insomniac. I'll have brief periods where I sleep well, brief periods where I'll go days without meaningful sleep, and the rest: where I just sleep fitfully at best.