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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...

Apropo of nothing https://www.youtube.com/shorts/qrUFj9AGUG4

I'm running a West Marches style game of OSE where we're mixing both styles, and so far it's working! I'm not using the multi-class option, so many of the race-classes fill that niche nicely. We have race-classes like Dragonborn, Half-Elves, and Drow alongside halfling Thieves. I like, for...

I originally read the Gargantua as being a Dark Sun half-giant, tbh, so this seems like a good approach.

Busy?

This is literally what I thought the thread was about. Doesn't @darjr have a thread about misunderstanding thread titles? Welp. This is my entry haha.

I've given up on squats in favor of leg press and my new favorite: the hack squat machine. I've hurt myself on squats--my back, hip, and knee--more than any other exercise, hands down. As annoyed as I am with moving to the student gym, the hack squat machine actually makes me look forward to...

I hope things get better for you, and even showing up at the gym with everything else going on says a lot about you.

Incline DB press?

Workouts have been consistent (lifting 5x/week, running 2-3x/week), but I think I'm abandoning calorie counting for now. The students are back, which means the gym is packed, but I've been able to get it done so far.

Never forget.

I prefer cable row to BOB row: I always feel like I'm either cheating on form or overthinking it with BOB row.