Pookleblinky

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All pookleblinky know is play music, lift weight, eat hot chip, write unsettling threads. You are now aware of the taste of your own mouth. Gendered in the way a peat bog is.

Trumpet, saxophone, guitar, banjo, and squats

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Imagine a mixture of Assassination Classroom and Baki where Andre the Giant is a gentle shepherd who goes into berserker mode on the people trying to steal his sheep

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Your Broke Professor

It's also easy and fast to incorporate into life, just leaving it in between the living room and kitchen or such, will help get a few minutes in regularly. Much less hassle to fit it into your life regularly and consistently

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60 is fine, there are complexes out there that get very difficult even with an empty 45lb olympic bar. As long as you're aware that you will very quickly outgrow that 60lbs and afterward be improving your conditioning more than strength, it'll do what you need it to do.

I'd recommend getting a used 16kg kettlebell somewhere and looking up a ton of youtube videos on proper form. Even smaller space requirement, just as versatile for complexes, much harder to outgrow than a limited weight bar. The ABC complex requires 2, and can be *brutal* even with just 70lbs.

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That is the exact perfect situation barbell complexes were made for. Each barbell complex is limited by your overhead press, which is going to be a much smaller weight than any other lift. 95lbs on the bar can still become a very hard workout.

Dan John's Mass Made Simple has several great complexes, and a system for progressing them, but there are a ton of em you can look up and try. None require a lot of weight, all require just enough space to stand in one spot.

The downside is that this progression is going to be capped: at some point they will become more helpful with conditioning and endurance than strength. But, until then they are a very cheap and accessible way of getting into a routine, ramping up safely and slowly and comfortably toward that cap.

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A hell of a lot of manga artists used 1960's strongmen and bodybuilders as references. Odds are you've actually seen his thighs in a manga somewhere. Look at Midsommar's elder Björn Andrésen's influence on pretty boys in manga and anime too

This is Tom Platz, known as the Quadfather. Other than the steroids, his method for turning into a veritable creature was very high rep sets of very heavy ass to grass high bar squats, and hack squats.

Tom Platz squatted 350lbs for 52 reps, at a weight under 230lbs. He also squatted 500lbs for 23 reps.

Platz also did such as 10 minute long sets of squatting 225lbs for 100 reps.

What's interesting about Platz is that nowadays people act like strength and hypertrophy are conflicting goals, that rep ranges are carved in stone with firm boundaries: heavy weight *or* high reps. Almost nobody lifts heavy ass weights *at* high reps anymore.

The reason is simple: it's very hard. It's a hell of a lot easier to lift heavy weights for less than 5 reps, or light weights for 20 reps. *Nobody* wants to lift that same heavy weight for 50 reps.

I find it interesting because you basically don't see anyone doing this now. Even at the time, the much more popular method was drop sets, Arnold 10 feet away from him would end up almost dead under an empty barbell, etc.

Platz's method of squatting heavy weights for absurdly high weights, obviously worked. Literally every other person in his gym was also on an *incredible* amount of steroids, but he was the only one regularly squatting 350lbs for 50 reps.

Basically: cartoonishly heavy weights at cartoonishly high reps, why choose one or the other

ditillo2.blogspot.com/2008/11/tom-... Here's him talking about his training over time.

Tom Platz On Squattingditillo2.blogspot.com Click Pics to ENLARGE Ironman: Tom, to start at the very beginning, when did you first get the idea that you wanted to do this – weight trai...

He was squatting twice a week, once for weight, once for reps. He'd periodize by starting at a low starting weight and increasing the weight 5lbs per session over a cycle, rinse and repeat.

A modern equivalent template would look a lot like Building the Monolith. Two squats at week, both gradually increasing in weight, one focusing on weight and the other on reps, periodized over a specified block.

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The progression system is simple: increase reps, or sets, or weight, but only one at a time. You are told "on this day you add X more reps" or "add Y pounds" etc.

It's a quirky, idiosyncratic routine, it's designed specifically to introduce people to understand both what training is, and that "shut the fuck up and do this program" is vastly more useful than homebrewing one of their own.

What I like about high rep squat routines like this, is that they are minimal and fast, they are meant to be done 2-3 days a week. You literally will not be able, or want, to do them more frequently. Or add your own random shit to them.

High rep squat routines like Mass Made Simple or Super Squats, show a beginner how badly they are fucking up by doing a ton of random stuff at zero intensity 6 days a week. "Do literally a quarter of all that shit, less often, and you'll get better results."

Like, the average beginner thinks they need 2 hour a day, 6 day a week routines full of every single exercise they've ever heard of. Dan John and Randall Strossen: just shut the fuck up and do 5 minutes of squatting 3 days a week.

It's such a corrective to that beginner urge to throw everything at the wall to see what sticks. Dan John has a whole thing about eating your vegetables first. Want to add your homebrew stuff? Go right head, but do it right after your 30 rep squat sets buddy.

After doing a high rep squat set, or two, it becomes extremely easy to understand whether it's important to add a third variation of bicep curl or perhaps add 22.5 seconds of rest etc.

After doing 3 high rep squat sets in a week, it becomes very easy to understand whether you really need to add 3 more days full of a dozen different elbow exercises.

A whole lot of things beginners tend to worry about and freak out and spam pubmed abstracts at each other over, simply dissolve after doing a handful of high rep squats.

It becomes a *hell* of a lot harder to justify adding whatever bullshit one weird trick for elbows you saw on youtube, after one or two of these high rep squats. Odds are, you won't even be able to think about doing that one weird trick, or want to even if you do.