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I only wear my Top Gun jacket when I’m flying or like around the house or something. I wouldn’t wear it to the club or bar or something lmao.

First and foremost, there’s a bajillion different pieces of advice people will give you - at the end of the day you have to do what works for you. Some of it is scientifically-based, and others are not. Nutrition is such a new science that there are new discoveries made all the time. I’d recommend making slight changes to your workout plan every three weeks so you can accurately monitor changes and see what works and doesn’t work. If you tack on 5 different changes and see results, you’ll have no idea if one, two, or all of the changes are helping you (or any possible combination). I got decently big doing nothing but dumbbells (not by choice, I just didn’t have any other equipment at the time. I bulked up to about 225lbs at my max, but I was intaking about 5000-8000 calories a day. I hover at about 185lbs right now, and I prefer it more tbh. I look a lot cleaner, feel a lot better, and it’s a big confidence booster because I’ve never really had a six pack before I dropped down to my current weight. I work out typically every single day, but I revolve muscle groups so each group gets about 4 days off before fibers are again being torn again. Low weight high rep does next to nothing for me - I lost strength and did not lose fat (if low weight high rep = fat burner, every teenage boy would have cut as fuck forearms). If I want to build endurance more, I do medium weigh medium rep. But that’s just what works for me. You may experience better results doing something different. As far as working out one muscle group more than the other, it’s dumb as fuck 80% of the time. The remaining 20% is okay in a few situations. Genetically, I have a big chest and my arms are normal. I would work out my arms slightly harder than my chest to start evening things out. Once appearance evened out, I started evening out my workouts. If you’re trying to do a particular exercise better, IE get a higher bench press, then yes you should bench more often. I’m currently trying to get back into doing 20 dead hang pull ups (not that gay ass CrossFit shit you see with people kipping and swinging their way to a pull-up) and finish off with one one-handed pull-up. It’s extremely difficult, but in order to get to that point I need to do more pull-ups and focus on back, shoulder, and hand (grip) strength the most right now. I wouldn’t recommend having more than one active goal in a particular workout, because it pulls too much focus away from the general aspect of working out. The last situation where it’s okay is your legs. Work. Out. Your. Legs. I don’t mean biking (although that’s great, don’t get me wrong), I mean legitimate protein synthesis. You release testosterone when you work out, and your legs are a gigantic muscle group. Work them out harder than any other body part, in my honest opinion - but also in an intelligent way so it’s not ridiculously disproportionate. If you’re just getting into fitness I wouldn’t even worry about developing plans and whatnot yet. Getting into the gym is the biggest obstacle. You can walk into a gym and throw weights around like a fucking idiot (as long as you’re not hurting yourself) for the first few weeks and still benefit yourself because you’re doing shit that your body is not used to. Then slowly, over time, start developing plans and making subtle changes. Also, if you rely on carbohydrates for energy, do cardio after you lift. Lifting burns the storage of glucose in the liver, so when you switch to burning fat, it will be on the shit that will burn it quicker (assuming you go hard af on cardio). Just my opinion, take away from it whatever you want. If you have any questions, feel free to ask. Good luck, welcome to the life.

Yeah there’s not a whole lot for us to do about it due to our hosting TOS.

i can lift this 100 times...do you think he’ll let me in his club

i drove to a harbor and threw some tea in it. Happy belated treason day, you filthy colonials

i benched all the plates

and then you have assholes just flipping their avatars to confuse the community. Disgusting.

Hello everyone, McBride wanted me to let everyone know that, unfortunately, his son passed away today. He has hopes to return to the community in the future, but obviously needs his time to mourn.

the only correct answer to this question is nickelback

I am the only person who has access to SG's funds, so I have no idea where you would even possibly come up with this notion. Please don't post stuff like this in the future, because not only is it entirely inaccurate, it's not even how servers work. SG brings in enough money to cover our current expenses, as well as allow us into further ventures.

Thank you for bringing this to our attention. The Board has decided to implement our own version of Bully Hunters. For those who are interested in applying, standby for applications to be released shortly.

Your timing is ironic - I became a Marine 7 years ago as of yesterday. Good luck.

Its straightforward, but I would hardly call it easy lol. The kinesiology and nutrition portion of it is super in depth.

Finally started the program to become a certified personal trainer. We’ll see how it goes - looks like it’s going to take awhile.

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I actually completely agree - but tbh whatever the outcome of this is, just know that we don't actually take dumb shit into account when we read apps...it just doesn't always get deleted unfortunately by the time it reaches us. I honestly have no problem with completely removing abstains though, tbh - 'abstain' wasn't really a thing in old admin applications from what I remember, so I'm not really sure where (within the last 5 years?) it became a thing.

Probably, but anything extremely sensitive (like the BD section and TA section) will be limited, if anything at all.

@TheCharizard Yes, I did read your post in its entirety. Going onto the chatbox and being a passive-aggressive vagina is not the way to handle it - if you have a problem, you can come to me. I was notified about this thread via the BD chat in Slack, where every single BD was wondering what the fuck you were smoking thinking about posting this public. Plain and simple - if you are not an admin, your opinion on what powers admins should have means nothing. If you're not a CA, your opinion on what CA's should have means nothing, etc. No fucking shit you're going to get a mob mentality when you make a thread about having more fun commands abusing your SA powers for 'fun'. If I make a thread asking who wants $5, I wonder who is going to post on it. There were some legitimate points made in the original post, but your attitude and way you went about doing it makes me not give two shits about your opinion anymore. Say the word and you are gone - I don't do this passive aggressive bullshit, so your ass can sit at the Administrator rank for the remaining of the year.

I am possibly looking to promote someone to be my secretary. It would included reminding me on tasks, meeting times, tagging me in things on here that require my attention, checking donations, etc. Not going to lie, it's mostly bitch work that consists of reminding me to do shit. If you're interested, send me a PM on the forums detailing why you're interested & you're typical available times you're around internet access, whether it's comp or just a phone.

Threads like these are what make the Board reluctant to any type of change. It literally does not matter the amount of times we say 'nothing is solidified, we're running a trial for the first few weeks and will review after that', threads like these always get made lol. Also, wrong section. You should be posting this in the SA section, not in the public where people post 'lulz dey N3rf3d da admin commandzzzz' from regulars and people who are not admin. I don't give a shit if you have constructive criticism, but we have sections for a reason. It's extremely tiring and obnoxious when I say something a bajillion fucking times and yet it's still not listened to. If you're not going to listen to us when we go out of our way to write lengthy posts and have hours of meetings, then we're not going to listen to you. 'Fun' commands are NOT being added back to Administrators. Period. If there is a practical reason behind the addition of a command, it can be reviewed and possibly added, but now this is locked and no changes are being made until a full review is done when the board can fully get together; Use appropriate channels next time and listen to what we are saying - you may possibly gain expedited results.