The Giant Korean
Some say that giant Koreans don’t exist.
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The Giant Korean@lemmy.worldto Weightroom@sh.itjust.works•[Help] Recomposition or continue cutting?English1·14 days agoWell, physically there are a few things. Your maint calories will likely go up as you maintain, so things like NEAT will go up and you’ll be burning more calories over all (which means more food). You’ll be able to put on more muscle because of the extra calories which will help with fat burning, glucose disposal, and all sorts of other good stuff. Your joints will be happier with increased calories as the body is better at repairing damaged tissues in maint/surplus. Hormones should upregulate. Etc etc.
But the mental aspect is huge and definitely welcomed!
The Giant Korean@lemmy.worldto Weightroom@sh.itjust.works•[Help] Recomposition or continue cutting?English2·15 days agoTypically it’s a good idea to do maint for 3-6 months after a 6 month stint of dieting. You don’t have to, but I think it helps to take a break mentally (and maybe physically).
The Giant Korean@lemmy.worldto Comic Strips@lemmy.world•Local Voltron - Last Place ComicsEnglish29·16 days agoYou’re right. It… It was the ass…
That is scarier to me than the fast zombies.
So this is pretty neat:
Humans aren’t good at running fast, but we are good at running for a long time for long distances, so it’s thought that we would just run after things until they got tired.
So like you know how people in horror movies would run and then look over their shoulder and Jason is somehow still there?
The Giant Korean@lemmy.worldto Weightroom@sh.itjust.works•Can ai do PPLPPL with only 4 exercises a day?English1·26 days agoI like to go with as much volume as is necessary to get a positive response. If my reps are going up and/or RPE is going down I know that I’m making progress and that whatever volume I’m using is adequate. That might not be optimal, but I don’t get burned out this way, and if things start to stall I have room to increase volume further if I need to. That’s just my preference, though.
The Giant Korean@lemmy.worldto Weightroom@sh.itjust.works•Can ai do PPLPPL with only 4 exercises a day?English1·28 days ago9 sets is just fine. Recent research seems to suggest that 10 is optimal (some gains after that but returns diminish quickly).
Take a look at the work by Dr. Pak (Androulakis-Korakakis) on minimum effective dose training. I might get maybe 3-6 sets of chest a week deepening on what wrist is going on and I’m still making gains.
The Giant Korean@lemmy.worldto Weightroom@sh.itjust.works•Weekly Training Log - June 9, 2025English3·28 days agoSo my coach told me that my snatches were so slow that they might get red lights in competition 😂 so that was encouraging. Guess I need to work on my speed under.
I did 4x4 front squats with 82kg last week. I’m building my squat back up after multiple issues, starting with a quad tear about 7 years ago. Hopefully I can get it back up to a decent level soon.
I always end up dumping it out of my bowl into a mixing bowl. Always.
The Giant Korean@lemmy.worldto Weightroom@sh.itjust.works•Weekly Training Log - May 26, 2025English2·1 month agoMy coach will be adding an Oly day into my program, and she’ll likely put me through a squat cycle, so I need to change my routine around a bit to add in the BB work. Mon and Fri will be squat days, and I’m guessing Wed will be light/technique work. I’ve settled on doing two-a-days on Mon and Fri (Oly morning, full body BB evening) - this is flexible enough that I can move my BB sessions to Tues and/or Sat as time and energy permits. I’ll need to limit lower body accessory work to maintenance levels (like a set or two of each movement at RPE 6-7) but I think this will be doable. The other option is 3 BB sessions of push/pull/legs in the evenings on Mon, Wed, and Fri (or Tues, Thurs, and/or Sat morning). I just need to try some setups out and see what works.
I hit 120kg x 10 on kickstand RDLs. I want to work up to 140x5 on each leg (or whatever I can get) and then I’ll just maintain that for a while.
The Giant Korean@lemmy.worldto Weightroom@sh.itjust.works•Push Pull Legs is stupid!English8·1 month agoYou don’t necessarily need to deadlift on both pull days. You don’t even necessarily need to do all of the same exercises. This goes for the push and leg days as well.
Wasn’t this an SNL skit? Did SNL steal this?
The Giant Korean@lemmy.worldto People Twitter@sh.itjust.works•Some people? Absolutely. Others? Just trying to connectEnglish5·1 month agoI feel like you can tell where the intent is behind it when they bring up a similar situation from their life. It’s not hard to tell if it’s from a helpful place vs them trying to upstage you.
I tend to do this to try to relate and let them know they’re not alone, but lately I’ve just been trying to listen so that I don’t come across the wrong way.
The Giant Korean@lemmy.worldto Programmer Humor@programming.dev•the beautiful codeEnglish121·1 month agoDid it try to blackmail him if he didn’t use the new code?
Something tells me he’s been doing inappropriate things with his boss.
The Giant Korean@lemmy.worldto Weightroom@sh.itjust.works•Weekly Training Log - May 19, 2025English2·2 months agoAlmost. The toes of the other leg are on the ground to help keep balance.
The Giant Korean@lemmy.worldto Weightroom@sh.itjust.works•Weekly Training Log - May 19, 2025English2·2 months agoSome stuff from this week:
- Overhead Press 85kg x 1
- Deficit Bentover Row 75kg x 11
- Dumbell Bench Press 70lb DBs x 9
- Pullup x3 (these need work)
- Zercher Bulgarian Split Squat 25kg x 15 (each leg)
- Kickstand RDL 105kg x 12 (each leg)
- Muscle Snatch 60kg x 3
- Clean Grip Overhead Squat Hold 70kg x 15sec
Today I did Myomatch sets with some of my lifts. Tough but I like them!
The Giant Korean@lemmy.worldto Weightroom@sh.itjust.works•LiftManual is a solid referenceEnglish6·2 months agoThis is absolutely a golden age in lifting science. There are so many studies coming out now.
The Giant Korean@lemmy.worldto Weightroom@sh.itjust.works•LiftManual is a solid referenceEnglish5·2 months agoHome gym gang! Filming lifts is invaluable IMHO.
Exactly! I’m still feeling it today. Not that soreness is necessarily an indicator of effectiveness, but damn, I am feeling these in parts of my lats that I never feel with bentover rows or pullups.