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Nice! Makes sense. Sounds like an impressive total tbh, esp at under 100kg bw!

yeeeeeeeah buddy. good luck! are you going to aim for a specific weight class or just compete wherever you fall on the day?

All i can suggest is using the ankle straps for a cable machine around your wrists and doing that for upper body stuff. Alternatively any machine work you can do without impacting your finger. E.g. if you can get it loaded you could hack squat, leg press, hack squat good morning, leg ext and hamstring ext without and finger involvement.

Was all the paint properly cured before putting the oils on? Also maybe try not pushing as hard?

I've not experienced lifting off the paint underneath when doing this but I know these can be issues.

If you are predominantly going to be playing somewhere where you have access to power, IMO steamdeck and it's not even close.

I have both, and the main downside of the steamdeck for big games is battery life IMO, but I have a battery pack that attaches to the back of the deck for travel that doubles battery life. The only games you can't play on the deck vs. the switch are the nintendo exclusives, so if those are important to you then yeah the switch is good, but if not then easily steam deck is better.

Never had it after! Have vommed or nearly vommed mid workout multiple times in the past but this sounds like an odd one!

It's definitely worth playing, and don't be shy to look up some character builds and party compositions if you don't know what's good.

Were you playing on console? Re interface being clunky. I played first time on pad and didn't find it too bad, but I guess there's a big difference between knowing what you want to do and finding it and needing to explore what you want to do.

And yeah, the large amount of options characters have, and not knowing what is good and what isn't, and how positioning effects those things is the kind of thing I thought people would struggle with. But I guess it's not really any different in other CRPGs I've played so maybe that's part of the genre.

The combat can be (imo) very tactical and interesting, and tense, but it does require you to know somewhat of the opponents' options and your own.

There was a joke I heard about Larian games that basically the entire first playthrough is the tutorial, and you only really know what you're doing on the second playthrough.

wdym by clunky out of interest?

I've played a lot of tabletop dungeons and dragons 5e so the combat was very familiar to me, but I did have the feeling that for people who haven't it would feel very odd.

Try etsy, I search for "cute miniatures" and found these tressyms

congrats! that's a good result, and a cool looking army too.

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Put my money (lats?) where my mouth is and superset a bunch of my exercises with low rep pull ups today. 5 sets of 2 and 5 sets of 1. 15 reps total which is a lot more than the none I was doing before. Blew my back up.

a great chorus of creaking knees is to come.

I need to add chins back in. Going from lithe rockclimber repping out weighted pull ups to chunky strongman who can do a max of 2 bodyweight pull ups means they hit me right in the ego.

For rotator cuff see about getting some rings and doing pull ups on them, allowing joints to move as they desire in a pull up should make it less painful.

and yes the long and short of it is "do more pull ups" with a side dish of "get stronger at pulling in general".

If you can do 4 or 5 then yeah best method will be just doing more pull ups probably. You could try greasing the groove - doing extremely submaximal sets (like, 1 pull up) many times a day. Like, 10-20 times, but spread throughout the day.

I found success in pyramid sets. Do a rep, rest for a short period, do 2 reps, rest, etc, until you fail a set, and then do back down. e.g. 1-2-3-4-5-6(fail@5)-5-4-3-2-1, and for the sets going back down add in negatives when you can't complete a rep.

If you want to really prio them you could look at the russian fighter pull up program https://www.strongfirst.com/the-fighter-pullup-program-revisited/

I've never had massive bloat or stomach problems so can't speak to them, but may be worth trying a different brand.

That's brutal man. I hope things continue to improve. It's great that you're still lifting and doing stuff, all to easy to fuck it all off when and injury impacts things that much.

ripped clothes (especially shorts/trousers/underwear) definitely feel like an inevitabilty with lifting, even if you're not going full lou ferrigno hulk vibes.

I love the LiS games. Slow paced but IMMENSELY fucking stressful.

this genre is sometimes called a walking simulator if you want a way to search for similar stuff, but I don't have specific reccs.

Just one. I don't think a second rep was there, but I'd done 170, 180, 190, so maybe without those working up it might have been.

I haven't really pushed squats since I started training strongman, just wanted a ballpark 1rm to base programming off. Also not been stoked on training lately and maxing out make brain satisfied.

I'm not gonna push squats proper, but I might try for 20o later this year at some point.

Just in time for the DLC!

Maxed out my squat as a treat. Hit 190kg. Pretty happy with that. When I did it I thought it was ugly as all hell but looking back on the video it wasn't too bad.

I think I could have hit 200kg but a) I was scared, didn't trust anyone to spot and even with safeties didn't feel confident in failing 200kg if it came to that and b) it would have been ugly / with a good morning which I am trying to drill out.

Didn't expect to be so hype for this. Been holding off a second playthrough until the DLC released so I will look forward to it. I intermittently used spirit ashes in my first playthrough so I will be playing without them. I really struggled with Mohg, and it looking like you'll have to beat him to get to the DLC isn't making me super hype though.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZRA6r3iG7lI