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NegativeAccount t1_j5j5dj1 wrote

Reply to LPT: To get the most muscle/sculpting for your buck at the gym, focus on compound lifts—the exercises that recruit multiple muscle groups. You only really need overhead press, bench press, squat, deadlift, rows, dips, and maybe pull-ups. These will give you most workout for the energy you put forth. by [deleted]

This should be "LPT: make sure to incorporate these exercises into your training routine..."

> You only really need...

Those are definitely the core exercises, but you're going to overtrain specific muscles. For example, the shoulder has 3 muscle groups (simplified): front, middle, rear. You need to switch exercises to hit all 3.

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crappygodmother t1_j5j41sg wrote

Reply to LPT: To get the most muscle/sculpting for your buck at the gym, focus on compound lifts—the exercises that recruit multiple muscle groups. You only really need overhead press, bench press, squat, deadlift, rows, dips, and maybe pull-ups. These will give you most workout for the energy you put forth. by [deleted]

Every body is different though. The best exercise is the one you actually do and these exercises are not a good fit for everyone.

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CrazyStar_ t1_j5j41bu wrote

Reply to comment by mehuiz in LPT: To get the most muscle/sculpting for your buck at the gym, focus on compound lifts—the exercises that recruit multiple muscle groups. You only really need overhead press, bench press, squat, deadlift, rows, dips, and maybe pull-ups. These will give you most workout for the energy you put forth. by [deleted]

Tricep pulldowns / extensions and shrugs will give you far more bang for buck than dips and rows for those respective muscles.

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brothertuck t1_j5j3x0i wrote

Reply to LPT: A good financial habit to get into is treating money as hours of work. Ask yourself how many hours of work something would take if you buy it. The awareness of the amount of time you put into purchases helps reduce compulsive spending. by humvee911

That way of thinking never worked for me only because I worked in a business where a lot of our pay was tips. One week coffee was minutes the next it was almost an hour. And most of the stories about late parties and sleeping all day are true, so money spent at the bar afterwards was therapy and on the worst nights you didn't care as long as you had cash.

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Arananthony t1_j5j3lk7 wrote

Reply to comment by flyingShaq in LPT: To get the most muscle/sculpting for your buck at the gym, focus on compound lifts—the exercises that recruit multiple muscle groups. You only really need overhead press, bench press, squat, deadlift, rows, dips, and maybe pull-ups. These will give you most workout for the energy you put forth. by [deleted]

If the intended audience is for people who never picked up a barbell in their life and just want to look good, they’re better off just doing any “bodybuilding” split which doesn’t require compounds at all. The big 3 lifts are quite technical and is a fast way to get hurt without proper form. A majority of people can’t even perform a pull up or a dip at body weight and will see faster returns using machines instead.

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Childofglass t1_j5j3koh wrote

Reply to LPT: A good financial habit to get into is treating money as hours of work. Ask yourself how many hours of work something would take if you buy it. The awareness of the amount of time you put into purchases helps reduce compulsive spending. by humvee911

This is also how I decide to buy tools/appliances. Will it save me time or money, and how many uses will it take to save me the money that it cost in either time or dollars.

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TheDismal_Scientist t1_j5j3fvd wrote

Reply to comment by flyingShaq in LPT: To get the most muscle/sculpting for your buck at the gym, focus on compound lifts—the exercises that recruit multiple muscle groups. You only really need overhead press, bench press, squat, deadlift, rows, dips, and maybe pull-ups. These will give you most workout for the energy you put forth. by [deleted]

I mean you can program a ppl (or any split) with compounds or isolation exercises, I should have been clearer that I'd focus on smaller isolation exercises, especially ones with greater stability like machines or cables over free weights for hypertrophy.

Stimulus to fatigue ratio is much better on (for example) a machine Incline chest press compared to a Dumbell press.

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flyingShaq t1_j5j2vj1 wrote

Reply to comment by TheDismal_Scientist in LPT: To get the most muscle/sculpting for your buck at the gym, focus on compound lifts—the exercises that recruit multiple muscle groups. You only really need overhead press, bench press, squat, deadlift, rows, dips, and maybe pull-ups. These will give you most workout for the energy you put forth. by [deleted]

If you're recommending ppl, p sure it incorporates compounds and accessories. Bench press, squat, dl, pull ups, etc all component of ppl

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CrazyStar_ t1_j5j2qrq wrote

Reply to LPT: To get the most muscle/sculpting for your buck at the gym, focus on compound lifts—the exercises that recruit multiple muscle groups. You only really need overhead press, bench press, squat, deadlift, rows, dips, and maybe pull-ups. These will give you most workout for the energy you put forth. by [deleted]

This is not good advice btw. Completely ignores biceps, triceps, traps, abs, calves, and lateral delts. You can “sculpt” these muscles much more with targeted exercises than spamming compounds, especially if you want to build a proper aesthetic physique.

The best advice would’ve been to pick up a dedicated workout program that aligns with whatever an individual’s goals are.

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Shnoochieboochies t1_j5j2lp7 wrote

Reply to LPT: whenever you buy online or offline in a different currency than your standard one, make sure you don't allow the website or POS machine to charge you in your "home" currency. You want to be charged in the foreign currency. Same with ATMs abroad. by my_n3w_account

It is lovely for banks to make it as easy as possible to spend my own money, that i earned, giving exact, easy to read instructions on how much I will be charged (charged to spend my own money), in a foreign country /s.

FUCK BANKS!!

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TheDismal_Scientist t1_j5j279i wrote

Reply to comment by flyingShaq in LPT: To get the most muscle/sculpting for your buck at the gym, focus on compound lifts—the exercises that recruit multiple muscle groups. You only really need overhead press, bench press, squat, deadlift, rows, dips, and maybe pull-ups. These will give you most workout for the energy you put forth. by [deleted]

I don't buy it. Training compounds if you want to look good is like training for a marathon by running 100m sprints

Isolating with intensity is vastly more efficient, might be a bit more to chew at the beginning but six weeks in and you're already seeing the benefit

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flyingShaq t1_j5j1pyb wrote

Reply to comment by TheDismal_Scientist in LPT: To get the most muscle/sculpting for your buck at the gym, focus on compound lifts—the exercises that recruit multiple muscle groups. You only really need overhead press, bench press, squat, deadlift, rows, dips, and maybe pull-ups. These will give you most workout for the energy you put forth. by [deleted]

For ppl who don't lift weights at all, which is what the OP's intended audience is, starting with compounds is pretty decent advice. Just focusing on the stuff they listed, hell even just focusing on pullups, squats, dips, and BP can build a pretty decent physique as long as they throw a few accessories in there too.

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Chris_ssj2 t1_j5j1aw5 wrote

Reply to comment by nonametrans in LPT: A good financial habit to get into is treating money as hours of work. Ask yourself how many hours of work something would take if you buy it. The awareness of the amount of time you put into purchases helps reduce compulsive spending. by humvee911

I see, so the basic idea being that if something that you own has kept you going and will continue to do so, there is no point in upgrading it, just like that saying, the cheaper your pleasures are, the richer you will be

Thank you so much for taking the time to explain :)

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shekurika t1_j5j19fj wrote

Reply to comment by Dauoa_Static in LPT: A good financial habit to get into is treating money as hours of work. Ask yourself how many hours of work something would take if you buy it. The awareness of the amount of time you put into purchases helps reduce compulsive spending. by humvee911

thats why I think a better way to go about this is calculating your hourly wage with all fixed costs taken out; Take your wage, subtract all fixed costs (insurance, food, (necessary) subscriptions, rent, taxes) and calculate your income per hour worked on that.

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keepthetips t1_j5j15jq wrote

Reply to LPT: whenever you buy online or offline in a different currency than your standard one, make sure you don't allow the website or POS machine to charge you in your "home" currency. You want to be charged in the foreign currency. Same with ATMs abroad. by my_n3w_account

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Realworld t1_j5j10dw wrote

Reply to LPT: A good financial habit to get into is treating money as hours of work. Ask yourself how many hours of work something would take if you buy it. The awareness of the amount of time you put into purchases helps reduce compulsive spending. by humvee911

I used Discretionary income:

Discretionary income = gross income – taxes – all compelled payments (bills)

It's total personal income after subtracting taxes and minimal survival expenses (such as food, medicine, rent or mortgage, utilities, insurance, transportation, property maintenance, child support, etc.) to maintain a certain standard of living. It is the amount of an individual's income available for spending after the essentials have been taken care of.

If you only have $160 left over after paying all your monthly bills & living expenses then you're working for $1/hour discretionary income.

This motivated me to ruthlessly beat down my recurring expenses.

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nonametrans t1_j5j0g6y wrote

Reply to comment by Chris_ssj2 in LPT: A good financial habit to get into is treating money as hours of work. Ask yourself how many hours of work something would take if you buy it. The awareness of the amount of time you put into purchases helps reduce compulsive spending. by humvee911

That 70 series nvidia card that's keeping you going for ages is fine, but you upgrade to a 80 or 90 series card. Then you justify that purchase by upgrading your perfectly good 1440p monitor with a 4k one.

Or you've always been getting a Toyota Corolla for years. It's done you and your family good, average fuel costs, low maintenance costs. But then all of a sudden you wanna get an Audi A8 cuz you think your higher paycheck can support it.

The argument is, why get all these purchases and upgrades if you've been okay with what you had previously? Sure, buy some luxuries to treat yourself once in a while. But most people can't stop themselves. That Audi A8 then becomes a Mercedes S class. That average coffee machine becomes a $2500 barista machine...you eventually outspend your means and have little savings for retirement.

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TheDismal_Scientist t1_j5izq6n wrote

Reply to comment by Arananthony in LPT: To get the most muscle/sculpting for your buck at the gym, focus on compound lifts—the exercises that recruit multiple muscle groups. You only really need overhead press, bench press, squat, deadlift, rows, dips, and maybe pull-ups. These will give you most workout for the energy you put forth. by [deleted]

Fitness outside of the bodybuilding subs is awful on here, hopefully nobody listens to this

Most bang for your buck:

  1. Split is optional, I'd go with a PPL 3-6 times a week personally, but anything that gets you into the gym can work
  2. Only 5 or so exercises per workout, 15 mins cardio at the end
  3. 1-2 warm up sets and then 2-3 working sets of each exercise
  4. You want to do between (5-15) broadly or 8-12 (narrowly) reps in each set. Be careful with this, this means you need to be failing the movement or within a couple of reps of failure between 8 and 12 reps, not that you get to 12 and stop when you've still got more in the tank
  5. Progressive overload with weight, that means if you're hitting 12 reps consistently with good form then you need to increase the weight
  6. Eat a caloric surplus and each your bodyweight in lbs in grams of protein

Follow these six steps consistently and you'll be a different person in 6 months

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