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keepthetips t1_j5jqh33 wrote

Reply to LPT: If you think there’s no point to making a bed, you need a top sheet. by [deleted]

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Hedser91 t1_j5jq1xj 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]

Deadlifts do not lead to a better defined body, and MAYBE pull-ups? Pull-ups are the number one exercise. Obviously you don't know what you are talking about.

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Villam09 t1_j5jpp0o wrote

Reply to comment by WaluigiIsBonhart 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 completely agree with this, a good machine will ease you into the movements, you can go from there.

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jamesmcnabb t1_j5jov0n 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 a great tactic until you look at your grocery bill and realize you’ve spent twenty hours on a week’s worth of groceries and that there was nothing you could do to lower that cost because you still have to feed your children, not to mention that your 80-hour rent payment is due at the end of the week and you’re only offered 36 hours of work a week so that your company doesn’t have to offer you benefits.

I understand where the advice is coming from but with inflation how it is I don’t understand how contextualizing all money as hours worked is going to do anything but start a revolution.

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i8noodles t1_j5jov0c 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

Funny. I have taken some form of this approach my entire life. Of course today I have a more complex version safety stored in my head but as a kid I used the tic tac scale. The price of something compared to a packet of tic tacs.

In my head now driving to work is more efficient becuase traveling to work in public transportation takes like an hour. Cost me like 10$ give or take. Driving to work and I can park cost me 10$ for parking and a few dollars for fuel each day and 30 mins. I save an hour of my time, back and forth, and I work for 30$ and hour. The savings for public transport is not worth the money.

It is not always raw dollar amount saved that matter but time as well. My mom is obsessed with saving cans and bottles and stuff to recycle for the 10c they give. I did the math and it is more costly for me, and time consuming, to physically haul it all to the place and dump it in the machine one at a time. It is more efficient to acutally work an extra hour. I still give her cans and stuff but and she does it with my brother every few months

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HorridDoesWork t1_j5jopqn wrote

Reply to comment by Katana_sized_banana 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]

Ideslly you would do 2 excercises so you could do bench or some other press into flies.

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JohnTomorrow t1_j5jnzt1 wrote

Reply to comment by ixramuffin 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]

It's a great way to build muscle. It's not a great way to get into "shape". You'll get strong doing physical labour, but nobody goes to a construction site thinking they'll look like a superhero at the end of their shift.

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JohnTomorrow t1_j5jnt71 wrote

Reply to comment by Salkin8 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]

Tradesman here, horticulturist specifically. I've probably planted more trees, dug more trenches and walked more distance than you've ever seen or experienced. Doing physical labour for a job doesn't mean you'll look like a superman. Sure, I'm a strong guy, that comes with it. But for years I was also grossly out of shape, due to lack of exercise and bad diet. You can dig retic all day long for five days a week, but if you have a pie and a sausage roll with a 600ml coke for smoko and lunch and don't do any exercise outside of work, you'll become a fat fuck.

I've recently started watching what I eat and exercising more regularly and I'm getting into better shape, and becoming stronger too. You're body adjusts to your day to day, you need external stimuli to grow outside of that.

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kalleron t1_j5jnt13 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 only works until you earn enough money to not think about money. After you need to start comparing products and services that are similar price range and think if it's worth the same personal value.

Once you don't really care about $1k-$2k expense at any given time, these questions start to lose meaning.

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Yeangster t1_j5jnbtd wrote

Reply to comment by vinceftw 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 was rowing for an hour a day for more than a year when I started squats and deadlifts. A heavy set of 3-5 would almost knock me out.

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TheDismal_Scientist t1_j5jnahr wrote

Reply to comment by umphtown 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 chest: incline machine chest press for upper chest, I like some variation of seated cable pressing combined with seated cable flies for the mid chest, again cables angled downwards or chest oriented dips for lower chest

For Triceps (which I'd do on the same day as chest): I like Smith machine skullcrushers, any form of cable pushdown or overhead extensions when done with proper form are good for tris

For biceps: the research seems to suggest attempting to bias the heads isn't too effective, so straight Dumbell curls imo are best (single arm, to really isolate), Hammer curls (with good form) too

For back: some rowing movement, back is a very big muscle group so the more stability the better hence why I wouldn't advise Barbell rows, pull downs and pull overs are good too

For shoulders: lateral raises are key, seated shoulder press can be good, and rear delt flies are what I find works for me

I'm no expert on this stuff, this is all second hand information from people better than me, people like JPG coaching on tik tok do great content on different exercises and their pros and cons, albeit with a very pro science bias, you can make of that last bit what you will

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MonkeyFella64 t1_j5jn64i wrote

Reply to comment by GuardianMike 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]

Bench press strength and pec size are very strongly correlated. ROM isn't everything. And if you worry about that, do CG. Also deadlifts are only dangerous for stupid people.

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JohnTomorrow t1_j5jmyrx 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]

You gotta focus on your core muscle group, then try again. I had back issues for years, started back into the gym a year ago and started doing core exercises, my back problems vanished almost overnight.

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Katana_sized_banana t1_j5jmscy wrote

Reply to comment by GuardianMike 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]

What workout is better for chest than bench press? I'd like to learn. Butterfly machine? Dumbbell flyes, I guess?

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PasswordisP4ssword t1_j5jmqds 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

Be careful with this, this is why people with high incomes work instead of being with their family. When you're a lawyer and you bill $1000/hr, you start looking at the opportunity cost of your kid's recital.

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