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i’ve been trying to focus on squeezing, slow and controlled eccentric, pausing, then being explosive at the bottom but i feel a wimp with the low weight. like why am i using 160 on bench and 200 on squat 😭 im going back to ego lifting
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Anonymous 11w

Cause that's what bodybuilding is all about lmao you work and feel like shit for an hour or two then you do it all again the next day feeling even more like shit

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Anonymous 11w

"the feel" and "the squeeze" in the big 25🥀

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Anonymous 11w

There’s a reason you never saw cbum maxing

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Anonymous 11w

you’re mid as fuck

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Anonymous 11w

Well good news, the slow and controlled eccentric shit is nonsense and not better for growth lol. You only need to be controlling the eccentric enough to not hurt yourself/use momentum to get the weight up.

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Anonymous 11w

Several influential people have preached a slow eccentric that lasts a few seconds. I see it all the time to this day. The eccentric doesn’t need to be slow, just controlled enough to standardize the rep.

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Anonymous 11w

The physique of the biggest ego lifter on this app

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Anonymous replying to -> #3 11w

There’s a reason you gotta say biggest ego lifter and not lifter, cause you ain’t the biggest here brotha

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Anonymous replying to -> #2 11w

Yeah and are you the biggest on the app?

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Anonymous replying to -> #3 11w

Never said I was, just ain’t you

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Anonymous replying to -> #2 11w

Whats the point of the hate bro im just saying i lift heavy all the time and see hella growth especially coming from someone cutting for show prep

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Anonymous replying to -> #3 11w

cycle?

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 11w

Again hate for no reason run up ur physique

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 11w

No cycle pure natty

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Anonymous replying to -> #3 11w

no cause a little fair boy like you will just say i’m fat cause im not competition lean lol

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 11w

*little fairy boy

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Anonymous replying to -> #3 11w

that’s why ur arms are so small

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 11w

Yeah but I’m not a hater and there’s nothing wrong with not being competition lean…Hell I’ll show you what I looked like before prep if you wanna see something hideous

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 11w

The hate for no reason

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Anonymous replying to -> #3 11w

it’s cause you came in here bragging like a lil boy

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 11w

Just putting it out there u CAN go back to ego lifting and still make progress

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Anonymous replying to -> #3 11w

what’s ego lifting to you?

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 11w

Lifting as heavy as possible on movements you probably shouldn’t be doing that kind of weight on

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Anonymous replying to -> #3 11w

every single set?

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 11w

Yeah doing dropsets, assisted sets, etc

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Anonymous replying to -> #4 11w

So then it's not nonsense lmao wtf are you saying? No one in history has said to take 15secs on the eccentric, it's always been known to control it

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Anonymous replying to -> #4 11w

Slow and controlled is basically anything but dropping it on yourself. Usually a 2-3 second controlled eccentric is known as slow and controlled

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Anonymous replying to -> #2 11w

An eccentric that takes more than 1 second on most lifts is very unnecessarily slow and just spending unnecessary amounts of energy

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Anonymous replying to -> #4 11w

stretch based growth has shown to be the best way to grow muscle

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 11w

I seriously urge you to not just regurgitate what Dr. Mike says dude. He’s a scam artist. Stretch mediated hypertrophy is a result of a process called sarcomerogenesis, which is essentially your muscle fibers getting longer rather than thicker. Unfortunately, this isn’t possible for the majority of muscles because they don’t have leverage in the lengthened position. The biceps for example, cannot experience stretch mediated hypertrophy because the brachioradialis has leverage when lengthened.

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Anonymous replying to -> #4 11w

There's only been one study I can remember that showed you can get the same results that way, but the weight will be significantly higher and risk of injury. I know it doesnt look cool, but drop the weight and up your reps so you dont die lmao on top of that there's exponentially more evidence showing tension under time and the stretch is better for hypertrophy

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 11w

Find me a credible study that shows that lmao. This is the shit I study for my degree. The driver of hypertrophy is mechanical tension, which has absolutely morning to do with time under tension or the eccentric.

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Anonymous replying to -> #4 11w

Just see who’s bigger between you two tbh…something tells me #1 and OP are fat little twinks that read a research study and think they’re ready to be bodybuilding coaches

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Anonymous replying to -> #4 11w

Glad you're working towards it! I already got mine in exercise science and licensed in exercise physiology with a pretty damn good score👍 but hey you got it bro

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Anonymous replying to -> #3 11w

You're 5'6 bro you might wanna sit this one out

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 11w

If you know so much then prove you’re worth having a conversation with about bodybuilding

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Anonymous replying to -> #3 11w

Way too many kids who have been lifting for 4 months watch a few Dr. Mike or Milo Wolf videos and think they are hypertrophy experts and say “studies prove” when they can’t actually give you the study they supposedly are citing. Dr. Mike and Milo Wolf are snake oil salesmen, and watching him does not make anyone educated. Anyone talking like they know shit when they haven’t taken an anatomy or physiology class needs to learn to stfu.

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 11w

pretty shitty degree if you don’t understand how the stretch doesn’t even have a physiological basis to work in most muscles lol

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Anonymous replying to -> #4 11w

I don’t care what classes you’ve taken or what degrees someone has if they have nothing to show for their immense knowledge they’re not worth the effort…and so far no one but me has shown what they’ve achieved with their knowledge. I’ve been bodybuilding for 6 months btw

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Anonymous replying to -> #4 11w

would you say the muscle, let’s say chest. is exposed to the greatest stimulus at the bottom, in a stretched position? because my bench went from 135 to 245 over 8 months focusing on that. i have been lifting for 10 years btw and have gained quite a lot of muscle

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Anonymous replying to -> #3 11w

You have the shoulders of my baby cousin, please take a gap year and try out again next year

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 11w

you guys are sad. yelling into the yikyak void cause you think you’re the next arnold or mentzer lol

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 11w

It wouldn’t gain the greatest stimulus, you’re just enabling those SMH adaptations. The chest is actually one of the few muscles that can benefit from SMH since no other muscle has better leverage for shoulder adduction in any position, but that is the exception, not the rule. Most muscles cannot experience SMH.

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 11w

I can tell you’re very disappointed with how little you’ve gained from taking all those classes and still not putting on any muscle

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Anonymous replying to -> #3 11w

6 months and you think you’re an expert 💀💀

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Anonymous replying to -> #3 11w

Youve got some shit intuition then big dog, good luck

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Anonymous replying to -> #4 11w

Never did I ever say I was an expert. I have However made incredible progress from when I started and it did not involve any pseudoscience bs

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 11w

Keyboard warrior asf

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Anonymous replying to -> #3 11w

good for you fat albert

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Anonymous replying to -> #3 11w

wait shit you’re on my side. Yikyak is fucking impossible to navigate, idk who’s who

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Anonymous replying to -> #4 11w

My bad gang

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Anonymous replying to -> #3 11w

i hate all of you

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 11w

You must have a full time job as a keyboard warrior

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Anonymous replying to -> #4 11w

No sides here, fuck you guys

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Anonymous 11w

Lmao I’m probably the only one in the gym rn fatty

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