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Cake day: June 27th, 2023

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  • The post is good! I like the post! Thank you for posting :3

    I just like to shill for resistance training, it transforms people’s lives. Posts like these are a great opportunity for me to do so, where it’s mentioned offhandedly and maybe with a misconception I can talk about

    I’ve had several people on fedi reach out to say these comments have helped them out in some way, so it’s just something I like to keep up with :3


  • Yeah :3 Just based on teaching people to do various chest exercises, wrist pain is usually caused by holding the implement too far up the hand, creating a moment arm that bends your wrist open. Around 150-200lbs is usually when people stop being able to tolerate such a grip

    https://stronglifts.com/bench-press/#Bench_Press_Setup

    If you search this page for “bench grip” it will take you to an image of three hands, the rightmost of which has a red line and a green line. Best image I’ve ever found for communicating the spot. If you get it down you should feel no discomfort at all in your wrists


  • Haiiii hii hii just want to pop in with a couple fun facts,

    There’s no serious risk of damaging your joints from lifting, actually it’s the opposite. Resistance training will reduce the likelihood of injury throughout all stages of life.

    There also isn’t really any hint of truth to the old myth “muscle growth is the result of damaging the muscles so they grow back bigger”. It stems from very early misinterpretations of experimental data and became something people just repeat forever with no factual basis.

    Catabolism (breakdown of muscle) occurs all the time, and is usually balanced by anabolism (building muscle). It would be more accurate to say that “sufficiently challenging bouts of resistance training stimulate greater rates of anabolism for a period of time which result in a net gain of muscle mass”

    Many common factors can tip the scale towards catabolism which is very bad for your health and quality of life (sarcopenia, menopause, HRT in some cases) and training is the best most consistent lever we can pull to mitigate those negatives. Women especially reap massive benefits from training, doubly so after midlife


  • Just to save the next person the trouble,

    It was introduced in 2009. Inflation calculator says that $0.89 in 2009 is the equivalent of…$1.34 in today’s money.

    Wow.

    I’d be curious to see the whole price history but yeah. Can’t believe how bad a deal all the fast food places have become

    Edit: regarding price history, another commenter said it raised to 2.99 after only a couple of years. So 2011 to 2026 inflation calc results in $4.48. A second user said beef in particular is ahead of general inflation, so this might not be too bad of an example after all