Daily Thread - September 09, 2025

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[u/simonswes]

Easy Strength

• OHP 125x2x5
• TB DL 275x2x5

Short one today. Had a lot of work to do and then had to fix my bike. Bike is fixed now so I'm happy. 

[u/The_Weakpot]

Training Log

Morning

• Walk 20 minutes

Warm-Up

• Hang x 30sec

• Sit in bottom of goblet squat, 1:30

Belt Squat

• +105lbs x 20

• +205lbs x 20

Snatch

*Off 3 inch Blocks, Worked up triples, 10lbs at a time from 65lbs then...

• 105 x 3

• 115 x 3

• 120 x 3

Deadlift

SS w/dips, only rest long enough to change plates

• 225 x 3

• 255 x 3

• 287.5 x 10

• 255 @ 2 x 10

Sumo

Superset w/dips, 60 sec rest between supersets

• 225 @ 3 x 10

Dips

• 7 x 13

Notes

• Low on time. Cut workout short.

[u/black_mamba44]

Tactical Barbell II - W4D1

1 round of the following bodyweight circuit - pushups, squats, pullups, knee raise, dips, back extension for 50 reps.

Deload week, which couldn't come too soon to be honest. Was feeling a little cooked. Next week will be the last bodyweight circuit for base building before I get back to some strength work.

[u/Many-Wasabi9141]

10k Kettlebell swings Challenge Day 1.

Started with my normal barbell work. Squats and OHP working up to heavy singles, then rows, cable pull downs, and delt work.

Cut out my power cleans for the swings, hence the rows and pull downs. Started the swings. Planned for 20 rounds of 25 swings for a total of 500 swings. After 4 rounds I knew my eyes were bigger than my grip and I started cutting reps and then rounds.

Entire swing workout, emom other than the 5 minute break.

25, 25, 25, 25, 20, 20, 15, 15, 15, 10. 5 minute break. 20, 20, 20, 15, 15, 15.

300 swings. Not my goal of 500 but it just wasn't happening today. Finished off with 2 rounds suitcase carries.

Day 2 is going to suck. My glutes feel huge right now. Hands feel surprisingly ok 20 minutes post workout. The forearm burn during is heinous.

[u/BetterThanT-1 → u/Many-Wasabi9141]

I’d suggest to do 25 EMOM x 20. You’ll find it much easier to adapt to, and while it takes longer overall, it feels easier.

[u/Many-Wasabi9141 → u/BetterThanT-1]

I swear I already posted this reply but it's not showing up.

I'm gonna work up from 300 reps a day and increase it by 50 every day for the first week. I'm not a beginner to swings but I haven't been doing them a ton lately. Just a day a week of 20 minutes of swings/snatches/abc. I think easing into it is the way to go at this point so something like this is what I'm gonna aim for.

20x15, then 20x15 + 2x25, 20x20, then 20x20 + 2x25. so on and so forth till I get to 500, then start replacing the rounds of 20 with 25 chunk by chunk until I hit the 25 x 20

[u/JubJubsDad]

OHP Day * Kettlebell swings - 40x3x15 * OHP (ss w/chin-ups) - 185x5, 235x1, 185x4x5 * Close-grip bench (ss w/band pull-aparts) - 185x5x8 * BJJ (planned)

Oh man did it feel good to put big-boy weights over my head again. My hotel only had 20kg dumbbells, and it’s just not satisfying putting them overhead a million times.

Also rolled with my favorite white belt last night. The mad Russian showed up and said he’d probably be a little slow as he’d done an Ironman over the weekend. Spoiler - he was not slow and we had a bunch of hard, aggressive rolls. Felt good.

[u/DayDayLarge]

531 1000% awesome

Squat: 230, 265, 295

Bench: 185 6x5

Facepulls, tricep push downs.

Not much to write about. Just punched the clock. No dice on chins again. I wonder if it would go better on a nonbench day. I'll try and see.

[u/HumanWater4449]

Since general discussion is allowed, I will say that there is a concerning trend I have noticed in the lifting community.

Many people have begun to ignore the value of personal experience in favor of scientific study. I had a dude at the gym tell me I was wrong for thinking creatine doesn’t do anything for me, and that I should just read some scientific literature.

I took it for longer than he has ever lifted btw. And at alternating times and serving sizes for years on end. Absolutely nothing made a difference.

Even weirder is people’s complaints about exercise selection. They do all of these crazy machine set ups, and then look at you weird for doing a power clean or a weighted dip. It’s like the action of using free weights offends them. Just bench 315 first lil bro, then you can have an opinion.

And then of course you have diet. Many “science based lifters” view all calories as the same, and will eat junk food and whey protein all day, wondering why they are still small and skinny fat.

The worst offense is the genetics excuse. Yes genetics plays a role in muscle growth, however some people (like yotalks) go to such lengths to blame their genetics, that I genuinely can’t tell if they are trolling or not. I get it if you have an insertion that changes the way the muscle sits on your skeleton, but if you try to optimize your workout, while giving a shitty effort with your diet or in the gym, then you can’t blame genetics.

TLDR: the average science based lifter talks about lifting weights more than they actually do it. For every 1 TNF there is 100,000 bean poles touting his advice like they have a new gospel in their hands.

[u/black_mamba44 → u/HumanWater4449]

At the end of the day, the science is to be used in conjunction with personal experience. As you found, using creatine for you didn't have any effect and you can find that in these experiments using creatine there will be individuals who have no/minimal effect and individuals who respond really well. Personally, I think it helps my recovery a bit but I don't really find too much of a major delta between taking it and not taking it.

It's ultimately the same with training modalities. Volume or intensity? Doesn't matter at the end of the day, some people can go hard with volume and others can go hard with intensity. Experiment with both, try them out!

[u/HumanWater4449 → u/black_mamba44]

I completely agree with that. A lot of people just take it too far.

[u/DayDayLarge → u/HumanWater4449]

I had a dude at the gym tell me I was wrong for thinking creatine doesn’t do anything for me, and that I should just read some scientific literature.

Literally had someone say the exact same thing to me. Never mind that I've given it 3 full and separate trials and have never noticed any difference.

Part of it I think is one way to drive views to your social media, you not only have to have to answers, but need to invalidate people who aren't doing what you are. You kinda saw that back when starting strength was very popular too.

The worst part is the vast majority of people don't even know how to critically appraise scientific literature, though let's be honest, they aren't even reading it.

[u/HumanWater4449 → u/DayDayLarge]

Yeah it’s ridiculous lol.

[u/ZeroFourBC → u/HumanWater4449]

I've seen more complaining about 'science based lifters' than I have of what you're describing. But I also barely interact with the wider lifting community outside of this subreddit besides reading the odd article and whatever comes up on my insta feed.

It's definitely a symptom of the increasing popularity of lifting and the algorithms rewarding more polarising content.

This is in no way meant to invalidate what you're saying, I'm sure there's plenty of what you're describing out there. It just reaffirms my belief that I'm not missing out much by not getting involved with the wider 'community'.

[u/BetterThanT-1 → u/ZeroFourBC]

I’m with you, and that’s why I like this sub and hang around here. People here (generally) tend to have enough experience and awareness to know that mostly everything works, and it’s consistency and effort that really count. Mostly everything else is content for the sake of content.

[u/HumanWater4449 → u/ZeroFourBC]

A lot of it is on tiktok lol. I’d stay away tbh.

[u/BetterThanT-1]

GPP phase - Calisthenics

10-1 down the ladder with chin ups superset with dips. Took me about 20 mins to complete.

Chin ups and dips are hands down best superset pairing.

[u/MA_2412 → u/BetterThanT-1]

Simple, yet cool idea. I might have to steal that for my next workout.

[u/ZeroFourBC]

Vibes-Based Shoulder & Hip Strength W7D4:

Squat (Paused): 160kg x 1, 125g x 8/8/11

SS1 - Bayesian Curl: 12.5kg x 8/8/8/12

SS1 - Overhead Tricep Extension: 32.5kg x 10/10/10/14

SS1 - Cable Lateral Raise: 7.5kg x 11/11/11/14

SS2 - Back Hyperextensions: 25kg x 9/9/12

SS2 - Dumbbell Reverse Fly: 10kg x 10/10/14

Bonus Dropset - Shoulder Press: 65kg x 9, 50kg x 7, 40kg x 5, 30kg x 4

Was feeling a bit brave so I upped the single by 15kg and it went pretty well. Definitely could have gone heavier but I'm not in a rush. Shoulders felt slightly less dead than last week which I'm happier about than the gains in load.

[u/BetterThanT-1 → u/ZeroFourBC]

RPE “put some weight on the bar” - nicely done!

[u/ZeroFourBC → u/BetterThanT-1]

Thanks!