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Cake day: June 17th, 2023

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  • Thanks for your input!

    My biggest challenge at the moment is going to the gym regularly, that’s why I train everything I can at home, and the rest at the gym. Once I acquire the habit of going to the gym regularly, I will try to add more workouts and more time there.

    • I would love to do pull-ups at home but I can’t. I don’t have any suitable doorframe, nor can I pierce my walls to install a bar, since I’m renting.
    • For the chest progression: I’m planning on reaching ~20 deficit push-up (that means doubling my current number of reps), then I will train the chest in the gym, with dumbell bench press for instance.
    • For the glutes: same thing. I’m planning on reaching around 20 pistol squats (I can do 8 reps, so that leaves me some room for progression), then I will train with some barbell squat in the gym

    I indeed overlooked the hip hinge, I will do traditional deadlift instead of romanian. I’m using dumbells because I don’t lift very heavy at the moment, and using dumbells is quicker than setting up a barbell, so that means I can spend more time exercising meaningfully.


  • Thanks for your input, maybe it was not clear, but yes I’m aware of the need to progressively overload, that’s why I wrote between parentheses my current state.

    For example, concerning pistol squats, I can do sets of 8 reps, and I plan on adding reps when I can. And for deadlift, I plan on adding weight.

    And I did not find a lot of resources about schedules that mix the workout locations (at home/in the gym).










  • Your response made me chuckle, thanks for that!

    Nearly all of our faucets are single faucets, especially in the kitchen. European infrastructure isn’t quite as antiquated as you seem to think! Lots of buildings here in France were built after the 70s, or were renovated at least. I think my water heater was made less than ten years ago.

    The point about not drinking hot tap water holds because of the fact that we store this hot water for long periods of time and bacteria develop in warm environments, it doesn’t depend on the age of your plumbing.


  • I’m not sure that’s a myth, everywhere I search I find reasons to not drink hot tap water:

    • The heated water may cause the plumbing to release harmful substances such as lead and nickel
    • Cold water is fresher. Hot water stays in the plumbing system for a longer period of time to get heated. Longer stagnation time in the system may cause higher bacterial levels
    • Hot water is exposed to more pollution sources since it passes through additional tanks or heating systems.
    • The level of microorganisms is higher in hot water plumbing

    From this page

    (PS : I’m talking about France, where I live, where we mainly use water tanks to heat and store hot water. Cold tap water is perfectly fine to drink, on the other hand.)