Interestingly, this appears to only work when you’re logged in. I was logged out and saw lots of horror games, and was confused.

I’ll admit I loved those books as a kid. I was obsessed for a while with getting a pith helmet so I could go on adventures like Babar.

As an adult…well, the colonialist and racist overtones are no longer lost on me, and my son doesn’t own any of the books. But part of me misses my innocent wonder reading them.

If you can’t add weight, keep adding reps. Studies show that rep ranges anywhere from 5 to 30 reps can be just as effective. And buy some smaller plates if it helps. Adding 5kg to an exercise like a bicep curl is a significant jump. I have 1kg and 0.5kg micro plates for that reason.

There is tension on the forearm muscles at the bottom of a preacher curl from the stretch, and an isometric contraction as you keep your hands fixed while curling the bar. If you’re flexing your wrists during the curl you may even be doing a wrist curl inadvertently as well.

I can’t say whether putting elbows out is unsafe or not, but if it’s putting your biceps in a more advantageous position to lift more weight it’s probably not worth it. Remember that your muscles only care about tension, not the actual weight you’re using. There’s no reason to adjust your positioning to lift more weight - use the weight and position that maximizes the stretch and tension on the muscle you’re targeting for your set and rep targets. No reason to make it easier just to lift more weight if your goal is hypertrophy.

I don’t love Facebook, but I’m not sure I understand the comparison. The objection here is that TikTok is operated by a Chinese company. Meta is a domestic company.

I was under the impression muscles grow more when pushed close to failure, so why wouldn’t you want to do that in the low weight/high rep sets?

Responding to this specifically - this generally seems to be true according to research for hypertrophy, but it’s worth noting that GZCLP is a powerlifting program, not a bodybuilding program, so the emphasis is on strength, not size. The T2s are there to support your strength on the T1 movements. If you want to build size too you can treat GZCLP like a “powerbuilding” program by pushing the T3 movements, which are more appropriate for hypertrophy work.

Also, if you haven’t it’s worth reading Cody’s original posts on the GZCL method for more of the context. He even addresses your specific question, where he says AMRAPs are okay on T2s but to use caution:

Options to push T2 effort during the cycle would be to include AMRAP sets, as shown with the Week 4 example, or limit rest. Be aware that over use of T2 AMRAPS is likely to cause a decline in T1 ability later that week if recovery is an issue. This is especially true if the T1 is also utilizing AMRAP sets.

The last time I wrote a web service in Rust, I used Axum - in part because it seemed to be the Rust community’s consensus that it was generally the best all-around option (and I didn’t have time to prototype with a bunch of other frameworks).

Poem looks really interesting, though! I know the batteries-included approach doesn’t appeal to everyone, but it’s nice to be able to get so much off the shelf. Does anyone have experience with it yet they’d like to share?

It would be the ultimate irony if this article was, itself, generated by AI. Based on the article’s “voice”, I doubt it is, but in this brave new world…one must always wonder.

If stopping Arabic-looking people stopped actual terrorist attacks, would it be worth it?

Yeah, and they should totally be stopping people in turbans to prevent terrorism! Who cares if a few people are offended if it means saving lives, right?

This is a bad take. There are so many mixed race families in the world. It is not okay to start harassing all of them just because they might be doing something wrong. It’s literally just racism no matter how you try to dress it up.