>You're supposed to flex your abs when you work outI've been doing this shit wrong for the past 6 years, no wonder I haven't been able to progress past 1pl8 despite working out 3 days a week since 2020 (I have OCD)
you should have played sports as a kid
>>772280061pl8 for what?
>>77228014I should've done a lot of things as a kid that I would have done if I wasn't a kidBut even at this age nobody speaks about the necessity of bracing. It only comes up when people talk about squats and deadlifts, nobody says you should do it to some degree all the time.I braced on the leg extension last week and it was the first time since 2020 that I progressively overloaded within a week. I went from 40kg to 50kg this week because my core was stable during the exercise
>>772280061pl8 for what lift OP?
>>77228030>>77228043Bench but the others weren't much better
>>77228030OP here. 1pl8 for foreskin pulls
>>77228050it took you 6 years of benching 135 to realize you were doing something wrong? Jesus Christ OP
>>77228050hmmm how does that really work in reality? you bench the same weight for 3 months and then add little bit? like whats the actual day to day? do you have inner drive to add more? or you just do the same thing over and over, not trying to push yourself?
Please tell me you're 60 or 12
>>77228006You're also supposed to flex the muscle you're stretching, took me a long time to realize that one
>>77228062I knew I was doing something wrong after 6 months and I've spent 5,5 years debugging what was wrong. I've never stopped exercising. I've gone 1-5 times a week for the past 6 years, suffered various injuries and such. I used to think it was my sleep apnea, so I spent months trying to address that. Diet, likewise, I counted macros for a few months. I've also posted here a lot and I used to watch a lot of AthleneX videos. Simply, no one says that you should brace at least a little 24/7 basically, and particularly when using the machines
>>77228068Same thing over and over out of OCD and then going home and researching why I can't overload
>>77228124Thought this was legit and tried it with my bicep and almost strained something kek
>>77228140I don't even have a clever reply. you're genuinely just retarded
>>77228175So you hate me?
>>77228185no, retards aren't worth the effort needed to hate someone
>>77228185are u just trolling us or or you just autistic? if you are autistic and wanna learn something new it can lead to something but why waste people time with made up bullshit
>>77228006How are you only 1pl8, how skinny are you?t. Don't even bench and can do 2pl8
>>77228200It's not made up but I have to amke an effort to write coherently because otherwise I ramble and compel responses like that anon, who're just rightfully too tired to even write clever responses back, so when he gave that response to me I just gave up and wrote a troll response backDo you understand now?
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>>77228208I am 175cm and weigh 70 kg but I wasn't using my core at all. If I was doing anything, I was sucking in my stomach to hide my weak-core-beer-belly, which I was simultaneously got checked up because I thought it was bloating
>>77228226There's better exercises than benching. Weighted walking hits your full body while benching is gay
