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  1. Tuco

    Arkk's Weight Lifting / Fitness Thread

    I'm just trying shit out. +500 over TDEE is pretty textbook, and I'd rather try out textbook stuff before trying out more exotic things like a fairly extreme cyclical ketogenic approach.
  2. Tuco

    Arkk's Weight Lifting / Fitness Thread

    All bullshit aside my rough plan is to try my +500 over TDEE for a month or two and see where I am. I can definitely see myself trying another form of intermittent fasting / cyclical keto like Wurst did. I'm not even a week away from breaking away from keto and already miss it.
  3. Tuco

    Arkk's Weight Lifting / Fitness Thread

    So what you're saying is that I should stop jerking off in order to maximize my gainz?
  4. Tuco

    Arkk's Weight Lifting / Fitness Thread

    Mostly cause it's gross.
  5. Tuco

    Arkk's Weight Lifting / Fitness Thread

    You should follow @Ossoi's advice exactly, and in a few months we can have a 100% scientific comparison of what happens when two fatties do two different exercise approaches. You with trying to gain muscle while eating at a deficit or near deficit, and me trying to bulk then cut.
  6. Tuco

    Arkk's Weight Lifting / Fitness Thread

    @Ossoi can we get a top ten fast food meals for cutting? A few times on keto I had McDonald's grilled chicken with their guacamole, no cheese and no bun, it was pretty good if salty.
  7. Tuco

    Arkk's Weight Lifting / Fitness Thread

    re: my previous question about eating on rest days during a bulk, this article convinced me to eat a lot on my rest days: Turn Rest Days Into Growth Days | T Nation
  8. Tuco

    Arkk's Weight Lifting / Fitness Thread

    First, have you seen Araysar? He's a bean pole. Second, @Wurstsalat isn't a beginner, he's always been magnificent.
  9. Tuco

    Arkk's Weight Lifting / Fitness Thread

    you can look here: programs - Fitness for some weight lifting programs, I'm doing something like: A Linear Progression Based PPL Program for Beginners • r/Fitness And for diet, start off with 170g of protein every day and about 3000 calories. Track your weight over time and adjust up if you're...
  10. Tuco

    Arkk's Weight Lifting / Fitness Thread

    You can do the basic two part process that I'm doing, which basically consists of: 1. Lifting a bunch of weights and eating a bunch of food for some number of months (bulk) 2. After some number of months, reduce food intake to a caloric deficit (cut). It's fall, so it's the perfect time for a...
  11. Tuco

    Arkk's Weight Lifting / Fitness Thread

    Yes. Before about 5 days ago or so I hadn't eaten breakfast in two months. It was super easy until I ate a cup o' oats.
  12. Tuco

    Middle-earth: Shadow of War (Shadow of Mordor Sequel)

    If only there was a way to combine MTX and QTE together. Maybe an orc themed credit card scanner that, if you're quick enough, can be used to save you from death when on-screen notifications happen.
  13. Tuco

    Middle-earth: Shadow of War (Shadow of Mordor Sequel)

    emergent gameplay, 10/10 GOTY First captain encounter was amazing. • r/shadowofmordor
  14. Tuco

    Arkk's Weight Lifting / Fitness Thread

    do what I did to lose thirty pounds in a few months: steak, chicken, egg and spinach diet.
  15. Tuco

    Arkk's Weight Lifting / Fitness Thread

    Yeah I ditched the lean gains diet on the second day, both because of your previous recommendation and because of morning cravings that were distracting me at work. It is truly remarkable how much more hungry I became literally the day after ditching my ketogenic diet. I literally ate one cup of...
  16. Tuco

    Middle-earth: Shadow of War (Shadow of Mordor Sequel)

    Doctor's orders. I figure my washing-machine like figure is because I have so much shit to post, gotta get it out.
  17. Tuco

    Middle-earth: Shadow of War (Shadow of Mordor Sequel)

    Max rendering option is 8192x5120. I think only some Samsung prototype phone can render at that, but it really shows you how advanced the game is.
  18. Tuco

    Middle-earth: Shadow of War (Shadow of Mordor Sequel)

    Wow, the difficulty is really innovative in this game. Instead of rendering on my primary monitor it's on my left portrait monitor. It's tough controlling Aragorn while craning my neck and having a low horizontal field of view, but conquering the challenge is really satisfying. a+++ game
  19. Tuco

    Middle-earth: Shadow of War (Shadow of Mordor Sequel)

    Steam is unlocking possibly at 7pm est tonight
  20. Tuco

    Middle-earth: Shadow of War (Shadow of Mordor Sequel)

    @Tarrant is the guy at the bar washing down his misery in alcohol and fighting anyone who tries to bring up that he's only going to wake up worse off than he is. I'm the guy using the alcohol to accept and enjoy my misery. Of course, all misery will come to an end when the perfect game comes...
  21. Tuco

    Middle-earth: Shadow of War (Shadow of Mordor Sequel)

    This future game of the year is coming out in a few hours in SK. Anyone got a VPN I can use to unlock it for when I get home? I guess it releases midnight in local time zones, so it'll be all unlocked in Russia by the time I need it.
  22. Tuco

    Arkk's Weight Lifting / Fitness Thread

    Cool, I'll remember that for next year when I cut. Right now I'm just focused on increasing strength. I'm not really that worried about accruing a little bit of fat, and am aiming for a surplus of 500 calories. I'm more focused on increasing my lifts and lifting technique than size, but my rough...
  23. Tuco

    Middle-earth: Shadow of War (Shadow of Mordor Sequel)

    You playing on nemesis mode or normal?
  24. Tuco

    Arkk's Weight Lifting / Fitness Thread

    I just watched these videos, what's the utility of doing them for someone trying to bulk? Is this just some conditioning that will help me with cardiovascular endurance so I can do my big lifts more easily?
  25. Tuco

    Assassin's Creed Origins set in Egypt

    If it makes you feel better I haven't bought an assassin's creed game since black flag!
  26. Tuco

    Middle-earth: Shadow of War (Shadow of Mordor Sequel)

    Im taking off two weeks of work to rush to the end game and be the best sauron ever. Ive been saving up my good boy points to trade in tor Tolkien bucks to buy a the full set of dead developer orcs.
  27. Tuco

    Middle-earth: Shadow of War (Shadow of Mordor Sequel)

    Look at this fun and quirky video from WB's marketing dept that really shows they understand Tolkien and uruk culture. I can't wait to enjoy all the incredible humor in the game.
  28. Tuco

    Middle-earth: Shadow of War (Shadow of Mordor Sequel)

    I guess the install for this us 100gb, evidence it is the best game ever.
  29. Tuco

    Arkk's Weight Lifting / Fitness Thread

    Looks like it might be especially good for me since i have issues with low thoracic mobility (rounded shoulders, forward head, kyphosis etc). Ill try that and the side bends tonight.
  30. Tuco

    Middle-earth: Shadow of War (Shadow of Mordor Sequel)

    I think there's lootboxes you can get ingame that give you orcs (for whatever reason?) but can only go up to epic. Where as you can buy lootboxes that give you legendary orcs, AND you can build up or find or whatever legendary orcs ingame. So people are conflating ingame lootboxes don't give...
  31. Tuco

    Star Citizen Online - The search for more money

    lol, it reads like a list of features that should be cut
  32. Tuco

    Arkk's Weight Lifting / Fitness Thread

    Right now I'm basically shooting to iterate Push, Pull, Leg days consecutively, but figure I'll take two rest days a week. So to answer your question, I plan to do that pull day twice a week, roughly. I'm not sure what exercise you're describing. Is it this? Dumbbell Side Bend | Exercise...
  33. Tuco

    Middle-earth: Shadow of War (Shadow of Mordor Sequel)

    The other way to look at it is that whales are subsidizing initial-purchase only customers. This isn't all good because it means devs will cater to whales, but isn't all bad because A: you're paying less than you'd otherwise have to in order to maintain their profit margin, B: the game may...
  34. Tuco

    Middle-earth: Shadow of War (Shadow of Mordor Sequel)

    Your logic is useless against my blind faith in a game that I need to fill a game-void in my life.
  35. Tuco

    Middle-earth: Shadow of War (Shadow of Mordor Sequel)

    I'll judge when I play the game but as it stands now this sentiment seems like useful idiocy. My guess is that Monolith made a game that merely utilizes the nemesis system, build a post-game mode that focuses on the nemesis system (which looks like grinding) and sprinkled some lore/story...
  36. Tuco

    Middle-earth: Shadow of War (Shadow of Mordor Sequel)

    I haven't read a lot of the reviews but it seems the game goes: 1. Faceroll the story mode. 2. Beat game, get to "end-game" which is just the fortress conquering/defending 3. End-game requires you to actually use the game mechanic of building up your uruk army before you can take on the...
  37. Tuco

    Arkk's Weight Lifting / Fitness Thread

    Right now I have one pull day that looks like: deadlift pullups bent over DB rows curls one-arm bench DB rows What should I do in addition to that? Not sure if this really impacts obliques, but I've been doing a few planks between sets at each workout, for lack of a better ab workout routine.
  38. Tuco

    Arkk's Weight Lifting / Fitness Thread

    Yeah, that guy does most of the lift examples in bodybuilding.com. When I do mine I bend down until the weights touch the floor, which brings me more than parallel if I'm keeping my back straight like I should.
  39. Tuco

    Arkk's Weight Lifting / Fitness Thread

    Thanks, I'll give a watch tonight. I'm eating breakfast for the first time in two months thanks to your advice btw. It's amazing how much hungrier I am eating a 2700 calorie diet with carbs on it vs a 1700 cal diet with zero carbs. It's like a new spectrum of hunger I haven't felt in three...
  40. Tuco

    Arkk's Weight Lifting / Fitness Thread

    This is what I do right now (with 60lb DBs) I think I'll be able to do 100lb DBs, but beyond that? I'll have to look at a rack or a gym. I don't have room for a rack and don't want to buy one and a set of olympic weights, so it'll probably be a gym.