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It's fairly complete as far as exercises go, but as you say, it's just a list of exercises. You can build a good program with these exercises, but you can also build an awful one. What are the rep ranges, exercise frequencies, and what's your progression scheme, both short term and long term?

I see that you have access to a barbell. Are you able to do the main compound movements like barbell squats, bench, and deadlift?

Following a premade program is not only about having the right exercises, but also the progression scheme, how to handle stalls, and programming in the recovery. If you have all of those down as well, then you'll likely be fine doing your own thing, but if you're new, chances are that you don't.

Maybe it would help if you shared a program that you like but that has exercises you can't do, and we can tell you how to modify it to your needs.

If you don't have any ideas, then some good beginner programs I can recommend off the top of my head are:

• GZCLP
• Ivysaur 448
• Stronglifts 5x5
• Starting Strength

I don't understand what the demo video is supposed to be. I just see a whole minute of nothing happening.

I've discovered TVP recently. Very cheap and dense source of protein. My partner likes to joke that I'm eating dog food, and I'm starting to think that she might be right considering that dog food keeps coming up when I search for TVP.

Just installed Boost. So far, it's feeling so much better than either Jerboa or Connect.

Slow eccentrics are indeed very good, but you already gain a lot from pulling the weight up, so if a controlled descent leads to injury, you're going to be making less gains in the long term by doing them. If you can't do it without hurting yourself and you don't care about that specific movement, then the best thing you can do is to not do it.

In any case, you don't want the bar against your leg on the way down even with a controlled eccentric because then your thigh is supporting a good chunk of the weight instead of having the target muscles take all the load. You don't need to move very far out to clear your knees.

I can't help for #1. As for #2, you want the bar to slide against the quads on the way up, but on the way down, you want to bend at the hips first to clear the way for the bar such that you can safely just drop it. The bar should ideally not touch your legs at all on the descent.

Body builders who are judged by how bulging their muscles are feel like garbage despite supposedly being "peak".

Plenty of good examples listed in your post, but I disagree with the bodybuilding one. The point isn't to make you feel good. It's to play this game where you compete against others to best accomplish a specific task. Just like any other sport, when you compete at the elite level, it's never going to feel good, and it's never going to be good for your health.

I'm dividing both sides by 0.

Thanks. I already fixed it, but it seems Lemmy is just slow to propagate edits.

I'm not saying the expertise doesn't exist. The point is that so much of our personal information is given up because of how technology is ingrained in our every day lives, so every move you make is recorded somewhere. If the general population doesn't have that kind of access to technology, then you can't record their every movement.

Obviously physical activities burn calories that could otherwise become fat. But no sedentary overweight person is going to suddenly start training for a half marathon and stick with it long enough to get results when your goal is to just lose weight. And that's ignoring the very high risk of injury from making such a move. It's a problem of adherence, not physics.