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Seattle baseball is doing well this year, and there are so many ChatGPT ads. There's one where a guy is doing pull-ups. The text shows him asking ChatGPT for help doing pull ups. The response, as printed on the ad, generously typed by me for your convenience:
Wow, great advice. If I knew what a hammer curl was, I probably wouldn't need your advice that "calories matter." Also what does 3x6-10 mean? Reps, sets, and ....?
Day 1, "strength focus" what the hell does that mean? You don't say what strength focus is. You only provided core exercises. How come hanging leg raises and planks from supporting work aren't listed in the core exercises? If day 2 is a rest day, then what are days 6 and 7?
Like what is the plan? Do they hope you don't even read the text? Is that why it scrolls so fast?
I might be wrong here but:
Fuck ChatGPT, fuck LLMs, fuck marketers.
3x6-10 isn't a rest interval. It reads as "3 sets of 6-10 reps" of the exercise. So between 18-30 total reps, generally done in sets to let the body rest between reps to build up ATP so you have energy to do the repeats. Rest time should almost always be up to 3 min between sets for maximum energy in that muscle group, but no less than 90 seconds.
If you do sets of workouts in sequence with other sets of excersizes, that is a circuit. Organizing sets by muscle group and alternating them on a circuit is a great way to let you get that 3 minutes of rest for those muscles while still being efficient. Push ups to lunges to ab wheel rollout would be a basic example of a circuit that goes "upper body -- lower body -- core"
Also fuck Chatbots, fuck LLMs, fuck Marketers. Seriously, fuck all of them.
Ahh I see, thanks for clarifying! I've only just started taking exercising seriously so I'm definitely new to some of the concepts. I'll keep that in mind 💪
No problem at all. It always a learning process. Some light generic tips:
Form is more more important than anything else. Lifting 15 lbs right is better than 50lbs wrong. Do the excersizes with good form, and the gains will come much faster.
You need 48hrs of rest between workouts. It seems excessive, but working out literally tears muscles. Your body needs time to repair them. If you want to work out everyday, alternate muscle groups. This is where the "leg day, arm day, core day" terms come from. The excersizes can overlap a bit, but focus them. Personally, I just alterate Mon - Wed - Friday with whole body workouts.
Water, protein and sleep all matter as much as the weight or intensity. Again, you're tearing your body down during the workout. If you don't give it what it needs to heal up, it will only do what it can, which means the workout is partly wasted. Do what you can here, real world concerns are a bitch, but you need these to get stronger.
If you don't have weights, you can always do body weight fitness. There are routines out there of pushups/lunges/squats/handstands/planks/etc that will work your body just like weightlifting, and you don't need to own anything. Reddit had something called "the recommended routine" that was a great starting place for BWF.