What is your gains goblin?

Gains goblins. Those things in your life that rob you of what otherwise would be your hard-earned gains on strength, muscle size, endurance or whatever other thing you want to develop by training.

It can be anything: a person (like that gym bro that maybe distracts you more than it's good for you), a medical condition, a commitment, or what is usually most common (and be honest here, because for most people it is one in this category), a bad habit of yours, amongst others.

Feel free to share.

sharkfucker420 ,
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Weed 🥲

electric_nan ,

Look at me. I am the goblin now.

Valbrandur OP ,
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Give me back my gains, you rat.

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erik ,

At this point, age I think. Don't want to doxx myself, but I'm thoroughly middle aged and I think I've maxed out what I can do without gear given my age. I'm almost at a three plate one rep max for bench, 435 lbs squat, almost 500 lbs deadlift. Without juicing or at least testosterone supplementation, I think this is probably about the best I can do. Which is fine, I'm plenty strong for someone that just wants to be strong and isn't an athlete or something.

Valbrandur OP ,
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I’m almost at a three plate one rep max for bench, 435 lbs squat, almost 500 lbs deadlift.

Those are some good lifts at any age. For what I see, in this community we have an overall higher level than the one I expected there to be.

erik ,

Thanks. And yeah, I agree. There are some seriously strong folks here and it's nice to see.

Valbrandur OP ,
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I have probably more than one, but my silliest and, at the same time, most annoying one is an object: my wireless earbuds. I cannot put my phone one meter away without losing signal and my music cutting out. Not even carrying it in my pocket works, and at the end of my training session I have lost a ridiculous amount of time trying to get those things to work by turning them on and off again or resetting them. I would buy new ones, but alas, there's no money for that.

bobs_guns ,

You can get pretty good Chinese iems for a price that's not all that expensive. They'll probably be wired but you won't have to fiddle with them so much.

Valbrandur OP ,
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Both my airbuds and phone are Chinese already and they are both malfunctioning terribly despite the fact that I have only had them for 2 years at most. I guess one day I'll just have to renew my electronics and compensate the expense with soups for dinner for a few weeks.

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