Quick Tips for Smith Machine Incline Tricep Extension 📌

Smith machine incline tricep extensions can be a great way to overload the triceps with stability, but they work best when you treat them like a controlled elbow-extension movement, not a press.

✅ Set up the bench correctly

↖️ Use a moderate incline

🤲 Grip the bar just inside shoulder width

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Getting a 20% 'don't insult me, sir' and 80% power trip reaction toward the very polite delivery guy who offered to carry my new, heavier dumbbells inside for me... because he definitely assumed they weren't mine. (Panel from Marvel Fanfare #48, 1989)

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🏋️ Why Learning Proper Form First Matters 💪

Muscle growth responds well to quality tension. When reps are done with consistency, control, and purpose, the muscle receives a clearer growth signal.

Good form is not just about safety, it is about making every set more effective.

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Stop calling it "old age"—it’s just rust. 🧱💪

If you’ve spent the last decade neglecting your body, sleep, and nutrition, you aren't broken; you’re just undertrained.

The goal isn't to look "jacked." It's to stay strong enough to keep doing everything you love.

I’m tracking my own rebuild with my app, Pump It Better. Join me. Let’s trade "weak" for "capable."

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“Anstrengung” / Effort

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Take that Cult of Youth! You who write off your elders as ignorant, frail and infirm, shake your heads and look around you. Strong capable elders are everywhere.

Record-smashing powerlifter, 68, says she lives for the 'clang' of the weights

On Thursday morning, 68-year-old Mava Brydges put the weight of a household refrigerator onto her back, lowered herself toward the floor and then stood up again.

Her 132.5-kilogram squat at the Canadian Powerlifting National Championships in St. John's, N.L., was five kilograms shy of the national record for her age and weight class, which she set herself in 2022.

In the next few hours, she set two new records, finishing the morning by hoisting a 140-kilogram barbell off the ground as a crowd of gobsmacked fans cheered and shouted her name.

"This is my sport that I love," Brydges said minutes after her final lift, her eyes filling with tears. "It's an amazing feeling to be able to do what I do at this age."

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https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/newfoundland-labrador/record-smashing-powerlifter-68-says-she-lives-for-the-clang-of-the-weights-9.7126974

The Importance of Training Intensity while Dieting 📊

Training intensity during a diet is one of the biggest tools for protecting the muscle you already built.

👉 It tells the body to keep muscle

👉 It preserves strength during a fat loss phase

👉 It keeps the hypertrophy signal strong

👉 It improves body composition, not just weight loss

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I just set a new deadlift personal best wooooo.

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