Greg Clayman

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Truly don’t know how those of you that workout in the morning/before work do it. I’m always so drained and exhausted after a workout and I’m pretty sure anyone who says it energizes them is lying 😄 All I want to do after a workout is shower, get back into comfy clothes, and lay around the rest of the day

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I was 88 km away from today's mystery location 📍. Can you beat me? First time playing this game. Looked really similar to a place I’ve traveled to to see a few concerts from one of my favorite artists. But I hedged and guessed the larger city further south; would’ve been closer if I guessed the concert city. Cool little game.

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Another back/biceps day today. Didn’t get any photos/videos because the gym was too crowded, so screenshot of the workout has to suffice for Proof of Gym Mostly a recovery day - I generally do one more back exercise (low cable rows) and seated hammer curls but I wasn’t feeling it today. The “PR” was the reverse preacher curls and was a PR only because I generally don’t do them so it was the first time trying that weight 😜

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Solid chest/triceps/shoulders workout to close out the week. Tried to film stuff I haven’t filmed before - simple triceps pressdown here; last exercise of the day. Never edited videos before and I absolutely suck at it. The black and white is 2x speed and should be cut out but this is the extent of my iMovie skills.

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Another solid back/biceps day today but the gym was overcrowded AGAIN (went at 4:00 PM to break up the workday, back to work now!) and apparently the whole town was there. Had to change my routine a bit because none of what I needed (i.e. the two preacher curl stations, any lat pulldown machine, any bench whatsoever, etc.) were open. Couldn’t get any good videos for Proof of Gym, but here’s a screenshot from a shitty video of one-arm cable preacher curls. Substituted for normal preacher curls and it wasn’t too bad! Routine today was: 3x Low Cable Row (Cable) 3x Lower Back Extension (machine) 3x Isolateral Row 3x Bicep Curl (Cable) 4x Hammer Curls (Cable) 3x One Arm Preacher Curls 3x Seated Hammer Curl (dumbbell) 3x Reverse Curl (barbell)

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Turns out Saturday at 1:00 PM is the least busiest time for my gym. Have literally gone at all hours of the day except mid-day Saturday and it’s always at like 99% capacity. So I got to do some exercises I never get to since I had an open bench and a lot of free space. And was able to film things. Got in a few sets of cable spider curls at the very end of an 80 minute back/biceps day. Love this for targeting the short head of the biceps but probably loaded it too heavy for how fatigued I was by this point 🤷‍♂️

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gm fitcasters Continuing to post my weekly decline press because it’s the only exercise I’ve found a way to film discreetly. New PR. Added some 2.5 lbs weights so we’re up to 190 lbs now (at 140 BW) on the last set of a big push day.

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I have yet to hear a truly *great* album that was released this year and we're almost four months in. That's probably not good. Shill me the best power/prog/folk metal you've heard this year. Maybe black metal too if it's really solid. Right now my AotY is from this completely unknown Italian symphonic metal band called The 7th Guild (8000 monthly listeners on Spotify) but even that album isn't thaaaat great. Apocalypse Orchestra, Majestica, and Avantasia are my next choices but they're all basically 6-7/10 albums at best.

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Had a nice back/biceps workout last night while figuring out stealthy ways to film. Camera angle sucks here and you can’t even really see the weight unless you look real close, wompwomp. We’ll do better next time. I typically use a thumbless grip on these isolateral rows but I had to change it up for the last set. Need to work on my grip strength for sure because I was losing it by this point at the workout. 135x8 each side, BW: 139.7 lbs.

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Heading to London (and maybe Scotland?) at the beginning of May. Shill me all your gluten-free restaurant recommendations (or food reqs in general and I'll check and see if they have Celiac-safe options)

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gm Fitcasters Starting to really like decline press. Doesn’t hurt your shoulders and you can load way more weight. I’m sure there’s a reason why no one at the gym uses it but I’m a fan 🤷‍♂️. Still trying to figure out how much I can handle so not sure how much to load yet. Really don’t want to drop this on myself 😁. 185 lbs @ 140.4 lbs BW. Think I had a few more in me here but this was for filming/gauging-the-weight purposes; felt a bit better controlled than earlier in the week.

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Gym was totally empty today (it’s literally full 100% of the time every hour of the day) so I got to film and play around with some exercises I generally don’t do. Last quick set of decline press at the end of my chest day. 4x175 lbs. Current BW: 140.4 lbs.

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I hear you guys like when I work out in a16z swag. Got another good workout in this morning before a day of non-stop ETHDenver stuff (come find me at the zk house!). Gotta look good for prom tonight, right? 😁😁

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Who else is lifting during ETHDenver? I always make sure to work out before any meetings just in case there’s a Little Buff Boys contest that spontaneously arises 💪💪💪 Woke up with a killer headache (and I didn’t even do anything last night - straight to hotel, eat, sleep) but got a surprisingly good chest/shoulders/triceps workout in considering the limitations of the hotel gym. Also, Farcaster cropped this video so strangely. Not sure how to fix it. . .

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We need something like daily leaderboards or average score. I like the all-time high scores stuff, but I’m not super incentivized to come back every day and play if I’m only targeting that one high score Would like to be able to break it down to daily or weekly high scores and compete against myself for a better average

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Spent too long agonizing over ranking them but couldn’t do it because all these albums are so different. So going to tier them instead. Here’s my not-quite-definitive-top-20-albums-of-2024 with no explanation provided: S tier: • Azure - Fym Tier 1: • IOTUNN - Kinship • Artificial Language - Distant Glow (EP) (note: had this been a full length, this is S tier. Best EP ever) • Sonata Arctica - Clear Cold Beyond • Caligula’s Horse - Charcoal Grace Tier 2: • Blood Incantation - Absolute Elsewhere • Winterborn - Break Another Day • Lowen - Do Not Go To War With The Demons of Mazandaran • Sgàile - Traverse The Bealach • Frost* - Life in the Wires • Wheel - Charismstic Leaders • Myrath - Karma Tier 3: • Leprous - Melodies of Atonement • Kingcrow - Hopium • Orden Ogan - The Order of Fear • Borknagar - Fall • Týr - Battle Ballads • Bent Knee - Twenty Pills Without Water • Dragony - Hic Svnt Dracones • Wintersun - Time II

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Open to all challenges for any amount of coins in GeoCrush. Already horribly addicted to this game.

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Probably time for me to start another streak (I was MIA and lost my 150+ day streak!) and count down my top albums of the year. This was a reeeally good year for prog/power metal and I probably have 30 albums that are fighting for a top 10 spot, so I’m going to have to figure it out and narrow it down. New streak starts tomorrow!

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Late-entry contender for album of the year. Right now I have it behind Azure - Fym. There was a lot of solid new music this year; going to make figuring out a top 10 pretty difficult! https://youtu.be/yVTDjdHuivg?si=_mgb6J0pwR8MWtv7

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Been raining here all week and going to continue to rain for another ~5 days. For some reason this song always gets stuck in my head when it rains. And it's still one of their best tracks, IMO: Poets of the Fall - Carnival of Rust https://youtu.be/MKk1u5RMTn4?feature=shared

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