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Wellness Wednesday for May 6, 2026

The Wednesday Wellness threads are meant to encourage users to ask for and provide advice and motivation to improve their lives. It isn't intended as a 'containment thread' and any content which could go here could instead be posted in its own thread. You could post:

  • Requests for advice and / or encouragement. On basically any topic and for any scale of problem.

  • Updates to let us know how you are doing. This provides valuable feedback on past advice / encouragement and will hopefully make people feel a little more motivated to follow through. If you want to be reminded to post your update, see the post titled 'update reminders', below.

  • Advice. This can be in response to a request for advice or just something that you think could be generally useful for many people here.

  • Encouragement. Probably best directed at specific users, but if you feel like just encouraging people in general I don't think anyone is going to object. I don't think I really need to say this, but just to be clear; encouragement should have a generally positive tone and not shame people (if people feel that shame might be an effective tool for motivating people, please discuss this so we can form a group consensus on how to use it rather than just trying it).

Jump in the discussion.

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  • My upper back and shoulders felt stiff from Tuesday onwards last week, so I didn't feel up to going to the gym. Ended up having to do all three sessions back to back on Friday-Sunday. The most frustrating thing is that I was doing deadlifts on Saturday and felt absolutely fine during and afterwards, but when I woke up on Sunday morning I could feel that I'd aggravated my dodgy disc, yet again. I have no idea what I'm doing wrong, I genuinely thought I'd perfected my deadlift form. A quick Google suggests that I need to improve my core strength, so I'm planning to go to the gym this evening and do some core exercises (plank etc.). Any advice for strengthening my core would be greatly appreciated. Can deadlift 1.84x my bodyweight for 3 reps, squat 1.15x for 7 reps and bench press .87x for 6 reps.
  • Have not consumed any pornography since waking up on January 1st.
  • Planning to post my twelfth blog post of the year either today or tomorrow morning.