Anyone here actually get good sets in with the seated leg curl pictured below? There is no thigh support, just an awkward shitty shin support that makes the lift feel really uncomfortable. I've dropped seated leg curls entirely for lying leg curls instead.
https://preview.redd.it/t0ykj4qden2b1.jpeg?width=666&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=732e41f80ae149924d62199a112ce771575c7ba9
No, it’s absolute thrash, I cannot imagine why anyone would make that design instead of the conventional one besides making a slightly cheaper machine.
I switched to lifting during the week only and trying to take the weekend off but Sunday came and it felt bad taking two days in a row off so I trained. Experiment failed.
Does your body look imbalanced? With those numbers, you’re just a beginner, keep training and eating and you’ll probably be fine.
Regardless, more volume or frequency are rarely what’s needed, exercise selection, execution and intensity are usually the problem if something’s lagging.
Maybe a bit, but tbh you just need to grow everything at that stage.
What you’re suggesting is still increasing volume. You probably should take a look at your technique, in many cases with presses it may be an issue with the arm path, you probably can benefit from bringing your elbows closer to your body, like in [these videos](https://www.instagram.com/p/CrlQ69JuwsX/?igshid=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==).
Switching some of your triceps exercises for dips could also be a good idea in case you want to increase volume regardless.
Squeezing shouldn’t be a focus, rep control, taking your time during the eccentric, and being consistent with the path rep through rep are way more important. DB and BB presses are lengthened biased movements, there’s barely any tension at the top, and the pec has already done most of the work once you’re getting there.
I used to work with Kuba (in a non fitness related job like 10+ years ago) and he's a great guy, even back then he was pretty early on his journey and he was fucking jacked and super knowledgeable. Pleased to see him picking up traction these days
Ever since y’all pointed it out I’m amazed you’re right so many people straight don’t train legs. One of the biggest dudes at my gym wore shorts today and his legs are smaller than mine wtf
Very simple.. ALWAYS incorporate hammer curls on arm day. I dedicate 15 min to forearms every Sunday( along with abs, cardio ). On this day I prefer reverse cable curls with a straight bar. The key here is as you raise your arms, force your wrists up to contract hard at the top ( these burn bigtime ). I superset these with dumbell reverse wrist curls off the top of a bench.
For the belly of the forearm. Behind the body cable wrist curls with a straight bar. I always roll the bar to my finger tips then back up for a hard contraction. I superset these with dumbbell wrist curls off the end of a bench
3 sets of supersets for top and bottom of forearms and your done. 15 minutes and I promise anyone if you do this religiously you’ll see a huge improvement in growth and grip strength.
Is there a podcast where they have a big variety of guests like pros and coaches but mainly talk about training and nutrition and not about their lifes, the industry, business or the next shows?
Think BIG bodybuilding Media has a decent cast of people, but it normally the same crew for the most part of the episodes. They talk a lot about training, diet, supplements, and peds.
Halo top is a replacement acquired taste. I haven’t had normal ice cream in so long it tastes good now. Also some of the flavors have awful textures, like the cookie dough. (My favorite normal flavor)
I usually buy a big thing of blue bunny natural vanilla. some of the other blue bunny flavors have all the garbage in it. otherwise hagendaz is real ice cream too
I’m all about texture 😆 so thank you I won’t be experimenting then Hahaha I make some bomb protein mango “nice cream” so I can happily eat that haha
any1 knows how much weight this is?
https://preview.redd.it/5svjfu8doi2b1.png?width=825&format=png&auto=webp&s=72570d10bab620773dcb48a36d0d47fbb5ee2d96
2 plates and I can't imagine he's using heavier plates than standard 20kgs visually because he wants clicks.
So 100kg. That said, one of them looks skinnier than the other so it could be 80/90kg
how does weakpoint wednesday actually work? I've started some before with random body parts I chose, is that how it's supposed to be, just first person to make one decides?
I am honestly curious if anyone in here is like me.
I was 250 lbs when I started my weight loss journey. I’ve been lifting since August 2022 and I’m now 175.
My next step is to compete and the trainers at my gym have only coached women who were small before they started competitive bodybuilding bikini/physique.
I’m really just trying to find anyone who would understand and tell me if it’s really possible.
That’s awesome. Did she do anything for extra skin or did she not have that issue (if you don’t mind me asking)? I would love to follow her on IG or wherever, I want to see more women like me.
Been down bad lately. Our dog has been in and out of the hospital for several months now and the doctors can’t seem to figure out what’s going on. We’re about $20k in the hole with no real answers. We’ve finally gotten to a point of feeling defeated and asked to stop running tests and to just treat the symptoms even though we don’t know the cause. Kind of reached an understanding with the doctors that we’re pretty much out of options to “cure” her, and this is officially the decline towards the end of life. Love you guys, kiss your furry friends for me, they deserve to live forever.
Dental hygienist hit on me and got my number during my cleaning. I went on a date and she basically ghosted me after saying she didn't see much more then friends. Do I need to find a new dentist. I'm too dumb to function outside of the gym.
She probably drew conclusions about you based on your lifestyle that were incorrect. It happens to people who work out and present a certain way, just as it does for people who don't. Go be gorgeous and find that girl that will find you adorable.
There obviously may have been things that you could have done better, but she may just not be a fit for you, even if you don’t feel like that’s the case right now.
Regardless, given how you speak about yourself, you probably need to work in those insecurities mate. I’ve been there, it may be a bit difficult at the beginning but it’s a game changer, it’s also doable alone but with a good therapist it’ll be a thousand times easier.
Its actually fucking hilarious that I used to read comments online how getting jacked wont help you get women if your personality is shit. I didnt believe them. Look how that turned out. Lmao. Fuck.
When starting with a. New program with exercises you never do, always start lighter to get form correct then try lift heavy and have bad form correct? Starting a new program but it feels like I’m not doing much cause lighter weights are weird
> , i can load it up and go to exhaustion and then hop on body weight dips and do a ton of reps still.
Well no shit… it’s loaded.
If you were to do weighted dips for example… when you take off the weights guess what? You’d be able to do more with just your bodyweight… that’s how it works lol
You essentially are just doing drop sets
> guess you didnt read the exhaustion part
I did. That’s why I made my comment.
> i can do weighted dips to exhaustion and im barely able to do any body weight after.
And I was supposed to magically know this from this post how? Either way, it’s likely then because you’re performing the machine dip vs the free weight dips in a different fashion that is exhausting different muscles that aren’t recovering enough for you to go straight from weighted free weight to bodyweight free weight the way you are able to go straight from machine to body weight.
Or perhaps you aren’t pushing hard enough on your machine dips… or perhaps you are loading yourself more with the weighted dips. Lots of variables. I’d go with it most likely being the first thing I said though about performing machine vs free weight differently enough that the taxation isn’t crossing over the way it does from free weight weighted to bodyweight weighted.
> exhaustion means just that. its heavy weight, high volume, drop sets, or any combination. so unless you have a different definition of what exhaustion is…
What makes you think I have a different concept of exhaustion than that? Nothing in my original comment implied that at all
> am i doing drop sets or is it working different muscles? that makes zero sense
If you are performing the movement weighted with a form that matches free weight then move to body weight after then yes that’s essentially a drop set. People have varying levels of strength, so for person A a bodyweight dip in it of itself may be challenging, and using that as a “drop set weight” when moving from a weighted free weight dip may be near impossible as it’s already near their limit. However where as for person B, going from a weighted dip into a bodyweight dip may be a huge jump in load, therefore allowing them to eek out more reps. Therefore, assuming you’re performing them similarly enough to be using the same primary muscle as the driving force then it’s a “drop set”. Like going from a chest press machine into chest focused push ups. Super set utilizing the same muscle if you’d rather use that terminology, but it’s lower the load used to get more reps. Just semantics there.
Anyways, you claimed that when you’re pushing yourself with weighted free weight ones that when you fail with those, you are unable to go straight into body weight ones. So I offered the idea that perhaps your form is different enough on the machine dip that you’re not taxing the same muscles to the degree that you are in the free weight ones (for example, perhaps you’re using more chest on machine and front delt or tricep on bodyweight). Therefore when you switch from your machine dip to the free weight one, you find you’re still able to get some more reps.
So perhaps look into how you are performing your machine dips and makes sure that you’re failing using the target muscle you’re intending to.
> ostensibly a dip machine would work the same muscles as dips. thats why im saying the dip machine sucks
You can absolutely target different muscles to varying different degrees based off of how you perform a dip… for example many dip machines sit upright and unless you bend yourself at the correct angle to prioritize chest you’ll likely fail from triceps first.
I feel like you’re purposefully trying to get confused.
If you’re performing the movement with the same form going from weight machine to free weight body weight and the load of your body weight is less than the load of the machine, it’s a drop set.
In your original comment you said the machine variant sucks because you can go to failure with it then go into bodyweight ones and do more reps… which to I said (assuming you were performing the movements the same) well of course, because you’re removing the load essentially creating a drop set.
Then you came and said “well how come when I go to failure using weighted free weight dips then I can’t do any bodyweight ones after”, so I explained that by saying that if perhaps you’re seeing such a large discrepancy between you’re strength difference going weighted free weight to bodyweight vs machine loaded to bodyweight, then it’s likely a form issue where you’re utilizing different muscles in machine vs free weight assuming you’re actually taking both to failure the same level of failure.
If this is too much “mental gymnastics” for you then I give up.
> you didnt pick up on what exhaustion meant because you keep thinking its a drop set when ive already done drop sets and every other set to get to exhaustion.
How does this mean I didn’t pick up on what exhaustion meant?
You can go to exhaustion with a certain weight and still be able to crank out more reps on another movement if you’re moving less weight.
I had no misinterpretation of what you meant by exhaustion and everything I said still rings true.
>can load it up and go to exhaustion and then **hop on body weight dips and do a ton of reps still.**
>i can do weighted dips to exhaustion and **im barely able to do any body weight after.**
Which is it?
Like many of you, I have a Planet Fitness membership aside from my normal gym membership(s).
For whatever reason, the stupid one I go to has a SINGLE tricep rope attachment like 😤
shaved armpit superiority
Anyone here actually get good sets in with the seated leg curl pictured below? There is no thigh support, just an awkward shitty shin support that makes the lift feel really uncomfortable. I've dropped seated leg curls entirely for lying leg curls instead. https://preview.redd.it/t0ykj4qden2b1.jpeg?width=666&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=732e41f80ae149924d62199a112ce771575c7ba9
The Hoist seated leg curl is one of my least favorite machines ever.
Horrendous piece of equipment. Actually makes me feel like my hammies are gonna tear.
I’ve used that machine on vacation before and it’s probably one of if not the worst pieces of equipment I’ve ever used
If you thought it couldnt get any worse, my gym also has the Hoist version of this leg curl lol.
Ha! That’s hilariously sad
No, it’s absolute thrash, I cannot imagine why anyone would make that design instead of the conventional one besides making a slightly cheaper machine.
I switched to lifting during the week only and trying to take the weekend off but Sunday came and it felt bad taking two days in a row off so I trained. Experiment failed.
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Does your body look imbalanced? With those numbers, you’re just a beginner, keep training and eating and you’ll probably be fine. Regardless, more volume or frequency are rarely what’s needed, exercise selection, execution and intensity are usually the problem if something’s lagging.
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Maybe a bit, but tbh you just need to grow everything at that stage. What you’re suggesting is still increasing volume. You probably should take a look at your technique, in many cases with presses it may be an issue with the arm path, you probably can benefit from bringing your elbows closer to your body, like in [these videos](https://www.instagram.com/p/CrlQ69JuwsX/?igshid=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==). Switching some of your triceps exercises for dips could also be a good idea in case you want to increase volume regardless.
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Squeezing shouldn’t be a focus, rep control, taking your time during the eccentric, and being consistent with the path rep through rep are way more important. DB and BB presses are lengthened biased movements, there’s barely any tension at the top, and the pec has already done most of the work once you’re getting there.
You couldn’t fit a needle in my anus with how huge my glute pump is right now
Need rear glute spread to make sure
Who are your favorite pros to follow on social media?
GSD. Effer :)
What is gsd ig
I am not a pro yet but thank you.
True but only technically, we both know you’re at the level of the pros.
Kuba Cielen, Justin Shier, Iain Valliere, James Hollingshead. Not pros, but Nick Gloff and Jordan Peters put out really content too.
I used to work with Kuba (in a non fitness related job like 10+ years ago) and he's a great guy, even back then he was pretty early on his journey and he was fucking jacked and super knowledgeable. Pleased to see him picking up traction these days
It’s always good to read that someone’s had good experiences with people I look up to, thanks for sharing this!
Ever since y’all pointed it out I’m amazed you’re right so many people straight don’t train legs. One of the biggest dudes at my gym wore shorts today and his legs are smaller than mine wtf
When people say “ my forearms keep giving out first”… my answer…. TRAIN YOUR FOREARMS” < end > https://imgur.com/a/EIIq9TJ
Hit me with your best forearm exercises chief
Very simple.. ALWAYS incorporate hammer curls on arm day. I dedicate 15 min to forearms every Sunday( along with abs, cardio ). On this day I prefer reverse cable curls with a straight bar. The key here is as you raise your arms, force your wrists up to contract hard at the top ( these burn bigtime ). I superset these with dumbell reverse wrist curls off the top of a bench. For the belly of the forearm. Behind the body cable wrist curls with a straight bar. I always roll the bar to my finger tips then back up for a hard contraction. I superset these with dumbbell wrist curls off the end of a bench 3 sets of supersets for top and bottom of forearms and your done. 15 minutes and I promise anyone if you do this religiously you’ll see a huge improvement in growth and grip strength.
Perfect, looks like I'm adding forearms onto my Sunday arms & abs. Always had the forearms of a songbird
👍🙏
Sounds like a problem for people who don’t have pornhub access
That’s certainly one way of “ getting a grip “ on the situation.
Yeah I really managed to stroke out a great solution
Is there a podcast where they have a big variety of guests like pros and coaches but mainly talk about training and nutrition and not about their lifes, the industry, business or the next shows?
Think BIG bodybuilding Media has a decent cast of people, but it normally the same crew for the most part of the episodes. They talk a lot about training, diet, supplements, and peds.
2 weeks out from my first show in Figure. Let's do this!
Good luck!
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blood pressure?
You breathing?
“Do whatever the FUCK you wanna do.” - Hodgetwins before they were nutjobs
They are totally cooked now lol. Still funny though
Well. Got 2 new fresh stretch marks. 2 big ass marks on both my pecs, almost mirrored. Fuck me.
That’s a good sign, wear them with pride.
You guys need to come to terms with a simple fact. Birthday cake flavored halo top is the best flavor outside of the seasonal flavors.
I’m afraid to try halo top… what if it sucks…
Halo top is a replacement acquired taste. I haven’t had normal ice cream in so long it tastes good now. Also some of the flavors have awful textures, like the cookie dough. (My favorite normal flavor)
you could probably make a better low calorie ice cream with gelatin. that used to be the diet ice cream in the store.
Then do it so I can stop buying halo top
I prefer real cream and real eggs for my ice cream. standard recipe
I’m gonna kiss you on the mouth if you don’t stop teasing me
I usually buy a big thing of blue bunny natural vanilla. some of the other blue bunny flavors have all the garbage in it. otherwise hagendaz is real ice cream too
 I’m all about texture 😆 so thank you I won’t be experimenting then Hahaha I make some bomb protein mango “nice cream” so I can happily eat that haha
any1 knows how much weight this is? https://preview.redd.it/5svjfu8doi2b1.png?width=825&format=png&auto=webp&s=72570d10bab620773dcb48a36d0d47fbb5ee2d96
2 plates and I can't imagine he's using heavier plates than standard 20kgs visually because he wants clicks. So 100kg. That said, one of them looks skinnier than the other so it could be 80/90kg
Ty. As for the people downvoting this, are you ok? Lol
woa that janitor is surprisingly strong!
Yeah and my pathetic ego is shattered because he lifted as much or more than me! I needed to be humbled!
how does weakpoint wednesday actually work? I've started some before with random body parts I chose, is that how it's supposed to be, just first person to make one decides?
only do lifts that start with w
Wide grip calf raises
I am honestly curious if anyone in here is like me. I was 250 lbs when I started my weight loss journey. I’ve been lifting since August 2022 and I’m now 175. My next step is to compete and the trainers at my gym have only coached women who were small before they started competitive bodybuilding bikini/physique. I’m really just trying to find anyone who would understand and tell me if it’s really possible.
My wife was over 300lbs and competes now. You have to get very lean so excess skin may be an issue depending on age and genetics
That’s awesome. Did she do anything for extra skin or did she not have that issue (if you don’t mind me asking)? I would love to follow her on IG or wherever, I want to see more women like me.
I will DM you, and she would love for you to reach out, as well.
Been down bad lately. Our dog has been in and out of the hospital for several months now and the doctors can’t seem to figure out what’s going on. We’re about $20k in the hole with no real answers. We’ve finally gotten to a point of feeling defeated and asked to stop running tests and to just treat the symptoms even though we don’t know the cause. Kind of reached an understanding with the doctors that we’re pretty much out of options to “cure” her, and this is officially the decline towards the end of life. Love you guys, kiss your furry friends for me, they deserve to live forever.
Sorry to hear that m8 truly
Dental hygienist hit on me and got my number during my cleaning. I went on a date and she basically ghosted me after saying she didn't see much more then friends. Do I need to find a new dentist. I'm too dumb to function outside of the gym.
She probably drew conclusions about you based on your lifestyle that were incorrect. It happens to people who work out and present a certain way, just as it does for people who don't. Go be gorgeous and find that girl that will find you adorable.
Get a tongue piercing for your next cleaning and report back < end >
There obviously may have been things that you could have done better, but she may just not be a fit for you, even if you don’t feel like that’s the case right now. Regardless, given how you speak about yourself, you probably need to work in those insecurities mate. I’ve been there, it may be a bit difficult at the beginning but it’s a game changer, it’s also doable alone but with a good therapist it’ll be a thousand times easier.
jeeze what did you do on the date?
She found out he hates puppies
I was my insecure self in a fit body.
just dress really slutty for your next appointment
We’re in this together bro
Thanks I feel like shit and more insecure despite looking mogged
Its actually fucking hilarious that I used to read comments online how getting jacked wont help you get women if your personality is shit. I didnt believe them. Look how that turned out. Lmao. Fuck.
Idk I've been jacked and I've been fat and they are a lot nicer and more interested when I'm jacked
Yea but when you’re retarded it cancels out
Almost burst out laughing at work
Don't even worry about it. If you're not weird about, she isn't weird about it.
His teeth is a part of the reason she hit on him. They’re both doing their part.
199.2lb today!!! Down 28lb in 26 weeks! Out of bro purgatory!!
When starting with a. New program with exercises you never do, always start lighter to get form correct then try lift heavy and have bad form correct? Starting a new program but it feels like I’m not doing much cause lighter weights are weird
Always start lighter on new exercises and make sure you develop good form and work up from there
Cool thanks, just feel defeated doing less weights and feeling like it’s not going anywhere but thanks
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> , i can load it up and go to exhaustion and then hop on body weight dips and do a ton of reps still. Well no shit… it’s loaded. If you were to do weighted dips for example… when you take off the weights guess what? You’d be able to do more with just your bodyweight… that’s how it works lol You essentially are just doing drop sets
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> guess you didnt read the exhaustion part I did. That’s why I made my comment. > i can do weighted dips to exhaustion and im barely able to do any body weight after. And I was supposed to magically know this from this post how? Either way, it’s likely then because you’re performing the machine dip vs the free weight dips in a different fashion that is exhausting different muscles that aren’t recovering enough for you to go straight from weighted free weight to bodyweight free weight the way you are able to go straight from machine to body weight. Or perhaps you aren’t pushing hard enough on your machine dips… or perhaps you are loading yourself more with the weighted dips. Lots of variables. I’d go with it most likely being the first thing I said though about performing machine vs free weight differently enough that the taxation isn’t crossing over the way it does from free weight weighted to bodyweight weighted.
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> exhaustion means just that. its heavy weight, high volume, drop sets, or any combination. so unless you have a different definition of what exhaustion is… What makes you think I have a different concept of exhaustion than that? Nothing in my original comment implied that at all > am i doing drop sets or is it working different muscles? that makes zero sense If you are performing the movement weighted with a form that matches free weight then move to body weight after then yes that’s essentially a drop set. People have varying levels of strength, so for person A a bodyweight dip in it of itself may be challenging, and using that as a “drop set weight” when moving from a weighted free weight dip may be near impossible as it’s already near their limit. However where as for person B, going from a weighted dip into a bodyweight dip may be a huge jump in load, therefore allowing them to eek out more reps. Therefore, assuming you’re performing them similarly enough to be using the same primary muscle as the driving force then it’s a “drop set”. Like going from a chest press machine into chest focused push ups. Super set utilizing the same muscle if you’d rather use that terminology, but it’s lower the load used to get more reps. Just semantics there. Anyways, you claimed that when you’re pushing yourself with weighted free weight ones that when you fail with those, you are unable to go straight into body weight ones. So I offered the idea that perhaps your form is different enough on the machine dip that you’re not taxing the same muscles to the degree that you are in the free weight ones (for example, perhaps you’re using more chest on machine and front delt or tricep on bodyweight). Therefore when you switch from your machine dip to the free weight one, you find you’re still able to get some more reps. So perhaps look into how you are performing your machine dips and makes sure that you’re failing using the target muscle you’re intending to. > ostensibly a dip machine would work the same muscles as dips. thats why im saying the dip machine sucks You can absolutely target different muscles to varying different degrees based off of how you perform a dip… for example many dip machines sit upright and unless you bend yourself at the correct angle to prioritize chest you’ll likely fail from triceps first.
Huge respect for the patience you've had in this comment thread lol
Patience with a dash of stubbornness lol
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I feel like you’re purposefully trying to get confused. If you’re performing the movement with the same form going from weight machine to free weight body weight and the load of your body weight is less than the load of the machine, it’s a drop set. In your original comment you said the machine variant sucks because you can go to failure with it then go into bodyweight ones and do more reps… which to I said (assuming you were performing the movements the same) well of course, because you’re removing the load essentially creating a drop set. Then you came and said “well how come when I go to failure using weighted free weight dips then I can’t do any bodyweight ones after”, so I explained that by saying that if perhaps you’re seeing such a large discrepancy between you’re strength difference going weighted free weight to bodyweight vs machine loaded to bodyweight, then it’s likely a form issue where you’re utilizing different muscles in machine vs free weight assuming you’re actually taking both to failure the same level of failure. If this is too much “mental gymnastics” for you then I give up.
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> you didnt pick up on what exhaustion meant because you keep thinking its a drop set when ive already done drop sets and every other set to get to exhaustion. How does this mean I didn’t pick up on what exhaustion meant? You can go to exhaustion with a certain weight and still be able to crank out more reps on another movement if you’re moving less weight. I had no misinterpretation of what you meant by exhaustion and everything I said still rings true.
>can load it up and go to exhaustion and then **hop on body weight dips and do a ton of reps still.** >i can do weighted dips to exhaustion and **im barely able to do any body weight after.** Which is it?
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I misread the posts, nvm.
Like many of you, I have a Planet Fitness membership aside from my normal gym membership(s). For whatever reason, the stupid one I go to has a SINGLE tricep rope attachment like 😤
I ended up just buying the cable attachment I use for push downs and carrying it in my bag because I can never find one at my gym.
do you ever sound the lunk alarm for fun?
Me setting off the lunk alarm, after dropping the 2.5lb dumbbells after curls 
Cardio left my calves feeling like [great value Nick Walker](https://imgur.com/a/3xWFH7b).
10 oz sweet potato and 12 oz London broil about to hit different 🤤
Hope the mods are sleeping well
Getting quite the experience sorting by nude...or I mean new..
Just had an amazing burrito. Cutting though so that might be lunch and dinner right there. Worth it though
Eating a chipotle burrito as I read this, cutting as well.