Fe_Mike

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I’ve been doing RDLs, but for whatever reason I have a hard time feeling them in my hamstrings. I mostly feel them in my glutes and lower back.

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RDL's are elite for hamstrings, and so easy to do without targeted equipment. I guess it's easier said than done, but your best bet is to just get the form right and force them to work.

Go lighter. Extremely light. If you know how to stretch your hamstrings, you know how to do RDL's. Start with just the bar and keep your legs extremely straight, utilize bad form so you feel the hammy stretch. As you go up in weight, you'll need to start getting some knee bend and hip hinging to keep your glutes and back out of it. Don't be afraid to just push your arse out of the way. Also it helps to do dumbbells if you have that.

Watch a few youtube videos and try stuff out to see what works, but by far your cheapest and most efficient answer here is just figure out RDL's.

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Market seems to not give a shite about anything other than lithium prices.

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Yup. Hopefully FID gets us back to the $4ish range. Commercial proof of concept (which is still years away) should bring the value of the Texas project closer to real.

The combined value of both projects should have the company trading around $15 and floating with lithium prices. I think the closer we get to 2030, the closer we get to that number.

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Definition of a slop bowl. Had it many times at Pel. Food is not good. Inauthentic af

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Food is not good.

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Had it many times

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Does not compute.

Should be a 10% day easy as long as the market cooperates.

As with SLI tradition, though, I fully suspect the lithium sector will tank today.

Think I accidentally just won. It's actually quite beautiful.

Ramoji

Actually I just looked this place up and it's apparently a film studio and fairly 'fake'. Haha. It was legit random though.

Should have bought more at $2 last week obvs.

Buy the bottom sell the top it’s so easy.

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They've allowed the price to degrade with repeated misses and production date being rescheduled.

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Feel ya' on that.

And that's definitely the issue with throwing out such a relatively short term deadline. The closer we get to the end of Q3 with no news, the more investors may get skittish and start selling.

Same here, after having all my shares lent out for the better part of the last five years, I haven't had any leant out in a few months. Not sure what to make of that. Short interest very low, I guess, which should theoretically be good.

I think it's these highlights from the quarterly:
Concluded Federal Government’s National Environmental Policy Act (“NEPA”) Review for the South West Arkansas Project (“SWA Project”) with a Finding of No Significant Impact

Entered Two Key Construction Contracts for the SWA Project in Anticipation of a Final Investment Decision (“FID”)

Remains On Track for FID and Starting Construction at the SWA Project in 2026

PEA for East Texas on track to be released by September 2026 (this is going to have some gaudy, flashy, eye popping numbers)

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Smackover Lithium is actively advancing the two key remaining deliverables: customer offtakes and the project financing process. The partnership remains in advanced discussions with several prospective customers and aims to conclude all remaining offtake agreements by the third quarter. This will help to finalize the size and structure of the SWA Project debt, where due diligence and other customary processes are well underway and continue to progress in parallel with the offtake process.

Smackover Lithium continues to target taking FID later this year. Construction is planned to begin promptly following FID, enabling first commercial production of battery-quality lithium carbonate in 2029.

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You sure it wasn't his wienerschnitzel?

Sure, as I said a bit back, dropping a heavy deadlift with bumper plates (which actually -are- designed for that) is fine, imo. Some gyms still don't let you do that, but that's a bit silly - that's an actual safety issue.

It's when somebody is dumbbell benching and at the end of every set they just throw the weights off to the side.

And no, you don't have to drop dumbbells even on heavy sets. If flat bench, just twist them to neutral grip and rest them on your lower chest/stomach and sit up. Again, I'd argue if you can't handle that movement you probably shouldn't be handling those weights. But even if you insist on benching more than you need, you can still manage to lower the DB's one at a time to your side with enough control that they don't bounce violently off the floor. Heaven forbid, you could also get a spotter.

It's especially worse when somebody does it on incline cause you're basically already sitting up, absolutely no reason you can't bring those weights to your thighs with ease, but I still see that all the time too.

Look I understand that if you're lifting real weights, 120's, 130's+, it's tough to sit up after a set and there's gonna be a thump when bailing those off to the side. But that's really not what we're talking about. We're talking about guys incline pressing 60, 70 lbs and dumping them from shoulder height after a 10-12 rep set. It's just not necessary in any way shape or form, and it's disrespectful.