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Overthinking the program

I’ve been following along the various programs you all post which have been amazing. Financially I’m trying to cut spending and since my apartment complex has a fitness center was contemplating cutting out the gym membership and using that. The only downside is the limitations of the fitness center. They have dumbbells up to 90lbs and a few adjustable benches, no barbells of any kind, two cable machine towers, row machines, leg machines and cardio machines. When I follow a program I tend to try and follow it to a tee and psychologically feel that adjusting, especially compound exercises, wouldn’t be as beneficial as it could be; barbell squats vs Goblet squats for example. Am I overthinking it too much and it would still be as effective, or is the access to the full gym still worth it? Thanks!

Waking up to use the bathroom every night

I constantly deal with waking up 5-6 hours into my sleep because I have to pee every night and then it’s always very difficult to fall back asleep. Any suggestions on this? I try to use as little water as possible to take my night/sleep supplements before bed(4 oz or so) and also try to cut out my daily water intake fairly early into the evening but I still wake up.

When to add weight?

I’m doing the Glutes Growth Program and I was wondering if you could explain when I should add weight? Is it when isRPE is lower than the RPE goal?

Lumen

Can you expand on Lumen and tell me if it’s a legit device or not.

Strength versus hypertrophy

Hi guys! I’m curious how you would change programming to aim more for hypertrophy than strength. Higher reps and more sets? More or less time under tension? No change?