u/Important-Wealth8844

I have been running and lifting weights in a small group class for years. I have very strong legs and core but have always had very weak arms- I've never been able to do a real (or even a genuine modified) pushup and my bench press weight is extremely low. I've been trying for years to slowly work my way into improving both of these and have made almost 0 progress. I've always liked the look of strong arms and really want to be physically strong, but for some reason this is the one thing I've never been able to significantly improve.

Any exercise recommendations for targeting specifically the muscles that will help me bench heavier and actually get to pushups?

I don't know if I'm looking for advice or just commiseration.

Has anyone else noticed a huge uptick in clients and their families bombarding you with ideas that are clearly (sometimes as clear as copy and paste with the prompt included) ChatGPT or other AI? Not only are clients contacting me much more frequently with ideas that they think are going to blow their case wide open, but it's messing with my client relationships. They get frustrated, understandably, because the robots get them excited about something and I'm always shooting it down. Never in my career have I had my lawyering and my competency questioned as much by clients or their families as I have over the past few months, and all over things which are black and white, obviously legally incorrect. Nope, can't get your case dismissed before trial for innocence if the prosecutor doesn't want to drop it. Nope, it doesn't matter if you weren't read your Miranda rights if you affirmatively told officers at a legal traffic stop, before you were arrested (before they said a word to you, for that matter) that you were a felon in possession. Nope, not going to file that motion based on hallucinated case law that appears to contain emojis.

A lot of this is very obviously being fed to my in-clients by their families. I am not the kind of PD who won't communicate with families, especially if they are very important to my clients, and I obviously prioritize client contact over family communication. But when families send all of this stuff to their loved one, who sends it to me and I have to shoot it down, I not only don't have the option of ignoring it but their families get very annoyed and start telling their loved one that they are being represented by a bad lawyer.

Clients have always heard things from jailhouse lawyers or doing legal research and come to me to discuss, but once we've talked through the issue, nearly all of them understood why it wasn't a viable strategy. But because everything the robot says is apparently fact, they're now leaving thinking that I'm trying to screw them over. I hate that this is making my client relationships worse. I hate that it's giving clients and their families false hope. I hate that ChatGPT isn't right and I can't wave my magic wand to get all my clients out. Ugh.