We choose to lift, not because it is easy, but because it is fun :^)>anyone can start lifting, you don't need any prior sports experience>you can escape skinnyfat mode in less than six months>it takes less than a year for people to notice you lift>programming as a beginner is piss easy, everything works>diet is just as easy, just eat some protein and avoid fast food, candy and soda>you don't need a gym subscription to achieve a decent physique, you can get a good workout even with a pair of dumbbells from home>mires become so common they don't even register anymore>people notice you lift even under winter clothes>1/2/3/4 makes you stronger than mostly anyone you'll come across in your daily life>once you see results you won't even think about skipping the gym>consistency is the key to a good physique, even if you drag yourself to the gym you'll appreciate every single workout in retrospect>a good physique has a halo effect on anything you doComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>7698959627 years old and still virgin. I lift for me and my mom
1 year sober, was 50+ lbs too fat, started lifting for the first time since 201*, counted calories half the year, lost a bunch of fat, put on muscle because someone said I couldn't. PR thread looks like cancer so I'll put this here, made in the last year375x7 squat (I don't know 1rm, haven't even tried 385 yet). previously a few years back it was lowbar 335ish for 1. I did not progress well with low reps back then. Insane high rep squats did work (but no one believes I'm natty when I tell them numbers)295x5 pretty decent rows from floor. Higher weights are so sloppy I don't feel like they count, even if rippletits might ok themNot an official number, but found a new (very old) way to do shrugs and have been doing as many as possible at my squat weights. 10 or 13 or so at 375. Put a block under my heels because they were turning into calf exercises.OHP dunno my records are fucked. Goal is bodyweight, I'm nowhere close yet.1 hand barbell snatch 120 x 1. Goal is a pl8 for the hell of it, not sure after that.40 yo boomer, sub 6', 228.5Had all the 30 yo moms and hags smiling big at me the other day, they couldn't see me under my giant coat but feeling good about yourself shows on your face I guess. Good luck fellow old farts and fellow white men.
>>76989558this year I'm losing all the fat, eating once a day and going on bike rides. Believe it!
>>76997068Alright fuck it
I know hope is real because I hopeI know love is real because I loveI know kindness is real because I'm kind
Please post>your age>your height>your bodyweight>your bench>do you consider yourself to have made it yet?>bodycount>how long have you been on /fit/
>>76998947266’4220 lbs255x1you have to make it everyday there is no lifetime threshold2020
>>76998947185'6135 lbs140 lbsNo.02 years on and off.
>>76998947236'1175 lb230 lbRelative to normies, I've physically made it. 0 as I have a speaking disability.here since the day gyno nigga was around, pepperoni nips anon, and the real pear was around
>>76998947195'11167lb160lbnonosome time
>>76998947>your age24>your height177cm>your bodyweight75kg>your bench65kgX10 on the chest press machine>do you consider yourself to have made it yet?no>bodycount2 (whores)>how long have you been on /fit/6 years on and off, regularly since 3 months after starting to go to the gym again
>no one in /fit/ post their PRs, even /plg/ is like 0.5% pr videosWhy is that ?
>>76998516oldfag here, can confirm. We had fatties and guys trying not to be fat earnestly doing sharting strength or exercises from scooby and we'd all cheer them on.Nowadays you'd have a zoomer faggot on sarms or questionable bathtub chems calling you a faggot and telling you to take tren.I still post my transformation in /fast/ or /fat/ to help out the new guys but poasting physique isn't what it used to be (and gay men will save it and post it to /hm/)
>>76999090>Is autism that big of a disability?Yes. All you have to do is the one thing you cannot — be normal.
>>76997997trVke>>76999090That's a good sign, it means they are intimidated by your looks.You have to be the one that pushes the issue and they will fall into your lap.
>>76999136i think /hm/ is more conducive to fitness at this pointI got better advice on a gay discord server than hereit was bad in 2021 and its way worse now
>>76998569>ch/a/ds of rule all boardsAs it should be.
“This meal has no flavor”The fuck it doesn’t. The chicken has salt and poultry seasoning. Avocados are amazing with a bit of salt. What more do you need?“Put some hot sauce on it”I doused it in franks after I took this pic“Skip the rice”No“This is so boring”That’s why you’re fat
>>76993069>“This is so boring”>That’s why you’re fatit could be dramatically improved if you weren't a cooklet and tastelet while also being lower in calories. The chicken looks like shit and the avocado adds nothing to this dish.
Dios mio
>>76993069Hot take but I like the taste of unflavored basic white rice.
>>76999229I got Chinese takeout once and the white rice was the best I've ever had. I know they mix jasmine rice in but that can't be all they did.
>>76999236good rice doesn't need any flavoring besides preparation. They probably used an actually good rice machine which makes it good and fluffy
I can't take them seriously. They all look like shit. Obese or twinks. Then they think they are a thread when their body's scream "I LACK DISCIPLINE". I also know an MMA guy. He brags about spending hrs per day in there. I beat him in wrestling lol. Dude looks like shit too because he eats like shit. It literally feels like I'd squeeze grease from him applying pressure. It disgusts me ngl. Like when you put pressure on pizza to get some of the grease out. It's nasty.. anyways if you do MMA but look like shit, you're not a threat to me, niga. I bet you guys don't even do weighted punches. The ONLY way I would lose to any of you is if the weight difference is extreme (say 50lb+. Then you're a threat. 30lb is also significant). Though mostly if it's muscle based and not just lard. The other advantage is if you get behind me and put me in a chokehold. Not saying it can't be done, but if that's your only wincon, you suck
>>76996126Cope
>>76994136black athletes are pathetic
>>76994158lmfao>>76997186I thought they were the superior race! the best athletes! the biggest pornstars! is this true?
>>76997317You're kind of both just saying shit. Nobody ever beat Jones, that's far from 'pathetic'
>>76996398PrideFC has a lot of fixed bullshit, but this wasn't one of them. Randleman VS CroCop 2 was fixed, but Randleman VS Fedor wasn't.
How does one salvage this
>>76996810How is he wrong? The amount of unfit tards who think their lives are so over is no different from women playing victim.
>>76998934thanks, it gives me some hope, I've been lifting since the age of 15 and I was decently looking by the age of 22 at 185lbs (at 5"10), then life happened and I gained 60lbs in the span of 6 months... I'm down to ~220 now and I hope it's reversible
>lift>eat 1500-2000 calories>eat beef and eggspretty simple in fact it's a lot easier than bulking or maintaining
>>76999175best bet is probably to do hypertrophy work on abs, back, and chest to get enough mass all around the torso to fill out the loose skin. Cut carefully and not too quickly (one pound weight loss per week is often cited as a reliable pace) so that you can preserve enough muscle mass to keep the skin filled out.
>>76996685>>76996713movie theater diet claims another one of us
>tfw go to the gym at 3am to be alone but some other dumbass no life nigga is there
that's how i feel about my local park. a bunch of lazy people casually walking on the track messing with the flow. if you aren't going to do some serious cardio go walk up and down your street
>>76998590for me it's the family of jeets that have like 6 kids and 3 grandparents all walking side by side so they block the entire track. Some of the kids like zoom off on their electric scooters or training wheel bikes and wobble left to right without a moment's notice or slam on their brakes and take a sharp u-turnjust like real jeet drivers
>>76998023Hey if it's only me and him in the gym I don't mind. I might need a spot. Maybe we'll even take a shower together after the workout is done. Late night warm showers with a gymbro are the best.
>>76998446It took me until the pushups flying down the street to realize he's in on the joke. Pretty awesome.
>>76998023>no life nigga ino life niggers
Why is fairlife milk considered bad? Seems like a nice way to get more protein and vitamins while getting less sugar.
>>76998269i've never heard anyone complain about it other than the price. i've tried it once and didn't care for the taste. but i'm not a regular milk drinker in the first place
>>76998985>i've tried it once and didn't care for the taste. but i'm not a regular milk drinker in the first placeEven if you were the removal/conversion of the lactose makes it taste a bit weird.
>>76998700>>76998719>>76998937Milk contains iodine, and he was asking why you think that is.
>>76999171Sounds like a great question for google, and still is retarded to ask.
>>76998269>Just drink the goyslop you dumb lactose intolerant nigger-loving goyNo
is that bit about "you cant build muscle and lose fat at the same time" in the wiki real? because that would suck REALLY hard.
>>76995562Yeah which is why most old school power building programs recommend fat beginners to cut weight through cleaning up their diets, while skellies are prescribed to eat more.As a beginner you can build muscle and lose fat at the same time. If you're fat as fuck you can probably do the same for a while. As an intermediate and beyond at 12-18% bf, you are realistically not going to be able to or it's going to be extremely slow.As a beginner, stop getting lost in the details, lift the weights on any proven program/methodology of your choice and eat clean and your body will change.
>>76993089No. Retards who say that don't understand what body fat is for.
>>76993089cutting/recomp/bulking is retard reddit-tier shiteat at maintenance while follow a bodybuilding program and youll lose weight while building muscle
>>76997251cutting and bulking were only really ever implemented because of roiding and cycling chems, it's fucking stupid that it got so prevalent that normies are going to the gym and doing these and building up tiny amounts of muscle just to completely destroy and lose it because they're running an 8 week prep-like cut they saw on tiktok and aren't using any bathtub chems to help keep the muscle mass. And then eventually they give up after 2-3 years and go on roids anyway.John heart (one of Mentzer's own coaches/friends) and his black friend on youtube say for natties it's literally best to stay around 16% bf year round, eat at maintenance or slightly more and then get walking/cardio/sports in as needed to keep the fat from climbing.
>>76993089No.>>76993091There's no such thing as a "anabolicstate".You will haemorrhage muscle by stopping all form of exercise even if you eat a 2000 caloric surplus.>>76993101If you can't build muscle while losing bodyfat there's something seriously wrong.>>76993117Not true.>>76993132Bulking in itself does not build any muscle.>>76993137Nope.>>76997251>>76998774Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
I realized this the first time I lost weight when I was 21 or so. Now I'm losing weight again at 38 and I'm learning the lesson all over again. Once you realize that every piece of commercial real estate in your neighborhood is trying to sell you poison, you just see everything differently. The poison of fast food, the poison of alcohol, the poison of religion are everywhere you look. You could go see a movie, but the movies are brainrot. You can't drink your favorite hot drink all day because hot drinks need cream to be added to them to taste good and that's too many calories, so you can only have one hot drink a day. Do you guys just drink water, read books, fuck your girlfriends and go to nature preserves for fun?
Life isn't just calories, drink cream. Laugh at the brainrot with your fellow chuds.>Do you guys just drink water, read books, fuck your girlfriends and go to nature preserves for fun?Yes I also hunt and garden and my gf is imaginary because this shit is anathema to the female of the species.
>>76998605They also prized being fat and especially pearshaped in the upper classes for some reason.Peasanting is a lot of work in some seasons but they were drinking bathtub beer by the gallon
>>76998298I thought this was going to be about how superficial human beings are and how people's esteem of you skyrockets when you go from obese to fit.
i don't drink alcohol i like eating food more than drinking
>>76999068That makes sense though. If you're a fat lazy slob, it means you're undisciplined. If you're fit, it means you're disciplined. It says a lot about your character. I trust people who are fit will be able to do what they say, and do it well. I don't trust fat people because they give into their impulses and are lazy.
Any face bone structure experts here? Is this a man or a woman?
Born with a vagina
>>76998462Are you sure?
With face like his, I could become someone important
>>76998424Looks like Tarja Halonen.
>>76998426klok
Just tell me how to look like this. I'm begging you
>>76997888eh his bones look kind of thinIt's a weird an uncanny physique either way
>>76997852step one (and this is crucial)never be overweigh in your entire life step twoexercise upper body step threecut calories until you're lean
>>76997852First of all you need TRVE EVROPEAN genetics. Then you need to be at 8% body fat, then you build shoulders, arms, abs.
>>76998997>never be overweigh in your entire lifeHalf true. It's better to never get overweight because it's big damage but it's never too late to improve your life if you lose weight after becoming overweight. Even if you will never reach your genetic potential. Remember: the best time to plant a tree was 10 years ago. The second best time is now.
>>76998629you put on 30 pounds in 2 weeks?
GUYS. Say if hypothetically I look like the guy in the left image. How long would it take me to get the physique of the dude in the right image assuming I'm training hard and consistently, eating and sleeping well and taking creatine every day? Does it also make any difference that I'm not new to the gym and have taken a few months off due to illness? Also is Upper/Lower a good split or should I do Push/Pull/Legs? Which is more effective and smarter?
>>76995765What makes you say 6 months? That would be cool if true but seems too quick
>>76995684Naturally, a new incarnation, because it's absolutely impossible for a man who has the genetics of left ever look like right without gear.In fact, right it's impossible for most of the male population without gear, and even though some gifted guys CAN look like that naturally, the majority of guys with that body in real life are roiding.With gear I don't know, 6 months like one anon said here sound way too short, but 1-2 years with the right amount of gear + diet/rest/gym should do.
>>76995684Guy on the right is probably like 5' 10" around 170ish pounds with a decently low body fat and also a nice top down light. Its very achievable. You cant get his face likely but you could get a haircut and work out your jaw a few times a week.Why does it matter how long it takes? If someone said 100 weeks instead of 10 weeks would you just give up?
>>76998133>In fact, right it's impossible for most of the male population without gear, and even though some gifted guys CAN look like that naturally, the majority of guys with that body in real life are roiding.If that kind of physique isn't possible natty then why even bother?
>>76998915Top 10% genes aside, because there's a huge room for improvement if you are like left. Picrel for example, realistic natty limits for all but the bottom 10% genelets, and miles better than OP's left.
What would your /fit/ related advice to your 16 year old self be?Mine would be to take up a sport, probably something track and field related, and only treat lifting as an accessory to this. Keep moving, running, jumping, etc, and not just get caught up into this 1RM memery as I've been for so long.
>>76998881Dark Anon..
>>76998403Intensity is everything. Do everything you do with intensity.
>>76999146This. I don’t know anyone who doesn’t do enough volume. But about 90 percent of the people who go to the gym don’t go anywhere near hard enough. For some reason they think the solution is to do even more volumeI know Mentzer/Yates approach gets memed but if people intensified and simplified they’d see better results than trying to do sixty different exercises for one billion reps each per week
>>76998403In high school I was retarded and wasted all my noobie gain potential by not eating properly. I was going to the gym after school almost every day but my diet consisted of:>no breakfast>strwaberry milk for lunch>banana at 3 pm>peanut butter and jam sandwich post-workout>rice and tuna for dinnerDid it for like 6 months and wondered why I didn't get jacked
Quit messing around at low bodyweights. Commit to a bulk to 200+ and fill out your frame.
Tired of being an anxious pussy bitch and I don't want to take anxiety medication. Will l-theanine help at all? I want to take with my coffee.
>>76992673I have this exact same verge of crying feeling for 2 years now. Some days it's worse than others, but it's strongly socially related. I do go on long walks regularly so idk if just staring out of a window is gonna work but I'll try. Probably will start lexapro next month cus I'm tired of this social anxious shit
>>76996529I read that you can build up a tolerance fairly quick
>>76991722> Will l-theanine help at allfor like 5 minutesi assume most of your anxiety is about other people, so i suggest running in populated areas. people will either be jealous or admire you or find you annoying, either way you are using the city as your personal gym, which is based. you feel like you own earth.
>>76997961I live in a rural area but extremely based advice
L-theanine is nice to counteract caffeine a little, but the only thing that really helped me chill the fuck out was KSM-66.
