/fit/ confessions>be me>start lifting>quickly (few months if that) reach bench 125 5x5, ohp 105 5x5, dl 305 5x1>thought I was doing 1pl8 and 3pl8 bench and dl because I didnt realize it was a lmao35lb bar>keep repping those numbers for 50+ sessions straight without increasing weight>lift off and on for a few years but very rarely increase weight, by the end I am benching 155 for 5x5>life circumstances change, stop lifting for yearsJust started again last month and this time instead of being a faggot I am gonna increase weight frequently and lift consistently. Next year I am gonna hit 1/2/3/4 and in 2 years I am gonna be a sick cunt.
>>77489861I'll do you one better>be fat kid my entire life>have a go at fitness as a "late bloomer" (by scooby's standards) at the old age of 21>quit after 6 months and some progress due to family catastrophes and resulting depression>spend my 20s obese isolated in my room, videogames literally kept me alive (but not much more)>get a job at 30, still obese, still no respect from anyone, lose job eventually>turn 32, decide it's unbearable>go to calisthenics as no money for gym>2 years progress now and going strongI'm 34 and wasted basically all my life so far. I have almost nothing except a working body (thank you God) and limitless potential. However I don't regret anything. I'm past regret, I'm so grateful to be alive. Why are you such a sad cunt, more precisely why do you choose to be such a sad cunt?
>>77489861>i'm look great at 22 but it means nothing because i'm 5'7"better to have known you always could have than to try and realize you never could have
>>77489770I am extremely self conscious about my calves being shit so I train them every single gym session, 3 sets once at the start and again 3 sets at the end. Every time. At least now they just look meh instead of extremely weak.I don't train my core much beyond bodyweight stuff.
>>77490269what happened to their son?
>>77490894he finally bloomed on the last panel
I've been experiencing weird shoulder pains recently, i've been lifting for about 6 months.My usual routine is overhead press, bench press and then bicep pumps with a few abb hangs.Mondays, wednesdays and fridays.The weird part is i don't experience pain during the week or even discomfort for weeks but if i stop and rest the weekend or like a few days the pain starts. It's not the whole shoulder and it only happens when i lift my arms above my head but is there something wrong i could be doing?
>>77491008Rope face pullsInternal/external rotationsPhysical therapy (foam/ball rolling & massage gun)Stretching and mobility drills (thoracic extensions)Dead hangsProper form during movements (retracting scapula)
>>77491015>>77491015Is there a chance i could fuck up my shoulder for life doing these?
>>77491008Try warming up the shoulder before exercising. My right shoulder is fucked so i gave up on Bench press and do flys instead. Less stress and pain on the shoulders.
>heavyweight combat athletes>football and rugby players>crossfittershow the FUCK do these athletes get large, visibly muscular, AND have decent conditioning? the strong+conditioning combo has always eluded me. whenever i feel my cardio getting better i get noticeably weaker in the gym, and when i'm pushing PRs i feel gassed on a fucking jog
>>77490884Sport specific cardio decreases in the mid-end season, unless you're benched in a team sport.In bodybuilding terms it's Volume > power > strength > off szn
>>77490799Pretty face but absolutely revolting body>how the FUCK do these athletes get large, visibly muscular, AND have decent conditioning?Steroids
>>77490799I've seen how you guys "train" at the gymit's cuz ur passes, work out for 2 hours then finish it off with 50 wind sprints, or better yet 100 yard yo yo burpees at 10 yards intervals
>>77490799Imagine how hard you could plap this shebeast
>>77490827Stop being terminally online
Why did the male body peak in the silver age and only go downhill from here?
>>77490328drugs became better and more easily available. with comps rewarding bigger and leaner guys, it makes sense why bodybuilders evolved into leaner and leaner mass monsters as time went on.
>>77490328Estrogen in the water table
>>77490328Steroids and high carb trash diets
>>77490749So you kikes were behind the anti-Indian hate propaganda smear to divert attention away from you. Well done, kike.
>>77490791ding dingdon't forget the microplastics in all your food too!
80 years a sheep > 40 years a lionNever roid
>>77491027I'm trying to make it to 150 so yes I would hope I am healthy at 70. I'll be middle age then
>>77491027What do you imagine healthy 70 year olds look like? They're chillin, traveling (as long as they had their shekels figured out). Sharts have inaccurate views on aging because they only see fat and decrepit boomers
>>77491063>travelingOh boy can’t wait to travel and be seen as the old guy wherever I go. Being old is fucking gay.
>>77491071Nooo you must be old and bitter LIKE ME zzzzzz
>>77491071Guess what lil nigga it's gonna happen either way you can either age gracefully or lay in a bed shitting yourself for 10-20 years before gracelessly expiring. Also at that age you lose your care for giving a fuck you're just chillin looking at cool shit, based on the healthy boomers I know
I started waking up at ~4:30AM to get my workouts inIn bed ~8:30PMIt feels nice since I can deal with the post-exercise exhaustion by being lazy at work but I feel WAY weaker in the morningsCan't lift as much, can't run as long, getting winded quickly, etc. Any tips for that?
>>77490025>lust provoking image>irrelevant time wasting question
>>77490025progress is progress, ime. due to my schedule in college, i had to get to the gym by 6am for a full workout during weekdays, and my lifts were definitely shittier, but that did still translate to better performance during my weekend afternoon sessions.you get used to the exhaustion as your body adapts.
>>77490956>lust provoking imagekek>>77490871What exactly ia it you need to know? You need more of that "fuck your inner bitch fuxk your inner feelings lets fucking go" -energySleep a good 7.5-8h before, wake up at the end/beginning of a REM cycle, drink a shitty vassle shake with 40-50g of simple carbs and fucking go. Easy as
>>77491002don't you feel weaker on your lifts? Also what's the point of waking THAT early?
>>77491028Yes I do, same as if I were to do some fast carbs n hit the gym on only a single 'meal'Should be obvious brother.I hate eating on a surplus so getting a good LCHPnF meal as my last is no problem, bacon and eggs along with some quark. Stay low on the carbs so they don't interfere with your sleep and wake up satiated enough to where that one liquid meal isn't everything you've got.Make sure to wake up at the start/end of a fucking REM cycle, otherwise you Will be fatigued. Do some Beta-alanike (non stimulant) alongside citrulline malate & creatine PWO and you'll be golden. Drink 400ml of water with that to dilute the creatine, chugging water will wake you the fuck up
Is this fixable?
>>77489917easy. a bit more calories and basic excercise.
>>77489917would
>>77490287leanness refers to bodyfat %. trying to describe it as when both relative strength and endurance are peaked makes no sense, especially considering that that's impossible, because strength and endurance are limited by overall mass in opposite ways
>>77489917I would rape this tranime fag in the ass.
>>77489917You look fat
Here me out about drops sets:>The heaviest I can lift for 3-4 reps to push the muscles and get adjusted to heaviest weight>The "normal" set of weight to fully overload my muscles>the lower set to squeeze the last bit of effort from my muscles as I canI just drop it by 5lbs each set and I'm less likely to hurt myself (unless I fuck up the first set somehow). What do you think?
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>>77490267What if I only do 7 reps?
>>77491062>>77491059Don't do it
>>774902585lbs per dumbbell? If your top set is not intense enough that you need to lower the weight you lose gains. You eventually get down to a weight so low that you can just rest and do a few reps all day basically and is how you know you are at a low to you weight.
>70 y.o and 84 y.oMen are getting younger
No fakeries, no bullshit, just simple hard work, good diet, and persistence. No wonder /fit/ hates them
47 here. Zoomies can't get enough.
>>77490625born in 70 and born in 84
I’m not gay but Mike O’Hearn is an exception to this rule
I saw a picture of O'Hearn at 14 and I think he may actually be natty
How are you holding up, taxpayer funded healthcare bros? I've been doing this routine given to me by my doctor daily but I don't see any results, what gives?
>>77488440>>77488470Yo, I have phimosis and stretched my shit to the point of being able to retract easily while lubed up (whether that's water, spit, virgin coconut oil, etc.).It takes fucking forever and you need to be consistent and also make sure that you get your fingers in deep enough to stretch the tight ring. My phimotic ring was deep down in my foreskin and I didn't realize that for awhile, so I was just basically stretching the tip which didn't do shit.My routine is 10 reps of 40 second stretch & hold with a 15 second break every morning right after I wake up and then again right before bed.It took me something like 4 months of that just to be able to retract flaccid in the shower.I'm still doing my routine because I want to be able to comfortable retract dry, because sometimes when I pull it back wet with water, it'll partially dry out and the foreskin will stick down low on my glans and it feels like ripping off a band-aide when I pull it forward to its normal resting place.
>>77489099>stretched my shitscatmaxxing
>>77488440Crazy.The solution is getting hard-ons forever and learning how to jerk off your dick.I didn't do that at first when I was a young teen. A older woman( the mother of guy not really my freind but in circles) help me take my v card.She was short and sexy. Drank alot. Cheated on her husband every drunk weekend. The passionate fucking was unbelievable to my 16 yo mind, she was 30something and unbelievably tight and hot. We did it outside on the side of a hill in the moonlight during a dance party, drinking and she was amazing. After that I had another party woman in her 20s and we stayed in her room fucking for 12 hours off and on. My foreskin was sore. She was so tight I actually had small tears in skin bc of the deep tight puss.But I kept going.I imagine it might be like a young girl getting her hymen ripped open by my cock, because they always cry but get into it later.
>>77488701You do it multiple times a day. It's like a gauge earring. Tension applied to tissue induces mitosis; the growth of new cells. All cells, mind you, so new nerves, new blood vessels, new hair follicles, etc. Any tissue in your body you can apply constant tension to you can grow more of.
>>77488440(((Burgerstani))) here, Blackcurrants are quite endemic to Europoorstan and I import a whole hell of a lot of extracts of those, because among other reasons, they happen to contain large amounts of Anthocyanins which may treat/prevent the same cancer not following the OP pic can cause.>t. does RNP on PI3K/Akt to JAK/STAT3 and from Caspases 1-3 through NLRP3.
Surgery in 2 weeks, what should I knowDoc recommended this over LASIK because I box. I have myopia, astigmatism, and slightly lazy right eye. -3.75 prescription on my left and -4 on my right. Always worn glasses, never used contacts. Have fought whole career blind.
>>77481367does this shit work on age related worse eyesight? never needed glasses in my youth but now I'm 44 and my arms star to be too short to read small letters
I prefer to not see so I don't have to witness the ugliness of the world.
>>77491014damn
>>77481367Had LASIK about 10 years ago. I followed doctors orders very strictly, used googles every time I slept and showered for a month. There was no pain after the first sleep. Have not had any issues with the flap. For the first few months I did get the rainbow effect from bright lights at night but it eventually faded away. Eyes are extremely dry after sleeping. Eventually I switched from drugstore eyedrops to one of those little eye-misting machines on amazon and have had no issues. It's only immediately after waking up, I don't feel dry throughout the day, but if a bug gets in your eye or something you may need to wash it out with water instead of tears automatically dealing with it. Vision in my left eye has somehow lapsed a bit compared to my right eye but it is only noticeable if I'm trying to read with one eye. Overall a massive upgrade from being practically blind.
If you box it’s still going to fuk up your eyesReally there is no eye surgery that could help your situation if you want to boxI had LASIK in February and zero regrets but I’m not an idiot who willingly gets punched in the head
Sorry chuds, it is literally heckin impossible.
3pl is relatively easy if you’re 200lbs or more. See many guys benching that at my Gold’s. After that it gets progressively harder.Im benching 3.5pl for 2 reps now and will likely never achieve 4pl natty because im already 37y old
>>77482731Who gives a fuck
>>77489744you can do it, become your gyms big bench boomer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DlmbZm-DsOI
>>77490976*Bumps it off his chest*Terrible form snap city USA reaper coming
>>77491025post your bench
What advice would you give to yourself if you could talk to the old you before your fitness journey?
>>77490253i think if you register and give it your email it still makes the wait time go away, you jsut have to enter captchabut after a few posts it stop requiring captcha
>>77487321Don't fall for the fucking high carb meme or the cutting bulking meme while natty. It just makes you fat. Keto helps you lose fat and build muscle at the same time and you can eat until full.
>>77487321i started lifting out of sheer boredom during a depressive streak my sophomore year of college. had nothing else going on in the evenings so i would lift weights as a "productive" form of self-harm, i guess.edginess aside, i'm lucky i didn't fuck myself up, but i can't see myself getting into the habit of lifting regularly without that low point.four years later, lifting is just about the one thing i've done and enjoyed consistently for this long. it's taught me a lot about commitment and treating myself with respect. i started rock climbing about a year ago and found that i was able to listen to my body and its limits, and pace myself in a way that i wouldn't have known before. being able to help those of my friends who are newer to the gym has been a consistent boost to my confidence.i still struggle a bit, but as far as coping mechanisms go, having something shitty happen and being able to fall back on "at least i'm jacked now" is pretty healthy, i think. better than antidepressants.to answer your question, truthfully, i don't know if there's anything useful i could have told pre-lifting me. maybe that staying up late is a recipe for self-loathing.but, if i could, i would be encouraging and help celebrate those milestones of personal development. personal growth closely parallels physical growth in that the day-to-day changes are minute, but one day you look back at yourself and realize how differently you move through the world. i'm no longer as resentful as i once was. i leave the house excited for the day's adventure. i don't freak out if someone doesn't respond to my texts.there's no way to convey these lessons without going through and doing the hard work yourself imo. you can explain it, sure, but there's that and there's living it, and i'm proud of the person i've become.idc if this post sounds gay it's how i feel lol
>>77488766I blame it on the avatarfag mod. This piece of shit bans for anything that hurts his feelings.>I fully expect to be b& in an hour or 2 from this post lol, lmao even
>>77487321I'd tell my teenage self to run on the grass next to the road, and not on the road. Knee surgery at 21 isn't fun.
2~ second Fat Gripz Extreme one arm dead hangExtremely difficultTo compare, my best one arm dead hang with regular bar thickness is 63 secondshttps://www.youtube.com/shorts/DBp0DKy52IMBodyweight 83 kg
>>77489880>>77489402seconding the jorts question
>>77486524i can only do fat grip because i have carpal tunnel and close grip hurts my hand if i use too much weight :(
>>77489880Jorts are popular with zoomers nowadays
>>77486524Are pull ups/chin ups a good way to build up forearm strength? I really feel the the muscles getting tired afterwards, but it's hard to push up the reps with these exercises. Any good alternatives?
>>77490944Farmer walks son, farmer walks.Your grip should be the first thing to fail on those, but the rest of your body really gets worked too.I recommend going to failure minus 1 second without straps for the first set, then doing the additionnal sets with straps, same distance.t. Snatch test doer
>Every one of 212 plant-based meat alternatives and drinks tested in the UK contained at least one naturally occurring fungal toxin, though concentrations remained below recommended EU guideline levels. Researchers say the bigger question is whether regularly eating large amounts of these foods could lead to potentially concerning cumulative exposure over time.https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/08/260828005216.htm#google_vignette
>>77490909>gaslighting
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