Can I get good workouts in with only dumbbells?I don't have space for a barbell
I just wanted to create a thread about this. What can I do if I don't have a bench? So far the only exercise that I can do well are the overhead tricep extensions.
I've been home gyming with only dumbbells for a few months. I use an adjustable pair that goes up to 85lbs and it mostly works for my needs. You'll need a pull up/dip bar and an adjustable bench. I do 1 leg rdl for deadlifts and for everything else the weight is enough for my needs. I do plan on adding a dedicated trap bar for deadlifts and squats down the line and probably sometime next year I will need a heavier set but it does the job for now.
>>76946255you can use piss jugs if you wantweight is weight
>>76946255progressive overload is king, so as long as you can overload with your dumbbells and add a little weight or add reps as time goes by (doesnt have to go up every week, but you should push to see if you have extra reps in the tank and once you hit around 12-15 reps regularly on an exercise move the weight up). you might run into trouble eventually with some muscle groups if your dumbbells arent heavy enough. repping it 30 times if you have no choice is still good exercise but not as good for building mass like the lower rep ranges
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Talk me into staying in the gym>Pushing 21>5'9>1.5/2/4/4.5 for 5 reps>Hideous incel>$200 in bank >$70 left if i pay my yearly fee that will barely suffice to buy myself proper food over a short period of time>Live with parents, study in shithole university>Turbo incel>Women walk away from my direction out of disgust >Been lifting for one yearWhy should i continue for another year ? It's all i ever do in life. I dont even go outside anymore really besides gymcelling
>If the average gynoid avoids you then you have life on easy mode.this seems like cope
>>76947810Lol this if anything this discourages me even more. I go outside and see what kind of guys are with women, i know my worth already.
give up, less competition for me
i noticed you didnt post your weight, with your lifts and height you sound like a fat powershitter. girls dont care if you can lift 1/2/3/4. since you got the strength part down you should cut till you got a six pack, you definitely have the muscle, shed the weight.as for the other things dont worry about it, you cant fix your ugly face but you can fix everything else. try to find a hobby you genuinely enjoy (not a nerdy faggot one) and then meet a girl there, other posters are right you have no social skills but like lifting doing it more will get you better at it. you cant expect to attract girls if you dont know how to talk to them and if you continue the self defeatist attitude youll stay an incel. you are what you think.this doesnt mean youre going to pull a 10/10 and thats fine you should just be honest with yourself. why would a 10/10 want to be with a 5/10 if they can also be with a 10/10? would you date a fugly girl if you were a 10/10? then why would you expect a woman to do the same?
>>76948129This is 100% it. Find a hobby get a haircut get some stylish clothes learn some pickup lines and jokes you'll get college girls in no time i believe in you anon
dopamine addiction/dopamine chasing is the biggest cope in this communityGuess what, you release dopamine when shitting, have you ever heard of ONE person that was addicted to shitting themselves??
>>76947627it sounds like you were expecting the opposite???
>>76947632Ok
Shitting is boring
>>76947283>have you ever heard of ONE person that was addicted to shitting themselves??yeah. faggots.
>>76947545Eat more fibre bro.
>Quad DOMS
>Deltoid doms
>Calves doms
>erection doms
>everybody posting their funny jokes and nobody reacting to anyone else's joke.. doms
>>76942289>chest DOMSoh yeah, them tiddies hurt when i juggle them
How long does it take you to roll out of bed and get moving?
0I get a rush of OCD thoughts when I wake up so idling in bed isn't very comfy.
>>76944989Like 3 seconds or 4 seconds to remember how old I am, if anything hurts, if I have obligations today, ect. I used to get out of bed like a bat out of hell but I kept reinjuring things like a sprained wrists or ankle.I think it's mostly my parasympathetic nervous system always having me in high gear.
>>76948037No the light has gone out of my life. I’ll be fine I’m sure, but I’m not doing much more than holding it together for the moment.
>>76948180Same>>76948037Also yes
On workdays, probably about a half hour. I keep hitting snooze, I'll even get up to turn off my alarm clock across the room and climb back into bed half asleep.Weekends, I bedrot for an hour or two then doomscroll until about 3pm when I start getting ready to gymcel.I used to be so much more fun
I never do any warm-ups beyond a set with the empty bar. Am I killing my gains by not properly warming up?
Start with the empty bar and add weight based on a percentage of your working weight. If you were to bench 2pl8, it'd be something like1x10 @ 20kg1x5 @ 55kg1x3-5 @ 75kg1x1-3 @ 85kg5000x5000 @ 100kg of whatever slop programme you doI think this works because if you have a day where you feel like shit, you can take your warmups all the way up to a 95% single of your working weight as a feeler. You can drop the lower % warmup sets too, if you're already pumped. I always start with the bar though, I got indoctrinated via SS and SL.
>>76947935I'm not an electrician so I guess I'm good?
>>76947519If you are a sedentary person you could probably would had lazy glute syndrome, so doing some warm-ups to correctly activate the glute is a good idea. Those warm ups are kinda faggy but if you are squatting better be safe than sorry.
>>76948086Yes. Sparkies are girly fags
every tradie gangster until its time to pull the power cable through site
GLP-1? can i pay someone to lock me in a room and only allow me to eat a certain amount of calories a day? if i have a calorie deficit of even 500 i'm basically ravenous and thinking about food for the last 4-5 hours of the day and have to take sleeping pills to fall asleep at all. i'm not even obese just always been slightly overweight and like 20% body fat my whole life
>>76946921You are fat or a twig. Definetly not someone with an impressive physique.
>>76946938ok keep telling yourself that bag of milk.
>>76946945>keep telling yourself that someone who half asses training for weeks and months at a time doesnt look like shitDont need to remind myself of an obvious fact. Quit taking the advice if roided youtubers.
>>76946969Bag of milk.
>>76945735lyel mcdonalds rapid fat loss diet good.will power iffy but eating 200g protein in a single meal is almost revolting and keeps me full along with coffee and tea tho i dont strictly adhere to it having fruit instead of veggies but it do be like that.
What bf% is this? How do you achieve this mode?
> necro bumping
>>76944464Looking at his complete lack of delts and triceps despite a very good chest I'd say genetics play a big role in his case.
>>76944464>How do you achieve this mode?be gay
>>76945883
>>76944464Completely unachievable for most people because most people don’t have insertions as good as these. You could have the same lean mass/bf% and not look nearly as good depending on your frame.
How long should you rest between REPS? Not sets, but REPS. Just go as fast as possible or get a rep, take a few seconds to brace hard and engage, hit the rep, repeat?
certified hood classichttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7udQDzPMpoY
>>76947984cuter than any white woman
>>76945501just one or two mississippis
>>76945501About 1/2 a second. The eccentric should be controlled and about 2 or 3 seconds the concentric will take longer amounts of time as the set progresses. At both end of the rep you're only stopping long enough to ensure you're not over extending or using momentum.
>>76945818Like 90% of /fit/
Seeing shit like this is demoralizing as fuck as someone who started to finally get serious in the gym
>>76945268Nice Peter La Anguila
>>76946779I went to a 60% black school one year and took the "advanced" PE class (actually based in hindsight)We did so many fucking burpees, that was how I found out about DOMS
>>76945418I agree, but its funny you say that because I have ignored legs for a long time. I had hurt my back (not from lifting) and that caused me to stop squats for a while, which turned into not doing them for 2ish years. I've only got a barbell, so that was my primary lift for them. I tried doing some less intensive exercises during that time (lunges, goblet squats, band squats, etc) to keep them from completely dying, but those were never exercises I pushed past general conditioning. I think they're just left over from when I would bike a lot before I started lifting.>>76945795Magnesium is one of the few supplements I take, so I'd say this could be a solid solution.
>>76946704I somehow doubt he mogs me on any front other than BF%
>>76940236doing 20kg db bench presses for 4 years and never pushing beyond your limits is not "lifting"
This can't be healthy
>>76946993>Consensus of every single person for tens of thousands of years is "bro science">Some animal schizo shit is the truth (((they))) are hiding
>>76936955All of that shit to compete with some retarded black athlete who was 6'5 and having pussy tossed at him by hood rats and trashy white girls. Imagine ruining your nervous system so you can compete with a black man who plays tard ball. Clavicular lacks testicular fortitude
>>76936701This face looks more like me than clav, he doesn't even seem narcissistic in the clips you can find online
>>76936111>Dutasteride 2,5 mgJesus, more than 0,5 is retarded.
are there actually people on this board who don't think that op pic is just a satire meme? being totally genuine heredoesn't take a fucking phd to see that many of those substances have a contradictory causal effect to the text, nevermind the completely retarded timestamps
I realized earlier that I haven't masturbated in weeks (let alone had sex). Normally I would get horny after a week at the latest but this time it wasn't even noticable. Following that, I did try to masturbate but couldn't get an erection. What is going on?I lift three times a week, I do cardio almost every other day, I eat enough protein from red meats and eggs and stuff. I don't smoke and I drink less than I used to do. Should I see a doctor?Pic unrelated, but I hope it keeps the thread alive
>>76947764Based - a lot of what people attribute to age is actually just the long-term effects of their unhealthy lifestyles.
>>76945061>I hope it keeps the thread aliveI havent really been jerking off to porn this past few months, I thought this was the way but tried having sex last night and dick wouldn't work. So there I was, laying naked next to a girl and all I was thinking about was how I hoped this thread was still up in the morning so I could revisit it and post my story. Couldnt get hard enough to have sex so just ended up jerking my half flacid cock to completion while she kissed me and licked my ear. I came buckets though, so theres no issue there, Just couldnt stay hard long enough to get the job done
>>76947874That happens sometimes man. I had the same issue once. If you have normal morning wood I wouldn't worry about it too much. It only becomes a problem if you let it go to your head
>>76947874I cannot believe woodlets like you are allowed to have sex AND I'M NOTFUCK YOU FUCK SHIT FAGGOT ARHFGGGGGHGHWGEGEH
>>76947874>all I was thinking about was how I hoped this thread was still up in the morning so I could revisit it and post my story.Kek, good for you though bro, that shit would get me in my head, when I have issues I can usually get hard enough still to fuck my wife and make her cum then I just fake it, fucking wild that works, she's even like 'not much is coming out of me' oh my b baby it was just a long day and I had less to give, but we fuck daily and I think at 36 occasionally having difficulty coming after day 4ish isn't a big deal, I hope
Let's say that I'm gonna work 8-12 hour days in the forest 5-6 days a week. How should I structure my weightlifting sessions? I was thinking 3 sessions a week, a PPL routine. What do you think?
>>76947285You're welcome brother. That work will make you a man, and be immeasurably rewarding. Take care of yourself and you will be in better shape than any dork in a gym. 46 years old and I still move like a cat, get fresh air and natural exercise everyday.Wish you the best on your journey...!
Imagine getting a stupid job like working in nature and not getting the coolest most important job in the world, being a software engineer.
>>76947338Thanks bro. You too!
>>76946317>>76947264 Listen to this dude op. Ive been working physical labor like this for the last 7 years. Do not try to lift while doing this work, the work is enough of a work out. You need to stay limber to protect your body, all lifting will do is burn your muscles out way faster. Sleep, nutrition and stretching is your focus now. God speed bro working outside is where its at.
>>76947402I've gotta disagree. I've been a forester for 6 years now, and I lift daily. It is correct that you'll burn a shitload of calories and build up strength at the job, but it won't out weigh a desk jockey who does solid lifting for 1.5/2 hours a day. I do agree with the stretching and yoga angle though. All my older coworkers and retirees in the field bitch and moan about joint pain and low mobility. No matter the weight of the log, you always gotta use proper form. Cheers.
i never trained my neck before but this made me realize having a neck much wider than your jaw is so important.i've got weights to work with up to 200lb if that helps.a signifant difference has to happen in less than a month.
>>76947489i want to smell a female anal
>>76947493Based
Went to the gym today, I was the ONLY person doing overhead calf raises.
>Tried to do rows but couldn't fit my boat through the door
>>76943854>Practise posing in front of the mirror at the dumbbell area, perfecting my glute spread>some karen has me removed for public indecencyI thought this was a gymnasium
>>76943854>before leaving the gym decided to try some wall sits>mfw no chairs in the walls
>>76943857kek
>>76943854>go to the gym to do farmer walks>they don’t have pails of milkWhat kind of shithole gym is this.
