>>75591368
what's ur question brah ?

>>75591368
Why is she in the corner like some incel
Also, gold digger lmao obviously any guy at equinox knows whats up

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>>75591368
Sometimes I wonder why women posts shit like this and don't realize it's just as pathetic as a guy saying >tfw no gf in their socials too. It ain't cute.

>>75591409
Because just like men, women have the capacity to be socially deaf undesirable retards. Unfortunately many of them are excused for their retardation because there usually exists a man desperate enough to tolerate her gay cringe just so he can get his dick wet sometimes.

>>75591430
To add to my unwarranted blog post, Ive found that nothing kills my attraction faster for a girl than her showing me all the retarded bullshit she unwittingly puts on the internet.

>>75591368
>questions
My questions is why haven't womens' culture shifted to reflect the male cultural shift of not going and asking women out? Shouldn't they start asking us out? Or are they too weak? (that's why men aren't doing, incidentally)

in the last month I have noticed an increasing number of women smiling at me :)

On Cable pushdown, with a rope, is harder to pushdown, but with a bar, I can push down more weight. Is a different muscle involved? Grip is not the same.

>>75591631
They fear rejection too? I seen woman to rather end relationship first then man do, so they feel stronger.

>>75591368
>she joined equinox to find a gym boyfriend
>gym boyfriend
>equinox
Lol. She doesn't want a gym boyfriend she wants a rich boyfriend and equinox is rich people fitness club not gym. If she wants a gym boyfriend that would be Golds or maybe even LA Fitness. But those guys don't necessarily have money unlike equinox which is expensive to filter out non moneyed people. And imagine thinking the men at equinox are too stupid to see why she's there given the way she is dressed. And what's more, imagine how many of the men at equinox are even single lmao. Money correlates with age, with the exception of only a few sheltered tech or finance bros in equinox, most of them are older and already married. She should rethink her strategy

>>75591368
Adulthood is knowing she has a boyfriend, is cheating on him, and is just making posts like this for social media impressions.

My calves are completly uneven. My left is bulging from cycling but my right is chunky and not developed. What exersices can I do to even them out?

>>75591680
Incline treadmill

I have Varicose veins in my left calf. how fucked am i?

>>75591707
Could be worse

So I am currently doing decline inline pushups. Is inclined one arm a good progression after hit high reps?

>>75591635
You're just exerting more directional forces on the rope
It's all triceps regardless
Broscientists will claim they work different heads but it's more of a ratio than an individual head thing

>>75591635
The bar grip is more stable. More stability = more weight/reps. Probably a better idea to involve more stability for hypertrophy movements because you can squeeze more out of the muscles, so I recommend using the bar grip as default. But if you notice tendon pain/overuse/inflammation or anything like that give the rope grip a try, especially the long rope grips. In general it's a good idea to mix grips.
I like doing heavier sets with a bar grip and using the ropes as finishers. Play around with them though, you'll find out what you like/what works for you.
Also, I fucking hate women more than any of you could ever fathom. Hope this helps.

>>75591721
I'm currently doing upside down reverse grip curls
Is reversed one arm curls a good progression after hit high reps?

Lmaooo just fucking lift for real bro
Squat/dead/bench/row/press™/arm work is all you need

>>75591735
No.

>>75591675
Missed your meds today, huh

>>75591737
Then stay smol idgaf

>>75591742
Meds. Not what I asked for

>>75591721
Depends what your goals are. One arm push ups are much more explosive technique-dependent than they are strength or muscle mass dependent, if that makes sense. Kind of the same as pistol squats.
If you want to get stronger/bigger, I recommend adding weight in a backpack and progressing there, or making the movement more difficult by elevating your hands off the floor to increase your range of motion even more.
If you want to progress in calisthenics technique, I'd probably increase the decline and progress to a handstand push up, as that would (?) be more useful to perform a range of calisthenics movement.
If your goal is specifically one arm push ups then I'd start there.

>>75591769
I am just trying to increase overall number of pushups I can do for a fitness test and I presumed working up to obe arms who make me able to fuck any min rep requirement in the ass

>have back issues so switch from ohp to dumbbell ohp
>while I work to exhaustion for some reason I don't actually get doms from it, whereas I did for normal OHP
what's wrong with me

>>75591769
What do you mean by elevating hands?

>>75591801
At least you are not getting subs amirite?

>>75591798
Not really. Like I said, one arm pushups are more skill and technique based. If you want to max out the number of reps, add some weight and progress on reps there. It'll make normal, unweighted push ups seem really easy and you'll be able to smash them out like nothing.
>>75591803
Put your hands on something that elevates them off the floor, like a stack of books, boxes, chairs, whatever. What this does is it makes you able to push your chest below your palms, increasing your ROM in the hardest part of the lift, where your pecs are the most stretched. The more your chest sinks below your palms, the bigger the stretch, and the harder it gets. This will increase hypertrophy and strength because it makes the push up harder.

>>75591904
I thought inclines made it easier and were just to prep for harder lifts

>>75591911
What I meant is that each of your hands should be separately elevated off the floor, leaving a gap in the middle wide enough for your torso to dip into.
As for inclines, it depends what you're inclining. If you're angling up, aka your head is higher than your feet, then you'll work more lower fibers of the pecs, building your lower chest more. If you're angling down, aka your head is lower than your feet, then you're working more higher fibers of the pec and building your upper chest more.

Anybody here take Lions mane? I'm on day 4 and the insomnia is real. Does it get better over time and I just need to bear with it?

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benchcel'ed for a while there to an over 3pl8 bench. got some big lower pecs but no upper pecs or tris
gonna switch it up to focusing on incline bench and close grip [swiss bar] bench.
plan is to do a 4 day UL, focusing on incline the first upper day and close grip on the second upper day.
i think i am going to plan on increasing both by ~5 lbs every 2 weeks. any rough ideas for what percentages and rep/set ranges i should go for?
i was thinking about doing 3 sets of 5 @80% week 1, then 5 sets of 3 @85% on week 2

>>75591801
You can generally do more weight with the barbell version of any exercise since the barbell is more stable. That's probably why.

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Am I skinny fat or just skinny? Been lifting a couple weeks and think I should probably bulk, but used to be anorexic and am kind of a bitch about gaining weight. Is there anything to recomp or do I just start a slow, steady bulk while doing an LP?

>>75591738
>he trusts what women say
ngmi

>>75592292
skinny twink

>>75591675
Based knower.

>>75592292
You're skinny and lack muscle, there's nothing to recomp; you lack "muscle definition" because you lack muscle whatsoever.

DYEL here, does doing pushups every day fuck with gains? I know that lack of rest days has an impact on hypertrophy right?

>>75592292
Also, stop being a bitch, anorexia is a women's illness.

>>75591735
Squat/dead/bench/row/press™/arm work is all you need
Ever since I dedicated one day solely to arms, they suddenly exploded in size. Bros were right all along.

My god, you have to marvel at woman's ability to self sabotage. They've been twisting western policies to create a filter on sub par men, but neglected to calibrate any of it and now they have a filter on all men, period. The goal was that men they don't like never approaching them, and now no men ever approach them purely out of men adjusting to the new metrics of their own self preservation.

What a time to be alive.

>>75592571
Women don't take accountability this is why they shouldn't be in charge of anything without a man's supervision. They will just let it decay

>>75591368
its crazy how even after years this picture will still get dozens of angry replies by incels on this forum

75591368
Gym girls are just famous gymcels, prove me wrong

>>75592949
I've gone to Gold's Gyms across the country and I am yet to see an attractive girl at the gym. Lots of chubby girls with tattoos but no girls who are plappable

>>75592292
You are very underweight but you should also get your posture checked by a physio. You have a lateral pelvic tilt and one of your shoulders is higher than the other. That is 80-90% fixable. That imbalance could fuck up your progress in the gym.

>>75591368
any tips for dealing with sinustis? the fucking weather keeps changing between freezing to 45 degrees & the right sinus keeps exploding & driving me crazy. I'm taking allergy pills & just got a saline nasal spray. can't take flonase unfortunately.

>>75593000
You're going to not good areas. There's fit women in my gym just outside the rich part of the city. It's the closest real gym that's not an orange theory or whatever. But remember they're female gymcels so they're almost all butterfaces. Gymcels should just get with each other honestly would solve a lot of problems. Instead the petite QTs on the streets get the gymcel men and the gymcel women get pumped n dumped. Quite sad.

>>75591675
Boyfriends are an outdated concept, what we know for sure is that there are men in her dms and one is considered the most desirable, it might or might not be the man she extracts resources from/lives with

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With a high enough deficit can trap deadlifts replace squats? I'd still do squats, but high rep deficit trap deadlifts would let me work grip and upper back in addition to leg gains. Pic rel

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So, has anyone ever had to deal with bunions? The doctors visit was fucking useless as usual. Told to stop running/lifting and to stop wearing shit shoes and take ibuprofen for a while. I'm a neet that walks around the house barefoot 80%+ of the day. All my shoes are wide fit because I have wide feet. I'm not gonna fucking stop rooning cunt.

If doing three sets of Bulgarian Split Squats fatigues me like crazy to the point that it's difficult to maintain good form in the last set, should I try doing two sets with slightly higher reps instead?

>>75593553
You might already be doing too many reps in each set. By "fatigue" do you mean muscular failure, cardio exhaustion, or a long-term build up of joint/tendon pain?
If it's muscular failure, good. Keep it up.
If it's cardio exhaustion, you're probably doing too many reps and should start increasing the weight.
If it's joint/tendon pain, you might be doing too much volume (too many sets/week) or it might just be time to switch it up with a different exercise for a while.

>>75592539
Depends, I use to do them everyday inclined. When I stopped for more then 3 years and start again in 3 days I was done, and needed a rest. See how you feel, and if you feel tired, get some rest. Rest is part of muscle building. Over training can be negative factor. Take some rest here and there gains won't go away for 2-4days rest.

>>75593044
Keep yourself warm, breath with nose, maybe cover nose when you are out in cold?
Body is made to breath warm or not too cold air. Maybe you need some vitamins.
Try to be more in warm place see if this make it any better. Go and figure this out, cold air, moister in air, or something else, find the reason, you sure can then solve it.

For symmetricstrength.com, are you guys using your Bent over row lifts for the Pendlay row? Id like to keep my back in the rating, but this substitution feels like cheating?

>>75593566
It feels like cardio exhaustion but I only do about 8 reps and I don't have this problem with any other exercise. I feel like I could crank out another rep or two but my cardio is just tanked by the time I get to the third set and it becomes difficult.

>>75591368
She's not hot enough to get rich dudes hitting on her at the gym while she walks on a treadmill.
Needs to lose 15 lbs and put on make up. And do her hair better. She looks like she just rolled out of bed

>>75593719
Some saar could take her but that's not what she's looking for.

What are your thoughts on programs that include a bench press and an incline bench press on the same day?

>>75593706 I'm not to who you replayed.
If you form is braking down, and you can't do more, I would say you have done enough and triggered muscle growth.

If you want to do more, do them after other exercises, so you recover. Or take a brake, if that helps.
Sometimes for me 2 sets was enough and next time I was stronger after rest days.

>>75591801
Why not just do them sitting if it's back related

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>strained too hard on the leg press
>wake up next day
>spit out blood clot
>coughing and spitting up blood ever since
Did i pop a blood vessel in my nose or am i about to die

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>>75594081

>>75591707
Look into foam sclerotherapy, and laser ablation depending on severity.

>>75594081
Pfizer or Moderna?

I've taken a grand total of 1 (ONE) shit in 3 weeks
how fucked am I?

>>75594156
Unvaxxed, uncut, and all wages unreported

>Get to 5 sets of 12 comfortably
>Add a little weight next time and do 3 sets of 8
>Do this until comfortable
>Next time do 5 sets of 8
>Do this until comfortable
>Next time do 5 sets of 12
>Do this until comfortable
>Repeat

Is this good progressive hypertrophy? I’ve been adding weight and reps at a good rate, like once a week, and have been lifting for around 4 months now

>>75594399
And I only add weight when I’m doing 5 sets of 12 comfortable, if it wasn’t clear.

>>75594399
Weightlifting isn't supposed to be comfortable.

>>75594453
Comfortable as in “I can now do 5 sets of 12 reps at this weight”, but you knew that and are just answering to spew shit

>>75591680
single leg calf raise

>>75593323
find your nearest oval and run barefoot

>>75594463
Honestly, I think you might be doing too much volume and you're falling for the "strength and hypertrophy training is different for beginners" meme.
What you're doing is fine, and if it feels like it's working for you then it probably is. If it stops working for you, then switch it up - probably with heavier compounds at less volume.

>>75593706
>It feels like cardio exhaustion but I only do about 8 reps
do you actually do any cardio? try going for a run or a bike ride

>>75593761
if one is bb and the other is db then I'd say it's ok

>>75594476
I don’t really care about strength in like, I don’t want to be small but strong. I want to look big, which is why I’m opting for more volume

>>75594399
>>Do this until comfortable
how long does it actually take you to feel comfortable? the progression system is logical but your specific implementation seems slow. you could likely get quicker results by doing 3x8 on day 1, 3x10 day 2, 3x12 day 3, then up the weight and repeat. I'd only do this for isolation movements as well. compounds can progress far more rapidly if you work in lower set/rep ranges.

>>75591368
go fuck a china dick
Obviously any equinox is fun

>>75594505
I’m progressing basically every single time I lift. I do full body, purely compound lifts. I take either 1 day off, or 2 days off in between if I really need to. I have never had a stall day in the 4 months I’ve been lifting and in this month I’m starting to see changes in the mirror.

By comfortable I don’t mean comfort, I meant more like “ok I can do this now without failing, time for more weight/reps”

>>75594486
Except that even in high-level athletes they're extremely closely correlated. As a beginner they're essentially the same thing.
Effective hypertrophy training is about proximity to failure, while effective strength training is about intensity (proximity to your 1RM). See how they're similar? If you get stronger, then you'll be able to lift heavier weights and therefore be able to get more out of your hypertrophy training.

>>75594546
Makes sense, I just want to know if what I’m doing is good because I’m taking weight lifting seriously for the first time in my life

I'll try to ask my question without backstory, but essentially I'm cutting for the first time in my life and what i've read essentially says that I should only be lifting to maintain cause it's impossible to gain/cut simultaneously
i'm hitting my protein macro at ~1600-1800 calories reliably, i've lost 5-10lbs the past couple weeks doing it
Navy website said I started cutting at 25% BF, 6'2", 220lbs. 'resting BMI ~2300'
not sure my goal yet but i'm not struggling to continue
i was doing cardio in between days but my caloric deficiet was >1200 and that seemed excessive. so i've just switched sticking to an hour-90 lifting 4day/week
which still brings my caloric defecit up high, i've started rationalizing some late night shots
I'm still getting gains, they aren't dramatic but it's happening

just looking for any help to understand cutting better and if I shouldn't be pushing my lifts simultaneously

>>75594546
You're leaving out the part where strength=size for the person in question. Everyone gets on the whole you have to hit such and such numbers and that's not true. Someone could already look very good at 1/2/3/4 while someone else could look dyel.

>>75594553
I think it's fine, because basically anything will work at your level and you say you're making progress. Consider following an established program if you aren't already.

>>75594575
Personally when I'm cutting, I count my calories both in and out. My Garmin watch automatically calculates this stuff, but you can do it manually with MyFitnessPal too. That way if I go for a 15k run, I can eat more and just maintain the same overall deficit as rest days.
Adding strength while cutting (ie recomp) isn't impossible, especially for a beginner. Add weight when you feel like you can, but don't expect much. Personally I reduce my volume from 3 lifting days per week down to 2, but keep the intensity high.

>>75594578
Someone with the same size muscle could be 20% stronger on a lift just based on their tendons connecting slightly further across the joint. This isn't even taking frame proportions into consideration. this is what strength=/= size means.

>>75594586
yeah I got cronometer and I was counting outward calories, which is when I realized my deficiets were crazy
I don't want to eat more to compensate when I'm trying to cut, so I thought I'd just try to eliminate the cause
apparently an hour of a row machine is like 900 calories, which puts me at 3.2k dail out requirement and I'm barely getting to 1.8lk in
it's not like I enjoy doing cardio lmao, i was just experimenting with results
i had also never counted calories before this adventure
I discovered I was consuming a minimum of 600-800 calories most days in alcohol, and just removing that and switching to low fat dairy products has put me where I'm at now
not even using the app anymore since it was just redundant now that I've observed it for a couple weeks

I read about something called the fighter pull up program. If you can do 5 reps max they recommend a schedule like this:
The 5RM Fighter Pullup Program
Day 1 5, 4, 3, 2, 1
Day 2 5, 4, 3, 2, 2
Day 3 5, 4, 3, 3, 2
Day 4 5, 4, 4, 3, 2
Day 5 5, 5, 4, 3, 2
Day 6 Off

How is this possible that you don't need any recovery?

>>75594628
>I don't want to eat more to compensate when I'm trying to cut, so I thought I'd just try to eliminate the cause
I don't know what to say, other than that exercise is good for you. Stopping cardio to lose weight is extremely backwards. I always found that cardio made it easier to lose weight because I could eat 3 decent meals per day and feel like I'm not starving myself, but you do you.

How do I make casein taste good?
I normally have unflavoured whey in my overnight oats, but I tried switching to casein for its different nutritional content. But now my oats taste like a horrible gloopy mess with a borderline inedible texture. Do I just need more water, or is there a technique that I'm missing?

>>75593234
Women have a guy for EVERYTHING in their lives, and it is EXTREMELY rare for a single guy to meet every need. The guy who drops dick off the best is almost never the same guy that listens to her bullshit and treats her well. And women don't even care. They juggle chads to fuck and gather orbits of simps to provide for every other non-sexual need.

I have never been particularly active, but this whole year I have been lazy fatass, pushing to 220lbs on a skinnyfat 6'3", to the point I'm starting to have back pain, at times shooting down a leg or through my guts.

In exactly one month, I have a medical examination for a job as a driver that, if I get it, sets me for life (possibly, along the way, even moving from a driver position, it's a big company with internal mobility), if not I'm back to square one of being broke as shit doing random stuff for occasional pay and no actual prospect.

I don't have to be in great shape (probably not even good) but I can't show up bent in two and with no range of motion.

What realistically do in the time frame?
Keep in mind I'm broke as shit.

>>75595578
Assuming you cannot afford the gym, go for walks, try to get 10,000 steps a day minimum. Stretching may help your back pain too, and eat less. Willing to bet if you were under 200lbs and walking/stretching regularly your back pain would go away.
>>75595114
Use flavored whey??? dude you are essentially eating oats with 0 flavor, of course it will taste like shit. You could add honey too.
>>75593761
It's fine.
>>75593314
Not a replacement for squats imo, but if you want to do them then go for it.
>>75592539
You should have at least 1, preferably 2 rest days where you do no strenuous physical activity. Doing a set of 20 push ups isn't going to kill you, but it may not be "optimal" for your recovery. There are worse things you can do on rest days, so if they make you happy, then it won't make a huge difference in the end unless you have shoulder or elbow problems.

i had to take ~4 days off of lifting due to catching a cold i recovered from real quick.
when i resumed training, the next day, i have that "dryness" behind my eyes again which makes me feel and probably look so insanely tired, after resuming training (just 1 set per exercise instead of 2, which is already really low volume, i run ULx frequency)
how can i fix this? im cutting atm but i had this during my bulk as well the difference to going from having it to not having it isnt as big but when i have it again, it fucking sucks
this is mostly an issue in the morning/early noon so maybe my sleep suffers more now? i sleep 7-8 hrs a day so i should be good on that end..

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Anyone care to improve or criticize my routine?

>Triceps
dips
overhead extension

>Biceps
chin-ups
curls

>Back
pull-ups, chin-ups
horizontal row
vertical pull-down

>Chest
flat bench press
pec fly
cable crossover

>Shoulders
overhead press
lateral raises
reverse pec fly

>Legs
extension
curls
lunges
press

>abs
crunches
planks

I do everything seated and with machine support if that's possible because of a delicate lower back that I don't want to injure any further. I'm thinking of adding some glute isolations like step-ups and doing more ab work so I can take load off my back.

What do you think?

>>75597835
>Routine
More like exercise repertoire. I go to the gym 3 or 4 days a week. I usually take a day off in-between workouts because I do feel fatigue and soreness the day after any one workout

>>75595114
use milk insted of water
don't soak the whey overnight, add it in the morning
add some honey, cinnamon or fruit for flavour

How long does it take to be able to do a real pushup? I can barely get down right now. I'm getting discouraged and I need a time frame for motivaton, so "it depends..." won't make me feel better. Assuming I put in effort, how long should I expect?

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Rate this basic 6 say PPL routine. The lifts that are the same color are superset together. So on push day 1 I'm doing OHP superset with skullcrushers, etc.
Is 4 sets too much, too little, or just right? I just got done with my first day and I could barely make it to the 4th set on every lift. Should I scale down to 3 sets each until I'm less of a fat fuck?

>>75594399
if you can do 5 sets of 12 without your form breaking on the last set, it means the first set was probably worthless as you had much more in the tank than 12

>>75597951
Depends on how heavy you are. Twinks are gonna be able to push up way sooner because they just need to put on enough muscle to lift a stick of butter. Lardos need to add more muscle and lose weight
Can't believe I waited 15 goddamn minutes to post this basic shit.

if i only do dips, pull ups and push ups, what areas am i leaving out in upper body?

>>75591368
Is one arm day a week enough volume for arms?

>>75591368
Should I take creatine or casein protein or both? Any brand recs? Do I do a loading phase? How bad are the farts?

Doing calisthenics 3x/week, HIIT 2x week

>>75598468
You need a hinge and a squat

>>75598654
For growth? No. For strength? Yes.

>>75597951
Change your perspective. Start with wall pushups. Then Kennedy pushups. Then girlie pushups. Work up to 25 reps then increase your angle.

>>75598142
If you’re doing supersets, you’re not doing PPL.

I'm looking to replace canola oil for cooking stews and soups what's the best substitute? I use it to fry onion garlic and meat before adding the liquids usually

>>75599329
Cold pressed olive oil. Olive oil is one of the top three adulterated foods though.

>>75599332
I've looked at it and avocado but they are like 3x the price of canola which sucks

>>75599329
lard... tallow... ghee...

>>75599357
>tallow
Ghee could be good really, it'll fry good for some time on medium heat? I don't want it turning black

>>75591368
My gym just called me, I didnt answer, I think they were calling to accuse me of sharing my pass. What do I do?

>>75599340
That should tell you something m8. >>75599357 fair points I hadn’t considered since you asked for oil.

>>75599363
>>75599386
they're all I use unless i'm making something without heat then olive
i use peanut for frying but hopefully one day i'll upgrade to lard
ghee is the strongest tasting, I don't use it for much but I think it has the highest smoke point
not that the taste is bad
lard is best cost/use/health ratio

>>75599388
How strong are we talking? My soups and stews usually have a lot of spices so I wonder if I would notice it certainly never tasted any cooking oils I tried in them. I'm not interested in lard at all and the other oils are expensive so ghee sounds like the best idea so far

>>7559940
>I'm not interested in lard at all
ok well you're a retard, rendered animal fat is the best fat
it just has a strong butter flavor, it'll go fine with any non-clear soup and anything spiced
i think i just got tired of it frankly
and again it's more expensive than it should be

>>75599413
Maybe I could look for tallow too then. Don't ever remember seeing that in store though would have to see if it's cheaper than ghee

>>75599421
lard is the cheapest and available in spanish markets with other oils, i've seen it in some traditional american groceries
tallow i've only found with a butcher
ghee has become available with most grocerers

oh and I forgot coconut oil, it's good too and available everywhere
but again it's got a stronger taste like ghee

>>75591368
What's a good 5-day routine that mixes in Strength + Hypertrophy training?
I'm looking at Strength Legs Monday, then Strength Push Tuesday, with Tuesday alternating between Push and Pull
Into Cardio Wednesday, Push Thursday, Pull Friday
But it feels like the volume is way too fucking low with some weeks only having one push/pull day

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>>75591368
I tore my Achilles tendon back in June, and am now finally up and walking around somewhat normally, almost six months later. I used to be able to ATG squat no problem, but now almost all flexibility in my ankle is gone. What stretching regiment or program can I do to help get back to original flexibility? Is it even possible to get back to how it originally was?

Starting my first cut, any advice?

I am only doing 2 sets instead of 3 and no longer progressively overloads just keeping the weight the same so I don't lose strength. I also want to start incorporating more bodyweight exercise into my routine because while bulking I found my lack of progress in bodyweight demoralizing but since I will be getting lighter I think it will be easier.

>>75599366
Deny it.

>>75591368
Is it true Upright Rows are bad for your shoulder joints?
I do them with the EZ bar and they feel fantastic but everyone says they will cause shoulder joint damage

>>75591368
Do any of you guys have the pic with any of the studies who show the % of women who have rape fantasies?

Am I pussy for not wanting to do deads more than once a week (I gym 4x/week)
I don't mind it as a lift but it just exhausts me so much that the rest of my workout suffers

What's the best number of exercises to do per muslce group. I've been getting fatigued on my biceps by my second exercises and don't want to hold myself back intensity-wise so do I just cut the third exercise on arm day for bi's and tri's and just do 2 really intense exercises for each? (hypertrophy btw)

>>75600136
If you're training for hypertrophy: You don't need to do deadlifts so doing them just once a week if you like them or just want to get a compound movement in is fine.

If strength: Evaluate the day that you do your deadlifts on and see if either the deadlifts need to be decreased (reps,sets or weight) or if other workouts aren't as necessary since got such intensity out of deadlifts. Basically just see if the additional exercises are more or less important.

>>75591368
>>fix your pouch belly you slut cunt
lack of self awareness in those whores, unreal

Some suggested weight for pushups. Should I get a backpack and just puke put a sleeping bag in it to start?

Are dips enough for complete triceps development

>>75600431
No, but they are good for it

>>75591368
>@equinox love ya anyways still worth it
my fucking sides how did i never notice that in this image

>>75594803
It should work, I was doing like this and made a progress, but I was doing to average number of reps, per workout I done, to hit that average number next time. From 1 chin-up I was to 20 in 1-2months. I done them every day with 1 rest day.
Because you do this every 24h, and body adapts, is not full body stimulated. More you do it easy it gets. You have good nutrition, enough energy.

>>75595578
Calisthenic workouts, start small, have rest days, when tired rest, over time you will be stronger. Eat health, drink water, take care of your emotions and mind too. Could do 10min stretching 3x a week. Could lift water bottles for some arm strength.

>>75597354
Drink more water, take sleep to be rested. But are you rested when you wake up? Could be lack of energy, it could be something spiritual with multidimensional energy's. Rub your knees when you feel low on energy or waked when you wake up. Energy need to flow in the body to be healthy.

>>75597835
>Triceps
Cable pushdown

>>75598142
If you feel you can do one more rep, go for it, can hold last rep and slowly lower it.
Do you do rest-pause, holds, short 10-15s rest and do some more reps?

I bought two cases of celcius energy drink. Will drinking one every other day help me with weight loss?

>>75593234
>>75595166
The sad truth. Women don’t even want to tentatively commit to one person so they’ll gaslight you into thinking you were never a thing as they monkey branch to the next guy. Women are truly vile.

>>75600510
caffeine is an appetite suppressent and might motivate you to do something that burns calories
if you eat less and do more exercise you will be doing the right thing for weight loss

>>75600510
it might. caffeine is probably the most reliable weight-loss supplement known to man. just beware of your body's attempts to maintain homeostasis by having you eat extra food when the caffeine wears off/on the no caffeine days.

should I feel bad for dating an Indian girl as a white guy?

she's hot, loves going to the gym, smells good, has big tits, sucks my dick whenever I want, and is great in bed. if it matters

>>75600584
yes
you're enabling a whore instead of a wife which is the greatest crime to modern society
when you seperate the emotional damage to her will be irreversible and condemn her future (if) husband
if you don't leave her and dilute your white genes and hand the weakest DNA possible from a partner to your child, which all mixed children hate themselves; you are condemning them

read your bible anon and fight temptation

>>75600606
I don't want a wife right now bro I'm still working on me

>>75600610
>you're enabling a whore instead of a wife which is the greatest crime to modern society
when you seperate the emotional damage to her will be irreversible and condemn her future (if) husband
if you're working on you then work on you, don't be a part of damaging god's greatest gift and our greatest protection-responsibility
they can't protect themselves

>>75600612
if it weren't me it'd be some other guy. I can't fix society alone lol

>>75599366
just ignore them, they probably don’t know who you are

>>75600584
Enjoy her for now. Just know that Indian girls fuck white but marry brown, so there is absolutely no future. So long as you're OK with that, man, ride that ride.

>>75600136
Yes you are but you already knew that. It’s exhausting because it’s effective and efficient. Do squats and deadlifts on the same day and you don’t need anything else for legs. If you insist on back day then deadlift, vertical pull, horizontal pull is all you need

>>75600614
demonstrating value inspires other men
demonstrating complacency demoralizes other men AND contributes to degeneration
all rationalization to avoid the objective realities I've presented are simply succumbing to the desire to sin

>>75600643
what I'm saying is, she was already a whore when I found her. it's not like I'm ruining some innocent virgin. if anything I'm teaching her to have higher expectations for how a man should treat her.

>>75600649
every partner that isn't a husband exponentially worsens the female mind, further conditioning them to not learn from another man
the only solution is shame and denial
>if anything I'm teaching her to have higher expectations
this doesn't work and at the end you will see you simply wasted your energy/time/opportunities on fleeting desire
but fuck it I guess

>>75600756
yeah I don't really care about any of that. I'm not going to marry her, but I am going to treat her well while I have her.

>>75600756
His only mistake is having intimacy with a whore, thus corrupting his own psyche and making himself a worse husband to his future wife. Men have 0% responsibility over the consequences for the women they - consensually - fuck. She should've known better not to be a slut, but she chose to be a slut instead.

If Anon stays single, it's fine. If he gets married one day, we can only hope he doesn't cheat on a loyal wife due to him having left the degenerate lifestyle but the degenerate lifestyle not having left him.
And if he marries the brown slut, he deserves every cuckoldry that is coming his way because he should've known better.

I just love the 'should I feel bad for x?'
yes
'oh well I don't actually care lol. gottem!'

>>75600843
they're not answering my question. they're saying I should feel bad for not marrying her (which is retarded). I'm asking if I should feel bad because she's Indian.

>>75600643
>>75600756
based. god bless you, men like us will change the world by God's grace.

>>75600848
>because she's indian
No.
>because not marrying
No.
>because she's a slut
Yes.

>>75600873
Thank you for a real answer.

>>75600848
>I should feel bad for not marrying her (which is retarded)
nobody said this, you are in fact the retard if that's all you took away

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What's the correct way to lift up either wheel of a motorcycle? At least the rear one.
When I need to lift the rear wheel, the point i can safely grab on to is on waist line sometimes, and sometimes it's above the waistline. I need to hold the handle with the other hand so I can't squat it.

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>>75600879
>>75600606
>you're enabling a whore instead of a wife which is the greatest crime to modern society

>>75600955
are we doing AI indian chicks now? hell yeah.

>>75600993
I am indeed a p-word. And i don't have enough time to "make" AI visual smut - this I saved from somewhere because it was too good.

>>75591368
why does salty food like regular cottage cheese (0,8g per 100g) or other pretty much fat free cheese, tuna (1,5g per 100), sardines (0,9g per 100g) etc make me feel so insanely sluggish after eating but adding the salt myself, even in similiar quantities, to other meat, oatmeals etc doesnt?

>>75601058
how much semen are you consuming?

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Hey guys. I need some help. I have this fat/skin on the side of my chest near my underarm that I can't for the life of me get rid of. Kind of like in pic-related.

Obviously I'm trying to lean out to get rid of it, but does anyone know why/how this happens? Or how to get rid of it quicker? I rarely see other people that have this issue.

I've always had some sort of a "beer gut" although I rarely drink alcohol. For some reason, my stomach is protruding though, even though when I grab onto it, I can't grasp onto much fat because there is not that much fat. At least not as much as it looks like. I look like one of those starved, bloated African children. Anybody know how I can fix this?

>>75591637
>rich boyfriend and equinox is rich people fitness club not gym

lol $270 is not "rich" or expensive. Its just not being broke and you can afford it. I went to one of these types of gyms for 6 months. It sort of has "hotter" people but mostly hotter dudes go there. Also it has a lot of nogs going there that cant afford it. Like most people they cant afford their iphone or whatever but they buy it to signal that they do have money. They actually dont and live credit card payment to credit card payment.

>>75601487
Start by treating for schistosomiasis

>>75601487
>For some reason, my stomach is protruding though, even though when I grab onto it, I can't grasp onto much fat because there is not that much fat
you have anterior pelvic tilt

>>75601762
That's true, yeah... though I wasn't sure whether that's mainly it. I don't look as fat when I'm trying to stand more straight thogh yeah..

>>75601443
Spot fat reduction is real
Bench, dips, abwork and wide grip pullups/downs should help
Hip thrusts for love handles

>>75600180
True hypertrophy comes from lifting heavy because it recruits more muscle fiber
Do 7 sets of 5 heavy, slow controlled straight out hammer curls twice a week
Should be more than adequate especially since I suspect you aren't intermediate yet and thus should be running starting strength or similar

>>75599997
You should only do them with a rope pulley so you can use the natural motion of your shoulders
Depending on your routine though, you might be better off doing something else entirely (increase deadlift for traps, leaning forward shoulder flies for delta)

>>75599867
Cut hard in short spurts
If you ever want to be high FFMI naturally, you need to minimize time at a deficit

>>75599503
Talk to a physical therapist, not 4chan

>>75599458
Just run a compound centric PHUL routine like candito's
If you aren't intermediate yet, you should be running an LP like starting strength

>>75598713
Creatine yes. Usually 20g for a few days then 5 after
You might not need to load but I would just in case
You should never rely on refined protein slop for calories/regular nutrition
Only use in an emergency

>>75598142
PPL is best pull/push/legs
I prefer Arnie's blueprint schedule because of your arm schedule issues
Do them with appropriate upper body or not at all

>>75595114
You don't
You eat meat eggs and dairy like an adult

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i'm 170cm 77kg, been going to the gym for the last month and half. i know spot reduction doesn't work but how far should i go down the weight loss to the fat on my face and lower abdomen?

>>75594575
Cut hard and fast with maintenance breaks

>>75594399
Wtf are you doing lmaoooooo
You should be running an LP like starting strength, not this retardation
At my absolute peak (FFMI>30) I was barely doing that much volume

Even advanced lifters shouldn't be programming their own routine let alone a novice
Run an LP to intermediate and then be retarded or you'll regret it for the rest of your lifting career

There's already more people starting to crowd my gym. I'm hoping that it's more due to college students coming back home for the holidays. I might need to shift my gym schedule to avoid the horde. Though, at least there's more stacy's around.

>>75594294
Ded

>>75591748
Sounds like the right advice you needed to hear
You really need to rethink your life based on these posts lmao

>>75592560
That's because you weren't eating enough obv
The more you do the more food you need

>>75591368
So it's safe to assume girls who wear this kinda shit at the gym are single? There's one at mine but she minds her own business.

When you guys pan fry food in butter or olive oil, do you count all the calories from how much you've used? I'm not sure if it will be exact with how some of it might evaporate while cooking

>>75601973
>Spot fat reduction is real
Deadass? I've been benching and doing pullups and pulldowns. No dips or hip thrusts though.

I'm more worried about the side of my chest like near the underarm than I am about love handles. Love handles don't register as visually disgusting to me the way the flaps on the side of my chest do (like in picrel)

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>>75601996
>Just run a compound centric PHUL routine
Thanks, I'll look up a few.
This one doesn't seem too bad.

I've been on the BBB program for about 6 months now, I think I've been lifting for 7 months. I was having great progress on everything and recently hit: 140 OHP, 225 Bench, 300 Squat, 315 Deadlift.

But every since my last max week whenever I squat I just feel lethargic. No pain or anything, just tired. Not sure how to explain it. I dropped my training max calculations for 275 down to 200 but just doing the squat motion makes me tired. No matter what weight I move down with I get tired and want to stop. I just finished my squat day and could only get through half of it with small weights (140, 160, 180) because I could feel my muscles not wanting to try at all and now I feel like going to sleep just writing this. I tried taking a break week but I still get tired.

What do I do? I was thinking of stopping BBB and doing a month of starting strength restarting from 0

>>75602327
fat doesn't evaporate
yes of course you count it, fat is the most dense form of calories
tablespoon of oil is 120 calories
i overestimate everything anyway if I'm cutting

>>75599253
hinge? i dunno what that is. ......shit like deadlifts?

>>75602456
Thanks for the info
But I am bulking, just looking for some easy calories to add to my food

>>75602330
No idea what dead ass means but you just need to work whatever muscle uses that fat. losing weight overall would help also

>>75602022
Morning lifting is kino all year round

>>75602215
Lmao youd have to talk to them to find out

>>75602458
Yeah
Don't Skip legs, you'll be bigger later with legs + appropriate food intake

>>75602458
Hip thrusts would work in your bodyweight routine. Add in squats as well. Do some eight count body builders for cardio.

If I go heavy with weighted dips are 48h of rest good enough to recover? I just love dipping, it's fun and you get mires

>>75602844
If I'm reading these muscle diagrams correctly, the fat that offends me is covering the serratus anterior muscle and possibly my lats but to a lesser extent.

Anyone know how to work the serratus anterior? Google AI gave me some retarded bullshit like "Shoulder rotation robot" and "Pseudo-bear push-up"

I fucking hate my flabby armpit flaps. I'm gonna continue cutting fat obviously, but for whatever godforsaken reason that seems to be one of the last areas to slim down.

>>75601401
On average two loads every three days?

>>75603165
>Anyone know how to work the serratus anterior?

Dry heave.

>>75603437
visceral.

HOW DO I STOP GETTING HORNY EVERY MORNING

>>75603775
eat more onions
or just get out of bed and move on

>>75603165
dumbell pullovers

>>75603775
You don't, you use your hard dick like a dowsing stick to guide you to the most expedient activity that needs completion after waking up.

So I tried doing bench presses today and my left bicep started to feel sore. I'd lower the weight but I'm only lifting the bar. Is this a form problem? Do you think it could resolve itself?

>>75591368
i eat plenty during my feeding window
i stop four hours before bed
some nights hunger keeps me up
some nights my gut doesnt make a peep
what gives

>>75593044
humidifier + hygrometer for ur home
sleep on your unaffected side
if the sinusitis moves then u prolly have bigger probs

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How to fix fridge body shape as a man?
Spam upper and shoulder?
Do Starting strength?

>>75591631
Women hit on guys differently. They make a display of being available, drop hints and do this asymmetric stuff. They assume men will understand their indirect approach, and they also assume that when a man they want doesn't take the bait that it's for any other reason than they are not interested. There is every chance in the world she posted that hoping a guy at that gym she liked would see it and approach her because of it.
Women are weird. They are hyper aware of subtle interaction in social contexts involving other people, but default to shamanic animism magical thinking when to comes to examining their personal love life.

>>75604552
she did it for attention on the internet
with great success as displayed by the fact that this tweet is reposted here daily

>>75603956
Do you feel soreness or do you feel pain? Soreness just means you used your muscle in a novel movement. Pain means you are damaging something. Try different grips and get on an incline.

>>75603966
If the hunger is keeping you up, that’s worse than eating before bed. Have a small snack, like a piece of cheese or a hardboiled egg, not a lot of carbs though.

>>75604477
You should be doing SS/SL as a beginner anyway. The first 6wks~6mos of lifting is almost exclusively CNS training. You cannot lift heavy enough to induce hypertrophy during that time, but you make incredible strength gains. Linear progression is what you need. After that, look into some old school body building routines.

>>75604742
>The first 6wks~6mos of lifting is almost exclusively CNS training.
Well I most be doing something wrong if I've been lifting for a year with no gains.

>>75604742
>The first 6wks~6mos of lifting is almost exclusively CNS training. You cannot lift heavy enough to induce hypertrophy during that time
This is complete hogwash and you have absolutely no evidence to back that up.
>>75604477
If you do SS you'll exit fridge mode and enter bottom-heavy pear mode. If your fridge mode comes from unfortunate fat placement, lose fat and put some emphasis on shoulder training. If your fridge mode comes from bones (wide hips) then do the same but also train your core hard.

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If I stale on your lifts for a long time (couple of months), how do I know if I need more volume or less? I feel like I'm recovering just in time.

>>75604761
>enter bottom-heavy pear mode.
Why don't trans do SS then?
I've been doing bro splits for a year.
>fridge mode comes from unfortunate fat placement
No, I'm not skinny fat or even fat.
Just fridge shaped I guess.
If your fridge mode comes from bones (wide hips) then do the same but also train your core hard
what do you suggest?

>>75604752
>I most be doing something wrong if I've been lifting for a year with no gains.
>>75604784
>I've been doing bro splits for a year.

That’s the problem. Bro splits are for once you have your base built 2~5yrs in. Try going back to the basics. Pick up Stronglifts, with the first workout, start with the bar and add 5~10lbs each rep until your lift slows or your form breaks. That’s the starting weight for your next workout. Continue on that linear progression workout adding weight each session until you start stalling out all over the place. After that make those big complex (multi joint/muscle) lifts the base of your routine. Add in your vanity/assistance lifts after that.

>>75604777
You need a different program.

I'm hitting Chest/Shoulders tommorow. I've read on here about how sets of 5 with very high intensity can stimulate growth better. (roughly 18 months lifting, normally 3x8 slightly lighter numbers)

does: 3x5 Bench Press 80kg
3x5 Smith seated OHP 50kg
3x5 Incline Bench 70kg
3x5 Lateral raises 12kg
work for this? I normally do cable fly and rear delt fly as well but for this heavier system do I lighten up on do

>>75604761
>True hypertrophy is achieved by recruiting more muscle fibers
>Have to be able to lift at high % of capacity to recruit more muscle fibers
It's true AF
You need to gain some amount of strength to get to the point all muscles can actually be used at a high exertion together

Noobs throwing bitch weight around a bunch is literally viewed as cardio by the body and doesn't stimulate the endocrine system enough to get the proper response to make gains

People who try to do high volume programs first always just lean out, think they're getting bigger (definition=\= size) then wonder why they stall

You can rip through your LP to intermediate so fucking fast it's fucking retarded to do anything but SS/SL as a noob

T. Formerly FFMI over 30 natty

>>75604887
Preach

>>75604965
Post your symmetric strength avatar

>>75603109
You should be able to hit everything heavy at volume every 3rd day

>>75604777
Eat more
Do cardio after lifting
Run an LP as a noob like SS if you aren't intermediate
Run a repeating 3day split (6 day) as intermediate

Most dudes need less volume and to lift way heavier

Would it be retarded to buy one of those 40lbs silicon asses/fleshlight setup to practice my stroke game on? I feel like I don't have enough sex to get a good rhythm and this is why my hookups don't ever go anywhere. Yes this is a serious question, and the doctor told my my IQ is 97 which means I'm still normal.

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>>75604971
idk how useful this is since I have leg issues that have made me avoid squats and deadlifts so it only accounts for upper body stuff

>>75604967
>You can rip through your LP to intermediate so fucking fast it's fucking retarded to do anything but SS/SL as a noob

YMMV. The studies I read suggested 6~24wks to burn through your noob gains. If you’re a vegan computer nerd you’re going to be on the long end. If you’re a corn fed Iowa farm boy bucking hay all day, you’ll be on the short end.

>>75605002
>If you’re a corn fed Iowa farm boy bucking hay all day, you’ll be on the short end.
imo fat people get longer noob gains because they've got so much mass
meanwhile skellies have a hard time because they're so light and weak and a 5 lb gain when your bench max is 95 lbs is a > 5% increase
t. started lifting as a 6'1" 145 soccer skelly, had to switch over to weekly progression after ~2 months

>>75605055
I meant more the hard work type. They already know how to lift heavy things, they just need to train in a gym to do it with free weights. I would agree in skelly v fattie that the skelly would generally begin a bulk routine sooner.

>>75605075
not to quibble but in my experience all blue collar workers are kinda chubby so 'hard work type' and fat are basically synonyms.
I say this based upon my experience working as a mover for multiple different companies in different states as a part time job during undergrad and grad school.

>>75605108
>all blue collar workers are kinda chubby

That’s fair.

>>75604975
Thanks. What if I still feel soreness? Is feeling sore an indicator that muscle group hasn't gotten enough rest yet?

Realistically speaking if I bought a shovel, a couple bags of gravel how good a workout could I get from just shoveling the gravel into heaps around the yard?

>>75605155
A lot. But it will also wreck your body.

>>75605161
Why/how would it wreck me?

>>75605165
Ever met an old ditch digger?

Anyone doing PHUL?`

How much should one increase their hypertrophy lifts every session?
the same as the power ones?
what if they catch up?

>>75605258
I'm not planning to do it sun up to sundown my entire life though?

>>75605346
It’s hard on the joints and hard on the back anon. Manual labor does make your muscles hard like no gym workout can though. It’s a different type of strength.

Finishing up my three week mini cut tomorrow. Short cuts are so much more tolerable than long cuts where I end up losing motivation to keep lifting hard and start bleeding muscle towards the end.
Is there any minimum length of time for bulks? Toying with the idea of a 6 week mini bulk and a two week cut so that I can stay lean and avoid falling back on the dreamer bulk meme.

>>75605387
6 weeks. That’s a pretty good rule of thumb for any cut or bulk. Depending on your own particular bodily responses of course. The great Minnesota starvation experiment showed us that a three month cut will permanently damage your metabolism. I assume an extended bulk will too.

Can someone explain cuts and bulks to me? Why not just lift and eat consistently slightly above maintenance levels?

>>75605385
Why is it different to lifting reps with a bar?

>>75605412
That’s lean bulking. Most people aren’t good at that.

>>75605415
Physiologically? I’m not sure. There’s a definite difference between a lived vs manufactured experience though.

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>>75591409
>>75591368
Wanna see horror? I thought she was doing an ironic bit until saw gradual transformation pics from brunette.

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>>75605511

>>75605497
Is that supposed to be the same girl? I don't get it.

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>>75605520
The same attention seeking on social media went horribly wrong.

Does anyone have a good app that lets you keep track of what’s in your fridge?

>>75605618
Not an app, but I use my brain

how do juicers decide which thing to use? there's so many anabolics it's absurd.

>>75605618
Nigga use your brain or a note book. What the fuck do you need an app for something so simple?

>>75603882
thanks anon

How often are you guys hitting abs? What are your go to movements?

https://youtube.com/shorts/Px5aqC2Td_U?feature=shared

>>75606004
Lever Seated Crunch 3-4sets, 2x a week at least, but I seen I done them every visit.
Cable Bar Lateral Pulldown every visit this mean 2-3x a week. Last time I was feeling my abs working when lifting 50kg, but I done Lever Seated Crunch ~30min before this.
I think when you hold your core tight you train abs with exercises that requires this.
When you hold a weight to stabilize yourself.
>>75605813
Not an expert try pec deck this is designed to work your chest.
>>75604982
Fallow you passion, practice make you to perform better. It is your life, create what you desire, do you really want this?
>>75605136
Your choice, at beginning I did taken rests until all pain and scorners was gone, this mean 3-4days rest. Now I don't get any high soreness, but some pain in joins I need to strengthen. I try not to hurt my self when lifting. Fixing my form is more easy now when I'm stronger and with training stabilization muscles. I do take rest after each workout now at least 1 day max 4days.

>>75592292
Genuine advice from a guy who used to look like you. Don't bulk. You can gain muscle all you want, but stay as lean as you are now. Trust me, if you're doing this partially to get laid, women most desire your body type over some beefy, cornfed guy's bod. They like the twink bod and maybe the jacked twink bod.

I'm a somewhat skinny fat (183lb) with bigger, muscular arms now and I miss having my skinny 130lb twink bod (im 6'2). Women are way more attracted to your skinny bod bro.

Should I go squatting and deadlifting tomorrow if I'm constipated right now? Am I going to be hindered?

>>75591368
Is there a better way to track if I'm gaining muscle vs losing fat? I've been tracking my strength through my reps and increasing weights and intensity of each set, and there has been increases, but I have not lost a ton of weight. I'm under the assumption that the more muscle you have, the more calories you burn as well, so is there going to be a wall I break through once I hit a certain level of muscle mass that helps me quickly lose weight?

5'8" 230, started at 220 and now can lift more and been eating relatively the same if not less. My daily intake is usually around 2000 kcals if not less and only 200-300 more if I do. Also in the mirror, I can see I have more muscle definition and mass all around (arms, legs, chest, back, traps), but I want to get to point of where I'm actually recomping or cutting. Just hard since my diet is a non-negotiable for me since I have a partner.

>>75606641
>Is it worth dedicating a day to core?

Never.

>>75606641
You should go to the gym if you feel like it, but I would focus on resting and taking it light. You can incorporate calisthenics (dragon flags, planks, sit ups), and some light cardio to get pretty tight core gains. I would not push it or have a full day where you push heavyweight on otherwise rest days, and desu, probably incorporate core into every single working day of your workout. You probably already do if you powerlift or do any compound exercise that requires stability. Just include 1 of the each exercises I said into each of your workout days, and that's probably more than enough to see gains.

do you guys know that pain when you're doing dips like it feels as if your chest is about to split open? how to heal this? what exactly is it? it hurts and can't do any chest exercises for the time being.

>>75605667
most just go with what is memed (heckin' epic tren and test, 500mg of each), otherwise it's based upon scouring forums like reddit.com/r/steroids to find anecdotes and confirmation bias

is there any benefit to doing IF while bulking?

>>75601565
>Its just not being broke and you can afford it
poor people staying poor mentality
every dollar you waste on stupid shit is a dollar you can't invest

Good workout tee brands? I dont mind a little polyester in my tees, but like at least half cotton. Just after some quality fits.

>>75607114
Yeah
It makes it impossible to gain lean mass lmao

>>75606641
2mg THC

>>75606543
You generally can't gain muscle while losing fat unless you're advanced

>>75606004
After legs
You can do more but never 24h before legs

>>75606213
Lmao pound some water and coffee in the morning and get plenty of electrolytes tonight
It'll happen unless you exclusively eat shakes like a retard

>>75605412
Most lifters underestimate their tdee and mess it up
It's also easier to gain mass if your body thinks there's ample food
You should be cutting hard and fast in short bursts if you actually want to be huge someday

If you actually adjust your calories as you go, it might be a good idea but most dudes literally can't hack it

>>75605331
Lmao what

>>75605136
You really shouldn't be sore after 24 hours
Your body repairs for 48 hours so by hour 25, you should be mostly repaired and your body should be moving into gains territory
If you're more than mildly achy on day 2, you're doing too much volume for your diet/recovery

>>75605002
24 weeks is nothing
You can run SS indefinitely also and continue to make gains so there's really no reason not to do it
Some guy that used to post here did SS for years because it was simple and looked better than most of the cb threads

>>75604982
Your hookups don't go anywhere because you're fucking someone you don't know
Try getting to know him first and then the sex will be better regardless

>>75607285
>You can run SS indefinitely
You can if you’re autistic. I can barely make it through three months. I remember that guy. What I meant is, the studies I read suggested noob gains take from 6~24wks to burn out. At that point your CNS is trained to lift heavy enough to begin inducing hypertrophy. If you’re still making gains on a linear progression program and you’re not bored out of your mind on it, by all means carry on.

>>75591409
it's too farm simps/get attention idiot

>>75607285
Thanks for advice. I don't know where I'd classify myself, I've been lifting since around 2018 but it's been on and off. 6 months on, 6 months off, 1 year off, 1 year on, etc. I'd consider myself intermediate at best, and my numbers aren't as high as I'd like them to be.

so i just worked after dinner and am not going to eat anything until tomorrow's breakfast, probably like ~16 hours later. Is that bad? Am i screwing myself over or Can my muscles grow by using the fat and shit i have stored in my body already or do they need brand new fuel every time?

>>75607875
Your fine. Fat doesn’t convert to amino acids, but you should have a store of them.

>>75591430
honestly , am a woman, and yeah, this is exactly correct lol. I almost refuse to believe they can't understand its cringe. I think they must be so wrapped up in themselves they dont realize theyre actually embarrassing themselves. She probably wants recongnition for spending so much on clothing and doing it for so long. idk.

>>75594081
my nigga you likely caused pulmonary barotrauma from straining so fucking hard, go to an urgent care and get a fucking x-ray and some lab work done
>t. medfag
also, stop doing heavy leg press you stupid faggot, that shit is for hypertrophy, not increasing density of the sarcoplasmic reticulum

>>75608171
>I almost refuse to believe they can't understand its cring

But you know. Because you’ve seen it.

>>75608222
desu i dont see too much of it because if i did i would make it into my own memes lmao.

MRI confirmed a small tear in my right shoulder labrum. Can i do suitcase carry/farmer carry without making it worse?
>Ask your doctor
No

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>>75608278
>shoulder labrum
i'd say no, but i'm no doctor

Any reason why my shoulder feels better after a few weeks of taking collagen? Always had trouble with my shoulder when benching, or lat pulldowns but took a week off, started downing collagen peptides in the morning and a few weeks later shoulder is so much better. Not complaining, just wondering if the collagen helped repair shit in there or not?

>>75591368
Which will give better results, two cheap daily multivitamins or one high bio availability daily multivitamin a la Thorne?
>getting all of your vitamins from food will give the best results
No shit Sherlock.

How do I enjoy the burn of lifting weights more?
I'm jealous of people who like the feeling. I immediately feel lazy and want to put it down the second I lift. I'm not this way with any other excerise, I can do cardio for hours.

>>75608278
micro tears can heal, they require extreme patience and careful rehabilitation.
>ask a doctor: no
Go fuck yourself, it's your labrum. If you unironically do a complete tear it requires surgery. No there is no other option.
So you get what you fucking deserve if you're willing to take advice from a mongolian dragon dildo molding forum.

>>75608278
I'm currently living with basically no labrum and doing fine, you'll be ok (except for being a massive pussy)

If I take long breaks in between lifting sets does that affect my strength? Like if I want to do 10 sets but I do 5 and then do 5 and hour or two later, how is that different that doing all 10 sets at once? Will I get stronger if I work until I'm really tired and do it all at once?

>>75608621
Shouldn't matter that much for strength but it matters for hypertrophy.

i finally got vascular arms like I always wanted. not a question but I just wanted to share

>>75591368
I've been posting in /fat/ for a few months and recently got down to healthy bmi. I've been going to the gym while I've been cutting but mostly done cardio. I did a few lifts here and there to prevent muscle loss but I had fuck all muscle to begin with so I'm looking pretty skinny fat now. Anyway seems like the next step for me would be to switch to a beginners full body workout but looking into it I'm starting to wonder if a gym membership is even worth it. It basically looks like all the workouts I'm seeing just need a bench barbells and dumbbells and maybe a squat rack for convenience. I already own a barbell and I was gonna by a bench anyway so should I just say fuck it and cancel my membership and go full home gym? I've got the money for it and it would save me fuck tons on gas and travel time but space would be a little tight rn.

I feel I'm slower when moving computer mouse. How can I fix this? My arms don't want to obey me. Or is my mouse not working well. But I feel week in my hands in this moments and accuracy is lower too.

>>75606205
Shut up, the kid needs to bulk.

t. skellymode

>>75608734
Wherever you're most likely to succeed is where you should be lifting
I bought a home gym but my house is too small to lift at 5:30 like I like so it didn't work out like I thought it would

>>75608942
U r ded
Wake up plz
Ur senpai misses you

>>75608719
What's your bench tho

>>75608621
They claim it doesn't matter but you'll save yourself time and actually have quantifiable progress if you cut your rests down to under 5 minutes
Really difficult to know where you are when you do stupid shit like that

>>75608578
Stop fapping
You should want to overcome
Not be tired from cumming

Also, do less volume
Run starting strength
It should be hard but you should progress without burning

>>75608407
Maybe mildly but I would assume it's mostly placebo
If you take caffeine at all, your body can't really synthesize collagen anyway

>>75607797
Symmetric strength will tell you where you are
Everyone thinks they're intermediate until they put their numbers in
That's why I recommend SS to most people
Just get to intermediate and you'll be way better off

>>75607497
People who have lives like SS because it's short
That was one of his reasons for doing it for so long

>>75608734 #
>>75609317 #
>Wherever you're most likely to succeed is where you should be lifting

Best advice is best. It’s the same advice for home office or rent a store front of you have your own business. Some people need the social aspect, some people need the idea of going some place to do a thing, some prefer being comfy at home. For years I had a prison set up. Just a rack out on a slab of concrete in my backyard. There’s something interesting about having a fuck you relationship with your weight set

>>75607797
>Just get to intermediate and you'll be way better off

Once you get to intermediate you’ll be “strong enough” as well. By that I mean you can handle anything in your daily life and then some. You won’t be winning any competitions, but you can help your buddy move his couch without worry of injury.

I used to be 350 pounds a couple years ago and was on metformin for diabetees. I quit taking metformin after losing 100 pounds. Should I keep taking metformin to lose another 100?

>>75608218
stop using big words i dont understand you stupid

>>75607285
>Lmao pound some water and coffee
different then who you were responding to but i've been disappointed in my shits for awhile and don't drink coffee and you inspired me this morning
HOLY SHIT that worked amazing
didn't even know i was constipated

>>75609689
As long as you don’t have adverse affects, talk to your doc.

>>75609840
You popped a blood vessel because the pressure was too high. Go to urgent care and get it checked. Stop lifting heavier than your plumbing can handle.

>>75609946
>wake up
>down a glass of cool water
>drink a cup of black coffee
Pretty sure the volume of shit exceeds the volume of food I ate the night before.

>>75609946
>>75609969
does this also work with decaf coffee?

>>75609991
>decaf coffee

The fuck is wrong with you? That’s like fucking without cumming. Anyway, my guess would be yes. I think it has more to do with the oils and tannins than the caffeine.

>>75610044
i have an addictive personality and im afraid i would become dependant on caffeine like my energy drink/coffee guzzling coworkers

>>75610066
Oh I get that. I do NOT have an addictive personality and I am very much physically dependent on it. Physical withdrawals are a bitch.

>>75609590
>>75609590
That's essentially where I am. My squat is 185 5 Reps, bench is also 185 5 reps, and DL is 225 3 reps. I can actively push weight and see muscle mass because of it, but I feel like a portion of my power is because of my mass on its own, and not sure if I lost some weight I would be as strong still. Need to see if I can possibly cut/recomp, if not, probably just keep pushing numbers until the fat starts falling off at the same BMR. I'm trying to stick to 2000 kcal as well, but it's hard when you have a fat food habit eating gf.

>>75610412
>230
>squat 5rep max 185

That’s still a beginner. You’re not untrained, but you’re not intermediate yet. For intermediate you’re looking around

>2x bw DL
>1.5x bw Squat
>1x bw Bench

So in your case it’ll just be about when you hit 4/3/2/1.

>>75610562
Thanks although I was talking in KG I should have been more clear

>>75610570
Oh shit. Wait, you weigh 230kg? You’re fat as fuck fren.

>>75610580
Sorry I was just making a joke lol, not even that anon, he was talking lbs I can tell by the numbers he's stopped on

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Christmas is on Wednesday and my gym is closed that day. I've been doing a MWF routine rebuilding strength after like a year out of the gym. Should I just skip next week's W and stick to the routine, or should I give up the weekend two day's recover and do SuTuThSa and resume with MWF for the following week?

My other concern is that I'm going to like 5 different christmas parties that week and I WILL overeat, so I don't want to undertrain during that period.

>>75612245
>SuTuThSa and resume with MWF for the following week?
this if you're going to be insanely autistic
or just do calisthetics or just don't workout that day
in the long run is matters naught, your concern and commitment to keep going for the next year is all that matter
>My other concern is that I'm going to like 5 different christmas parties that week and I WILL overeat, so I don't want to undertrain during that period.
over the course of the month it doesn't fucking matter as long as you get back to discipline
just balls out and enjoy the holday, it won't affect you

>>75612245
Mon Thur Sat

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>>75612259
Okay sounds like a good compromise. I might go harder on Monday since I'll have two full days of recovery after.

>>75612258
I've tried the full autism plan before but usually fail before the week is over because of overtraining or stuff outside my control. You're right it doesn't matter in the long run but I do want to rebuild strength as fast as possible since for most of February I won't be able to lift regularly without going seriously out of my way, and bulking while snowboarding every day is basically impossible.

>>75612290
snowboard is pretty intense legs and core, maintaining is easy with little exercise
you can just do pushup and rows (with some random shit) while you're vacationing and you'll be fine bro

I've seen more and more people say that 5-6 reps is actually good for hypertrophy since the intensity is what causes growth. If thats the case should I lower my rest time from 2 minutes down to 60-90s.

I've read that that's the best for growth but wouldn't the intensity of 5-6 reps effect that lower rest time.

>>75612331
>should I lower my rest time from 2 minutes down to 60-90s.
absolutely
>I've seen more and more people say that 5-6 reps is actually good for hypertrophy since the intensity is what causes growth.
yes
>wouldn't the intensity of 5-6 reps effect that lower rest time.
yes

What's the best non-dairy milk macro wise? Asking as I recently started having more dairy and it's triggering my acne.
S o y? Almond?

>>75613083
raw milk

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>>75605497

>>75613083
S.oy by a wide margin
Silk protein almond is also good

>>75612331
>Reps
Rep ranges below 12 are all build the same amount of muscle. What matters more is the volume. Lower reps are common for the compound lifts since forn breaks down more on high rep sets.
>Rest time
No, lower rest times do not build more muscle. Reps completed build more muscle. If you only rested 1 min and failed you would build less muscle than if you rested 3 min and completed your set.
>Reps and rest time
Rest as long as you need. If you constantly exceed 3 min of rest though the weight may be too heavy.

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Can I get a form check?
This was my 1RM of 140kg so my form broke down slightly, but I think its actually pretty consistent with how most of my reps look

>>75614213
For a 1 RM that's not bad at all. Don't see anything inherently wrong, just could use some more quad work in general as your hips shot up a bit.

>>75614229
Yeah that's what I was thinking. My quads are really weak compared to my hamstrings and glutes. My deadlift is 210KG.

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Should you be training to failure for each set or the last set of each exercise

>>75614631
Why would you train to failure?

>>75614631
If you're a noob, you should be to failure on the last set of you're actually progressing
If you're intermediate, you need to balance strength training with training volume to failure
If you're advanced bodybuilding (you aren't and probably never will be) you need to be training the last few sets of every movement to failure me
T. Formerly FFMI>30

>>75610066
"Addictive personalities" are just people who refuse to control themselves
Grow up

>>75612331
If you're not intermediate, you should be running an LP like starting strength
(Check on symmetric strength)
Once you're intermediate, all your big lifts should still be mostly trained 4-6rep range and then I wouldn't recommend training anything but shoulder flies over 8 reps until you pass FFMI 25ish
People who tell you more reps per set are better stall indefinitely, blame their genetics for their shortcomings or roid

31, friend pointed out over dinner I have clubbed fingers. I’m overweight but working on it. Idk what could be causing it at my age but freaking out