>>76560870
Only been lifting for about 4-5 months, but not yet. Recently I had to move around some furniture and I felt weak, even though I'm already seeing gains hypertrophy-wise.
Maybe it's because I only do isolations. Are compounds really necessary to become actually stronger in real life scenarios?

Not yet but objectively I am way stronger.

I've only been consistently lifting for ten months. After my workout yesterday I flipped through my notepad and even stuff I was doing two months ago looks DYEL compared to what I've done this week.

>>76560934
If you want to be strong, do the lifts that strength sport competitors do. If you want to be big, do the lifts that bodybuilders do. There's some overlap, but not 100%.

>>76560934
Yeah, basically. Doing only isolations will get you stronger, don't get me wrong, but it's limited to pretty much that single movement. With compounds, you work a bunch of muscles in tandem, including stabilizers, which is more akin to work in the real world. Also helps you get used to the feeling of several hundred pounds resting on your frame, less shock when you have to lift IRL

>>76560934
>Are compounds really necessary to become actually stronger in real life scenarios?
sorta. Strongman shit are the only things that give you "irl strength" but heavy compounds are what lead up to that.
also just eat a bunch. Don't become a fatass but accept that you can't be your strongest while shredded. Fat isn't muscle but as long as you're working out it adds a lot to the M of F = ma without decreasing a by much.

>>76560870
A few weeks ago I lifted my chubby friend with ease, I was impressed.

>>76562021
Did you fuck him

Yeah I realized I can move around furniture like its nothing. Pulling a fridge/oven out to clean behind takes 5 seconds. I can grab a queen mattress with no handles and just heave the fucker around. When I need to move a big fancy computer chair I put my forehead on the seat and goodmorning the chair over my head. This sort of strength is normal for a man to have but it really feels like a privileged superpower. Especially after spending time around the elderly.

>>76560870
No I don't really have a problem being delicate. I don't think that's a thing outside cartoons.

The closest thing I've experienced is like lingering 'muscle readiness'. Like I'll do a really hard set of curls then grab my phone and accidentally smack myself in the face with it because my arm wasn't expecting it to be so light. But that goes away pretty quick.

>>76560870
I recently lost a job because I kept tearing doorknobs out of the flimsy hollow core doors we use indoors in the states. The straw that broke the camel's back was when the most recent doorknob crumbled around my fingertips and I was whipping my hand trying to get it off and it flew off, shot through an exterior wall and shattered my boss's windshield. Be careful out there bros.

>>76562494
Holy shit I have the same! Are you adopted too?

>>76560870
Normies around me are in constant fear of hurting their backs (or just plain getting hurt) and telling me everything is too heavy

>>76560870
>Do you feel strong?
Yes, and the "funny" drawback is that dyels act like exertion is the same for everyone. God forbid you have a job at a big company, they would fire you if you lifted something heavy because of liability.

>>76560870
Not really, the shopping bags will never feel light.

>>76560870
Depends. I did break a pencil on accident once just lightly playing with it. Felt what you were describing in that moment, i suppose.

>>76562841
As you grow, your food will grow.

>>76560870
In modern day contexts, I would say I'm pretty strong. There aren't many guys who I'd say are more jacked than me in daily life, but there are a few pretty big guys I've seen.
I'm much stronger than all my friends. The strongest in my immediate social circle. With that being said, I can think of some dudes that are up there with me.

>>76562494
> doorknob crumbled around my fingertips and I was whipping my hand trying to get it off and it flew off, shot through an exterior wall and shattered my boss's windshield.
wtf? this must be some kind of joke

>>76560870
I've always been a "strong " guy even in youth.
I remember my dad who always worked even on weekends, so him being home was special to me. It was a chance for him to rest I suppose.
As a 5 or so on to teens he would ask me to pull him up off couch or chair.
A little guy pulling a 250lb man up is tiring. But I did it to my best little body could do. Ten or so attempts until he stood up lol.
And the "bring that toolbox from wherever to wherever ".
I couldn't lift it. He said just drag it. I did a foot at a time.
Later I could lift it and walk 3 steps rest the puck up again. Eventually I could carry and walk until it felt like my heart was going to explode. Good times.
I always was a the guy they called to lift or move something in classes.
I seriously thought people were just having a joke because anything they couldn't move or lift was a very low challenge.
I couldn't believe normal people were ridiculously weak.

Speaking of handshakes, I was always a skelly and felt like people were gripping way too hard because it always felt like my hand was getting crushed, but now that I'm somewhat strong for the first time in my life it's the opposite. I feel like whenever I shake someones hand it's always like some loose, floppy shit with almost no grip whatsoever. Like I feel their hand on mine and can't even grip back because it's almost like they're low-fiving me or just touching their hand to mine like we're a couple or some shit. I didn't imagine myself as someone who would even care about the quality of a handshake but it's so easy to tell how much of a beta or weak pussy someone is by how they shake hands. It's like you can actually get a snapshot of what kind of person they are by how they shake your hand. I feel like I came across some esoteric boomer knowledge with this shit.

>>76564114
No i do the same thing, those 20 dollar doors from Lowe's just cant handle my raw grip strength. I have traumatized my kids by ripping the door handle off just by twisting it. My forearms are massive. Frankly I regret over training my massive size has become a burden to me and my.family.

>>76560870
I was drunk at a bar the other day visiting my home town when I ran into an old friend. I hugged him and picked him up off the ground with one arm, hes about 190. He was flabbergasted so I picked him up and overhead pressed him like a baby getting uppies. It was good entertainment but now looking back on it kinda gay but he was just shocked. I guess most people cant pick ohp 2 plates so 190 was honestly pretty easy.

>>76560870
> everything is, to the point of it being an inconvenience like struggling to be delicate or accidentally hurting your DYEL friend when hugging them, slapping them in the back playfully or greeting them
that is just autism

Oh my.
I was at college for a year and happened to meet this older woman in her thirties or so, me at 19 and have always been called strong or Big muscles.
She knew me from back home I guess, I didn't know her but she mentioned her older brother and her younger brother was my classmate for years.
Oh OK, I get it you are familiar with me but I have no idea who you are, but here's to being long freinds, I thought.
I gripping her hand like I was holding Lord Humongous from reaching for his six-shooter.
>Firm Friendly Warm handshake
I thought. Gripping her hand like I was trying to crush and anaconda's snake skull one-handed moments before I die from asphyxiation in some jungle movie.
Her eyes wear tearing up, watery at edges, her old lady face scrunched up in pain like a dried up pumpkin weeks after Halloween.
Her face contorting and twisting like multiple personalities or demons being cast out at a exorcism.
I was fascinated, this never happened to me before as I grip and locked hand for like 30 seconds.
Maybe it was because I was stoned or something.
I let go and she whimpered and ' aaaiii-unnhhh--aaahhhhhh---aaaii' as she walked to her bedroom.
Her friend who was there told me she had rheumatoid arthritis in bother her hands.
I had noticed that her hands looked like a sort of large bat, with skinny wings, that was the back of her hands- the sunken skin and shrunken tendons between her skin.
The freind who told me this came back from the one I shook hands with, who was lying in her room crying I guess.
She said she thinks her freinds hand might be broken.
I still didn't get it.
>? What's ruma toy'd Art trytus?
It was months later I figured out what I did and what happened to her.
I laughed and laughed like a madman.
This was like twenty years ago.
Anytime I'm feeling bored I go through the whole memory and laugh my ass off.
Good times

>>76564753
>me at 19
>twenty years ago
Aw hell nah, this nigga 40 and blogposting on the chan. I gotsta get /fit/ and get a gf so I can leave this hellhole

If I exert force on something I find I have more of it then I did years ago, but I have perfect control over how much I apply.

I don't think anybody who gives crushing handshakes is doing it without realising, I think it's a gay little power move, and it makes me think less of anyone who does it, but I still like them better than clammy, weak handshakes