>mid twenties>lost soul>cant stop fumbling women due to autism and saying something stupid>Fat as a pig>know I would be at least 6 or 7/10 if I lost weight>Wont do it because it makes me uncomfortable and doesn't guarantee I'll find womenI wont join a gym because I hate the UK culture, I don't have friends I could go with anyway. I lifted for several months at home but stopped caring when nothing changed. Being autistic means everything needs a reason. I cant just do it for my own benefit because in my mind there is no benefit. Being healthy means nothing when nothing changes. I wish I could try boxing but my body is shit and would probably snap in half if I got punched (I'd enjoy it however).So what actually made you all think "fuck it imma do it anyway". Because whether it be low intelligence or autism, I have had that epiphany moment a million times but never follow through. I've wasted the first half of my twenties being a mentalcel in my room. I already feel too old for the kind of women I like. So whats the point? You tell me. Peace
>>76660533There was a gym opening up about 20 minutes away from where we lived and my friend said "do you want to go to this gym when it opens", said yes because I had no valid reason to say nosimple as mate
>>76660533I quit drinking and doing drugs and needed something else to do with my time.
>>76660744I mean, doesn't sound like you belong on 4chan. That's quite normal but as I said no friends so yeah
>>76660748I've done that as well believe it or not. I make music and play games thats it. :/
>>76660533I don't think there is a singular moment I can attribute the drive for being involved in fitness, so many factors at the start such as wanting to be attractive, not wanting to be a fat cunt, generally just not being interested in things such as clubbing or partying every weekend. Sometimes I just got the feeling I don't belong and I don't fit in.But here we are 3-4 years down the line of lifting, motivations change. You start lifting for YOURSELF and yourself only. Going to the gym, eating in a particular way and living a specific lifestyle is part of my way of life now - I am too far gone in this to back out even if I wanted to (I don't). You obviously want to do it in your head but have some mental hesitation to actually commit to it, so please just imagine yourself older thinking back to this time and wishing that "I should have just started." You can do fucking whatever you want, boxing, lifting, etc. Just train hard, eat well and take some time to rest.
>>76660780>I mean, doesn't sound like you belong on 4chan.Saying that whilst reddit spacing is hilariously ironic bro
>>76660790I am too old for boxing, not a heavyweight so cant just pick it up.are you my age?
>>766605337th grade football off season.
>>76661068Must be nice being athletic. Never had that luxury
>>76660533Starting is the easy part. Not quitting is the hard part. Two reasons kept me away from the gym. One: Injuries and no progression, and two: Having to go to the gym 4-5 times per week felt like i was becoming too obsessed with fitness with no room left for anything else. Untill i figured out i can just do my own routine and go 2 to 3 times per week if i want it. Autists in here usually tell you in a very dictated way "YOU NEED TO DO THIS OR ELSE" but fitness is the most forgiving thing ever regarding frequency. Gains will be made regardless.
>>76660533Autism is the only thing making me lift, tbhdesu. I started just to try it out but now I can't miss a session because the entire program will be thrown off if I do, and I'll have to go back and adjust my notebooks. I also lift for my waifu, so there's that.
>>76660533son was born and i was way older than when people usually have kids. knew i had to do something to ensure that i would be around long and healthy enough for his father to raise him into manhood.
>>76660533I think a lot of things culminated together for me but i see fitness/athleticism as a spiritual journey that often times mirrors a persons place in their life. The way your body is expressed in mind body and soul. Millions of reasons but I started really getting into it at a very angry point in my life. Anatomy is cool, fixing my body and literally making it easier to get out of bed is cool.
>>76660533Fat shaming by fags here on 4chan. It wasn't directed at me, but through the power of self reflection I knew they were right.
>>76660533gym is easy lol you dont need an epiphany
>>76661152So why didnt I get any when I did it for 3 months this year and worked my way up weight doing exercises that tackled all groups apart from vertical pull?
>>76661169Well you got a girl already so youve won havent you. I aint as lucky
>>76661278I guarantee your body is already adept at building muscle and you probably had a good base to start with. Us autists with no fucking muscle mass cant say the same
>>76661273Fat shaming for me has never worked. I dont know how it does for people
>>76661248I dont understand why this doesnt interest me. Sometimes when I would work out I would enjoy it and other times I hated it and just wanted it to be over. I am currently stuck in the latter
Damn bro, that's crazy how there's literally no way to get you to lift. Maybe you should just give up and rot away like the fat piece of shit you clearly are. I'd tell you to kill yourself, but you'd probably have an excuse for that too.
>>76660795I mean, could you just not, so yeah.
>>76660533Tranny thoughts. I was a cabaret dancer originally, but it stopped working as a cope eventually.
>>76661314ye ur right it just comes naturally to me i first started when i was in 5th grade and used my dads old equipment he had in the garage
>>76661474Nah man, love my family too much innit. If they werent around hell probably
>>76661538There you go then
"[Success] eludes most people because they are preoccupied with events while disregarding process. Without process, there is no event."An event is easy. Like winning the lottery. A short cut. A magic bullet. It doesn't fucking exist.Process is hard. The daily grind of managing what you eat and executing your workout routine.You need to stop being a whiny little bitch, stop complaining, make a process out of diet and exercise and start executing the process. It takes time and effort. Stop looking for events.
>>76661625yeah thiscrazy thing is it's really easy after a while and you wonder why it took you so long
>>76661897I already had that moment and dint feel like this at all. Gotta be something wired with you people
>>76660533No story, just felt like it.
>>76660533Anon mental health is either a spiral upward or a spiral downward. It really is as simple as just going and doing the things your brain is telling you that you can't do or that you don't want to do but that you know you should.Look at yourself right now, is staying in this mentality making things worse or better? You are in the downward spiral brother. You are comfortable there. The only way to break out is to be uncomfortable.I recommend choosing one thing and sticking to just that and it will have a domino effect on the rest of your life. I think for depression running is probably the best choice because it will get you outside of the house, help you lose weight, make you sleep better, and have a dramatic effect on your mental health.
>>76660533i got tired of being weak.
>>76661909then u got the process wrongwhen the process is right it just clicks into place. it feels natural.
I fumbled someone who was incredibly hot who I got on with really well and liked me a lot, and I got the impression it was a physical thing. I'm still not there yet but I'm in a lot better shape than I was a couple of years ago and feel better about myself, and I feel like if a similar situation were to come along now it'd end a lot better.
>>76661936All I did was 4 days a week in my garage. Did push pull and legs. Did it for 3 months. What about the process was wrong
>>76661946>Fucks around for 3 months>Welp, I don't look like peak Arnold, guess I'll stop
>>76661946PPL is designed for neurotypical people. Since you're neurodivergent it's probably not a good program for you.
>>76660533>everything needs a reason How about the island is filling up with brown cunts that that hate white people, we have no guns, there could potentially be bloody civil conflict in the next couple of decades and if you don't get strong and fit you could be potentially stomped to death by a gang of pakis or other flavour of brown filth?Fucking soft cunt.
>>76661943Yep I'm about to fumble this person I'm talking to. Really cute and goth. But I am a shithouse so yk its all gonna go wrong in an hour or two.
>>76661955It wasn't that dude, I obviously felt better and more put together. Coordination etc. I just had no change definition wise to my body. So yeah
>>76661983Its fucking hilarious because I absolutely agree with you. Believe me I loathe them more than you would ever know. I want nothing more than to get my body into fighting shape but I have no mentor. :/
>>76661946>4 days>PPLThat's not how that works anon. PPL is six days a week routine. It's specifically designed to split up volume and training load so that you can do six days without building up too much fatigue.
>>76662268Because my legs are weak and bent Id do, push, legs, rest, pull and legs.
>>76660533At 25 when I squatted and barely managed to get up.Then came bodybuilding shows and I became addicted to it
>>76660533I went to shave my pubes and couldn't do it without a mirror because my gut had gotten so big. That was the first sign and it got me back in the gym lifting. Then I was told by my wife that I had bad sleep apnea and my doctor said its probably due to my weight. Since then ive lost 35 lbs and can see my dick when I look down and dont have sleep apnea anymore. Thanks cardio
Stop eating fatty. You don’t need the gym. Do high rep low weights and calisthenics and eat the bare minimum macros to not die. Like 1250-1500 calories. Fast some days too. And walk a lot along with jogging, biking or swimming. Autism and social awkwardness don’t matter, you will have results and you can just do it without interacting with anyone. You’ll never get women the way you imagine though since you’re obviously a little bitch.
>>76660533I started lifting after I got laid off in March 2024. After a few months of looking for a job with no luck, I decided to start lifting at home, partly because I needed a project to work on, partly because I was seriously contemplating joining the military and needed to get in shape first.I eventually got a good paying job in late 2024 and joined a gym a few months later. I have been working out regularly ever since.
>>76660533Wanted to engage in self harm so instead of cutting myself, which was the plan, I started running and strength training.
>>76662364Thats nice to hear. Why did you start?
>>76662381What cardio do you do?
>>76662400I don't care about any of this shit mate lmao but I'll ask you properly. What do you propose when I try this and inevitably get cold feet on day 3 or 4? Or when my smoker's lungs are gasping for air when I try and run?
>>76662420What sort of shape were you in before?
>getting fit>women are approaching me>still don't know how to socialize with womenyeah the more things change the more they stay the same
>>76660533I always thought I was lean, but I had to go to the hospital one time for a work injury and they weighed me and I was overweight. Made me freak out afterwards and start fasting.
>>76660533stop shoving shit into your face asshole. if you did nothing but eat ten twinkies every day, and i mean NOTHING, you'd lose weight. you could literally sit in a pile of your own excrement for 16 hours, having a twinkie and a glass of water every hour and a half, sleep for 8 hours, and repeat, and you would lose weight.it's not because you're too autistic or working out is too hard, it's because you're addicted to shoving food into your face. god I hate people like you so much. get better, not for your own sake, but so there are less people for me to hate in this bullshit world.
>>76660533i listened to the intro song of berserk.
>>76660533my knees starting hurting b/c old. working out for basically any other reason besides sports stated in this thread is vanity influencer capitalistic market space horseshit designed to get your forking over money for whatever snake oil junk. remember that white boy.
>>76662616start smaller, focus on consistency, ramp up so you build your tolerance for suck. it'll take longer but that's the price you pay for fucking your shit up.
>>76662607I just go on the recumbant cardio bike and push 210-250 watts for 30 minutes after my weight lifting sessions. Ive kinda stalled at this power output.
>>76660533I was listening to a lot of death metal now i run and listen to death metal and feel much better.
I got a job where you get free access to a gym that almost nobody uses when I get off work
>playing newest hitman game>high>doing cool tricks and stunts as Agent 47>wish I could be like him>realize I can with good training and diet>have lost 80ilbs in under a year
>>76662916Based autist
>>76660533I started out this month. I know I know, there's a high chance I might abandon it. But I tried it already when I was a teenager and I didn't feel it, but I think this time is different. I simply got bored of videogames, since they usually fill my day that made my free time empty as fuck. So I decided to start working out, and besides the first time when I almost injured myself by being a moron and lifting too much, I think it's cool. I got my headphones so I don't have to listen to normie music, it feels nice. I can't say I'm working for the gains because there hasn't been time to see any, but I hope they happen. I think this mindset is better than having to go there expecting to get big in 6 months but maybe it's also not a mindset that encourages pushing my limits. Idk not sure for now
>>76660533i was sick of being a fat kid and so i started running. it took a long time to slim down the first time. i didn't get truly lean, just less fat. i ran the track behind the school by myself my senior year of high school about two miles every day or two. it was hard. i was really out of shape. then i got to college and i didn't want to start that chapter of my life as a fat guy. i went hard on cardio and lost a ton of weight. it only took a few months because the conditions were ideal. i also ate less at the dining hall freshman year because it was closed between meals so i couldn't snack. that was probably the most important factor of my weight loss but i didn't realize it at the time. i thought it was the cardio.
>>76660533I started back after 15 years of not working out because I didn’t want to look back on my life and wonder what I could have looked like if I had just tried.Also, seeing the majority of people being content with terrible looking bodies seemed like what I had waiting for me if I didn’t start again.I was having lower back pain that only seemed to be getting worse, had very little energy, and decided I would rather be dead than continue living with a body that would only hurt more and and look worse. Why live for another 20,30,40 years and only feel gradually worse as the time goes by. No thank you. I will continue to shape and strengthen my body until I am fully happy with the way it looks. Then I will maintain it for as long as I can. I will not go back to being tired, sore, and unhappy with how I look. The journey is all that matters, I will not look back on my life with any regret. If I end up never looking how I want, I will be nothing less than proud that I tried my absolute best, and no one can take that from me.Don’t filter yourself before you even begin. You will eventually pass a point where you will never get the chance to look and feel how you want again.
>>76662620I wasn't comically obese, but I was very fat and had no muscle. 6'0" and 240 lbs.Since I started going to the gym this February, I'm now down to 200 lbs and am aiming for the 185-190 range.
>>76662057Do every single set to failure or unbearable pain. You will see growth after that. Eat. Sleep. Push. Your body can only grow so much muscle per day, help it by giving it enough protein to turn into muscle. And always push until you can’t do one more rep. That’s what really beats the muscle up enough to make it heal and grow.
>tall and wide, look well enough in clothes but absolutely disgusting, pale and flabby naked>new year's party>some chicks invited>drinks involved>everyone tipsy and silly >chick drags me to her room, begin to undress>o shit>take shirt off, I'm basically melted cheese >she looks visibly disgusted, leaves room leaving me there>she ends up leaving the party earlier and I feel like a fool>a couple months pass>new party somewhere, chick notices me>i remember last time, don't even go with her, no shirt off, stay sober and grumpy the whole time>realize I have a good frame and base but zero muscle, too much fat and too pale>get back home after the party and that very week I started working out>been 7 years since
>>76660533OP, like most 4chan users, isn't autistic. He's a low IQ narcissist with schizoid tendencies.**for zoomers and Americans: Schizoid doesn't mean schizophrenic, it's completely different.
>>76660533get on mounjaro or zepbound and just be active for a half an hour every day and try to learn a little every time you do something physical. all you have to do is condition yourself to say yes to movingstill a long way from my goals but i watched jujimufu and tom videos until i wanted to try out half of the cool shit they tried out. also i liked shows like dragonball z and ultimate muscle growing up.
>>76660533Was skinnyfat in HS, last year I realised I needed to change because I avoided looking at myself in the mirror when I showered due to how unflattering I felt myself looking, lost some weight and realised ''if I can do that I can probably put on muscle too'' and just kinda started going because I thought ''I like playing a big muscly men in games, why not look like that irl I suppose'', literal case of ''Idk I was bored''
This thread reads like some of you might find some help in the /fit/ /sig/ archive.Wish you all the best my friends.for_my_anonshttps://mega.nz/folder/Lro2TQxT#xGKCfbRYvE5cUkCPZyjzGA/folder/L7RDBDBCMotivational picshttps://mega.nz/folder/Lro2TQxT#xGKCfbRYvE5cUkCPZyjzGA/folder/DmokwDhJsig topicshttps://mega.nz/folder/Lro2TQxT#xGKCfbRYvE5cUkCPZyjzGA/folder/7nQyyRaS
I just bought a vr headset because i thought I would play gran turismo. Turns out that shit makes me nauseous because you're not making the same turns the car makes. I bought picrel game because I like rhythm games and then just started grinding. This game also made me nauseous but this time because I was at my max HR. My autistic need to get better scores made me play the game for an hour multiple times a week for like a year or so. At some point I started wanting to track my HR because I realized the game was basically exercise. I got one of those xiaomi bracelets and realized I wanted the always on lcd that I used to have on my amazfit bip. Got a decent deal on a garmin instinct and then somehow got tricked into running. I guess because the garmin calculates vo2max even from walking and then said I could do 5k in like 21 mins, I had to go find out if this is possible. Bought some running shoes and went for my first run in forever basically, but this time I knew not to go balls to the wall because I had heard about couch to 5k and that nike running app thing. Obviously my autist ass didn't want to use such normie methods but I guess I did sort of listen to the advice not to go full retard and managed to run like 5k without getting a side stitch or hurting my knees or anything.I guess I just somehow got tricked into doing exercise regularly enough to not hate it anymore and get the joy that I never achieved before.I think the stupid stats in the app keep me from stopping and seeing improvements and feeling good keeps me going and even pushing myself.I have also started to do yoga which helps strengthen the core a bit I guess. Not sure if I want to ever start lifting but I really enjoy progressing in shit so maybe I will do it at some point.
>>76664053Past a certain point, this takes an extremely high mental toll. Which is why I stopped doing it with this mindset. Why I gave up in general desu
>>76664054Ive got a horrible frame so.... No point trying I guess. Never had a woman do that to me either so we're not similar at all.
>>76664060Hey man probably, I've got the diagnosis for autism so I don't really care either way. What point are you making? Besides projecting of course.
>>76664062I am very close to just considering Ozempic. Because hell it's not like I will be around here long anyway
>>76664093I hate people like you
>Ah geez, man, I can't man, it just doesn't work for me manWhy are you even here?
>>76664248You should do it, but not for life, search this thing this book one guy wrote about a short term plan to use ozempic combined with fasting to lose weight rapidly and get off the drug
>>76660533When I was 16 I saw pornography of Johnny Castle and Carmel Moore. He was a fireman and jacked out of his mind. I thought she was super hot and that I'd never get a woman like that unless I was jacked out of my mind. So I started doing push ups and squats with a backpack in my mom's basement. Then I started running on the treadmill, then outside. Then I joined the cross country team. Then I started lifting. I did track. Focused on lifting proper. Then I got into BJJ. Now I'm almost a black belt and fitness is an integral part of my life.I did get to creampie this big titty woman a few times along the way. So really I got what I came here for. The old teenager in me decided that it was all I had to see before I died. The young adult thought that nobody would ever really listen to me. I gotta tell you, I've never been able to prove them wrong.
>>76664761And this is really the foundation of my whole philosophy on drug use, which I call tactical drug use The drug itself is never the problem, only long term use is, in general For example, I used to get sweaty hands playing PUBG when it got close to the end and victory was possible, and I got over that by using propranolol, and today I don't use propranolol and don't get nervous in the final rounds anymore I think when I first played PUBG, it was a revelation, it was almost like when I first played Mario brothers or something as a kid. Such a great concept I can't wait to have an Xbox or playstation again. I'd rather the playstation because of Gran turismo
>>76660533I was a complete social reject who had been a shut-in for about 6 years when I was 22. I had literally zero friends or acquaintances. My days would involve me going to work (at least I had a job) and then immediately going back to my apartment and sitting on my computer. That was my entire life outside of groceries.I always thought the reason I was treated like shit socially was because of my looks and lifting would improve that.
>>76664803Has anything improved since
Joined the military. I was a skinnyfat kid who hated his life.Now I'm jacked, do MMA, and shoot competitively. The more jacked and dangerous you are the more your autism is tolerated nigga go lift some weight.
>>76660533Recently started mma and need to be able to manhandle the cunts and pop shots off their heads. Try it
>>76660533As autistic as it sounds, my inspiration was my vrchat avatar. In real life, I was a lanky twig with no muscles. Looking at myself in the mirror in vrchat with full body tracking and realizing that if I just put on a little bit of muscle irl, I'd look just like that, filled me with this overwhelming urge to start working out.Been doing calisthenics three times a week for the past two years. Put on three kilograms of muscle. Still single digit bf%. Feels good. Gonna go work out right now.
>>76662871How long did it take you to get there and what was your starting wattage?
>>76660533I used to do lots of cardio because lolarmyguy. The only positive result for my physique was being skinny. Decided that if I wanted different results I needed a different exercise. Once I started building strength I wanted more. Enjoy lifting much more than running.
>>76660795reddit spacing is a 10+ year old meme at this point. he might unironically be an old newfag
>>76666505Im not certain what my starting wattage was because I didnt pay attention but I assume it must have doubled because on day 1 of cardio I was able to burn about 200 calories in 30 minutes. I now burn about 430 in that same 30 mins according to the bikes output. I believe it too because my heart rate dropped from 100bpm to 55bpm and my blood pressure went from 140/95 to 118/70. My cardio was terrible and I wouldn't say its great now but its a shit load better and it made weight loss MUCH faster than just dieting alone. Lifting and cardio together every day has done wonders for my lifts. It hasn't been the gains goblin i was worried about all these years.
>>76666505And sorry it took about 2 months to see significant improvement in cardio fitness. It took me about 6 months to get where I am now and its still improving although very slowly now.
>>76664248it's the other way around, being sedentary is what's harming you so use what's at your disposal to fix that. exercise is kinda great in that the more of it you do the less effort you expend doing your usual daily routine. keep at it brazzer
