>>76926541
I missed last week at the gym; had a cold and had to focus on taking care of oldest dog. She had surgery a couple weeks ago (had the cancer) and was having a lot of problems with the incision site. Cold wasn't a big deal really, but I fucking hate when people get me sick, so I try to avoid doing the same.
But the cold is pretty much gone—just hacking up the last dregs—and got word that they get all of the tumor and the cancer most likely won't come back. So back in the gym yesterday for leg day. Crazy how much weaker I felt though. Lost a couple reps on every lift.
No I haven't made it yet. I haven't been fat for a couple years, but I'm not jacked enough.

I turned 33 a few months ago and I really lost hope in getting a gf and at this point I convinced myself that I’m an incel. Basically getting a 30 year old hag is the only option and I will not be falling for that and on the other hand 20 year old zoomers wouldn’t want nothing to do with me when all I have is 50k in the bank and a low tier house with outdated furniture in it.

On the other hand I’m in my best training phase of my life breaking pr’s left and right so that’s something

>>76926541
>50k in the bank and a low tier house with outdated furniture in it.

Don't be too hard on yourself. Most people really struggle to buy a house with one income. This world is basically a two-income-per-household world now. You're basically carrying the weight of two people.

>>76926585
I’m 36 and I’m dating a 21 year old.

>>76926585
lol i think you have a very poor understanding of girls if you think its having 50k in the bank thats holding you back.

pro tip the guy I know who has fucked the most hot girls is objectively a loser who works at outback steakhouse and has room mates in his 30s.

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How do you fellow Uncs?

>>76926659
Then why the fuck do i not slay?

>>76926649
how? i went with a few walks with a 23 year old girl and she ghosted me

30s is prime. I WILL deadlift 800lb Soon™.

>>76926705
because its not about money. The 30+ year single moms who want a provider might care about how much money you have but the 20 year old hot girl wants to have fun. If you even mentioned your 401k that would just dry her up. Even if there was a million in there.

>>76926712
define having fun? you can't have fun without money

>>76926728
>you can't have fun without money
lol yes you can. They want excitement and to go on an adventure and shit.

By even presenting yourself as a guy who has his shit together and a good job or whatever you are putting yourself into the box of "potential boyfriend" which means she cant let you fuck her because then you would lose respect for her and not date her.

By being a retarded fun times guy who is not boyfriend material its actually easier for her to open her legs.

Women work opposite to how you would assume they do in many situations like this.

>>76926541
sitting on your ass all day

men peak at 20
>>76926649
Just like everyone else on 4chan lol !

>>76926705
If you’re posting on 4chan in your 30s, especially if you’re in here crying about women, that’s why you don’t get any women, because it shows you’re detestable

>>76926649
I’m sure she’s a wholesome girl who totally isn’t dating the 36 year old incel 4channer to use him as an ATM.

>>76927717
>>76927723
Go away, this our nursing home safe space. Go back to fortnite, discord, or whatever

>>76926585
I made a 20 year old wait to turn 21 before I would date her. How hard is it for you to go outside and have fun?

>>76926541
I bought flowers to my bae today

>>76926541
This dude looks like old messi

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35, NEET since 2009. Seeing a physical therapist for my osteoporosis next week. She sounded like kind of a bitch over the phone - you know the type of manhater who has a preconceived idea of you right out of the gates that you find yourself clowndancing to try to disprove - so kinda dreading it in advance.

T-scores have improved since last year. Recently started intravenous bisphosphonates, as esophageal varices from cirrhosis makes oral bisphosphonates sketchy

>>76927711
/fit/ seems to have a pretty chequered demography. There are some genuine chads here, and some sniveling incels too

>>76926649
Do you guys think this is possible if my hair is already thinning? I don't mind upping it to say 25. I'm thinking about just shaving it off.

>>76926541
Divorce-raped but happy now and excited that i still have the time to rebuild my empire. Also i do not mind banging 35+ poon. Yeah wagmi

>>76928795
About to be 32. Divorce raped this past year. I had became a widower in a prior mirage when I was 26. I feel like a hollow-husk of a man. I don’t think I’ll ever mentally recover. I’m a single dad raising my oldest son completely by myself and am fighting to be in my youngest son’s life. Ex-wife ran off and married her boss in less than six months and he’s financing her attorneys and is trying to push me out of the picture. I hate every facet of my life. God felt me two really shitty hands when all I ever wanted was a family.

But hey, at least I’m /fit/ now.

>they fell for the marriage meme
Just get a dog. They will never betray you.

Having our first kid next year and feeling equal parts excited and terrified.

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31 and just got a gf who 6'+ and black

>>76926541
I started lifting weights after being cardio/bodyweight only my whole life and I'm surprised i didn't start sooner. I did wake up on the wrong side of the bed today though.
>>76929661
All you have to do is get a good partner lol.
>>76929689 good luck breeder.

What the hell is this new captcha?

>>76929747
>What the hell is this new captcha?
There is this proxy 4chan clone site that lets you bypass bans and people use it to spam. Mods have been trying to fight it for over a year with no success. The recent captcha shenanigans is another attempt.

you guys don't realize that we are already at a point where its basically impossible to make a captcha that a person can solve and an AI can't.

we are fucked

>>76929626
Hang in there man it can’t rain forever

>>76926541
>Did you make it yet?
long time ago
>How's your AARP membership going?
Hwat?

>>76928795
>>76929626
Honor killings need to make a comeback

>>76926541
>>76926585
33 dating a 24 yr old here.

you really overestimate the average zoomer/millenials.

so many of them live with their parents, have no jobs and have 0 life skill, thats why so many of them are incels. so many of them still spend their nights in the childhood rooms playing fortnite at 28.

>>76926541

making it.
had a doc check recently, my vo2 max has taken a pounding this year due to being sick but doc said "not surprised that your anaerobic capacity is great, you have a lot of muscle mass and obviously lift" so thats nice.

finally started "taking it slow" when lifting and caring about mobility. got a home gym now so its always chill no rushing.

thinking about "what next" more and more.
not sure if my gf is a long term thing or should I break it off. she is still young so has plenty room to grow, has potential to be amazing, loves me and cares for me, but also doesnt take care of herself, doesnt take care of our apartment, has annoying insecurities and anger issues that sporadically pop up and just make me pissed or resentful.

was quite popular among women before, since we got into the relationship she was jealous so much for every random interaction i basically stopped using social media or talking to other women to avoid the jealousy bursts.

while im working (200k/year but living in eu) also started my own business, which is slowly scaling up, gotta finish writing a math paper which might cause a bit of a stir when published, also got a new product coming out which might blow up as early testers love it.


also devoting way more time to longevity and keeping myself young looking. megadosing glycine+collagen is great. im quite tall with high cheekbones and blue eyes so i want to keep my looks.

thinking more of what next.
my life went from wild adventures, travel, art and parties to "relationship mode" watching netflix on the couch and i might explode soon if it doesnt change.

>>76926585
>I turned 33 a few months ago and I really lost hope in getting a g
Same here bro, I just can't figure out how to get a gf. I've never been attractive, but now I'm also bald, which makes it way worse.

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>>76926541
I made it
>In better shape than majority of my peers/people my age
>Look young for my age
>5 year marriage anniversary coming up
>Labrador retriever
>Honest job
>Endurance fitness path (optional)
I just need to INT/WIS max and fix my economy (wrong build)
>31

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>>76926541
>Did you make it yet?
35. physically bretty good. borderline neet, im doing my phd but it's lowkey neethood im getting paid enough just to buy food. virging. almost destroyed my dick through the years and now im left with severe ED.

>>76926728
unironically ngmi

>>76928795
>>76929626
why did you get divorced?

>>76926541
everyone who told you that it keeps getting better as a guy as you age was right. if you put in the work, it keeps getting better. have hit multiple PRs this year even though I'm lifting less and grinding less in the gym than I did in my late teens/early 20s.

>>76930950
Sick larp

I turned 34 a few weeks ago. I’m still a virgin. I don’t really have friends. I have a humiliating job. I live with my parents. I never learned to drive a car. I’ve been miserable every waking moment for at least a decade at this point. I have no confidence, no self esteem, no ambition, literally no reason whatsoever to be alive, but I’m too afraid to end things. I guess things are going pretty well.

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>>76933117
fuck you. if that is your response to genuine happiness consider killing yourself for the sake of humanity. you're so deep in your own mud of wretched hatred that you push everything down that has escaped the abyss. you're the worst of the worst and if your post was serious, you should try with all your might to cleanse your hart of the blackness that has infested it. if you go on living like this you will only make everything worse. fuck. you

i feel u man i have a very similar dilemma

>34y old boomer
>got the body (5’8 170lb ripped)
>got the car
>got the decent job (93k before tax)
>got the fake friends to keep up appearances
>got the condo
>got the fashionable clothes
>lifting since 21
>got the sports car (ok not really but it’s a i30. It’s decent)
I did everything right. Everything since 22 grinding. Noticed what’s missing?

I should have listened to the blackpillers. They were the correct ones, doing everything right and “making it” doesn’t give you shit if you’re average face manlet like me. I mog majority of my peers on income & social circle alone yet I can’t even get a date. I can’t even get jeet or Asian girls, I live in a state where even 6ft is not that tall, I listened to redpill fags on here for years tell me it’s not over. Never even kissed btw

But all I did was bury my head in the sand. Looks DO matter, a lot. Now I’m greyer and uglier, balder, and sadder. If I listened to the blackpill guys at 22 I would have saved for LL or some surgeries, hell at least a head start. Take it from a jaded defeated boomer, looks determine this shit. I know, I wanted the roomers to be wrong so bad but it’s true
Godspeed to you all. If you’re under 30, focus on getting pretty/lean and keeping your looks. Everything else is cope

Don’t be me frens

I’m about to turn 30, looking at buying a house with my girlfriend soon, not sure about having kids though. Have I made it? Once upon a time when I was 23 I was shredded as a mad cunt but now I’m fat and trying to get my body back.

>>76933011
>why did you get divorced?
She had a fling then convinced herself the grass was greener on the other side of the fence and thanks to good ole divorce laws she made out very well. The same story has been told many many times.

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>>76933150
These guys would eat 8,000 kcal in pasta before a race - at least according to one of the drivers whose anecdotes over the last 30 years have grown increasingly extreme. I think about that a lot when eyeing keto and thinking "maybe this will fix my skin."

https://desuarchive.org/_/search/text/ok%2520not%2520really%2520but%2520it%E2%80%99s%2520a%2520i30/

But I am you. I went from the prettyboy heartthrob of the girls in the 5th 6th and 7th grade to irredeemable incel creep when I was hit by severe acne at 15. Now 35 and wizard.
Toyed with the idea of getting an Ionic 6, but local Hyundai dealer's a total dickhole to me, treating me more like an unruly teenager looking for a fun way to blow off a Sunday than an adult interested in puchashing a car, presumable because of the way I look.

>>76926665
>Uncs
https://www.bitchute.com/video/laGR07hK4LfD

>>76928310
>35, NEET since 2009. Seeing a physical therapist for my osteoporosis
>Browses /fit
>still has osteoporosis
How are you real?
Cancer from the clot shot?
How are you real?

>>76926541
34yo boomer here. Everything is going great. Got fit, got a stable job 8 years ago in where im respected and worshipped as the smart resourceful guy, fucked a lot of bitches and now im dating a 26 yo zoomette whos wife material, hot and loves to gym with me (she scolds me if we skip one (1) day), shes fun to spend time with and sex is awesome. She wants to get married in the future and have kids with me. Literally zero (0) feminist bullshit with her. Also, no arguments or fights yet. Feminist alcoholic sister cannot find men, friends or jobs because of how fucking terrible her personality is and shes seething and jealous. Parents used to think i was retarded and i proved myself to be way ahead on everything far beyond the supposed "miracle intelligent with a bright future" girl that my sister was. Female coworkers bitch to the other males in my work enviroment but they shut the fuck up, are nice to me and respect me because they know they will fuck up big time if i decide to not help them. I think im making it. If i manage to impregnate my gf ill make sure that my kids grow up into patriarchal supersoldier gigachads or gigastacies that will mog everyone ans everything on earth. Yea, we are all ABSOLUTELY going to make it, dont lose faith bros. Christ is king

>>76926541
Kids brought home a nasty stomach bug from their daycare so I haven’t been to the gym since saturday. Good thing is that it’s almost gone and we got it now instead of next week when it’s Christmas. Also my wife is pregnant with our third one and I plan to do some work on the apartment so next summer is going to be busy.

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>>76933365
I have a univentricular heart.

Skeletal muscle deficits on par with 85-year-old cardiovascular patients reduces natural mechanical stimulation, and chronic hypoxemia drives low bone turnover via secondary hyperparathyroidism.

I keep pestering hospitals with the line:
>"Arterial desaturation >5% to 7% during exercise in symptomatic individuals can be used to guide potential interventions such as eliminating large right‐to‐left shunts, pathway obstructions, and treating raised pulmonary vascular resistance pharmacologically."
- 2025 AHA scientific statement on CPET in CHD.

I was clocked going from 95% to 82% on CPET, which is being handwaved.

Getting those desats under control would enable me to SamSulekmaxx full-time. Currently I leanbulk for 3-4 weeks, then fall off because calorie restriction is the only time when my cardiovascular system isn’t laboring like a turbine at the Hoover Dam.

Pic rel is my fasting baseline, followed by post-dinner splanchnic blood steal, and exercise.

>>76926541
Define making it

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>>76933438
>univentricular heart
>dem O2 sats
u r fascinating
i wish u well

>>76926665
This is the grandpa thread. Unc is 21-30.
Gen Alpha is in control now.

>>76926541
>Born 6'4 but lanky and uncoordinated
>Get fat into teens (260 40+% bf)
>Go Skelly mode
>Lift for 10 years, progressively overloading, focusing on strength AND volume
>Actually eat enough real food, disregard supp slop except creatine and rhodiola
>Made it natty at 25 and get married @ 274@8% ish bf
>Both make good money
>Have kids
>Still lift a couple times a week but just mainly staying healthy so I can play with all my kids
Life's a wild ride boys

>>76933379
Where do you live in an apartment with 3 kids lmao
I have 2 acres and that's barely enough

Post your 401k

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>>76926541
32 y.o., finally starting to get in shape. Work is stable, no house or family. Probably the most /fit/ (and /fa/) I've ever been though. Started martial arts classes on top of my weekly running/lifting, cut down on porn and bideogaems. Also, battling my self-esteem issues while having a crush on a girl 8 years younger than me.

>>76933660
>dyels, POOR dyels at that, controlling anyone

>>76933796
Which one? I don't want to hurt anyone's feelings

>>76926585
Niggers like you deserve to be alone. Thinking $50k in depreciating cash, a shitty house makes you special, and just showing up makes you worthy of love.
I'm glad nature is keeping you losers from procreating.

>>76926541
36yo boomer.
I fucking love my 30s. Have a great wife and two kids. House is a massive 3k square foot Texan mcmansion on a huge lot. Converted the formal living room into a gym so I no longer need to suffer with January NYE faggots.
Got laid off back in October and basically lifted hard for 2 months. Got a new job PMing data center construction. Makes me feel good knowing most of the faggots who gave me shit will be replaced with the shit I build.
Life has its ups and downs, bit for once things are on the up.

>>76933818
Martial arts are for weebs bro

>>76933796
The way my business works, my retirement is in equity in real estate
I have almost $300k in equity so far

>>76934306
It felt so good selling my house in Texas and moving the fuck out. Fuck Texas.

>>76934282
>a shitty house makes you special
What did he mean by this

Got my life on track at 31. A real career and beautiful and in shape fiance who was 8 years younger than me. Eventually got dumped and began throwing it all away gradually from 34 to 37. I still go to the gym a few times per week, but I’m not making progress due to poor diet, depression/medication. At least sometimes it elevates my mood or distracts me from the life mess I’ve made. I’m a NEET with no friends and family, and I’m slowly burning through a high six figure inheritance while going insane from isolation. Early 30’s were the best time of my life, now I’m I don’t have a reason to get out of bed anymore except for my cats.

>>76926649
>dating
You mean you're paying.

I am a few months shy of 32. Rooning 80 miles a week and just hit a 2pl8 bench for the second time after about a year and a half of not focusing enough on upper body lifting

>>76934719
I am a weeb though, so it checks out.

>>76933150
Here take a hanky anon

>got the sports car (ok not really but it’s a i30. It’s decent)

I’m a car guy know it all and you can’t be serious calling a Hyundai i30 as decent especially if you are in a first world.

Since your after tax is what some 70k? Spend 60k of that on a nice German missile. A used RS5 or even a brand new 2026 S5 would be a great start and a halo car.

>>76935810
I drive a golf gti in Greece, how fucked up I’m I and can I get anything decent with 30k?

>>76935836
2L TSI engines are decent, I personally do own one.

30k is just brand new Honda civic or if you up a little bit it’s the extreme base model BMW 2 series money.

I’d recommend a 8-10yr old BMW Alpina B7 considering your age, location, it’s classy, loud enough and fast. (Be aware of service cost tho).

It also depends what kind of cars are “well known” in your location - this could be estates, coupes or SUVs.

The place where I’m coming from it’s big bulky SUVs that command respect and manliness so I’m buying a Land Cruiser or a Land Rover Defender 110 next, all black with tinted windows. So yeah keep that in mind - what image do you wanna be perceived as. But my recommendation still stays true.

>>76933438
Anon get a cannula with a 14' or 25' tube, hop on 3lpm O2 flow and fix your O2 sat. How are you not on O2 walking around with 80% sat?

>go to get a skincare treatment because a relative gifted me a credit to the place
>book with a nice young chick
>throughout the service we make small talk and I make her laugh a lot
>ask about “de aging” shit that’s advertised and mention that I’m terrified of turning 30 soon
>she kinda freaks out and says she had absolutely no idea I was close to 30
>would’ve guessed 23 tops
Feels fucking good, man.

>>76933136
>seething with this much fury over someone saying “larp” to your story
Lol

>>76926541
>35 years old but was homeless for a decade. My soul is 55.
>15 years with my girlfriend, who has recently, for the first time, been demanding I fuck her asshole.
>She's been working legs and butt for me consistently for a few years. Went from totally flat to fully peach shaped and I'm enjoying it.
>18.69 an hour wagecuck job as a drug store shift leader but I've worked a lot harder for a lot less. It's not bad.
>Cut out almost all addictions. The ones I still dabble with are under control.
>Overhead pressed bodyweight (175 lbs) for a strict maximal single for the first time a few weeks ago, after 5 years of lifting, 4 of which spent grinding out the last 40 lbs in OHP to catch it up with bodyweight.
>Weighted pullup strict maximal single with 115 lbs attached to me yesterday.
>Zercher squatted 185 for 20 a few months ago. Feeling like a juggernaut at my weight class. Speaking of which,
>Finally put a year into jiujitsu after a decade in boxing. Feeling at least vaguely competent in MMA.
>Have enough money put away to justify having a child, I guess, except fuck that. I am not cut out for parenthood.

Basically, yeah. This is making it. Kinda wish I had a kid to teach to lift and fight, except I really dont wish I had a kid to be responsible for and set an example for.

Hi everyone. 42, I am doing pretty good. I don't even have insurance lol Listen to me, children. Burpees are gold. Learn to like doing them. Don't fuck up your back.

>>76934920
Hey man, I’m fucking sorry to hear that things feel so rough.
I can’t say I know exactly what you’re going through, but as someone who also spent 5+ years completely throwing their (very active social, dating, and career oriented) life away and pissing through savings while feeling sorry for myself…
I believe you know that you’re capable of getting back up.
Somewhere in there is the confident man you became in your early thirties, and you owe it to yourself to allow him to re-emerge.
Depression is a mother fucker, and I honestly don’t know if I’ll ever beat it.
I’m convinced I’ll end up an heroing, almost inevitably- and it’s always felt like that.
But somewhere along the lines, I just decided “what’s the point of any of this if you’re not having a good time?”
I told myself I still have as many chances as I allot myself before I opt on out.
You can do literally whatever you want when you have nothing to lose.
If you truly feel that way, do whatever you want.
Find what makes you happy.
There’s absolutely no way to change the past, and there’s no use dwelling on it.
You can begin to live again and find out what makes you happy.
It sounds like you know how to socialize pretty well, and that’s 90% of the struggle for anyone on this board (or in life in general).
Invest your money well and try to invoke some structure into your life.
At the end of the day, your animal frens will always be there for you, but try to be there for yourself.
From one internet stranger to another, I’m really rooting for you homie.
>this is gonna sound silly, but
(cont. in next post)

>>76934920
>>76936091
One of the things that helped me when I was really, really deep into that rut was making a list of things that I noticed made me happy.
Tangible (lemon scented trash bags), intangible (watching the sun set with my dog), whatever.
If it made me happy in the slightest, I wrote it down on a note on my phone, and then tried to include those things in my life as often as I could.
Slowly but surely the list built and built, as I mustered up the resolve to face the world that I was so sure absolutely hated me.
It’s never going to be instantaneous, but what’s important is that you’re feeling even just a little better than you did yesterday.
There will be slip ups, but try not to dwell on them.
Try not to dwell on anything, really.
Just let it all go and focus on the now, because it’s all we ever actually have.
Focus on what is immediately in front of you, what you actually can change.
Don’t worry about anything else.
Nothing matters except you being happy.
Do what you can to look out for yourself.
Good luck, mane.

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>third week of having a bad cold

>>76926541
I'm 29 staring down 30 and started lifting and dieting specifically to avoid being a motorized cart boomer

I'm a couple months in and I'm lighter than I've been basically my entire 20s

>>76936107
Nice, welcome to the club. Stay healthy and don't succumb to body dysmorphia

>>76926585
Same
I had a GF in my 20s and fumbled it
Now I'm 34, all the single women my age are mental cases and younger girls won't have anything to do with me
I should have married her and started a family in my 20s, fuck

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Hey uncs. When did you stop gaining strength and power? I’m 28 and starting to fret about getting older

>>76935867
Doctors say the desats are caused by collateral shunting and that supplemental oxygen won't help since the blood bypasses my lungs.

That said, I experienced subjective improvement of dyspnea (and an increase in SpO2) when I was in the ER for an upper respiratory tract infection (which I couldn't compensate for + I'm at risk for thromboembolism, which needed to be ruled out).

>>76926541
Oldfag here, turned 33 this year, just hit 225 OHP for a single a few months ago before my birthday. Feels good man. Feels even better to know Im gonna be a dad in another seven months. Not gonna let my kid make the same mistake I did though I didn't start lifting til 25, he's gonna be hitting the weights at 17-18, gonna be a fucking monster of a man, hopefully even stronger than me. WAGMI bros.

>>76936762
I'm 33 and I never did. Just keep eating and keep lifting man.

>>76936810
Thanks for the encouragement :)

>>76936762
Wasted fretting tbdesu. The time constraints that will kick in as your life fleshes out with responsibilities and opportunities for the next 10-15 years will cap your gains L O N G before aging does anyway.

You should be thinking about getting control of your time at the level of an hour/day/week, not about it passing at the level of years.

>t. peaked in sheer power early 20's, because training 20 hours a week as a competitive athlete just wasn't gonna happen anymore and I didn't want it to anyway.

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>>76936857
No worries my man. You're gonna fucking make it.

33 and I am good looking but I have a small penis.
1 inch flaccid and 4 inches hard.
I fear their disappointment and haven't had sex at all.

>>76926585
same at 34 just gotta cope with other shit

>>76926705
Walks? Nigga, wtf ate you doing? Go have beers and play darts while talking. If she doesn't drink, get her some coffee instead. You literally picked the most boring thing possible.

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>>76937456
Thanks for the encouragement :)
WAGMI

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>>76926541
>Did you make it yet?
I think so. Most days I get a half smile almost laugh from some lady, or how I would react if 1990 Elaine Irwin walked into McDonald's.