Tell me /fit/bros, what got you into working out?
>>77296061stupid bitch was born cute, ruined herself with black junkie hairstyle. I can imagine her female friends encouraging her.Women really need men.
>>77296061I got sand kicked in my face in the 70s
>>77296061>what got you into working out?Seeing myself in the mirror
RAPE USE HER HAIR AS A LEASH AND RAPE
>>77296061I know what kind of guy she likes
>>77296065
I started running regularly to build energy reserves before my second kid was born. Then I had a one night stand + parental leave and that supercharged running every day.Six months later I have a six pack for the first time ever, talking to my wife about divorce, and am having sex with girls that I only fantasized about before. Tonight a woman said I have a 10/10 penis. Strange world.
>>77296093poor kids
>>77296093Congratulations on failing your children.
>>77296061My cousin that I dream fucking.
>>77296097>>77296099There’s more I left out, but definitely not as clear cut.
>>77296102>There’s more I left outyes 2 kids
>>77296102BASED. This is how youre supposed to do it. If you force yourself to stay you end up in a Chris 'Family Annihilator' Watts situation.
>>77296061I read a book about benefits of jogging and so I go on a light jog every other day now, especially now that the weather is nice
>>77296102>There’s more I left outWell, go on.
basically this, the second half of that tweet the guy kinda drifted off but the first part is 100% true
>>77296061To look good and get chicks like everyone else. >>77296065Is /pol/ so boring you have to come here now?>>77296093I'm inclined to believe it's a fake story. People don't just wake up and become philanderers. It takes a drive that you clearly.didn't have. When I start crushing workouts and my drive goes up, I just fuck the wife more. It's fun to look and fantasize about the menu, but it's so much easier and hassle free.
I always liked the idea of getting jacked, had a cousin who lifted weights my whole life but the main thing that got me interested was this board t. browsed /fit/ for close to a decade before starting to work out for real
>>77296061I'm going bald.I decided to myself; I can be fat, I can be bald but I can't be fat AND bald.
>>77296061Ironically, a shoulder injury.TL;DR I started lifting weights to avoid shoulder surgery and stuck to it.Although I always did some form of exercise throughout my life, I was never serious about it and even avoided lifting weights since all the old myths and injury misinformation. I did mostly meme calisthenics, hiits and cardio but as I said very sporadically. I was never fit or athletic, just skinnyfat. Then a couple years ago I got a shoulder injury from my job (not even physically demanding) and was close to get surgery for it. After spending thousands on rehab I stumbled upon some traumatologist who gave me the option: lift weights for a couple months and if that doesn't help then I get surgery.I started to do shoulder movements with some old adjustable dumbbells I had since forever, all rusty by then lel. My shoulder started to get better by the following weeks. I had to keep doing then routine so I figured I'd add other muscle groups to th routine to balace things out and also training the opposing and complementary muscles for the shoulders. A few months later I was doing a full body routine 3-4 times a week of mostly complex compound movements to improve my strength through movement and mobility.My shoulder was exponentially better so I avoided surgery. I kept doing my routine as a means of keeping my shoulder strong, with fear as a motivator I finally stuck with it lol. Now I have more than a year and have progressed to a upper/lower split.I'm now a zealous believer that lifting weights is something every single human should do, no matter your background, context, disability, etc. Strength and resistance training should be mandatory throughout everyone's life.I'm in the best shape of my life even though I'm mid 30s now and even got a new more physically demanding job with almost no issues. My shoulders are still my weak spot but that only keeps me motivated to keep training since I feel if I don't do it they'll snap again.
>>77296061Dragonball Z
>>77296061Decided I wasn't meant to be fat. Used to play battlefield ba company 1&2 for hours on end on my goystation3. Had a blast, but I'd put down like, 18 hours a day for days on end. Summer back in highschool. When no-one else was online I'd sometimes take walks at night, too jittery and wired to sleep. Don't remember what year, but it was an August 3rd that I took a look at myself during one of those walks an decided I wasn't supposed to be a fat fuck. I was 15 years old (I think), and 230 lbs of lard. Flash forward a year, and I had lost like, 40-50 lbs. Took an intro to weightlifting course first year of college and the teacher recommended I try out for rugby because I was one of the only students who gave a shit. I was 16-17. So I started doing more powerlifting-ish things for rugby.Then finally at 21 years old I was playing rugby at the university level and thats when my fitness career really took off.Old as fuck now (beginning 30's) an for the past few years I've been taking a more holistic approach. Heavy compounds, calisthenics for reps to round it out, machines for volume accessories. Cardio throughout. >tl;dr I just decided to no longer be a loser one day. Didn't feel right in my skin.
>>77296061Looking good naked.Other benefits just followed
>>77296061Wanted to beat my father
>>77296157Nothing too exciting: relationship has been on the decline since first kid was about two, we had tried couple counseling at some point in that period but it didn’t help anything. Have been thinking about divorce at least for the last 1.5 years (which I know makes it messed up I have a second kid). Dead bedroom for a while except for trying for second kid.DESU there is no clear choice, could probably stick it out and if we really put in effort repair something in the relationship. But I’ve become a different person since I first met my wife, and I enjoy different things.
>>77296294>t. Baki
Mom told me to get a physical, I did, doctor looked me over, looked me straight in the eyes and said "You're turning into quite the fatty, you need to lose weight or you'll become pre-diabetic then diabetic." The next day I was running in the gym and doing keto and calorie counting in the grocery story. I don't actually remember being 29 because I was so exhausted but I dragged myself out of obesity.
>>77296547based doctor, what a rarity
>>77296061/x/ post
>>77296061my kind of white girl
>>77296061being a fat fuck
>>77296245I'm going through rehab for a shoulder injury at the moment as well.Can you go into detail how about the routine you followed during this time. Although I did lift before, the rehab after the injury has been slow and I'm stuck with lifting baby weights on one hand for the foreseeable future
>>77296061I was fat as shit after covid, before that I was skinnyfat dyel.
>>77296170>Is /pol/ so boring you have to come here now?MUDSHARK ALERT
>>77296650Not him but I saw my physio earlier this week. Strained/weak left rotor cuff on my end. No tears though. Mine is pain caused by muscle imbalance. I just avoided any vertical presses for a month, and did my cuff strengthening exercises. I'll make a thread later, put all the info my physio told me.
>>77296722Again this crap?
>>77296061used to be heavily overweight, heading to obesei got to uni and i thought i was so smartand if i was so smart, why was i so fat?then i lost the weightthen i started liftingso ego, basically
>>77296913>I have a folder full of dead blacks and black shitspawn (children) and I love to post dead little niggers on 4chanSounds about average for an american on /pol/
>>77296650Oh yeah, the rehab is slow as a snail. The most important thing is patience.The routine is very simple, really. The traumatologist recommend me to do simple side raises avoiding going higher than 90°. I then added frontal raises also avoiding going higher than 90°.And yes I too started with fetus weights, we're talking the dumbbell's empty bar like 2 lb or so. I focused on the movements and the feeling of working the muscles without feeling pain, other than the burn of course. I went slow and high reps (3x20 for both side and frontal raises) once I could do 3x20 slow focused reps the I added a single 3 lb disk to each bar and went again. The progress was absolutely slow. Then a couple months into this routine I started doing a more complex movement where I do both a side/front raise for a single rep. It goes like this: I start doing a side raise and go to 90° then hold it there and move the weights from my sides to my front, keeping the 90°, then I lower them in front of me as if finishing a frontal raise. Then I raise them again in front of me to 90°, hold it and move the weights to my sides and lower them finishing as a side raise. Basically each rep is made of half side raise - half front raise. I did this with baby weights until I could do 3x20 again before adding a small weight on. Then I added exercises for my rear delts, back, chest, so on and so l forth. Always light and high reps. 3x20 is my gold standard. Fast forward almost a year later and now I do full 180° side raises and 180° frontal raises, still with low weight (currently with 15 lbs working towards the 3x20 goal). But now I can carry heavy boxes of 100 lbs in my job without any real issues and even push them over my head sporadically.Idk if your case would be the same as me, I had subacromial bursitis and impingement for like a year before starting with the weights.Cont.
>>77296650>>77296936>cont. You can check yourself how your muscles feel and do unweigthed movements and patterns to find where are you strong and where are you weak. Then train those spots slowly avoiding pain. Pain is the main culprit of your brain shutting down your muscles as a reflex to protect them.Patience and focus is the key factor.I know many anons won't agree with my 3x20 repset but I'm not training for purely aesthetics or strength, although I've made great gains nevertheless, I now train just to be functional and healthy.
>>77296913imagine being this worthless
>>77296061>>77296065we need to give this bitch excessive amounts of clout for no reason then take it away so she'll get desperate for our attention and start taking big black meat up her coot
>>77296065>women hate menSure, but also pic related
>>77296068I read your biography.
>>77296088Link to study?
>>77297074Not him, but: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S019188692300329X
>>77296061When I saw this as an mmo-playing young lad and was so freaked out that I started C25K
>>77296061jojo
>>77296061Olympic weightlifting, I just want to lift heavy stuff over my head because it looks cool to me
>>77296061My best friend. He started seriously lifting in the military and when he got back he just took me with him and we've been lifting together at least once a week for the last 10 years
I was a fat kid and through most of high school and I didn't want to be fat going in to college so senior year I started running and I kept it up through freshman year of college. In combination with smaller meals at regular times in the dining hall, I lost a lot of weight and looked great. Then I gained a lot of it back before graduation and got fatter and fatter after college until I discovered /fit/ and learned about lifting weights and managing diet and with that- added to the running I was already doing- I was able to both slim down and build up some muscle as I reached my 30's. I looked and felt better than ever.But then all the drinking and partying and imbalances in my diet started to catch up with me and I had to take a more conservative approach to health and fitness and so now I'm careful and deliberate with what I do and everything just sort of magically falls into place. I try to give back to this community by sharing my experiences and knowledge but there are a lot of bad actors here now and it's very difficult to get through to people anymore.
When I was 13 a girl said I would be very attractive if I just put on a bit of muscle.
>>77296087Nice guys?
>>77297349This is one of the most useful things a girl can say to you at that age. That was nice of her
>>77296271This but actually the OG Dragon Ball manga.
>>77296061was tired of being a fat piece of shit, started working out. now i'm just a piece of shit
I've got muscles, so I want to use them. I get up in the morning, pose naked in front of the mirror, and flex for half an hour. Looking at myself, I want to beat someone's head in with my bare fist. I want to see my fist forced down some asshole's face, reach down, grab a handful of intestines, and pull them up and out the throat. That would make me feel good. Whatever makes me feel good is what counts. The reason I build my muscles is to use them. That makes me feel good. It'd be senseless to work out for years just for the stupid satisfaction of feeling "healthy" or knowing I look good when I'm about to fuck somebody up the ass. I get satisfaction out of grinding a face in the pavement. I don't want to question it. I like causing pain. That's how I am. I see an immediate response to something I just did. No bullshit. Pure animal pain, me the victor, me in control, me on top, you on the bottom. I never allow myself to be in the position of feeling pain. I'll do anything to avoid pain. I'll run,humiliate myself, betray a so-called friend, anything. In order to decrease the possibility of pain, I'm never threatening in public. I obscure myself. I don't show off my muscles. I'm soft spoken. I don't need to impress anyone. I couldn't care less what they think of me. All I want is satisfaction. I get it when I need it. I cultivate it like a hard-on, stroke it, build it up to bursting, then, when I'm ready, I find somebody to fuck with. Somebody to destroy, somebody to ruin. I brutalize them, then I fuck them. But they can't be "into" it, they can't be some wimpy masochist getting rid of their lame authoritarian guilt. They have to honestly be scared, maybe even think they're strong. That's when it feels good.
>>77297555That's when it feels good, when some pompous turd feels my boot in their eye, or their ribs breaking under the impact of my fist, my big fucking sledgehammer fist snapping their ribs like matchsticks, then my cock fuckingthem in every hole they've got, my come mixing with their stinking blood. Yeah, I turn on thinking about it. I'm just now pulling on my cock. I'm imagining my meat in your toothless mouth right now. I'm shooting a gallon down your throat. You're vomiting a thin green liquid into my lap, then I kill you for that mistake. I twist your head right off your weak neck forthat mistake. I kill you like the worthless chicken you are right there and then, then I fuck you some more. Later, I eat your sour brains and throw your corpse out with the garbage. Now you're perfect. You're doing what you do best: you're dead. I used you. I fucked you. I wiped you off the face of this rancid earth. My main goal in life is my pleasure, and that made me feel good.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oleifT80h7s
>>77296061I sinned in a previous life and need to punish myself in a way that does not kill me or ruin my ability to meet other obligations (which would just be another sin)
Realized the reason my sleep habits were so bad was because sitting at a desk all day doesn't leave you tired until 4a. And then it's more burnout than a normal rest cycle.
>>77297609dude 100%, realised this when i switched to working from home and i didn’t walk anywhere anymore and work got stressful. just lying awake all night. probably a reflection on me but my gym sessions are never high intensity enough to wear me out, had to start running to scratch that itch.
watched the OG Ninja Warrior as a kid and wanted to be able to do all that shit
>>772960611st go-around: to put on some size so i could get poon in college2nd go-around: to add stability/discipline to my life (though getting hotter isn't bad either)
When I was in high school it was some kind of faggoty rightoid "save da west" cope but nowadays its just for funPlus I'm in the military so my job and fitness are intertwined but weightlifting really isn't part of that.
>>77296061preteen: Dance Dance Revolutionteens: wanted to be buff and get pussyyoung adult: wanted to be a better danceradult: mental health
>>77296093>To become a deadbeat dadWow
I’m a pectusfag. I lift so instead of people at the beach saying “wow look at that disgusting freak” they might instead say “wow that disgusting freak is kinda jacked”
>>77297418quite the opposite, actually
Cross country running in high school. On the bright side, I can outrun 99% of the world even with months of skipping training. On the flip side, nobody cares.
>>77296732Looking forward to it>>77296936Thanks for the details man. Appreciate it
>>77296101CousinFuckerAnon? Is that you?
>>77296061>be me>miserable fat faggot, awkward and generally just a loser mentally/genetically but a well meaning unfortunate kid>family is also bad with no brothers and a deadbeat father>grow up horribly because of these two things, basically set up to fail in anything and everything i do>also abused as a child but that's neither here nor there>try to work out but it goes horribly for like 8 years on and off>last 4 months i finally manage some level of success because i became a bit of a NEET>self confidence and what not rising but it's too little too late, as right now I'm a full blown psychopath and constantly fantasies about killing people for hours/days after i get wronged, constantly in a bad mood and on the verge of killing people or myself >everyone thinks I'm a loser because of how i grew up so the new muscles can't do much for my self confidence and whatnot cause wherever i go i see people(relatives and what not) whispering to eachother about me and laughing which doesn't help the problem above(anger issues and general mental illness)I'm happy that I'm finally getting fit with some muscles appearing and whatnot but I'm depressed as fuck, i wish i was allowed to kill people, like just a few man, they deserve it but nooooo they get to do everything to me while i get to go fuck myself. I hate everything and everyone, shit sucks. Though there is an upside in that i can workout while angry which is a little relaxing, tho my muscles become sore since my exercises are not varied
Was always physically active since a child and grew up watching Arnold, Jvcd and Stallone and Dolph.
>>77297929join the army or police so you can kill people then
I'm a narcissist and deep down inside I get pleasure from making out of shape and balding guys (that's why I'm growing out my hair for 2.5 years) mad.The fact that you can be a passive-agressive mogger by just standing there on the beach doing nothing is amazing.On the other hand, I'm not an asshole about it. If I motivate someone to better themselves and they actually stick to it, that makes me happy. Unfortunately that's like 10% of guys tops. Most men are insecure little kids when it comes to this, so I entertain myself by trolling them.
>>77297931>feed your mental illnessThat's not smart, also i want to kill people who wronged me specifically or like at least break their noses or some shit
>>77297939>I'm an asshole but im actually nicePick one
not some bitch that's for sure
>>77296061Getting past my overly asian conception of getting stronger making you slower
>>77296738You need to understand mossad agents and their paid shills has no life.
>>77296065Nah, locks are a traditional celtic European hairstyle. Blacks using it is cultural appropriation.
I had a growth spurt when I was 13-14 and was suddenly an extreme sticc. I started working out with a broom handle with a concrete weight molded in a bucket on each end, then my grandma bought me my first proper weights, a pair of 5kg dumbbells. I still own them decades later, they're the gold ones here.Best 'mire I ever got was seeing how happy my gran was when I put on some muscle to match my height. Like a proper farmer's son, which was the style of her time.
>>77297929You might benefit from reading "the Courage to be Disliked."
I watched a dom mazetti video and started doing it ironically
to be stronger
>>77296061Old /fit/. This place used to be the second best fitness forum on the internet and I wanted to be part of it due to how funny it was. Watching it die around 2019 was really sad.
The paradoxical duality of having both crippling insecurities and a deep rooted superiority complex
>>77296061Pumping Iron. Arnold made going to the gym and working out seem fun, and turns out it is.
>>77296061>2019>Work at computer company with other nerds>A couple of them into fitness decide we should all get some sunshine and exercise outside every day for 10 mins>Whole Dev team goes out, move around, socialise>Impromptu pushup competition>I do 6 and then can't anymore, one set of 6. Least of all the guys there.>Humiliated. Arms hurt like fuck the next day.>Decide to start practicing pushups in secret in case this happens again>Switch my home board from /v/ to /fit/ for the duration of this project>Know that 6 is too many so do 4 and stop>Next day do 5>Next day do 5, but twice in the same day>Incrementing number of sets and reps here and there>Within a couple of weeks, I'm doing 5 sets to failure, multiple times of day>200 per day, across multiple sessions, feel ready to be tested again>We never do a competition ever again, but one day I notice that I look different in my clothes>My chest is starting to develop, a girl looked at my in the elevatorKept it going, dropped weight, bought dumbbells for home and joined a gym, enjoyed being the most ripped guy at work, then the most muscular in any given train car while commuting, mires in public, social gains etc
>>77297026Giving women the benefit of the doubt, couldn't this be that they generally think short hair is cute, but acknowledge that you have to be a certain level of hot to pull it off, and so they live vicariously through these pictures of pretty women, who are good looking enough not to need hair
the riddle of steel
>>77300821Tell me Anon, what is the answer to the riddle of steel?
>>77296158Quit being such a spiteful bitch and you'll have it mr weakling.Myself I lift because I LOVE progression. No negativity ties to it faggot
>>77297027how much did a stamp cost back then?
Handegg
>>77297349When I was 13 a girl told me I look like an ugly slug.
>>77300891When I was 14 a girl told me "Anon, you're a hunk... <dramatic pause>... of shit!"We shagged eventually.
>>77296158Really tired of muh guts tortured soul sigma grindset dogshit.It's performative >I love this lifestyle because of how it might impact others thoughtsShut the fuck up retard
>>77300830I dont know, yet
>>77296093if this isnt bait man you are evilthat kid is going to get fucked up by life while youre throwing it away to cum in other dumb bitches for a brief period
>>77296061brapholes
>>77301255Premium soi-post. Strife of a shitty marriage is no better than strife of co-parenting