It's the start of the week again, take a deep breath in, hold it and exhaleWere you thinking of giving up today? No you weren't. You made it through last week, you'll make it through this one as wellWhat are your goals for this week? What do you plan to achieve? List it all down.Take a deep breath, hold it and exhale, move at your own paceWe're ALL gonna make itThe motivation thread is openPrevious thread >>77273999
Everyone below this post is making it :)
>>77320155>divorced >gained almost 30 kg>been half assing it for a few months, going up and down the same 5 kilos>locked in, made a plan, did preparations>started fasting againI've done this before, I'll do it again. It'll take a few months to get my body back but that's how it goes. Currently 40 hours into a fast. WAGMI
>>77320193Damn bro, what do you have against OP?
>>77320221I am OP. Everyone including me is making it :) WAGMI
>>77320211If you’ve done it before, you can do it again! Good luck fren, you have a solid plan, now commit to it. WAGMI
Most pointless circlejerk on the website of manchildren patting each other on the back for lifting circles up and down while still being the same puny wageslaves and betabuxx sub5s or genetic dead endsYou're all NGMI, unless by "it" you mean having slightly more edema "muscles" for other men to jerk off
>>77320396Notice how they force their fake positivity every single post crying "wagmi" to the walls ? That's the mark of a socially starved person. I wouldnt be surprised if this entire thread is just one guy samefagging into bump limit
>>77320211Sleep well, cut down on alcohol and hire a personal trainer to help you make steady gains. You can do it anont. divorced single dad of 2 who is spinning 2 zoommettes
>>77320155Struggling with motivation to work out. I manage to do 2 weeks of nice consistent training and then i dont do shit for 2-3 weeks because i cant make myself do it. How do i overcome that?Also, finally got a job in cyber security, starting next monday. Its been my plan for the past 3-4 years ever since i went for a career switch and i got a job in one of the biggest IT companies in the country. And its not a shitty SOC position either.
>>77320155Happy Monday, brosephs. New week, same goals.>wife's butthole: any%>treadmill until abs>big lifting, little eatingWeekend was mostly good. Didn't stray too hard, managed to stay fairly level, putting me in hopefully good shape to make some actual progress on the cut this week. Some really good sex with the missus, too, nothing anal, but a 69 featuring probably the most time and effort she's put into sucking my dick in a decade. Got my project car worked on for a few hours. Good family time, too.All would have been great except our youngest asked for a lice check and, yup, fucking bugs again. This is like round 14 of this shit. It's not like when we were littlen either, where you just get the shampoo and you're good. Modern lice are immune to that, so you have to sleep in a shower cap full of oil for several days to literally drown them. And the schools don't make you stay home. They just send out a blanket notice to everyone in a classroom that "somebody" has lice and good fucking luck. This kid is always our patient zero, but she cries at the merest hint of a haircut. If she was a boy she'd have a crew cut, but no, she gets to keep her goddam tresses. And then my wife gets it and I have to comb her out, which is always the worst part because she's the least patient about it. So now it's days of everybody being cranky and bug-ridden.Anyway. Things were good for a minute. Here's hoping the week goes well.
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close to halfway done with android testing on the app. its a pain in the ass trusting over a dozen strangers to log in for two weeks straight but we'll see. going through an eight hour power bi course and i'm gonna know this inside and out by the interview. going at 2x on the videos and it's been going well.have not picked up reading again. did slightly better on the diet. haven't started next app because of work/interview prep/life. missed a day of cardioall in all pretty good week. Work has hit a breaking point in every meaning of the word. i'm definitely ready to leave for even money as long it gets me in the right direction. need to quit snackinggoals this week - start building out requirements for new app, finish power bi course, get golf back on track. also get reading back on track, even if its before bed.
I am the 25 year old vagabond.I got wiped out by a sickness and my own bad decisions for a month. Im down to my last 2k in the bank, have 2 months on my visa for the SEA country I'm in, and still need to find a job teaching english. I just spent an hour applying en masse to a bunch of places but there's only so many openings. I know I'm fully qualified to teach but I have an unshakable fear that things won't pan out or that it'll be like the traumatic humiliation ritual of job hunting back home with no results yielded.Fitness wise I workout harder than ever and eat cleaner than ever while im on the job hunt. But I am weary in life for it feels like even when I do the right thing, I am punished. And when I act wrong, I am punished disproportionately hard. And then there're those who are dumber, less talented, all around worse people that cruise through life. Its tiresome but all I can do is keep trying.
>>77320155I work two wagie jobs and think I'll quit the one that pisses me off the most. A security job where I deal with people being disrespectful and giving me attitude. It's gotten to the point I barely speak when I'm on shift, but that just makes shit worse because they think I'm some creepy mute autist. Fuck it, it's not worth the money and I'm impact on my mind state. I'd unironically an hero if this is all life has for me. /fit/ wise, losing fat and lifting again, but my numbers are stalling. Oh well, focus on form. Also want to get faster at running
>>77320155Doctor lady friend fag again>she makes it through her brutal floater shift (as in 12.5hr with maybe 1 small break if she was lucky) >we talk>she says I need to have a fire under my butt for this bar exam. I need to create stakes. Damn. >I talked with her about if she had any coworkers that helped her during this rotation and she mentioned another con intern who she thinks is more competent than her.>fuck.Was she basically saying that’s my competition. Don’t think so as she mentioned most of her coworkers (of both sexes) are either taken or engaged/married. >anywho>I’ll discuss in another post why studying for this exam has been problems in past.
left a stressfull job today and a better one is in sight.third kid comes in september.build a kitchen today with men from my church.looking forward to swimming in my favorite lake this week.Now ill clean up and do some sit-ups.Keep pushing on, fellashttps://youtu.be/qGtIqrz2nRM?si=EU-z3xIL3DJgSGt4
>>77320396You do the opposite by wallowing in misery, and it's affects are clear. It's soured your mindset so badly that you can't even handle seeing other people move towards happiness. You didn't have to come here to spread disdain, yet you chose to. Crab in a bucket. It's a pitiable state to be in. I hope your life turns around.
Today's lifts>Bench 3x5 @ 245>Incline bench 3x12>DB rows 3x12>Face pulls 4x1520lbs total/13lbs of fat down in 4 weeks according to the scaleCrap day for the bench. Somehow I took an uneven grip on my first set and had to blow everything I had to get 5 reps, and the other sets weren't much better. Bench has been holding strong to this point but maybe I've lost enough weight that it's about to start fading.Legs tomorrow, lower back is just about healed thankfully. Still not doing squats or dreads again until I'm back on a calorie surplus.
>>77320481get a Guide on how to deal woth lice. wasch pillows ans stuffed animal playthings aswell.there are electric haircombs that kill them instantly. do everything necessary to rod them out. if you keep getting them maybe there is something you are missing.congrats on the bj and best of luck on your endeavour
>Cut going well, libra app says september is the estimated time for my goal weight but I’ll aim for october in case a summer trip or something else slows down the progress>Still find my wife attractive, going to keep that up for as long as i can>Second month at new job has gone and I’m making a good impression on the team>Learning spanish has gone well, understand most news and basic telenovelas easily. Will either go to a language exchange meetup or hire a tutor once/twice a week.>Back to investing regularly, nowhere near where I want to be in my late 20s.Thinking of investing $1000 a month into voo or vti mostly. Also want to become more sociable and personable. I’m actually pretty good socially but don’t get a lot of opportunities naturally to chat with others. Any anons have locations or events they would suggest for working on that? Was thinking rec league sports like softball but idk, seems a bit generic of an option
Saw an injury at the gym today.Guy has the dip belt with a 45 on, when he hopped off the dip bar I guess the chain smushed his nut(s?) between the chain and his thigh. Dude collapsed like he had been shot, desk lady called an ems at his request. Dude was puking and just laying there like he was waiting on death. My Monday wasn't great but it could've been worse.
>>77320417You need to create a solid schedule and stick to it. Also try to focus on exercises you actually enjoy doing at first. You should look forward to exercising
>>77321151I hadn't heard of the electric combs. Have to check that out.Combing the wife went better than usual. First sign of a little hair pull and she's snapping nasty at me. Woman, I gotta comb your whole head 15 times with this itty-bitty little terminator comb. I snapped back though, which is out of character for me. Told her I wouldn't do it at all if she yelled at me. Apologized for pulling her hair and did my best, and she sat through the rest of it without too much complaint.I really have to remember this. I'm generally a pretty low-key guy, don't want to fight, lots of sympathy for the other side etc. It's one of the reasons she married me, I think. But I seem to come out ahead whenever I stand up for myself, go figure.Oh well. Women. And she didn't have any lice.WAGMI (through two weeks with all of our stuffed animals wrapped up in platic bags)
I had a cute female co-worker comment on how I look like I've been working out and she felt my biceps and abs. She was giggling the whole time and said she needed to leave otherwise her crush was going to get worse.I don't really post here anymore, but wanted to share. We're all gonna make it, guys.
>>77320155Went to the club, jestermaxxed and got 0 numbers or even a decent conversation. It’s so over bros
Danced with a female classmate last weekend, so I guess I've held hands now. Unfortunately, I didn't get her number and know she'd never go out with me
>>77322429I wouldn't expect jestermaxxing to be effective at "the club" though. Don't take it too hard and try a different kind of venue if that's your plan.
>>77320509Your thoughts shape your outcome. The first thing that came to your mind was that it might not work out. Which is true, however it can also work out. Life is a coin flip it can land on either side and too often we think first of the worst outcome. Start believing the best will happen. Say it will work out instead of it may work out and go out on face the day ahead.
>>77321533i've been on the vti game for a decade, its solid.
I WILL GO TO THE GYM 5 TIMES THIS WEEK I WILL CONTINUE TO MAKE SOCIAL PLANSI WILL BECOME CONFIDENT AND HAPPY I didn’t end up benching last week because of my high school reunion. I had a lot of fun but I feel guilty about not having a proper week of training. This week I’ll return to my current training routine. My goal is still to switch to another training split in July so that I can bench optimally. My high school reunion went really well! I was worried that it would be awkward but I had a lot of fun. I regret not putting myself out there earlier in life but Im here now. I wish I could become friends with a lot of my former classmates, but they live in a different city and we’re in our late 20s. A lot of people complemented me on my job, my body (I was built like a brick shithouse), and that I seemed happiness. I’m glad that my progress is noticeable. Whereas my high school graduation represented the lowest point of my life, I want to believe that the reunion was a turning point for the better. Life is only going to get better from here on out. Good luck this week frens! The man you are today must brutally mog the man you were yesterday. WAGMI
>>77321788Did not need to read this but thanks anyways for sharing
I’m trying reverse pyramid benching this week to try and break a plateau. Had one workout and hit prs on bench.Divorce is accelerating, which is good because it’s years overdue.Scheduled something I’ve wanted to do for years on Thursday, I’m excited.I’ve found investing in my own happiness to be worthwhile.
>>77320496Good luck on your interview! You're doing the conscientious thing and it'll all pay off. Regarding the app, try to make sure that you understand their feedback.
>>77320509Welcome back vagabond! Don’t let a sense of fear prevent you from trying. You need to try in order to succeed. It’ll all work hard
I finally have a job i look forward to going to, a happy team when I'm on site and work from home whenever. It helps the work of mentally challenging but rewarding to use my skills. It's been great to finally be employed again after a year
I hit my lightest weight yet today.I am also forcing myself to do uncomfortable things, even when I am strongly against them.I again do not want to be haphazard in my judgement but I think I am getting better.WAGMI
>>77320600Yeah if you think you can find another job, you should quit. That role sounds dehumanizing and degrading. Congrats on your progress though!
My recomp is working
