/hobby/ - Hobby

>>15661
Based except sit ups are bad for the spine. Planks are much better.
https://www.health.harvard.edu/staying-healthy/want-a-stronger-core-skip-the-sit-ups

>>15663
Planks don't train any sort of range of motion, they simply get you strong at holding one position. The best core routines are various forms of leg lifts.

>>15667
are situp bad tho?

i workout my lowe back with bridges but nothing for my upper back

Any of y'all rep commie swag at the gym?

>>15668
Is >>15597 not for upper back?

>>15632
>Its been 5 months, and he has barely progressed
I know this feel. But I'm 30 and I'm trying to walk the tight rope of losing fat while gaining muscle. I'm eating good nutrients but maybe too little calories and not resting enough or overtraining. It feels like I'm slowly progressing but the slowness is getting dispiriting. What I'm most afraid of though is more body fat, while this kid is skinny as fuck.

Should I eat more and do HIIT after lifting? Or should I try to just lose fat first and focus on muscle gain later? I'm not fat (my BMI is 21), I just have some stubborn fat in certain spots, especially on my chest and stomach.

>>15667
You don't want to train your core for range of motion. If you are flexing your spine under a load you are going to snap city.

>>15702
have you tried kneesovertoesguy stuff? seen him shilled a lot on 4chan's fit

dunno if it's helping my knees or not doing long knee stretches over my toes

>>15702
My knees are totally fucked but I tried using knee stabilizers recently and it's good enough that I can do squats again.

How can I achieve looking like this? I'm a 25 years old thirdie shitskin NEET and hikikomori with shit body, completely sedentary

>>15711
One thing is to reach that kind of body, another thing is to maintain it. Just like with diets, you can get lean in various ways, but you need to make more fundamental changes to your lifestyle and mentality to stay at that level long-term.

So for now I would just simply aim at losing fat and gaining muscle, your goal always being just slightly ahead of where you're currently. Otherwise you'll lose patience and give up. As you progress it will hopefully become easier to make gradual changes to other aspects of your life. I'm not gonna lie, for me that didn't happen, I'm now just a fit hikikomori with all the same anxieties and depressions as before and lifting is for me just a hobby and a copium, my mood is slightly better after a workout, but that's it. But I still recommend it, at least you'll feel stronger and healthier physically.

>>15711
eat clean
train hard

organize your life around fitness

>>15712
I'm average to chubby, I posted my pics here >

https://leftypol.org/b/res/45747.html#45747

>>15705
I'll give him a look…
>>15709
What stabilizers you using?

>>15711
Maybe you should ask the man himself lol
https://twitter.com/MargBarAmerica

>>15712
How? Getting fit gives you a bit of mental fortitude too. Getting the will to do that last rep must transfer over to anxiety and doing things out of your own comfort zone?

>>15723
I have no social media besides discord

>>15725
Pumping iron is trivial. Some cut their skin, I damage my muscle tissue. I need more willpower to limit my workouts and take a day off.

Ok guys, how do I Bane Mode? without steroids

>>15736
Get fat
Wear lifts + clomping boots
forget legs
forget abs
farmer carry your pain and yoke training
maybe compund lifts idk
you WILL wear the MASK
go bald

>>15736
Shrugs, lots and lots of shrugs

>>2726
No I will NOT lift weights
No I will NOT do any sort of exercise
No I will not eat healthy
No I will not cut carbs and sugar
No I will not stop watching porn
No I will not have decent personal hygiene
No I will not do anything productive
No I will not use minoxidil to fix my beard
No I will not ever go out unless I forced to
No I will not improve my social skills
Yes I will keep playing vydias
Yes I will keep shitposting on imageboards
Yes I will keep arguing with political schizos on Twitter

>>15744
Cringe
Cringe
Cringe
Cringe
Who cares about porn?
Cringe
Based
Fucking unshaven barbarian
Cringe
You will eventually try, but then it will be too late
Who gives a shit about vidya?
Based
Infathomably cringe. Log the fuck off.

>>15745
>Fucking unshaven barbarian
kek

>>15742
>forget legs
Oi, we never saw his legs
he could have a nice bulging calf for all we know

>>15744
did you get lost on your way to /b/?

I love getting vitamin D and used to cover my face but sunlight on the face is too good.

Will I be safe from cataracts if I am wearing my prescription glasses (not sun glasses)? it has some type of coating that does something to uv rays but i have cleaned it with water, soap and some alcohol and it's about 3 years old.

I also keep my eyes closed for the most part.

Bros I completely gave up on following my meal plan. I dropped from 165ish to 142ish. I’m 5’11 so now I look like a stick again.

I just dont have the will to keep prepping, cooking, running to do groceries, finding new recipes, cleaning dishes, eating for specific nutritional profiles, feeling bloaty all day, worrying over body weight my whole life.

I gave up and it’s honestly kind of relieving like a burden has been lifted. I never liked the diet portion of fitness, I just like the exercising. I just cant see myself doing it my whole life.

I can see how fat people just get fat again, it’s hard to keep the change up for your body’s set point. Also I can see how taking steroids might be the only way to stay lean and muscular at the same time. As soon as I stopped eating, my body just cannibalized my muscles.

Lifestyle changes are damn near impossible if you really dont love the process. But fuck it I hate kitchen stuff, it’s like a second job.

>>15768
Why not reduce the number of meals and/or eat same simple shit every day? IMO all those complicated bodybuilder recipes with hundred different ingredients are a meme, they just want to prove you can still eat fancy stuff. Doesn't mean you have to, you can just pick a few simple things and mix them together. Currently my main meal is just sardines + beans, it tastes surprisingly good and takes me a minute to prepare. I don't count nutrients and calories anymore either, I just consistently eat what has lots of protein and go by feeling.

>As soon as I stopped eating, my body just cannibalized my muscles.
What do you mean "stopped eating"? Stopped eating good food? I did that a couple of times as well as stopped exercising completely, but I quickly gained back what I lost, it seems easier to go back to where you already were than to get there the first time.

>>15492
Reminder there’s no such thing as “calisthenics,” it was literally a term appropriated by retarded youtubers who didn’t know what they were even training. Calisthenics was just memetier and it was used for women who wanted to look prettier. Bodyweight conditioning sounds better than that.

https://www.etymonline.com/word/calisthenics

The other guy was closer in saying strongman yoga, because many of the “calisthenic” movements originated from yoga when the retarded anglos saw how strong indian monks were they shocked.

>>15770
Isn't it basically gymnastics without equipment?

>>15771
Yes, it is just pisspoor gymnastics period. Basically uninitiated people found out about a small amount of gymnastics movements and decided to poorly practice it. Since nobody really knows about gymnastics anymore and with their thirdhand knowledge, they didnt know what to call it and just used calisthenics to describe it. If anyone likes ‘calisthenics” they should just do gymnastics and go for the real thing. Gymnastics athletes are overall the fittest in the world.

There’s more to it than just those strength movements too, without the flexibility they really just make it look weak and uncontrolled. In addition they use roids and cheat it a bit which doesn’t help because a gymnast would be disadvantaged with that much mass. They also don’t have the endurance, agility, etc. Tl;dr is they’re just posers.

Fredrich Jahn basically invented modern gymnastics with the horizontal and parallel bars. He was the Turner movement which were a bunch of Prussians that got together in secret and trained gymnastics with each other to fight against Napolean’s occupation of Germany at the time.

Compare them to someone like yuri chechi at his peak, the guy was an absolute beast and one of the strongest in the world.

https://youtu.be/PXw1brSF7o4

However I think gymnastics now has become pretty elitist booj bullshit. They use children as a means for nationalist bragging rights, they barely even have adult classes because 21 is like the peak of a gymnastic and their classes are expensive. Also it is hard to practice recreational gymnastics because the lack of guidance and equipment.

What I can recommend to anons here if they’re interested is call your local gymnastic facility and ask if they have open gym night. You can pay 10$ and use the gymnastic place for an hour or so. Loads of fun and tons to work on. Some places dont let adults in because they think you’re a pedo, but as long as you’re training you’re good.

I trained XMA for 10 years and I can’t stress the importance of flexibility alone. I’m in my early 30’s now and still can do pretty much everything because I built a strong base. Now I’m getting into rollerblading, fencing, etc to expand my horizons.

>>15769
>Why not reduce the number of meals and/or eat same simple shit every day? IMO all those complicated bodybuilder recipes with hundred different ingredients are a meme, they just want to prove you can still eat fancy stuff.

I tried that in the beginning, just to eat the same stuff but then I get bored of the food really fast and some stuff eaten plain is kinda hard to stomach. Maybe im just spoiled, i donno. Yeah i stopped strictly counting macros too, but doing dishes and cooking is the worst.

> but I quickly gained back what I lost, it seems easier to go back to where you already were than to get there the first time.

yeah i just stopped eating the maintenance calories i needed even lol. i just really dont like food, it always seems like a hassle to me, i rather just be doing something else. been skinny most my life so maybe my body is just used to the low appetite. I just dont see a point anymore, all that work for slightly bigger muscles. why bother, never been a chick magnet anyways big or small would need to fix my mug first lol. and i dont see the need for muscles for health or for myself, ive been fine doing everything i need without them

>>15632
Poor kid, his training regiment is dog shit, he is gonna hurt himself more than benefit himself in the long run.

>>15770
>>15773
Words change. Did you know the word "man" used to be gender neutral in Middle English? Nowadays when you say "gymnastics" it usually refers to stuff that involves group training, an enclosed space to exercise in, and yes, equipment. I say I do a lot of calisthenics because I don't do anything in a gym.

>>15773
Calisthenics gets you this physique, hardly a meme. >>15736

i skip meals while cutting
dinner is easy to skip because it's during night and you can just fall asleep to not get hungry

>>15786
I can't fall asleep hungry.

>>15790
i fall asleep before the hunger hits

>>15793
So you eat lunch around noon, and then go to bed at eight PM? Or how?

>>15794
Yeah?

>how
I have seized the means of production in my body.
I own my body, I make the rules.
Dictatorship of my mind.

Do we make the /fit/ general cyclical or do we make a new one?

>>15793
I eat three meals: pre-workout, post-workout and late afternoon. I still get hungry before going to sleep, but then I can get much more drunk on an empty stomach while keeping calories low.

>>15797
New one: "Insert whatever you want here" Edition

>>15797
And archive.is this thread and put it in the OP.

Like:
"Previous thread: *insert archive.is link here* "

>>15797
Already archived for you:
https://archive.is/gQqkC

I've been working out consistently and I lost 10 pounds in the past 2 months, just recently I put on 6 of those pounds back. I haven't added food to my diet (I eat around 1,100-1,500 a day since I'm sedentary for 95% of my day) and I do lifting at the gym, am I still missing something?

what does full mean

oh it stops getting bumped