/fit/ general Anonymous Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:41:13 No. 2726 [Last 50 Posts]
Ask your /fit/ related questions here.
[b]Beginner's Health and Fitness Guide, aka "the /fit/ sticky"[/b]
http://liamrosen.com/fitness.html how do i overcome the wall? i'v been working out for almost a year now, gained about 33lbs mostly muscles.
i have no made any gain in the past 4 months now despite woring out and eating the same way. how do i get past this and gain muscles again?
Anonymous Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:41:13 No. 2727
>>2726 Great job! You have made a ton of gains. Unfortunately, you are past noob gains now. Gains will come much more slowly.
Make sure that you are still adding more volume to your workout. If the numbers are going up, you are improving. You may want to consider doing alternative lifts. Like switch from back squat to front squat etc
Anonymous Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:41:13 No. 2729
Should I do steroids /fit/? Serious question. I've been thinking I should maybe do just one or a couple cycles to make some nice quick gains that could hopefully be maintained without steroids. How retarded is this and why shouldn't I do it?
Anonymous Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:41:13 No. 2730
>>2729 >How retarded is this very
>why shouldn't I do it? it will fry your nuts and could make your permanently impotent
it will make your heart bigger, which isn't a good thing
why do you want to roid anyway?
Anonymous Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:41:14 No. 2741
>>2729 That's not how steroids work. You have to actually pump iron to get yoked. Steroids just lift the limits of your gains. If you're starting out you will benefit from noob gains already. Steroid use isn't helpful unless you already have some training as a base to work from. And they're not necessary unless you want to leave humanity behind or you're a pro bodybuilder or you're an actor trying to bulk up for a role really fast.
Anonymous Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:41:16 No. 2765
>>2726 i want to ask a question here but i am not in the mood currently
will ask at a later date
i will keep you updated /fit/iznes
Anonymous Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:41:17 No. 2770
How do I get fit as like a skinnyfat kinda guy
Anonymous Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:41:22 No. 2834
>>2775 depends from where you're starting but it looks like unhealthy low bodyfat, thats like under 2%
even if this were achievable it won't be sustainable.
in order to get this low bodyfat you'd have to cut savagely your body will inevitably end up eating the muscle mass in order to compensate
Anonymous Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:41:22 No. 2839
>>2836 you don't have to exercise like a mad man to lose weight, just eat less carbs and fat
and if you want to mak things faster, light jogging is the best option
Anonymous Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:41:22 No. 2840
>>2836 well, if you only want to lose weight, you don't really need exercise. you just need to eat healthier. you don't have to follow a diet or count calories, changing your habits is enough. for example you can eat more vegetables and fruit, cook your own meals, drink more water. but the most important thing is to avoid sugar as much as possible, and by sugar i mean sweets, soda, cakes, anything that has a lot of added sugar basically, even if it's homemade. i used to be pretty fat myself, but just by giving up sugary food (because of a cavity which was so bad i decided to never eat sweets or drink soda ever again) i lost a lot of weight and have pretty much stayed the same for a few years now even without exercising or counting calories. obviously, doing exercise is very good for your body, and just avoiding sugar and carbs is not enough to have a healthy diet, but if you tried changing your eating habits this way you would probably see a lot of results. this channel has a lot of interesting videos about nutrition and exercise, i think it's a pretty good place to start if you want to learn more
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=olEMIohTgzQ Anonymous Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:41:23 No. 2845
>>2836 Diet is like 80% of health and fitness. Eat good food and less calories than you burn. Stay away from empty calories (shit like soda), where you're getting calories without nutrition. That's only appropriate if you're exercising hard and need to keep your blood sugar up.
>>2839 Fat isn't bad. It can help you feel full for longer and help you reduce your caloric intake. Sugar is bad though, especially refined sugar, especially high fructose corn syrup.
Anonymous Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:41:25 No. 2872
>>2836 >I don't wanna be a bodybuilder or anything but I'd like to be less of a fat piece of shit. I just find it too much energy to exercise both physically and mentally Exercise is good, you could even go for a 30 minute walk right now and get some benefits. Even doing chores can add a bit of exercise into your day, there's a lot you can do! There's also more to weight loss than exercise btw like choosing the right foods to eat so don't feel bad if you can't run a marathon or lift your bodyweight.
I know i'm shilling this nofap tier memescience, but I recently have started doing this dopamine detox thing
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9QiE-M1LrZk and found that it worked for me and made me less lazy. Perhaps you can get results too and actually experience the buzz (dopamine) certain people get when exercising.
Anonymous Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:41:28 No. 2901
>>2726 Do we wear out our joints with each rep. Like how those folding cellphones have a limit on how many times they can be folded.
Does the human body repair its joints? Or am I wearing them out by doing more reps? I can't lift higher. I only have very few lightweight objects in my house. So reps are the only way to increase the strain.
Anonymous Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:41:30 No. 2916
>>2901 I think that's a question you should ask an anatomist or some type of doctor. I know people who run marathons can fuck up their knees after a while though so I would be careful of doing things for an extended period of time.
Anonymous Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:41:33 No. 2956
>>2741 Bullshit. I used to know someone who spent one of his cycles on bed literally and still grew.
Anonymous Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:41:33 No. 2959
>>2901 Yes and no. Depends on the joint and the movement. There are some movements that are just plain injurious or just add wear (although you usually can heal if you're not too old). But in general it's your whole body getting stronger, not just your muscles. Your connective tissue gets stronger with training, as does your skeleton. Your muscle recovers from training fastest, so you should be much more careful with your joints, but they will strengthen too. Just use proper form and don't progress too fast and bite off more than you can chew. See the next reply.
>>2916 That's mostly to do with people not walking the way the body is designed to walk. Your ankle is a natural shock absorber for your whole body. If you walk/run correctly (forefoot hitting ground first/only) you're fine. If you strike with your heel, there's nothing to absorb the shock, and your knees and hips take a pounding that wears them down over time. Your ankle is like a spring that bends vertically. Your knee doesn't bend vertically - a heel strike compacts the joint in a way it's not made to bend. Same goes for your hip joints. Even your spine isn't really built for that kind of impact, and there's basically nothing absorbing the shock between your spine and the ground if you heel strike. It can be hard to walk correctly though because most modern shoes have thick soles/heels to cushion them (not as good as your own body). The history of why shoes are like that is complicated and stupid but basically people designed shoes around fashion instead of biomechanics.
>>2956 You will still grow some no matter what but it's not the same as if you were lifting. You won't get yoked that way. It's also not going to build strength unless you lift. You can get big muscles that are also weak. You get stronger by working them. And if you don't work your muscles to build them up, the steroids (depending on what kind) will have other effects like growing your organs, that are too harmful to aesthetics to be worth it if you're not making the most out of the roids to get huge.
And some people respond better to roids than others of course.
Anonymous Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:41:34 No. 2964
>>2916 >>2959 thank you very much anon. i am going to do many overhead presses and pushups hope my elbow and wrists heal from the quarantined food i got.
Anonymous Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:41:34 No. 2965
Since the gyms here are closed due to COVID 19 I'm planing to get into calisthenics. Any tips for that?>inb4 no this other thing is superior!
Anonymous Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:41:34 No. 2966
Don't use steroids, there are lots of alternatives these days that are safer.
Anonymous Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:41:34 No. 2968
>>2967 you abnormally tall or short?
Anonymous Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:41:34 No. 2969
>>2968 I'm 175cm (5ft 9 in)
Anonymous Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:41:35 No. 2974
>>2964 OHP is rough on your rotator cuff (shoulder). Don't overdo it. It's one of the easiest to injure. If your joint starts to hurt stop immediately and give the joint time to recover before you lift heavy with it again. If you're trying to heal, do very light weights - just enough to get resistance and stimulate repair/recovery. Don't EVER push yourself while you're already injured.
>>2965 There's a shitload of different calisthenics you can do. Any advice beyond really general stuff would require knowing your goals. General advice is know which muscles do what and make sure you balance what you do. So if you're doing a push movement you should also be doing a pull movement to balance it, e.g. pushups & rows. You might also be interested in isometric exercise - pic related.
Anonymous Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:41:35 No. 2984
>>2974 Yes, yes. I have a wooden box that weighs 15 pounds that I do OHP with 40 times to gain a little bit of resistance. I also lift a 2 pound statue with each hand until fatigue but not too much.
Anonymous Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:41:36 No. 2994
>>2984 oh fuck I though OHP meant one-hand pushup
Anonymous Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:41:37 No. 3009
>>3004 chase people who break quarantine
Anonymous Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:41:37 No. 3010
>>2984 That sounds about right. Don't forget to stretch.
>>2994 That shit is hard tbh. It's more of a core workout than you would expect, but that's because normal pushups have the other hand to brace.
Anonymous Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:41:38 No. 3011
>>3004 Tabata. It will ramp up your metabolism and make any further exercise more effective at burning calories. You can do it with running or any other exercise. Couldn't be simpler: 20 seconds of maximum effort, 10 seconds of rest, repeat 8 times total for 4 minutes of exercise. Stick some warm up and cool down on either side. Be advised it's harder than you would think.
Anonymous Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:42:04 No. 3318
List all the exercise one can do during ze lockdown
Anonymous Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:42:04 No. 3319
>>3318 Instead of sit ups I would recommend leg lifts. Works most of the same muscles, but spares your back.
Anonymous Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:42:07 No. 3341
>>3319 OOOOO YEAH! that sounds good!
Anonymous Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:42:17 No. 3446
>>3318 Headstand pushups (upside down vertical press)
Anonymous Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:42:23 No. 3522
>tfw I can now do archer pull ups for reps
Anonymous Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:42:23 No. 3523
Will I die if I go from no workout in years to 40min workout a day / 100 pushups/situps/etc. a day?
Anonymous Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:42:23 No. 3526
>>3523 Just pace yourself, comrade. If something feels like it's too much, stop. Figure out how much you can maintain doing and do that, working up from there. Start small if you have to. There's no schedule you must follow. The important thing is you are improving and maintaining what you have.
Anonymous Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:42:27 No. 3570
>>3522 AAAAAAAAAAAAARGH COOOOOOOOOOOOOOOMING
>>3523 If you have some heart condition or something like that. I hear if you do too much exercise you can damage your muscles and make you shit it out that blood. Also kissing girls gives cooties and Obama killed 7/11
Anonymous Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:42:28 No. 3583
>>3446 Question, how the fuck can I do that? I never seem to be at the right angle or not properly up against a wall to get the reps started
Anonymous Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:42:29 No. 3596
>>3570 You can destroy your muscles by causing rhabdomyolysis, but you have to bust ass insanely hard.
>>3583 Look up some videos to see the correct form. Maybe work your way up with an easier progression first, like pike pushups or bent waist pushups. I find it easiest to do it with my back to the wall.
>put hands on floor next to wall >position shoulders above hands, head down >extend arms >kick feet off ground >balance so feet are up in the air, heels against wall >do eccentric movement (lowering) >push back up >repeat for reps It may be easier to do eccentrics only if you can't push back up, same way people do when starting pull ups.
Anonymous Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:43:50 No. 4468
I used to go to the gym every other day, tried to do lockdown workouts but I've barely been doing it because I'm not getting enough sleep to have any energy, even if I have coffee.
Anonymous Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:43:56 No. 4537
Since the virus lockdown, I am considering spending my time to work out.
Anonymous Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:43:57 No. 4540
>>4537 Scream for 9 hours in a corner to open a hole in the space time continuum
These rips are known to increase you powers 60 fold in 1 nano second.
Anonymous Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:43:57 No. 4547
>>4537 What are your fitness goals (build muscle, lose fat, improve cardiovascular health, etc)?
What equipment do you have, if any?
Anonymous Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:44:13 No. 4683
>>4547 >What are your fitness goals I want to build muscle.
>What equipment do you have, if any I literally have nothing, but I can hang from some bars in my backyard.
Anonymous Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:44:13 No. 4685
>>4683 Pic related is an ok no-equipment program. Ideally you would move beyond body weight into lifting heavy objects, but without equipment you are pretty much limited to body weight. You can't really do deadlifts for example if you don't have a bar. If you can hang from bars you can at least do pull ups and probably horizontal rows.
But the things to keep in mind for building muscle are:
<Caloric surplus
You need to be eating big to get big. Your body will either be catabolic (breaking down stored energy) or anabolic (building up stored energy) in general, and if you want to get swole, you need to be anabolic and eat more than you burn. Also try to eat healthy, get enough protein (don't have to overdo it), and eat more carbs so you can quickly turn food into body mass.
<Difficulty progression
You won't get big
ger if you don't work out harder than you have before. Figure out what your limit is and progress from there. This program increases repetitions per set until you get high enough and then you increase the difficulty of the movement. With actual weights you would bump up the weight you lift. That's a better system, because it lets you maintain the number of reps/sets and go for a consistent goal (pic 2).
<Rest
Lots of people don't realize that in order to make gains you have to rest properly. Training breaks your muscles down, and rest builds them back up (but stronger). Make sure you maintain a regimen that you can keep up long term (don't overdo it) and that you have time to recover fully. This depends a lot on the individual. For me, I tend to get better results by going hard and having more rest days, but other people may respond better to fewer sets done more frequently.
<Cardio
Despite common memes, cardio won't kill your gains. It will increase your metabolism and general health. The only thing about cardio is to understand that with an increased metabolism you have to eat more to have a caloric surplus. Doing cardio is good though because it helps you recover better by improving circulation and sleep.
Anonymous Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:44:33 No. 4876
Anyone remember /fitlit/?
Anonymous Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:44:43 No. 4968
I wanna get a bit more stronger. I’m super thin and my ribs, bones and shit are far too noticeable (like really). What should I do if I don’t have any access to proper weights or a gym?
Anonymous Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:44:43 No. 4969
>>4968 >What should I do if I don’t have any access to proper weights or a gym? You can get started with body weight resistance. See this post
>>4685 for basically the same question. Just replace "get big" with "get strong" and less emphasis on caloric surplus (although it helps esp if you're a hungry skeleton). Look at pic #2 for the number of reps and sets you want to be doing under the Strength column.
Also to add, it's way more important to be CONSISTENT than to do exactly the right program inconsistently. It may be more effective for you to start doing one or two exercises regularly and build the habit up.
Anonymous Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:44:43 No. 4971
>>4969 Yeah. Last time I exercised I wasn’t even able to use my fucking legs properly for two days
Anonymous Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:44:44 No. 4978
>>4971 Then you overdid it. Pay attention to how much you're doing. Track it in a spreadsheet if that helps. If you are too worn out, then cut back. It might seem counterintuitive, but pushing yourself only helps if you can recover from it fast enough to be ready to continue the program. If you can't stay consistent then cut back until you can. I remember there was some extremely obese person who got started by just clapping. Do whatever is challenging but not so challenging you can't keep it up. Doing anything at all, no matter how small, is an improvement over not doing anything.
Anonymous Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:44:50 No. 5029
Is it true that when fasting your body will retain more fat when you eat again. I ask because due to depression I don't trust myself to not overeat, so all I can really do is eat like a medieval Chinese peasant, if I eat at all.
Anonymous Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:44:50 No. 5030
What happens physiologically if you are under-nourished and work out a lot? How does the body react to this stress?
Anonymous Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:44:50 No. 5034
>>5030 Depends.
tl;dr
If you want to gain muscle, put your body in bulk mode. Calories in > calories out, progress your difficulty.
If you want to lose fat and retain muscle, put your body in cut mode. Calories in < calories out, maintain your difficulty.
Trying to do both at once is suboptimal, and the reason you would see problems like you suspect.
You build strength/mass by breaking down muscle through resistance, and then recovering by eating the nutrients you need to repair yourself only stronger. If you are eating enough to repair the breakdown you cause through working out, plus a baseline amount of calories to keep you healthy, you will just lose weight. The minimum for this is probably like your basic metabolic rate (BMR) minus a few hundred Calories which you can calculate based on mass and bf% plus whatever you need to get the necessary nutrients. As long as you have body fat to lose and eat that much, you will probably be ok.
If you eat too little or work out too hard you can get into territory where you can't recover properly from the workout and you will start to lose weight in the form of muscle mass. Do keep in mind that if you lose weight, have a catabolic metabolism, you will lose some muscle mass. This is practically unavoidable. If you eat too little or work out to hard you can tip the scales and that's counterproductive. But if you track your weight and bf% you can see how much muscle vs fat you lose (fat should handily be most of it). You will also see yourself hitting a plateau at best, most likely you will get weaker. This means increase your caloric intake or slow down the progression or both. If you don't correct you are probably going to wear yourself out and not be able to keep it up or just start weakening yourself.
If you take this too far (though usually through lifting too much as opposed to under-eating) you can cause your muscles to start atrophying rapidly (rhabdomyolosis) which is indicated by severe illness symptoms, the most characteristic of which is brown urine. If you take it this far (extreme case) you need hospitalization so they can give you fluids and potentially filter the toxic chemicals produced by muscle breakdown. But again, this is for when you go way too far, like lifting heavy for hours at a time.
You can avoid these issues pretty completely if you just stick to the bulk/cut cycle. When you bulk, you eat more calories than you burn and lift on a progressively increasing difficulty curve. The most consistent and effective way to do that is to increase the weight over time. By challenging your body you force your muscles to rebuild themselves, and by eating more food than you normally need, you are supplying them the materials to do that effectively. When you cut, you eat fewer calories than you consume, potentially do some more cardio or something to cut even more calories, and you continue to lift but at an easier challenge level. Knock off the weight progression because your body isn't good at simultaneously burning fat and building muscle. It
can do both but either one is more effective the less you do of the other. So just keep lifting at the same level or even a bit below while progressing slower. What you don't want to do is stop lifting because then your body no longer needs to maintain the strong muscle and it will start to break down more of the muscle for calories.
>>5029 >Is it true that when fasting your body will retain more fat when you eat again. Your body will try to hold onto as much energy as it can, but I'm not really sure what you're asking. How much of the food you eat becomes fat vs burned as energy depends on your metabolism level when you eat. If you eat right after a workout more of the food will go to recovery than to fat. If you eat less your body will try to slow its metabolism down a bit, but you can increase your metabolism with exercise. If you just passively fast without doing anything else you might have some factor increasing fat storage that way, but generally fasting is good for weight loss because while fasted your body has to burn fat and breaking fast will then put more of the food toward recovery. What fasting
will often do is make you hungry and prone to eating more.
>I ask because due to depression I don't trust myself to not overeat, so all I can really do is eat like a medieval Chinese peasant, if I eat at all. This is actually a really good thing to work on to help build discipline and to help with depression a bit. You can get a lot better at this with practice, as long as you don't get mad at yourself when you (inevitably) have failures and you don't use food as an incentive or reward. That's one of the biggest problems with dieting - people confuse their reward system by rewarding a successful diet with food. Find something else that gives you the reward feeling and do that after you succeed on your diet. Like, play a video game every time you eat the right amount of food at a meal and hold yourself to not playing it if you overeat.
>>4968 Pick a workout, get started, and eat way more.
Anonymous Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:44:51 No. 5044
Is whey protein a complete scam? I've been drinking it for years, now the quarantine happens and it's too expensive for me to get and I haven't lost all my muscle or anything.
Anonymous Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:44:52 No. 5053
>>5044 Whey is a good source of protein. It's not a supplement;it's a food. You might have been under the impression that you need to consume more protein than you really do. There is a tendency to exaggerate that.
Anonymous Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:44:53 No. 5059
>>5057 Build a huge core and achieve doormode. Skinny hips/waist is a meme. You have a lower center of mass and a better foundation for building strength.
>>5058 F
I hope you're in a country with not a completely retarded healthcare system.
Anonymous Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:44:58 No. 5108
Could I get some advice on sugar intake? By my counting, I actively consume ~15g of sugar per day, perhaps slightly more, since I use sauce for some of my meat dishes, however that isn't regular. If I really wanted, I could probably cut it to ~8g. How good is this? Should I try to go down to 8g or eliminate it completely? I'd prefer not, since those 8g are basically only there to prevent me from gagging on my breakfast, however, if it brings benefit, I'd be willing to quit.
Anonymous Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:44:58 No. 5111
>>5059 okay but what if I wanted a huge core and even wider hips; achieve full himbo/bara mode
Anonymous Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:44:59 No. 5117
>>5111 get on hgh at that point i guess
Anonymous Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:45:01 No. 5130
>>5108 eat some fruit for heavens sake
Anonymous Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:45:09 No. 5188
Is it true it's harder to lose muscle and your strength than it is to gain it? I've heard that unless you really try, as long as you keep your body active (even through non-gym activities), your body will still be relatively better than before you went to gym.
Anonymous Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:45:09 No. 5191
>>5188 I can only speak from experience but i still have my gains from when I started lifting 6 years ago even though I stopped lifting for years after that (wasn't a lot though, as I was a newbie and did several things wrong) So yeah unless you're regularly starving yourself it seems pretty hard to lose muscle
Anonymous Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:45:09 No. 5193
>>5130 Why? I take vitamin pills, so I am ok on that part, and to my understanding fruit isn't really worth it. It isn't filling and has sugar. Sure it has fibre, but I don't really have a poop problem. Anyway, I am not really trying to have a real diet, just something that would be easy to follow and would eliminate the most unhealthy. I guess I'd appreciate some advice on improving what I eat. It's:
200g of low-fat curd with a tiny bit of jam for breakfast
Some sort of meat dish for lunch (porkchops, chiken made same way as porkchops, ground beef with rice or pasta).
Mostly random shit for dinner (pasta, omlet, hardboiled eggs, premade chicken kiev with the butter taken out, oven heated premade pizza).
Anonymous Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:45:18 No. 5263
Oi /fit/, I am an ectomorphic lad and I'd like to get fit. For starters what is the place you recommend to calculate which caloric intake I need? Secondly, running or cycling? I personally prefer cycling, but I don't really know how far to cycle. I usually do around 20km in 50mins. For a more helpful routine do I do this like 3 times a week?
Anonymous Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:45:18 No. 5264
>>5263 >calculate which caloric intake Don't micromanage your food intake to the calorie. Eat healthy foods and work out. If you need more food, your body will demand it and you will eat more to keep up. If you eat a lot now, just cut down on greasy and sweet foods, get your sugar from fruits and juice and halve your portions for a period of time until you noticeably lose weight. Running and doing steam-bath will make you sweat yourself of any excess fat
Anonymous Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:45:18 No. 5269
>>5264 Thanks for the advice laddie, I appreciate it
Anonymous Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:45:29 No. 5373
Nice to see /fit/ on bunkerchan, as long as it doesn't devolve into bodybuilding/hypertrophy. There are only two things a militant has to train for: fighting and escaping. So train for power, endurance and technique. Practice some form of martial arts or boxing. Inflated muscles will only slow you down. Don't buy into neoliberal ideology that tells you you have to turn yourself into a brand.
Anonymous Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:45:30 No. 5376
>>5373 my bones make a loud cackle every time i move my arms or legs
if i train my bones could turn to dust
Anonymous Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:45:30 No. 5377
>>5376 >a loud cackle every time i move <…Spooky Scary Skeletons, Send Shivers down your spine.
Unless you have serious osteoporosis just stretch a lot and start using small weights (2kg). The more you move the more 'lubricated' your joints, muscles and ligments are, and the more freely and smoothly they'll move for you. Inb4 "the pain" My grandfather is over 80 and has torn ligments in one arm and arthritis in the other. Through every-day stretches and workout he continues to maintain his strength and over-came his pain and weakening. He has the physical strength to beat me at arm-wrestling and the flexibility of a man half his age, if he can do it, so can you.
Anonymous Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:45:30 No. 5378
>>5377 >osteoporosis fuck fukc fuck i didn't think of that
i am vegetarian and i barely get sunlight inside the house and i eat below recommended amount of daily protein
OH FUCK I COULD ALSO HAVE RICKETS AND ARTHRITIS
Anonymous Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:45:30 No. 5381
>>5378 >i am vegetarian Do you eat eggs? because as a person who has cared for far animals, none of the eggs laid by chickens that are sold are actually "baby chickens", they lay eggs as a way of getting rid of sterile eggs that are grown, so you're not harming them by eating them. Cows on proper farms also do not mind being milked, often they have too much for the calves to drink and this can result in painful udders when the milk doesn't get removed. Don't want to eat meat? Fine, but don't be stupid about hurting the feelings of animals, As long as they're kept in humane environments they're perfectly willing to give away their un-needed byproducts that YOU very much need.
>rickets and arthritis better start working out with light exersize and consuming vitamin pills like crazy
>little sun Put on a light layer of sunblock lotion, go to the nearest lake or Ocean and spend a hour tanning. You sound like you're missing serious mounts of Vitamin D, Calcium and Vitamin C.
Anonymous Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:45:31 No. 5391
>>5381 No i don't eat eggs. Just diary and pulses and that too not much because it is hard to get them. Literally been living on rice potato the past months.
I got no money for vitamin pills, i'll try to get free sun from my balcony, should 1 hour of it be enough?
Anonymous Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:45:35 No. 5427
>>5391 > should 1 hour of it be enough Usually.
Do try to get eggs if you can, they're non-fertilized and do no harm to the Chicken if that is what you worry about.
>Rice-potato Yeah fam you're going to get scurvy doing that, where the bloody hell do you live? Ireland? Alaska?
>no money M8, if you don't start eating properly you're gonna die way too early. This isn't even /fit/ this is downright /survive/ and be healthy
Anonymous Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:45:35 No. 5428
>>5391 Dairy is way less humane than eggs my dude. Depending on where you are you may be able to get eggs that are basically cruelty free (by non-vegan standards). Dairy cows have a pretty shitty life OTOH.
Anonymous Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:45:35 No. 5429
>>5428 I get my milk from local villages and farms though.
Anonymous Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:45:35 No. 5430
>>5429 If you can get milk locally like that then there are almost certainly eggs available too.
Anonymous Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:45:35 No. 5431
>>5430 I'm not that guy, mate
Anonymous Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:45:48 No. 5548
>>2964 Overhead press fucked my rotator. Be careful with your form.
Anonymous Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:45:48 No. 5549
anon from leftypol thread here, I'll just post here. I've been cycling 20km in between 45 to 50 minutes for two weeks now. Feels really good. I've also noticed that I am eating more. Gonna be rid of this skeleton body if I keep it up, can't fucking wait.
Anonymous Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:46:44 No. 6009
So how's everyone doing?
Anonymous Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:46:44 No. 6010
'Sup /fit/, need some help. See I eat like a bloody horse and its mostly healthy food (no soda, no fast-food, plenty of vegetables and fruit, nuts, chicken, pork, rice and multi-grain bread) 3 Full plates a day and snacks in between… yet I haven't gained weight in 5 years, and I'm a skinny guy. My metabolism isn't especially fast either so what gives? How can I build some muscle mass better?
Anonymous Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:46:44 No. 6012
>>6010 Do you also lift? Your muscles need to train to get swole. If you train them, some of your metabolism goes to rebuilding them stronger. You can also try eating more, even stuff that's largely empty calories like rice.
Anonymous Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:46:44 No. 6013
>>2726 Is Steven Low's Overcoming Gravity book good? I don't really want to become large, just strong. My physique is average, 180cm x 74kg.
Anonymous Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:46:45 No. 6017
>>6012 >eating more I eat a lot already. I'll try lifting but frankly nothing has changed for years. I'd suspect tape-worms if it weren't for all tests coming in negative.
Anonymous Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:46:46 No. 6029
>>6017 bro you need strength training if you want to gain muscle. eating healthy is gonna prevent you from getting fat but its not gonna grow your muscles.
Anonymous Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:46:47 No. 6030
>>6013 Also, is it normal for someone of my complexion not be able too make more than a couple normal pullups? it's been that way since I ever remember.
Anonymous Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:46:47 No. 6032
>>6030 >complexion idk what your skin has to do with it lol
Not sure what you meant to say instead though.
>is it normal to suck at pullups Yes definitely. You just have to work up to it. Do eccentrics or half pull ups to help develop the strength.
Anonymous Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:46:47 No. 6034
>>6032 By complexion I meant the body build. I thought it meant that, I was mistaken.
Anonymous Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:47:20 No. 6303
>>6029 I get that, my point is I don't gain weight even in terms of fat. I was forced to be unable to do physical activities of any kind for a year, yet gained 0 pounds despite eating the same and being forced to be very inactive physically.
Anonymous Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:47:35 No. 6413
Anyone remember /fitlit/?
Anonymous Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:47:58 No. 6581
>>6580 >I wanna be a cute fag <I also wanna be built
Pic 1 or the other, you can't be a "manly man" and a "trap" at the same time.
Anonymous Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:47:59 No. 6589
>>6581 I don't think I made myself clear the first time. I do want to build up muscle and get a toned twink body so I don't look like some lanky soyboy. I'm not looking to do powerlifting, but enough that I don't have to worry about some chaser causing me trouble.
I hope that clears things up.
Anonymous Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:47:59 No. 6590
>>6589 SO you want to be an otter, you really sent mixed signals with the trap aesthetic stuff. Thanks for clarification.
On the topic of chasers… see the martial arts thread.
Anonymous Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:48:01 No. 6608
>>6589 Good taste, comrade. I hope you do become a cuteboy.
Anonymous Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:48:01 No. 6610
>>6608 Can we not do this here? You have /GET
Anonymous Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:48:04 No. 6642
>>6640 Flys of all kinds, pull overs, rows, pull ups, and maybe deadlifts?
Anonymous Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:48:05 No. 6651
>>6640 What the fuck, anon don't listen to this moron
>>6642 , do OHP variations and facepulls.
Anonymous Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:48:14 No. 6738
Okay, bit of an odd question. How should I get legs as big as Chun Lee (street fighter)?
Anonymous Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:48:15 No. 6744
>>6738 Front squats and lunges basically.
Anonymous Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:48:15 No. 6745
>>6651 are there variations of facepulls that don’t involve a cable machine? ie freeweight or body weight.
Uneven Back Anonymous Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:48:32 No. 6898
Anyone know how I can fix my back? I sleep on my back, and have always worked out with equal weighton both sides, yet the lower back muscles on my right side seem to be just not there, like there is a visible indent in the area as if the muscles are just not there, yet I have no trouble lifting heavy objects with either arm. Is this a big concern?
Anonymous Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:48:34 No. 6913
>>6898 That is probably, quite literally, genetics.
I too have something similar, namely my right pectoral is almost non-existant and yet I can push/pull as much weight as my left.
We were just not born to be [b]a e s t h e t i c[/b] .
Anonymous Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:48:34 No. 6916
>>6913 Well that fucking sucks, None of my family I know have that so it must be one off then. Oh well, at least I'm /fit/.
Anonymous Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:48:34 No. 6917
How much do I have to lift to achieve this body? Daniel Cormier is literally peak male performance.
He's free money on August 15th btw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jY4tYBkz-Fw He's also the UFC GOAT
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rf7H1w7JuGQ Anonymous Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:48:47 No. 7010
>>6917 get to 100-110kg and lift your max 4-5 times a week for 2 years.
This entire thread is cringe and nobody here knows anything about fitness. I can give advice but what you want & what you can achieve varies vastly depending on if you want to lift weights or do bodyweight exercises & if you want to focus on strength or aesthetics. I cannot help with cardio because I just run (and not enough) to keep it up.
Posting body & some info for reference. Anyone giving advice ought to post body.
Height & Weight 187cm/6'1, 110kg
Stats:
Max Deadlift: 200kg
Max Bench: 130kg
Max Squat: 130kg
Max Overhead Press: 90kg
Natty
Anonymous Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:48:49 No. 7033
>>7010 >I can give advice but what you want & what you can achieve varies vastly depending on >if you want to lift weights or do bodyweight exercises Lift weights, already have a hexbar, only just into my 2nd week with it.
>& if you want to focus on strength or aesthetics. Strength, Daniel Cormier mode or this mode unironically:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PlaBlizeV7o > le ebin aesthetic ripped bodybuilder twink. I want to join the Big Boys Club:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yxgwWe5unJg Is adding 10 lbs per week to my lifts reasonable? I do 1 set of 5 reps each deadlifts and 2 sets of 1 minute each farmers walks (both currently at 80lbs).
Anonymous Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:48:50 No. 7039
>>7033 These guys sort of remind me of sumos
That is, fucking strong as hell
Then dead by 40
You body is not meant to be, and let's be honest here, that fat for that many years for any reason
Anonymous Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:48:51 No. 7047
>>7030 thanks bruv
>>7033 Hexbar man bad, you are limited in what you can do with it. get an olympic bar and 160kg of weights for starters, or join a gym if you can't afford it.
Do Deadlifts, Squats, Bench Press, pull ups and Overhead Press. These are compound exercises and you will be working most of your muscle groups doing these. for a beginner a good starting routine is starting strength, 3 sets of 5 reps or 5 sets of 5 reps on most exercises, the last rep needs to be very difficult. If you feel like you are easily doing 5 repetitions you need to add more weight. Sets of threes are also good but again you need to be physically unable to do another rep after the three in a set. Train 3-4 days a week minimum & 5 days a week maximum, every training day you train your upper body and your lower body. Here is an example of my training day:
Bench press: warm up with heavy singles until failure, then do 5x3, then 5x5 and stop decreasing the weight when it becomes negligible.
Do pull ups until I physically can't pull myself up anymore (starting out, especially if you are pudgy, you will be unable to do them or do very little of them but you have to keep trying, no other way to work back)
Squat, warm up with 3x5, then increase the weight by 10kg and keep doing 3x5 until I can only lift it for 1 rep.
Do some dips until failure, usually 6x8
Train with a 80kg stone in my yard, shouldering it, carrying it and holding it for resistance training. The same can be replicated with farmers walks and bent over rows.
Training should take at least an hour, over the years mine has become 2-3 hours long.
Yes, it is very reasonable. You will hit a wall eventually, but if you can take the weight keep adding more. Do 1 rep max deadlifts as well, as long as you maintain proper form. At least once a week load up the bar with enough weight that you can only lift it once and just barely while maintaining a good posture, then lift it over and over in 'sets of one' until you physically can't lift it off the ground anymore. You are not just training your muscles you are training your central nervous system and it gets used to lifting heavy shit trough shock.
Know that like 90% of the people lifting really heavy shit online, like 300+ kg deadlifts are on steroids. Hang around on /fit/ and go to a gym and you'll learn to recognize it, don't get discouraged if you see someone claiming an unbelievable transformation in half a year or a year, it is most likely a lying roider. But at the same time you can get a decent phisique with one year of training.
Combine both bodyweight stuff and weightlifting, taking from your posts you are probably a fatass that wants to become strong and big, bodyweight exercises become extremely good for building muscle when you are heavy, so combine them. But likely you won't be able to lift yourself until you've done some weightlifting first, IF you are heavy.
Go to 4chan /fit/ unironically, you will learn a lot more than here, people ITT don't know anything. /fit/ is generally a good point of reference for starting out, just take what they say with a grain of salt. They like to complain a lot and are whiners. The shit posted ITT is either girly shit or fitness fad shit, I can guarantee only like 2 or 3 posters in this thread actually train.
RESISTANCE BANDS ARE A FUCKING MEME, ANYTHING THAT ISNT LIFTING YOUR OWN BODY OR LIFTING WEIGHT IS A MEME. STOP WASTING YOUR TIME ON THAT SHIT! FOR BODYWEIGHT PUSH UPS DIPS LEVERS PULL UPS SQUATS FOR WEIGHTLIFTING SQUAT DEADLIFT BENCH OHP, EVERYTHING ELSE IS AUXILIARY AND YOU CAN'T ACTUALLY GET IN SHAPE FROM IT.
Anonymous Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:48:51 No. 7048
>>7047 also the first three months of exercise should feel like you got gangbanged by niggers and you should be in pain and aches from DOMS all the time, if you are not in this state of things you are not pushing yourself hard enough. After the initial few months it will pass because your body got used to the stress. This is a good measure if you are training seriously starting out.
Anonymous Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:48:51 No. 7049
>>7033 Also most likely over time your ambitions will change from wanting to look strong fat/builtfat to wanting to look athletically strong. Most likely this change will come once you've achieved that body, because that's where I am at right now.
Anonymous Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:48:54 No. 7083
>>7033 Buy kettlebells. They are great for gaining stamina and increasing both your tendons' and muscles' strength.
Anonymous Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:48:57 No. 7108
>>7083 Anyone know where I can get them for cheap. I want some 5-10 Kg ones.
Anonymous Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:48:58 No. 7123
>>7108 I'm not sure if it is a good advice in your case, but try buying the used one. At least in my country they are 3 to 5 times cheaper than the new ones.
Anonymous Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:48:58 No. 7130
>>7108 If you shave you head and workout topless while whistling like a train, they will come to you.
Anonymous Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:49:38 No. 7551
>>7108 >5-10kg ones get at least 10kg ones & heavier, you are wasting your time at that weight. Literally better of doing nothing than "exercising" with that weight. Get 20-30kg ones too and heavier after a certain point.
Anonymous Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:49:38 No. 7553
Here is a good standard for strength if you are thinking of starting weightlifting but don't have any idea what you are doing
Anonymous Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:49:42 No. 7607
>>7553 someone starting out weightlifting is 100% not going to be able to overhead press 75% of their body weight
auf keinen fall
Anonymous Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:49:42 No. 7608
>>7607 Of course, this is why it is a standard for strength. It is a goal to aspire to and achieve, not something you do off the bat. It took me a year to accomplish these and more for the squat.
Anonymous Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:49:42 No. 7609
>>7608 okay sorry brother I miss understood what you were saying
Anonymous Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:49:43 No. 7612
How can you do overhead press without fucking up your shoulders? And how can you squat without hurting your knees? I stopped lifting because of this.
Anonymous Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:49:43 No. 7614
>>7612 What was your height & weight, and what weight were you lifting?
high bar or low bar for squat?
Most likely the problem is with your posture. I haven't had shoulder pains from OHP, but I've heard a lot of people complain about this. When lifting the weight try to lift it up in a straight line while pushing your head forward, it is supposed to be above you not slightly in front of you like most people do. Do not lean back so much as to fuck up your back, doing some retarded standing bench press like a lot of people do.
As for squats, in my opinion the high bar squat is superior because it does not fuck up your back. You basically need to keep your torso & back straight and the bar on your traps and squat ass to grass.
Maybe you were dive bombing instead of controlling your movement when lowering? that can fuck you up.
Anonymous Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:49:51 No. 7690
>>6589 is it bad I want a dominant twink bf if im a 80 kilos bearmode?
Anonymous Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:49:56 No. 7736
>>7690 >80kg >bearmode lmao
post body.
Anonymous Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:49:56 No. 7737
>>7688 Bruh not to put you down but he's a professional athlete, that means he's on steroids. You'll never look like him no matter how much you train. You can still look pretty good and the training regiment would be good if you can pull it off, but you need to throw in dips, pull ups and squats too.
Anonymous Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:49:57 No. 7745
>>7688 >doing loads of an exercise to get stronk More like work up to 5x5 one-arm decline pushups or have someone sit on your shoulders. Also crunches are shit and bad for your posture. If you do any ab movment like that balance it with supermans.
>>7553 >I know less about bodyweight exercises, but the focus should be to train until failure every time and climb up into the hundreds of repetitions with push ups, squats, dips etc. No, you are training for different goals if you do that. That is basically doing calisthenics/cardio. If you want to use body weight exercises you need to increase the resistance by doing harder movements, e.g. regular pull ups to wide pull ups to archer pull ups to one-arm pull ups.
Anonymous Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:49:59 No. 7758
>>7745 >No, you are training for different goals if you do that. That is basically doing calisthenics/cardio. If you want to use body weight exercises you need to increase the resistance by doing harder movements, e.g. regular pull ups to wide pull ups to archer pull ups to one-arm pull ups. I wasn't saying against that but you are right. With bodyweight stuff the focus should be making as large and wide of range of movements as possible, many types of different variations. In this regard I think bodyweight exercises are superior to weightlifting because they are capable of targeting more diverse muscle groups. I still stand by what I said, it is just that what I said is useless if you do not include all kinds of variations to these bodyweight exercises.
during corona I managed to actually grow my bench press by doing dips and 5-6 different kinds of push ups at home. this was still a pretty intense chest exercise for me because I am 110kg, and bodyweight exercises actually make me strain. I was very surprised when I actually saw my strength grow.
Anonymous Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:49:59 No. 7761
>>7758 The other advantage of body weight is that you usually engage more support/stabilizing muscles than if you lift weights and
especially if you use machines. But it's not ideal. It would be a good supplement to lifting real weights though.
Honestly, I only got into bodyweight because my area's gym is so shit that if I put all the plates on the bar they weigh less than I do. If I just do handstand pushups it's more weight than trying to overhead press everything they have.
This is something people tend to forget - your muscles are combinations of a bunch of different fibers and smaller muscles, and varying your routine is important to rounding out the whole muscle group. Like you noticed it comes in handy later when doing "normal" lifts because you can draw on the more obscure muscle to help you.
Anonymous Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:50:00 No. 7767
>>7744 >gyms closed in NY for the foreseeable future ah well guess i'll just be skinny for another year
Anonymous Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:50:05 No. 7803
>>7797 I know that feel bro. I had to move training to the shitty public gym with logs, concrete weights & metal bars but it just isn't heavy enough, I don't even get DOMS.
Anonymous Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:50:05 No. 7804
>>7761 >Honestly, I only got into bodyweight because my area's gym is so shit that if I put all the plates on the bar they weigh less than I do. If I just do handstand pushups it's more weight than trying to overhead press everything they have. That's fucking cursed, what sort of gym is that? Planet fitness or some sort of womans gym?
Anonymous Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:50:05 No. 7805
>>7761 Also I agree with everything you said. My normal routine is a mix of bodyweight stuff and weightlifting but I focus more on weightlifting. Machines are a trash waste of time, me and my buddy who never do machines went to a big city gym in the center and managed to 10-12 rep all the machines on their biggest difficulty, it is such a meme. The leg press is maybe the only exception but squats are still better because they are safer.
Anonymous Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:50:05 No. 7806
>>7804 Some local small chain that charges $50 a month and is equipped with those single-movement machines and a bunch of cardio equipment. They don't even have a squat rack or bench, just a smith machine. They didn't even originally have a bar.
Basically it's a place for suburbanite retards to waste money larping as bodybuilders.
Anonymous Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:50:08 No. 7838
>>7836 I change my mind
Guy is natty and just eats organic kimchi made exclusively from napa cabbage grown and hand-harvested by the virgin priestesses in the trenbolone-rich volcanic soils of Mt Paektu.
Here you see him with some of the priestesses who upskilled to dietitians after joining the army.
Anonymous Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:50:09 No. 7845
>>7836 14 hours of sleep a day will do that to you.
Anonymous Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:50:10 No. 7853
>>7806 the worst part is those gyms pull the most money so they are gobbling up the classical gyms.
Anonymous Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:50:14 No. 7891
Are we all in agreement here that roids are bourgeois decadence and the bodybuilder asthetic is just capitalist realism?
Anonymous Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:50:15 No. 7896
Bros.
Anonymous Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:50:15 No. 7897
>>7896 read the sticky on /fit/
Anonymous Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:50:15 No. 7898
>>7896 either go keto or do one meal a day
cut sugary shit
exercise
that's it. anything else other than eating less is a cope, even exercise won't help if you don't eat less.
Anonymous Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:50:15 No. 7899
>>7891 extremely cringe take, especially since the capitalist realist overman is the skinnyfat soy bugman. Bodybuilders are a thing of modernism, not pomo cap.realism.
That being said it is just taking the easy route and it fucks your health so you shouldn't do it, if you aren't going to the top (strongman, olympics) roids are cringe and just taking the lazy route. It is excusable for really aesthetic bodybuilding like arnie as well.
Roids are bad but your argument is cringe and soy.
Anonymous Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:50:16 No. 7902
>>7891 >he doesn't want to be a Soviet super soldier Pathetic.
Anonymous Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:50:16 No. 7903
>>7896 Count calories/good dieting, exercise, general good health practices (ex: consistent sleep schedule)
Anonymous Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:50:16 No. 7904
Bros how much do you really lift for others/to get chicks vs for yourself?
Anonymous Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:50:16 No. 7905
>>7904 it helps with my adhd
Anonymous Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:50:16 No. 7906
>>7904 These are very shallow reasons.
Comrades should lift in preparation for the world revolution. How can we overthrow capitalism while being physically and mentally weak? Proper lifting improves both your body's health and your pscyhe's health.
Anonymous Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:50:17 No. 7920
>>7904 >>7906 both reasons are cringe. you ought to exercise to become an overman, the best possible version of you. if you don't have something serious & time consuming to focus your time on like studying to become a doctor there is no excuse not to train. You can reach both your physical and mental apex, there is no reason why one should prevent the other.
Anonymous Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:50:17 No. 7921
>>7904 and getting surgery is extra cringe bourgie shit.
Anonymous Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:50:19 No. 7934
>>7891 roids fuck up your testicles lmao, Not worth it especially since the ideal male form to women is either dad bod (vast majority) or ottermode (most of the rest of the small minority, only a tiny sliver of women are not disgusted by guys that are shredded veiny bodybuilder roids mode)
>>7902 >he doesn't want to have healthy sperm to father children with NGMI
Anonymous Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:50:19 No. 7939
>>7934 >lifting for women lmao
Anonymous Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:50:20 No. 7942
>>7904 I'm Autistic so it's not like I'm gonna get girls anyway. Pretty much riding the line between strength and looks. Lifting has given me so much already, so motivation isn't really a factor anymore. I do it because I enjoy it, and the slow, upward crawl of kilos is enough for me.
Anonymous Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:50:21 No. 7954
>>7939 Why do bodybuilders always resort to this cop out after they get called out on lifting solely for women?
If you are training for big muscles/aesthetics then you are doing it for others and vanity/looks. Strength doesn’t show. So either you lift for fitness and barely look like you lift, or you train for aesthetics and impressing others.
Building muscle is really just pure vanity/impressing women. Strength does not equal muscle
Anonymous Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:50:21 No. 7955
>>7954 And you have to be deluded like the bodybuilding forum to think women even prefer that roided out bald spray tan look. Women would rather have a skinnyfit guy with hair and a nice face
Anonymous Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:50:22 No. 7959
>>7954 >Strength doesn't show lmao, not even a bodybuilder. Why are leftist so fucking cringe and cope instead of fessing up to being dyels,you ought to learn from rightoids and alternative types instead of whining and making excuses. Strength does equal muscle, if you didn't look like shit or were scrawny you wouldn't even be posting this.
For vanity sure but that doesn't imply training for others, I train to uplift myself both in strength and appearance and I don't factor into this what is aesthetic to other people.
I don't even roid, your arguments are just so fucking cringe and embarassing. Post body and lifts so I can laugh at you.
Anonymous Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:50:22 No. 7960
>>7959 Also up until COVID I've worked a physical job my whole life, and I can tell you that people saying 'strength doesn't show' is either a sign of an amateur lifter or a COPE. Gym training both translated into easier work shifts for me and aesthetics and people around me noticed.
Anonymous Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:50:36 No. 8044
>>7959 Not him but
>Strength does equal muscle Any martial artist worth their salt will tell you that excess muscle-building is a handicap. Not only is it short-term and have low stamina compared to lean-muscle but it also is vulnerable, as anyone who has ever been charlie-horsed can tell you.
>leftist fucking cringe Because we don't think being Mr.Balloon arms is based? Look at Greek Olympic statues and art, they're muscled, but not puffed up roid-users.
>vanity <that doesn't imply training for others
That's a contradictive statement. If you;re doing it for others in the first place and not some side benefit then you're doing it wrong.
>>7960 Nigga I am a wiry person, I look fairly thin, but I can lift a small steel fridge up 4 long-ass flights of stairs of an old studio and go back for more with ease. I also did plenty of heavy lifting on a ship, and anything I couldn't do by myself was something that required collective effort in the first place (for example raising the anchor). That was shit I did as a teenager.
Anonymous Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:50:37 No. 8048
>>7959 >Strength does equal muscle, if you didn't look like shit or were scrawny you wouldn't even be posting this. No, it literally doesn’t. You can be 130 lbs and stronger than someone 255 lbs. There’s a difference between relative strength and absolute strength. Strength is training the motor neurons to operate at a higher capacity. It’s training your nervous system vs muscular hypertrophy and getting needlessly larger.
Yes it does, vanity can’t be had without a social context. You can’t be vain if you don’t know what societal beauty standards are. It’s like hegel you embroiled in the volksgeist of your time. Before the roided look was fashionable being vain could mean being a literal fatty.
Whatever muchacho. You look big yes, but you have a lot of bodyfat. What I’m trying to say is without roids you cant get a remarkably muscular/lean look that would turn heads on the street, especially when shirted up. Bodybuilders take ephedra and all sorts of drugs to lean out as well.
Also yes I am scrawny atm but it’s because I’ve given up on my meal plan, it’s a waste of time and my energy. Especially since I’ve gotten to the core of why I was trying to get muscles and realized it was for pure vanity. I’ve trained martial arts for 12 years now. I’ve been big and skinny, muscle is gained and lost just as easily when people stop following their diet/ roid plan. As for lifts, I do 2 finger pushups, headstand pushups, gymnastic exercises, free weights etc. I dont train like a bodybuilder.
<The point is people should really admit to themselves what their goal is even if it’s really is just aesthetics. I’m just trying to save people time and energy that could be poured into other things and setting up realistic expectations. Which honest goals people have can mean vastly different training plans. I enjoy training purely for fitness, I never enjoyed the nutrition aspect so I quit it because I don’t need bigger muscles to be fit.
Anonymous Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:50:37 No. 8050
>>7959 Also if you still don’t understand the concept of relative strength (strength proportional to your own bodyweight), take a look at this guy. Rockclimbers have extremely high strength to bodyweight ratios. This is his earlier vid, but this dude is like 60 now and can still do the same stuff. Real strength outlasts muscle, muscle goes with age because of testosterone levels dropping.
https://youtu.be/TM_-UGZokOU Anonymous Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:50:39 No. 8060
So much COPE in this thread, let us go one by one
>>7964 Evola is a cringe, nice projections. I only read marxists and hegelians. Now post body.
>>8044 yes yes because every person that isn't a twinky runt has to look like that synthol infused roidmonkey, your insecurities and projections are coming trough. Yes Clarence Kennedy moving around 300 kg looks exactly like him. There are the two genders, you can either be twink femboy or a synthol roidmonkey with no functional strength.
I agree completely. I mainly lift weights & do BW exercises for strength but I also lift for aesthetics, if you aren't a bloatlord or auswitz your gains will be visible after a year or so of training, if you aren't using meme exercises and meme weights.
>strong lmao
>>8048 >No, it literally doesn’t. You can be 130 lbs and stronger than someone 255 lbs. That depends on your muscle to bodyfat ratio, but you can absolutely be stronger than some 255lb lardass.
>Strength is training the motor neurons to operate at a higher capacity. It’s training your nervous system vs muscular hypertrophy and getting needlessly larger. You are oversimplifying it. it is down to training your CNS to better cope with the stress you are putting on it but it is in a large part down to damaging and rebuilding your muscles, strengthening your joints and sinew. If it was such as you said, that it was only training your CNS that mattered to strength (although I'd say 50% of your actual strength is down to it) your muscles, sinew and bones would snap as they have not been getting stronger as well. You can actually see this with dumb roiders because something like this happens, their muscles develop faster than their joints and sinew can keep up with their progressive overload and then their muscles curl up like a curtain or they snap their shit. Also, I never talked anything about hyperthrophy, as I said I am not a bodybuilder, but saying strength=size/muscle is such a fucking cope and it shows you are an amateur or have a shit body. I never do over 5 reps on anything other than bodyweight exercises, most of my lifts are in the 3-5 rep range.
Whatever muchacho. You look big yes, but you have a lot of bodyfat. What I’m trying to say is without roids you cant get a remarkably muscular/lean look that would turn heads on the street, especially when shirted up. Bodybuilders take ephedra and all sorts of drugs to lean out as well.
Absolutely, I am far from lean. I'd say I am like 20% bodyfat currently, however saying you can't be big and lean is a cope. My best friend who also lifts and is of similar strength to me is leaner than me and looks huge, although of course he is a lower weight. He is the picture with the black bar.
>>8050 That is a very bad example for a couple of reasons, you ought to have gave me an example of a scrawny kid lifting 200kg off the ground as the examples exist on the internet, while this mans feat of strength and athleticism is impressive it is far easier to achieve at his bodyweight, he is obviously a very lightweight small individual which makes it easier to lift himself up. You can argue that he is more functional because he is light enough that he can move himself about and I would agree, but the example you gave is very relative to his weight, it contradicts your argument. It is the same with ~60kg people doing hundreds of reps on bodyweight exercises, they have less to lift and achieve strength to do so quicker. It would be impressive if you posted a scrawny kid lifting a massive weight or a 120kg+ fatass doing a hundred pull ups or something, or climbing on the ceiling as he is doing.
Anonymous Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:50:39 No. 8062
>>8044 also
>Any martial artist worth their salt will tell you that excess muscle-building is a handicap. Did it occur to you that I do not train strength to fight? Tyson Fury is definitely stronger than the average person but that is not what he trains for, I might be stronger than him in absolute terms even, but he throws a hundred times stronger punch than me. You can train strength in other uses and not just fighting, if I was training to fight I'd be doing more cardio than just running once a week, I'd be conditioning all the time, and I'd stop training as hard for strength gains and train explosiveness in movement more, probably slim down for mobility as well. Strength training also doesn't translate into fighting or compensate for fighting skill, you can still get your ass beat no matter how big you are if you don't know what you are doing.
Also the picture I posted above, the weightlifter clarence kennedy himself stays at 100kg or less bodyweight at all times because he becomes inflexible over it, yet even at 100kg he is not some caricature of a baloon animal you posted to make yourself feel better. I would even bet money to say that kennedy is higher bodyweight than the synthol freak you posted.
Anonymous Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:50:39 No. 8063
lads my forearms are fucked, i look like a recovering famine victim. only have two 9.5kg dumbbells at home, any good routines to maximise my gains?
Anonymous Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:50:39 No. 8064
>>8063 You should aim to relax your muscles and sleep after lifting for gains since that's when muscle grows
Anonymous Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:50:39 No. 8065
>>8064 Don't listen to him, you are still a newbie and should be training all the time, just make sure you get 7-8 hours of sleep a day.
>>8062 do inward grip pull ups and deadhangs and lift rocks unironically. Find the heaviest rocks you can still lift and leverage them to your chest or onto your shoulder, if you aren't struggling to do so the rock isn't heavy enough. Keep a good posture to not fuck up your back. I train with a 80kg rock but I've been training for a long time, I saw my forearms explode when I started training with a rock, same goes for grip strength. Nothing in the gym works like a rock. You can also bearhug it so you have to hold it with your core, biceps and forearms and carry it.
Don't ahve a good picture of me flexing but have pic related.
Anonymous Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:51:15 No. 8312
>>8060 > twinky runt <If you're not muscled AF that means you're a twink
Do you just throw ad hom around for shits and giggles? The level of ignorance regarding body-types and muscular strength training
>lmao <steel fridge weighs the same weight as a person, awkward AF to carry compared to a barbell
<in my teens
>hurr ur weak Ok retard
>your insecurities and projections are coming trough I'm sorry when did farmwork come into this? Insecurities? Ok LOL. Look at any martial artist's work out, excessive muscle building is more of a hindrance than a help, unless your job is literally carrying heavy weights all day and nothing else. which even for industrial labour is not true for most workers (roofing for example).
>Clarence Kennedy moving around 300 kg looks exactly like him If you're implying that clarence kennedy is 100% no-steroids I'm going to laugh.
Your body is well muscled, I'll give you that, but
A) Your muscle definition isn't close to Kennedy's and I doubt you use roids
B) People have different muscle types. Look at Emelianenko, the guy has little visible muscle definition, just sheer body mass. Sure he does weights and training, but not nearly as much as a body builder, and as a result he's a fucking beast in the ring, even in his older years.
>>8062 >Did it occur to you that I do not train strength to fight? Sure it did, but if you're training for yourself and your own benefit, it would be more useful to be able to have reasonable strength and also be able to fight well thean enormous strength that gets useless if someone faster than you knows how to hit right.
>he is not some caricature of a baloon animal you posted to make yourself feel better You missed the point entirely if that's what you assumed
> kennedy is higher bodyweight than the synthol freak No shit, you're missing the point, Dios mio.
Anonymous Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:51:15 No. 8313
>>8312 Clarence is obviously on roids because he competes professionally, you can see when he is on cycle and off cycle but he is not your typical roidmonkey from the gym, he is not an example of a juicehead as you used.
Yeah basically everything you said. He has a lot of muscle mass though, it is just not visible because he got fat for mass & to pass for heavyweight category. He doesn't need that much strength (in weight) but he needs that much mass in weight. My friend, who I posted above, was actually in an interesting predicament. He was the weight of a heavy category but not the 'mass', he would actually be at a disadvantage despite his relatively high bodyweight at the time.
I do strong man exercises because I want to be a strong man. It helped me out on multiple occasions, it just didn't make much of a difference in a fight. It made any physical job I did trivial and allowed me to do some two man work on my own, and overall I became healthier for it, I've managed to do some work on the farm that the farmers couldn't complete without a tractor that had to be hauled from another village, and I've managed to fix bent metal without any tools for people, just because I had happened to be there that day.
I think that strength correlates with muscle mass, and this is the biggest thing that irks me with your posts. In an absolute sense, unless you are a skeleton, your strength will be visible apart from just getting defined if you train long enough with enough strain. Saying that this isn't this is in my opinion a crab in a bucket mentality, that it can't be achieved, or whittling all of it down to bodybuilding. It's just cringe. If you train long enough and exert yourself more over time your muscles can grow and they can grow significantly, a natty grown man can lift 300kg lean, and this can be seen on his body.
Anonymous Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:51:15 No. 8316
>>8314 >assassins workout >combat strength >super saiyan >naruto workout >realanimetraining.com lmao, how do you take this shit seriously
here, I will do you a favor and pick out the non meme ones
>Actual exercise tier wall sits
tri dips
push ups (in all kinds of variations, the more variations the better)
squats
leg raises
raised leg push ups
>Not included on the list but should be tier pull ups
dips
hanging leg raises
>meme exercise tier high knees
flutter kicks
everything else
very infantile.
Anonymous Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:51:16 No. 8322
>>8314 Not that guy you were having the meta-discussion about strength vs hypertrophy with but:
The old school legendary champion boxers with records that were basically unprecedented (and will almost definitely never be matched ever again with the current 2 to 3 fight a year pro fight schedules) like for example:
>Archie Moore (186-23-10 w/ 131 ko's) >Sugar Ray Robinson (173-19-6 w/ 109 ko's) who's considered p4p best ever by most >Luis Villanueva Paramo "Kid Azteca" (192-47-11 w/ 114 ko's) etc..
Those guys did not really do high-volume prolonged body-weight calisthenics routines. Their training regimen was almost uniformly the following: a few miles (5 was probably most common) of roadwork aka running, half hour jump rope, 15-20 min speed bag and the rest was just hours upon hours of hitting the heavy bag and sparring (supplementing this with shadowboxing for technique/form refinement, in front of mirrors when trainers weren't available or like at home for example). When they did do body-weight calisthenics, it was generally for a few minutes only to warm up or cool down around their main workout.
https://vault.si.com/vault/1955/06/20/archie-moore-vs-avoirdupois https://www.boxingforum24.com/threads/wtf-sugar-ray-robinson-didnt-do-any-lifting-or-calisthenics.115514/ They also didn't lift weights, so would be considered dyel by lifters standards, but they would literally end a lifters' life in a fight nonetheless.
Their philosophy was "throwing lots of punches (heavy-bag and sparring) in training is the best form of cardio for throwing lots of punches in the ring (prizefights), the training that gives the most direct results/translation into boxing technique/ability in the ring, and should therefore be the bread and butter that comprises the vast majority of daily workout time".
t. boxing fan who also has trained heavy-bag and speed-bag since middle school (but doesn't belong to a gym, spar or compete)
Anonymous Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:51:17 No. 8330
Is Paul Wade's Convict Conditioning book good for someone who's a complete weakling and doesn't have access to any sports equipment? Did anyone have success becoming stronger and healthier following it?
Anonymous Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:51:18 No. 8331
Is it possible to get fit without access to gym or equipment?
Anonymous Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:51:18 No. 8332
I work out every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, not once since I have started this routine in June have I gotten sore from my work outs. This is my routine:
Anonymous Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:51:18 No. 8333
>>8331 Are you joshing me? I was asking a legitimate question.
Anonymous Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:51:18 No. 8334
>>8331 literally walking (good), sprinting (better) or hiking (arguably even better, plus the nice views make it an easier routine to stay motived to stick to)
swimming too
Anonymous Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:51:18 No. 8336
>>8330 Yes. Convict conditioning is excellent.
I posted my physique above.
>>8332 soreness is not a reliable indicator of a good workout [2]
>punching bag are you training a martial art/boxing? then that program is pretty good, but put in some squats faggot, or start running. If you are not training a martial art the program is bad.
>>8331 lose weight, run, do bodyweight exercises is as many variations as possible for as many reps as you are capable of doing. lift big rocks.
Anonymous Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:52:22 No. 8621
>>8336 I'm using boxing gloves to hit the bag for 10 minutes, so no specific martial arts training, I don't have a squat rack, and I'm gonna be real I don't wanna squat with a free bar and hurt myself.
>>8335 Back when I lifted in a much more comprehensive way (focused on specific muscle groups per day, 4 day split. protein powder post-muscle work outs) I got DOMS pretty often, I guess I'm just worried I'm not doing enough. Thank you for the article, my brother, who has been lifting seriously for ~3 years always told me, "if I don't feel sore after a work out, then I feel as though I wasted my time". Glad to see maybe there is a different reason as to why I am not getting sore. I'm still worried I'm not doing enough, but at the same time I don't feel like I can do anymore :'(
Anonymous Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:52:22 No. 8622
>tfw skinny so I cant into strength training
Anonymous Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:52:22 No. 8623
>>8622 My brother was hella scrawny when he started at like 18, just start with lighter weights
Anonymous Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:52:22 No. 8624
>>8623 I read that if you don't have a good diet then strength training can actually harm you.
Anonymous Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:52:22 No. 8625
>>8624 oh well yeah, that would make sense, just gotta work on a good diet then and then do some strength training
Anonymous Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:52:23 No. 8626
>>8621 that is extremely cringe and retarded but whatever, just don't go exercising on the fucking smith machine or leg press if the freebar squat is "too dangerous for you" because it is safer than both. Your exercise is bad if you aren't actually training any martial art, are you training for strength or aesthetics or what?
>>8622 you can get extremely strong even when skinny if you train for strength, but if you want to get even stronger & gain weight just eat more. Look at what this 55kg woman can do
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tut7FMTwNiw if you are a man you will ahve an even easier time.
>>8624 Maybe if you are starving yourself? what is your weight and height? I can try to help.>>8621
Anonymous Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:52:23 No. 8627
any advice on where to find a big rock? I assume its illegal to take them from a state park. Maybe there wouldn't be one there anyway.
Anonymous Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:52:23 No. 8628
>>8626 6ft, 120 lbs (55kg)
I try to eat a lot but I just cant seem to put on weight for some reason
Anonymous Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:52:23 No. 8629
>>8626 oof my guy, I'm working out totally alone, if anything happened to me and I lost consciousness or whatever no one would be around to help.
Also what am I gonna do? watch videos to learn karate? pay some sensei? I am hitting a bag to just increase my heart rate and burn energy, don't be some martial arts obsessed retard
Anonymous Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:52:23 No. 8630
>>8627 I found mine in parking lots and next to construction sites. I use an 80kg solid granite block, so it isn't really a 'natural stone' but it doesn't have to be one.
>>8628 Try dirty bulking. You will feel like shit but put on weight, get snacks and munch on them all the time (peanuts are excellent, just buy a bag and have it around and eat all day in between meals)
drink fizzy drinks, or drink milk if you can stomach it because it is more caloric than cola even
drink all of your food down with some caloric drink like a soda or milk. eat more grains less meat and veggies. Good luck anon, this is the key to gaining weight, but I don't know if you can stomach it. Fat people don't know how easy they have it, it is much more difficult putting on weight for a skinny man.
>>8629 I have not trained martial arts in my life, I am just trying to get a sense of what you are training for. And you have still not answered my question, are you training for strength or aesthetics or what? Do you go to a gym or have weights at home? how heavy are they? how heavy are you, and how old are you?
Anonymous Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:52:23 No. 8631
>>8630 I mentioned I was just trying to lose weight.
I train at home alone, so I have been avoiding certain workouts that have caused me to almost faint in the past.
I change the weights they are not heavy the break down is as follows
bench presses - 60 pounds
hammer curl - 20
tricep - 20
shoulder - 16
not heavy, but for some reason my upper body didn't quite develop as much as my lower body.
I'm rocking a solid 300 pounds, and I'm only 21, should've been careful in middle school and in high school, huh?
Anonymous Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:52:23 No. 8632
>>8630 Thanks, I'll try that. A lot of people would just tell me to go for protein based diet to gain weight instead but I find that very expensive and hard to maintain.
Looking good btw, whats your height/weight?
Anonymous Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:52:23 No. 8633
>>8631 >fainting makes sense since you are losing weight. watch yourself king.
are you benching dumbbells or barbells? is the 60 pounds each or together?
I hope you are watching your diet, because there is no losing weight without eating less and moving more. I used to be really fat before, and exercise won't work if you don't also eat less.
Anyways, with those weights you are lifting with those amounts of reps you will get defined and look good but you won't really make much strength gains. you ought to know this. Also you will look cringe if your legs are untrained but your upper body is cut. Listen to your older bro, from what little you mentioned I'd vouch on his advice, and you ought to ask for more of it.
>>8632 187cm/6'1 in burger units
weight is 110kg, or 240lb.
Protein based diets are better for maintaining weight or losing weight and are healthier if you don't go overboard, but for weight gain you should be eating carbs. T.graduated high school as a nutritionist.
Anonymous Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:52:23 No. 8634
>>8633 Alright, guess I will start with weight training then. It will be interesting to see the first gains, maybe it will keep me motivated when I can measure the improvements over time.
Anonymous Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:52:24 No. 8635
>>8634 I have trained for strength for a little over 2 years so I can give advice, natty too so no steroids skewing results.
if you can physically lift the weight for more than 5 reps then you are going too light for strength training. fives and threes are the magic numbers, make it so that you can't lift the 6th or 4th rep, then you have an adequate weight. But make sure your posture looks good, look up Mark Rippertoe on youtube he is a great strength coach, his form videos are really good.
If you are doing things right you will probably be aching from the training for the first 3-4 months and get used to it after that. don't forget to include bodyweight exercises such as pull ups and dips if you are weightlifting because nothing works those muscles like that specific movement.
Anonymous Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:52:24 No. 8636
>>8635 Also do exercises in 5 sets of 5 reps or 3 sets of 5 reps or 5 sets of 3 reps, so 5x5, 3x5 & 5x3.
Anonymous Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:52:24 No. 8637
>>8636 Why exactly these numbers? I do understand that doing more could lead to overtraining, but why not do 4x5 for example?
Also i am unable to do consistent amount of reps. I mean if 3 is my max then in the next set i would be able do only 2 reps, even though i rest for 3-4 minutes.
Anonymous Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:52:24 No. 8638
>>8631 >for some reason my upper body didn't quite develop as much as my lower body. you are lugging around 300 pounds, what do you think is the reason?
anyways, I didn't see off the first bat that you are 300 pounds.
I've got a blackpill for you and I hope you take me seriously because I know what I am doing and used to be 300lb too, I am also 22.
You have two choices. You have gone past the brink as far as weight gain goes and will have loose skin if you only lose weight. If you just focus on losing weight you will look like pic related, maybe slightly better, because you've fucked up your body pretty hard. But if you train really hard and actually start training for strength you can become big enough that you have to lose less weight before you look decent. Like, I am 240lbs in the above post and I used to be 300lb but I have no loose skin. You need to be at a point where you are very strong and have a lot of muscle mass to bodyfat ratio if you want to lose weight without getting loose skin. This means going to a gym because you probably can't afford home weights and training as heavy as possible in the 3-5 rep ranges.
>>8637 This is normal because you are a beginner. The 3-4 minute rests are ok, but over time struggle to shorten them to 2 minute rests and to get your reps consistent. It took me a year to become 'consistent'.
Anonymous Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:52:24 No. 8639
>>8637 also I didn't answer your question.
3-5 is the optimal amount of repetition because you build muscle trough repetition, it is the perfect balance between volume (amount of repetitions) and intensity (weight lifted) for strength training. If you can lift the weight for let's say 7 or 8 reps or more, this is a light weight to you. You have already adjusted to it, you will feel a burn lifting this but you will not struggle to lift it. On the other hand if your volume is too low, even if the intensity is high you are just not training "often enough" to make good advancement in strength. Unless you are doing olympic weightlifting, keep your rep range above 2.
heavy ones and twos are good, and you ought to do them often as a test of your absolute strength so to speak, something you can lift once and no more, and it is necessary to do them to make breaktroughs, so these ones become threes and fives later, but they shouldn't be the main part of your exercise.
I didn't even ask, but everything I am saying applies to a gym and barbell training, what is your actual training situation? I will likely give different advice if this isn't the case.
Anonymous Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:52:24 No. 8641
>>8639 I've just started training this year after the lockdown, so i had nothing but 16kg and 24kg kettlebells. Because of that i had to get up to 15-20 reps before trying heavier weight. Now i can do 8-10 reps of every exercise, so unfortunately i wasnt able to increase strength in last month.
I squat on one leg with kettlebell, do bicep curl with it and i press it from shoulder while standing.
I tried squating with two kettlebells but it felt too dangerous so i stopped.
Anonymous Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:52:25 No. 8643
Why do so many people lie about being on roids? So many of these juiced instagram stars and internet celebrities keep insisting they're natural, and worse, they give advice and false hopes to others who aren't on roids. What's the point of deceiving people like this?
Anonymous Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:52:25 No. 8645
>>8641 hmmmm, best advice I can get is try to get two moderately heavy kettlebells to train with in the long term, you can get very far with lighter weights right now because you are low weight. get two 38kg or 40kg kettlebells, you likely won't be able to do much with them at this moment but will in perspective. Also as I said find rocks and pick them up. Do a shit ton of bodyweight exercises in all kinds of variations, and try doing them until failure every time.
just do regular squats and not one legged ones instead & use two kettlebells.
>>8643 because you earn money that way and because normies instantly lose respect for you if you say you are on steroids. Despite steroids being extremely cringe if you admit to taking them basically any fitness merit you had goes out the window because people will cope "hah, yeah I could look just like that guy with my meme exercises if i took steroids."
What I hate the most about roiders and their lying is that they skew results for normies, they flock around roided out instagram fitness stars because they are the loudest and they will always tell you how it is easy and achievable in like half a year or one year and when the normies fail he will just say genetics/didn't train hard enough. In reality if you aren't low bodyweight you will have to train an upwards of two years to get an impressive physique while natural. I would respect roiders if they went balls in more often and tried achieving arnold tier physiques or went ahead to become unnaturally strong, but most of them just use roids because they want the easy way to looking okay-ish. It was so cringe when at one point I started outlifting the roiders at my gym, they are all just taking the fucking easy route and do no actual proper exercises.
Anonymous Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:52:25 No. 8646
>>8643 I'd say vanity, fake humblebragging (fake bc theyre not natty but joocy)
and crack like addiction to the follower/like/comment count. More celebrity status on ig = more opportunity to bang ig celeb hot girls thirsty for the shredded look.
Basically the male equivalent to e-thots.
Jokes on them tho. At the end of the day, I have healthy, virile sperm while they have shrunken roid testicles and organ damage.
>inb4 "working out/lifting for women" Every heterosexual man who works out/lifts is doing it for better success with women, even if they don't say it explicitly. Stop lying to yourselves.
Anonymous Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:52:25 No. 8647
>>8646 I've had a wife for 4 years before I started lifting. I'm copeless B^)
Imagine destroying your natural T production because you are too lazy to train for a few years to get a physique.
Anonymous Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:52:25 No. 8648
>>8647 >Imagine destroying your natural T production because you are too lazy to train for a few years to get a physique. ?? Where did I imply that I don't work out?
Anonymous Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:52:25 No. 8649
>>8648 You misunderstood me, steroid users destroy their natural testosterone production because they take the easy route to getting a good physique. That's why their balls shrink, because they no longer need to produce test due to injecting like x4 the amount.
Anonymous Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:52:26 No. 8650
>>8645 Thanks for advice.
>just do regular squats and not one legged ones instead & use two kettlebells. I tried doing it too, but it felt less effective then one-leg squat. By too dangerous i meant, that with two kettlebells it was much harder to maintain balance on one leg.
>they are all just taking the fucking easy route and do no actual proper exercises Unfortunately, this is the result of commodification of health, i think. Not only steroids are now ubiquitous among top athletes due to demand of a "show", but also among regular people who just want to look good, but because of the steroided looking standard of beauty with a constant 5% fat they are predispositioned to use steroids.
Anonymous Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:52:26 No. 8651
>>8650 Dude literally all the olympic and top athletes are on steroids, it has been like that since they have been invented, it is only that they use them in cycles to advance past the natural limit and then maintain that as much as possible. The only sports that aren't as reliant on opioids are combat sports due to how much it relies on skill and not muscle/physical ability. One of the reasons the eastern bloc kicked ass at the olympics was because they had state doping programs, because a scientist regulated your dosage instead of yourself for optimum performance.
Anonymous Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:52:26 No. 8654
Is veganism a meme? Pretty hard to fulfill protein requirements too.
Anonymous Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:52:26 No. 8655
>>8654 Veganism is a meme, don't fall for it. You have to eat far greater quantities of food if you don't want to become malnourished as opposed to a diet that includes animal products, if you don't eat vegan you don't have to think much about what you eat but if you are vegan you must be very meticulous if you don't want to have health problems.
anyways, what do you want to achieve? losing weight? greater protein intake? health-related diet change?
Anonymous Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:52:26 No. 8656
>>8654 It's not impossible, but obviously much harder to do than with regular food.
Pic related is an example of vegetarian athlete
Anonymous Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:52:26 No. 8657
>>8656 Take any professional athletes on a vegan diet with a grain of salt. As I pointed out here
>>8651 they are all on and off various PEDs. Clarence Kennedy himself is vegan but you shouldn't take this at face value because he roids.
Anonymous Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:52:27 No. 8658
>>8654 Well I read that how meat contains carcinogenic compounds and isn't healthy to eat. And then people started shilling for other kinds of fad diets and how they are healthier in the longer run (med, paleo, etc.). Of course I am looking for more info in this.
Anonymous Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:52:27 No. 8659
>>8654 Well I read that how meat contains carcinogenic compounds and isn't healthy to eat. And then people started shilling for other kinds of fad diets and how they are healthier in the longer run (med, paleo, etc.). Of course I am looking for more info in this.
Anonymous Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:52:27 No. 8660
>>8654 Well I read that how meat contains carcinogenic compounds and isn't healthy to eat. And then people started shilling for other kinds of fad diets and how they are healthier in the longer run (med, paleo, etc.). Of course I am looking for more info in this.
Anonymous Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:52:27 No. 8661
Fucking hell the servers are fucked up.
Anonymous Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:52:27 No. 8663
>>8658 Just don't have a meat based diet and you'll be good. eat a balanced diet of grains, veggies and animal products. Most of these studies are done on americans that gorge themselves on meat, I am an eastern euro and I eat maybe 250g-0,5kg of meat a week, but also grains eggs cheese & vegetables.
Anonymous Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:52:27 No. 8664
>>8663 Well my current diet is mainly grains and veggies, along with occasional diary, and rare meat. Thinking about putting on some weight.
Anonymous Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:52:27 No. 8665
>>8664 eat more grains and eat/drink more milk products to gain weight. meat is good for protein intake & maintaining or losing weight.
Anonymous Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:52:27 No. 8666
>>8665 There is also just a whole bunch of cult following regarding the ill effects of milk in the entire vegan community, though I think most of it is just pseudoscience.
Anonymous Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:52:27 No. 8667
>>8666 Pseud shit. Most of the negative health effects of food vegans attribute to animal products is due to factory processing, if you know a farmer to buy your goods off from or go to the market you should be good, and veggies & grain products are bad from supermarkets just as meat is, the veggies because they are sprayed by pesticides very thoroughly and you can never really wash it off apart from the peel-able stuff, and the grain products are always full of additives, mostly so they don't spoil. I worked in the food industry as a butcher & baker and I can tell you that anything from the city is trash, and you are eating things that have been treated in all kinds of chemicals and additives. your best bet is the markets and small butchers.
Anonymous Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:52:28 No. 8668
>>8667 also processed meats are more chemical than meat, if you are worrying about health don't eat them. only dried meats and meat you prepare yourself.
Anonymous Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:52:28 No. 8669
So all memes aside, is soy actually bad?
Anonymous Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:52:28 No. 8670
>>8667 Well then I might just happen to be in luck because I can buy a lot of the stuff you mentioned directly from the market and local farmers/butchers, but how can I be sure that they don't use pesticides and additives? At this point in the modern era almost everyone uses them to some degree otherwise mass food production simply wouldn't be feasible right?
Anonymous Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:52:28 No. 8671
>>8669 It depends, soy is estrogenic and if for some reason estrogen is bad for you you shouldn't take it. If you have a bad thyroid you should avoid estrogen like the plague. Otherwise it is a really good source of plant protein. Tastes like sponge though.
>>8670 You can never really know, sorry. It helps to ask, in my country a lot of farmers advertise their stuff as pesticide free. As for the processing of food, I think most people selling food at the market couldn't afford that kind of setup for it, the additives and everything. For meat anything other than dried or raw has chems of some kind. A good bet of seeing if they use pesticide is buying fruit and seeing if you bite into a worm or find a worm, if you do it means it hasn't been sprayed. Lettuce is almost always sprayed heavily because grubs love it, things that need to be peeled like oranges are always safe irrelevant of pesticides or not.
Anonymous Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:52:28 No. 8675
>>8647 You keep replying to people with strawmen, relax your sphincter… or are you trying to crush coal into diamonds?
Anonymous Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:52:28 No. 8676
>>8630 >drink soda Yeah, thanks for the excellent way to induce acne m8.
Anonymous Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:52:29 No. 8677
>>8675 It's not a strawman, most roiders just take steroids as an easy way to getting a physique and then fuck up their natural testosterone production. That is why their balls shrivel up.
>>8676 He was asking how to gain weight, I gave him a method that works no matter what, I also pointed out that he will feel like shit because it is unhealthy.
Anonymous Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:52:29 No. 8678
>>8671 Well soy does contain phytoestrogens that are plant based, they do not react as strongly with human body, I think it has more to do with the scientific naming convention for these compounds. Still, if possible one can avoid, but a small quantity every now and then couldn't be too harmful…
Anonymous Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:52:29 No. 8679
>>8665 How about replacing meat with lots of eggs?
Anonymous Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:52:29 No. 8681
>>8679 It works great and it's cheap, just don't make it a dietary staple because they have a very large amount of cholesterol. Switching to an egg diet is good but it shouldn't be a lifelong change.
Anonymous Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:52:29 No. 8682
>>8678 It isn't just a naming convention. My mother needs to avoid extrogen due to medical reasons and the doctor told her to avoid foods with xenoestrogen.
Anonymous Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:52:29 No. 8683
>>8681 What if I remove the yolk and just go for the white?
Anonymous Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:52:30 No. 8684
>>8683 I don't know the macros for egg whites, Google it or I can check later. It will have less cholesterol but I don't know how nutritious it is.
Anonymous Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:52:30 No. 8687
>>8681 >>8683 >>8684 an interesting counter-perspective I found re: dietary cholesterol
http://www.ravnskov.nu/cholesterol/ Anonymous Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:52:30 No. 8688
Pandemic has turned me into a fat monkey man
Anonymous Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:52:30 No. 8689
>>8688 Change your alimentation, count your calories and exercise.
Anonymous Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:52:33 No. 8706
>>8705 Fuck these lifestylists.
Anonymous Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:52:33 No. 8707
>>8705 Whats wrong though?
Anonymous Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:52:34 No. 8708
>>8707 1. Dumbass takes on starting off lifting weights
2. Dumbass takes about streetfighting
3. A general shrinking and hesitation when it comes to any possibility of improvement or change
Anonymous Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:52:37 No. 8730
>>8725 Squats… lots and lots of squats
Anonymous Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:52:37 No. 8731
>>8725 >>8730 Won't help you if you're naturally flat though.
Anonymous Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:52:37 No. 8732
>>8725 lift weights and do lunges
Anonymous Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:52:38 No. 8737
>>8731 this dude is a retard
>>8725 do squats and deadlifts and carry heavy rocks around.
proof it works: my ass
Anonymous Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:52:38 No. 8738
>>8737 also you need to lift heavy, at least within 90kg range if not pushing 100-120kg. just bodyweight squats dont work.
Anonymous Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:52:38 No. 8739
I do lots and lots of cardio but hate gyms and can't seem to get into the routine of home Bodyweight/ free weight routines
Anonymous Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:52:39 No. 8744
>>8739 What is gym culture like there?
get kettlebells if you wanna work out at home and hate bodyweight stuff, but at least do pull ups and dips because no weight can replicate that.
Anonymous Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:52:39 No. 8745
>>8739 Work out early in the morning/ at a time when there's the least amount of people there. I've been to many gyms but I couldn't tell you what the culture is apart from what decorates the walls. I don't know what kind of gyms you're going to but I would implore you to reconsider and find a way around it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QjDVtR5CyFU That being said,
>>8744 is right, kettlebells are the best bang-for-your-buck if you can't afford a full equipped homegym. I'm guessing that there will be parks as well that have pull up bars and the like in your area.
Anonymous Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:52:41 No. 8759
>>8744 Just constant fucking noise, blaring shit music or Radio at all hours of the day, there's forever some class on showing people how to sit on a padded box and swing a rope around or some other retarded shit, 70% of floor space is cardio machines for sports I do outside and actually enjoy there,in the actually well equipped gym there's a cafe in the gym for some reason, in the one that doesn't have a cafe they have a deal with a cafe across the road so there's a stream of people going in and out during their workouts to get fucking coffee letting the noise of the road into the cacophony
The people in it also all seem more concerned with taking photos of themselves and chatting then doing work, regardless of age or sex, and the staff at all of them are useless, know nothing about exercise and exist to change the jug in the water cooler and wipe sweat off the floor
And they all charge something absurd like 250 a year for membership, if I had the space I could literally get a full weight set for that money
>>8745 The places around me all open at about 0530 and they all have stupid bootcamp things on, i.e. gimped circuit training, which means there's 30-50 people in right in the morning for an hour and the place is a disaster for an hour afterwards, and they start the music and crap from their, I can't go in at actually quiet times like working hours because I have to work and can't fit anything worthwhile into my lunch break
I guess I'll just buy a kettlebell
Anonymous Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:52:41 No. 8760
>>8759 Yeah that's most gyms. I am lucky enough to have a rubber floored free weights area in my gym though. I also use headphones to drown out shitty globohomo music.
Anonymous Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:52:42 No. 8772
Got a nasty bone bruise on my shin friday night from walking in the dark and banging my shin onto a heavy low wood cabinet. Is it safe for me to do my standard 1x5 trapbar deads and 2x(30 feet) trapbar farmer walks tomorrow/Monday morning (both of them w/ 115 lbs, yes I'm a total dyel noob, I know)? Or do I risk taking a trip to Snap City and fucking my shit up, turning my shin bone bruise (most likely a subperiosteal hematoma) into a complete shin bone break/fracture?
https://www.urmc.rochester.edu/encyclopedia/content.aspx?contenttypeid=134&contentid=514 Anonymous Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:52:42 No. 8773
>>8772 You don't risk taking a trip to snap city, you still ought to wait for your injury to heal you dummy. Do pull ups instead.
Anonymous Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:52:42 No. 8774
>>8773 you will just prolong your injury
Anonymous Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:52:42 No. 8775
>>8773 >>8774 how long should I wait?
Anonymous Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:52:42 No. 8776
>>8773 >You don't risk taking a trip to snap city, you still ought to wait for your injury to heal you dummy. Wait, do you mean the deadlifts/farmer walks will not inherently risk me taking a trip to snap city, but they are still not recommended? Or do you mean that they inherently risk me taking a trip to snap city, so that's why I should not do them? The "you still ought to" confused me, sorry.
Anonymous Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:52:43 No. 8777
I signed up for a gym membership on Friday night and had a blast working out, and came back today. Even though I'm sorta out of shape I'm enjoying working out.
Anonymous Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:52:43 No. 8778
>>8759 Jesus Christ that fucking sucks anon, is it a crossfit box? They are usually like that.
Anonymous Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:52:43 No. 8779
>>8773 Should I go down to TJ for a stem cell injection into my shin bone? Will that help it heal faster/stronger?
https://www.healthline.com/health-news/using-stem-cells-to-heal-broken-bones#1 Anonymous Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:52:44 No. 8791
>>8775 >>8779 bro I have no idea what any of that meant I am from a borderline third world country and I'd just let it heal until it stops hurting then go train.
>>8776 you can snap your shit up doing deadlifts but you aren't at that weight yet, you won't snap your shit working with a bruised bone, but you still shouldn't work out because it will prolong your injury. take a rest until it stops hurting then train, if it hurts a lot after training rest some more, if it hurts a little keep going but be careful.
>>8777 very happy for you anon, are you training for strength or aesthetics?
Anonymous Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:52:45 No. 8800
>>8738 >just bodyweight squats dont work. 1-leg squats (pistol squats) are pretty good though, and require you to use more stabilizing muscles.
Anonymous Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:52:45 No. 8802
>>8791 >I'd just let it heal until it stops hurting then go train >you can snap your shit up doing deadlifts but you aren't at that weight yet, you won't snap your shit working with a bruised bone, but you still shouldn't work out because it will prolong your injury. take a rest until it stops hurting then train, if it hurts a lot after training rest some more, if it hurts a little keep going but be careful. thanks, will follow this advice
Anonymous Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:52:46 No. 8806
>>8800 >1-leg squats (pistol squats) are pretty good though No they fucking aren't.
t. guy who lost 100 lbs off his squat during quarantine
Anonymous Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:52:47 No. 8811
>>8800 you won't get a big ass doing bodyweight squats, I am sorry. Go pick up heavy rocks and do barbell squats and deadlifts.
Anonymous Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:52:47 No. 8812
>>8811 also always squat ass to grass
Anonymous Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:52:49 No. 8831
How fit is 4chan's /fit/ board? As in is it useful or not?
Anonymous Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:52:50 No. 8832
>>8831 it is a mix of useful and insane, like most of 4chan. I think /fit/ is good because it gives you unreasonable standards, if you do not have a shitty mindset you will want to achieve it even if it is unachievable or really far in the future.
This unreasonable standard drove me to be able to deadlift 200kg and lift 90kg over my head.
Anonymous Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:52:50 No. 8833
>>8831 also like 90% of this thread is unhelpful meme exercises that don't achieve anything, /fit/ is x10 times more useful.
Anonymous Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:52:52 No. 8851
>>8832 >This unreasonable standard drove me to be able to deadlift 200kg and lift 90kg over my head. wagmi
Anonymous Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:52:52 No. 8853
>>8833 uh nope
they have just as many meme exercies, diet and 80% thread talking about dating and other offtopic crap
Anonymous Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:52:52 No. 8854
>>8853 it is not true, this thread is so horrible it makes /fit/ look decent.
Anonymous Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:52:55 No. 8872
>>8860 I was the dude giving most of the advice on compound exercises (^:
Anonymous Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:53:11 No. 8999
>>8872 So what, exercises are not something you need a fucking bucket list of to get a workout in. The staple compound exercises pullups, dips, pushups are enough to get results for mostfags. In fact perfect those basic compound exercises first before moving on to something else like you have ADD. Most people have piss poor form on those basics and you can see them cheating the moves with halfass ROM, lack of consistency etc
Anonymous Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:53:14 No. 9022
Can I get toned up by doing a lot of home exercises like push ups, pull ups, squats, running, etc.?
Anonymous Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:53:17 No. 9043
>>9022 Not really. To look "toned up" you also have to lose weight most probably. Only doing these exercises and dieting will help you achieve desired phisique.
Anonymous Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:53:18 No. 9047
>>9022 depends on your weight. If you are in the 60-80kg range and at least 6ft tall then yes, if not you need to lose weight. Even with that yes it will take lots of time, like a year or two at least.
Anonymous Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:53:21 No. 9075
>>9022 >Can I [nonsense] by doing a lot of [bullshit]? There is no such thing as "toned up." Your body has a certain amount of lean mass (bones, organs, muscle) and a certain amount of fat. You can build more muscle, lose some fat, or both. What people think is "tone" is usually just fat loss. Muscle definition always exists, but for most people it's covered with fat. However, if you want to lose weight and not lose (much) muscle you need to do strength training to signal to your body to maintain the muscles instead of breaking them down to burn energy.
Anonymous Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:53:22 No. 9079
>>9075 If he is already untrained it wouldn't cost him anything to just lose weight and exercising would only accelerate it while getting him used to the motion. Once he's cut the weight he can build the muscle easily.
Anonymous Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:53:45 No. 9255
>>9249 Thank you.
>tfw thirdie shit's expensive m8
Anonymous Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:53:51 No. 9301
Reminder that cold showers are great for you and help you burn fat. Cryotherapy can actually spot-reduce fat. If you want to get accustomed to cold showers, now is a good time if you're in the northern hemisphere. While it's hottest outside, your cold water will be at its warmest. If you start now you will slowly acclimate as the seasons change.
Anonymous Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:53:52 No. 9310
>>9255 unironically jumping on gear is probably more cost effective in that case
Anonymous Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:53:56 No. 9330
>>9301 you can't spot reduce fat you fucking idiot, losing fat is like a barrel, it doesn't matter where you poke the hole the water will still leak out. The only "spot reduction" that exists is training a specific muscle group until the definition is more visible, and even that won't help you if you are a lardass. And even if you are skinny/skinnyfat it'd be fucking dumb, since training the whole body is better. To lose fat you need to move more and eat less, no amount of pussyfooting around it will help. If spot reduction worked you'd see fat asses running around with abs, but that doesn't work that way.
Anonymous Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:53:56 No. 9331
>>9301 Also your advice is shit, if you are training you should take hot showers to relax muscles after workouts to allow quicker recovery, because the muscles expand and loosen under heat.
Anonymous Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:53:56 No. 9334
>>9311 https://www.jci.org/articles/view/68993 https://www.hindawi.com/journals/omcl/2014/402631/ >>9330 >you can't spot reduce fat you fucking idiot, losing fat is like a barrel, it doesn't matter where you poke the hole the water will still leak out. This applies if you are merely burning fat through regular metabolic process. If you cold-treat a part of your body you convert the adipose tissue from white fat cells to brown fat cells, which help maintain body temperature in the cold by metabolizing the surrounding white fat cells. This process can spot reduce fat if you selectively apply it.
>To lose fat you need to move more and eat less, no amount of pussyfooting around it will help. This is good to do, but you can improve your fat burning even more with cold acclimation.
>>9331 >Also your advice is shit, if you are training you should take hot showers to relax muscles after workouts to allow quicker recovery, because the muscles expand and loosen under heat. There is a magical device known as a shower knob that allows you to adjust the temperature of the shower while you are in it. You can get the benefits of a hot and a cold shower in one session. Some people even modulate the temperature up and down as they shower because it improves your cardiovascular system's ability to adjust.
Anonymous Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:53:56 No. 9335
>>9334 >This applies if you are merely burning fat through regular metabolic process. If you cold-treat a part of your body you convert the adipose tissue from white fat cells to brown fat cells, which help maintain body temperature in the cold by metabolizing the surrounding white fat cells. This process can spot reduce fat if you selectively apply it. Wait actually?
Anonymous Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:53:57 No. 9339
>>9335 Yes.
If you expose your body to cold you will adjust. Long term exposure causes long term changes (acclimation). Among these is the change in composition of your adipose tissue. Sedentary, indoor humans don't get exposure to cold that you normally would in nature and would force you to burn more fat. People have taken advantage of this though various degrees of cold exposure to improve health or aesthetics (mainly bodybuilders, but it can help anybody lose fat and increase metabolism).
A moderate example would be taking an ice bath - filling a bathtub with ice water and sitting in it for a minute. It works in degrees. Anything from an uncomfortably chilly room to jumping into the arctic ocean for a few minutes will have this effect. Your body acclimates to its conditions. The more time you give it, however, the more comfortable it is to adjust. That's why I was suggesting taking cold showers starting at the hot time of year if you hate cold showers normally. It gets you physiologically and psychologically acclimated. Some endurance athletes train by exposing themselves to ungodly cold temperatures, but you can get benefits from anything that's cold enough to make you uncomfortable. That feeling is your body wanting you to move somewhere warmer because that takes less energy than thermogenesis. If you don't get somewhere warmer your body will go with plan B which is adapting.
This is all pretty recent science (like last decade or so) so it's not surprising that people don't know about it.
Anonymous Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:53:57 No. 9341
>>9334 >>9339 I'm doubting until I see before and after pics, hell I am going to shower in the cold for the next 2 months to prove this is a meme. The board is slow anyway so this thread isnt going anywhere.
Anonymous Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:54:22 No. 9504
Can someone recommend me some good, knowledgeable fitness youtubers who aren't just roiders trying to sell their products? I'm following Mark Rippetoe already.
Anonymous Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:54:25 No. 9525
>>9504 Vitruvian phisique is very good.
Anonymous Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:54:26 No. 9531
>>9341 *dies of pneumonia*
Anonymous Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:54:27 No. 9545
>>9341 >shower in the cold pussy shit. You go outside and fucking dump a bucket of cold water while standing in the snow. THAT's how you train your cardio
>>9531 If you're an idiot who doesn't dry off before leaving the house.
Anonymous Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:54:40 No. 9640
>>9504 Mark Rippertoe
Allan Thrall even though he is a cuck
Juji is pretty cool but he is a roider, good motivation since the stuff he does is pretty impressive even for a roider.
Sage !nRzzN9GGJM 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:55:02 No. 9856
>>8332 You are only training your arms and chest here man. Leg day is a meme by now. Do it. Most of your power is in your core and lower body. It is with these you will be able to shift the biggest weights. If you are a big fat guy you will be able to progress faster cos you were already carrying all this weight around before
Anonymous Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:55:10 No. 9932
>>9885 It's pretty normal, you will lose strength. just lift trough it, at most it will take 3-4 months to regain it.
Anonymous Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:55:10 No. 9934
How the fuck do you press into a handstand? This shit defies physics.
Anonymous Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:55:31 No. 10129
For fellow depresses insomniacs. How do you stay motivated to workout when you hit a slump?
Anonymous Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:55:32 No. 10131
>>10129 I can sometimes be very challenging, but I tell myself that exercise is the single most important way to manage my depression. It also helps to have goals to work towards.
Anonymous Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:56:16 No. 10513
Haven't lifted since I graduated a little more than a year ago. Family bought me one of those resistance bands with handles as a gag when I was seriously into lifting, but I've now started using it (the heaviest of the three). Just stand on it and spread out your legs for heavier weight. Sadly I can't do, like, sets of 5 at super heavy weight, but I've been doing sets of 20 of things as I walk by it, (curls, tris, rows, ohp, and a bunch of other wacky moves) as well as trying to be able to do push ups again. My favorite was figuring out how to deadlift with it. Stand on it and then loop the handles over your feet and then pull the chord.
Anonymous Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:56:16 No. 10517
>>9934 Work up to it. Start with eccentrics if that helps
Anonymous Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:56:16 No. 10519
>>10513 Buy a bed sheet at a local thrift shop or whatever, tie a big ass knot on one side, run the knot either underneath or over a door and close the door. You can now do rows for back gains when the sheet is under or try pull ups when the sheet is over. Also find somewhere to do dips, even if you can only do negatives. It can be done with chairs but that can be dangerous so try finding something like the corner of a countertop.
Anonymous Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:56:17 No. 10528
I'm well built and 6'2 but have noodle arms, how to I build muscle there fast? Dumbbells?
Anonymous Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:56:18 No. 10530
>>10528 High rep/volume (as opposed to low rep high weight for training the nervous system) and surplus calories while using dumbbells. Yup. Curls, tris, shrugs, farmers walks, reverse flyes, etc.
Biggest problem, even if you do that, us tall lanky people have difficulty putting on what visually looks like big muscle just because of how long our segments are. A dude that can curl 50lbs that's 5'5 is going to 'look' more jacked than a 6'3 dude who can curl 50lbs.
Remember that your triceps are bigger than your biceps. There are multiple heads of the bicep so you want to vary the kinds of curls (and everything else) you want to do. Remember rest days. And you shouldn't forget to workout the rest of your body too.
Anonymous Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:56:18 No. 10531
>>10530 Is this natty at home or do I need to use a bourgeois gym? I just want beefy arms.
Anonymous Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:56:18 No. 10532
>>10531 It's always easier at a gym when you have access to incremental weight systems that go absurdly high. If you can afford a set of dumbells that are either adjustable to a heavy weight or have removable plates you can buy more of, then sure you could beef up your arms at home because you could do all that at home.
Anonymous Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:56:18 No. 10533
>>10532 I have never heard anything good about adjustable dumbbells and rona has made weights retarded expensive. In fact, with rona out there and with the other anon being a noob I'd prolly push him into home bodyweight shit to start and as things clear up then look into a gym.
Pull ups and rows with that sheet thing I posted earlier will give good biceps while dips and push ups will give good triceps. I don't know anyone that can do a few sets of 20 dips and 20 pull ups with tiny arms. Assuming good macros a bodyweight routine should give anon decent gains for three to six months.
I guess you can also get those resistance bands for relatively normal prices and use those for curls and extensions but I'm skeptical that those things are more than fitness memery
Anonymous Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:56:18 No. 10536
Holy fuck bros, I trained for the first time after like 6 months now and feel weak and am shaky as hell now. Just a reminder to all the oldfags here, keep the training up consistently do not fall off the wagon or your gains will be cannibalized.
Anonymous Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:56:18 No. 10538
>>10536 listen to audio books for maximum brain body gains.
Anonymous Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:56:19 No. 10540
>>10538 I wish I could, but it’s near impossible to focus on theory while training or doing anything really. I tried and after a while I realized the audiobooks were just sounds in my ear really I had no comprehension.
Anonymous Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:56:19 No. 10543
>>10540 You can read things besides theory. Fiction/history/pop science are all really great for audio books.
Anonymous Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:56:20 No. 10548
>>2836 Unironically, eat a vegan diet. I lost over 30 pounds in 2 months on a vegan diet with light jogging as way suggested to you.
Anonymous Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:56:20 No. 10551
>>10540 Your brain uses like 40% of your metabolism. Don't try to make brain gains while lifting. Focus your energy on what you're doing. If there's a brain skill to develop at the time it's your ability to FOCUS on ONE THING.
Anonymous Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:56:39 No. 10687
How's everyone doing so far?
Anonymous Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:56:40 No. 10692
>>10687 Two weeks of forest fire smoke disrupting my exercise and it seems like my strength progression has been halted in its tracks. Really upsetting.
Anonymous Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:56:41 No. 10697
>>10528 same height as you, what grew my arms the most was finding a big rock and lifting it onto my shoulder until I couldn't anymore. I also did bench/squat/deadlift/overhead press and pull ups. Haven't done a curl in my life.
you can also bearhug the rock and carry it around to train legs while training arms, you drop it when your arms give out.
training only arms is dumb and useless, they will become naturally strong as long as you do other exercises.
Just find rocks and start lifting them, work up until you can shoulder a 100kg rock. I guarantee you will train everything but your chest. do pushups and dips to train chest.
>>10551 what fucking meme pseudo science. You can work, train to exhaustion and read Marx. Just don't do it at the same time like with audio books.
Anonymous Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:56:43 No. 10709
how do i stop the bases of my fingers from blistering whenever i do pull ups or farmer walks?
Anonymous Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:56:44 No. 10717
>>10709 you don't, you let them blister and your skin toughens. it will make your grip stronger in the long run.
or you can be a woman and wear gloves.
Anonymous Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:56:44 No. 10718
>>10709 Buy a pumice stone and use it on the calluses as you shower.
Anonymous Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:56:44 No. 10719
>>10718 getting your calluses soggy or doing this will just make them more sore/hurt more in the long run. Don't do it. WHen I was a newbie starting out washing dishes was a pain because of this.
Anonymous Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:56:44 No. 10724
>gym closed again
Anonymous Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:56:44 No. 10725
>>10724 bro I've been coping with calisthenics for 6 months now.
Anonymous Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:56:45 No. 10731
How do I do an L-sit on my fingertips for more than a couple seconds? This shit is hard as fuck.
Anonymous Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:56:46 No. 10737
>>10731 props for being able to do it at all, that sounds very impressive.
Anonymous Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:56:49 No. 10777
>>10776 You can’t have a solid base with those calves
Anonymous Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:56:52 No. 10800
>>10776 lol
all his days are leg days
Anonymous Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:56:52 No. 10801
>>10776 Why the FUCK is his left arm so much stronger than his right?
Anonymous Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:56:52 No. 10802
>>10799 lol he gave you good advice
just wear gloves if you're a pussy
Anonymous Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:56:52 No. 10808
>>10776 what a huge faggot, he also looks like a manlet
I want to beat the shit out of him so badly.
Anonymous Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:56:53 No. 10811
"The mind should be civilized, the body savage" - Mao Zedong
Anonymous Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:56:58 No. 10855
will doing SQUATS help reduce fat cells in my belly?
Anonymous Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:57:14 No. 11014
>>10855 >will doing SQUATS help reduce fat cells in my belly? Not really but it can help reduce the amount of fat they store. Lifting will raise your metabolism by building muscle.
Anonymous Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:57:15 No. 11019
>>10855 I don't fucking know why people struggle with simple shit we've known since writing was invented.
You cannot spot reduce body fat, it's a combination of genetics and hormones. The first place you get fat is the last place you lose it. If you gain 5 pounds and it all goes to your love handles, the only way to get rid of them is to lose 5 pounds; if you gain another 5 pounds and it goes to your belly the only way to get rid of those love handles is to lose all 10 pounds now.
The only way to reduce fat (other than having it surgically removed) is to be in a caloric deficit. You can do this by decreasing your food intake or by exercising to increase caloric expenditure, what exactly you do with either of these methods doesn't matter. You can lose weight eating nothing but Oreos and Mcdonalds, just as long as you burn more than however much you ate. You can eat 5000 calories a day and loose weight if you spend 10 hours a day running burning 6000 calories.
If you like squatting to the point it burns enough calories to initiate weightloss, then the answer to your question is yes. If you think a specific exercise will magically make your belly disappear or redistribute fat then no.
Anonymous Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:57:15 No. 11022
>>10776 Those calves are photoshopped, right? I have bigger calves and my quads are less than half the size
Anonymous Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:57:17 No. 11035
>>11022 Calves are weird. They are best trained for size by doing stength-endurance training rather than raw strength or the normal hypertrophy training regimes. This is why fat people and formerly fat people have huge calves. This guy probably doesn't train calves optimally, which would involve something like weighted walking/running on the balls of your feet.
Anonymous Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:57:22 No. 11076
>>10846 Because he is a dumb faggot that says dumb shit on the internet
What a postmodern abomination of a man holy shit he makes me so mad, he sounds like such a fucking soy regardless of his gains. Leftists talking like this IRL & online is such an embarrassment, shit like this is like a dogwhistle for soys.
Anonymous Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:57:23 No. 11088
>>11078 he just makes himself look like a soy.
sage sage 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:57:25 No. 11106
>>11088 and you made yourself look like an autist
Anonymous Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:57:34 No. 11165
I just want to grab heavy stuff and throw them as far as possible.
Anonymous Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:57:34 No. 11169
>>11165 Learn how to use a sling or atlatl.
Anonymous Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:57:42 No. 11227
>>11165 Pretty sure these are all covered in track and field events. If you live in a city that has a club for that shit, join it. If you don't try finding youtube videos with beginner tips for discus, javelin throw, shotput, etc
Anonymous Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:58:04 No. 11362
How's it going guise? I still haven't gotten my strength back to pre-rona levels and am scared I may never. Hamstring permitting, today is a leg day with squats, lunges, box jumps, deadlifts, and shrugs/lateral delts.
>>11165 Uh shot putters make themselves look silly by spinning in place but basically yea it's a full-body endeavor, toe to fingertip, with everything being used. Ankles, knees, hips, core. It's all in the twist. t. ignorant
Anonymous Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:58:05 No. 11366
>>11362 I've kept all my strength despite not lifting for 8 months due to corona but I lost all my definition, mad as hell because I am too busy with work to go to gym and train regularly, feel like a flabby sack of shit.
Anonymous Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:58:08 No. 11377
Stopping by from 4chan's /fit/
Anonymous Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:58:08 No. 11378
>>11377 Containment boards don't work. /fit/ and /k/ became totally fucking unusable once the retards from /pol/ started showing up with their "lifting/prepping for the race war and daddy Trump" garbage.
Anonymous Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:58:09 No. 11382
>>11378 The chudjak however, works. It's so accurate and you know it's accurate because they get so pissed over it.
/leftypol/ cut them deep and after 6+ years of them acting like the health and fitness forum is for race war prep there's finally an easy meme to just reply to them with.
Anonymous Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:58:12 No. 11407
>>10697 You look big… how long have you been working out for?
On a side note, I heard that working out heavily makes you go bald sooner due to increased hormone production. Is it bullshit?
Anonymous Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:58:14 No. 11418
>>11407 no idea about the bald stuff, my hair is as good as ever but I've only been working out for like 3 years. specifically 1 year strict and 2 years on and off.
The bald stuff sounds like boomer superstition to me. Steroids do make you go bald though.
Anonymous Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:58:21 No. 11471
>>11366 No doubt it's hard, anon. I was out of commission for about 4 months. Your metabolism changes and you have to reset the balance.
Anonymous Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:58:22 No. 11487
>>11407 Baldness is caused by DHT which is aromatized from testosterone so if you increase your test through working out it could affect it. If you’re really concerned, take a 5ar inhibitor like propecia or if you want to go natural supposedly saw palmetto works. And yes steroids increase the rate of baldness if you’re already predisposed to it from all the excess test in the blood, that’s why most bodybuilders are cueballs
Anonymous Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:58:27 No. 11521
>>11487 >steroids increase the rate of baldness if you’re already predisposed to it from all the excess test in the blood I did a pretty long cycle of Test-E way back when I was lifting competitively in college. fucking stupid I know, but at least I know I'm not pre-disposed to baldness, as I virtually zero loss approaching 30. most of the men in my family are bald except one uncle, so you can definitely win the luck of the draw. baldness research is actually rather complicated and developments are occurring all the time.
Anonymous Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:58:43 No. 11653
Do I really need to rest for a day in between workouts if I don't feel tired or soreness in my muscles? Or is that normal and you just wait for them to recover regardless?
Anonymous Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:58:43 No. 11654
>>11653 I have an unpopular opinion, but if you’re looking for serious training, just train. Some people train through soreness too, the conventional understanding of ‘lactic acid buildup’ has never been fully proven to be truly responsible for the soreness. As you get stronger you get less sore anyways. As you age you’ll get sore more often, that’s when you can worry about ‘rest days.’
Anonymous Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:58:46 No. 11673
>>11487 Palmetto decreases testosterone production no?
Propecia/finasteride is a good idea because it doesn't affect testosterone much.
Anonymous Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:58:46 No. 11674
>>10697 >6'2 Holy shit you must be huge
Anonymous Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:58:53 No. 11724
>>10801 not all coomers are right-handed you know
Anonymous Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:58:55 No. 11740
>>10801 It's because hes curling his arm up n00b
Anonymous Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:59:06 No. 11808
>>11653 You don't need to rest, but if you are training hard enough like you should you won't be able to cope and will HAVE to rest. so the answer is you arent working hard enough.
>>11674 damn straight. I am 110kg heavy.
Anonymous Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:59:06 No. 11811
I'm in the cutting process, how do I lose water weight for more definition without dehydrating myself?
Anonymous Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:59:10 No. 11839
>>11653 Agree with
>>11808 If you don't need to rest you could be training harder. Depending on how you're training it may be better to do more weight or train more days. If you're going more for endurance then training more days is better. More strength means more weight is better.
Anonymous Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:59:10 No. 11840
>>11811 >how do I have less water without having less water Joking aside, eat different foods that cause less bloating. That's about it AFAIK. If you really want to go for it, you can try keto.
Anonymous Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:59:12 No. 11857
>>11811 reduce carb intake, to 0 if you can manage
carbohydrates get converted to glycogen for intramuscular storage
each molecule of glycogen bonds to 4 water molecules
calling it 'water weight' makes people think they need to cut their water intake to lose it
this is not the case
get rid of the glycogen and you reduce the body's ability to store water as water weight
of course without any glycogen your endurance is gonna be shit
but it'd be shit if you were dehydrated anyway so eh
you can recover a bit of endurance if you go full-blown keto, don't expect anywhere near peak performance tho
Anonymous Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:59:17 No. 11897
>>11653 I train almost every day unless I feel ill.
Anonymous Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:59:18 No. 11911
>>11811 unironically drink more water. Water weight is built up trough dehydration because your body is worried you are low on hydration, having water in excess actually means your body expels it instead of keeping it.
Anonymous Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:59:19 No. 11914
>>2726 thoughts on callisthenics? been lifting for around 4 months and am seeing good progess. I have a friend who wants me to do callisthenics with him. He's been doing them for a long time and is pretty cut up but lacks the "bigger" look I am going for. What should I do?
Anonymous Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:59:19 No. 11915
>>11897 been going on and off with half push ups
progress was reaching where i could do 30 with extreme pain and was getting ready to do regular push ups but then I skipped 1 day and BOOM
wasted 2 weeks not doing it
never skipping exercise unless my body is literally sore
Anonymous Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:59:31 No. 12024
>>11915 bruh how weak are you
do regular push ups even if it is just one
Anonymous Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:59:49 No. 12155
>>12154 Yes this. People don’t realize how much easier it is for shortcels to appear bigger. My friend was 5’5 and looked ripped at 140lbs. Meanwhile I’m 510+ and I look like a lank at 170.
Anonymous Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:59:49 No. 12157
Glowposting aside, how do we make a bunkerbros lifting group? I’m in cali and it would be fun to train with some comrades. I don’t think glowies even lift enough to pose a threat of infiltration.
Anonymous Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:59:51 No. 12169
>>12157 >I don’t think glowies even lift enough to pose a threat of infiltration. Not the ones assigned to watch obscure internet forums, that's for sure.
Anonymous Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:59:53 No. 12190
>>12176 >neck bridges you mean traps? shrugs are important, but you should be doing a lot of compound exercises that put a load on your back muscles, such as squats, rows, and pullups.
Anonymous Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:59:54 No. 12192
>>12190 Neck bridges are bridges where you support your weight on your head instead of your hands. If this sounds like it could lead to injury, you're right.
Anonymous Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:59:59 No. 12235
>>12176 there was this lolcow called AlphaDestiny who promulgated all this neck training with harnesses and shit. I remember football athletes doing neck manuals– that is to say twists and neck motions without machines or weights but using their own hands. Like gently applying resistance as the neck twists or bends up and down. Go very easy with these at first because your neck muscles arent used to a lot of resistance. It's like doing those lower-back isolating good-mornings with a lot of weight. You don't feel it the day of, but your erector spinae down there will be crying for a week. Remember neck does not equal traps. But you should be doing shrugs anyway. And remember most neck mass comes from roid use.
>>11857 Good post I've been confused about this.
Anonymous Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 05:00:57 No. 12700
Hey Guys, complete noob here, I wanna start doing some exercise while in lockdown, anyone have training plans or tips?
Anonymous Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 05:00:58 No. 12705
>>12702 nice, thank you, any tips on doing so?
Anonymous Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 05:01:14 No. 12778
>>12618 neck training is a vain meme unless you are training wrestling.
>>12700 Honestly, best just read the PDF anon sent you. Convict conditioning is probably the best calisthenics guide you're gonna get.
also
>boohoo it's cold unless you are in alaskan/siberian weather just dress thickly and go train on the bars. find heavy rocks to lift too, lift them to your chest or onto your shoulder, carry them around in a bear hug for leg and arm gains.
Anonymous Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 05:01:18 No. 12814
Guys, I've messed around and put off getting lifting straps for years. I don't really want to buy any at the moment though. I want to use nylon straps from an old GI backpack, but they are only 1 inch wide, are they viable? I'm lifting <400 lb.
>>12778 This. Look up Iron Loo if you must, for inspiration.
Anonymous Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 05:01:18 No. 12815
>>12814 addendum: I also want gymnastics rings. Anyone have a brand they recommend? RepFitness is out of stock and Rogue is damn expensive.
Anonymous Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 05:01:34 No. 12943
>>12814 Why do you need straps though (other than for rows), just use a hook grip or mixed grip.
Anonymous Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 05:01:35 No. 12945
How do I manage my depression with exercise when I'm too depressed to exercise?
Anonymous Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 05:01:38 No. 12972
>>12945 Depends…
if you're alienated from work,10-30 minutes of meditation usually works
Anonymous Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 05:01:56 No. 13145
During quarantine I started doing more bodyweight exercises and shit while I was just a cardiofag before>Do squats until failure >then static squat until failure
Anonymous Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 05:02:10 No. 13246
>>13145 >Basically pairing an exercise until failure then a hold for the same muscle group until failure then repeating for a set amount of times anyone ever done/heard of anything like this? Is it a meme?
You mean isometric holds anon?
how much cardio are you doing now? once per week 30 mins?
How much rest time do you allow yourself per exercise?
Anonymous Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 05:02:11 No. 13259
What's the benefit of training until failure? Is it about "emptying the tank" so to speak and building up the body's stamina through sheer force of exhaustion? Is there a rest time between failures or are we talking you literally can't do more and your session is done for the day?
Anonymous Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 05:02:16 No. 13285
>>13259 Usually after workout, I have rest days. Training without failure will result in DOMS
Anonymous Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 05:02:29 No. 13392
Here's some inspo:
[b]Leonid Zhabotinsky[/b]
>born in a village in Uspenka, Sumy Oblast, Ukrainian SSR into a Cossack family >After graduating from the seven-year secondary school, he worked at the Kharkiv Tractor Plant and was coached by Mikhail Svetlichny at the local weightlifting club of the Armed Forces sports society >Zhabotynsky debuted at the Ukrainian SSR Championship in 1957, where he earned a bronze medal. Zhabotynsky was the flag bearer for the Soviet Union during the opening ceremonies of the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City, carrying the Soviet flag single-handed when the team marched in, when all the other flag bearers used two hands >Between 1963 and 1974 Zhabotynsky set 19 world records in the superheavyweight class and won gold medals at the 1964 and 1968 Olympics. He was a member of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union between 1965 and 1991 >In 1964 Zhabotinsky graduated from the Kharkiv Pedagogical Institute and in 1970 defended a PhD in pedagogy >“He stole the show,” recalled Mr. Schwarzenegger, the weight lifter, bodybuilder, actor and former California governor, who as a teenager in Austria kept a photograph of Zhabotinsky taped over his bed. “He was extraordinary, another form of inspiration: If he can make it, I can make it.” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonid_Zhabotinsky https://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/17/sports/olympics/leonid-zhabotinsky-strongman-for-the-ages-dies-at-77.html Anonymous Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 05:02:29 No. 13398
How the do I get the heckin side splitserinos, fams? My groin has been a couple inches off the ground for years and I've never gotten any closer.
Anonymous Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 05:02:31 No. 13412
how do you overcome fear when practicing handstand or planche?
Anonymous Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 05:02:31 No. 13414
>>13412 I struggled for about a year with my handstand glued to a wall and made little progress. While I was able to gradually increase my strength and time upside-down, it never really got me any closer to balance or getting over the fear for free-standing handstands. Eventually you simply have to get away from the wall and experiment. Do it on carpet or something with more cushion and start practicing it daily. That's what finally made the breakthrough for me during the pandemic. Make sure when you start out that you do a good wrist stretching routine each time before getting into it because your hands may end up in dangerous positions while you're learning by trial-and-error how to bail from a handstand safely.
Anonymous Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 05:02:31 No. 13415
>>13412 >>13414 Also here is the formal routine I started using over the last year. Took me a lot longer than other commenters on the video but it did eventually lead to breakthroughs:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oBcWjpFG5yY The key was doing some sort of handstand practice as a daily activity instead of weakly integrated into my other regular workouts as I had done in the past. Now that I've actually worked out how to balance a handstand I can develop it into a useful strength training routine in my regular workouts as handstand pushups/planche-like movements.
Anonymous Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 05:02:32 No. 13417
>>13415 thx for video. I will attempt to replicate suggested routine.
would you say practicing hand stand was worth the effort in terms of return over investment(risk)? I am mainly interested in planche and hand stand because I read it stimulates my shoulder area like no other exercises (+ more fun than standard calisthenic exercise) but am too pussy for potential danger
Anonymous Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 05:02:32 No. 13419
>>13285 DOMS are not harmful. Soreness is normal. It shows you you're pushing yourself.
Pain is what you should avoid.
Anonymous Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 05:02:32 No. 13420
>>13417 If you're just in it for the strength training you're probably going to be disappointed at first. Merely holding a handstand is mostly about learning a new form of coordination and balance, not necessarily about developing new strength (besides perhaps grip strength). If you have low shoulder mobility you're going to have to improve it in order to center your weight in a line for a handstand with nice form. The straighter your handstand the less energy you use to hold it.
In terms of risk vs reward, the first time you actually defy gravity feels incredible, of course it's worth the small risk. Balance and coordination is an empowering kind of fitness that there is simply no substitute for. You said you were pretty strong already, are you afraid of falling on your head? Practice some forward rolls or cartwheels so you get used to the two main methods of bailing from a handstand.
Anonymous Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 05:02:33 No. 13430
>>2726 How to do pull-ups if I can't do a single one? It's like the muscles that I need for this are simply not there, it's impossible for me.
Anonymous Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 05:02:34 No. 13442
>>13430 You start with an easier exercise, like horizontal pulls.
Anonymous Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 05:02:35 No. 13451
>>13430 try jumping pull up, horizontal pull up, band assisted pull up
Anonymous Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 05:02:35 No. 13452
Nobody told me how fucking hard the home stretch is to get the results you want. I feel better and look better, but I want more. I'm in the cutting process and it just seems to take so long. Can I cut out carbs or is that gonna fuck me up?
Anonymous Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 05:02:36 No. 13460
>>13442 Horizontal pulls work different muscles.
>>13451 >>13430 The simplest thing to do working up to pull ups is eccentrics. Jump up into the flexed position and use your muscles to work against gravity and control the descent. You can almost certainly pull that off and it doesn't require anything you wouldn't already have if you're trying pull ups.
>>13452 You get diminishing returns the more weight you lose, that's just how it is. The question is where are you comfortable maintaining your weight. Being fit is a lifestyle, and your body will be in the shape that your diet and exercise gives it. So you have to figure out how stringent you think it's worth it to be in the long run vs how it makes you look/feel. If you just cut down real low and don't maintain a regimen to suit that body, you will bounce back to whatever your regimen
will maintain.
Anonymous Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 05:02:39 No. 13480
>>13464 what exactly is preventing you from practicing squat?
I heard it's very unnatural stance for non-asian/slavic people but not sure if that is what you are confused about provided this is meme posting Anonymous Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 05:02:57 No. 13620
I need to lose 15 pounds immediately (still a 'normal' bwi but i look fat in the face) and find caloric restriction throughout the day is torture. So i've been doing IF with some light bodyweight (pullups, pushups etc) 3x a week, maybe have lost 1/2 a lb (maybe, hard to tell with day to day weight fluctuation) despite eating around a 800-1000 deficit. Kinda bummed so today I'm not eating for 36 hours. Will this wreck my metabolism in the long term?
Anonymous Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 05:02:59 No. 13632
>>13620 no, don't be a faggot. human body was meant for fasting & low caloric intake, otherwise we wouldn't retain fat. just literally eat less why is this so hard to do.
restrict yourself to one meal a day or eat every other day and you'll lose the weight.
Anonymous 2021-02-26 (Fri) 23:47:48 No. 14389
why do redditors always talk shit about deadlifts? is there any actual way you are going to hurt your back if you aren’t doing your one rep max, because I feel that’s bullshit.
Anonymous 2021-02-27 (Sat) 05:21:24 No. 14396
>>13513 SECURE
CONTAIN
PROTECT
Anonymous 2021-02-27 (Sat) 16:17:23 No. 14398
>>14389 Deadlifts cured my back pain lmfao
Anonymous 2021-03-13 (Sat) 20:06:35 No. 14568
what are the advantages/disadvantages of increasing reps instead of weights?
Anonymous 2021-03-14 (Sun) 00:26:58 No. 14571
>>14568 The basic thought is:
lower weight and more reps = muscle endurance
higher weight and less reps = muscle strength
Anonymous 2021-03-14 (Sun) 03:19:02 No. 14575
>>14571 do both of them make them bigger?
Anonymous 2021-03-14 (Sun) 03:31:49 No. 14576
What's the best way to burn fat? I don't want to be buff, I want to be toned.united_farm_workers United Farm Workers
Anonymous 2021-03-14 (Sun) 03:45:36 No. 14577
>>14575 yes. but if your sole aim is to gain muscle mass, it's probably efficient to focus on power lift. It's very hard to target some muscle group with power lift (and to be able to fully utilize strength, you need to learn motor skills not just stupidly repeating the lifts) so you still might want to invest few days on calisthenics.
>>14576 eat less, think/work harder
Anonymous 2021-03-14 (Sun) 04:45:42 No. 14579
>>14576 Read the Sticky.
Can't outrun a shit diet.
Exercise to burn calories.
Anonymous 2021-03-15 (Mon) 01:23:26 No. 14588
>>14576 Low carb. Don't listen to these idiots, low carb will make that fat melt the fuck off. You can do it while vegan/vegetarian or whatever too.
Buy some light weights. Start with some youtube videos
Anonymous 2021-03-15 (Mon) 01:24:57 No. 14589
>>13620 Fasting will not wreck your metabolism. working out and eating like you're on the Biggest Loser absolutely will, that's why you do low carb or keto
Anonymous 2021-03-15 (Mon) 01:34:27 No. 14590
>>14576 Long term change of your eating habits.
Otherwise you end up like the legions of fat people whose weight goes up and down because they follow a half-assed diet - full on junk food cycles.
Anonymous 2021-03-16 (Tue) 21:20:21 No. 14625
Been working my way through the Convict Conditioning bridge progression series lately and I just graduated off of head bridges. The next steps, half bridges and full bridges, actually feel like they're easier than head bridges. Is it because I'm doing something wrong? I don't get it.
Anonymous 2021-03-18 (Thu) 14:57:07 No. 14660
I have a automatic gym membership from the place I live. Whats the best gym work out routine for beginners.
Anonymous 2021-03-19 (Fri) 02:57:48 No. 14670
I have been cutting for so long that my body has finally given into it and I barely feel hunger nowadays
Anonymous 2021-03-22 (Mon) 06:05:04 No. 14714
Hi, /fit/ I am over 200 pounds and 5-9 and I want to loose weight. I am poor as fuck and cannot afford a gym membership. What should I do? Can some one help me?
Anonymous 2021-03-22 (Mon) 07:54:48 No. 14716
stop eating unhealthy food, no more candy, soda pizza etc. Eat less food.
Anonymous 2021-03-23 (Tue) 20:40:54 No. 14734
My knee keeps popping out from its socket. How the fuck am I supposed to do deadlifts with all that stress on my muscles/sinews/the knee itself? It stays in place when I don't put my feet straight but then my fucking legs are in the way when when I drop the lifts.
Anonymous 2021-03-23 (Tue) 20:43:34 No. 14736
>>14714 2-3 days a week water diet. It will absolutely kill your muscles and health but the fat disappears I assure you.
Anonymous 2021-03-24 (Wed) 01:49:10 No. 14748
>>14714 Don't do any dumb extreme shit. It will likely cause you to rubber-band. You will empty your fat cells and then when you stop the method they will scream at you to consoooooom until you fill them back up. What you want to do is to reduce the fat levels long term so the excess fat cells start to slowly die off and won't be around to demand to be filled back up as soon as you stop the diet.
1. Develop food-awareness.
Start by logging your calories.
Get a tracker app or something and note everything you eat (yes everything). This will give you a sense of how many calories you consume. Also read the nutrition information to see what is or isn't in the food. This is the best place to start to make you aware of the shit you put in your body.
2. Start cutting out the bullshit.
You should try to avoid sugar in general, particularly things with a lot of added sugar or processed sugars like high fructose corn syrup. If you want to sweeten things get some honey to add (and track). Instead of starchy and carb-rich foods, eat more fats and oils. Lots of meme science has given fat a bad name but it is both necessary and will make you feel fuller for the same amount of calories. A good way to help reduce cravings is a simple salad. Get some prepackaged salad greens (lettuce and shit) and some olive oil (maybe do some research on this because there's a lot of fake olive oil out there thanks to the Italian mafia) and eat that for a small meal or snack. You can add other stuff for texture and flavor, like cheese or croutons or bacon bits. Having some slow-digest calories in you will send your fat cells the "filling up" signal so they won't bitch at you to cram more food in your face. Carbs go down way quicker and your fat cells immediately go "more please!"
3. Start an exercise routine.
What it is isn't that important. There are examples ITT. The important thing is that you can do it and that you will do it consistently. Start with 1 pushup a day if you have to, but make it something you keep at and can build on. Exercise is less about burning calories (although it does that too) than about increasing your fitness. By building muscles and improviding cardiovascular health you will raise your metabolism and burn more calories just by existing.
Anonymous 2021-03-24 (Wed) 01:51:22 No. 14749
>>14734 That sounds like some real "see a doctor" shit. Definitely don't lift with a problem like that, you will make it worse.
Anonymous 2021-03-24 (Wed) 01:55:30 No. 14750
>>14670 >Once I get /fit/, I will train my lean body and be ready for outdoor organizing stuff Nice.
>How do I use my stationary cycle to train and get the stamina to run very fast for very long time? You don't, really. A stationary bike will get your heart in decent shape if you go hard enough, but it won't develop your leg muscles for running much at all. You use the muscles differently for biking than for running. If you want to get good at running, run. And if you want to train for marching while carrying a sign, do that. Your body adapts to what you do with it, and different activities involve different muscles in different ways. Each muscle you use gets trained the way you use it.
>Do I do slow but long sessions or fast and short sessions? Or do i need to do both types everyday? Slower longer sessions will burn more fat, but if you want to condition cardio going fast is what you want. Also look into High Intensity Interval Training and in particular Tabata style if you really want to train cardio well.
Sage !61KGLATVW. 2021-03-28 (Sun) 16:20:58 No. 14854
/fit/ anons, we have a matrix room for discussing /fit/ thing, to swap tips, motivate each other, and hang out with other leftist lifters, here is the link:
https://matrix.to/#/!pjXDhgPcpamHjrVeJV:matrix.org?via=matrix.org Anonymous 2021-03-31 (Wed) 04:41:36 No. 14894
>>14750 Alright. Thanks anon.
I will use this information.
Anonymous 2021-04-10 (Sat) 16:33:16 No. 15091
>>15090 I have them too.
They look unique and cool like I'm some man tiger hybrid
rawr xd seriously tho
I was shocked and disgusted with them too, but now I accept them as part of my body.
You don't look gross anon. It's perspective, and maybe you should try to change it?
You will only grow hotter and fitter if you keep lifting.
Functionality>>>>>Aesthetics.
Anonymous 2021-04-12 (Mon) 15:21:01 No. 15098
>>15091 >They look unique and cool like I'm some man tiger hybrid rawr xd Are you on the spectrum?
Anonymous 2021-04-14 (Wed) 05:21:20 No. 15117
>>15098 No and It was a joke anon
Anonymous 2021-04-14 (Wed) 06:19:11 No. 15119
>>15090 Everybody has them. Maybe if everybody stopped seeing them as something weird and ugly that nobody should have, we would all be way less embarrassed about them.
Anonymous 2021-04-14 (Wed) 06:39:20 No. 15120
>>15119 ive literally never seen stretch marks on any gym bro ive fucked
acceleration Acceleration Anonymous 2021-04-14 (Wed) 11:25:53 No. 15122
>>15121 >she doesn't know about autoandrophilia >>15118 In a way it has made me more sympathetic towards women, ever since I started to get my first stretchmarks on my biceps when I was 18 some time ago, so I guess it's not all that bad. Just wish someone told me about how to prevent them or even the fact that they aren't exclusive to pregnant women. Btw do you know any remedies to fade them out?
Anonymous 2021-04-14 (Wed) 12:06:58 No. 15123
>>15122 >Type in autoandrophilia >first pic is Contrapoints Is this Irony?
Anonymous 2021-04-14 (Wed) 12:35:37 No. 15124
>>15122 Autoandrophilia has nothing to do with what that anon said…
though >>15123 searching that, I found that there's a whole autoandrophilia tag on "twibooru"
Anonymous 2021-04-14 (Wed) 13:11:27 No. 15127
>>15118 Don't act like you've ever been pregnant femcel.
Anonymous 2021-04-14 (Wed) 19:04:02 No. 15130
Why is walking up a wall with your hands from a bridge so heckin hard guise? The physics don't even feel possible.
Anonymous 2021-04-15 (Thu) 04:37:30 No. 15140
>>15121 High T in men and women is associated with bisexuality
Anonymous 2021-04-15 (Thu) 15:54:08 No. 15147
>>15127 Hey! don't insult her
>>15118 Sorry about that queen, You know I'm always here if you need a baby daddy hahaha
Anonymous 2021-04-15 (Thu) 15:55:46 No. 15148
>>15130 >Why is walking up a wall with your hands from a bridge Post vid
I can't imagine this
Anonymous 2021-04-15 (Thu) 16:49:55 No. 15150
>>15149 That's walking down the wall. It's step 8: walking back up it that's really heckin hard.
Anonymous 2021-04-16 (Fri) 02:32:28 No. 15154
>>15149 fuck
i can only fig 96 maybe
dunno what you can use that flexibility for but i want it
Anonymous 2021-04-16 (Fri) 11:10:08 No. 15160
>>15154 It's not just flexibility. Bridging makes your back super strong, which is useful for all sorts of things.
>>15155 That's impressive but it's only half the motion.
Anonymous 2021-04-16 (Fri) 18:02:25 No. 15172
>>15155 I thought it was a bad idea to come out of stretches using the muscles that you have just stretched.
Anonymous 2021-04-16 (Fri) 18:04:28 No. 15173
>>15172 That's not a stretch, that's a calisthenic maneuver.
Anonymous 2021-04-16 (Fri) 18:11:43 No. 15174
>>15173 I just tried it and it definitively felt like a stretch.
Anonymous 2021-04-16 (Fri) 18:22:40 No. 15176
>>15174 Now do it several more times in a row, as a set.
Anonymous 2021-04-16 (Fri) 18:28:42 No. 15177
>>15174 With a gut and upper body as massive as that guy, it's most definitely a strength maneuver for him.
Anonymous 2021-04-16 (Fri) 18:38:33 No. 15178
>>15175 "Fun" fact this is actually bad for your back
Anonymous 2021-04-16 (Fri) 20:34:53 No. 15181
>>15180 Ouch, well, normal bridges aren't necessarily contortionism. You don't need to smash your hands into your feet like that woman. Pretty small sample size regardless, though.
Anonymous 2021-04-16 (Fri) 20:39:04 No. 15182
>>15181 As a matter of fact, bridges are often prescribed by physical therapists to patients with scoliosis.
Anonymous 2021-04-20 (Tue) 07:38:59 No. 15215
>>15155 mashallah let this infidel nazi die soon with the worst heart attack
Anonymous 2021-04-23 (Fri) 13:40:40 No. 15229
>>14854 Would like to join but kept getting kicked and now I'm banned. Why? I'm not aware of doing anything wrong.
gentoo Gentoo Anonymous 2021-04-26 (Mon) 20:06:08 No. 15297
>>12702 >uneven pushups -> 1/2 one-armed pushups This progression is ridiculous. Isn't there some other kind of intermediate step here?
Anonymous 2021-04-27 (Tue) 13:59:34 No. 15307
What is the best way to get drunk with least amount of negative impact on my gains? I'm thinking I should wait 48 hours after my last workout and maybe eat all my daily protein in the morning. I think I can even workout on that same day because muscle regeneration doesn't begin immediately anyway.
Anonymous 2021-04-27 (Tue) 14:39:50 No. 15308
>>15307 (me)
>maybe eat all my daily protein in the morning Or should I first get drunk, then eat protein after I sober up? Alcohol stays in your blood for up to 6 hours, while protein stays in your system for 24 hours. Apparently it's also not very effective to eat that much protein at once, it should be consumed across multiple meals.
Anonymous 2021-04-30 (Fri) 22:01:49 No. 15336
>>15307 Me and my gym buddies used to get smashed every night. Even on a cut, I'd budget in calories for a half pint of whiskey. Stop worrying about micromanaging your entire leaf based around gains. Go to gym, eat protein, sleep long
Anonymous 2021-05-02 (Sun) 18:46:24 No. 15341
>>15090 Stop caring about them. Nobody cares about your stretch marks and neither should you. People you meet don't go about their lives thinking about you or picking out your flaws (real or perceived) in their heads. They think about their own lives and responsibilities. The sooner you learn this, the better.
Anonymous 2021-05-03 (Mon) 05:44:09 No. 15344
What will happen to my body if I lift 1.5Kg objects until exhaustion
Anonymous 2021-05-03 (Mon) 06:16:48 No. 15346
>>15345 It's surprising how little bodybuilders know about the soviet system
Shock those muscles, build that tone
Anonymous 2021-05-03 (Mon) 06:17:31 No. 15347
>>15345 hot
>>15346 > know about the soviet system ???
what's that
Anonymous 2021-05-03 (Mon) 06:26:12 No. 15348
>>15347 It's about torturing your body as much as possibly by surprising it with different regimens
Arnold explains it nicely
Anonymous 2021-05-03 (Mon) 16:44:08 No. 15354
>>15348 i knew not having an organized exercise regimen would benefit me someday
Anonymous 2021-05-03 (Mon) 23:15:53 No. 15387
>>15348 Nothing Arnold says about body building can be taken seriously because he's a well-known juicer.
Anonymous 2021-05-05 (Wed) 03:34:13 No. 15437
>>15387 Well, Arnold's system is different. He's a nazi not a commie.
But the core concept of a "varied-routine" is core to the "soviet system".
armchair Armchair Anonymous 2021-05-05 (Wed) 06:04:51 No. 15440
Steroids are so effective at building muscle that people taking them generally put on muscle doing nothing at all faster than people actually doing strength training without them.
Anonymous 2021-05-05 (Wed) 09:34:11 No. 15441
>>15437 >He's a nazi ayo what
Anonymous 2021-05-05 (Wed) 20:37:59 No. 15452
Can I just get fit doing activities such as biking, hiking, and kayaking? I never liked going to the gym.international_brigade International Brigade
Anonymous 2021-05-05 (Wed) 23:42:50 No. 15461
>>15459 Just generally healthy. I don't care about aesthetics or being "strong", I just want to be active and healthy.
international_brigade International Brigade Anonymous 2021-05-06 (Thu) 01:18:14 No. 15463
>>15452 If you take it seriously then yes, but just doing those things casually will only get you moderate amount of success
Anonymous 2021-05-06 (Thu) 03:42:35 No. 15465
>mfw all the effort and time put into fitness during my youth is being eaten away as aging cripples me and I can’t do all the shit I used to
Anonymous 2021-05-06 (Thu) 08:31:11 No. 15467
>>15464 what about strongman yoga?
Anonymous 2021-05-06 (Thu) 17:22:06 No. 15494
>>15465 If you don't already lift, start. If you already do, continue to lift. Trapbar deadlift is probably ideal. Muscle mass/strength is the most important thing for people to be stable on their legs and help prevent slips/falls in older age. Look it up if you don't believe me.
Anonymous 2021-05-07 (Fri) 04:12:06 No. 15505
>>15492 CALICHADS DRAGON UP
Anonymous 2021-05-07 (Fri) 04:17:31 No. 15506
>>15465 i don't understand how that can happen if you're exercising regularly
Anonymous 2021-05-07 (Fri) 06:23:57 No. 15507
>>2726 Gymbod training and gym culture are bourgeois and inherently problematic. A fit, capable body should be a BYPRODUCT of a lifestyle full of work and free from capitalist influence, not the GOAL at the expense of avoiding work and indulging in capitalist (gym) influence. Exercise should be free comrades.
Anonymous 2021-05-07 (Fri) 08:55:43 No. 15509
>>15507 But how is that possible
So much of modern work is computerized
Anonymous 2021-05-07 (Fri) 17:27:38 No. 15515
>>15506 Father Time is undefeated and has a 100% Knockout ratio
Anonymous 2021-05-08 (Sat) 13:11:02 No. 15543
>>15345 Lightweight usually yes, but they also gripped it really hard almost like isometrics.
Plus, and this is important, they periodically did what we would now call strongman or unconventional lifts with big weights.
Closest modern "routine" would be doing say three to four weeks of calisthenics, then throw in a strongman for a week or two.
Now, the >picture_related is me. How the
fuck do I exercise?
I'm literally thinking of just using memebells, landmines, and calisthenics because my body is so utterly cooked it's unreal.
eureka Eureka Anonymous 2021-05-08 (Sat) 13:20:13 No. 15544
>>15543 I watched some of the videos of this Tsatsouline guy and it's kind of cringe but I liked that he calls me comrade
Anonymous 2021-05-08 (Sat) 16:15:35 No. 15547
>>15515 I'm gonna clap father's cheeks
He will not get me
Anonymous 2021-05-08 (Sat) 16:16:52 No. 15548
>>15543 mirin' that 3 pp game bro
Anonymous 2021-05-08 (Sat) 17:16:24 No. 15549
>>2729 Will accelerate balding if prone
Anonymous 2021-05-10 (Mon) 15:13:00 No. 15581
How do I cut without losing too much ass?
Anonymous 2021-05-11 (Tue) 18:52:05 No. 15602
>>15597 Bridges work more of your posterior chain in a single exercise.
Anonymous 2021-05-12 (Wed) 03:06:40 No. 15607
>>15549 I read that while looking at
>>15545 and thought
>yeah, kettlebell probably does make you go bald Anonymous 2021-05-12 (Wed) 04:55:27 No. 15609
>>15597 brb breaking my back
Anonymous 2021-05-13 (Thu) 07:47:45 No. 15632
Jesus Christ, I remember getting recommended this kid's first video and looked at the thumbnail and thought, "This motherfucker is going to get large".eureka Eureka
Anonymous 2021-05-13 (Thu) 16:22:26 No. 15635
Is eating your own cum good for gains? asking for a friend
Anonymous 2021-05-13 (Thu) 16:47:44 No. 15636
>>15635 Eating mine is better (:
Anonymous 2021-05-15 (Sat) 01:24:38 No. 15661
>>2965 look up any boxer's routine like mike tyson. boxer's don't use weights and usually rely on very basic calisthenics. lifters fall for every bit of bro science that makes the rounds so don't listen to them. when starting boxing they usually suggest the following daily:
300 pushups
300 dips
300 squats
300 sit-ups
8 eggs
1/2 gallon of milk
carb load on white rice to hit 3000 calories
after 300 becomes easy jump to 500 and then 700. it sounds like it would take a long time but i get my 500's in in about an hour.
eggs are important. studies have found they increase gains by as much as 15%. eat the yolks, egg whites are kind of worthless on their own, lacking many of the more important nutrients.
Anonymous 2021-05-15 (Sat) 01:30:47 No. 15662
>>15581 you can't really control where you lose from, it's all genetics. a lot of people you see at the gym or on insta with big asses are shooting porcine hormones into their asses to get that look. those women literally have pig's asses and it's disgusting to see once you learn what it is. you can't unlearn some things no matter how much you want to. sex appeal is mostly behavioral anyway so don't beat yourself up too much over your physique, just look healthy and work on your act.
Anonymous 2021-05-15 (Sat) 07:57:17 No. 15667
>>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.
Anonymous 2021-05-15 (Sat) 08:14:26 No. 15668
>>15667 are situp bad tho?
i workout my lowe back with bridges but nothing for my upper back
Anonymous 2021-05-16 (Sun) 16:18:29 No. 15686
Any of y'all rep commie swag at the gym?
Anonymous 2021-05-16 (Sun) 16:22:18 No. 15687
>>15668 Is
>>15597 not for upper back?
Anonymous 2021-05-16 (Sun) 20:23:51 No. 15691
>>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.
Anonymous 2021-05-16 (Sun) 20:30:46 No. 15692
>>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.
Anonymous 2021-05-17 (Mon) 12:57:01 No. 15705
>>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
Anonymous 2021-05-17 (Mon) 20:01:51 No. 15709
>>15702 My knees are totally fucked but I tried using knee stabilizers recently and it's good enough that I can do squats again.
Anonymous 2021-05-17 (Mon) 21:35:24 No. 15712
>>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.
Anonymous 2021-05-17 (Mon) 21:40:26 No. 15713
>>15711 eat clean
train hard
organize your life around fitness
Anonymous 2021-05-18 (Tue) 03:40:11 No. 15722
>>15705 I'll give him a look…
>>15709 What stabilizers you using?
Anonymous 2021-05-18 (Tue) 04:05:59 No. 15723
>>15711 Maybe you should ask the man himself lol
https://twitter.com/MargBarAmerica Anonymous 2021-05-18 (Tue) 07:39:08 No. 15725
>>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?
Anonymous 2021-05-18 (Tue) 20:22:12 No. 15734
>>15723 I have no social media besides discord
Anonymous 2021-05-18 (Tue) 20:58:24 No. 15735
>>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.
Anonymous 2021-05-19 (Wed) 02:47:52 No. 15742
>>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
Anonymous 2021-05-19 (Wed) 04:57:02 No. 15743
>>15736 Shrugs, lots and lots of shrugs
Anonymous 2021-05-19 (Wed) 05:07:22 No. 15744
>>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
Anonymous 2021-05-19 (Wed) 05:15:25 No. 15745
>>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.
Anonymous 2021-05-19 (Wed) 08:48:23 No. 15747
>>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
Anonymous 2021-05-19 (Wed) 16:08:36 No. 15752
>>15744 did you get lost on your way to /b/?
Anonymous 2021-05-20 (Thu) 10:26:52 No. 15763
I love getting vitamin D and used to cover my face but sunlight on the face is too good.
Anonymous 2021-05-20 (Thu) 16:42:36 No. 15768
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.
Anonymous 2021-05-20 (Thu) 17:47:46 No. 15769
>>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.
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.
Anonymous 2021-05-20 (Thu) 17:54:31 No. 15770
>>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.
Anonymous 2021-05-20 (Thu) 18:21:29 No. 15771
>>15770 Isn't it basically gymnastics without equipment?
XMAanon 2021-05-20 (Thu) 19:08:10 No. 15773
>>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.
Anonymous 2021-05-20 (Thu) 19:34:28 No. 15774
>>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.
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
Anonymous 2021-05-20 (Thu) 22:33:44 No. 15779
>>15632 Poor kid, his training regiment is dog shit, he is gonna hurt himself more than benefit himself in the long run.
Anonymous 2021-05-20 (Thu) 23:52:35 No. 15780
>>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.
Anonymous 2021-05-20 (Thu) 23:57:31 No. 15782
>>15773 Calisthenics gets you this physique, hardly a meme.
>>15736 Anonymous 2021-05-21 (Fri) 06:18:59 No. 15790
>>15786 I can't fall asleep hungry.
Anonymous 2021-05-21 (Fri) 06:56:52 No. 15793
>>15790 i fall asleep before the hunger hits
Anonymous 2021-05-21 (Fri) 15:03:47 No. 15794
>>15793 So you eat lunch around noon, and then go to bed at eight PM? Or how?
Anonymous 2021-05-21 (Fri) 15:28:29 No. 15795
>>15794 Yeah?
I have seized the means of production in my body.
I own my body, I make the rules.
Dictatorship of my mind.
Anonymous 2021-05-21 (Fri) 19:02:20 No. 15797
Do we make the /fit/ general cyclical or do we make a new one?
Anonymous 2021-05-21 (Fri) 22:50:13 No. 15802
>>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.
Anonymous 2021-05-23 (Sun) 03:45:22 No. 15829
>>15797 New one: "Insert whatever you want here" Edition
Anonymous 2021-05-23 (Sun) 03:46:34 No. 15830
>>15797 And archive.is this thread and put it in the OP.
Like:
"Previous thread: *insert archive.is link here* "
Anonymous 2021-05-26 (Wed) 16:35:40 No. 15981
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?
Anonymous 2021-06-23 (Wed) 10:39:38 No. 16861
what does full mean
Anonymous 2021-06-23 (Wed) 10:40:08 No. 16862
oh it stops getting bumped
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