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equipment and starter tips 2017-08-02 12:49:15 Post No.42365196
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equipment and starter tips
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2017-08-02 12:49:15
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TL;DR Should I buy a belt and wrist straps or wait?
I just started doing SS two days ago. I have a base of about 2 months of base strength, but a lot of it has been on machines. This is because I live in Brazil (I'm american), where part of gym employees' jobs is to design workouts for trainees. They are fucking busy-bodies. Nice people. But busy-bodies. I was doing power cleans and my personal trainer who had me doing machine bicep curls was hovering around me.
My gym is very much geared toward older people with money and women who pay $60 a month to use the fucking treadmills, when there is a beautiful two-mile waterfront boardwalk across the street.
ANYWAY I am now teaching myself proper from for Starting Strength and after just one day, I already love it more than anything I was doing before.
On my first day I was squatting 50kg (110lb), benching 50kg and power cleaning 50 as well.
Should I be using a belt and wrist straps or any other equipment? If it would help me with my form, I would definitely use it. Is there any other equipment I should use?
The stuff isn't very expensive. But also I don't want to look like a jackass using a bunch of equipment if I don't need it.
If it's important, I'm 6'4" (193 cm) 93kg (205 lb) and I consider myself skinnyfat.
Any other tips for me?
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>>42365196
Buy a squatplug
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>>42365196
You should always have a belt and wrist straps.
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Dont but either of these.
I squat 100kg without a belt.
And deadlift 140kg without straps.
Stronglifts is better than SS imo, but powercleans are great too.
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What is wrong with me 2017-08-02 12:48:14 Post No.42365184
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I'm on nofap day two.
I don't feel horny unless I look at porn, since day 1, I just don't feel horny unless I look at porn.
DID I FUCK MYSELF UP WITH PORN? DO I JUST HAVE LOW TESTOSTERONE? I'M PRETTY FUCKING SKINNY AROUND 5 KGS BELOW MY NORMAL WEIGHT MAYBE THAT'S IT?
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Wait a week, 2 days is nothing.
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>>42365184
If I do nofap I also completly lose any libido I had , so I just fap every 2-3 days. Don't do nofap, it's a meme.
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>>42365223
No, even if I fap I have no random boners and I'm 20.
This is low test right? fuggg
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A woman at work called me cute today. Not to my face, I don't think she knew I could hear her.
Feels good breh, you don't know how long it's been.
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>>42365055
Ask her what is she doing this weekend. Get her phone number.
>stupid frog posters
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I'm happy for you anon. What's your job?
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is this the annual /r9k migration to /fit happening or what?
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Why even bother exercising if you're not attractive? It's a common question here, but I ask myself this every day. No matter what I do, I still am not happy with what I see in the mirror. I look like a complete joke.
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>>42364965
It's so you have the muscles to beat the shit out of people that fuck with you.
Or you're just a masochist that loves the feeling of sore muscles.
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>>42364965
buff ugly>ugly
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>>42364965
Gosling looking good.
No homo.
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Is SS enough to make size gains or not? SS is good for me because I want to be thicc, but I read that there's not enough volume.
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we should create a /fit/ braphog routine for the sticky so women can stop doing meme exercises like cable leg extensions
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>>42364943
But those meme exercises make women thicc and it's what all the instathots do
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>>42364953
do they? i only see thin grills doing them with 5 lbs
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reminder that if you drink protein shakes especially post workout shakes you are a faggot and you know it
the only thing you need to do after a workout is hydrate with water and maybe eat a meal. plus if youre eating right youre likely getting enough protein already
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>>42364883
COPE
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>>42364883
I don't gave a problem with that. It's equal.
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>>42365209
>fell for the equality jew
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How fucked am I? I'm 25. Considering HT.
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Shave it, dont be a cuck
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>>42364812
You've got a couple more years before it becomes noticeable. Enjoy it, then shave it all off.
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You are fine if you get on finasteride right now.
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Why is it that some men look pregnant while others look like massive blobs of skin? What's making most of the fat protrude from their stomach like pic related?
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>>42364683
its called "visceral fat" these guys have fat inside the abdomen surrounding the organs which is why they look pregnant.
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>>42364683
Fat repartition is genetic, i know that much.
Or rather i read it somewhere on the internet long ago
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Sedentary + shit diet.
How do you make protein shakes more bearable, /fit/? I can't stand them, particularly with water, but I've been struggling to make my protein goal without them during this cut. How do you do it?
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man up
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>>42364561
get a milkshake if you want bearable you child
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use some pb fit in there to help the taste. Maybe some nesquick powder if you really are a baby about it
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How do I increase the power of my fist? How do I get stronger in the way of the warrior?
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learn to punch things
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>>42364534
you punch stuff
Start training boxing/Kyokushin for different punching techniques, train back and lower body and buy a makirawa and punch it till your knucles skin gets desensitised
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100 sit ups 100 push ups 100 squats 10km. Everyday.
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>graduate
>spend 2 years working part time wagecuck jobs while living at home and wasting all my free time and feeling demoralised
>move to London after getting full time job
>just barely make enough to pay for everything
>job is boring but thankfully light on work and never goes past 9-5
>became the ugly loser loner beta nobody talks to only a few days after starting
>realise I'll never have the social skills needed to succeed among normies
>had zero social life since school, no female attention ever, blackpilled and know women find non Chads disgusting
>see guys younger than me with gfs and feel insanely jealous
>see normies socialising effortlessly (including people who started after me) and feel bitter
>feel under pressure more during my free time than work because I feel like I have to learn maths / learn CS / do practical programming / read lots of books to be smart and successful and have a social life to stop wasting my youth (i.e., I feel bad because there aren't 100 hours in a day)
Well this is demoralising. And this is with a really low work government job. If I actually had to work hard and work a full 8 hours or more then I'd go crazy.
My free time consists of procrastinating over dedicating all my time to some other heirarchy I can feel bad about (i.e., programming).
And you know what really runs it in? The normies who get jobs easily due to normieness and poshness. The women with lives on easy mode and sugar daddies and bfs handing everything to them while society uses me as a disposable battery and deluges me with propaganda. The thousands of teens on the internet getting rich for wacky reasons (apps, crypto, exporting marmite to Tajikistan) while I stick my nose in to SICP- a nerd too scared to go off the beaten path, cowed by the masses while at its bottom rung.
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What does this have to do with fitness?
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>>42364295
GET THE FUCK OUT OF MAH /FIT/
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>>42364295
Your life won't get better.
Go full NEET.
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give me your /fit/ cringe
>Be me
>Finishing back day with some bicep curls
>Looking for 2.5kg weights to add onto my 10kg either side
>Goldust
>Spot two between two hot girls
>Ready for this moment
>Bend down to grab them
>Face near ass
"Are you t-tays.. dun need these?"
>Shit meant to say girls
"Sorry we are using these"
"t-thanks"
>walks away
>keep walking around for 10 minutes
>returned to curl my 10's
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i wouldn't have even asked just took tbqh famalam
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>put on dip harness with 30kg
>waddle to the dip bars
>movement caused it to unlock then immediately lock again on my dick
>pain like I've never felt before
>feel like the tip of my dick was completely cut off
>run to the bathroom in severe pain
>expect to find a huge amount of blood and a severed dick
>just a scratch, pain went away the next day
careful with those lads. i was lucky
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>>42364033
Sweated so much, it leaked right through my ass cheeks and my balls. People thought I pissed myself. Ran to lockeroom, dried my shorts with hand dryer.
your opinion? Have you tried this program before? Did you change anything along the way?
Here is a link with a full description: https://www.muscleandstrength.com/workouts/phul-workout
I just finished 6 months of SS and would like to try a different program. PHUL combines power and hypertrophy, so it sounds like a good option. I will be doing it on a bulk, so I hope to build some muscle as well.
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>>42363966
Not bad, but not really great either. The general outline is right, the specifics are all over the place. If you want an actually good "power/hypertrophy upper/lower" split, Texas method 4 day split and Candito's linear program are better in every way
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>>42363998
desu I can't into power cleans, especially power snatches which is why I want to avoid the texas method
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>>42363998
>the specifics are all over the place
can you elaborate?
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>advanced deadlift
>intermediate bench
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>advanced bench
>untrained squat
like i give a fuck
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>elite Press
>novice Squat
Hard to believe isn't it?
I hit a 60kg OHP before I hit 100kg Squat back in my first few months lifting years ago.
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>>42363886
>Advanced incline bench
>Intermediate OHP
Fate is a cruel mistress
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I think i'm actually going fucking crazy. I haven't had a night where I get over 5 hours sleep in like a month. I'm spending my whole day crying and I have anxious thoughts literally every moment of the day.
How do I make it out of this? I'm seriously one bad panic attack away from getting myself institutionalized. Will they even be able to fix it?
What drugs can I take to make me feel normal?
Help me please /fit/.
By the way this all started after I tried a weed edible. Don't fuck with that stuff.
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>>42363880
I had sort of a similar experience one time. Had a huge panic attack when i was really stoned one night, the whole next day was basically one big panic attack too. It slowly faded after a few days tho so idk man id just say you gotta wait it out. Also eat right and lift weights but thats a given, right?
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st jonhs wart and ashwagandha
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>>42363895
Yeah I've been doing both. Has made no difference.