whats /fit/s opinion on personal trainers?
>>42223461
Totally unnecessary. Often harmful.
>>42223461
Not sure if they're all retarded or just baiting their clients into doing shitty programs/form so that they can keep working with them for longer
>>42223461
most of them are just salesmen and they really dont know what they are doing.
i saw a pt teaching someone to quarter squat and half bench and another one who was doing bent over rows with cat back.
hey guys, check out my brand new blue legs
>>42223402
Been training for about 4 years. First program was SL5x5. Now I use my own.
>>42223943
nice brah don't skip chest tho
How you holding up, /fit/
/fit/ related- what will you be working today when youre alone at the gym on another friday night
I talked with my mother on the phone last night and I was astonished at how well it went. She has seen how much mental anguish I've been in but usually any attempt of her trying to understand or help was frustrating for both of us. She's not too bright but she at last gets where I'm at in deciding that I may face a life that is not worth living. And at last, rather than try to say that somehow some professional could help me get over this she will try to get my raison d'etre back. If it doesn't work she understands my reasoning to an hero.
Gonna go and hop on the radial saw and finish my custom computer case/sculpture and play on my rings and with some KBs. Tonight mistress is coming over to hang/bang. (She is married, I am not).
Another day, another battle with the fight between my diminishing self worth and my narcissistic ego.
But a coworker told me that I've slimmed down since I started IF 2 months ago.
That was nice.
>tfw I no longer feel feels
Today was core work.
First time I've nailed 3X10 hanging leg raises with my legs fully extended and feet raised above head.
Daily reminder that your health should always be more important than getting big, so:
>reduce sodium intake
>reduce saturated fat intake
>reduce simple sugar intake
>eliminate trans fat intake
>consume enough fiber
>make sure you're consuming enough micronutrients -- don't skip the salad
>start doing cardio if you aren't
>>42223036
>>reduce sodium intake
>>reduce saturated fat intake
oH iT's ThE 90s AgAiN. cOoL!
>>42223036
Who is this hoe and do you have more?
>>42223052
>in studies where sodium and/or saturated fat intake are reduced, the risk of cardiovascular problems decreases
Really makes you think.
Let's settle this once and for all, /fit/: what's the correct back angle when squatting?
>>42222493
Completely and utterly depends on individual hip and femoral morphology.
>>42222504
This.
As long as the bar is above your center of gravity, its all good.
>>42222493
The bar needs to move in a straight line, and your weight needs to be over your heels. I have found low-bar squats to work the best for me at higher weights.
Do you have back issues or something OP?
powerlifting is FUCKING dumb
First for the god Ripto
What is the best Upper / lower split?
>>>42222222
for testing purposes
Recommended starting weights for a 5'10, 170 lbs, 18 year old on this program?
Also, should I be doing cardio with this program?
>adding the weight of the bar to your numbers
stopped reading there
*noob
Also, bump
>>42222546
bump
>Stop focusing on deadlifts
>Start concentrating more on rows, chinups etc
>Back actually starts growing
Really makes you think
>>42222304
>deadlift is a back exercise
When will this meme end? I'm not even sure where this meme came from, as it's always been explicitly an exercise for improving your hip hinging pattern
>>42222304
>start performing back exercises
>back grows
Damn, skeeter, you really into somethin' thar. Who'd a thunk it?
>>42222327
That back acts isometrically in the deadlift so it does have an effect on back growth but yes you are correct
How come I've never seen before/after calves progress pics? I know why, because no matter what you do they won't get any bigger.
I'd say its more likely that nobody takes pictures of their calves before they have been lifting long enough to develop a complex about their non growing calves.
Pic related, Jason Genovas calf routine.
>>42222055
Calfs are resistant and hard to "shape" they take abuse and load since you can walk. I think people dont really take pics cause the change happens over a very long time and its usually subtler than say your chest or abs
is 15cm being a dicklet?
>>42221939
To chicks with larger vaginas(dudes with blown out asses) and size queens of both sexes?
Yes.
To average women.
Perfectly normal.
Congrats.
You're big enough to have satisfactory balls deep sex with whatever sex you want and get deep throat bjs without issues.
It's being a Europoor using the communist metric system, and that's worse.
>>42222016
only americans are taught in school the imperial system.
>tfw can't deadlift the bar
>>42221569
I'm sorry, I have never known that feel.
Im prescribing you a gallon of milk a day anon
>tfw not yet even strong enough to consider the existence of a barbell
prev thread >>42209755
>Who is /fat/ for?
for /fat/fucks who want to better themselves through meaningful hard-work, strategy, and dedication
>This is not QTDDTOT, ask questions about fat loss but use that thread for general questions
>Calculate your Body Fat Percentage
http://www.calculator.net/body-fat-calculator.html
>Calculate your TDEE (Total Daily Energy Expenditure)
http://www.sailrabbit.com/bmr/ (complex)
http://www.fitnessfrog.com/calculators/tdee-calculator.html (simple)
>Plan your weight loss week by week
http://www.losertown.org/eats/cal.php
>Track your calories and macros with MyFitnessPal, works best on smartphones
https://www.myfitnesspal.com
this is your future
>>42221255
REPENT
Anyone have any healthy pre-gym energy meals? Today was my 2nd trip to the gym and I have almost no carbs in my pantry so I had to resort to eating frozen bread and bell peppers.
Why do women go to the gym and try to gain muscles like men?
I mean, we do so because women like men who have huge muscles and we're just trying to attract mates, but I haven't met a single straight man who likes a woman with muscles.
So I don't get why they do it. Even my sister doesn't.
>>42221147
it's all about the gains
>>42221147
I like a girl with abs
>>42221147
Everything I've ever read about women on 4chan has told me that women truly have no interests, but all I can think is that they genuinely like doing it.
Why do runners bodies look like shit?
>>42219671
Because they don't focus on getting big and burn a shitload of calores while running, next question
>>42219671
only distance. it's the most cardio focused and you actually don't have to run that fast.
mid-distance and sprinters look pretty fit, you have to actively train strength and power or else you're too slow
>>42219671
Because if they dont round it out they end up skinny fat, if you run and dont do weights you'll look like shit. Weirdly if you run and do swimming you can achieve otter mode pretty fast
>t. runner
Whats /fit/s opinion on edging?
Does it help you get more horny and therefor more energy?
Is it healthy? Unhealthy?
Does it help you last longer?
>>42218300
Nah, edging is waste of time.
>>42218300
Edging?
>>42218318
Masturbating t'ill almost cuming.