Alright boys it's time to become men.
>Post self-imposed challenge with pic, stats, time limit, training method.
>Your challenge and pic w/ info gets posted every thread.
>Fail your challenge and forever be known as a /fit/ failure, posted for all eternity, until you redeem yourself with an equal or greater challenge.
C'mon faggots let's see 'em. I'll post my own next.
>>42468102
My challenge: Add 4 lbs of muscle, 7 lbs total, get a more shredded look, and gain strength.
>>42468338
All by November 10th
DO OR DIE, WHERE IS YOUR HONOR /FIT/??
IT IS TRADITION
Cut or bulk? I tried SS+GOMAD like you guys told me but I didn't quite get the results I wanted.
pls be in london
>>42468081
>>42468081
post feminine benis
>>42468081
Oh Jesus not this again
HEATED DEBACLE TIME!!!
Question: is sprinting a gains goblin, like jogging? Or nah
>You're in the gym and some dyel is unloading a barbell
>He takes the plates off one side, catapulting the barbell toward your face
Is /fit/ fast enough to react in time, and teleport behind someone?
Keep in mind the average of 250ms includes old people and women.
https://www.humanbenchmark.com/tests/reactiontime
A similar situation happened at my old job and my reflexes were quick enough
Well, quick enough to have a couple scars on my forearms instead of my face, anyway
>>42467988
Goodbye gains, I hardly knew you
>>42468052
You aren't gunna make it
>>42468030
Don't risk your gains anon, do the test to find out definitively
rate my bulk
>>42467964
You're supposed to gain muscle not just fat, nigger.
Yep that's a bulk Alright.
>>42467964
Do it clean next time
Post your current routine and diet.
I'm 195 pounds, been on a fucking cut with the 8/16 intermittent fasting since May. I'm losing 1.5 pounds a week and I swim 2-3 times a week (too fucking tired to get back into running and biking until I am done this goddamn cut). 170 is the goal, was at 230 June 2016.
>>42467919
SL5x5, on a bit of a cut. Trying to avoid as much meat in my diet as I can, and only eating whole foods. The diet is more for my skin than anything else.
>>42467919
I've just came from full body for a month to UL for 6 weeks sometimes taking days off and I have finally stalled with deadlifts due to not enough rest... Down from 230lb I started lifting at 192lb... I went up to 198lb and am now 196lb 10 weeks into lifting. I need more rest for deads and squats to progress so I have just started PPLPPLX... Although I may PPLX until I get into the routine. I've also just added cardio to each workout.
Here's my approx stats... 27 (5'10 king of manlets) Really wanted 1/2/3/4 before 3 months but I accept my bench is too far behind... Might make it with OHP and DEAD... But I'm getting sore in places and taking extra rest days because I know what injury is and I am lucky to have recovered fully.
ohp: 55kg x 4
bench: 72.5kg x 5
row: 85kg x 5
squat: 140kg x 3
dead: 145kg x 5
Here's my new routine... Each day warmup with back roller and basic yoga stretching and functional full body stretches. (additional warmups before compound lifts in brackets)
>Push.
(a few clapping pushups, or plyometric falling and pushing back up from boxes)
OHP 3x5
BEN 3x5
-close grip bench 3x5
-cable chest fly 6x5 (2 low, 2 mid, 2 high)
Supersets 5x5
-decline dumbbell press
-dips
-lateral raises
-skullcrushers (drop to french press last 2 sets)
5k on treadmill (11km pace, will increase)
>Pull.
(hip adductor machines 3x5 to assist deadlift)
DDL 1x5
ROW 3x5
Superset 5x5
-Pullups
-Upright row
-Shrug
-Straight bar curl
2k on concept 2 (want to increase to 5k, but too tired/pussy)
>Legs.
(plyometric box jumps after stretching additional si/hip joint stretches)
SQT 3x5
-Planks / weighted hyperextensions / Situps, (3x5 alternating sets)
-Hack squat deep / Leg press (5x5 alternating sets)
-Quad extensions / Ham curls (3x5 alternating sets)
skipping 5minutes x 4 with 2 minute breaks
That's it for now... Want to do...
p 5k run
p 2k row
l skipping
p 10k run
p 5k row
l skipping
x rest
as i progress
>tfw shoulder sprain doesn't allow me to do anything
It's been three weeks of no lifting and I'm feeling depressed /fit/
Should I just work through it? All I want right now is some squats
Sup /fit/
I stopped going to the gym about a year ago and I've felt like shit. I've never really cared about being big, I just like being in shape, so I started an all body weight workout about a week ago and I feel like it's something I can do and enjoy. Anybody here have experience with exclusively body weight exercises?
>>42467741
Basically what i do. I made my own full body routine that i do 3 times per week and im seeing some decent gains from it. Only been at it 2 months tho. Check out BWG on here for bodyweight stuff.
Sort of related but I knew a nigga named Rico who went to prison for a long time and he came out RIPPED and he described it as 'I went beast mode in there and got shredded *pure calisthenics*" So he made due in a prison cell.
If you haven't read Sun and Steel, get on it.
I don't lift for 2D or 3D, I lift for the beauty and ideals of Yukio Mishima.
Scrawny 5'1'' manlet became a jacked bad ass Chad who killed himself to honor Japanese culture at the height of his intellect and physical condition.
Confess your sins, /fit/izens.
I'll start… I'm on a carb restricted diet and I had a piece of cake tonight. I think we can all verify that I'm not going to make it.
Im a few months away from ending my bulk, i fairly happy with my size gains, maybe if i got a little bigger but for the most part im happy. Im just trying to make more strength gains currently. My problem is, my stomach has gotten quite large. And i wish to lose some of that. But that is obviously a problem on a bulk. My buddy, who lost weight but stayed the same size and strength told me he kept his carbs under 28g a day, did cardio amd core building excersizes, and went on a deficit. He lifted heavy, worked hard and got tons of protein. What does /fit/ think? Would cardio help too?
Cheers
So long as you eat at a surplus youll gain weight.you want to lose the gut do what your friend did and cut.
>>42467967
He cut but didnt lose any size or strength though
Private DYEL - what the fuck is this?! I thought you were on a cut!
>>42467485
I'M BULKING SIR
DOING MAD MILK UNDER THE COMMAND OF LIEUTENANT M. RIPPETOE, SIR!
>>42467485
IT'S A CHEAT DAY SIR! EVEN THE ROCK DOES CHEAT DAYS!
>>42467503
>>42467921
BULLSHIT NUMBNUTS I WANT YOU GET ON THE GROUND AND GIMME 7
>2017
>not fighting off goatmen for huge pec gains
Not going to make it
seems like samefaggery to me
>>42467471
/x/ ?
Is that you?
> also tfw manlets now praise a goat demon in the pit for free pussy
holy shit
Can someone explain to me how exercise is good for your heart? You are literally forcing it to beat 3 times as fast for an hour or more. Wouldnt this give rise to potential damage. ( cell death due to lose of oxygen )
Does cardiac muscle grow bigger like skeletal muscle when it tears?
>>42467466
> cell death due to lose of oxygen
Your o2 absorption doesnt drop like that. Otherwise you wpuld show symptoms of blood asperation (sepsis). And even then once you stop the exercise you blood will go back to being flooded with fresh o2 after just a few minutes.
>>42467466
exercise increases pumping efficiency of the heart. It literally increases the strength of which the heart contracts. this is why athletes oftentimes have larger hearts
Well thats good to know. I work out for about 1 hour 3 times a week. My heart rate is usually between 140 to 180 during that time. I understand how skeletal muscles benefit from exercise but skeletal muscles get breaks. The cardiac muscle does not. Its always working. I guess this is why revving it up during a work out doesnt make sense to me.
ITT stories about why working through pain is retarded.
>Fell hard on wrist
>Spent one month lifting on it before pain was too much
>Spent one month resting it, hoping it would get better on its own
>Spent another month in pic related brace so the torn to shreds lining of the film that holds down my tendons could scar back together
>One more month ahead to slowly restretch my wrist so I can do normal things without pain
Yes, I'm a dumbass. Point is, if you're in pain (not just sore) get it checked out so you won't be stuck stretching rubber bands and squeezing foam cubes .