Did superhero movies make you start going to the gym, /co/?

It should but I'm a manlet so why bother

I'm a broke college student with gynecomastia.

So no.

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>>91920435

You kidding? They made me STOP going to the gym. Endless gifs and screencaps of sweaty stacked guys breathing heavily and moving their arms slowly and shit. Why would I pay $30/mo to go to the gym to see that when I can fap to it in real time in the comfort of my own attic?

Chris is so fucking hot JC

>>91920502
kek

I went to the gym 2 years ago during the height of the "do you even lift bro?" mania, but I stopped when I realized I wasn't doing anything with my new muscles and all the extra eating was making me even fatter.

>>91920497
>Iron Man
>6'6"
Do I even have to say it

>>91920509
Chris is definitely handsome, but I think Chris is hotter.

>>91920588
but what about Chris, he's pretty good too

>>91920422
What? No. That's retarded. You're retarded.

>>91920422
If they'd pay me a couple of millions to hit the gym, I'd certainly not decline their cash.

>>91920422

No, if anything they helped me get even fatter. Thank god my girlfriend loves fat guys

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no but i should start hitting the gym again

>It's a "OP wants us to feel bad about ourselves" thread

>>91920435
>it learned

>>91920422
Fuck no.

>>91920585
That's the suit

Yeah, it helped. I got into a slump after hitting uni and realising I still needed to be self confident to get laid so I did minor gym work but didn't change my diet up, got a GF, we broke up then I decided to get my shit together properly after seeing Chris Pratts transformation for Guardians and watchING that How To Lose Weight in 4 steps video.
Now I'm lonely, suicidal and fucking my friend/other friends ex but at least I'm trying to get /fit/

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>>91920497
>Wolverine
>5'3"
No wonder he is so angry all the time, manlet rage.

they just make me wanna wank

>>91920666
Yes anon, working out is good for your health and it'll make you feel great!

>>91920822
So you're fucking your friend and your friend's ex at the same time? Brag more son.

>>91920497
that storm design is hideous.

>>91920497
Funny how in movies Wolverine is 6'2'' and Hawkeye is manlet.

>>91920422
No, 80s action movies did that.

A little bit, actually!

I'm nearing 30 while working as designer in an office all day, and I think it's time to start looking out for my health. And, not going to lie, chicks dig Chris Evans' ridiculous body in a tight tee.

So since I have expendable cash and am already skinny, I've bought a home bench press, a bunch of weights, and other exercise tools to work out with while I watch cartoons. I'm already seeing decent results a month in with noticeable bicep, pectoral, and tricep muscles.

>>91920422
Holy fuck, I just want to lick every single one of their chests.
Why am I such a faggot?

>>91920422
Only DC ones. MCU actors are all made of plastic and have no chest hair.

>>91921076
>Marvel interns dig Chris Evans
Fixed. No one likes a walking meme.

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>>91920422
Yes but not for being muscular, i wanted to gain physical condition to endure a race or jumping between buildings, also did some martial arts

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>>91921512
It's understandable.

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>>91921582
Are you kidding?

Chris Evans is a legit attractive guy.

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>>91921684
>responding to bait
Don't be that faggot.

>>91920435
That means you have more reason.

>>91920497
>wolverine
>5'3"
what seriously?

>>91921761
Everyone knows Wolverine's a manlet in the comics, only in the movies he's tall because of Jackman.

>>91921761
Yup, why do you think he hangs out so much will teenage girls so he doesn't feel too small.

I actually just got back from leg day at the YMCA. Got a delicious Wendy's new Fresh Mozzarella Chicken Sandwich towards the end of my anabolic window of opportunity. It's waaaay better than fast food.

Saitama did

>>91921795
Don't lift for girls, lift for yourself. Your confidence and self-esteem will only improve when you start working out and seeing results in the mirror.

>>91921791
Really should have cast Smol Jackman.

>>91921807
I thought he was a pervert with daddy issues.

>>91921732

Tall people lift to enhance themselves

Manlets like me lift to compensate

Why bother wasting your time lifting when you know that girls(the reason I would lift anyway) would look at a guy'a height first? I'm dying for an answer anon

>tfw lift and do cardio
>tfw somewhat muscular but layered in chub

I just like to eat. I could never fucking do the grilled chicken three times a day that Hugh Jackman did to get cut. I need my Tex-Mex and Thai food.

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>>91921906
i approve

>>91921795
>>91921852
Also lift for girls.

I'm 5'7" and at the age of 19 I'd never had a girlfriend (a fat girl was into me once but that's it). However I lifted my Freshman year of college and when I went back to my lifeguarding job I got numbers without provocation.

Seriously, muscles help a lot. Virtually all the problems males on 4chan constantly bitch about can be solved with regularly lifting.

>>91920822
>getting laid
>still lonely

And what have we learned?

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No but a different animated medium did

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>>91921906
Obviously you have never had Wendy's new Mozzarella Chicken Sandwich.

>>91921512
>wanting to lick every dab of sweat that pools in the valleys of their chiseled abs makes you a faggot

What're you, gay?

>>91921941
I've actually gotten a lot more muscular in the last 3-4 months, because my sister is a certified personal trainer and she taught me about isolating muscle groups during lifting days. I lift weights three times a week, and nowadays I do chest-shoulders-back one day, legs/lower body one day, and arms-back one day. It's had a noticeable effect.

>>91921991
>>91921512
>fap to yaoi, traps, and futa on male all the time
>don't find the idea of this arousing at all
WTF? Am I straight?

>>91922039
you're a pervert, which means you're not straight.

>>91922020
My family just got a Y membership and I've been teaching my little brother the same thing. I learned from a kinesiology major or whatever who I had a dorm room next to that used to gather a good portion of the dorm floor to go lift regularly. I learned to target muscle groups from him.

Right now I'm trying to hammer out our routine. I'm having trouble remembering what I used to do to target the back. Is it rowes?

Oh! Wasn't there one thing where you get a dumbbell, lean over and parallel to a bench, and pull the weight up one arm at a time? What is that called?

>>91922068
Wanting to lick the sweat off of another man's pecs isn't perverted?

>>91920422
Gym is okay but try some martial arts or boxing too.

>>91922039
Everyone is strait until they have a dick in their mouth, anon

>>91922202
Even a feminine dick?

>>91922202
ESPECIALLY a feminine dick

>>91922156
But STR always beats DEX.

>>91920422
No. Those guys aren't just buff, they're also good looking. I'm ugly AND I have a small head so if I work out, I'll just look like an actual downy.

>>91922151
it is but it's not your perversion.
you're still perverted because you do all that other stuff.
which means you're not straight

>>91921684
>a legit meme
Fixed.

>>91920422
I've been going to the gym for the last 5 years, benching 250 these days when before I could barely do 95.

I just want to look good while I'm still young, it wasn't really a movie thing.

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>>91920882
If only such beneficial things weren't so tedious.

Seriously, lifting has got to be the most boring form of exercise there is. How the fuck do you /fit/izens manage to not hate every mental second of it?

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More like because I had to lose 100 pounds, but yeah, it's a good reason.

>>91922279
One can't be both perverted and straight?

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>>91921896
Using /fit/ logic:

Manlet means it takes less effort to look good from lifting compared to a lanklet.

Once you start getting into lifting you realize women are gains goblins.

Continued lifting leads to respecting yourself, building confidence, and transcending humanity. Basicly you're less likely to go back to eatting shit and being "normie" as it were.

With confidence you can now actual get slots as you slowly begin to realize that women (that aren't sluts) don't give a shit about your height so much as they care about how interesting and fun to be around you are. Attracting them in real life is far easier than dating sites would lead you to believe.

At this point however its too late as you've completely forsaken women and only work out for yourself and to be mired up close (no homo) by your gym bros.

>>91922302
It becomes an addiction. Literally. Your body releases endorphins after a workout and you can experience withdrawal symptoms. It takes a while to build up the addiction though.

>>91922302
>lifting has got to be the most boring form of exercise there is. How the fuck do you /fit/izens manage to not hate every mental second of it?

Because the immediate feeling of power and accomplishment after lifting something heavy is amazing. Try lifting and you'll understand after a while

>>91920435
Dude that's all the more reason. Shorties get fit way faster

>>91922338
no.
there's straight

and then there are deviations from straight.

Remember to check your health insurance. I know people that actually get reimbursed by their health insurance for regularly going to the gym. It equals roughly $5 per visit up to three times a week. That's enough to pay for most memberships.

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>>91922302
Get into gymnastics with a side of lifting.

Its slower to get he-man look. But you feel great, look toned done right, and learn party tricks.

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>>91922302
By looking at the ladies making gymnastics on the bars.
>dem teenagers and their shorts
>and the one who does gymnastics barefoot

>>91922391
>ayo don't lift jus do body weight shit u'll get jacked bro

>>91922302
There are other ways of excersizing. Try biking

>>91922302
>Seriously, lifting has got to be the most boring form of exercise there is. How the fuck do you /fit/izens manage to not hate every mental second of it?
I'm not a worthless piece of shit who hates doing things that are beneficial for me.

>>91922302
LIFT WITH A BUDDY!

I can't emphasize this enough. Having someone to spot you for drop sets is amazing but even that pales in comparison to the boon of having someone to razz you when you relent from your routine.

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>>91922430
Yea, you fucking do. Its just slow and inefficient as hell compared to pure iron pulling. But produces a more well rounded build. Although lifting some days would probably speed things up.

Pic related since reading isn't your strong suit.

>>91922492
>muh olympics
they're all on roids

>>91922391
sure women are attracted to hunky bodies but 1. a lot are superficial or mentally unstable 2. a lot are intimidated by them

>>91920422
this is an unrealistic standard for men

>>91922529
wolverine is absolutely achievable natty are achievable natty.

and you should be striving for the impossible when it comes to self improvement faggot.

>>91922252
DEX is sexier.

>>91922341
>that gif
kek

>>91920761
And Spiderman would be 10-12 feet tall if he wore stilts.

>>91922627
Strength + Endurance + Charisma = BROKEN
literally cannot be beat.

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>>91922236
>>91922249

>>91922695
But it's true, I love traps and I'm not gay. I'm bisexual :^)

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>>91922695

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>>91922356
>>91922369
>>91922422
I did it twice a week for three months straight, and I felt fantastic. Then I fell into a slump and just found it boring; started going infrequently and doing things half-heartedly. Then I stopped. No real drive to resume it now. Drinking myself into a coward's grave again.
>>91922422
They're all insufferable morons to a fault; getting anything out of looking at them is like getting aroused from looking at slices of well-cut steak.
>>91922447
I guess. How is that not tedious, though?
>>91922454
Neither am I. I don't hate doing things that are beneficial for me, I just have so much tedium in my life already that I need something to break it.
>>91922456
>friends
The chummiest people I know are fat and useless, and even less reliable than myself.

>>91920422
No, only reading Frank Miller's Daredevil has made me want to go the gym.

>>91923641
So maybe don't go with a friend. Ask an acquaintance or peer that may go or may be willing to go to the same gym you go to.

If that's not possible then just extend the offer to one of your sad pathetic sacks of flesh you call friends. Play nice for a few weeks until you both have noticeable gains and use that as leverage to begin the razzing them if they ever relent from the routine.

I've seen both stick and slob alike mentally transformed within a few weeks just because they started lifting with one dude who knew what he was doing. In that short time they were lifting even without any coaxing and were getting yet more people to lift with them.

>when the actor or personal trainer vehemently insists that they didn't touch roids, long before anyone else brings it up
Hmm...

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>>91923766
I don't know, man. You're kinda challenging my years of hard experience telling me that people always fail to change.

In reality, all that's keeping me from getting shit done is a complete lack of desire and/or drive. Where does motivation come from when you have none? Where does a genuine drive originate? I honestly have no fucking idea. All I want is to drink myself to sleep and then wake up to do the same until eventually everything's over.

>>91924126
And nothing of value will be lost.

Question: Why is it that /fit/fags, both those on this site and elsewhere, always speak in the same pompous, gung-ho tone?

>>91924330
>why is it that they talk like real men, not like fedora tippers?
Fixed.

>>91924330
I'm not even /fit/ and I don't know what you're talking about. Explain?

>>91922371
This. It's horseshit.

>>91924222
>oh shit he asked a legitimately difficult question, well I better tell him off because avoiding difficult questions makes me feel like I'm not just as bad as people struggling with avoidance issues

I put a lot of effort into my body. But none of it at the gym. Because I am neither a roided up bodybuilder nor a peacock.

>all people being surprised at wolverine height.
It's one of its catches, that wolverines are fucking tiny but can kill creatures way larger than themselves.
Seriously, the perfect cast for him would been Tom cruise, if he stopped being a diva about his height.

>>91924474
>telling off a loser who wants to drink himself to death
Shame on me.

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>>91924512
>throwing cheap, typed-out insults at losers will surely make me less of a loser than them
An interesting train of thought.

Apparently you can afford cruelty today. The time will come, though, when you cannot afford the cruelty of others. I won't be seeing you when that happens, I'm afraid; I'll be busy still digging myself deeper into ruination, and you'll be holding your very own shovel doing the same by then.

It's a merry ol' life for both of us.

>>91925113
Wow, cheap booze makes you poetic.

>>91924126
Your "lack of drive" is due to depression. Get a job and lift. Alternatively get a job, get a chest and wrist heart rate monitor, and begin running.

>>91924352
Real men talk like children on too much sugar?

>>91925801
>muscled men
>too much sugar
Fatso pls

>>91925357
You say that like he's driven to do that.

>>91922341
Lifting fundamentally changed my outlook on effort and the rewards effort could bring, which in turned has helped my personal success in my career. My frustration with plateauing in career gains got me to start journaling with intent every morning. Getting up at 6:30 in the morning every day suddenly gave me time to take back the practice of writing prose. Committing to the practice of writing daily helped me be more on top of my lifting schedule, and so on, and so on...

Yeah.

>>91920422
No.

Being a complete fatass and seeing myself in the mirror at a shitty time in my life did.

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>>91920422
>tfw been working out for over a year and a half and don't look any different. But my breathing, stamina, posture has all improved, my blood pressure is lower, my reflexes are noticeably quicker, I run faster. Still look like shit, just stand up straighter which makes my moobs even more noticeable.

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>>91920422

Actually yes

>>91927082
Time to DIE(t).

>>91927082
Calories go in, fat comes out. You can't explain that.

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>>91920497
tfw share the same hieght as all the cool characters in 6'2"

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>>91920497
Tfw shorter than wolverine

>>91921827
>YMCA
>eating fag food

It fits.

You don't wonder why Wendy's has to point out that one of their sandwiches is fresh?

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>>91920422

The first Captain America movie got me to start going to the gym. Went from 320lbs (obese since elementary school) to 195lbs with a 7min mile and a 275x5 bench.

>>91920422
Not really because I know I can't look like them, they are paid to work out multiple time a day every day. I don't have that kind of time because I have a job and I'm working out in my spare time. I don't want to be jacked but I'd like to be a little more defined. My goal is to look like Jackman in X-men (2000)

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>>91920422

I find looking at pictures of really physically fit women is the best motivator for me to exercise.

>>91928662
>aggressively being an idiot
Freshness is their entire fucking gimmick, dumb-dumb.
>le hating on the Y for no reason
It fits.

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>>91926137
>implying I'm fat
Like clockwork. You dolts aren't bigger caricatures only because you aren't made at CalArts.

And I genuinely think the biggest demotivator for people to not get into the whole gym bunny culture is their being put off by the childish, aggressively fratboy-esque attitude of its members.

sage, so this cancer-thread will die already