Motivate me to go to the gym bros
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Go to the gym
>>39944690
not until you go to the gym
>>39944690
>relying on motivation to accomplish anything
>accomplishing anything
pick one
Hey /fit/, what's your opinion of the elliptical? Is it good cardio? I like it because it doesn't hurt my knees, but I can't shake the feeling that it's cheating. Is it?
I have trash knees from 9 years of football, to elaborate
Decent cardio for beginners or fatties who can't run on a treadmill.
As far as knee pain goes - I had BAD knee pain for about 2 months when I first started using the treadmill (I was about 215 lbs, so not super fat) but quickly developed my legs and the pain was minimized. Moving up always requires some pain but it's worth it - I burned a lot more fat after using the treadmill vs the elliptical.
tl;dr - Good for beginners but you should try to get on a treadmill eventually for best cardio results.
>>39944765
How long usually? I've been doing 45 mins on elliptical
Is there a downside to drinking ~5 cups of black coffee a day?
>>39944527
the shit you have to take after the first cup
>>39944551
Gotta learn to take pleasure in your morning dump, dude. It's the time when a man can be most like himself.
>>39944527
Increase in heart rate?
Staining your teeth?
Itt: gym good feels
>in the change room
>black man walks out of the shower
>my dick is bigger than his
>>39944517
He probably just took a cold shower bruh.
>>39944517
Why are you looking at other dudes dicks?
>>39944553
You're such a faggot that you are scared that if you look at another man's cock you'll get turned on. I just want to know where I stand
Wat is the weight bracket in which you're considered 'normal' as a fully grown male, i.e. not skinny, but not fat either?
I'm 5'10 and 110lbs, I'm 22. I look way too skinny, but thing is some of my male peers share the same weight and look more masculine ??
>>39944388
I'd say you have to be at least 140lb. I was already pretty damn skinny at 135, can't imagine 110.
5'9 and 160
Catch up, brother.
110lbs is good weight for a female
Start eating mate
>enter gym
>call to prayer starts playing
ULLLLLAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHH
AKBAR
>>39944372
>enter gym
>call for deus vult starts ringing in head
>>39944372
>go to gym
>muzzy tries to go for prayer on the deadlift plattform
>not today, faggot
>slice his throat with my broadsword
>strap two pl8 on him
>lift his dead body
>DEUS FUCKING VULT
I bought pic related for doing cardio on my punching bag. However after every time I do it my hands are cut up and raw and then I can only do it once a week. How do I prevent this?
Get boxing gloves for a punching bag you dummy. Second, there are better quality combat gloves.
>>39944168
I hate boxing gloves. They are hot and are I can't make a fist in them.
>>39944309
Then just fuck yourself then I guess I dunno
>have hair thining on front
>fuck im balding
>start to fast
>after a few days of fasting hair become thicker
I DID IT REDDIT
you have found a creative way to cope with your balding my friend
>>39944178
>he doesnt know fasting increases hgh
>>39944021
It didn't. You just slowed your balding down by not eating.
I believe that the definition of definition is reinvention. To not be like your parents. To not be like your friends. To be yourself.
Completely.
When I was young I had no sense of myself. All I was, was a product of all the fear and humiliation I suffered. Fear of my parents. The humiliation of teachers calling me "garbage can" and telling me I'd be mowing lawns for a living. And the very real terror of my fellow students. I was threatened and beaten up for the color of my skin and my size. I was skinny and clumsy, and when others would tease me I didn't run home crying, wondering why.
I knew all too well. I was there to be antagonized. In sports I was laughed at. A spaz. I was pretty good at boxing but only because the rage that filled my every waking moment made me wild and unpredictable. I fought with some strange fury. The other boys thought I was crazy.
I hated myself all the time.
As stupid at it seems now, I wanted to talk like them, dress like them, carry myself with the ease of knowing that I wasn't going to get pounded in the hallway between classes. Years passed and I learned to keep it all inside. I only talked to a few boys in my grade. Other losers. Some of them are to this day the greatest people I have ever known. Hang out with a guy who has had his head flushed down a toilet a few times, treat him with respect, and you'll find a faithful friend forever. But even with friends, school sucked. Teachers gave me hard time.
I didn't think much of them either.
>>39943877
Then came Mr. Pepperman, my advisor. He was a powerfully built Vietnam veteran, and he was scary. No one ever talked out of turn in his class. Once one kid did and Mr. P. lifted him off the ground and pinned him to the black board. Mr. P. could see that I was in bad shape, and one Friday in October he asked me if I had ever worked out with weights. I told him no.
He told me that I was going to take some of the money that I had saved and buy a hundred pound set of weights at Sears. As I left his office, I started to think of things I would say to him on Monday when he asked about the weights that I was not going to buy. Still, it made me feel special. My father never really got that close to caring. On Saturday I bought the weights, but I couldn't even drag them to my mom's car. An attendant laughed at me as he put them on a dolly.
Monday came and I was called into Mr. P.'s office after school. He said that he was going to show me how to work out. He was going to put me on a program and start hitting me in the solar plexus in the hallway when I wasn't looking. When I could take the punch we would know that we were getting somewhere. At no time was I to look at myself in the mirror or tell anyone at school what I was doing. In the gym he showed me ten basic exercises. I paid more attention than I ever did in any of my classes. I didn't want to blow it. I went home that night and started right in
>>39943880
Weeks passed, and every once in a while Mr. P. would give me a shot and drop me in the hallway, sending my books flying. The other students didn't know what to think. More weeks passed, and I was steadily adding new weights to the bar. I could sense the power inside my body growing. I could feel it.
Right before Christmas break I was walking to class, and from out of nowhere Mr. Pepperman appeared and gave me a shot in the chest. I laughed and kept going. He said I could look at myself now. I got home and ran to the bathroom and pulled off my shirt. I saw a body, not just the shell that housed my stomach and my heart. My biceps bulged. My chest had definition. I felt strong. It was the first time I can remember having a sense of myself. I had done something and no one could ever take it away.
You couldn't say s--t to me.
It took me years to fully appreciate the value of the lessons I have learned from the Iron. I used to think that it was my adversary, that I was trying to lift that which does not want to be lifted. I was wrong. When the Iron doesn't want to come off the mat, it's the kindest thing it can do for you. If it flew up and went through the ceiling, it wouldn't teach you anything. That's the way the Iron talks to you. It tells you that the material you work with is that which you will come to resemble.
That which you work against will always work against you.
It wasn't until my late twenties that I learned that by working out I had given myself a great gift. I learned that nothing good comes without work and a certain amount of pain. When I finish a set that leaves me shaking, I know more about myself. When something gets bad, I know it can't be as bad as that workout.
>>39943891
I used to fight the pain, but recently this became clear to me: pain is not my enemy; it is my call to greatness. But when dealing with the Iron, one must be careful to interpret the pain correctly. Most injuries involving the Iron come from ego. I once spent a few weeks lifting weight that my body wasn't ready for and spent a few months not picking up anything heavier than a fork. Try to lift what you're not prepared to and the Iron will teach you a little lesson in restraint and self-control.
I have never met a truly strong person who didn't have self-respect. I think a lot of inwardly and outwardly directed contempt passes itself off as self-respect: the idea of raising yourself by stepping on someone's shoulders instead of doing it yourself. When I see guys working out for cosmetic reasons, I see vanity exposing them in the worst way, as cartoon characters, billboards for imbalance and insecurity. Strength reveals itself through character. It is the difference between bouncers who get off strong-arming people and Mr.Pepperman.
Muscle mass does not always equal strength. Strength is kindness and sensitivity. Strength is understanding that your power is both physical and emotional. That it comes from the body and the mind. And the heart.
Yukio Mishima said that he could not entertain the idea of romance if he was not strong. Romance is such a strong and overwhelming passion, a weakened body cannot sustain it for long. I have some of my most romantic thoughts when I am with the Iron. Once I was in love with a woman. I thought about her the most when the pain from a workout was racing through my body.
Everything in me wanted her. So much so that sex was only a fraction of my total desire. It was the single most intense love I have ever felt, but she lived far away and I didn't see her very often. Working out was a healthy way of dealing with the loneliness. To this day, when I work out I usually listen to ballads.
>not using the deadlift machine for deadlifts
>not using the smith machine for squats/presses
>actually using the barbell for anything besides curls
Hahahaha how embarrassing
>>39943602
>Hahahaha
no thanks i prefer the power clean machine
>>39943653
>doing power cleans when high pulls accomplish the same minus the power autism
I'd like to get the fattest, thickest neck humanly possible.
Are there routines for this type of stuff?
>>39943586
3x10 blow jobs
Ask Bimbo. He's a pro at giving dudes head and his neck is pretty thick.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mR7UjCiTVjo
Been waiting to post this video for a while.
>>39943586
CHEAT ROWS & SHRUGS
rACK PULLS ABOVE THE KNE
bEAR PHYSIQUE
Hey guys.
I have been doing SS for around 6 months, and went from a BW of 67 kg (147 lb) to around 80 kg (176 lb). I never did any kind of physical exercise before so I started out pretty weak.
My current stats (5RM):
Squat - 150 kg (330 lb)
OHP - 43.5 kg (95 lb)
BP - 67.5 kg (148 lb)
DL - 152.5 kg (336 lb)
I read Rip's opinion about only stopping the program when I start stalling on the squat and dl. The problem is that I keep getting more and more tired after doing heavy squats, which in turn makes me keep getting stalled in the presses. Should I call it quits and start doing Texas Method?
>>39943487
No. Keep going and rest more and eat more.
bumping for interest
>>39943487
Start doing a split like a normal person.
The king blesses us with a new motivational video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mjLVCWDC27Y
>>39943484
0:46
LOL AT THAT TAN WTF
Also Jeff confirmed natty
>>39943484
he's looking small as fuck
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tIuj-oMN-Fk
daily reminder that calories in calories out is a meme without any real scientific backup repeated by scientifically illiterare redditors.
If you burn 2000 calories a day but only eat 1700 calories per day you will will loose weight.
If you burn 2000 calories a day but eat 2500 calories per day you will gain weight.
Calories in, calories out. It's simple math you fucking mongoloid queer retardoid
>>39943606
Nope retard.
Youre burning your sugar levels.
Its a reddit meme without science backing it up.
You need to deplete your sugar levels before your body burns fat.
>>39943705
>sugar levels
I assume you're talking about glycogen. And where does your body's glycogen come from?
>started lifting at 18 in the hopes it would get laid
>quit at 20 after realising females are absolute shit cunts
>start lifting again at 25 because I kinda missed the way I as starting to look with those 2 years of lifting at 18-20 despite training like a retard and having zero knowledge about nurtition
>now 32 years old, lifting for 7 years straight, best shape of my life
>genuinely fell in love with lifting and still think women are shit
Is this what making it is?
>>39943297
>now 32 years old and still think women are shit
LOL no, YOU are the problem, not THEM. Your personality is obviously and objectively SHIT, and naturally they run the other way as soon as they see you coming.
Not that any of that matters now. You've achieved WIZARD mode, being a kissless virgin and being over 30. This is your life now! Be sure to enjoy fapping to anime girls in your basement lair until you die.
>>39944454
kek +1
Hating half the human race is losing it, not making it
Guys who hate women are losers most of the time and are usually unhappy.