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So I started "lifting" like four months ago and the first time I came into the gym after cold turkey signing up, I told the instructor that I was going to do 5x5. At that point, I just stepped off the train to Auschwitz so I believed him when he said "no you cannot start with free weights, you will have to build some stamina and strength first, it's like stepping in a Ferrari when you barely have your license".
So he made a routine for me which involved machines which had a 1 to 12 grading system (no weight visible). I followed that routine for like a month after which I got a new one which involved actual machines (pretty much same routine but now with weights adjustable).
A month after that he got me on a new routine which involves machines with much more flexibility in the weights. The machines all have names on them, but I just memorized the cycle I am following, not the names of the workout (the machines are branded "hammer strength" is what I remember). I am doing that for something like a month now.
So over that time span of a few months, I made great increments in weight being able to pull/lift and according to their scale I also put on circa 5 kilos of muscle without growing in bf%. I still look a bit from ottermode but I feel stronger, look better without shirt and I enjoy going to the gym.
In the first week of January I will have a new meeting. What do you think of all this? Is this bad progress? Is the instructor right? He isn't anti-freeweights as I have seen him training and he does only freeweights (squats, dls, ohp et cetera). So what should I say to him?
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>>35296312
You should definitely be able to do freeweights by now. Actually, no real reason you shouldn't have been able to do freeweights at the start. Maybe a little bodyweight to master the form before you go in there fucking your shit up, but within like a week MAX you shoulda been on dumbbells at least. Squatting/DLing the bar and whatnot.
Honestly, your trainer may not have your best interests in mind. The longer you need him and his instruction, the longer he makes money, so it's profitable to try to make you progress as slow as possible. Not all trainers are like that and it depends on how the gym pays them for sure, but if you have a slow gym with few new signups and he gets individually paid for his time with you, he could be purposely fucking you over.
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>>35296312
Sounds like he doesn't want to spend time teaching you how to do free weights, so he just puts you on a boring machine circuit instead.
Just do 5x5. You don't need a personal trainer anyway.
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>>35296373
You dun waisted months op
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what's the quickest way to lose muscle? i'm on 1400 cal/day and i do 40 minutes of cardio 4 times a week. is there anything i can take? i can't do it any more brehs, dysmorphia got to me.
>select all images of steak
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>>35296308
Just stop any kind of strenght exercise. Consider also that too much cardio will consume your tissues but at the same time keep you very thin. You might want to do normal diet to get a bit of fat and hide muscles while they go down. It will take time
What body do you have? Did you roid?
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>cardio makes you lose muscle
well meme'd my fellow fitness enthusiast :^)
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>>35296395
Extreme cardio consumes muscolar tissues. I'm not talking about simple running mate.
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We look so much better when we are tanned. Our muscles look bigger and more defined. But winter comes and then fucks our shit up.
How do we stay tanned in the winter?
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go to a tanning salon...?
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>>35296306
Hnnnnngggg
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>>35296310
Have you ever done it? How bad is it exactly for you?
Do chicks fart?
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>>35296283
Back to >>>/r9k/
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>>35296283
Launching farts in my face
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Help me define 'making it'
Define making it in less than 2 sentences
Or
List things that someone who has made it does or can do
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>>35296185
"Making it" is a meme basically means becoming attractive and popular with the opposite gender.
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>>35296578
same gender too.
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>>35296610
No homo tho
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What are some /fit/ approved snacks for Friday evening?
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>>35295641
>köper inte original Gifflar
top kek
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Jerky
Greek Yogurt
smoked salmon
Fruits
Celery
Carrots
Kale
Peanuts
Deli meats
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>>35295641
>original Giffar
Top kek
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This motherfucker is like on coke or something doing god damn backflips after each rep of deadlifts.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LfopcXzN48E
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>>35295533
hes just compensating
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>>35295533
It's literally just showing out. I know a guy who does this stuff and always posts it. It's very impressive to those that don't know much about basic gymnastics or tricking.
A back tuck is not hard at all. It's actually very basic, and most athletes can learn it in about an hour. I've taught a 220lb builtfat how to do one in an hour. No coke required. You won't even lose height or get tired of back tucks from the deadlift unless your doing some very high volume.
For his size that verticle height is pretty good.
That said, I don't blame him. It feels great to do stuff like that, but it's just look-at-me bait.
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>>35295533
>i watch mark bells youtube videos
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My gf has been scouted by a (respectable) model agency, she was told had potential but needed to work on her measurements. I've already made sure she's dieting and exercising properly, and right now I'm looking into all this water retention stuff which body builders do before contest.
My question is are those methods viable for slimming down and what other tips do you guys have for her?
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>>35295491
post pic of your GF or we cant help you
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>>35295491
What are her measurements and what did they tell her to work on?
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>>35295491
Honestly, modelling is absolutely shit tier. Don't let your gf get dragged in. It's a horrible job.
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did those for the first time yesterday and really felt my upper back and traps.
What kind of pushups would you recommend?
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No one needs push ups Fgt
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>>35295318
> weighted dips meme
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>>35295235
Pseudo planche pushups
Vid and pic related https://youtu.be/IJK_wU4UVw4
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If a woman went on a caloric deficit would she lose her ass if it was mostly muscle or just mainly flab
No lifting / cardio outside of cooking /cleaning chasing kids ...
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>>35295121
Stop being lazy and looking for easy ways out
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>>35295121
Completely genetics dependent.
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>>35295121
Sick of that fedora graphic. Not a real knot and will come untied in two seconds if you do anything athletic. No wonder fedoras use it on second thought
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according to Hollywood, this is now "incredibly ripped"
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>>35294992
It's crazy to think there's someone out there right now buying one of these magazines with the belief that they have good information.
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>>35294992
I need to know the secrets of red hot sex OP
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>>35294992
Where does it say "incredibly ripped"? He is just someone who is in good enough shape that most average men would consider his body to be an improvement over their own condition. I don't think anyone who is seriously building muscle would base their routine on these magazines.
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>"I don't do squats every workout"
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>I'm still doing a full body beginner program / i just want to train the movement, not the msucles
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>>35294821
>I use my car to go to the gym or shopping
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>>35294821
>I have a leg day
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Has anyone here taken the Ottermode Challenge?
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Fuck it that seems a fun thing to try
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>>35294789
Gee, Bill, looks like a shittily designed, one-size-fists-all program.
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why not just lift weights instead of doing these stupid bodyweight shit?
with perfect diet and doing this gay ass shit for 1-2 years you might get a body that you'd get by going to the gym for 3-5 months with a decent diet, oh and by going to the gym you'll be also 2-4x stronger by then
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>Be fat since teens and getting fatter
>Parents give me shit for it (even though I literally lived on only their food and they are fat too)
>Friends give me shit for it
>Pretty much everyone that I've been closed to has given me shit for it
>Go to first semester of uni 3000 miles away
>Discover keto and 4 months later I'm only 15 lbs overweight instead of 40-50
>Come back home today for winter break
>Everyone notices and asks me what I did
>Just tell them I cooked my own food and didn't go into specifics (they think fat and cholesterol is the devil)
>Parents drive me home from the airport, ask me if I want some fast food
>At this point I have 0 sugar cravings and eat pretty close to 0 carbs a day so I say no thank you (couldn't do that 4 months ago)
>Come home and open fridge
>White Bread
>Rice
>Pasta
>Meat bathed in some sugary tomato sauce
>No wonder I was fat all of these years
>Too afraid to tell them I pretty much only consume fatty meat, cheese, eggs, and water and literally stuff myself every meal(used to eat some veggies but I do fine without them and they aren't worth what I paid for them in calories)
>However they will be mad if I spend my own money to by my own food but I refuse to eat their carby shit and get fat again
>I know they will give me shit if I tell them
>I plan on eating this way for the rest of my life due to the fact my health and energy is the best it has ever been in my life
Should I tell them I have fallen for the keto meme? My dad has T2 diabetes and high blood pressure and I strongly believe he could be taken off of most of his medication or completely reverse his conditions if he ate the way I did.
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>>35294748
Stop being a fucking pussy
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Out of curiosity, what does your daily meal plan look like OP?
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>>35294748
Filthy weabooooo degenerate scum.
Tfw only 6'4.
Wish I was 6'6-6'9.
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>>35294678
6'6 reporting in, it's ok i guess.
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>>35294678
>yfw 6 manlet
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>>35294810
same
let's JUST kill ourselves tbvh