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how do people that train for size get motivated?
I started going to the gym in September, my muscles have barely increased in size and no noticeable difference is there to be honest. My lifts however, yes. I could barely do 30kg deadlifts when I started and now I can pull off 100 kg for 5 reps without a problem.
I, too, started training for size, I thought I'd get those muscles and look good pretty soon. But this was not and is not happening. It will take ages. Strength however? Oh my God, without seeing my lifts go up week by week (this started really happening when I began SS 1 month ago), I would have given up a couple of months after beginning.
So yeah my question is, how do people get motivated when their entire reason is size and nothing else? Doing all those high volume machine exercises seems so boring as fuck, just seeing someone doing anything but barbel exercises makes me want to vomit out of boredom.
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because if you are not natty they get the same muscle progress and a natty noob gets in strength gains. but specifically lifting for it as a natty? enjoy your 5+ year grind that will end in disappointment.
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>>40423398
have you tried eating more
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>>40423398
you didn't increase in size because you did a shit routine, put in a shit effort, and you're a clueless newfag with garbage genetics who won't make it
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>>40423589
t.skinnyfat
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i am much superior than the ""bros"" at the gym who train for ""size"", i do a routine i found on the internet with almost no volume that will make me very strong very fast *tips fedora*
and then, a year later, the guys training with higher volume aiming for size look better than you and smoke you at upper body lifts
not sure where this meme came from that lifting for strength and lifting for size are totally different things, or that lifting for size entails a bunch of cable machine work for 2 hours with sets of 30
http://www.strongerbyscience.com/powerlifters-should-train-more-like-bodybuilders/
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>>40423398
>I could barely do 30kg deadlifts when I started
It's impossible for you to get motivated, because even if you literally pull 6 times your starting point, you'll still be only mediocre.
Consider getting other hobbies.
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it's been like 5 months, keep lifting, eating, and getting stronger. there's nothing wrong with just doing strength routines, but i find it gets really boring. i did SS for like 6 months and realized i liked doing isolation exercises. gets you a good pump and honestly i think it improves your physique a fair bit.
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>>40423714
by lifting for size i imagine that progress is measured by how larger the muscles look in the mirror, which is stupid.
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>>40423398
>strength training
>highbar
never gonna make it
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