What do you do between sets?

vape

Fucking rest.

But if so much time should be attributed to rest, why don't I see the majority of people just doing nothing in the weights area?

>>40523836
This, just vaporized 8ml of preworkout.

>>40523832
Home gym here. I basically watch some shit on my TV while I lift and rest.

pros:
I can lift more and it isn't boring
can finally watch the stuff I else never have time to

cons:
whenever I have to laugh while training I am lacking a proper form

2 min Fap for testosterone gains

>>40523858

>tfw you just rest and not Fucking rest

>>40523832
dyel cat lmao

I do a mini recovery cycle. I eat couple of meals and sleep good 8-9 hours to recover fully.

>>40523908
post pic faggot

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>>40523916

>>40523923
#DESTROYED

I use to just look at my phone in between for my first few years lifting.

Recently I started approaching people near me, introducing myself and having a quick chat.

I thought I hated socialising but now that I've started doing it more often I'm beginning to like it. Now I actually know a lot of people at my gym instead of being the autistic mute.

I spoke to 3 new people today, actually had decent interactions.

I'm definitely what they would call a "hard case" in that I was shut in for 10 years playing World of Warcraft. Feels like I'm slowly turning into a normalfag now, socialising gets easier and easier. Who knows I might actually start going out to social places soon, maybe level up my social skills in the gym abit more first!

>>40523832
Go to bathroom and take major poo.

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Stare at myself in the mirror with a lifeless look on my face

>>40523956
this makes me happy

>>40523956
Good on ya, anon

>years of commercial gym
>used to look at my phone or just look at the ground with headphones on
>join a niche powerlifting gym due to being tired of only 1 rack and deadlift platform
>tried the whole headphones and looking at my phone the first day
>felt 100% wrong and everyone was talking while working out
>never used my headphones again
>shoot the shit between sets
>some big guys giving me pointers on form, just small stuff like my arms being too close during OHP
>some girl telling me how to do proper strongman lifts
Really good stuff. I'd fucking hate to go back to a commercial gym.

>>40523832
Talk with gym buddies.

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browse /fit/

I jam out with my headphones on

>>40523832
>the DeleCATS dahnald

Stare at the ceiling/floor.

>>40523832
Sit down and breathe heavy. Or changing weights on BB/DB's.

>homegym masterrace

>>40524351
Wish I had one of those where I live. Best we have here is a metroflex, but the place is full of wannabes and it's obnoxious

>>40523832
Piss, shit and drink water.

Look at my phone while yawning and taking sips of water from the fountain in my basketball shorts after I do OHP in the squat rack on leg day.

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>>40523956

>just sit there and listen to music
>worry about if im going to be able to lift the next set
>read books on my phone

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>he needs to rest at all

weak lmao

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>>40523832
track my lifts on my phone

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>>40525192
Sets are plural because there's rest
1/10 made me reply, have a brap

>>40523832
Smoke cigs.

>>40523956
congrats anon, i've been here too, keep up the good work

Home gym here.

Dance to the song I'm listening to. Usually bumps my heart rate but I can't resist.

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>Browse twitter on my phone
>focus on the book/podcast Im listening to
>Think about if I should try to set a new pr

smoke ciggies in the boneyard with Big P and the boys while looking for dyel to terrorize

Read articles from the Jacobin. Link them priorities.

>>40524351
Just described how ass my community center is. 1 rack, no platforms
Are there such things as niche gyms like this with running tracks? I got me a lot of hate for cardio machines

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>>40523836
Kys my man. Unless you vape ironically, in that case my b

>>40526386
>Are there such things as niche gyms like this with running tracks?
No. You can run anywhere you want to, no need to do it at the game.

Drink water

>>40523832

read Hegel

Am i the only one who listens to audiobooks in the gym?

>Mental Gains alongside Physical Gains

>>40526552
>not having a motorized cock-pump to suck you off lift

I will admit though sometimes people wonder why there's a *whirring* noise and something is flapping about under my shorts. They're just mirin' though.

>>40523836
kek

I take the panties I stole from my roommate and huff them like an inhaler

>>40523832
Sauna.

thnik about life

Autistically stare at the wall, hoping people won't look at me

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>>40524351
>Not a single PL gym in my entire city

reeeeeEEEEEEEE

>>40523956
>I'm still stuck in the WoW hole
>I got a home gym instead of a gym membership
>Making good progress working out and running, but still socially inept

I literally said "you too" to a neighbor that said he was impressed with my progress when I ran into him while running yesterday. Just kill me.

>>40523832
I do another set of increased weight. Makes my working sets seem a lot easier.

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Snapchat to your spat hoes, DUH!!!

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>>40523832

I play shitty Japanese mobile games

>>40523832

I usually yawn, take a sip from my water bottle, or look at the ground.

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>>40523878

Because the majority of people in gyms (I'm talking like above 95%) never push themselves, they think that going 'too far' is bad, and they lift the same 5 pounds dumbbells for the 3-4 months they bother going to the gym.

In every gym there's never going to be more than one, maybe two guys at a time who are actually on routines that require 5-minute rests

>>40527765
People doing 5-10lb puzzle me. Especially fat people. If they're successful they're going to be moving less weight over time instead of more.

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>>40523858
>Resting between sets

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>>40529357
That's why OP said setS you fuckwit.

>>40523956
Sounds awful
I've been at the same gym for over 2 years and I don't even make when contact with the other regulars

>>40529372
Eye contact*

>What do you do between sets?
I look down at my feet, then look up at the ceiling because I avoid chats with people. I also don't ever look at people's face when I'm walking around the gym, it's annoying. People try their hardest to make a long eye contact as we are walking by but I always look away or look at my phone.

I look at gifs of high-test women until I get a throbbing cock.

>>40523836
This
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zx75Z1OOnAQ

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>>40529370
Not doing only one set per exercise with no rest between

>>40529855
>stop liking what I don't like

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>>40523832
read a book

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>>40526359
kek

>>40523832
>What do you do between sets?
pace around and feel my hairline while I worry that the added test and dht from lifting is most certainly making me go bald

look at the ground

>>40530077
...are you me? I swear I fucking do this a thousand times a day, slowly feeling my hairline give way. I dont wanna be bald /fit/, help me

Collect phone numbers

thousand-yard stare x F

>>40523832


EMOTM : take a drink & mark which set I'm on
EOMOTM : since these are heavier, pray for death
30s rest : check to see if still alive, then next set

5-10 minute rests : lay on floor dead for 3-8 minutes, slowly get up, setup for next set

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>>40524825
I dont remember making this post wtf?!

>>40530140
>baldness is actually caused by insecure betas rubbing their hairlines down

rly makes u ponder

>>40527692
>you too
I am a social guy and comfortable around people, but I still say this shit regulary.

>between sets

I count to 15 or 30 in my head depending how tired I feel, what the fuck kind of vacation are you taking between sets?

>>40532453
>15-30 second rests

Found the NYR lifter.

>>40532483
Nah I'm just not trying to spend an hour doing 1 lift.

>>40532508
It's objective that if you only need 15-30 seconds rest then your weight isn't heavy enough.

>>40532556
It's objective that your DYEL as fuck if you need to rest between sets for longer than a minute.

>>40523832
I put back my equipment and take out the equipment I need for my next set.

>>40523832
Stare into the abyss.

Stretch

Monitor my heartrate and breathing, contemplate form, check my rest timer on my phone, drink water. Only check phone if 5 minute rest period. No headphones, they get in the way and i dont want them affecting my balance.

Every now and then i catch myself in the mirror and notice how old, balding, and unimpressive I look. But then i snap back to thinking about form.

>>40523836
I vape creatine

>>40523881
kek

I play with my semi-chubby until I'm hard, it's fun edging between sets, then going back to doing a set and picking up where I left off.

Sometimes I tuck it in my waistband and go and do bench presses, my shirt hikes up just enough for the tip to peek out ever so slightly it looks like a slip.

I either look at my phone or, if there's a grill nearby, pretend to look at my phone but actually look at her bum in the mirror.

>>40524351
Only decent thing about the city I moved to is the locally owned gym. Literally a hole in the wall and machines and free weight area are cramped as fuck.

It's literally comfy as shit and it's a close knit community. Wouldn't trade it for the fucking world

They even have a functional strength room and a boxing ring stuffed into their respected corners

Shit's fucking fantastic

>>40532629
Wanna know how I can tell you started lifting in 2017?

>>40526359
/r/ing this pasta

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>not supersetting everything

>>40523832
I do supersets so in between sets I'm doing another set

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>>40533168
Hells yeah. WE know what's up
>mein negger

>>40532962
Show pics

>>40523832
Drink water and walk around if the equipment I'm using is occupied. I've got a little card with my program on it that I have with me at the gym so I sometimes pretend to study that instead of just staring into space austistically.

>>40526346
>book/podcast

BROTHA

>>40523832
sips

>>40523832
Read the sticky

>>40523956

When I play hearthstone I great and say well played to the others, it makes the game easier when you feel like you want others to succeed and they reciprocate.

We all gonna make bre,

>>40529298

You have to keep in mind that they do retarded 10-15 rep sets that always leave them tired and feeling a 'burn' (even though it's just tiredness)

From the uneducated point of view, the weight is fine because it's 'working', but they don't know any better

>>40532629
>T. cardio workout

>>40523956
Nice to see some people in the same boat as me!

Though I find people usually approach me since I'm a skeleton who low bar squats 115kg which is more than 95% of the free weight users.

Normally I'm autistic as fuck but I've had nearly a dozen conversations with my squat form as the starting point. People usually ask for tips, a lot of people don't even know the difference between low bar and high bar so it makes talking easy when I can give them a shit ton of advice. Then after that whenever I see the same face we can catch up and it just flows naturally.

We're gonna make it, lads.

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>>40523836
This. Vaping is cool.

Walk around, talk with my friend, put things back in place

>>40523832
i sit or load up the bar for the next set

>#noheadphonemasterrace

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>>40523832
I play memestone

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>>40536100
I wonder what legendaries are on /pol/