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>> No. 5175 Anonymous
10th May 2020
Sunday 11:00 pm
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I'm relatively new to weight training. How much would you need to lift to have a body similar to Mac's? I know the aim is to continually increase the amount you can lift but I've genuinely no idea when looking at various physiques how much they'd roughly be able to and it'd be nice to have a mental benchmark to be working towards.

Thanks, lads.
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>> No. 5431 Anonymous
25th August 2020
Tuesday 11:03 am
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>>5430 I'm assuming you know there's a good word for this, but chose not to use it?
callipygous - pertaining to or having finely developed buttocks; "the quest for the callipygian ideal"
>> No. 5432 Anonymous
25th August 2020
Tuesday 11:07 am
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>>5431
>> No. 5433 Anonymous
25th August 2020
Tuesday 11:13 am
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>>5432

Even she's a bit flat, but my view is probably distorted by implants and pornography.
>> No. 5434 Anonymous
25th August 2020
Tuesday 11:18 am
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>>5433
You can see wear marks. It'll have been rubbed down over time.
>> No. 5435 Anonymous
25th August 2020
Tuesday 11:20 am
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>>5433

The Greeks thought that flat arses were noble, like small willies.
>> No. 5436 Anonymous
25th August 2020
Tuesday 11:39 am
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>>5431
Did not know that word, thank you!
>> No. 5437 Anonymous
27th August 2020
Thursday 8:58 pm
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I saw this on Youtube and thought about the Nippard talk earlier in this thread.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vZta2vp1fkk
>> No. 5438 Anonymous
27th August 2020
Thursday 9:01 pm
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>>5437
The thumbnail doesn't convey it. You need to see them side by side when they're sitting at the table.
>> No. 5439 Anonymous
27th August 2020
Thursday 11:48 pm
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>>5437
What do they mean by a "natural" lifter?

Is that someone who isn't using supplements/drugs or what else?
>> No. 5440 Anonymous
27th August 2020
Thursday 11:53 pm
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>>5439

Exactly that, it tends to mean those who don't use steroids.
>> No. 5441 Anonymous
28th August 2020
Friday 12:57 am
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>>5440
I found out recently that there is a rabid, loony sub section of the fitness community that sees using whey or creatine as cheating not just steroids.
>> No. 5442 Anonymous
28th August 2020
Friday 1:29 pm
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>>5441

vegans are everwhere mate.
>> No. 5443 Anonymous
28th August 2020
Friday 1:29 pm
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>>5442

*everywhere
>> No. 5466 Anonymous
5th September 2020
Saturday 4:50 pm
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Can someone explain the deal with steroids? As someone entering the long dark thirties and gaining belly fat and erectile dysfunction and the like, I naturally want to understand The Reason for this and I'm told it's because of a natural decrease in testosterone production. OK that's fine, but death is also 'natural' and that doesn't mean we don't use modern medical science to try and avoid it.

So would it really be harmful to 'top up' with a little bit of androgen when you get to this age to try and emulate your twenties? Aren't most of the side effects and dangers the result of mentally ill teenagers overdosing?
>> No. 5467 Anonymous
5th September 2020
Saturday 5:50 pm
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>>5466
I can hear this post in the voice of almost any Always Sunny character.
>> No. 5468 Anonymous
5th September 2020
Saturday 6:36 pm
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>>5466
It gives you acne, not just in your face but all over your body. It makes your balls shrink.

Taking steroids are only useful if you plan on getting massive or put on lean muscle fast, they aren't to be taken lightly. Taking them increase the size of your internal organs, straining them, and causes you cells to divide more often shortening your life.

If you have belly fat and ED, exercise and fast. I recommend OMEOD until the fat is gone then OMAD with a 20/4 fast cycle. When you do eat, keep the carbs to a minimum and get your calories in those 4 hours. Take vit c and zinc, stop drinking/smoking/masturbating and drink plenty of water.
>> No. 5469 Anonymous
5th September 2020
Saturday 6:55 pm
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>>5468
OK but you can explain why all these side effects happen? Is it because there's no such thing as testosterone that is the same as that produced by your body? Is it because there is fundamentally no way of taking it that would not suppress that produced by your body? Why are my organs growing and my balls shrinking supposedly due to taking a supplement when they weren't doing that when my natural hormone level was at its maximum?
>> No. 5470 Anonymous
5th September 2020
Saturday 7:06 pm
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>>5469
>my balls shrinking

This seems like a good reason not to take it.

Testosterone supplements seem like a curously American thing, along with extreme hair transplants. I get why people do steroids I suppose, though would never do it. Why not just embrace growing old gracefully?
>> No. 5471 Anonymous
5th September 2020
Saturday 7:23 pm
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>>5466
The negatives outweigh the benefits lad and there's no point taking it in your 30's unless you're really into bodybuilding. You can go through your 30's without having those worries, it just requires exercise being a regularly part of your lifestyle as well as making generally healthy choices like not smoking or drinking excessively, after that 90% of the battle is in the kitchen.
>> No. 5472 Anonymous
5th September 2020
Saturday 7:36 pm
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>>5471
>You can go through your 30's without having those worries
The implication being it's fine to go on steroids once you hit your forties?
>> No. 5473 Anonymous
5th September 2020
Saturday 7:47 pm
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>>5472

By your forties it doesn't matter any more because you can start shagging 19 year old girls with daddy issues who like you purely because you've got a proper car and can afford to take them for dinner at places other than Nandos.
>> No. 5474 Anonymous
5th September 2020
Saturday 7:54 pm
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>>5473

I feel like I've started on this at thirty. It'll have to be girls with grandad issues within the decade.
>> No. 5475 Anonymous
5th September 2020
Saturday 9:19 pm
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>>5473

True that. But if you have a body like I have in OP's picture like I have at 47 the hypergamy is unreal. But 19 year olds in your 40's is wrong, most of them are mentally unstable and you're just taking advantage.
>> No. 5476 Anonymous
5th September 2020
Saturday 9:32 pm
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>>5475

I'd rather just cut loose and enjoy the ale and bacon butties if I'm not using the fruits of my labour to shag fitties half my age. Being built just for the sake of it feels a bit narcissistic, but then I am a committed hedonist so my feelings might be alien to you.
>> No. 5477 Anonymous
5th September 2020
Saturday 11:06 pm
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>>5475

>and you're just taking advantage.

What do you think the 19 year old girl shagging a 40 year old bloke just because he has a nice BMW and some money is doing?
>> No. 5478 Anonymous
5th September 2020
Saturday 11:33 pm
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>>5477

Hypergamy ladm7
>> No. 5479 Anonymous
6th September 2020
Sunday 1:09 am
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>>5476

>I am a committed hedonist so my feelings might be alien to you

Not at all. Been there and done it, found it boring.
>> No. 5480 Anonymous
6th September 2020
Sunday 1:09 am
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>>5478

Fuck off out of here with that shite.
>> No. 5481 Anonymous
6th September 2020
Sunday 1:25 am
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>>5480
I knew his lot were around today. You can smell them if you've got the nose for it.
>> No. 5877 Anonymous
24th August 2021
Tuesday 9:39 am
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I've started going to the gym since I got my second vaccination.

I used to be in alright shape in my twenties, but have neglected my body in recent years.

I've been trying to eat a caloric surplus to build muscle but I am getting mad night sweats as a result. Like I don't feel particularly warm at any point through the night, but I wake up to drenched pillows pretty consistently. If I eat based on my appetite I don't experience the sweats, so I'm pretty confident it's just due to the diet and not something else more sinister.

I'd like to stop this because it would be well awk if I have a girl sleeping in my bed and it happens.

Also I was eating that Bulk brand gainer but have recently switched over to Mutant Mass the latter being the most obnoxiously marketed protein I could find. Apparently the two shakes are pretty much identical in terms of nutritional content, but the Mutant Mass feels so much thinner. Why? I thought it was maybe that the Bulk one was using more fibre, but even this number is pretty consistent across the two products.
>> No. 5878 Anonymous
24th August 2021
Tuesday 10:11 am
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>>5877
>feels so much thinner
They didn't put as much thickening agent in.

Just eat more normal food, skinnylad.
>> No. 5899 Anonymous
18th September 2021
Saturday 2:46 pm
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My workout app rotates through focus areas (arm & shoulder, back & chest, abs, leg) each "session", so I was going to do one every weekday, maybe more than once if I have the time and energy.

But there's some crossover in the exercises it'll tell you to do. So I might end up doing renegade rows (for example) five days in a row. There's no guarantee of a rest day for that muscle until the weekend.

Would it be best to:
A) Continue doing a session every weekday, never mind the occasional repeats.
B) Only work out M/T/W but do the same session twice (or more) each day.
C) Only work out M/T/W but do more than one, different sessions following the app's rotation.
D) Other?

The added complication is that none of these are cardio or very hard on the legs so I've been alternating runs and weighted marches on week days, but if those both use too many of the same muscles it's probably not ideal.
>> No. 5900 Anonymous
18th September 2021
Saturday 3:44 pm
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>>5899

It strikes me as suboptimal to entrust your training to a workout app that randomises the exercise. If your goal is to grow muscle as efficiently as possible, it's really better to have some sort of structured programme with hypertrophy in mind.

It's okay to target muscles more than once per week (it happens with most compound movements), but unless you're really trying to focus on a skill (e.g. getting your bench press form right) doing the same exercise repeatedly in the same week has diminishing returns.
>> No. 6040 Anonymous
13th February 2022
Sunday 4:32 pm
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>>5900

I want to correct myself in this old post, actually doing the same exercise multiple times per week is very good for certain purposes. Overall volume is a good driver of growth for muscle growth, it seems.

Basically, I'm wrong, and I'd be interested to know how your programme turned out in the end.
>> No. 6041 Anonymous
13th February 2022
Sunday 4:40 pm
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>>6040
No visible change to my eyes but I lost around 10kg and now get more attention/compliments, that I work out is apparently noticeable in my physique. It was in November anyway, I've paused for the winter.
>> No. 6044 Anonymous
13th February 2022
Sunday 9:11 pm
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>>6041
How much stronger have you gotten on the big three (squat, bench, deadlift)?
>> No. 6045 Anonymous
13th February 2022
Sunday 9:51 pm
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Any point doing weights if I am obese? Or should I just stick to cardio and dieting until I come back down? What good programmes are out there?
>> No. 6046 Anonymous
13th February 2022
Sunday 10:01 pm
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>>6045

>Any point doing weights if I am obese?

Yes. Making new muscle requires huge amounts of energy, so a couple of weightlifting sessions per week will increase the amount of calories you burn even while you're sleeping.

>What good programmes are out there?

There's a lot of snobbery about it, but Starting Strength is as good an introduction as anything else.
>> No. 6047 Anonymous
13th February 2022
Sunday 10:12 pm
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>>6044
The app doesn't say.
>> No. 6048 Anonymous
13th February 2022
Sunday 10:16 pm
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>>6046
Thank you mate. For reference, I can't even do a bench press with an empty bar. So I will try Starting Strength and maybe substitute bench with barbells or something.
>> No. 6049 Anonymous
13th February 2022
Sunday 11:47 pm
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>>6048
Start with dumbbells. They go much lower, you can work on your form, and it's a better way to notice and fix and imbalances that you might have since your wanking arm can't help out your other one.
>> No. 6066 Anonymous
22nd February 2022
Tuesday 11:26 am
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z9-zZNtpBDI
>> No. 6067 Anonymous
22nd February 2022
Tuesday 11:45 am
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>>6066
It's a joke right? It was ridiculous to start with when he "lifted 1 tonne", but given the litany of clips he can't be doing it seriously.
>> No. 6068 Anonymous
22nd February 2022
Tuesday 5:07 pm
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>>6066

The aim of this seems to be damaging gym equipment, than anything.
>> No. 6106 Anonymous
29th April 2022
Friday 12:24 pm
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Are there any sort of, well not couch to 5k but that sort of thing but about doing press-ups or other home exercises starting from zero and gradually progressing that you lads would recommend? If that makes sense?
>> No. 6107 Anonymous
29th April 2022
Friday 1:07 pm
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>>6106
Whatever you do, do it every day. I don't have any specific details but that's the most important thing.
>> No. 6108 Anonymous
29th April 2022
Friday 1:12 pm
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>>6107
Aren't you meant to have rest days?
>> No. 6109 Anonymous
29th April 2022
Friday 1:55 pm
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>>6106

An app called Thenics is good, it's built mainly around learning skills (e.g. how to do a planche), but gives you video examples and structured workouts of progressive difficulty. This is probably the closest thing to what you're looking for.

If you just want a load of ready-to-go workouts, I really like the following YouTube channels.

This guy's videos are deceptively hard and are really well-designed follow-along workouts. He gives some indication of the time and intensity in the video titles:


If you like martial arts, there's a good few options for good follow-along workouts. Boxing burns loads of calories, and this one mixes in bodyweight movements. You can start out with the 3 - 6 round workouts just to get into it. As a warning, though, the ones where he throws in burpees at the end of the round are an absolute killer:


>>6108

Sorry if this is a bit obvious, but how long you need to rest scales with how intense and damaging your workouts are. I'm familiar with powerlifting and bodybuilding programmes, and how many rest days are realistic for a certain level of volume is really well recorded there -- no idea about bodyweight stuff, though.

My guess is that bodyweight and calisthenics workouts generally require a bit less rest time unless you're doing something extreme.
>> No. 6157 Anonymous
25th May 2023
Thursday 8:00 pm
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I've just got some dumbbells and a load of weights, and a load of those resistance band things, what do I do wiv em?

I started doing a routine of some basic bodyweight squats, push ups and pull ups and stuff about the end of last year. I haven't stuck to it religiously, but I can feel a fair bit of difference to my stamina and overall strength. Just no idea what I'm actually meant to be doing to get more visual results.

The main thing I want to do is get a bit of muscle on my arms and chest, and then tone my belly to stop it protruding. I don't care about getting hench, just sick of being a scrawny nerd with noodle arms and a pot belly.
>> No. 6158 Anonymous
27th May 2023
Saturday 1:23 am
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>>6157
https://thefitness.wiki/muscle-building-101/

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