The Fitness Thread

[ssbmchamp]

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Me before ever setting foot in a gym: sorry this is the best old pic i can find that shows the general size of my body



Me approximately 2 years later:


I clearly don't know what I'm doing either and my routine yields no results...

[blindreper1179]

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Your shit's weak bro

[Trogdor!!!!]

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Damn, calling you out son

[ssbmchamp]

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Your shit's weak bro

Says the guy hiding behind his computer screen...

[kmay]

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calm down. no need for threats or hate. we all know i am the most athletic person in this thread, along with being in the best shape. so lets all just settle down before i need to break some faces.

[blindreper1179]

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Oh shit. Sorry kmay, don't come beat me up. =<

[kmay]

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atta boy. luv yew bby

[ssbmchamp]

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it isnt a contest as much as you may think that this is a cock showdown it rly isnt. you got results, good for you. if that works for you ok, but that doesn't mean you can't take it to the next level. as long as you keep pushing yourself you're ok

++ i dont think not being fat is something to be too overly proud of. its good to be proud of hardwork n all but we're all young here, that's maybe something you would be worrying about further down the line. this is a fitness thread 4 christ sake, not a look at me for not being fat im so cool thread


so would you guys keep your cool around here plz you hot headed freaks save it for the GYM

For the record I never said this was a "contest" nor am I trying to be or saying I'm cool. In short I said "this is what I do"...only to be pounced upon with everyone saying my way is dumb and, more or less, isn't efficient. I defended my case saying it actually does work and posted proof...If people didn't jump on my case so abruptly or simply say I was BS I wouldn't have got so defensive.

[Syhto]

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alright alright i removed my post cuz it was too premature

let the dudes settle this

[Senip]

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Alright, I'll give that a shot. Any good links for the types of exercises for each?

I think one of my main problems is that I'm relatively inexperienced and so I'm not sure if I am really getting a good workout, since I do maybe a few exercises until I'm tired and then peace out. Seems like I need to be doing like 8 different exercises per muscle group or something.

bodybuilding.com has a ton of vids for seeing how to do shit.

You do chest and bis on the same day?

Yeah, cause chest works your triceps, so I do something that isnt affected by it.

@ Kmay and SCWolf: I do not have a smart phone with a good camera but have a camera phone so maybe i'll try and get a pic with that

@Senip: I don't consider myself as a "beach bro" Instead i've got most peoples dream metabolism and body type AKA i literally eat/drink whatever i want whenever i want without gaining long-term weight and i VERY RARELY workout legs and back, yet mine are naturally stronger than easily 90% of people i see at the gym that do those muscle groups religiously. after seeing what happened with my bench after never doing it i'm thinking of trying that with back and legs and see if the same effect would happen.

I had that same problem, until I joined an actual gym with actual bodybuilders and powerlifters. I thought I was super strong too, until I found out that, well, no I'm not. You have to remember 90% of the people in the gym are already OUT of shape, and trying to get IN it. So...

Haha! "Undereating" that's about the last thing I'm doing man. If you or anyone saw how much how often i eat you would probably do a double take at how i'm not 300 pounds. It sounds like your "getting annoyed" because your body can't physically do the things mine can. Oh and I find this to be the funniest by far: "I give wrong information and insult one of the smartest people on the site" You really do have me laughing with this statement. Wanna know why? I'll tell you. If you put me in a line up with, let's say 20 random people that "workout, or are getting into working out (not knowing what they did to get their current physique) I would put any amount of money on it that majority of people that looked at this line up would pick me as their "ideal fitness goal" I know it sounds cocky but you know what, it's the truth. And it's also funny that you say my ways are wrong when I've gone up a $hit ton in everything doing things my way. In fact, how do we know your ways aren't wrong and mine are right? Pretty sure this argument favors the guy who's actually got very impressive results, just saying...

Trollface all around.


Honestly, people keep saying if you have a calorie deficit in your diet you wont gain muscle, but I've seen personal gains in myself and in others while doing it. So you can gain muscle, it's just not going to be like if you are at a calorie surplus.

Ya'll are being ridiculous as **** though about the whole I CANT GIVE ADVICE HURR LOOK AT MY RESULTS bullshit. SSBM, regardless of whether that is in fact you, a split like yours would do absolutely nothing for 95% of the people. My guess is you're just lying, because it absolutely baffles me that you claim the "results" you have...unless you're juicin, then yeah, I could see it. If you're juicin and you're only benching 350 though, wow, lol.

SC went from a stick to a not so stick, pretty impressive.



But always remember, oh you gurus of lifting:

[Reincarnate]

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Keep this thread in order, pl0x.

If you can achieve great shape with little exercise while eating a shitload of food -- cool. But don't go around spouting that as if it's viable advice, because odds are you're either neglecting to mention something important that recontextualizes the advice, or you're just flat-out lying. Either way, it's not helpful to this thread and just serves to perpetuate broscience-like reasoning.

Broscience almost always starts off with an appeal-to-authority fallacy, so let's please stick to the biology of things.

[SCWolf]

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Keep this thread in order, pl0x.

If you can achieve great shape with little exercise while eating a shitload of food -- cool. But don't go around spouting that as if it's viable advice, because odds are you're either neglecting to mention something important that recontextualizes the advice, or you're just flat-out lying. Either way, it's not helpful to this thread and just serves to perpetuate broscience-like reasoning.

Broscience almost always starts off with an appeal-to-authority fallacy, so let's please stick to the biology of things.

On that note, did you get your workout sorted?

[Reincarnate]

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Sort of -- it still feels like my workouts are ending too early and I haven't really pushed myself. I can't help but feel like I'm not doing enough exercises or something.

[Senip]

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Sort of -- it still feels like my workouts are ending too early and I haven't really pushed myself. I can't help but feel like I'm not doing enough exercises or something.

throw out a typical workout, dude. I write mine down in an online journal so I can keep track of everything.

one of the best things you can do though is find someone you see at the gym who works hard and work in with them: you'll learn lots and push yourself harder.

[Reach]

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Honestly, people keep saying if you have a calorie deficit in your diet you wont gain muscle, but I've seen personal gains in myself and in others while doing it. So you can gain muscle, it's just not going to be like if you are at a calorie surplus.

You're not talking about simply strength gains, are you? Because of course you can gain strength during a cut, but LBM? Unlikely, and not supported by research. How were you tracking your LBM during your cut and how do you know you were gaining?

I haven't read any research that shows it to be possible. Creation of LBM is only favored by the body in a state of caloric surplus where energy needs have already been met. I did read a study once where people completely green to any kind of exercise at all were put on slightly sub maintenance diets for their first month at the gym and saw small LBM gains, but that doesn't really apply to you.

Also were you on a continuous deficit? If you cycle cheat days with caloric surplus you can potentially gain a small amount of muscle during a cut for obvious reasons (this is essentially what lean gains attempts to do)