>Left: July 2023
>Right: March 2024
8 months of lifting and I still look dyel and not aesthetic.
WTF am I doing wrong?
Advice Needed
>Left: July 2023
>Right: March 2024
8 months of lifting and I still look dyel and not aesthetic.
WTF am I doing wrong?
1. Not eating enough (protein)
2. Not training hard enough
Well I’m definitely eating enough because I track it everyday and get between 120-180g per day.
As far as training…maybe. I’m working out each muscle group twice per week and train with hypertrophy 3 sets of 8-12 reps. Though, my weight numbers still aren’t impressive because it’s taking me a lot of time to increase the weight of my lifts.
>hypertrophy 3 sets of 8-12 reps
try 8-10 sets
yeah wow your 3x8 140lb bench isnt doing you any favors man
just fricking do a real 5x5 routine til 2plate, jesus
you shuold already be benching 200 for 5s
Ok. You just said yourself you're not lifting seriously. The frick else do you want us to tell you?
b-b-b-but OP's boomer dad told him 'yep...this is what coach had us doing in high school in the 90s. 3 sets of 10 is all you need son you dont wanna break your back like one of them powie lifters'
What about total caloric intake?
Also: progressive overload. Don’t pressure yourself but you should see every few weeks a noticeable increase. Requires tracking.
You NEED to push your limit without injury or overtraining.
Try a set to positive failure. Try slow eccentric, try myo reps.
>it’s taking me a lot of time to increase the weight of my lifts.
Just increase them homosexual. You should train to failure, but you should train to get very fricking close to it. Ditch the 12 reps, keep 10 maximum. 3x10 for isolation, 4x8 for compound (big ones). Increase at least 1kg every two days of trainning. Eat something with suggar 20minutes before like a slice of bread with jelly
you look better
keep doing it
Lifting is a great way to build strength but not really good for aesthetics unless you’re doing some very serious cuts at your current body fat percentage.
you forgot to lift heavy
Progressive overload. Don't be afraid to push your limits. Also, track your big lifts. Did the memes here convince you that you'd look like Thor after 8 months of diet and exercise?
Nothing. You have been lifting for 8 months you absolute fricking moron.
>WTF am I doing wrong?
not taking steroids
Do pull ups you homosexual
natty lifting does nothing
its roids or nothing. now you know
big roid must be really hurting for money if you have to bully people into buying from you, sheesh
actually im doing people a favor, youre the one gaslightning rookies into thinking that natty lifting will take them anywhere ever
there are natty lifters who lift for decades and dont even gain a single pound of muscle
it cant be said enough times that natty lifting does absolutely nothing. infact natty lifting will just make you fatter because the activity of lifting increases your metabolism and makes you hungrier, like OP all that happened to him was fat gain, zero muscle
it could easily be argued that not lifting is better than lifting natty
Enjoy your early death moron
shut your mouth beta
Bro, you’re literally injecting male hormones into your body because you’re such an effeminate b***h that you can’t make any progress naturally. YOU ARE THE BETA.
To attract prostitutes maybe but you can get strong and aesthetician natty
hey man, dont be so down on yourself. Something did happen, you got fatter. Thats a form of progress right?
natty lifting does nothing btw
Your routine and diet are both dogshit.
>WTF am I doing wrong?
not being patient. but hey im glad another person found out that building muscle isnt easy at all, and genetics are like 90% of it. and no, /fraud/ing isnt gonna help as much as you think. if you aint got the genetics for it then you aint got the genetics for it lol. you know like every other single one of us?
welcome to the club. and keep up the good work, ignore the gains goblins trying to get you to do different shit in hopes of "getting gains faster" they are DYEL and dont even work out.
Youre clearly eating more than you need & you aren't getting enough protein, I would assume.
Hard to know what you're doing wrong since you didn't post your routine, but if you aren't at least sweating by the end of your gym sesh, shit at the end of each exercise, you aren't working hard enough
the only drawback to steroids are that most of are too weak to handle the side effects, which means you are basically forced to be a natty lifter for life
which means eventually youll give up lifting entirely because the gains will never come. youll probably gain like 7kg of fat before that tho and maybe 200 grams of actual contractile muscle tissue *best case scenario*
Lifting for aesthetics isnt for everyone, roids are brutal on the body and on the mind, but they are the prequisite for attaining anything worthwhile when it comes to lifting
you forgot to lift bro
Ur not wprking out u spend ur time at the gym looking at ur phone and people who are actually training
you have trash genetics.
The frick are you lifting? Your fork to your mouth?
Diet imbalance anon. Too much carbs and/or fats and low protein.
Your going to have to try something else mate.
Try to replicate what you were doing when you liked your phsique.