Can we finally just admit that the 2010s were a Dark Age of lifting culture where people unironically told sedentary 30yo office workers that just wanted to look good to start doing meme exercises like squatting and deadlifting with a spinal load of 300lb+ only to end up looking like shit anyways?
True hypertrophy training ftw
Yeah. It was a bit silly to have people immediately jump into doing almost exclusive compounds on LP programs trying to increase weight as often as possible rather than just GPP programs. I tried doing SS,SL etc. until my early 20s and kept getting injured despite being autistic with my form and not increasing weight as much as rec'd. I switched to a GPP program with a lot of volume and exercise variety and go up in weight when I feel like it. Eventually I'll switch to something that helps more with my sport or maybe try to get into oly lifting but for now I'm starting to look okay and haven't picked up any injuries.
>kept getting injured despite being autistic with my form
Barbell squats are such a terrible exercise. I can't believe I listened to IST and kept doing them without fully understanding how unnecessary they were for what I wanted out of lifting in the first place. Did me so much harm
>im going to go from having no weightlifting experience straight to the most technically difficult full body movement
Yep u deserved wasting your own time
>the people shitting on beginner strength programs are the same people who couldn’t figure out how to do a squat because it is too “technically difficult”
Shocking
Your method of training was not the problem. You’re a brainlet that didn’t know what he was training for or why, then you wimped out and switched to a do nothing program where you never meaningfully progress.
You're going to have a rude awakening when you get into oly weightlifting. Strength is still the base for your lifts and you will be doing FS/BS and clean pulls at least 3x a week for low reps and with high intensity. Squats are our bread and butter.
Posts like these should have bodies attached. Grown adults do not just "get into" professional sports most people just want to build muscle, which GPP doesn't do. By it's definition it doesn't do that.
Once i stopped doing SS alot of my back problems went away. My trainer gave me alot of hell for doing the program in general when I never intended to play football.
Not at all. The 2010’s were the golden age of modern body building—especially on the internet. It was the wild west of e-fitness with the golden age hitting its apex with the likes of Scooby, Zyzz, Rich Piano, and Jason Genova. IST memes were top notch. The only two routines you worried about were simple splits and SS. The era was so raw and full of soul. Now it’s all just slop with a revolving door of Instagram fitness experts and roasties getting 5 minutes of fame for their obscure fitness tips and disappear into the abyss of forgottenness.
I really feel bad for the newcomers who never got to experience that beautiful decade.
>le based soul memes
You're part of the problem
Kek. I feel this dude’s pain. I wasted a year of noob gains doing SS. I even would have been better if starting with calisthenics. I wasted so much potential.
How did this homie escape skinny fat hell eventually?
cut+bro split
he wrote a blog about it
Jesus did I waste my teenage years on SS and 5/3/1. Reset after reset.
>1 year after quitting IST, 2 years after quitting IST, 3 years after quitting IST
SS is a great beginner program and was a good experience for me overall.
you forgot 200 cals deficits (frick you Scooby) and 4k cal boolks (frick you ripbreasts)
About to start strong lifts as a sedentary office cuck. What should I do instead?
Wander in nothingness for years, lose months of gains in weeks, accumulate injuries and dream of the day you will be lean and muscular, taking your shirt off in front of a nice consenting girl.
Build a strong base with squats, deadlifts, bench, weighted pull ups, overhead press. And lots of running (or swimming/kayaking if you have the resources).
dont listen to these gays who just roid and do accessories all day. Thats how you die squatting lmao4pl8.
This moron never read the program, did heavy gomad tier bulking for two years, and kept doing SS (or his own shitty interpretation of it) for way, way too long. And then he had the gall to write an SS sucks blog about it. Truly shameless.
>does a beginner program for two years
>wonders why he looks like a beginner
It's literally called STARTING strength, do it for like 3 months so you can learn the basic barbell movements, how to brace, what progressive overload means, etc and move on.
That three months gives you a base to move on to another program with and in that time you've probably learned enough about fitness to know what you actually want to specialize in next.
Doing it for more than a year is fricking moronic and misses the whole point.
he's the same weight at 7 months and 2 years. His diet is probably just trash/didnt change at all from the time he was a fatty.
Can you finally just admit that you have an irrational deep desire to suffocate on my cöck pal