Been lifting 3-4x a week since the start of this year, and feel like I've seen no visual progress whatsoever. Still skinnyfat.
To you guys, does it look like Im getting there, or does it look like I have never lifted a weight in my life? Be brutally honest.
>t. 6'1 150lbs
how? also what is that posture lol
how what?
Curls, overhead tricep extension, bench press, shoulder press, lateral raises, bent over rows, bycicle crunches and leg raises. I just do whatever muscle group I feel like working that day and avoid what's sore. Normally, 10-12 reps except for the ab ones
I have a protein shake after every workout, and have a pretty meat heavy diet.
I push myself until failure most of the time.
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Maybe do 8-12 reps and be consistent
>bench press
what was your progress on the bench press? how much did you bench the first time and now?
When I began, 10 reps of 15lbs, now 10 reps of 30lbs
Dont have access to any bars so I don't know my max. Too cripplingly anxious to go to the gym as well
Sorry to break it to you, but you'll have to go to a gym.
you should fail on every set, not just do an arbitrary amount of reps for a certain number of sets
I doubt that was the case with 15 lbs dumbbells so there's probably been no actual progress at all on your bench
is right - sack up and go to the gym. Picture picrel in your head whenever feeling anxious. Thats you
that better be 30lbs per dumbell anon
dude, that's still like less than benching one 10 lbs pl8
Do calisthenics instead.
I did the same mistake as you btw, never left my house just lifting barbells in my house but had low weight so never gained anything
I recently started doing just pushups and pull-ups + weighted ( you don't needmuch weight , 10kg backpack) is ok, and finally seeing results
You need pullup bar or use anything you can - branch, barbell hanged somewhere etc
don't listen to him, OP
be a man for once and go to a gym if you want results
stay at home like a cuck hiding from everyone if you want to be a skinny homosexual forever
I do calisthenics since end of last year, so more than 6 months and I already look like I lift, mom i saying me I look great I look "filled up" I'm t-shirts that hanged on me before etc
And my only "program" is: workout 5 days a week alternating between 100pushups challenge day in app , and 50 pull-ups challenge in app - so 5 sets, each progressing day had more reps, until I was not able to finish given workout day for a week's straight. Then I did more difficult variation like diamond pushups then I started doing weighted - changed variation always when I was stuck for few week at same workout day.
No diet as well, just scoop of whey every day and scoop of creatine when workout day was hard. Now I look great, all lean and I feel great, and I feel if I ever wanted to go to gym my benchpress, curls etc would be pretty good
That routine sounds like shit and it only looks like your mom is being nice and supportive on your new ((healthy)) hobby. I'm glad you enjoy it and feel good about yourself but be real man. Stop lying to yourself.
I look better than op and I feel like I look better than
too, leaner, I am starting to see abs
Honestly, you're DYEL IMO.
And this is why... That's like... rehab granny weight. Go to a real fricking gym. People at the gym will respect and help you if they see you working hard and consistently. If you don't change your attitude you are sincerely not going to make it.
>I just do whatever muscle group I feel like working that day
>Why no progress???!?1?
Get an actual wrokout/training scheme, make sure you are increasing the weight on the bar and eating enough. You will get nowhere just fricking around
>muh routine
morons. as a noob you can literally do whatever and get gains as long as you're putting in effort. OP is lying or a total genetic failure
>as a noob you can literally do whatever and get gains as long as you're putting in effort
braindead Black person, beginners who don't know shit will frick up every single aspect of their training
OP unironically thinks he's going to failure with literal physical therapy weights
That's why following a program is important
>going to failure on physio weights
K E K
Unironically forcing myself to go outside to the gym and being around randomgays is what cured my of my social-tardation
>as a noob you can literally do whatever and get gains as long as you're putting in effort.
that is objectively not true
Yes it is
>I just do whatever muscle group I feel like working that day and avoid what's sore
You're an idiot, get a proper routine
There's no routine for moronation
you realize you have to lift heavy to make progress? when people say do 10 reps they mean with a weight where you will fail at 10 or before, not just rep out 10 quick ones with a 5kg dumbell.
get some form of routine, eat your eggs and meat and lift heavy shit until exhaustion.
find a consistent routine, track your results in a diary or note app to make sure you're progressing adequately. track your calorie/protein intake for like a week to ensure you're eating properly. make adjustments accordingly.
doing whatever is better than nothing, but it's going to yield very slow progress.
You should lower the weight and really feel the contraction, having mind muscle connection is important
>You should lower the weight
anon, he'd be lifting air at that point
no it isn't
the only way you are having zero progress in your first 6 months of lifting is a failure of increase in performance
Mind muscle connection is worth jack shit when OPs workout is literally as heavy as carrying groceries from the car to the fridge
Excellent bait
newbies
i consneed, fell for shit tier bait
>I just do whatever muscle group I feel like working that day and avoid what's sore. Normally, 10-12 reps except for the ab ones
Anon...
Come on. You can't be serious
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how many sets do you do? are you actually going a few reps from failiure in each set?
>are you actually going a few reps from failiure in each set?
what do you think, anon? our boi is "benching" less than a 5'1 girl
OP here. Sorry, I was away for a while.
About 4-5.
>Lifting your hand to jack it to anime porn doesn't count
>That's what the fitness grandmas in the music fitness class do
kek. thanks for an actual routine as well.
yes, it is 30lbs per dumbell, so 60lbs. sorry for the confusion
I do add weight though, when I started I curled 10lbs dumbells, now it's 20lbs, I mentioned before I benched 15lbs and now its 30, etc.
for what exercise?
hei OP, I started working out also at the beginning of the year
I only have dumbbells and a bench at home
looks like you need to track your lifts better
pic related is my more or less weekly volume in Kg. I have an excel spreadsheet that tracks all my lifts and weights and reps, you can't just wing it and do random stuff. I suggest you take your reps until 20 and then increase your weight after that, but people here prefer a rep number of 10-12, probably a powershitter legacy and cope for people that want to put the weight down as fast as they could. Also sets of 4-5 seems boring and useless as frick, by the 3rd set you should feel miserable and want to change the exercise
I put up weight and people have been telling me I look better, so it definitely worked for me
> I do add weight though, when I started I curled 10lbs dumbells, now it's 20lbs, I mentioned before I benched 15lbs and now its 30, etc.
You have been lifting for FIVE FULL MONTHS
And added 15lbs per dumbell total… thats less than 1 lb of progress a week … you basically did not add weight. I bet you could have pushed yourself and did 30lbs by feb. you need to be adding weight much faster. 2.5lbs per week per dumbbell. 5lbs total a week AT LEAST. On bench. You are a noob, have you heard of noob gains? When i started, and many others, we could easily add 10-20lbs a week total on bench. Especially when you are starting at basically 0 .
When i was 16 and started benching i did 95lbs and within two weeks was doing 115, then 135. Theres no reason a hesalthy male goes from 30lbs total bench (less than the bar) to 60lbs total, barely more than a bar in FIVE MONTHS OF TRAINING. ADD WEIGHT… FASTER. That is why you are seeing no visual progress
5 month man you should be benching at MINIMUM 1 plate135lbs total right? Push yourself harder.
This dumb lazy Black person isn't even following a program and just doing random lifts with baby weights and wonders why he hasn't made any progress in 6 months.
You've been living on easy mode your entire life by being 6'1 and this is why you're half assing ur training.
I'm been lifting for 4 months but I actually progressive overload, do cardio everyday, lift 5x a week and have a strict diet, contrary to you I haven't been living life on easy mode with birth given dice roll genetics and I actually take my training seriously.
I started with the bar as a sedentary NEET and I'm grinding my way up to 2pl8 bench at 5'6 63kg, almost 1pl8 OHP and 3pl8 diddly.
>muh anxiety can't go to gym
I had anxiety and depression, I had it way worse than you, but you're way too far up ur ass to do anything hard in life and that's why you're not gonna make it and I will.
homosexual.
Napoleon complex. Keep it up, Tom Cruise.
You were a sedentary neet until 4 months ago. Literally the easiest life livable. Stop projecting, you don't know what ops life is like.
>Oh my life is so hard I was le depressed!!!!
Jeez man grow up, if you were able to live as a neet for such a long time then I assure you your life is extremely easy, imagine if you actually had to do something and couldn't live off as a leech lol
OP lives with his mom so he's no different.
Also, you do realize some countries provide welfare to people who can't find a job (especially during COVID), right?
Living with only rent money and barely having any left for food isn't living life on easy mode or comfortable.
>Waaaaaaaaa I don't have to work to live in a house and eat food waaaaaa
Stop being so smug about being a worthless leech. You know people with avarage iq develop a skill in something they're interested in when they have free time, right? What have you been doing on all your free time, anon? You're in the only point in history where people like you are allowed to live comfortably by doing nothing and you still find a way to whine and complain. You are a child. You have been handed everything in life to you, and you still managed to frick it all up. No amount of lifting will save you from your b***h mentality, grow up.
Based neet-shamer.
I find hammer curls to be a lot more effective than regular ones
post routine
You are not eating enough protein or you are not training hard enough
There's a difference in going to the gym and actually lifting. You seriously need to consider the latter.
something is starting to happen in the arms, i can see it. your torso is beyond pathetic tho
nice gyno homosexual.
>Been lifting 3-4x a week since the start of this year
Lifting your hand to jack it to anime porn doesn't count
>does it look like I have never lifted a weight in my life?
Yes
>10 reps of 15lbs, now 10 reps of 30lbs
lol
lol
i cant man
10 reps of 15 lbs
That's what the fitness grandmas in the music fitness class do
actually they probably do way more reps than you with that weight
here Ill help
>Curls - 3x10 25lbs
>overhead tricep extension - 3x10 25lbs
>bench press - 3x8 135lbs barbell
>shoulder press - 3x10 - 85lbs barbell
>lateral raises - 3x10 - 25lbs
>bent over rows- 3x8 135lbs
Work up to those numbers and then keep adding more weight when you hit them
>I just do whatever muscle group I feel like working that day
no
Listen to the other anons. I started Lifting again a month ago, also mostly with dumbbells because my shoulder is fricked Up. And I already see differences/progress. I also workout 4-5 Times a week in a PPL Routine whereas the legs Part IS mostly playing Football once a week until my legs get used to get used to playing Football.
the thing is you need to keep adding weight.
The weight you are lifting is like two bags of groceries.
Has anyone ever gotten swole off lifting two bags of groceries? When the weight gets too easy you need to keep adding mroe weight. buy bigger dumbbels if you cant go gym
Squat
Bench
Row/Deadlift
Pullup/Dip
Overhead press
Keep adding more weight buy more dumbell. You would benefit unironically following starting strength program 3x a week
READ THE FRICKING STICKY
What was your starting weight and how much is your surplus?