Everyone should start their journey in the gym by building a solid foundation, ie. getting strong, and only then focus on hypertrophy. Strength>size
Everyone should start their journey in the gym by building a solid foundation, ie.
Everyone should start their journey in the gym by building a solid foundation, ie. getting strong, and only then focus on hypertrophy. Strength>size
you forget that people are moronic
Just like when you build a house, you do not start to decorate it immediately. No, you build the foundation. Every man should focus on functional strength, and getting stronger than his peers. No, this doesn’t mean you should be a fat bloated mess, but you should focus on athletic strength.
Nah go get raped by a horse
nah i'll keep doing ppl as a fitness noob b***h
Why do we make them seethe?
No ones seething fr fr, we just provide you with our elder brotherly guidance.
Basically I've noticed women's eyes light up when you do cool gym shit. Calisthenics that only a few people can do, heavy deadlifts. High jumps even
All this bullshit like no one cares isn't true.
They just don't like it if you care, gotta pretend like it's only natural that you can do it.
It's fricked and stupid and obviously if you're secure and can radiate confidence it's better but having an edge can help
At the end of the day a good portion of happiness comes from genuine interest and people wanting to frick you or be your friend
I show off for girls in the gym, it seems to work. Aesthetic gays seethe
I just do 3×5 and then I drop the weight by 30-40 lbs and do AMRAP.
basically the best way to go about it.
>solid foundation
and what does this mean you stupid homosexual?
No, I wont spoon feed you.
Stop spreading incomplete information
>solid foundation
I means he's read excerpts for Ripplebreasts' massively overused book and he's well on his way to failing all his fitness goals.
1/2/3/4 you dumb illiterate moronic piece of rat shit
Please be 10 rep max with paused reps
and how does being strong benefit hypertrophy training?
etc etc
a noob wont understand the logic behind it
and how is starting off strong better than just doing progressive overload with high reps?
You can easily reach 1/2/3/4 in your first year just doing hypertrophy stuff
people who say shit like this are moronic. an untrained individual who has been sedentary for the past 20 years isn't going to get to 1/2/3/4 for reps in a year unless going insanely hard or roiding.
A base is getting good at push ups and pull ups not Ripptoes and Blahas homosexualry
Doing proper push ups.
>journey in the gym
It literally doesn't matter if you start with hypertrophy focused program since your lifting career should last life time in some degree. As long as you increase weights progressively and have at least
>squat variation
>hip hinge variation
>horizontal push variation
>horitontal pull variation
>vertical push variation
>vertical pull variation
in routine it doesn't matter if you can bench 2pl8 or not in long run.
Absolutely embarrassing if you can’t bench 2pl8 after a couple of years in the gym. You guys never compare lifts with friends?
Most people here don’t have friends so they can’t envision the embarrassment
>wow you are jacked, you must bench a lot huh? I just began lifting a couple months ago and I am almost at 2pl8
>well done bro, I am working my way up to 2pl8
>wait, how long have you been lifting?
>close to a decade
>*dies of cringe*
>female nearby instantly loses respect for you and no longer sees you as a viable male that will provide her strong offspring
damn, i had a similar experience, everyone should value functional strength while remaining athletic looking
>bench press
>functional strength
Your number on the bench press are useless in virtually every functional physical persuit. Any combat sport, strongman, etc, can be entierly satisfied with being able to do 20 pushups. If you want "functional strength" focus on OHP, squats, deadlifts and so on.
This, I have no idea why benching is the marker for upper body pushing strength when everytime you push anything you're doing OHP or incline as you naturally lean forward.
I don't do barbell bench at all and in my age class family+career matters more than bench press max
The solid foundation is habit and discipline.
Here's the issue with that. You'll say this and the logical interpretation is to start with strength, and only after you've done it for some time, you may switch to hypertrophy. You should really slowly incorporate hypertrophy early on. It uses different recovery bandwidth than strength training. You can implement some hypertrophy in your strength training and it will be complementary, not hindering.
So yes you should start with strength, but you should really ease into hypertrophy over the course of the novice stage.
>recovery bandwidth
Is that an actual phrase?
You sound like you're full of shit
Guys, don't listen to strength zealots like OP if you have aesthetic goals in the gym. I started with hypertrophy and turned out fine.
Nah, no you didn't. First of all, where is your dick? And what the hell are those things on your chest?
They're called pecs. I understand that you've never seen em before if you're a powershitter.
Calm down, you're just jealous of power shitters. They get to eat a ton of food, lift heavy and bang their dumpy wives.
All you get is twinks and thots
Also you're short
That's not me you're replying to.
>You're just jealous of power shitters
Not my sport but at least they're active
>All you get is twinks and thots
What I get is my loving fiance every day when I come home. The more muscular I become, the better our sex lives and the relationship. Twinks and thots give me attention at the gym and beach which is fun.
>Also you're short
I'm 181cm not tall not short
>Where's your dick
I would post it but you probably envy me enough
Bet she's Chinese, also I'm 195cm
Get wrecked metric gay
Nice height, I take back my envy comment IF that's true. She's blonde with green eyes and wavy hair.
Just get her pregnant then you homo
"Hurrdurr I gotta wait for the right time"
If it's more than two years her body will tell her you're sterile and she'll move on
This body isn’t achievable.
No difference anyways, the only way to get stronger without getting bigger is through leverages or neural efficiency, ie mind muscle connection. Activating the mooskles properly and at a high intensity takes practice, it's why you struggle doing basic things with your non-dominant arm. I hypothesize there's really nothing special about doing reps in the "strength" range besides the fact it forces you to go high intensity, which you can do at a higher rep range if you are intentional with your reps and use full effort.
Strength is useless in this day and age, only volume matters
I think if you want to lose 100lbs then you should cut 50-60lbs by dieting bare minimum and then start lifting.
Other way around, you need have a decent amount of muscle to get strong.
is that the demon back?
yes, because you can ONLY train for strenght OR hypetrophy at once
true dat
i have better build than "greek god" lol, there's some stupid shit going on with his lats
>oh he's flexin
well that don't look like this, striations go more diagonally and there's a lot of them, few dozens not like 3
>oh he ain't flexin
he clearly is, he's like what's that, behind me, lemme do most muscular with straight arms backwards
imaginary trap morphology also, the betwwn scapulas, distinct lack of trike detail, long head big short head is there - bencher ? xD
and sth hanging by his sides, artist knew frickall about anatomy, lol
to be frank this sculpture looks a lot like manga depictions
> there needs to be lump, lets make it round and shapely, oval or sausage-like, right around there
exactly, duh muscle, well look at the fricking anatomy book dumbo, look at real world examples, where is it, how does it work, what does it do, then maybe, if ya got talent for it maybe try to draw it
there is no point in depicting ur stupidity etched in stone for eternity
and he's presenting his buthole by pelvis angle seen in op sodomite picture. like an prostitute