ITT: We post non-weightlifting hobbies that get you ripped. Pic related, guitar playing builds THICC forearms
Non-Sports Hobbies that improve your physique
ITT: We post non-weightlifting hobbies that get you ripped. Pic related, guitar playing builds THICC forearms
I would say, regarding music, it would be playing drums more than guitar.
>t. musiclets
playing an instrument has nothing to do with strenght. In fact if you have tense forearms you will suck on both guitar and drums,
playing for hours and hours feels like light cardio tho, I'll give you that.
>In fact if you have tense forearms you will suck on both guitar and drums
t. Piano playing Asian
>playing for hours and hours feels like light cardio tho
what 4/4 at 60 bpm?
What’s with all the larping musiclets ITT
Can confirm. I didn't start working out until I was 19, but I played drums and biked everywhere for all of childhood and adolescence. In high school I had no math on any part of my body except my forearms and quads and calves lmao. My legs have evened out, but people still always comment on how good my arms look. Forearms literally get me half my mires.
>I had no math on any part of my body
Hi Chang
>guitar playing builds THICC forearms
No it fucking doesn't.
No it fucking doesn't. Why would lifting a stick that weighs half a gram build muscle? you absolute clown.
t- drummer.
Playing drums won't get you ripped, but it's probably good cardio and might even build your legs a little. I'd imagine playing a 1h+ Slayer set on drums would be quite brutal. Paul Bostaph's playing deterioated quite a bit over the years, especially towards the end of Slayer. Dave on the other hand is still killing it in his 50s.
Cooking because you eat out less often, limiting your intake of gentilegruel
Pathetic.
Bassed Cliff poster
RIP, Burton.
I help my neighbors during grape harvests. We carry over a hundred 30kg bags of grapes through the wineyard and load them onto a truck. It gets you insanely pumped up.
Based manual labor chad
Hope you're getting some of that wine
Playing any wind instrument(brass master race) trains your valsalva
>trains your valsalva
Does this improve your fellatio skills?
No but you do train articulation(tonguing) which is quite useful for cunnilingus
Very true OP
Dancing
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Based shuffle dance and tropak are great for building cardio, stability and strength as well as co-ordination.
Tbf he's a gymnast and a stunt guy and shit too, but he's also been dancing for hours and hours for years.
Still based af, got a few laughs.
Explain
How do I learn the shuffle?
Fake and gay. I'm a pretty good guitar player and my forearms suck. Downpicking gives you big forearms not guitar playing my dude
Post forearms and recording of you playing guitar
Nah I'm shy but you can take me at my word
>Downpicking gives you big forearms
That's also debatable, I can downpick at a crazy speed yet my forearms have always sucked. On the other hand, training forearms (isolating them) before playing guitar or bass will impact your performance negatively.
>will impact your performance negatively.
moron what
yeah if you play straight after lifting I mean
That’s not what you meant, and that wouldn’t affect you negatively either, so it’s odd that you’d try to lie about it.
>That’s not what you meant
That's what I meant and it absolutely does impact your playing, especially on bass. Of course training forearms is good for a player, it should be encouraged. Maybe don't go to a studio to record an album right after thought.
No it doesn’t, do you have weak little baby arms or something?
Fucking of course it impacts it negatively you moron
Lord deliver us from the ignorance of anons like these
No it doesn’t chang
>I can downpick at a crazy speed
Post routine. My downpicking needs improvement. I die trying to play Master of Puppets with downstrokes
Something I found useful was playing stuff like this, you have some very slow parts (the triplets) and some fast ones, instead of repeating the same riff over and over bumping up the metronome once in a while you get to taste a variety of speeds and the slower bits are relaxing enough to keep going but aren't real rests.
PS this one sounds like shit but it's also good for your timing
>tabs
>variety of speeds
>triplets are slow
>recitation not performance
>can’t make his own exercises
Why are guitarists like this? Why can’t they just think like actual musicians?
it's all a cope because playing guitar doesn't make us bigger, be patient with us
Guitarists would benefit immensely from taking even the smallest steps to become better musicians. Most would rather memorize tabs (that aren’t even notated correctly) than use their ear and a little intuition.
This is true, learning by ear is the best, you end up learning much more than the song itself. However, sometimes you just want to play something straight away and they're pretty convenient for getting a general idea of the track.
The biggest issue with guitarists is their obsession with gear, yeah bro this pedal is gonna make you sound like God, you don't need to put your ass on a chair and practice for hours just consoom.
checked
Not learning by ear, just using it, listening while you play, not just running through your sloppy routine like how a 6 year old does ballet.
>However, sometimes you just want to play something straight away
If you knew enough about your instrument you could do this faster by ear. It’s just informed/applied mimicry at that point. If you’re saying that’s beyond your capabilities then that’s pretty sad. Tabs are shit notation, and even when they’re notated “accurately”, they convey substantially less information than staff. You can literally teach a 5 year old to read staff with a reasonable expectation of success. Instead guitarists spend years forcing themselves to use tabs to try and piece songs together with limited or bad info, instead of just spending the couple of afternoons it would take to learn how to read music.
Tabs are obviously inferior in many aspects but their convenience is undeniable, and you're forgetting that the tracks a new guitarist wants to learn (if we're talking about heavy music) likely do not exist in standard notation. Would you learn to read Arabic if you didn't care about any text written in Arabic?
This wouldn't even be bad in itself, reading tabs can unlock a lot of things, problem is this attitude isn't a phase, so many guitarists never learn to read standard notation (and subsequently ignore most theory behind CAGED scales).
*other than not behind
They’re not convenient, they’re always slow to read because they’re usually missing beat divisions and key signatures and prone to significant errors. And fancy tabs that include key signatures are already so close to reading staff that there’s literally no argument for not just learning to read music at that point.
>it's all a cope because playing guitar doesn't make us bigger
Maybe depends on the guitar?
I have a chunky ass neck from headbanging at gigs since I was 15
It might be the same case for me, but I always had to stop because I'd get a splitting headache.
Painting
cause the amount of pussy it gets you, even if you are just mediocre, will net you huge cardio, abdominal, and glute gains
>he doesn't know
what the fuck are you talking about have you seen a lot of musicians? Guitar does not build your forearms
Yeah, guitar builds some muscles but it's little ones that don't show. Mostly you get wrist flexibility but only on one arm unless you switch hit.
guitar doesnt build anything lol ive played for 25 years. drums can be good cardio i supposed
Kayaking. I like to lead the pack so everyone behind can mire my ripped, manual labor made back. God I can't fucking wait till summer guys...
Rock climbing
Surfing
Osu will give you a forearm pump after about an hour or so of play. Only on one arm though.
I’m a mechanic so I get nice juicy forearms from doing wrench cranking alll day
Doing wheel alignments on old pieces of shit with a standard length ratchet can blow them up pretty good if they're seized up
I supplement my lat work by cracking lug nuts and then torquing them
Sex in missionary position: forearm gains, abs from planking if you're doing it right, hip thrusts obviously.
Mtb without that gay motor will make your quads massive if your calorie intake is on point. It's hard to get it on point though. I usually end up cutting instead of bulking.
Neat, that was when he still had that arm sleeve while recovering after getting melted by that pyrotechnic flame.
Explain
In 1992, touring in support of the black album, metallica went to play a show in I think Montreal headlining with Guns and Roses. The pyrotechnic guys made a change and moved where one of the flame stacks was supposed to be and didn't tell anyone. James Hetfield is playing the intro to fade to black and is standing with half of his body directly over a pyrotechnic that shoots a flame like 30 feet in the air at thousands of degrees.
It blows, melts his guitar, instant 2nd degree burns on half of his body particularly his fretting hand and gets rushed to the hospital. GNR tried to back out of going on stage because Axl Rose was being a diva about his voice not feeling good and saw an opportunity to just cancel the rest of the show. Instead they took the stage like 2 or 3 hours late and played maybe 2 or 3 songs before Axl Rose said fuck this I don't feel like playing and walked off the stage, kicking off a major riot.
Go to like 32 seconds. Guy took the lyrics to Jump in the Fire too literally.
Oh so he pissed the mob off then lol, sucks for him.
James Hetfield didn't piss off the mob, Axl Rose did.
Didn’t think about that. Thanks for the share anon.
>Be James Hetfield
>get fucking burned alive on stage
>keep touring
Legend
I play drum since I can air play drum any place, between sets at the gym if you don’t wanna make an eye contact with a cutie or during my boring ass job while sitting on my chair
>chink larping about something as mundane as playing drums
Lmao
What about it suggests larp
>explain how you know I’m lying
I can just tell, you’re so bad at it
Not one Peter Steele enjoyer.
NGMI
>open thread to check Steele posters
>greet fellow TON enjoyer
>leave
Hello
Yeah hes jacked but hes a meh guitarist, majority of all the good guitarists are unironically skinny little manlets
>majority of all the good guitarists are unironically skinny little manlets
that is very true
Based Rhoads enjoyer.
Also forgot to mention almost all good lead guitarists are egocentric jerks like Fripp, Blackmore, Ed Van Halen…and the list continues.
>fripp
>egocentric
>blackmore
>Eddie van halen
>good guitarists
I have lungs of steel from playing trumpet elementary through high school. Can blow up a balloon in one breath.
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