Non-Sports Hobbies that improve your physique

ITT: We post non-weightlifting hobbies that get you ripped. Pic related, guitar playing builds THICC forearms

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  1. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    I would say, regarding music, it would be playing drums more than guitar.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >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.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        >In fact if you have tense forearms you will suck on both guitar and drums
        t. Piano playing Asian

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        >playing for hours and hours feels like light cardio tho
        what 4/4 at 60 bpm?

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          What’s with all the larping musiclets ITT

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      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.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        >I had no math on any part of my body
        Hi Chang

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >guitar playing builds THICC forearms
      No it fricking doesn't.

      No it fricking doesn't. Why would lifting a stick that weighs half a gram build muscle? you absolute clown.
      t- drummer.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      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.

  2. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Cooking because you eat out less often, limiting your intake of gentilegruel

  3. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Pathetic.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous
      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        Bassed Cliff poster

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        RIP, Burton.

  4. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    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.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Based manual labor chad
      Hope you're getting some of that wine

  5. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Playing any wind instrument(brass master race) trains your valsalva

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >trains your valsalva
      Does this improve your fellatio skills?

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        No but you do train articulation(tonguing) which is quite useful for cunnilingus

  6. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Very true OP

  7. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Dancing

    ?t=106

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Based shuffle dance and tropak are great for building cardio, stability and strength as well as co-ordination.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        Tbf he's a gymnast and a stunt guy and shit too, but he's also been dancing for hours and hours for years.

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          Still based af, got a few laughs.

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            Explain

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        How do I learn the shuffle?

  8. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Fake and gay. I'm a pretty good guitar player and my forearms suck. Downpicking gives you big forearms not guitar playing my dude

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Post forearms and recording of you playing guitar

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        Nah I'm shy but you can take me at my word

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >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.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        >will impact your performance negatively.
        Black person what

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          yeah if you play straight after lifting I mean

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            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.

            • 1 year ago
              Anonymous

              >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.

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                No it doesn’t, do you have weak little baby arms or something?

            • 1 year ago
              Anonymous

              Fricking of course it impacts it negatively you moron
              Lord deliver us from the ignorance of anons like these

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                No it doesn’t chang

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        >I can downpick at a crazy speed
        Post routine. My downpicking needs improvement. I die trying to play Master of Puppets with downstrokes

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          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

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            >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?

            • 1 year ago
              Anonymous

              it's all a cope because playing guitar doesn't make us bigger, be patient with us

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                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.

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                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 homie 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.

                https://i.imgur.com/0T4Rrg1.jpg

                >it's all a cope because playing guitar doesn't make us bigger
                Maybe depends on the guitar?

                checked

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                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.

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                >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.

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                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).

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                *other than not behind

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                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.

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                >it's all a cope because playing guitar doesn't make us bigger
                Maybe depends on the guitar?

  9. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    I have a chunky ass neck from headbanging at gigs since I was 15

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      It might be the same case for me, but I always had to stop because I'd get a splitting headache.

  10. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Painting
    cause the amount of pussy it gets you, even if you are just mediocre, will net you huge cardio, abdominal, and glute gains

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous
      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        >he doesn't know

  11. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    what the frick are you talking about have you seen a lot of musicians? Guitar does not build your forearms

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      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.

  12. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    guitar doesnt build anything lol ive played for 25 years. drums can be good cardio i supposed

  13. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Kayaking. I like to lead the pack so everyone behind can mire my ripped, manual labor made back. God I can't fricking wait till summer guys...

  14. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Rock climbing
    Surfing

  15. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Osu will give you a forearm pump after about an hour or so of play. Only on one arm though.

  16. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    I’m a mechanic so I get nice juicy forearms from doing wrench cranking alll day

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Doing wheel alignments on old pieces of shit with a standard length ratchet can blow them up pretty good if they're seized up

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        I supplement my lat work by cracking lug nuts and then torquing them

  17. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Sex in missionary position: forearm gains, abs from planking if you're doing it right, hip thrusts obviously.

  18. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    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.

  19. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Neat, that was when he still had that arm sleeve while recovering after getting melted by that pyrotechnic flame.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Explain

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        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 frick 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.

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          Oh so he pissed the mob off then lol, sucks for him.

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            James Hetfield didn't piss off the mob, Axl Rose did.

            • 1 year ago
              Anonymous

              Didn’t think about that. Thanks for the share anon.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >Be James Hetfield
      >get fricking burned alive on stage
      >keep touring
      Legend

  20. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    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

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >chink larping about something as mundane as playing drums
      Lmao

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        What about it suggests larp

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          >explain how you know I’m lying
          I can just tell, you’re so bad at it

  21. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Not one Peter Steele enjoyer.

    NGMI

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >open thread to check Steele posters
      >greet fellow TON enjoyer
      >leave
      Hello

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Yeah hes jacked but hes a meh guitarist, majority of all the good guitarists are unironically skinny little manlets

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        >majority of all the good guitarists are unironically skinny little manlets
        that is very true

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        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.

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          >fripp
          >egocentric
          >blackmore
          >Eddie van halen
          >good guitarists

  22. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    I have lungs of steel from playing trumpet elementary through high school. Can blow up a balloon in one breath.

  23. 1 year ago
    Anonymous
    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      ITT: anons jerk off hack guitarists and hack conservatory students slumming as guitarists

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