what is the thing you regret the most in your fitness life?
I really regret doing a starting strenght routine a couple years and bulking like a moron; strenght gains were good but my sentimental life has never recovered since then
I also kind of regret taking advice from this board too seriously in the past
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Being a curlbro and doing gay endurance circuit training programs
Damn, now I really want a Half Life movie trilogy staring Goose as Gordon.
Frick trilogies, one single movie can be great as well. I’m done with trilogies with 240 min per instalment.
Paying for a gym.
Eating too much honey for a decade.
Eating two breasts a day for like two years.
what is blud waffling about
>Paying for a gym.
elaborate
Fresh clean air, everyday brisk pace promenades, physical labor is better than huffing eachother's rotten farts in a basement for 50 bucks a month. Plus two dumbbells.
>basement for 50 bucks a month
why do so many gyms suck like this?
They have enough people using them. Deeper understanding of what health and physical fitness is comes later, with experience. Untill then you're going to be paying and paying.
Disagree. Gyms can be cool, positive places, and nobody is saying you have to use them exclusively for fitness. I like long walks and playing sports but also go to the gym. That said, I’m in a mid-size US city and most gyms are some variation of the following:
>big box chain gym filled with idiots and passable, often broken equipment
>dime-a-dozen CrossFit shitboxes
>private gyms where you have to work with one of their trainers to have access
>basement powerlifting dungeons the size of my kitchen where fat men scream and pin test in front of you
>boomer health clubs
Seriously, there is only one gym in a 10mi radius that is clean, modern, and dedicated to people who actually train seriously and isn’t a scam in some way. It’s pathetic.
>just live in a disney fairy tale, bro
Taking multi-year breaks and losing gains/getting fat.
Getting stoned right before going to the gym every time I went in college.
Regret is unproductive.
Nor repeating mistakes is tho.
>not starting earlier
>min maxing too much
>all or nothing mindset
>neglecting cardio
>being impatient
>not tracking everything
I really should have picked up the habit back in high school when I was feeling like shit, it would've smoothed some things out for me
Eating like a fricking pig during the lockdown. I haven't gained so much fat that fast ever. So easy to gain, so hard to lose. I'm gonna make it tho
Not starting when I was a teenager despite having plenty of time and resources is the main regret, at least it reminds me that I only have a limited amount of time and I should utilize it to improve my body instead of pointless leisure.
I regret not starting actually lifting sooner.
I'd gone to the gym in the past, and mostly just did bullshit, low intensity workouts. Missed a huge window
Forcing myself to work out in ways I didn't enjoy just because it was "optimal". Just lead to me quitting and my gains went to waste. Work out in ways that are fun to you because that will make sure you stick with it.
Getting content with a girl and letting her destroy my gains. I swear women try to frick you up so when the relationship goes to shit they can hop straight on the next dick while you spend months fixing your "dad body"
Same, but with my mom.
Not buying a pair of 12-lbs dumbbells when I was 16. Lifetime of curlbroing it > becoming a hardcore minmaxxed gymcel in your 30s.
Also ties in to listening to the shitty contrarian advice here circa 2010 instead of doing the normie thing and getting a gym bro PT.
So yeah, "not starting earlier" but in a "squandering your 20s by letting your body rot away" kind of way. I don't resent the theoretical gainz I missed or the fact I will never reach anywhere close to my full genetic potential. Tender your expectations and all that.
>in gym, see girl doing this, pulling a trolley on some rope. Later discovered this is a sled pull.
>thought it looked dumb
>wanted to make friends at the gym
>walk over to her
>"this reminds me of the trolley problem. If I was in front of the trolley and 5 kids were over there would you save me?"
>said this monotone too
>she says "huh? What?"
>got so embarrassed about it that night I didn't go back for 2 years
What were u even thinking you massive moron
I would save you, bro! No homo!
Would have loved it if a random dude said this to me. I also frick up alot of jokes with people that dont know me because of monotone voice
I should've just taken more phenibut every time I went to the gym and tried to talk to people instead of being an autist
Starting strength fricked me up too. We are survivors not victims
>starting strenght routine a couple years
You simply can not do SS or SL for more than half a year if you do it properly. You should regret not reading the program and fricking around unproductively.
You're a survivor of.. the fastest way to get a good level of base strength in mere months time that will make any subsequent hypertrophy program that much more effective? A victim of a ploy that got you a bit of fat that you could cut off within months?
My biggest regret is just doing cardio for so many years. For about 4 years (mid high school to end of college) I did a lot of running and cycling. No gym, even though my school had a big one (VCU), but just running around the city and biking on some of the trails. I wasn't amazing, but I was in decent shape from just that. Right around when I was graduating, I started to lift weights while still running (just dumbbells, I was cheap) and, a year or so later, had moved to only doing barbell work.
I don't think those years were wasted time, since the cycling definitely gave me a good base for squats when I was starting, but I wonder where I would be now if I just lifted at the gym I was paying for 4 years earlier instead of faffing about.
I also made a grand total of 0 friends in college, so I had so much free time. So much time. And I didn't use it. AhhhhHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
I regret not starting taking it seriously until I turned 25