>anyone can start lifting, you don't need any prior sports experience
>you can escape skinnyfat mode in less than six months
>it takes less than a year for people to notice you lift
>programming as a beginner is piss easy, everything works
>diet is just as easy, just eat some protein and avoid fast food, candy and soda
>you don't need a gym subscription to achieve a decent physique, you can get a good workout even with a pair of dumbbells from home
>mires become so common they don't even register anymore
>people notice you lift even under winter clothes
>1/2/3/4 makes you stronger than mostly anyone you'll come across in your daily life
>once you see results you won't even think about skipping the gym
>consistency is the key to a good physique, even if you drag yourself to the gym you'll appreciate every single workout in retrospect
>a good physiqye has a halo effect on anything you do
>being motivated by hope and love is much more effective than being motivated by anger
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>being motivated by hope and love is much more effective than being motivated by anger
That qualifies in the divine guidance category. Out of boredom and intrigue I'm gonna categorise each one of the truths posted
>anyone can start lifting, you don't need any prior sports experience
Anecdotal experience
>you can escape skinnyfat mode in less than six months
Anecdotal experience
>it takes less than a year for people to notice you lift
Anecdotal experience
>programming as a beginner is piss easy, everything works
Common sense
>diet is just as easy, just eat some protein and avoid fast food, candy and soda
Common sense
>you don't need a gym subscription to achieve a decent physique, you can get a good workout even with a pair of dumbbells from home
Anecdotal experience
>mires become so common they don't even register anymore
Anecdotal experience
>people notice you lift even under winter clothes
Anecdotal experience
>1/2/3/4 makes you stronger than mostly anyone you'll come across in your daily life
Common sense
>once you see results you won't even think about skipping the gym
Divine guidance
>consistency is the key to a good physique, even if you drag yourself to the gym you'll appreciate every single workout in retrospect
Ancestral blood memory
>a good physiqye has a halo effect on anything you do
Divine guidance
>being motivated by hope and love is much more effective than being motivated by anger
Divine guidance
A philosopher has killed himself, his blood spilt on this post, on his thinkpad screen
Good.
Interesting thesis, bench 1rm?
no idea, never tried it yet. did 160kg 3reps before COVID-19 lockdown
>the majority of people are not out having wild sex with many different people
>that is a media built up lie
>women are in fact more chaste than ever due to reduced alcohol
>men are more chaste due to reduced alcohol and reduced work force participation
>living life at your pace doesn't make you strange or odd
>like all other things, finding and making relationships is a skill you can work on and one you are likepy to succeed in should you put in the effort
>Number of partners in the last 5 years for 22-30 year olds is a reasonable stand in for virginity
>it is about 5%-6% of the population
>these numbers still don't reflect the full impact of the covid lock downs on people which likely drives it further towards low relationships
What the frick, am I a male bawd?
>mfw skinnyfat dyel and I'm destroying these numbers
Guys I don't want to be demotivational in the whitepill thread, but you have to learn to talk to women too.
I forgot my face
>mfw when no face
>you must be japanese Abe Lincoln if you think we frickin
I suspect the quality of women you deal with is quite low though.
Sometimes, but rn I'm with a 8/10 art hoe who has a limitless libido. You just gotta talk to them anon.
I do. I am pretty good at it I think also. I was at this party recently and I was talking to a girl all night. She had such a big smile when I asked for her number at the end of it. When I asked her out the next day she suddenly said she wasn't interested in dating.
I went to a dance,spent the whole night having fun and dancing with another girl. Same thing.
I can't be so ugly and so bad if I can get them to like me in a matter minutes but it has no sticking power for whatever reason.
I think I am going to kill myself in a year or two. I just have no connection to anything anymore.
I do but I get ghosted on OLD and even when I get more matches I just find it pointless because I will just get ghosted again, I haven't even on a date for 2 years now..
>8/10 art hoe who has a limitless libido
You're getting cheated on and you're naive to believe otherwise
>
bruh, I aint trying to be normal. The average person is being pushed into a meat grinder; Im trying to escape that.
I don't mean to blackpill in a whitepill thread, but
>self-reported
INTO THE TRASH IT GOES
https://datepsychology.com/is-self-reported-sexual-partner-data-accurate/
Self reported data doesn't actually deviate that much from reality and can be trusted.
Self reported just means that men are going to lie and claim higher numbers...
Not fitness related
post body
>verification not required
how did you get this data?
How was it sampled?
What countries and or region?
University of Chicago General Social Survey. They do it every year for the US population. You can look up what their exact sampling method is but the survey itself is huge and it is the most robust dataset on the US population in regards to almost everything. It is reliable data.
>inb4 self reported
Self reported data can easily be curated for reliable information, particularly in the question asking for the number of sexual partners.
thankyou anon ill give it a look over, the numbers just seem a bit odd is all. Are they counting sexual encounters as sexual partners?
what do you mean by sexual encounters? Do you think that people might be chaste but doing oral all the time? If I remember correctly things other than penetration are still counted as sexual partners in the dataset.
Reality is that most people aren't into casual sex. They want real relationships with sex as part of them. All the talk about it comes from the minority of prostitutes running around(mostly because they are talking about what they are doing and most people don't talk about what they are not doing). The data seems to suggest to me that there is a small group of promiscuous women who are being shared among promiscuous men, similar to how many men used to use the same small pool of prostitutes in the past.
>Reality is that most people aren't into casual sex
your reality maybe, my problem is that I can't find anyone who will stay longer than 3 months because they only thing I'm good at is sex
>the only thing I have to offer is sex
>people don't stick around for anything else
This is because you are a below average person who is unable to actually have a relationship, much like the other high body count types.
that's literally what he said
>average amount of partners is less than 2
god sometimes being gay is fricking amazing
Enjoy your monkey pox.
don't have any and never had an STD, barebacked plenty and had a 20+ bodycount in the last year alone. Cope and seethe straightboi
Every positive action is one step in the right direction ladies! We can do this!
>Your dick is probably bigger than you think
>lanklets can do 100 push ups and one plank to failure per day and be otter mode in <6 months
>1 meat + 2 vegetables for every meal is all you need for a healthy balanced diet
>studies show people aim for sexual/romantic partners 25% more attractive than them. You can use this to gauge how attractive you are based on the people who 'mire you.
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.aap9815
Can you shut the frick up with this "We are women and we are free we're bringing end to the patriarchy
We are women and we are proud we are women hear our shout" shit
I have no idea what the frick you are talking about
god bless you, op for posting these threads. dont ever quit, you are a king sharing love to other down and out potential kings. taking my pre workout rn and about to go mad in the gym, lets fricking go.
Hope will outlive despair. How did your workout go brother? I broke 3 plateaus last session meself
Here is the incel clawing away at his keyboard with his uncut nails
ya what a bunch of crap, eh? women LOVE short and/or ugly men!
Cry about it ;^)
There are plenty of short and ugly men in loving happy relationships, and there jave been since the dawn of man, hence more shorties and uglies are born who go on to find happy relationships.
I am sure you aren't one of them.
im 6' and slim. but every statistic ever (and having eyes and a brain) tells that the vast majority of women vastly prefer tall and not fat men
yeah, and having eyes and a brain tells me that couples are like a bad bakers biscuits; no two are the same. You b***h about girls alot. Absent mother?
oh youre short and fat. sorry!
>6'0.5
Sadly I live in Germany where 6'0.5 is the American equivalent of 5'10.5 so I'm guessing my potential dating pool is around 80%.
Best thread on fit right now
morons who don’t talk to women think like this, try asking 10 out on a date and get back to us
>try asking 10 out on a date
Just because they say yes to a date so they can get free food from you doesn't mean they are interested in you, anon.
I remember the aquarium brother from the previous thread. I also recall an arborist working on historically significant trees from a thread earlier today. Quite the colorful place this board can be sometimes
>arborist working on historically significant trees from a thread earlier today
Post it, sounds neat.
These are his posts
I don't know if it's the pond Dutch from earlier this year but the guy has got an impressive physique
>the guy has got an impressive physique
Indeed.
i saw you in another thread that got deleted you said you only deadlift. what's your 1rm on deadlift?
Is this what peak natty looks like?
that is not natty lol
The newfrens don't know shit, they think everything is natty lmao
It's true, I can't tell for shit 🙁
>I don't know if it's the pond Dutch from earlier this year
It is, and he's also the guy that posts plants in the hobby threads that pop up every now and then, also posts underwater photography, and swimming threads.
This is very true.
Most people here have no gf because they have nothing to offer women. A good body sure. But there's a guy right behind you who has a good body AND interesting hobbies like archery or robotics. She will pick him over you.
Unless your hobbies manifest in the real world, you basically have none.
Based fish guy. I used to keep tropical fish too, particularly Malawi cichlids. Sold my fish and aquariums off when I had to go to university but I'm considering getting back into the hobby.
>robots that belong on LULZ
Well there you go homosexual, this isn't LULZ and you're on the wrong board.
Have sex, incel.
Based.
i'll add some.
>You can change your bones and get thicker wrist/wider shoulder and maybe even some cm in height.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolff's_law
These are extraordinary and unbelievable claims, which that article doesn't make or offer any evidence for.
It was revealed in a shamanic vision
>tfw it truly doesn't matter who, what, or how you are. we are all gonna make it brahs
And yet i am still born in a third world shithole with no future in sight. Sorry to tell you this but whitepills are nothing but lies as if some people have the choice to control their lives.
The one undeniable truth is that things can either get better or they can get worse. Some circumstances are up to us, choose the former rather than the latter
Man, superhero comics used to be based. Extremely simple and shallow, but based nonetheless
The designs and style choices used to be really kino. Now every hero pretty much looks the same with some derivative futuristic semi robotic armor with light beams and what not. Look at any old comic strip, the designs were simple, slick, cool, snappy and had more personality. Wish I could go back to that era tbh before cinema had to shit on it so much
my dad was 160s I'm not sure, but he had 3 wives and two kids(I'm first kid from the third wife) from each wife, all of the wives were beautiful and some were rich or in high position in their time, too. hight do matter but not everything
Are you from a 3rd world shit hole?
more like second world not so shit hole, at least the authority said so
it's already cleared that the guy you're talking too is a paid shill demoralizer, none of his claims matter
a kindly reminder
>you do have enemies
> your enemies hate you, your family, your nation
>your enemies want you to be miserable, your family broken and your nation destroyed
>you have to fight
Up
motivated by hope and love is much more effective than being motivated by anger
Perhaps, but there are times where, when lifting, the anger simply gives me a dose of energy. At least I do not derive it from over the top music, but rather news sources.
A short guy I knew in high school was kind of a chad. I don't buy this.
Can someone check my maths? The female equivalent of 1/2/3/4 is
>0.5/0.8/1.3/1.7
I used the strength standards website, looks like the 1234 puts you in intermediate for everything except deadlift, which is advanced. The female equivalent in weight is
>34kg ohp
>51kg bench
>73kg squat
>87kg deadlift
Trying to set myself some medium term goals.
>strength standards website
I'm trying not to be a sour grapes fox, but those metrics just seem ridiculous at times
This, you can trust the numbers on the compounds but some other lifts are all over the place
>be me
>hate the gym
>hate looking at other people in the gym
>hate asking or waiting for equipment to free up
>hated paying for a gym membership just to hate going to the gym
>hate the fact there's a gym for free where I work and I can use it any time I want just to hate going to it
>gf starts going to the gym, begins making gains, literally has less time for me now
>fall behind, can tell she's disappointed in me even more than when I flunked out of doing Inktober
>"disappointed but not surprised"
>tells me a bit later she doesn't think she could marry me, says we're not breaking up but I need to shape up a bit
>oh frick oh frick I seriously just bombed a shit test
>the disappointment she feels fuels the hatred of the gym even further into resentment of the gym
>go more often now, still not enough to make gains
>now I'm disappointed in myself and the negative cycle perpetuates
>she breaks up with me
>lost my 10/10 fine art gf that I seriously wanted to marry
>still want to marry her
>I really am in love with her
>now very depressed and all motivation is lost
>hate the gym even more
>somewhat blame the gym
>this is not the gym's fault
>it's mine entirely
>pray once again to the Divine for another sign, like I had just before she came to me
>promo email comes from a yoga app I bought over a year ago and forgot
>The Higher Power hath spoken
>draw and do yoga every day I don't have work
>body feels light and springy
>can feel the fat melting
>physique improving
>art improving and getting consistent
>new enormous bursts of energy
>looking forward to next year when I have more days off
>the demons taunt me every night
>"she said won't come back"
>fine, at least I have standards now
>"she hates you"
>not true, just awkward right now
>"forget her, she's probably fricking some new dude already"
>so what, I'll mog him
>"give up"
>"no, now shut up and hold still so I can draw you"
Don't be afraid to ask for a sign, in earnest. It hurts still but the direction is clear.
I'm rooting for you anon, We are all going to make it.
Quite the deranged train of thought but good job. Post your art friend
Oh I can get even more deranged. Watch this:
Let's get into some whack shit to expound upon what I mean by asking for a sign. You didn’t ask but I want to write and you’re gonna be on the receiving end. You’re also going to read it, and when you say tl;dr everyone will know that you’re lying.
I may delusional or schizo, but praying is not a full on cope from loss taking the form of bargaining in this case. There is a reason I do this. The Christians say that He works in mysterious ways, and I believe that is true, but not strictly by taking Christian dogma on its face. Or even by having utter Faith. I’m saying humans literally can influence and converse with God, the Universe, the Basilisk, Deep Thought, whatever. For brevity’s sake, I’ll use the term God. There are connotations to this term which are not intended because I’m not talking specifically the Bible, believing Christgay stuff or performing those rituals associated with Christianity. The term is an attempt to describe a higher thing prone to abstraction. As the stoners say: “Everything is one, man.”
The messages from God are not often delivered directly, obviously, or immediately, but they are personal, and tailored to your experiences and perceptions at such time and place as when you need it. Think of all of your five senses, and how we to take them all individually and at face value. We hear a song lyric in passing, we see a color with a symbolic meaning, appreciate an artwork that evokes emotion inside our soul, feel a texture that reminds us of something, a friend in passing says something off the cuff. Generally it gets thrown into our short term memories and thrown away to make room for something else. We don’t think about it, because it’s all “junk data.” However it all adds up into one collective whole that where if you were imagining a radio, that jumble of sensation would be like tuning in to a specific frequency.
Ockham's razor? I don't shave thank you
I get what you're trying to put out here gigachad, but the simplest solution is relative, not absolute unless you're quite versed in physical mathematics.
The human mind is an antenna, capable of receiving these frequencies. Even transmit them through action and word, to the Universe at large. However it is incredibly taxing; mentally, and emotionally. Constantly worrying about it drains the batteries so to speak. Most people are tuned out and living with individual sensation and not collectively. It’s just hard to do so all the time so it gets rerouted into the subconscious, manifesting negatively as mental illnesses: anxiety, depression, phobias, complexes. There is a converse to this. Being tuned in and having that full battery can result in successes, useful introspection, manifestations of desire, and downright seemingly unfair entropic manipulations, even if we aren’t fully conscious to it. Call it relating to the whole npc meme. They’re not, they’re just people that aren’t and perhaps have never connected to the Divine.
We get many outcomes that are not desirable. We get many outcomes we *thought* were desirable and regret. We also get many shitty things that happen to us that turn out to be the best, most fulfilling things even though in the moment it’s just the worst. In simpler terms: we frick up and get fricked up all the time. Overthink it and run out of batteries, hamster at the noggin wheel fully exhausted. However God is not wrong, and has never been wrong, although we are blind to the greater implications and consequences of where He leads, hence hindsight being 20/20. Think of every time you messed up and went "oh I shouldn’t have done that" but you did it anyway. This is not a failure on God's part; merely you choosing to not listen to the signs around you, listen to your gut, or just not not understanding. Nothing wrong with that.
In fact, that may still fail, but ultimately you should have learned something from the experience. Even if you still don’t fully know after that the right course of action, something in you will still shift how you think of probabilities regarding that situation. As a human, as a creature of free will, you 100 percent have agency over what you do individually, and in how you interact with the universe at large. Choosing to what we act or do not act on is like shuffling the cards in the deck of fate. In fact this whole thing is turning into a thesis on chaos magick and I’m not intending to go into it atm. I could go on forever.
This shit’s getting wordy. Following signs.
When I met her, I had found a quiet place without any electronics, distractions, or anything else that would get in the way, and just spoke. Talked about whatever was on my mind from good stuff to every anxiety and fear, and asked even the air around me to give me a sign, direction, or heck I’d settle for a compass. And it did, in a laughably literal way not very long afterward, and into one stupid event I follow right down to one butterfly effect. I met her from it, and her name is a pun, within a pun, and was a sign. I was tuned in and saw it immediately and said to myself this person will either be the greatest heartbreak of my life so far or the best thing that ever happened to me ever. She’s still both.
From more pragmatic standpoint, good luck is opening the door when opportunity knocks and that’s about 80 percent of learning anything or getting anything. I will direct you to a short article by Richard Wiseman called The Luck Factor. Just put what you want, what you NEED out there. With your voice and your actions. You don’t need a gf, you don’t need sex, you don’t need the world to like you, be rich, famous, fricking whatever. You’d be very surprised with how little might inspire you to make a massive change. You’d be even more surprised by what you realize that you need.
>good luck is opening the door when opportunity knocks
I'm finding that out more and more
I read your posts btw.
classic onset schizo. hope you find the sign to a psychiatric evaluation bro
I have diagnosis for schizophrenia and he seems different completely I think you may be moronic
first actual schizo lifter
im trying. practically demented but have kettlebells and dumbells. barbell and cage one day.
pure kino, I agree with your idea of the sign thing. Ultimately I suspect that there is some entity out there greater than all of us, maybe a hidden collective consciousness or something, and it can only communicate to us by lifting proverbial twigs.
Very based outlook on life were all gonna make it in our own way
Okay, anyway. Here's a drawing with a 15 minute challenge imposed because that's all he deserves: Portrait of a total pussy
>be me
>meet qt on the internet
>she's perfect
>too perfect
>tell her she glows because only the FBI would know this much about my preferences
>she gets mad and we block each other on and off repeatedly but keep meeting each other
>she seems sus but stops talking about committing crimes and shit
>she sends me pics, seems sorta into me
>says she won't be using site where we met as often
>make some plans to meet up since we live nearby
>I fall asleep the day of our meetup, while talking to her, before asking her address
>she blocks me, presumably sad that after a year of buildup I ditched her
>haven't spoken to her since then
I'm just praying for God to let me talk to this girl again.
Amen. It'll get better.
Godspeed anon, you're sure to make it. The greatest Ws are forged out of a thousand Ls.
>This post is off-topic
Back, hopeless worm, to the pit from whence you came
I’m noticing a lot more attention now that i’m lean but unfortunately it’s mostly older women
>be me wearing nice dress shirt
>just got back from a conference, checking into hotel
>decide to just chill at the bar with a drank
>some MILF sits down a few minutes later
>accidentally lock eyes with her and we start talking
>notice her mirin a couple times, after a few minutes i get nervous and am tired so i leave
>next morning go to the hotel gym
>she’s there too
>she comes and talks to me
>”wow, i could tell you work out but it’s even more obvious now hehe”
>squeezes my bicep
>talk about lifting and dieting for a while
>thank her and continue to lift with my new motivation and confidence boost
Why not frick her, if she's a MILF?
i am on this board for a reason anon
dude youre attending conferences and job paid hotel nights, how hard is it to talk to a woman? meanwhile here I am in the assend of Seattle with a half shit physique and smokers breathe fricking half the local poly moms. Get on that anon
Take the Franklinpill, young man.
https://www.wanderings.net/notebook/Main/BenjaminFranklinAdviceOnChoiceOfAMistress
>the lower Parts continuing to the last as plump as ever: So that covering all above with a Basket, and regarding2 only what is below the Girdle, it is impossible of two Women to know an old from a young one
>And as in the dark all Cats are grey
My sides. Also good advice in general.
Ol' Ben's daily schedule is a whitepilling habit to follow.
>sleep schedules before lightbulbs were invented
It’s not fair bros
On the contrary, I'm an 8 and women consistently tell me I'm too big. I've never had a woman genuinely tell me that she likes it. Also, I've never had sex.
>got covid last week
>forced to stop smoking weed
>have back to back vivid dreams last night
>wake up feeling like a kid again
I haven't had dreams at all for almost a year. I had forgotten how great they are. I want to quit now just so I can go on nighttime adventures.
I didn't know weed had anything to do with not dreaming
it kills your REM sleep which is when dreaming occurs (dreams you can remember, that is). I had a similar experience. I got into lucid dreaming and was making good progress until I started smoking weed again. When I quit for a few days I have waking up sweating intensity dreams
return to monke
The top 1% is actually not that rich either. But overall, a good post. The only thing missing is "Boomers were right. You can be anything you want to be and just aren't putting in enough effort." but I feel as though this guy never made a boomer say that.
>You can be anything you want to be
Based and innuendopilled
I'm 33 and took a 21 year old home the other night. Hooked up with another 21 yo that night too and she sent me lewd photos all the next day.
Never too late to make it when these zoomers have daddy issues.
You can be better than you are right now friend and if you’re doing workouts for pussy, then there’s something wrong with your logic do it for yourself and who gives a frick what a woman thinks
>diet is just as easy, just eat some protein and avoid fast food, candy and soda
>you don't need a gym subscription to achieve a decent physique, you can get a good workout even with a pair of dumbbells from home
>people notice you lift even under winter clothes
>a good physiqye has a halo effect on anything you do
>being motivated by hope and love is much more effective than being motivated by anger
WRONG
Every single observation listed in the OP is based off of my personal experiences. I narrowed it down only to observations which I could personally vouch for.
ok, cool
Based MonteBlack, my favourite former Yugoslav republic.
>if you're attractive, every blackpill about women is a whitepill
Just that easy.
including 'they will divorce rape you if you let your guard down'?
The "blackpill" is that she will leave you for chad. Doesn't apply to chad.
This pic killed demoralization
I don’t get it
You realise how fricking dumb you actually look. There are so many things to experience in life yet you let reclusive anonymous morons on the internet shape your perception of it
kek imagine being a "blackpilled" /rk9/ homosexual/troony
>being motivated by hope and love is much more effective than being motivated by anger
It's true. But I don't love anything anymore. I have some hope left, I just wished I felt anything for anything anymore
>a good physiqye has a halo effect on anything you do
This is the most shocking thing I've come to realize 1.5 years after I started. I've always been easy to get along with for the most part, but ever since lifting it feels like people pay attention to me more, actually listen to what I say and take it more seriously, laugh harder at my jokes, etc. They wanna be around me more. They respect me as a man rather than just some dude and I think it's because the bar is set so low with your average guy today. Group of girls are throwing me a party for my birthday coming up, doing all the organization and decor and everything. This would've never been the case before.
Happy birthday man :^)
Ok. I'll do hanging knee raises everyday ;D
Pushups and forearm workouts too.
Squats
People like people who try, if you put genuine effort into improving yourself and your circumstances, even if the results are only small in scale, you will become a more likeable person for it.
What's amazing about being IST is that you don't have to go out of your way for other people to notice. It's not like drawing, or singing or playing an instrument where at the very least you have to bring it up during conversation. With lifting your body is your own display of your efforts. They don't have to see you actually lift to realise you're strong or fit. It's a passive perk present at all times
I need to get fit already. Unbelievable how I didn't do shit with my body for 29 years because I thought it was hopeless. Making improvements but still a long way to go. Especially gotta stop being skinny fat.
We're all gonna make it frens
And it's the exact opposite when you're fat.
When you're a fatty it colors literally everything you do in the eyes of others. Everything you do, you do fatly.
So even simply not being fat feels like a passive perk when you've been fat a long time
t. former chunkhog
Good job brah
gz on un-chunkhogging
>tfw no gym for a week
I fell for the "you don't need to train your abs" meme so I reckon I'm gonna take the chance and start doing L raises and crunches
The final redpill is to just train the bodypart you want to improve. Anti isolation dogmautists are moronic
>>once you see results you won't even think about skipping the gym
is the key to a good physique, even if you drag yourself to the gym you'll appreciate every single workout in retrospect
motivated by hope and love is much more effective than being motivated by anger
I resonate with these the most.
I've been trying to work my way out of skinnyfat and I am making... well changes at least. I have to admit my body looks a bit weird after 6 months of training.
My chest is more defined but I would still say skinny. Whereas before I had no muscle definition there, I now have visible pecs just pretty flat ones. Still, there's definition.
My arms are thicker but still skinny. They were really skinny before so progress. My stomach seems to stay the same size but I do feel bigger abs underneath the fat. My ass became toned and round and I've got strong legs. My legs and ass definitely changed the most. I definitely need more upper body size.
How long until I can see some significant change and be happy with my body?
What do your routine and diet look like? Judging by your post it seems like you are focusing too much on compounds and don't isolate as much as you should
What the frick? How did you know? Yeah I've been mainly doing compounds since I'm a total beginner and needed strength (just followed a guide). Basically ICF. Diet is usual bulk stuff. I eat a lot of peanut butter, chicken, bananas, milk etc. It's all good stuff so I'm at a surplus of at least 500 calories. Protein is 1 protein for 1lbs of lean bodymass.
I've seen your example too many times to count. I don't know if it was this place that steered you towards strength training and bulking as a beginner but that is no way out of skinnyfat mode. I know because I was skinnyfat just like you. My advice is to add more isolation work, increase the volume, and decrease lower body frequency. Your best bet is a 3 day hypertrophy routine until you hit 1/2/3/4, you'll still see strength gains (albeit slower) and you'll pack on mass much faster than you normally would on a lower rep range strength routine. Do not fall for dogmatism and absolutism, if you want to grow a muscle isolate it. As for the diet, cut until you see your abs. Try to keep the protein intake high, chicken, cheese, greek yogurt, ditch the peanut butter. It's better to be satisfied with your progress than to adhere to internet rules
Hm fair enough. I've been on ICF for 6 months anyway so I might as well move on since it's supposed to be a 12 week program anyway. Will take a look at some hypertrophy routines.
Hopefully I can get a decent one that does 3 times a week since 4 times is not something I can do at the moment. Thanks brohulk.
Happy to help friend
so wait... if I'm a DYEL I should NOT just be doing deadlifts and shit? I mean I wanna be strong obviously
Deadlifts are notoriously shit for hypertrophy. Online lifting discussions are heavily centered around the compounds and strength training. If your goal is mass and looking good you should not limit yourself to strength training. I practice compounds at least twice per session, but you have to do more than compounds if your goal is to look good.
This is the second time someone pointed this out. I learnt that from anecdotal experience but Ken was a fitting choice. Still strange to miss the point, Ken is talking about love every chance he gets
Okay thanks anon. for some reason I got it in my head that isolation work = being weak. I'll just do both compounds and isolation.
That's powerlifting dogmautism. Target the muscle you want to grow and don't pay attention to morons
Is there anything to this idea I had recently of starting a session with a single low rep sets of compounds (e.g. 1x5 bench) followed by high volume of isolation exercises that target the same muscles (e.g. 3x8 skullcrushers and flyes)? My idea was that doing the compounds first would damage the muscle more due to the heavier weight.
A single rep is too low and risky. Try 4-6 reps for compounds and 3x8-12 for the isolations that follow. It's good to open your session with a compound because it should be the most taxxing
Remember to enjoy yourself, anon; working out is a hobby that you should enjoy 🙂
just bee yourself 🙂
Having an attractive body is 90% diet, 10% exercise. Literally and unironically all you need to do to be physically attractive is eat 1,200 calories a day until 12% bodyfat
Wont you lose muscle and shit?
Just roid
kwab
>a good physiqye has a halo effect on anything you do
This one is a biggie for me. It's been fantastic. Friends want to go for a hike? I can handle it. Want to go bouldering? I could handle most of the easier ones. Go for a bike ride? I got my water bottle, let's go.
I'm in my late 30s and everyone else is complaining about knees and backs, while I still feel like I can do (almost) anything. I mean I know it will hit eventually, but just holding it off has been fantastic.
You can go well into your late 40s and onward if you are actually taking care of yourself and letting yourself recover and heal properly too.
Make sure to wear sunscreen and take care of your skin. You can't reverse damage but you can keep it from getting worse. That is what really ages you.
Liftbros help me start again. Was doing the 5x5x5 but have injured wrists for over a year. Saw physical therapist. Says its because of stiff neck and shoulders. Meanwhile they are better, but last time I fricked up on bench lift and suffered months of weakness. Im tired of being a spaghetti bros
yoga every day. im completely serious. after a few months youll know when youre ready for more intense stuff, in the meantime your body will transform
Ok Ill take your word for it
Got shit sleep last night. Headache from that. Work is dull and the holiday season is making me feel lonely as frick. Fricked up my diet all weekend too. Everything kind of sucks right now.
But its the best time to go lift.
Ygmi
WAGMIB
I am simultaneously train, track layer, and obstacle. I have no excuses other than my own weaknesses. I'm better than I was, but I know what lies beyond conquering the weakness.
Don't beat yourself up, realise that those times where you "fall apart", i.e. eat shit, don't lift, don't clean the house, etc. don't just happen, you do them on purpose to keep yourself from going insane. Indulge yourself a bit then get back on track when you can.
Reporting back in. Today was yet another shit day and I actually took off work. But reporting in from the gym now.
Glad I went, honestly. Not only feels good, but I seem to keep going at the same time as one of the hottest women I've seen in person. Maybe when I break past skinnyfat mode, I'll go talk to her. But for now, the view is enough to help keep my spirits up.
Remember bros, don't lift solely for women. But a fool ignores beauty when presented to him.
I don't care what average woman thinks and neither should you.
Once more I thank you for your contribution to improving this website. thankyou anon
>Less than a year for people to notice you lift
Three weeks of just doing push ups and deep knee bends and I've noticed women smiling at me and being more engaging.
You want a white pill? If you're already fat, just looking slightly leaner makes people treat you better than they would have if they just met you at the new, sightly improved shape. It's so easy, just try for a month or two. If you can overcome the instant gratification thing people are so easily influenced to treat you well.
1/2/3/4 is my main goal, i got my 3plate Dl on my birthday last week, want to make it till beginning of summer but its gonna be hard, i dont progress as fast as id like, and dont want to baloon my bf% either. In my gym i saw 2people lifting around that and squatting 3plates. But you need to realise that if you dont work manual labour ppl are incredibly weak and that is what motivates me. Normie coworker spotting me one time dl 150kilos gaising in disbelief
Happy late birthday man :^)
>People really go into whitepill threads to drop "blackpills"
yeah that guy needs to log off the internet for a while
>people have sex
wow so insightful I guess I'm gonna have to give up and stop lifting forever
And they aint even about lifting, these homies have women on they mind 24/7
>~100kg manlet, actually out of breath after 500m of walking and everything hurts
>frick
>shave off my beard
>double chin going for triple
>got nothing, no job, no social life and can't even cope with "atleast i'm healthy"
>realise I'm the stereotypical fatty now and just been making up excuses
>understand that everything wrong is my habits and i've never even tried to change
>doctors also feeding this by just saying i'm depressed and to take some pills
>dad tells me i look fat when I visit
>its one of the last things he said to me
Down to 70kg now, came from a 5km walk and recently got a temporary job as a kitchen assistant (mostly dishes). Gonna go back to school or atleast try to get a more stable job.
Still ways to go fit-wise but its going well. Also having to buy smaller clothes is a rather nice feeling instead of it going up every year.
Also these threads are great.
wagmi
Congrats anon. Did your father pass away?
Yeah, still he was doing yard work, could barely move unassisted and still insisted on doing everything he could up until the end. Took walks until he could no longer walk and then just zoomed around in his mobility scooter to atleast get some fresh air and also to tend to the garden.
That was also pretty big kick in the balls, what damn excuse did I have for being fat? Employment and the sort can be hit-or-miss even if you do try but your body is yours and no amount of bullshit is going to change that or what you let it turn into.
Sorry for your loss man, I'm sure he'd be proud
>OK Cupid statistics and its consequences have been a disaster for the human race
This is what happens when relationships are commodified, potential partners are reduced down to objects. Women shop around for the best partner like they're shopping for the best car - waiting for sales, test driving, or whatever other type of analogy you want to use. Men do the same thing - don't trick yourself into thinking you're better. I know women who are decent kind women who are constantly ghosted because they're not a stacy or whatever.
STOP ONLINE DATING. Work on yourself, take classes (cooking, woodworking, whatever), do your best to be kind and helpful to those who deserve it, and be OPEN to new experiences.
It is based sometimes, like in showing that all women (and men) prefer their own race.
>100% of women date 20% of men
ftfy
>100% of women date 100% of men
ftfy
>source?
I made it up
>ifunny
what's funny in my dating people being 32%?
wanna try that sentence again buddy?
My goal isn't every woman, I just need one. As long as I'm taller than her, to a sensible woman (why would I want a woman who is not sensible?) that will be enough with compatability.
Based logical thinker. Dont fall for the demoralization psyops WGMI
Also, and that might sound like a cope but I found it to be true, you can safely assume that your real percentage is closer to your height + 2 inches since normies lie all the time about their height and perception is skewed.
Especially women, every single 5' 4 woman claims 5' 7.
Girl I let know I had feelings for told me she had possible attraction early on but stamped out those feelings for me. Seems she may still be hurt from her exes, and says she puts me on a pedestal and is 'too good for her'. she said she doesn't have any attraction to me, I know you can't force someone but it fricking guts me cause I fall rarely and intensely.
The frick do I do?
move on. b***h's put you in back-up plan, get out of there, fast. plenty of young girls out there, stop locked on a used thot
3 mths ago
>ex gf left me
>6'0 136 lbs skinnyfat
>earning 0/mth
>suicidal af, but take it a day at a time
Today
>dating 2 girls currently
>6'0 152lbs skinnyfat but with more muscles
>earning 7k/mth
>less suicidal, still taking it one day at a time
Wgmi bros
The whitepill I give you today is a reminder of what you already know - (You) have the power to excel.
Read this and my brain went into maximum overdrive trying to figure out how Excel is a white pill until I reread it heh
I mean Excel is a whitepill in a way, the perfect CV filler
>be me
>go back home for Christmas after 1 suboptimal year at the gym
>still DYEL by ISTstandards and objectively
>meet up with some old mates
>one of them is sure I'm on roids
>drops jokes making fun of my appearance
>he keeps saying I got dumber
homie I thought we were supposed to support each other, I've known the guy for 15 years for crying out loud.
All the more reason to keep lifting I guess but he's definitely gonna get slapped in the immediate future
this thread is cope incarnate
success is all predetermined, you are either chad or you arnt chad
but there is honor in accepting your fate without this pathetic coping. give up the charade already. I will never make it and neither will you
we are all forsaken
You're "blackpilled"?
Yes, or in his words he's predetermined to be a loser
Wagmi, anon
homosexual, paid shill, juden, the usual. even they aren't killed themselves and they're trying to 'black pilled' others, funny aren't they?
then have a nice day and get off my board homosexual, or can you not even do that? you weak piece of shit
There is no fate insurmountable by scorn
get fricked, wagmi, etc
>I will never make it
Agreed 100% percent...but what does that have to do with anyone else?
if youre still typin shit like "cope" youre too young to act like its all over. chin up
Good thread
>being motivated by hope and love is much more effective than being motivated by anger
somebody actually learned from Ken, wow
Turn your sadness into anger. Hope and love are better than anger but anger is still a great motivator
This board is so fricking cringy. Nobody here lifts but keeps posting these shitty motivational garbage. Die.
Silence virjin
>board is called IST
>dedicated to health and fitness
>you posit that nobody here lifts
>you're here
So what's this board for? You can distill most of this board into a few criteria: one half is spamming the same webms in /fph/ threads, the same dudes posting /cbt/ threads, frogposters, how to get women, and roids/supplements, blackpill chimpanzees that never got the banana, and some dickhead posting about his unfortunate hairline that doesn't fricking matter. The other half are general queries that can be resolved by reading the sticky.
If among any of this that I could keep anything on this board forever, it is the whitepill thread. It deserves to thrive. Only the whitepill thread gives a shit about you making it no matter what.
If it's only ten minutes a day there's almost no way you should need a rest. Also that sounds like some kind of shortcut to sound easy, and there are no shortcuts, and no easy ways out.
>among any of this that I could keep anything on this board forever, it is the whitepill thread. It deserves to thrive
This, the only worthwhile stuff on the this board are these kind of threads about actually making things better in your life and getting more fit.
They should just outright ban all blackpill-morons and other doomer c**ts that gave up before even trying to make things better and worse, actually spend time and effort to put others down and to make them quit too.
Then 10 minutes a day is where you start. You probably don't need rest, just keep going and exercise every day to start making a habit out of it.
>With this kind of activity, can I improve my bad posture and have a healthy body?
Yes and yes
Thank you friends, I only wish that my hope can resonate with other anons
What of it? Isn't it an undeniable fact that your situation can get better?
>i still did not kill myself despite 15 years of being suicidal
>bought a bite so my teeth do not get pulverized during night heavy grinding
>panic attacks slightly less usuals
Still don’t know if the first thing is a good or bad one but still it’s like the best thing that i can do is just survive and therefore i have to be proud of me for still here.
I'm gymless at my parents house for Christmas, I've been doing abs and resistance band exercises for a couple of days and my sixish pack is already more defined.
Why did I fall for the "don't train your abs" meme? Am I that moronic? The answer is yes
Don't train abs is one of the biggest fit memes along with
>only do compounds
>calves are genetics
>cardio kills gains
I started doing cardio and my pp actually got thicker. not a lot but I noticed it
Im 30+ years old. Im download this app of 30 days of blablabla. Just 10 min/day. This is ok or I need rest?
>Just 10 min/day
probably not enough to get in shape for the average person tbf so no need to rest. What's your goal?
*no need to rest as in no need to add rest days
I have a sedentary life. Just want to make some exercises at home.
Nice, good luck on your journey and keep us posted
Schizo yoga art anon here. Yoga, unironically. A yoga mat is like 15-20 bucks, and heck I used a similarly sized rug for awhile. Even then you still don't even need one, it's mostly to kinda keep you aware of the space you're using, which translates into awareness of your form.
Plenty of practices are posted for free online like youtube, although I pay for an app. It's a far better workout than it gets credit for in general.
kek I'm not the guy you replied to but I did yoga for around 20 years, can confirm it's a solid workout and if your teacher is good you'll learn a lot about yourself as well. Everyone should start the day with a downward dog, great stretch and always humbling even if you're flexible
It's very therapeutic. You say did, so it sounds like you quit. Why?
Not many yoga anons post on IST so while I have you: My goal is to get to arm balances by the end of January (doing 4 days a week for an hour currently) and make it to doing the splits by the end of the year. Is this a feasible goal at that rate? I'm also 30, will age be a factor there?
I apologise for the long post but some context is needed.
I did yoga between the age of 5 and 25, I started because I wanted to work as a contortionist in a circus, so 99% of my flexibility I got from doing moronic shit at a very young age. I quit because later on I got into Kryia yoga, even travelling to India and all but it was way too cultish and it left a bad taste in my mouth so to speak. Didn't do anything yoga related until last year.
Arm balances are absolutely doable by the end of January, picrel is a great place to start, I can't do anythingflashy because I got fat and you lose the technique surprisingly quickly.
As for splits I was always shit at them, I could never perform a real split with the "inside" of my ankles touching the ground, I'd like to say I've never really cared about them but no, something in my tendons make them exceedingly hard and I never put in the work.
As for the age question I realise more and more it matters for flexibility but to be fair I did frick all between the age of 25 and now (I'm 33) so that plays a massive role in my case
Alright cool, I'll work at this rate then and start seeing if I can pull off the simpler ones. My balance is getting way better, can do half moons and dancers without floundering, and my touchdowns are far more graceful. I was never very flexible. A half split is mostly fine but even a normal fold is a test on the backs of my legs, even less so on the back. I'll keep at it though, hope you get back to it.
Yoga is satanic
Bending, breathing, and stretching the body that God gave you within its natural limits cannot possibly be satanic unless the fact that wearing your Sunday Best makes it difficult to do so. Way I reckon, the more we do with the body, the closer we are to Him because we are not wasting the potential of the gift we were given. It doesn't matter where the practice originated, that place was still created and granted by God, therefore subject to His will, even if that will takes on the guise a culture we are unfamiliar with. In this case the yogic practice.
>b-but India and Hinduism
Every god associated with Hindu is only an aspect/personification of a larger whole; AKA the Godhead. Or just God if that's too many syllables. As my very Catholic grandfather once asked me when I was young and I something was too hard and too big of a project:
>Anon, how do you eat an elephant?
>One bite at a time.
We separate all the faces of God in order to better digest the larger whole. We do this because we too are aspects of Him. No matter the culture, these are all prevailing themes. Compassion, wrath, sadness, joy, victory, defeat, wisdom, the fool, everything you have ever experiences so too has God. Thou art God, and therefore you too show his face every single day.
Basically you're just God being an idiot again. Go fricking introspect.
>Bending, breathing, and stretching the body that God gave you within its natural limits cannot possibly be satanic [...]
NTA, but correct.
>Every god associated with Hindu is only an aspect/personification of a larger whole; AKA the Godhead. Or just God if that's too many syllables. As my very Catholic grandfather once asked me when I was young and I something was too hard and too big of a project:
No, they are demons that entice men to idolatry, which is a sin of infidelity equivalent to adultery and which severs your communion with God through His one and only intermediary, the Logos, incarnated into Jesus Christ, who hung on the Rood and rose on the third day, trampling death by death.
>Thou art God
This is quintessential Satanism.
The problem with yoga is exactly this. Used in the bastardized and commercialized manner most Westerners use it, it is perfectly fine. It's just stretching. The Indians do not have some sole ownership of certain movements, no matter what they used them for. Ultimately God created them and it is He who owns them. The problem arises when yoga becomes more than mere excercise. It can then become a gateway drug to false New Age beliefs, which are incompatible with Christianity. As such, don't do "yoga". Seperate those movements which are good for excercise from the baggage of oriental pseudo-mysticism and incorporate them into a stretching routine, while you leave those movement and practices that do not benefit the body behind.
Can yoga solve my problem with my posture?? I'm a step closer to Notre Dame hunchback 🙁
>created by ancient hindus
>before the concept of satan in abrahamic religions was even a thing
>picrel is an orthodox cross
IM IN YOUR WALLS
Orthodoxy is the true Christianity
both are institutions designed to control marks like you
well they piss off people who post twitter shit about walls so i hope im a good little mark!
We need to standardize this thread with a copy pasta.
Title maybe:
"White pill thread /Wpt/ post white pills!!!"
I really enjoy strectching, yoga, etc. With this kind of activity, can I improve my bad posture and have a healthy body? I dont talk about six packs, just a good looking body.
Growing your dick is not only possible but easier than you think. There are currently several products on the market approved by the fda with studies to back them up that can grow penis length. Girth growth is also possible and seen in priapism patients who often see a permanent increase in penile tissue growth after suffering from it. Girth exercises basically induce a kind of controlled priapism which will lead to growth over time.
What kind of exercises?
You got a preferred short morning routine? I've been doing deep stretches and yoga poses once a week for the last decade or so but I'm in my 30s now and I've noticed feeling stiffer than I think I should throughout the week.
New year, I'm going to try OMAD and make my meal mainly boneless/skinless chicken thighs with mashed potato and broccoli. I hope to lose 45lbs.
OMAD worked really well for me, I didn't need to lose weight, but gain it, I dirty bulked like crazy but only within that one meal/sitting, got mad gains and barely any fat.
So if you're eating clean like you say and you work out you will absolutely shred those pounds off if you stick to it, good luck anon.
What is you're 370 and live a sendentary lifestyle?
no way you're that old
as an endomorph, if I remain around 12% bfp long enough, can I force my body to adapt, thus making it easy?
I need a kick in the ass.
Got super fit under the self sold delusion taht it would get me pussy. Lost over 100lbs and gained 40th a of muscle I na year. Started getting laid. Started dating a basket case and it was all worthless. None of the hard work was worth what I was working for. Fell into a depression. Spent 5 years celibate and lost my gains got fat again. No passions or anything in life.
This year I broke the dry spell and started dating a girl who chased me for years. Hate throwing the term around but she was a massive narcissist and after ending that relationship I’m left wondering what the fricking point is.
I want to lift for me. Maybe I don’t love msyelf, but when I was virgin who never even kissed a girl the motivation and delusion of guaranteed pussy was such a strong driving force for me to do what many told me was impossible. I feel lost. I keep getting a routine started cutting then a few weeks later fall off again for a few weeks then repeat and I’m spinning my wheels on that.
I understand it’s just discipline but I need something to get me going for the first few months so I can ingrain the habits to some degree at all… frick I hate myself and my life. All I can think of is
>What, I get lean and get my gains back so I can.. meet a selfish entitled count of a woman who makes me regret doing all that work?
What’s the fricking point. Best I get other than women by being healthy is living in this hell for a decade or two longer. Maybe I can feel like a silly homosexual because I have abs and get mires at the beach. So fricking what.
I hate that this is how I feel. I WANT I NEED my groove back. Lifting for pussy is fricking moronic. But frick me idk how else to get myself in gear. Yeah I should do it because I’m supposed to, but why?
sleeping around is hollow, find God fren
I left it out but I actually recently found god. Never thought I’d be saying that. The only true reason I can think to keep my body healthy and strong is because it’s what he intended. God never wanted us to be fat lazy slobs.
But I’m still stuck in the same hole. I’m letting god and myself down and it’s like I’m in able of just sticking it out until results come.
>he needs god to tell him what to do
god will kill you the first chance he gets idiot, and he is indifferent to the struggles of man, that's what makes us strong
>God will kill you the first chance he gets
>indifferent to the struggles of man
Then why worship him?
I don't
> But I’m still stuck in the same hole. I’m letting god and myself down and it’s like I’m in able of just sticking it out until results come.
back to plebbit
back to 1500 years ago, the last time any of your beliefs were relevant
>literally confirms he’s a plebbitor
okay we’re done here
what the frick is plebbit? speak english you dog
>newbie
ngmi
>telling me I'm not going to make it when you sit in a thread on IST spamming schizo quotes from a dead religion
post body homosexual YOU WONT
dude you’re the one doomposting on a chinese basket weaving forum
post discord
>post discord
lol and you gave me shit for assuming I'm on reddit
I'm not doomposting, I believe in a higher power, but thinking that a certain type of faith is inherently better than anyone else's is missing the point of faith itself, besides you should gather strength and determination from yourself not some institution that was created by weak men for the explicit purpose to control people, your relationship to god is yours and yours alone.
>that was created by weak men for the explicit purpose to control people
this is like an 18th century idea that people just assert, which is my whole point: that is a reddit-tier belief
Again can you elaborate on what a reddit-teir belief is? Or is your terminally online brain incapable of coming up with a better analogy
You need to learn how to love lifting, but first, you need to clear from your mind your misconception of health. The consequences of health, which isn't merely the absence of disease but also proactive vitality, virility and physical capability, do not lie far off in the future, in the twilight years of your life. It is an all-encompasing condition which you rejoice in the present. In all things, good health allows you to do it better, more vitally. Health influenced our experience of life in general. Especially in old age, it is not just that the healthy live longer, but that the unhealthy have a greater prolonged period of ill health before the die. Without excercise, you grow decrepit and infirm, unable to move, stuck indoors. It's a pathetic existence. They slowly decay over the course of decades. With excercise, you avert the worst aspect of old age for as long as possible, until you more quickly fade when your time is come.
What first opened my eyes the nobility of bodily excercise were the spirited words of Aristophanes:
>Yet certainly shall you spend your time in the gymnastic schools, sleek and blooming; not chattering in the market-place rude jests, like the youths of the present day; nor dragged into court for a petty suit, greedy, pettifogging, knavish; but you shall descend to the Academy and run races beneath the sacred olives along with some modest compeer, crowned with white reeds, redolent of yew, and careless ease, of leaf-shedding white poplar, rejoicing in the season of spring, when the plane-tree whispers to the elm.
According to Plato--who was himself a wrestler (hence the name Platon, meaning broad, refering to his shoulders) and a gymnasiarch, i.e. the leader of a gymnasion, that being his Academy--the highest reason for excercise in the gymnasia, was not the beautification or strenghtening of the perishable body, though that is a noble goal as well, but the creation of harmony within the immortal soul. 1/2
You should therefore see lifting as a way to cultivate virtue, to become the gentleman or superior man, what Hellenes called the kalos kagathos. Plato saw excercise as intimitely tied specifically to thumos, or spiritedness. In other words, what is recognized here is the link between physical excellence and moral power. And it is this, physical excellence, which philosophy enjoins us to cultivate; it being a sort of all-rounded physical supremacy. It is the highest form of physical culture, as Plato critized the athletes who, specializing in one specific field so that they may exceed and therefore win in the compititions, neglected other aspects of their physiques. That is to say, we are speaking of an ideal of the generalist as opposed to the specialist. We are to optimize every aspect of human performance. In my opinion, a robust body created through bodybuilding is an ideal foundation for this.
2/3
I'll leave you with these words by Hans Surén, an interwar writer of the Lebensreform movement, specifically in it's expression through the nascent freikörperkultur, which I also find exremely invigorating:
>Sport with its contests; exercises with their gymnastic temper; rhythmic education with the joys of self-experience; tension and relaxation of the body, athletics, walks, sunbaths, and whatever manifold forms man’s endeavours may assume —all must be a quest for the perfection of the whole body. This perfection, so far as it is made physically evident, can only be realised and experienced in Nature. All views and all paths are right if they are inspired by this true endeavour. From knowledge of this springs the Olympic spirit—may it be a symbol to us! The age of Olympus is dead and gone, and it would be a mistake to wish the age revived. Yet as a symbol this culture of physical and mental health may serve us, whose achievements of maturest perfection in all fields gave eternal models and examples to aftertime. The quest for harmony and perfection is bound up with iron Iaws; it is man’s task to adapt himself to these. The weal or woe of a people depends on the physical and moral condition of every member; as was recognised by Lykurgus, the lawgiver of Sparta, and by Solon the Athenian. Thus leaders wrote thousands of years ago, and dealt accordingly; they and their people seeking health, vigour, and moral power in the Gymnasion, in the Palæstra. The methods of education will undergo change; the State may intervene or the individual act on his own initiative; yet fixed and unchanged through the ages shall stand the ideal of the soul-inspired body in all its magnificence of Nature and sunlight—the gymnast; the sun-man.
It doesn't matter if any number of us are predetermined to fail. We all have to try. As many of us have to make it as possible. This is our only shot.
Pill this, pill that. How about you all go outside and observe shit for yourself, stop reading meme pills of any color. morons lmfao
Enjoying the outdoors is a great and underrated whitepill, anon. Thanks for the contribution.
chad
still got a long ways to go but I’ve been lifting and dieting for 4 months and I’m really proud of how my arms are turning out
rest of my physique is trash because I’m too fat still for my muscles to show but all in due time. lost like 20 pounds since I started
Friends, the thread will soon hit bump limit. Most things considered, it was a good thread. It'll be a short while before I post another one. In the meantime, cherish your moments in the gym and outside of it. Lift well, eat well, rest well. Enjoy the holidays and keep true to the promises you make for the new year. All of us can make it
thank you anon, see you soon hopefully and merry christmas
Merry Christmas to you too, friend
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to you, king
Happy New Year to you too man
Heh. By the luck of the draw that worms posts were deleted and the thread is still up.
You are above even the Based. I hereby award you the title of Big Based. You are a true chad.
Merry Christmas gutsanon
Merry Christmas brah