Whitepill Thread - Serenity Edition
>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 physique has a halo effect on anything you do
>muscle building genetics don't matter in everyday life, being consistent in the gym is what makes the difference
>being motivated by hope and love is much more effective than being motivated by anger
thread theme
>pushing through gets easier the more you do it
Also let's you get these gets.
Check em, boys.
Goblina is going to make it. Over the next 2 years she's going to completely recomp her physique and 99% of you incels will simp and regret ever being mean to her.
Can't get much of a bigger white pill than that. Facts.
She won't make it dude she only posts here for attention. Her body is exactly the same as it was since she started posting.
The problem is people will post about the gym to make themselves feel better without actual doing anything.
She knows how to lose weight, she just won't shut the frick up, grind and put in the work like the rest of us. Frick her.
Be successful silently, humble yourself.
Goblina is based, she posts videos of her lifts all the time. She will make it.
Hit a PR on calf raises today, feels great since I can see that my calves have visibly grown quite a lot in the last few months. Being consistent really pays off, I think I've only missed like 3 or 4 sessions in the past 6 months or so, and 2 of them I skipped intentionally because my calves were too sore to train on those days for whatever reason. Gonna go to bed soon, gotta get dat sleep in
>The problem is people will post about the gym to make themselves feel better without actual doing anything.
I'm starting to think that it's better to avoid interacting with lifting related content before lifting because it ends up draining your drive to go train for this reason- you feel better without actually doing anything since "hey I'm looking at lifting information, this is productive!" when in reality you're just sitting on your ass, and this results in half-assed or skipped sessions. I moved my lifting session to be in the morning for this reason, just to get it out of the way early
YGMI brother, you have a very good attitude in this situation. Keep it up!
>I'm starting to think that it's better to avoid interacting with lifting related content before lifting because it ends up draining your drive to go train for this reason- you feel better without actually doing anything since "hey I'm looking at lifting information, this is productive!" when in reality you're just sitting on your ass, and this results in half-assed or skipped sessions.
This also applies to many other things, like porn and PUA shit.
You watch porn, you get the dopamine hit, and then not interested enough to pursue 3d women because what gives? I'll still jerk off at home.
With PUA you keep learning shit, but still are frozen when it comes to actually approaching women, you keep seeking that extra bit of information that will make you irresistible and think: it's ok I'm not approaching women, I'm still learning. Then you get old.
Disagree, some pua stuff contains really great information. Key breakdowns include:
>noticing iois
>peawienering(to a degree)
>assuring confidence
>realizing it's often a numbers game
>building kino's
>finally, always be closing
Helped me out with my dating game a ton in my early 20s
Where can I find more detailed stuff about those points?
goblina is going to make no progress and relapse in to being a narcissist with an eating disorder. the strongman zoomer otoh is going to make it.
Nobody knows who that is
Half this board should just frick off back to /soc/ T B H
thanks anon. i'm a pretty stubborn person if you haven't noticed lol. i like being the underdog. i have a pt appointment in a few hours so i hope it goes well
YWNBG
it was me. i did chiropracty today and then i got superficial electrical stimulation of my quads. gonna go back and get taped on friday morning
Unironically, I hope you make it. You have all the information you need, it's up to you now.
>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
Maybe but you'll do a lot better in an actual gym
Who's goblina
I swear new stuff only comes up here when I'm not around for a few days. When I am here it's just the generals, the deadlift schizo and nikocados butthole
It’s me from a couple of threads ago again. I tried to ask that girl out again. She’s not interested. She texted me and said “Hey! Yeah I’m not going. I had fun on our date but I don’t see this going anywhere. Sorry.” I merely told her that I understood and left it at that.
I’m so fricking upset, guys. I’m this close to giving up on ever finding anyone to love me. Every time I go out and see other people together, happy, it drives a knife through me. This is yet another failure in a long train of girls and I’m losing hope.
Therapy is worthless, other people in my life are worthless. Nobody cares about you when you’re a single man. It seems the only solace I can find are in lifting and God.
Pray for me. WAGMI, I hope.
>I’m so fricking upset, guys. I’m this close to giving up on ever finding anyone to love me.
Work on yourself homie. High value men don't rely on women for happiness and as funny as it sounds, the less you chase them and chase your dreams, the higher the likelihood you'll end up with one. Don't put a relationship above improving yourself. It's only going to end badly.
>Every time I go out and see other people together, happy, it drives a knife through me.
When you learn to be happy alone you will get the opportunity to be happy with others. Again, don't seek relationships for happiness or recognition. You control your happiness with hard work and a Warrior attitude. Keep at it and improve every day.
>This is yet another failure in a long train of girls and I’m losing hope.
Don't lose hope. Good things come to those that put in the work. Do the work and good things will come. Might be months, might be years, but you keep fricking going. WAGMI
This anon is correct.
The only thing you have control over is your perception, attitude, intentions, actions, and behaviours. You have no control if that woman was going to accept you or not. But you do have control over crafting yourself into an absolute beast of a character and person, then she'll be begging for you. You show her what she missed out on. Never give up, never surrender, keep fighting.
Thank you too. Sorry I didn’t include you in my response, I didn’t refresh in time.
Thank you for your words.
I get exactly what you’re saying, but unfortunately have trouble actually following it. Before I met this girl I had just gotten over a previous rejection and was focusing specifically on myself. When I met this one, I thought it was evidence of my efforts paying off. That ended up being a false association, and I’ve let myself backslide a bit lately as a result.
I want to be angry, but can’t. I want to cry, but no tears are coming. I just feel empty. She and I will have a class and a lab together in the next semester, and I’m scared of how that’s going to go. I’m scared I’ll still have feelings for her and that it’ll bother me, or that I’ll be visibly resentful and it’ll make things worse. I have this deep longing that maybe if I take this rejection well, she’ll change her mind, but I can’t believe that. I can’t let myself buy into unreliable dreams.
I think you’re dead on and that I need to simply return to what I was doing before. While praying for help with this, the scripture of “Blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be called the children of God.” (Matthew 5:9) kept coming back to me in my head, over and over. I guess no matter what happens, whether things change or she comes around (not likely, I know), I should, above all, be like Him: a Peacemaker.
You need to go out more, cold approach if you need to. It's a numbers game.
You seem to be a religious guy, is there no way to meet girls at some church activity or something? Are you involved with your community in that way? it could be a path. Like helping out in some way can be good for your mental health while also giving you the chance to meet new people.
Not to be a downer, but it's hard finding good women in church these days. Most of the girls that were in my youth group had their "hoe phase" and came back to church as single moms, if they came back at all. There is hope though, I met a girl a while ago and recently got pretty close to her. She's pretty great, traditional catholic girl that wants a family. There's always hope, but lately it feels like you have to search pretty hard to find a good woman in church.
Listen fat, here’s the deal. You need positive affirmations. Write the following on a piece of paper:
“I will find the girl who will be my wife and bear my children, by one years time.” Tape it to your bathroom mirror. Every time you take a Piss or a shit, read your affirmation. It doesn’t matter initially if you believe it or not.
Words shape reality. God created everything out of nothing with his word, and He created us in His image. We create with the words we think and say.
Use the affirmations. You will see your words create a new physical reality around you, in time
Thank you, king.
>the less you chase them and chase your dreams, the higher the likelihood you'll end up with one.
What do if ever since I was a kid I dreamed of falling in love, marrying a girl and living with her happily forever? NTA and I am focusing on myself, but still. The thing that's driving me now and has always driven me is the idea of finding my qt3.14. Those are the dreams you're telling me to chase Xd
I appreciate and respect your optimism, though it just fricking sucks to not have a girlfriend.
I'm this thread's OP and I'm not white:
Post body
There has to be something in your interactions. Maybe the weight of expectations? Do you feel, when asking a girl to do something that maybe she suspects there's the weight of all the concerns in your adv thread on the request?
Not really, no.
I keep telling myself I'm not ugly and just haven't met the right woman yet.
Though with all the rejections I got in real life, 0 matches on Tinder, Bumble, etc I've been starting to think that I actually might be ugly.
Maybe things will turn around when I'm not living in a student dorm anymore and get my own apartment and a nice car or motorcycle.
I've seen fat (mostly white) guys with cute girlfriends here, though I'm willing to bet they have what I mentioned before (their own apartment with a nice car or motorcycle, maybe more luxury too).
Post tinder/bumble about section
What do you mean about section, my bio?
If that's what you mean, then would you help improving it if I post it?
Can't hurt, if there's something wrong with it, I'm sure somebody will take joy in pointing it out
My bio is pretty much:
>Loves weightlifting, basketball and playing acoustic guitar
>Also good at cooking, baking and loves soccer too
>I'm always up for a party
What should I write instead?
Yea. I wont be up much longer but I have a hard time seeing why you would have a hard time. So just trying to figure it out.
Your amount of matches does not reflect how you're perceived by women. These apps have an incentive to keep you with 0 matches and the hope that "Tomorrow, maybe, I hope" while they make money off of your data.
You're GMI. I know it's a fricking chore, but be patient. You're GMI.
Thanks for the positive reinforcement, bro
It's normal. What matter is that you can ask girls out. So you'll find somebody if you just continue doing it. And it's a good idea to learn how to enjoy women's company just for itself.
Yeah, I wonder if I’ve yet again jumped the gun on things. Who knows anymore.
I’ve tried. Cold approaches don’t get me anywhere, online dating is worthless, and I’m not friends with any girls that’d actually be willing to set me up with someone. I’m not saying you’re not right, it’s just that right now the outlook is bleak. Nice trips, btw.
Thanks, king.
Likewise.
You’d be right, though I’ll admit I’m not the best at living up to it. I met this girl through my church, attended church classes with her, and even attended a special ceremony with her. I’m going to a church-affiliated school, so it pretty much permeates everything out here. There’s not many other girls in my congregation that I feel attracted to enough to ask out, and what few “backups” I had all turned out to be her roommates, and I don’t wanna cause any unnecessary drama.
just based off this post i can tell i dont want to meet you and i cant imagine women finding you attractive.
Damnit meant to reply here
Rejected? Good! You can use this to make mental gains and focus of finding the right woman in the meantime. Another time-waster out of the way!
Stop catastrophizing.
You got rejected once, just move on.
There's plenty of fish in the sea.
The key to finding a woman who loves you is to just not care about finding said woman and work on improving yourself. Eventually you'll find the one or she'll find you. Take it from me anon, I never dated in high school and got to see all my friends fail miserably at relationships. Then when I least expected it I found my girl and we're going to tie the knot sometime next year. Take your time, enjoy being single, learn from other's mistakes when they breakup.
>to get someone you have to not need someone
what's the point then. they may as well frick off at that point. it's like people giving you a discount at a restaurant when you're already rich
I will prayfor you fren. I struggle with not having a gf too but I remember that I shouldn't rely on gf to make me happy. We need to learn to enjoy and care for ourselves so we can spread that positivity to the special girl that God will send our way when we're ready.
Blessed mindset. Have a good day anon. Go hard in the gym.
>I’m this close to giving up on ever finding anyone to love me. Every time I go out and see other people together, happy, it drives a knife through me
Your first mistake is thinking a woman in your life will suddenly make you happy
t. miserable frick who has women enter his life every couple of months only to scare them away with his misantrophic outlook and lifestyle
Its one b***h man, you gotta man up and not let shit like this get to you.
i see that as kind of a win. she didn't ghost you, you actually got a woman to respect you enough to even reply even if it didn't work out. most women aren't capable of the decency to kindly reject somebody after a date with no spark
All you had to do was ignore the rejection text and she would be gobbling your pipe like a starving goldfish in under 48 hours moron.
Stop needing things to work out before you will be happy.
Choose to be happy right now, by thinking nice thoughts most of the time.
She doesn't want to be with you. Cool, move on.
Realistically what was she going to do for you? Suck up your time, make you go on gay day trips and vacations to whothefrickcaresistan to take pictures of her against the sunset drinking wine, and in the end not give you kids.
Just stop caring. Find somebody else to crush on now just to replace her until you realise it wasnt her specifically you needed, its just a goal you are excited to work on, and don't be a moron simp next time.
Just think of it as practice anon, you're learning how to interact with women
Chin up mate. Keep trying.
Before you find a girl who loves you, get the guy in the mirror to love you first
unironically how do you do this
Read the Gospel and understand that God loves you for who you are. If God loves you it makes it harder to hate yourself.
I know this from personal experience
>Therapy is worthless
> other people in my life are worthless.
> Nobody cares about you when you’re a single man.
I understand you are upset but these statements are functionally false. In order to be happy, you need to change these beliefs to be
>therapy is worthless if I give up. If I put in the work and keep at, eventually good things will happen
>everyone has something worthwhile about them, something I can find that I like about them. If I try to look for these things rather than focus on the bad qualities, good things will eventually happen
>the people who care about me for real care about me no matter what, whether I’m successful by societal standards or not. I am worthwhile to the people that matter and if I remember this, I will always feel good enough for this life
These things I’ve said are basically unfalsifiable and humbling to try and gear yourself towards. I struggle as well but you must find a way to try and think this way, it will make life so much better for you
At least she was straight up with you man. I was fricking this smoking hot chick for about a week and then out of no where she cut me off. Literally mid conversation, didn't read my reply and didn't pick up the phone when I called later that day. A few days later I noticed I was blocked on everything. Absolutely no notice or explanation.
I've been lifting for a year and a half and I havent escaped skinnyfat mode.
I appreciate the spreading of hopium, it just makes me wonder what kind of frickup I am.
for me cutting carbs was the catalyst for losing most of my gut. 4x90min lift + 30min cardio/week routine.
tbh could be a factor I suppose. I don't eat much carbs to begin with though. Mostly comes in the form of noodles since I make lemon tuna pasta a few times a week.
have you tried puting the fork down once or twice a day?
Oh I can cut weight easily. I just recently bulked back up to 180 but I was approaching skeleton weight, at 155 5'10. I still looked skinny fat though, but with the added negative of also somehow looking like a skeleton at the same time
YOU NEED WHOLE FOODS BROTHER, CUT OUT THE SLOP. I was talking to the president of the bodybuilding club at our uni how to go from a 4pack to a 6 pack and he said to cut out slop and only eat whole foods. and some other stuff but he said this is rlly important.
just do cardio before + after each lifting session
burn that fat
How consistent are you?
Are you eating enough protein?
How is your sleep?
I lift 4 times a week fairly consistently. Sometimes take a day off here or there.
Possibly not, I try to just get close to my goal amount of 180g
Sleep idk. I get 8 hours but I go to sleep at like 2 or 3am. Don't know if that fricks me or not
I went from fat to skinnyfat in 3 months with a low carb diet. Weekends were normal cal intake whereas weekdays were deficit. It just works.
I'll keep going until 12%.
99% of the time somebody says they are "skinny fat" they're just fat.
Don't worry about it. I've been lifting for 4 years and am still skinnyfat.
> I havent escaped skinnyfat mode.
I was a skinngay like you but running solved this issue big time
you just get insane munchies if you run more than 10 km at a moderate pace
>I've been lifting for a year and a half
post your volume lifting graph
tbh I used to like running but I started grtting knee pain and after I took off running for a bit it went away so its made me hesitant to go running agaain
>mires become so common they don't even register anymore
i just started getting a few mires and please i want it to be permanent
pls tell me this is true
best motivation ever
what is a mire?
also I really fricking hope calisthenics works, gonna try to do it twice a week at least
when people admire you/look at you
thanks, hoping I can keep up the effort to do shit at least twice a week <3
2 days is better than no days my friend, keep it up!
They work, but once you get used to twice a week you should really consider three times a week or more. Unless you are trying very difficult variations the basics (Pushups, pullups, squats, core etc) respond very well to high volume, high frequency for most people. As long as you aren't burning yourself out you can likely do more sooner than you'd think.
>What matter is that you can ask girls out
This is the most important thing here when it comes to interpersonal relationships. Finding happiness alone is fine and good, but the idea that you will simply be 'high value' and people will flock to you is bullshit. Reading at home alone is great, you will not meet people doing it. If you want to meet people and have opportunities to grow friendships and relationships you actually have to go out, meet and interact with people. You do not need to wait until you are 'perfect' before you start this.
thanks, I'll keep that in mind
i may as well ask is there anything else i can use for rows other than tables?
Checked
go slow you don't wanna get tennis elbow
there are some good planche progressions on yt
handstand pushup too
I promise I will stick to the whitepill itt, it's a blind belief. I hope the world carries me once I put in the effort because I'm not in control.
I'm 2 months in, I went from going twice a week to six times a week. I'm maintaining for now, so I still have a lot of fat. I lost 7cm of waist, I'm a manlet so that's a lot for me. I know I'm mostly bloated with water in my muscles but changes are already visible. My diet is clean, I only eat low glycemic index carbs and hit all my macros. I'm taking photos too but I still look like crap.
I just want a girl to love me.
Why do you think you need a woman? And why are you so worried about being alone? Since you are so down on yourself any woman you get right now won't be worth marriage.
You have the right idea with not caring as much. It's not so bad to be alone. We put too much energy into always seeking the presence of another. Especially men seeking women. I'd say it's unhealthy to spend too much time with other people.
It will be ok, just embrace the freedom of being alone (not by being a prostitute). It becomes a lot harder to not eat food for a week, or disappear into the forest for the whole weekend when you have someone you are discerning marriage of.(again, if you plan to be much better than now, you will soon qualify for a much better woman so why waste your time with these ones?)
Meant to reply to:
I guess it stems from the natural inclination to have that deeper connection with someone, to feel that intimacy, and to eventually reproduce. I also believe strongly in the eternity of marriage and would like to spend eternity with my family, but I don’t want to have to wait until I’m dead to find someone. I’ve never had a girlfriend, never been hugged in a romantic context, never been kissed, never even held hands or heard a girl tell me they love me. I’ll admit that some of the girls I had a thing for ended up being worthless but this one I felt was really special. She’s very driven, much more spiritual than me, and it makes me feel like I’m worthless or “not good enough” for someone like that if they reject me.
I’ve struggled for years with a pornography addiction and had recently made strides in fixing that and getting in shape, and I even got my permissions back to attend certain ceremonies in my church. I’ve long struggled with the idea of not being allowed to enjoy things if someone who rejected me also liked them, and this is pretty much the hardest one of all to overcome. Someone as spiritually and academically committed as her rejecting me makes me feel like I’m not allowed to ever feel that pride in success academically or that spiritual connection with God I long for.
It’s like there’s a party and I’m not invited to it, if you get what I mean.
Now deep down, I know these voices are coming from the evil old son of a b***h himself, and not from God, and that I need to be strong and draw near to Him now more than ever, but it’s a rough road.
Good mindset to hold. Thank you.
You want to be the Chad sun being orbited by women, not a beta virgin Moon orbiting women
Women are planets chads the sun and virgins are moons
Be a sun anon, shine bright
Guess if I’m gonna shine like the sun, I’m gonna have to burn like it too. Thank you all for your words. I’m doing a little better today but still angry/sad. Gonna take an Anatomy test and then go lift and start getting back on my feet. WAGMI.
She's not as driven and motivated and spiritiual as you might think. Forget her, keep lifting. You need to become comfortable with the idea that you can purchase sex if you are desperate and being single for the rest of your life wouldn't be that bad. Only then will you want a woman as opposed to need one.
Women are more emontional, less driven and less dedicated then men. They are your inferiors and it is your duty to protect the good ones and discard the bad ones.
YGMI- It is inevitable if you work harder than 90% of the population over the course of years and decades.
I'm worried about being alone because I'm legitimately scared of growing old and then getting showed into some care home where I'll get abused. I knew a lonely person who literally died in a care home because she wasn't given proper care and wasn't moved until she developed sepsis. This is pretty much one of my primary justifications for suicide
Is working out after a bad night of sleep bad for you? I layer in waiting to sleep and my mind couldn’t do it. Now the sun is rising and I’m still awake.
If you can focus on your form, any workout is better than none. You will just perform worse and get less gains. Take care of your sleep, but don't skip days if you can work out and keep form. Even drop weights if you have to.
guys should I lift every single day?
and how do I cause my arms to get wider?
and what and how much should I eat (I don't like eggs and cooked vegetables)
>guys should I lift every single day?
Yes, but not too intensely or you'll injure yourself
>and what and how much should I eat
Meat, oats, vegetables (just eat them), good quantities
so if I lift every day, it won't be a problem for them to grow? 30 min sessions each day would be good enough?
Daily lifts are better than 2 days of meme lifts a week
You can be active every day but you shouldn't do heavy weightlifting every day if you're natty, you need time to recover.
shaved my head today lads, I'm ugly, have gay alien skull and am still a bit overweight / generally out of shape but I feel so much better for it than trying to cling onto my thinning / receding hair, I feel like I've got my drive for life again. WAGMI
>verification not required
based baldpill taker
lmao thanks, haven't told the gf yet but I've seen some friends who said that it actually suits me, and just finished training muay thai for the evening and my coach said "you've finally got an actual good haircut"
You look fine, don't be moronic. If you have okay beard genetics, a maintained stubble look would compliment your face really well. Just shave the lower neck up to/below your adam's apple, and then run a trimmer over your face to keep everything somewhere between 3-5mm depending on what you like.
I appreciate the compliment but I think for me it's a losing battle, I'm 23 and picrel was taken like a month ago. I did consider pulling out the stops and doing fin/min etc but came to the conclusion that I'd be constantly worrying about if I was losing it or not, so I'd rather just accept the hit to my looks, quit while I'm ahead and move on with my life. I know he's a bit controversial here but watching that baldcafe guy on youtube actually helped me out a lot mentally, even though I'm not at JUST territory yet. Also I think I'm alright on the beard genetics, my father has full stubble and although mines doesn't connect yet I used to rock a proper magnum PI stache so I think I'll grow that out again
do your thing but it really wasn't that bad
It doesn't look that bad....
Have you considered a hair transplant? How much does one of those cost, anyway?
You can shave it and take fin never the less
trein neck
from what labor camp are you?
Sweat saves blood, blood saves lives
Every rep you take is one rep closer to the goals you have
Consistency beats intensity
You gotta do something to be something
You can teach talent, you can’t teach heart
1x365=365
0x365=0
When you’re ready to quit, you’ve only given 40%
And my favorite
>if it’s easy to get it’s easy to lose
I'm new to IST, am depressed and want to get a sixpack and change my thin arms into musculair arms. How do I do it IST. Please provide the steps I'll have to follow.
80% diet 20% exercise
Find a program that works for you
Consistency beats intensity
You have to workout a lot but you need to eat a lot to get bigger
Workout intensely
3-6 range for hypertrophy
8-12 range for strength
Takes 4+ years of dialed in training and diet to transform into a Chad and even then it all comes down to how hard you work
You cannot slack off, and if you come here everyday for support and tips anons will be there to give it
We’re all the biggest versions of ourselves
Refer to
for super cool sayings to tell yourself
Do not give up you are not alone
Blessed thread, I'm surprised at the quality of the exchanges here. WAGMI.
Im down 45 pounds in 2 months, my goal is to lost at least 30 pound by the end of April
It's gonna be a tight squeeze, the more you lose the harder it is to lose, due to your decreased BMR. Don't be too disappointed if you don't reach the target. good luck nonetheless.
i fricking love you guys.
you're awesome and we're all gonna make it
keep being amazing IST
you too fren
>can't do curls without getting forearm pain
>can't squats without getting groin pain
>can't do pull ups without getting wrist pain
>can't go running without getting pain in shins
>can't do rows without getting lower back pain
>can't do OHP without getting shoulder/wrist pain
>can't deadlift without getting lower back pain
>can't go bouldering without getting pain in wrists
>can't do ANYTHING without tendinitis in wrist flaring up even though it's been 5 months and it still won't go away like it was supposed to
Why did God decide to make me such a pussy.
>>can't do curls without getting forearm pain
do high reps, use wrist wraps, no cheating with back/hips/raising elbows, slow eccentric and pauses on every rep, use an ez bar instead of a straight bar if talking barbell curls
>>can't squats without getting groin pain
do adductor machine/weighted tailor's pose (performed dynamically, not as a stretch)/seated good mornings
>>can't do pull ups without getting wrist pain
thumbless grip
>>can't go running without getting pain in shins
train soleus/tibialis anterior, also look into petersen stepups, heard that those help a bit with shin pain as well. besides that build into running slowly, start with very short distances and build it up over time so that you don't exceed the tissue's capacity to tolerate load
>>can't do rows without getting lower back pain
back extensions, dead hangs, general ab work, and maybe work on your bracing
>>can't do OHP without getting shoulder/wrist pain
make sure your wrists are straight on OHP, also use wrist wraps. for shoulders, do dead hangs, shoulder dislocations, rear delt work, lower trap work, and external rotation work. also do lots of rowing, and do whatever movements you can that involve the shoulder joints that don't produce any pain so that you can strengthen those ranges of motion
>>can't deadlift without getting lower back pain
same thing as rows, only other exercises i can offer are seated good mornings, full ROM RDLs, and maybe jefferson curls. load management might be something you'll have to look into as well, you could just be doing too much. or your bracing might be shit, could be that too
>>can't go bouldering without getting pain in wrists
>>can't do ANYTHING without tendinitis in wrist flaring up even though it's been 5 months and it still won't go away like it was supposed to
train wrist flexion/extension, finger extension, radial/ulnar deviation, and supination/pronation. yes it's fricking annoying but it's what you have to do to deal with that crap.
cont.
Thanks anon. I'll do my best.
forgot some stuff
>>can't do curls without getting forearm pain
do exclusively high reps here as well
>>can't do pull ups without getting wrist pain
if thumbless grip doesn't work try using straps, it's a bit goofy on pullups but it might work
>also do lots of rowing
doesn't have to be barbell rows, spamming chest supported rows or inverted rows would work well
>finger extension
for this you can either put a rubber band around your fingers and do finger extensions, or you can stick your hand in a bucket of rice or sand and do finger extensions in there instead
Please share with us more lifting wisdom anon
well what is it that you want specifically? I'm always in these threads (since I'm the one posting them right now) so you can ask whenever lol
To be honest I’m not looking for any specific advice but i’ll keep that in mind for the future, ty very knowledgeable fren
No problem bro, I'll drop some of the stuff that I learnt today regardless
>cheat reps > myo reps on barbell curls, go to failure with autistically strict technique, then cheat just enough to get the weight up before going through the eccentric with strict technique. do as many as possible until you can't tolerate the pain anymore or you can't control the eccentric anymore, the latter is preferable but it might take time to build up to since you'll end up doing like 20-30 total reps. YMMV but this fried the shit out of my biceps today
>ez bar incline overhead tricep extensions are great, no idea why I never tried doing these before but they don't hurt my elbows and I feel my triceps a ton. bit of a "try it for yourself and see how it goes" recommendation since tricep exercises are very individual, you just want to find the shit that doesn't destroy your elbows and spam that. EG I don't recommend barbell overhead tricep extensions very often because I think I'm just an outlier in that they don't hurt my elbows while all the other variants (db, ez bar, tricep bar, etc) hurt my elbows for some reason
>training with no music seems to be optimal for me on upper body days, very random but that's the conclusion I've come to thus far. music seems to help me out on lower body days tho
These are all somewhat specific to me so you'll have to test them out for yourself to see if they apply to you, but I think they'll still be helpful regardless
get your wrist extension strength to be 50% of your wrist flexion strength, get your radial/ulnar deviation strength to be about equal, and get your supination/pronation strength to be about equal while also improving ROM significantly. obviously try to get much stronger on all of those movements, but keeping them in balance is also important.
yes this is a lot of shit, so fix 1-3 issues at a time instead of trying to do them all at once. YMMV ofc, good luck
>can't squats without getting groin pain
Do cobbler's poses every day, on your back.
These will help over time, also just do yoga, pilates, tai chi or whatever floats your boat to supplement strength training.
All of those help with flexibility, mobility and are easy to do anywhere.
Also clubs and maces are easy to make yourself and are huge help for shoulders, neck and back.
360's with a 6kg sledgehammer will fix your entire torso, pose and shoulders, wrists, elbows + forearm and grip gains for days.
Weirdly specifically relatable. I get groin/hip/back pain for lower body lifts and elbow tendonitis pain for everything upper body. Also shin pain for anything impact. Have been alternating between looking for solutions and getting discouraged / giving up for 6 years.
Five foot seven
sw was 260
cw is 196.2
gw is 160
fasting and weightlifting are your friends. cico is not a meme. take it slow, and stop making excuses. you can do this anon.
18 years old 1.5 years of lifting how to escape dyel skinny fat mode in less than 6 months like white pill thread says and get 1/2/3/4
Cut and consume plenty of protein. The protein part is especially important if you don't want to lose muscle mass, and judging by the great gains you've made since you've started you probably don't. If you cut properly you should be able to escape skinny fat mode in 6 months easily. As far as 1/2/3/4 goes I can't really make a judgement as I don't know how much you lift currenty.
roids
Maybe try bulking (1-2lb a month, 3 max) then do a 4-6 week mini-cut (should be faster than a normal cut due to the short duration) whenever you start getting too fat (since you can't gain too much weight since you aren't lean enough to bulk up a ton). Recomping out of skinnyfat can work but it probably takes longer so maybe give this approach a shot.
Is there some full body stretching routine I can do? Preferably around 10-15 minutes since thats as much as I can spare.
I think you'll find what you're looking for on youtube, for me personally I just train through a full range of motion on my lifts and at the end of a session I stretch the muscles that seem to be stubborn for whatever reason. What I can recommend though is that in many cases going with a simpler routine can end up granting better results due to better adherence, eg a super complicated squat mobility routine that addresses each individual joint might be outclassed by just sitting in the bottom of an ATG squat for 5-10 minutes a day and doing a bunch of banded dislocations every day simply because you'll adhere to the latter routine much better than the former
I'll tell you what I've been doing ever since I hurt myself DLing as a former yogagay so I'm pretty flexible but none of these is particularly tough:
>straddle stretch (make sure to touch your right foot with your left arm and vice versa)
>figure 4s
>single leg prone splits
>pendulum leg swings
>cobra pose
This is mostly focused on lower back shit but you can add a couple of stretches if you want
being white is a whitepill.
Hey bros on my way to the gym, could anyone give me some advice on cutting bread? Is couscous and rice an ok substitute?
Rice is always great as a primary carb source, can never go wrong with that
Best thread on IST. Dare I say, best thread on IST.
WAGMI.
Check'd, these are consistently the best threads on here
checked and agreed. I'm always looking forward to browsing these threads at the end of my day
WAGMI
>>you can escape skinnyfat mode in less than six months
>>it takes less than a year for people to notice you lift
as a beginner is piss easy, everything works
>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
>muscle building genetics don't matter in everyday life, being consistent in the gym is what makes the difference
>being motivated by hope and love is much more effective than being motivated by anger
moronic Black person-tier demoralization thread.
frick you
>you can escape skinnyfat mode in less than six months
bro I did it, granted I'm still a dyel but the change is nothing short of surprising even for me
You didn't do shit, you lying homosexual.
>lift
>cut
>stop being skinnyfat and be just skinny yet with more muscle mass than you were before
it's not rocket science
Seethe more
After barely 1 year of lifting I am no longer ashamed of my body, it feels great lads. I can finally look at myself in the mirror and go to the beach.
It took me way too long to feel like this.
WAGMI
Without GutsAnon this is just a blackpill thread
The spirit of him remains here and within all of us
He's not the only one leading us into a brighter future, and he'll be back at some point regardless
>Proverbs 23:18. Surely there is a future, and your hope will not be cut off.
there is hope
not everything is lost
https://mega.nz/folder/v6AzSDSJ#9nFO3qrNGUEKs3M-uMFfuw
Key invalid anon
no idea why, but the weblink gets a line break
it is one long weblink, at least for me it works with just clicking on it
might be different depending on the used browser
Maybe this works
>https://mega.nz/folder/v6AzSDSJ#9nFO3qrNGUEKs3M-uMFfuw
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haven't seen that wallpaper in a solid decade lol
Bump
The nutrition of this one's got me confused. Where is the protein coming from? I understand the milk, that's about 12 oz which is 12 g protein. A weetabix biscuit has 2 g protein. Wht about the rest?
Second, why the hell does his cacao powder have so many calories? He says it's 3 tbsp. My cacao powder has 10 calories per tablespoon. Something's not right here.
>A weetabix biscuit has 2 g protein.
There's 4 of them, and according to cronometer that gives 9g of protein. The apricots give 2.6g according to cronometer, and the cacao gives a bit over 8g. Math checks out
>Second, why the hell does his cacao powder have so many calories? He says it's 3 tbsp. My cacao powder has 10 calories per tablespoon. Something's not right here.
Are you confusing tbsp with tsp? According to cronometer 1 tbsp of cacao is 38 calories, and a tsp is (roughly) 1/3 of a tbsp I think, so that works out to be a bit over 12 calories per tsp, which is close enough since obviously there will be some variance depending on the brand.
This is what my container of unsweetened cacao says for the nutrition facts. 3 tbsp gets you 30 calories and not even 3g protein with this stuff. The rest makes sense I suppose.
That's weird, mine says 1 tbsp is 10g. The hell is going on here? Strange
Check the ingredients. Is it just cocoa? Might be some filler, or maybe some other part of the plant. Fucling weird either way. Still gonns test it out.
It just says organic cacao powder, and I doubt there's anything else in it because it tastes even more like chocolate than the 95% cocoa chocolate that I was eating at one point. Looks about right as well.
>Still gonns test it out.
Lmk how it goes
>because it tastes even more like chocolate than the 95% cocoa chocolate that I was eating at one point.
And to clarify on this I mean that there's certainly no added sugar or whatever in this thing, it's very bitter (which I like, I always preferred 95% cocao stuff over 70% and lower). If protein still seems to be a concern you can just add whey protein or whatever and you'll be fine
Turned out really good. I used oatmeal, cannedd peaches, and half a scoop of vanilla whey for some extra protein. Definitely gonna make it for breakfast more often now.
Great stuff bro, glad it worked out well
good grief. I know most of you are young but for frick's sake, learn how to cook. It's a valuable life skill and you won't have to resort to eating slop like this
I will literally eat almost anything so long as the meal is made up of whole foods instead of highly processed garbage, I don't really care about the taste. That meal fills out a lot of my micros (namely magnesium, potassium, boron, and a few others as well as some of the other shit in the cacao like theobromine) so I'm not gonna stop eating it for that reason. Plus it's very convenient for me to make because the last thing I want to do is cook food at 6 in the morning, and I actually think it tastes really good, and while that isn't too important to me, it is still a benefit since it allows me to eat it more quickly (I was a slow eater growing up, as in I would only get halfway through a sandwich in 30 minutes when I was a kid, but I eat that entire bowl in like 8 minutes lol)
Anytips on how not to panic or shutdown when you reencounter / see someone who's hurt you?
Idk how to take the power back, guess they're still and idol of sorts in my mind but what they did was cruel
I am going to make it, and if (You) are reading this currently then SO ARE YOU!
since we're talking about gfs
>be me
>completely hopeless
>lift, lose weight, get in shape
>go back to my hometown
>meet up with old friend of mine
>notice she's miring, we get tipsy
>have seggs with her
>months pass, we talk every day
>we don't talk about sex
>weird tension all the time but I'm an autist and I don't do well with subtle signals
>a couple of weeks ago she tells me she can't stop thinking about me with a poem she wrote
>I take the first plane and we don't leave the bed for three days
The moral of the story is lifting is based and there are still weirdly loving women out there. WAGMI bros.
I'm currently living with the gf. Met her about 10 years ago playing tabletop rpgs, never really hung out. Then met randomly about 2 years back, went about the same. Living happy now.
Amazing story anon, wishing you guys the best!
Jens, is that you?
I'm getting back to it on monday after 2-3 weeks off due to an injury. Very excited.
I need to stop skipping leg day, but I just hate it so much.
Also I wish I could escape fatfat mode, but I keep snacking on chips like a dumbass. At least I'm getting stronger than I was previously.
WE’RE ALL GONNA MAKEEEEE IIIIITTTTTT GRRRAAAAAAWWWW
How come none of you guys post the ancestry appreciation post when I'm not around? I do think ancestry appreciation an important part of whitepilling
Race?
me? white, Anglo-Saxon. But like I said, ancestry appreciation is for everyone.
>ancestry appreciation
>taking pride in something you had zero control over
jew
I think you're confusing "being proud" with "taking credit" fren
Pride is good in the right context. White goyim should keep being raped while everyone else is proud of being israeli or Brown Golem!
You are supossed to build over the achievements that brought where you are. Continue the legacy.
it is in here
just share it yourself <3
No, what I meant was posting the extra
"As an extension of the whitepill thread, this is now also an ancestry appreciation thread. Post the achievements of your ancestors that you're proud of.
It is my firm belief that no matter where you came from, what your race or religion is, you have ancestors that by today's standards were absolute gigachads that you can be proud of.
Not proud of in the /misc/troon way, where you are a fat NEET in your mom's basement taking credit for the deeds of your ancestors that you had no part in.
Proud as in they fuel your lifts, inspire you to lift and live a better life. Imagine your ancestors watching you, being proud that you're carrying on their legacy that most of your people has forgotten.
Post 'em, kings." alongside picrelated. I'm currently on my phone so I don't have the pic. I was hoping someone else would post that since I was taking time off IST
>doesn't include Black folk
Kek
He mentions Africa tribesmen, but if you're referring to the Basketball Americans then yeah there's nothing from them lol.
well if you do really stretch it, Basketball americans have a lot of people like Malcolm X, Mohammad Ali, MLK, Fredrick Douglass to look up to, but ofc their IQs are too small for that.
Can I get some genuine advice? IDC if you roast me but I've been reading contradicting advice constantly.
Pic is me, 182cm/81 kg/27 years old, Until 3 months ago I've never lifted or been athletic in my life and worked a desk job.
I've been doing Stronglifts 5x5 but I've been on a deficit of 1500 calories and gone from 86kg -> 81kg but I am plateauing HARD. I've read I should be able to make OK progress even on a 'cut' but my lifts are WEAK and I am stalled
S/B/D is 70/50/100 Kg which is weak as hell right, I shouldn't be stalling at this even on a big deficit? Could there be something medically wrong with me if I'm stalling so soon?
Anyway, my plan is to just keep 'cutting' until I'm low body fat so I can bulk cleanly and hopefully actually be able to increase my lifts. Does that plan sound OK? anything else I can do?
Also am I like 25% body fat? Should I go to 15% before I bulk?
You shouldn’t expect to perform well at the gym while 1500 calories below your maintenance
>Should I go to 15% before I bulk?
If you want to look like a dyel for the next 2-3 years sure go ahead
What should I do then?
I want to get strong but I don't want to be fat as frick which I'm pretty sure I would be if I started bulking when I'm already fat?
Just lift and eat. Don't even bother counting calories (for bulking or cutting). Let your body sort the composition out while you focus on pumping up your numbers, and after you reach respectable lifts, then decide if it's time to cut.
Eat plenty of protein, good fats, and fibrous veggies. Once you get an idea of how much meat gets you enough protein, just eat roughly that much every day. Supplement with whey or something if you need to.
Body composition is multi-variable -- you have fat, muscle, water, and even your fricking bones. Even if you don't gain weight, if your lifts are going up, that means your composition is coming out more favorably.
Just focus on the long-haul and don't try to min-max right out the gate. I did that for pretty much all of last year, and wound up with pretty much nothing to show for it. 3 months of lifting should have landed me better numbers, and yet I could barely bench my bodyweight of 145lbs before life fricked me up.
Take it slow. Enjoy the ride. Eat. Lift. Re-evaluate no earlier than 6 months from now.
>don't try to min-max right out the gate.
This is very important, your training should gradually improve over time instead of trying to find as much information as possible and mish-mashing it into a frankenstein abomination of a program. I think that getting information from experience is better anyway since it is entirely applicable to you- if you find that eating a banana before training seems to make you train better, do that, if pause bench seems to develop your chest better than normal bench, do that, etc etc. Though I've learnt a lot from external sources of information, I'd say that a solid 50% or more of the stuff I've learnt when it comes to lifting originates from my own experiences, which is how it should be.
Is there anything you can do to improve your outside of training variables? It could just be that you need to dial in your other stuff more to keep progressing while being in a large caloric deficit (sleep, hydration, micronutrients, NEAT, etc). Of course there's your training as well, it might just be that you can't progress on a novice program while being in such a large caloric deficit, but maybe something a bit more advanced (daily undulating etc) could allow you to keep progressing. Not really sure tbh, getting the weight off so that you can bulk should be your priority anyway since that'll allow you to progress much more quickly regardless of the other variables.
1500 calories deficit is very impressive, but it's just too much anon.
I did 1000 a day for months on end, so I know that it's doable if you have a strong will, but it's also detrimental to your mental health, hormones and, as you're finding out, strength.
Being lean is very important to me, so I understand your drive, but maintaining, or even a modest deficit of 500 on a clean diet would go the furthest toward building mass.
I bulked for a year before I got down to 12% and stayed there, and I think if you're only 3 months in, you'd have good results doing this.
You're doing really good work, just consider easing up on your cut, at least eat fatty meat to maintainance a couple of times a week. I think you'll feel the benefits, but expecting to progressively overload in such an extreme deficit is asking too much of yourself
Want some genuine advice? Shave your nipples bro
You either have chest hair or you don’t but whatever your doing there in between doesn’t work
Strange question, but how do I stop giving a frick about training in front of other people. On days I don't lift, I do very light calisthenic work to just keep active. I was doing pushups on my knees in plain view of my open windows and when a neighbor walked by (not even looking in the window), I jumped up and scurried away trying to hide.
I was in my own goddamn place, and yet I didn't feel comfortable enough to do anything. How do I beat that mental gains goblin?
When something like that happens, you need to stop and think "Will this person even think about this in 5 years?" The answer of course will be no, since that person probably won't even think about that in a week's time let alone 5 years, so there is no problem.
Also pic rel
I get that. Right after, I took a moment and tried the 5 why procedure.
>"why did I do that"
>I'm worried about her opinion of me
>"why"
>because other people's opinions are important to me
>"why"
>because I don't have a strong sense of self esteem
>"why"
>because I do not feel accomplished with what I have
>"why"
>because I feel like I can work harder
>"so what can you do about this?"
>work harder to build my own self esteem and be detached from the opinions of others
What really helped for me is allowing myself to criticise others.
Due to my repressed Anglo upbringing, I was deathly afraid of others' rejection until I fixed my self esteem and realised actually everybody is pretty glaringly imperfect if you just look for it.
Of course it's not a very nice way to live, looking st people's faults, but once you allow yourself to look upon others with disdain, you can get around to noticing flaws passively and it makes you stop caring so much about how you might look to them.
You don't even need to be a jerk about it either.
>rate girls that you walk past
not on an objective scale like
>people would probably say she's hot
but on your own scale
>not my type, others would call her an 8 but for me more like a 3
Once you get used to this, you stop being self conscious around girls you don't rate highly.
Then do it for men, too. It's very liberating.
It turned out that I put too much stock in women's opinions because I was scared of being rejected by any woman.
I had a very warped view of what a "real man" was, because all of my bullies were short, fat and had a bad attitude, so to me, bad tempered tradesmen were the epitome of male authority, despite being pear shaped, weak and 5'4.
Try some weird methods to break out of whatever conditioning made you like this.
Stop overthinking.
I am whitepilled on everything in life but women.
Not going to blogpost but it's becoming increasingly hard to cope with having no one to share my life with.
I don't even care about sex which I've had, but I'd like for ONCE to be loved for who I am.
You gotta love yourself first bro
I do enjoy my own company, it's just not enough sometimes.
Nta but thats sort of the problem, man.
If you need a girl in your life, they can sense it and they'll lose interest, because you're too sure of a thing.
They want to meet a guy who's content and living a full life that makes him happy and rich, then get him to notice them.
They're not all conniving harpies, but they all sort of work this way, innocently or manipulatively, they are all looking for a comfortable, aspirational ticket to a better life.
Is that you? That might be why.
Until you are at a point where you are situated and considering letting somebody climb aboard, you're just going to get chewed up.
That doesn't mean you have to be rich and let somebody leech off you, but you have to feel complete and then decide if you're willing to let somebody share that.
I get what you mean. I think it all lies in how I can make them understand that without them I have a very good life but sharing it would make it even better.
I guess my autistic ass still has work to do.
Checked.
We all do, this is a relatively recent learning for me too, because I married young and never learned to just love being alone, which made me needy for many years.
We're gonna make it, you have a good heart anon.
>sharing it would make it even better
"Sharing it might be fun, too."
You don't need anybody to improve your lot.
>"what is she doing to be good enough for me?"
You are the prize, bro. Believe it, because they sure as frick do, from birth, with zero justification.
>you don't need anyone to improve your lot
I can't jack off forever anon, and I refuse to frick people just for the sake of fricking.
Okay, but i'm just asking that you stop thinking in terms of "need", and start thinking in terms of "want".
Because "want" can walk away from bad deals, can self-advocate, can evaluate and decide for himself.
Get yourself around to just wanting.
Step 1: love yourself
Step 2: become a Roman catholic and join a community
>"Just join a club to make friends bro"
>Try multiple clubs, make no friends
I'm done, normies genuinely don't understand what it's like to start from zero. I'm pretty sure that social succes is either something you have or something you don't, and trying to explain it is like trying to explain purple to someone who was born blind.
I'm seeing a therapist, but I'm pretty sure the best he can do for me is pain management. That's my life from now on: pain management and then I die, which is all I can look forward to.
Do you like medieval stuff at all? Try the SCA (Society for Creative Anachronism), or, as it's sometimes called, Socially Challenged Adults, or Society of Consenting Adults. Lots of weird and disgusting autists and shit but there are cool people too and even attractive girls sometimes.
Just be careful though because for lots of these people the SCA is literally their whole life, their entire identity lol.
Oh hey that's the thing the Wizardry guys were in. Came up in Wizardry 4.
I had to practice for years. Watch charisma university on YouTube to learn social behavior and practice. Join a martial arts gym to gain confidence and learn to be OK with touch and your body. Do improve to enhance social skills.
Also, figure out what you like and where to find suitable people. The two best things there for me where 1) start a libertarian telegram group. We are all pro market right wingers now and share the same kind of autism. We meet several times a year and have a great time. A-m-a-z-i-n-g. All I ever did was to push a button. 2) get into the local catholic community. It helps me spiritually, but I also like the people a lot. No clown world, everybody relatively straight in the head. Just getting into this but maybe I can even find me a wife there to have a family with.
Any ADHDtards here hack your brain and go from 0hr studies, to a consistent and disciplined student? Vyvanse hasn't helped me at all. Idk what to do next. Or more specifically, I know exactly what I have to do, but there's this "wall" between me and just sitting in front of my work I need to do that I can't put my finger on. I wish I could flip a switch in my brain and just autopilot studying for 16 hours/day. God forgot to install the ability to execute tasks in my brain
Bee consistent everyday and understand you arent a machine
For me it really helps going to the library to study I still waste a lot of time but at least I get some shit done by changing my setting. Also having a study partner really helps with accountability you don’t even have to study together just tell a classmate or a friend what you want to get done for that day, this also makes you set concrete goals instead of vague ones like just “studying”.
Undertand that if you are not used to work like this it will take time to get used to and to find out what works for you, just like lifting. Keep at it and good luck anon.
Thanks frens. One step forward at a time, even if it's just small study sessions. I'll make you proud
The little forest app actually helped me a lot, you have to finish your focus time to plant a cute tree and it will stop you when you try to use your phone during the study time
Stop being an autistic moron, for one. Why would you think life works like this
> I wish I could flip a switch in my brain and just autopilot studying for 16 hours/day.
for ANYONE!?
I don't even believe you have ADHD since ADHD isn't real, but that's beside the point since even the least ADHD person in the universe can't go from 0 to 16 at the flip of a switch. So what makes you think you with your self-admitted problems could? Fricking dumbass.
Just try consistently. Start with 1 hour if that's all you can do. Go up to 2, 3, 4 over time. And take complete days off. If it takes you months to develop consistent habits then that's what it takes. It's still more than you would've accomplished otherwise. Your aim right now should not be to reach whatever "optimal schedule" you can fantasize about in your head. It's to improve slightly over the previous week.
Also, studying 16 hours a day is for Chinese bugmen anyway, so idk why you'd want that. Are you even white?
Im ngl I found these posts very inspirational
Also, literally EVERYONE experiences this
>there's this "wall" between me and just sitting in front of my work I need to do that I can't put my finger on
>God forgot to install the ability to execute tasks in my brain
the answer to it is "deal with it".
I hate this modern idea that you must have a MENTAL ILLNESS or something wrong with you if boring, repetitive tasks aren't something you feel intense happiness and joy from doing. NO ONE DOES. They just suck it up. Life isn't a constant thrill ride of only fun experiences one after another. Your brain isn't faulty and no drug is going to make life like that.
You force yourself to do it, and over time it gets easier. That's life. That's why everone keeps going on about the importance of goals or dreams or aspirations. Because the day-to-day grind is guaranteed to be shit. You must develop a reason to make yourself do it. If you don't have one, find one or commit suicide. No doctor or IST anon can spoonfeed it to you.
Have you never stopped to wonder why literally every world religion regardless of region, race, culture, era etc. all have some variation of "life is suffering" at the center of them? It's because it's true. Everyone just took it for granted until TV and more recently social media started filling their head with fake ideas of fake lives full of happiness and fun fun fun.
Study 30 minutes, take a 5 minute break
Have a study room (not bedroom, kitchen, etc.)
Get Sleep
As a Med student i am learning this things personally:
- dont passive read
- dont give a frick about the books in the curriculum, they're only good for the Humanities and/or you already know a lot about it and are confident it's a subject you memorize easily: for me those big ass books are traps that caught me in the beginning of the semester "this time I will learn a lot from this big bookie" - only to spen hours reading it and then getting demotivated nothing had entered my brain
- the degree is a marathon, but how you perform in the last sprint (aka exam season) can break or make it TOTALLY. Dont be like me who was super energetic in the beginning, read a lot, wasted my ass, and then totally quit by the exam season - the people who spend half the semester partying and then cram before the exams arent lazy, they actually know a lot more than you about how it works for them.
after years of thinking i couldnt memorize verbatim i just restarted doing that and makes studying in college much more fun. Of course i didnt find things interesting when passively reading, and apparently noone does unless they're interested in the content. Forcing myself to memorize the text even if i forget some minor linking words doesnt take much longer, forces me to review and self test, and activates my focus a lot more. It makes it a lot more flavorful - and apparently every bimbo and himbo of my class was secretly doing it and I was just wasting my time thinking that passive reading a massive shit pile of books was actually a reliable testing method. And btw,
this is nice too because it gives a greater sense of accountability.
*these things
I love these threads so much, bros.
But I've reached the point that I need to get off 4chinz for good. I've tried cold turkey, but the habit is too ingrained in me to do that.
I guess I need to take it one day at a time.
Try cold turkey, the software. Worked for me.
Well, I realize I'm here right now, but I just logged in to log my weight on /fat/. Spending 15 minutes a week on IST is not the problem that 12 hours a day was.
I got Freedom, which essentially is the same thing but can be synced more easily with phone usage. I just keep inconsistently using it.
I talked to the student counselor at college about re-enrolling years after dropping out.
Yesterday I got an email that the dean approved my plan and I can start again next fall. Well, I can start completing some simple stuff independently online right now.
My life is still a mess but at least now there's a reason to think it might get better in the future. Well two reasons, because I'm also hitting new PRs at the gym.
Should I run to get rid of belly fat? I'm also training my abs and biceps btw
israelite mod/jannie invasion thread!:
https://archived.moe/fit/thread/70389048/
they are forcing this moronic general for shitskin prostitutes and deleting any post that so much as criticizes any of them.
kys incel
you shitskins are all going to be killed in the collapse
Just don't click on the thread Black person
not your personal army, homosexual
>being motivated by hope and love is much more effective than being motivated by anger
Not too sure about that, fren.
Personally I've gotten better results when I'm slightly pissed off.
This board is beyond redemption.Just move to IST and post off topic
the internet is beyond redemption
society is beyond redemption
it's all this, everywhere all the time
braindead animals circlejerking and being hostile to anyone who wants to get anything real done
it all has to go, there is no shelter, you cannot run, it has to be CONFRONTED
I just want to say that Sportsvorschrift_Fur_Das_Heer is a free book and is a great beginner plan for making friends and becoming a hero
Good choice in reading material
thanks anon I just found it and wanted to share it
Based, I'm gonna read it during my break at work. Thanks fren.
what did you think anon is worth a read
Yup, I liked it
Thanks anon,
I will read it
i know this isnt the right board to ask about this but anons who are more experienced
how to deal with rejection? what the frick did you do the first time you got rejected?
am i being gay for acting so depressed after getting rejected for the first time in my life or is this a normal thing to happen? its killing my gains in the gym
It's normal to feel down after rejection. The first step is to stop beating yourself up and accept that it's just another part of life. It's better to fail than to not try at all, be proud of making the effort to put yourself out there
You need to learn outcome independence. It's a kind of meme concept that is often discussed in the PUA circles, but the idea is that when you do something you focus on the act of doing it, not what on the potential result. It can be applied to a lot of elements in life where rejection is critical (e.g., job interviews) but is crucial for meeting women.
It takes time to build up, but learning to be mindful about approaching as a process relieves pressure and allows you to have fun with it. Like if you've never thought about talking with a woman about a time when you shit your pants a kid, if you think it's a funny story and don't give a frick about whether you see this girl again it can be a game changer in terms of making a connection and filtering her out, which is the other element to start embodying.
Look at rejection as a filter that benefits you rather than hurts you. Time is precious, and if you have someone stringing you along to waste your time, you'd feel just as bad about the actual matter of being rejected but worse when time is accounted for. So instead begin viewing the rejection as a "well that saved me a bunch of time with someone not right for me". It's not even a cope, it's just a reality perspective.
I might hit my 1pl8 OHP by next year, I'm excited
great photo
Just here to check these quints
I got quint checking duds I have a feeling tomorrow will be great day for my gains
Why were quints spilt here? How can Cado's power be wasted so?
It is not a waste, are good uncle is looking nice
>How can Cado's power be wasted so?
'cado is powering up for the sextuples
just you wait
this is proof you should read this book
Do it for him
Girlfriend just left me. Said we were not connected on that 'deeper' level. Fricking stupid roastie is 29 lmao hope she gets ran through and becomes a single mom.
women don't have a deeper level
>Said we were not connected on that 'deeper' level
>29
>still finding 'deeper connection' with roasted body and soul.
modern rhetoric no?
CICO baby
also
gaining fitness to improve your performance in sport you love and are passionate about > lifting for pussy
Bros, I think my dream of romance and finding a good girlfriend is permanently dead. I don't even have high standards like big boobs, flawless skin, cute etc. etc. that females have for men.
Literally all I ask for is that she's loyal and a virgin. I can't think of anymore rock bottom standards. And I still can't find a female.
I'm unironically going MGTOW because I've had it with females and society.
>>you can escape skinnyfat mode in less than six months
how? all fitness plans I've seen suggest timeframes between 12 to 18 months.
Training hard, dieting well, sleeping right.
I managed to do it in 4 months
Yes, that's what most suggest. But I'm a bit lost in what to do exactly (lean bulk, maintaining or cutting), is it like the basic fundamentals of fitness enough to achieve it in 6 months?
1. eat less, not a huge deficit but a normal one.
2. train, what i did was gym 4 days a week and light cardio 2 days when i wasnt at the gym
3. stay consistent, please just dont binge eat or slack off for a week or two
First, what are your stats? Do you know your bmi or bf?
my stats are 190cm, 78kg. My bf% is between 13-14% and bmi is 22-23, both of these according to online calculators. I know I'm skinnyfat because I still got a small belly, love handles, all chest area is flabby and my arms are really skinny.
6'2" 174lbs. You're in normal bmi and bf. You're likely not taking your workout seriously, newb gains should shape that out if you're aiming for hypertrophy. Just do your work outs slow with low weight and feel the muscle working. Do 3 sets that you can do 12-15 reps with, then one As many reps as possible till failure
Why is socializing such a chore?
>Sports team did X
Don't care
>I love those Brown IPA ales and <detailed list of beer slop>
Why did you need to drink so much
>"I have a boyfriend"
No you don't lol
>You aren't vaccinated, because it can damage your heart?? NO THAT'S WRONG AIIIEEE I'M GONNA DIE! I'M GONNA DIE!!!!
You have 4 boosters and you still caught it why are you still afraid
Honestly if I have to memorize social tricks and essential shed my whole persona to be someone else I may as well take advantage of the average freak. Legally steal and abuse as much as I can from these people because they can't handle themselves, clearly.
Dude your mindset is embarrassing
I lifted for 4 years+ and quit abruptly for no reason whatsoever. I didn't lift for 5 whole years.
I restarted a year ago and have surpassed all of my prior progress in that year.
I am stronger at 35 than 25.
amazing man
>"for you I would"
>break up
>look back
>for her I did
You are not demonstrating your full strength.
You are still adapting now to demonstrate your strength later when you sleep well and eat well.
You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. In fact, it may be necessary to encounter the defeats, so you can know who you are, what you can rise from, how you can still come out of it.
>being motivated by hope and love is much more effective than being motivated by anger
This troubles me. I'm at a point in my life when the amount of people who really love me only diminishes. Aside from my mom and brother, and dogs, nobody out there loves me. Hope is fading. Help me, whitepillbros: How do I get motivated by love and hope?
This is also a farse. Motivation comes in many forms. To generally claim one's motivation is great because X therefor everyone's should be is nihilistic and arrogant.
If you fail to find motivation to achieve your goals, sit and ask yourself why they are your goals and whether or not, if you were to die tomorrow, if they'd remain the same.
Hey Anons, what the frick does it mean if my female friend who ended things between us at the start of Jan, texts today after all this no contact, asking to talk soon so we can be on the same page as she feels misunderstood. She then lets me know she's fine if I want to have a friend as support with me and to let her know if I'm open to it.
Honestly what the frick is it with these girls? She cut me out and then tells people it's a 'break from friendship' after telling me we can only hang in groups and she doesn't want me but has people she does want. Idk, was blindsided by her and now this
Truly though, I panic when I see her and get scared as she devastated me with her words and actions- cruel stuff (pathetic I know)
Frickin based kid.
Her reasoning is irrelevant. If she damaged you so, deny her request until you've healed enough that you can engage without regret for your actions
That's my thoughts right now. Heart can't take getting destroyed again. Last time it wasn't a conversation and this doesn't seem like it will be either. No olive branch just her wants and way like before
Then make that hard decision and decline. She'll likely ask again, just ghost and when you're over it, if you're so inclined, tell her you're ready to listen
Thanks Anon, We're seeing each other at a mutual friends wedding in May, but we live near eachother so we may just bump into eachother before then. Regardless, Gotta figure out how to heal so I don't panic by the altar, I'm one of the groomsmen haha
You got this anon. Use your time to minimize her relevance. At least until you're in control of your actions where she is involved.
She's trying to further humiliate you, just ignore her
I'm so completely sick of cycling but not sure what to replace it with. I'm still too fat to run and have no pool, what do
i was a neet until 27 when i decided to start lifting and improve my tinder profile
lost my virginity because of it (had a fwb thing going with this girl also) and been on 10 dates.
last date was hot ukranian girl and she wants to meet up for a second date.
if i can get back out there, anybody can.
My bench has maxed out at 160 lbs and I cannot progress.
You're all going to make it. You all have the power within you to be the best you can be.
I believe in you, bros. I believe in you.