>>93835
I get the feeling that most personal trainers own their own small business. Is that right?

>>95481
Lol no

>>95386

>Relax by swimming

Works for me.

>>95345
I must improve my core

>>95407
for that I'm doing pull ups and dips at body weight but happy to hear any other recommendations
I ain't gonna lie, I'm really worried like half of the abs are going to be huge and the other half will be small or like one will be wrong but fuck it yolo

>>95411

>half of the abs are going to be huge and the other half will be small

I don't think abs work like that...

Don't hit on girls, just lift heavy and offer to spot if they need, make casual conversation and make friends with them. Then take them to coffee and fuck them.

>>95425

That's creepy af fam jsjs yklolkys

>>95424
>>95426
No creeping please. Offer assistance.

>>95431
there's actual research on this.

Bike positioning is a meme, and is bad for your back while actually giving WORSE aerodynamic resistance.

>>95431

how i would love to be behind that bicycle

>>95502
No, it's not. Most good bicycle shops adjust for your height and limb length. Also the world record for longest distance travelled in 60 min on a bicycle used a superman pose for his upper body.

Its been 1 month since I started lifting again. I've made good progress in such a short amount of time. I'm going to start focusing on losing weight along with lifting. I've gained some unwanted fat and I want to burn it all off by doing cardio and using more intensity in my workouts.

My muscle memory will make it so I gain muscle and strength while cutting. I'm 5'3 so I can get away with eating a bit less than someone who is a few inches taller than me.

I want to lose 35lbs which I know I can do it and hit my weightloss goal before the end of the year.

I'm super excited to do more in the gym and keep growing and going harder with my workouts as my work capacity grows. Cant wait to see how my physique looks in the next few months. I'm going to bust my ass even more with achieving my goal of having the best physique I've ever had.

Let's go!!

Nb

>>95497
Time to kick ass and take names! I'm going to kill this back workout and cardio tonight.

I was THE one here 2 months ago that talked out my ass about going to the gym. But, I've since then truly went back and im making crazy progress for only lifting again for a month, taking the gym as seriously as I did a decade ago, if not more.

I'm very happy and proud of myself for making the decision to live my passion and going on and making a name for myself in the fitness industry. I will never quit and give up ever again like I did many times before. I am a human being and I'm capable of so much and I'm not going to let up on the gas for anyone or anything. This MY life! I will do what I was meant to do and if anyone tells me I cant will tell them to go fuck themselves.

>>95488
Well back from the gum. It's my birthday and I want to eat a lot of shite, I've gotten lean enough that my ribs are like a xylophone so I'm okay with this. However I thought before I give my body as much food as it can process I'll give it the notion that it needs to build up muscle. I mean I expect to put on mostly fat but I can lose that in couple of weeks. Even a few grams more muscle is a few grams more muscle.

Squats up from 8 to 10 reps already so at this rate I'll go up another 5KG soon. A few more "I did another rep"s today. Now I'm glowing and eating a late brunch.

>>95162
correct

>>95219
But not like the guy who just doesn't eat and skips protein entirely? From what I can see it's important you keep your protein levels up every day as the carbs rise and fall.

That said.

Your body can't "adapt" too much because thermodynamics. I don't see how you'd increase your energy burned very much by switching it up but maybe you'll build more muscle if you eat close to maintenance on exercise days. Not sure you wouldn't then just lose more if you ran a huge deficit AND didn't use your muscles the next day though. It seems like if it works one way it'd work the other and it'd cancel out surely? Or has experimentation shown it's possible to limit the effect of the latter without harming the former while maintaining an overall deficit?

When I cut I've been able to maintain or gain strength reliably when doing so but if I can make it more effective still that'd be cool. What I've done works though so I don't want to fuck with it for unproven methodology.

>>95162
Go hard or go home!

Sounds like you should eat more and do more accessory type lifts if size is what you want.

but roids will also work too

>>95494
How many reps are you doing per set? Aside from you need to eat at a slight surplus maybe you're training strength (3-5 reps). Do 8-12 a set. My layman's understanding is:

>low reps is essentially pushing to your limit and then a couple more just to make sure your muscles get the message "You need to increase your raw power"
>higher reps you are constrained by the stores of glucose in the muscle. If you exhaust these, rest a minute then exhaust them your muscles instead get bigger per cell to store more. This does increase the maximum power. But a lot less.
>Really high reps is about your ability to run those muscles off the shit in your blood. Endurance.

If you're doing 8-12 reps already eat a bit more and see if it helps. You can't defy thermodynamics but metabolisms vary and maybe you're under estimating how much you burn by 200kcal a day. If you run a lot it doesn't "kill gains" but it definitely makes it harder. You're burning energy in vast amounts and will have less energy for workouts. If you're in the gym 5 times a week that's also probably too much. Your body grows over time. As long as it's stimulated enough (every other day usually works) you're just burning calories and wasting time.

If you're doing low reps, then just start adding reps to your set until you hit 12. Then go up a weight and see how many reps you can do and so on. I trained strength for years but switching the number of reps I did made a visible difference. Sometimes I eat a lot, usually I'm on a deficit and I've lost an inch or two from my waist since I switched up without my weight moving and it shows.

You'll never match a hollywood actor though because
A) their body is part of their job, it's an asset and maintaining it is an investment, they also have time between shoots to work on it
B) they are on screen flattered to the extreme, every photo is shopped and enchanced, every costume flattering, every angle perfect
C) They have access to the best trainers and best diets
D) Even if you go for steroids they're better.

I'd try without roids though. I think
A) You are being hard on yourself
B) You are burning more calories than you think
C) You work hard but not smart

Working hard is the hard part. A few small changes will pay huge dividends over time with your ethic and determination. You don't need roids for serious results here.

>>95485
*squat/bench/dead

Alright, I have seen creatine at cvs for like $25-30. I used to make fruit smoothies. I may start again. I used to put flaxseed in it, but I might switch to hemp. Is there a preferred type of protein? I am recovering from long term dxm abuse and need to cleanse and rebuild my body.

>>95492
Just your typical whey protein is fine. I use Optimum Nutrition brand whey and creatine off of amazon and they both do the trick. Their vanilla flavors mix great with fruit smoothies. Remember, the laws of gains are simple: more work + more quality calories = more gains.

Also as much as we love to make fun of circlejerk around here r/fitness has a pretty good list of lifting routines on their wiki, I would poke around there and try and find a routine that will work for the equipment you have at your disposal as well as something you think you can stick with. Most all of them listed have at least somewhat have been tested to work so you should do fine with whichever on you decide on. I personally enjoy and have seen a lot of progress with a free weight variant of Push-Pull-Legs but not everyone is down for a 6 day a week regimen which is totally fine. Consistent work is, in my opinion, the most important part of any program.

This is a fake thread it was posted on the future but with a weird twist of the girl molesting him and if you google the chick it's some weird nickolodean star from show I don't know about

> I fought my 11 year old sister
> I lost
> Made the score even with a clean sucker when she finally let me up
> power struggle with an 11 year old
>wut do

k OP first start with ripptoes, don't skip on squat and oats
Next learn Krav Maga
Soon you'll be able to throat punch her into submission

solid troll btw nb

DICKS EVERYWHERE

i have a small tear in my labrum but am experiencing a pinching, burning pain in the front towards the end of my collar bone. MRI shows no sign of rotator injury. can massage therapy help this? i get a pulling feeling sometimes between my shoulder blade and spine, not sure if its related, the tear in my labrum is on the back.

For medical problems, see a doctor.

finally got surgery done arthroscopically and now i'm 4 months post op and I'm experiencing a tight, tender pain in my upper bicep. god i hate my life right now

>>95327
Got it!

>>95327
Beans & nuts and greens to take me thru the day.

Remember to have greens with your protein.

Work that back & thighs. Back street back.. oh right!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u3iGmb15ERQ

>>95439
>>95383
ay gurls ya wanna go hang out with my last 4% of bodyfat to goal and an eight inch bratwurst
i wanna cut in your cigar cutter
humina humina

>>95479
I prefer these.

>>94957
>>95058
>>95169
I'm back!

BAD GUY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OqwIloa3DVk

burning through like 10 years of cancer, adipose withdrawls and bullshit emotions
RIGHT
FUCKING
NOW
and no i am not a situp away from a sixpack ya dumb old mofucka but you sweet for sayin that

>>95477
You'll get better. You're stronger than you think.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EzoazPPC7b8

>>95410

Eat beans and rice like KRS-ONE

>>95465

Actually, I think KRS ONE just had bread and rice on his shelf.

Still beans, nuts, shit even whole carbs like oatmeal and brown rice have some protein. All cheap things you can stockpile.

>>95466
food bank stank already here nigga