Metanaut posted:

check the what you're wearing YLLS thread and think, do you really want advice from those people


taking a week off lifting to deload and hopefully help few joints to recover, +30 crew represent

Sir_Charles posted:

did not disappoint



lookin' good

JebanyPedal posted:

Wtf

Tiny Lowtax posted:

Continue eating and driving up the cost of health care, if you live in America.

Also keep being a fat lazy piece of poo poo so I can gently caress all the hot chicks.

JebanyPedal posted:

They were staring because you poo poo yourself and dug a hole in the sand and started screaming because you thought you were in the sandbox at school and the kids were forcing you to eat the dog turds again.

limeincoke posted:

bitch say that to my face IRL see wut happens.

Al Cowens posted:

https://www.eatthismuch.com/

Tiny Lowtax posted:

Listen man we are all a little sensitive right now because Rowdy Roddy died

Gaz2k21 posted:

Hogan murdered Piper to get the attention away from him.

Top City Homo posted:

hello friends im all about getting swole2015

Zzulu posted:

you just grab the ab wheel and then get on ur knees and kind of slowly stretch out. You can do it with straight legs too but it's harder

Zzulu posted:

freeweights own bro

I started my gym adventures doing almost exclusively weight machines but then I graduated into doing almost exclusively free weights

Machines are still nice for some specific isolation work but I definitely prefer my dumbbells and barbells nowadays

El Duderino posted:

How does this work, 2 yoga dudes downward dogging your backside? I just plank and work the gently caress out of my core.

Edit: I missed you #swolethread. I was one of only 4 losers who didn't have anything better to do on Labor Day so I wen't to the gym like I always do on Monday. How was yalls Labor Day?

Groke posted:

Perfectly normal I'm afraid, OHP is known to be a bastard. Common remedies include increased or decreased frequency, volume, and/or intensity, microloading, resetting, just keeping at it, and complaining on the internet.

Alfalfa posted:

What in the absolute gently caress is this thread about?

notZaar posted:

Make sure to check back in in 6 months so we can see how it went.

FogHelmut posted:

Forgive me swolethread, for I have thinned. It has been three months since my last lift.


Finished all of this moving bullshit and joined a new gym. It's definitely a scrub gym (Fitness 19), but its cheap and mostly empty. I am in better shape than most of the guys but worse than a few of the girls, so its probably actually a good gym. I prob lost about 30% of my abilities, so I'm chugging whole milk and whole eggs right now.

FogHelmut posted:

Always be bulking

notZaar posted:

Well ask yourself this: do I want to be ripped, or swollen?

ElGroucho posted:

Is this 12% on a bad rear end beastly frame or 12% on a Dota professional

ZigZag posted:

If your weight is under 220 you shouldn't be asking that question and if it's over 220 with 12% bf you shouldn't take advice from a bunch of nerds

Tiny Lowtax posted:

How do you have 12% body fat when you weigh 145? I can't even picture that.

soy posted:

No poo poo, how would he even cut that far?

Unless they are really really short and somewhat muscular, that would take some kind of hosed up starvation diet to achieve.

monny posted:

Consciously eating more isn't going to do poo poo unless you're tracking calories, because your brain will go "ok full now" and you'll be like 100 calories over what you'd usually eat. You tracking?

The Guardian posted:

One in three gym users take drugs or supplements to lose weight – study

More than 30% of gym-goers in the UK use some form of drug or dietary supplement to lose weight, a study has found, amid fears body image anxiety fuels a rise in the use of performance and image-enhancing drugs.

More than 5% of people who regularly attend gyms have gone further by using the illegal stimulant amphetamine for this purpose, according to researchers from the University of Hertfordshire, who have presented their preliminary findings to MPs.

Ornella Corazza, who led the research, links the trend to the rise in the use of new psychoactive substances (NPS) and, with a ban on legal highs on the way, is warning that a profitable market may soon end up in the hands of organised crime.

Currently, with a legal market but lax regulation, many users are taking risks without realising. “The user does not consider himself a drug user as the trend is embedded in society,” Corazza said. “If you buy supplements or sexual enhancers, you think they’re good, you think they’re completely licit, but what we’re finding out is that it’s not always the case.”

Among early findings from the continuing research, passed on Monday to MPs considering the psychoactive substances bill, Corazza and her team found that 31% of gym-goers used products to lose weight, while 47% took them to reach fitness goals.

Results from questionnaires answered by 433 people, face to face in gyms or through an online survey targeted at fitness enthusiasts, showed that four-fifths claimed to care a lot about their physical appearance and almost half followed a diet. But many felt the pressure of such a lifestyle: more than a third said they often felt bothered by feeling down, depressed or hopeless during the past month.

The most commonly used products for weight loss were protein supplements (58%) and herbal products (34%), such as guarana, which contains high levels of caffeine, and ginseng. But to their alarm, the researchers also found an estimated 17% had used amphetamines, 17% had used thyroid hormones (WTF - is this actually referring to something that could also be used for the thyroid but is being massively exaggerated?) and 15% had tried diuretics.

An estimated 40% of those who used products purchased them online, and about 43% discovered them through online fitness forums or blogs. Many respondents said they saw the internet as a reliable source of information, Corazza said.

However, despite their online research, more than a quarter (28%) had experienced side-effects from their substance use, including skin problems, mood changes, headaches, diarrhoea, digestion problems, fast heart rate, irritability and sweating. (oh no, not sweating!)


“There is a concern there about the way they look, the way they perform,” Corazza said. “So they try to do something, they try to find a quick fix, by buying these products online. This is the picture that is coming out.

“A change in legislation is essential, but at the same time we cannot neglect the need for more multidisciplinary studies to better understand the motivations behind this poorly understood phenomenon and respond to it in a more informed way.”(how right you are...)

Dr Andres Roman-Urrestarazu, from the London School of Economics, who has co-authored the evidence to MPs, said: “The [psychoactive substances] bill so far has not been clear about how it will introduce minimum safety measures and harm reduction to the users of NPS. This is crucial, since we do not know the side-effects and safety profiles of most of these drugs.

“More than prohibition, we require broader policy measures that will give us information in regards to the growing number of NPS and how they are marketed online, what are their side-effects and how safe they are for human use.

“Also important is to consider the issue of NPS from a broader European perspective since restrictions and regulating in one country might produce the relocation of the business to a third country inside the EU. This is important, considering the parallel export market for drugs.”

FogHelmut posted:

I was deadlifting and trying not to poo poo my pants, which I think was holding me back. Should have gone for the full poo poo.

Strenuous Manflurry posted:

I squatted 335 lbs 4x6 yesterday, in case anyone wants to gently caress

Say Nothing posted:

http://i.imgur.com/CTCJZOs.webm

Defiant Sally posted:

I've bulked from 177 to 211 since July (10lbs gained in the last 5 weeks) and still have abs. Get on my level plebs.

Defiant Sally posted:

Mostly Vader these days. Drinking blood also helps.

Defiant Sally posted:

actually lifting with girls sucks rear end

Chinatown posted: