What's the best way / app to count my calories and macros? Getting back to lifting after a year.
S Health and My Fitness Pal are both pretty good. I use S Health because I use it for running/heart rate/weight tracking too.
>>36555772
i use "fat secret"
my fitness pal
How do I get the hunter-gatherer physique?
Hunt and gather, retard
>>36555420
Thread's over boys
>>36555379
>hunter-gatherer
>has modern over & under shotgun
Beretta? Perazzi?
what is up with the sticky link on alcohol consumption?
>For alcohol to significantly lower testosterone, you need to do some serious drinking. ~120 g alcohol, the equivalent of 10 beers, will lower testosterone by 23% for up to 16 hours after the drinking binge
>serious drinking
>10 beers
>One study examined the hormonal response to post-workout alcohol consumption using 70-80 g alcohol, equivalent to 6-7 beers. Talk about "optimizing"...
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not just about the test
alcohol inhibits protein synthesis
that means no gains
no times for games
only gainz
op i'm pretty sure you're an alcohol
>>36555380
oh I'm 100% with you I'm just quoting this article that's linked in the sticky which is defending alcohol usage
http://www.leangains.com/2010/07/truth-about-alcohol-fat-loss-and-muscle.html
>lift natty for months everyday
>no real results except fatter
>use roids for two weeks while cutting
>literally feel twice as strong, have a six pack and look like a male model
>Falling for the natty meme
>>36555246
Is that eminem?
>>36555246
'Roids are magical, dawg.
>>36555274
It's Zac efron you fuck
>tfw girls think you're a big time player because your fit and handsome
>tfw been lonely most my life
>tfw falling for the lifting meme
wake me up from this nightmare
>>36554942
Did you ever think that it was you, and your personality, that made them think you were just an asshole in general? You sound deluded and I don't blame them
>Be skinny beta most of my life
>Get fit
>Get qt gf
>She asks me how many girls I've slept with
>I tell her the truth because I'm a fucking idiot
>She thinks it's funny that I've only slept with one other girl
Joke's on you bitch, I didn't tell you about the stripper I fucked
>>36554994
No I've been told I'm kind. It's not my personality.
/fit/ help!
How to do steroids and NOT grow this big?
>inb4 it takes years
Well, it doesn't.
You're fucked.
I pinned test once by accident and now I'm a 3 time olympia winner.
>>36554690
just do a little.
>>36554704
>just do a little.
What is that in practise?
These aren't like the racks I saw in the videos linked on the sticky, but are the only ones in the gym I just went to. They aren't the same thing, are they? What should I do?
Just make sure you have a spotter.
>>36554706
So they aren't worse than the free bar? You can only go up and down with them, it should be easier to use but worse overall, right?
>>36554689
they look like smith machines, they'll be fine for squats although not ideal. I would use a bench for bench press if you can though and not that, so you don't screw up your wrists twisting the bar to free it.
Fuck, I get smashed evey night on vodka. I'm trying to slow down, I'm having withdrawal headaches as soon as I wake up now.
Get medical help. The benzodiazepines will make things much easier.
Damn, that's a nice cat. He natty?
>>36554616
Relatively similar issue. I usually drank three to four nights a week and a friend said I couldn't just stop. To prove him wrong, I did. Been sober over two weeks now, but my depression has gotten super bad, sleep has become shit, and I am a lot more cynical. Saw a doc who said the effects of withdrawal from alcohol should have worn off after three days so now I have to go see a psychiatrist. Yay.
Natty or 200mg of terrorism daily?
Is he the guy that seduced a female prison officer while behind bars and got her to help him escape? Must have an enormous dick
>>36554317
Thats our natty overlord Zyzz
Learn your fookin memem brah
>>36554296
He's Bulgarian, if anything it's 200mg rakia daily.
Sup /fit/.
Is Jeff Caveliere from Athlean X natty? He is 5'9, 165 lbs (75kg), and can deadlift 4pl8 for 8 reps.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k_x9xc6ot2s&feature=youtu.be
>>36554124
Well he is a certified physical therapist so he knows his shit and he knows what it takes to look like that
With that said, he's in his mid forties so he could be on TRT or I could just be talking out of my ass
>>36554293
also, he's 5'7
>>36554293
Yeah he's definitely on TRT or a cruise dose of test at least. So 100% natty.
>nightmare last night
>wake up with sweat on my chest
>smelled like mildew
Does sweat scent change if it from different kinds of exertion? I've never had gym sweat smell bad like that before.
>>36553327
Its probably from your sheets getting wet. If i leave my wet clithes layin around without washing them, then wash them later, they will smell weird if i sweat in them afterwards.
Maybe.
But sweat doesn't smell bad inherently.
Bacteria live all over your body (and different types in different places).
The reason sweat makes you smell bad is the bacteria start eating the salt, water, glycoproteins/lipoproteins and whatnot in your sweat, they reproduce and they release gross stuff that smells bad (like butyric acid, acetic acid, sort of guessing here).
Sweat really doesn't inherently smell bad.
But like I said, different bacteria live on different parts of your body in different quantities.
So sweaty feel smell different...
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>>36553327
what if muscle confusion and the stereotype of gymrats being retarded are completely true and people who are stupid gain muscle more easily because their muscles get easily confused?
>>36553227
one thing that can happen is more of your brain becomes motor neurons
but its not a very significant difference
Muscle confusion IS a real thing, which is why you see so many "I was doing such-and-such program, then switched to some other program and saw great results" type posts. Otherwise, there would end up being ONE program that was objectively the best program in existence, and everybody would just do that one program.
>>36553251
if enough of my brain is motor neurons can I flex muscles that don't exist yet and therefore train them?
Would you say working out has improved or worsened your chances with women?
A couple of women recently told me getting to know me really changed their initial impression, it being of a bodybuilding douchebag.
For a lot of women, working out screams insecurities and desperation to appear alpha, the same way threatening to beat people up does.
Does the personal enrichment brought by having a new hobby outweight the stigma of looking like a meathead, in your experience?
ooohhh god whatever faggot just lift
>>36552558
/thread
I would say It's worsened. Bit of background, lifting natty for 4 years, jumped over to the dark side 2 years ago. Every relationship i've had past the 2 years lifting mark pretty much goes the same way: first 2-3 weeks- holy shit this is awesome, sex every day no issue. week 3: she'll start to question her own body and whether or not shes good enough for you, for example in the shower: "those abs" and then feel her stomach with a depressed look. This also happens a lot: "i'm busy with x, was thinking of cancelling my gym membership, is that...
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>Mister, what is that "cutting" you struggle with?
Well you see children, living in the developed world has it's advantages, I'm able to buy as much healthy, nutritious food as I want in order to achieve my fitness goals.
It ain't my fault you people don't know how to wear condoms and manage farm land. Fuck off and die.
Stop fucking breeding, welfare apes.
A friend of mine has fluid conversations with everyone. He's happy everywhere he goes, chilld and confident. As a result he gets 2-3 FWB at a time and switches every month.
I want to be that kind of guy but I fear I don't have the skills.
I grew up a shut-in and dramatically skinny (105lbs at 5'10 in highschool).
I'm 120lbs right now, and trying to undo the damage.
How would I go about becoming an all-American pussy pounder?
holy fuck
you are both taller and skinnier than me and I am on the skeleton running team
>>36551792
literally grab your balls and just do it.
>caloric surplus (TDEE+500)
>SS/SL with accesories (or ICF 5x5) for 6<x<12 months
>realize nobody gives a fuck and you're exaggerating what other people think of you because of your own insecurities
>act more naturally, doesnt afraid of anything
>realize lifting for girls or looks is shallow as fuck and you...
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uhhh get up to about 190lb @ 6'0 + lean & handsome as fuck.
be kinda confident & dicky too.
ideally have a good degree @ a good uni
have an 8x6 cock
drive a nice car.
have a lot of disposable gas
have fun good luck.