>anon how much do you bench
>about X for Y
>that's nice, back when I used to train I was pushing about 2X for 10Y. Yeah man I should definitely get back into it but you know how it these days
>Struggle to get a grip on awkward shaped couch
>all that time in the gym gave you bunch of fake muscles anon! Should have done real work instead of that crap!
>>35081457
To be fair, getting a good grip on awkward shapes is a skill developed by people who do it excessively, ie anyone who does it as a job
>that's cool anon I used to lift that much in high school
>"what happened?"
>oh you know work kids overtime wife economy fibromyalgia real estate bubble immigrants hamburgers my joints hurt
What drives a man to lie so blatantly. What train of thought did they have in making up numbers on a topic they don't know shit about to a person who can easily determine whether or not you're talking out of your ass? Does the skelly really expect you to believe he was benching 2 plate for reps? Does the old fat guy expect you to believe he was moving 6 plates off the floor?
What drives a man to lie so
>>35081518
AHAHAHA
>>35083488
Ego. Fucking impotent shittalking ego
>>35081515
lies and slander.
i train grip strength (plate flips and pinches, farmer's. etc) and can grab ALL the things.
>>35083532
Ur dick tip isn't "all things"
>>35083551
your attempt at humor is miserable.
>>35083532
also i forgot to mention, single-arm deadhangs and dead hangs/pull-ups/chin-ups off a small ledge, like 1 inch or smaller (i started with a 3 inch ledge, now i am down to1) is GOAT for grip strength.
it will hurt the fuck out of your fingers the first few times, but as they get stronger, you can handle more abuse.
really focuses the finger strength, which is often the biggest limiting factor in developing grip strength.
>highschool
>borderline skinny
>hey anon I bet I could beat you in a fight because I have more "muscles" :3 <3<3<3 hehe
>Ok lets see if you can arm wrestle me
black cunt starts to whimper because I broke her wrist kek
girls are so fucking weaker than boys its not even funny .
>>35083519
But do they really think it works? Do they really think "nice I bet he bought that and now thinks highly of me"?
Blows my mind man
>>35083532
>all the things
Go back to Reddit.
>>35081457
Are you the fag who tried to argue steady-state cardio then gave up?
>>35083907
Are you the fag who tried to argue traps with feminine penises aren't gay and didn't give up?
>"People with a 28 BMI are fat"
>omg anon that's ignorant
>BMI is such crap
>lol I can squat 2x bodyweight and I'm class 1 obese
>That 285 fucker failed to squat 300
>M F W
>>35081418
I am a recovering lanklet working in construction so I hear this all the time. Some coworkers found out I have been going to the gym and now I get free advice on what to eat and how to make gains from everybody. You'd be surprised how many record breaking weightlifting experts are now digging ditches for a living.
>>35084174
>>35084174
>BMI is such crap
Unless you're a bodybuilder it's the best simple measure of obesity we have. Why is it always people with no muscle mass saying its a bad measure when it perfectly defines their composition????
>>35084200
this
fuck off with your shitty advice, i get mine from the best source available./fit/.
i dont not need youre help.
>>35084200
>What's that anon? You're building a nuclear reactor in your backyard? Well let me give you some advice on that
Am I the only one who did this and was just honest about my shitty lifts?
Like, lifted in highschool, made baby gains, stopped and a couple years later talking to some dude I met at Uni about my awful lmao2and1/2pl8 diddlylift
>>35084089
Are you the one they call the Stump Grinder?
>>35084208
this. it's perfectly fine for 95% of the population
>>35083603
how have it affected their size?
>>35083781
Roflmao this is a question I would like answered as well.
>mfw injured lower back
>mfw tell people that I injured it falling down the stairs (partially true) before I even started lifting (untrue)
>mfw was 5kg off a 2 plate squat and 10kg off a 4 plate deadlift
>>35085052
>2 plate squat
>4 plate deadlift
>injured lower back
why am i not surprised
>>35083603
>your attempt at humor is miserable
*tip*
>>35085080
Kek this. How did you think you were pulling 4 plates well when you couldn't do a 2 plate squat
>>35085080
>>35085115
The squat was just a lot more of an unnatural movement for me but having worked manual jobs deadlifting was fine.
I definitely progressed too fast without giving a fuck about form though, not much I can do about my idiotic past self now.
>>35085338
>tfw you hate deadlifting and squatting
>do them anyway
>kind of wish I had an injury that prevented me doing them
They make great leg and back gains but I just don't enjoy doing them, I really bloody hate them
>>35083488
In my defense I look EXTREMELY DYEL and I can put up decent numbers on squat and deadlift, but that's because of my job.
I had a dad bring his kids in to the gym to see me squat 5plate b/c they were going around telling everyone they lift that much. Kid couldnt even squat the bar.
>Anon, what do I do to turn this fat into muscle?
>What do you mean fat doesn't turn into muscle?
>You don't know what you're talking about, you are naturally thin
>>35084266
Pretty accurate photo desu
>>35084208
Usually the people that call BMI crap are the ones that lift and the obese ones, and they're very easily distinguishable
>that guy that brags his bench being slightly higher than yours
>weighs 80-100lbs more than you
>has shit ROM
>can't manage a single pull up
>>35084208
it's actually not
it misses a lot of "fat, but not heavy" people
I used to be like 24 BMI and 20%+ BF
I was fat, but I was also skinny - "skinnyfat"
>>35086170
Skinnyfat is in the "normal" range, and you were on the border of overweight. It seems it was right in your case t b h f a m
>>35083488
I'm gonna guess something similar to Dunning-Kruger effect.
They don't know enough about lifting to even begin to picture what even a basic understanding of the subject is actually like.
So they say what to them sounds like a plausible lie, and because it sounds plausible to them, in their ignorance, they assume it sounds plausible to you.
>>35083532
To be fair, I don't think the anon you're replying to is talking about literal grip, like grasp. The problem in furniture moving isn't literally gripping something, but more about knowing the right place to put your arms and where to something it that won't smash your fingers when you move it through the door or set it down.
>>35086266
Hmm, that actually makes a lot of sense, I guess it just stems from a need to belong
>>35084530
The hilarious thing about this is that it's often called the Bike Shed problem.
An engineer tells people the best way to build a nuclear cooling stack, they nod and get to it.
But everybody knows what a little shed is like, so when that same engineer proposes how to build one, they'll get a dozen and a half opinions from everybody in earshot on how they're doing it wrong.
>>35081418
i usually answer like this:
>"yeah, YOLO, amirite?"
>"yah"
>"you only lifted once"
>tfw you are one of those guys
I hate those guys too but I am one, and in my defense I'm not lying either
Basically I used to roid but hit a bad point in my life and stopped lifting for over a year, plus I played rugby and got knocked out of season with a shoulder injury and later a few broken ribs
I'm in university (no job) and didn't leave my room or speak a single word to another human being for about 2 straight weeks
Worst part is I live in a tiny room in a run down motel for this school year and didn't leave the small room that entire time, just ate soup from a hot pot and other snacks I had lying around
Needless to say my lifts have suffered quite a bit and only recently have I started to try again
>>35086170
Your body was fucking disgusting and not normal in the slightest so it doesn't surprise me that it would fuck up such a basic system
>>35084208
>>35084759
Where did all this sudden "BMI is great" meme come from?
It's like as soon as /fit/ hears a fat person say something, they immediately need to rabidly proclaim the exact opposite. We don't need to know somebody's BMI to tell their melted candle looking flesh has too much fat in it; that doesn't magically make BMI useful for individuals. If a fat person said it was noon you'd say it was midnight without even looking out the window.
BMI is designed and created as a statistical tool. It's perfect for telling you if one city or one school is fatter or skinner than it should be.
But fundamentally people aren't scale models of each other. Diagnostic use is bullshit. For everybody that has a build that is more than a standard deviation thicker or skinner than average for their height it's going to be wrong. It'll tell them they're a healthy weight when they aren't, or whatever. It fits maybe 64% of the population accurately enough to be worth looking at.
Why bother with such a feeble tool? Somebody that's really too fat or too skinny should be obvious from looking. If you need more detail, get a body fat measurement. Hell, just a waist measurement to add to height and weight and you're already leagues ahead of BMI.
>>35086120
That's pretty goddamn funny
>>35086332
it's a good way for doctors to tell fat people they're at risk for heart disease and beetus
>be me doing pendlay rows with a pl8 and 25
>some dyel faggot walks up to me
>hey bro you gotta arch your back inwards and don't let the bar touch the ground
>"k thanks"
>doing dumbbell rows later
>hey bro your back us not arch you need to to fix your form
>I use to lift for 10 years bro
>tfw he looks 21
>"k thanks I know what I'm doing"
>leave me alone
> see the guy struggle pressing 40lb dumbbells
WHY THE FUCK SO THESE PEOPLE EXIST?
>>35086332
Because when you look at a population it's the best tool to use. No one here is going to proclaim it as the gold standard because a fatty dislikes it, it's simply an easy tool to use to get a vague understanding of a groups size. Anybody who uses it as a diagnostic tool is an absolute fool, a doctor who sits there and calculates your BMI instead of just looking at you and telling you what's up is a fool and no one does this. We know this, anon simply said that for the vast majority it's on point unless your iopq who just looks shit. Why do you feel the need to point this out?
>>35086332
You are right, it should be obvious, but if you are setting goals for someone's health, or any goals in general, they should be SMART goals, the M stands for measurable.
>>35081518
KEK, this hits close home fąm :DDDDDDDDDDDD
>>35086349
See >>35084530 and >>35086284
When people don't know shit their opinion is always the first to be handed out.
>>35086349
>Doing 200kg deadlifts for 5x3
>Last few sets form breaks down but fuck it need to finish
>Some skelly criticizing form
>K thanks lad I'll fix it next time
>Mfw he's the one with actual back problems despite the "perfect" form
>Mfw he deadlifts 120kg
My back is absolutely fine despite the slight form breakdown. Weakfags don't understand desu.
Before I say anything I admit Im pretty dyel mode.
Anyway I was lifting in my home gym clean and OHP 42,5kg. Gf says she could probably lift that too. Never been in a gym, has only done cardio.
I tell her to deadlift it first to get a hang of how heavy it is. Luckily admits she couldnt OHP that and doesnt try.
>>35086380
dyel indeed
>>35086380
>dad sees me ohp lmao1plate
>60kg? That's it?
>tell him to do empty bar ohp first
>alright anon I'm sorry
>>35086398
Its the small wins.
>>35086407
>triple my dads ohp
>all other lifts are probably similar
>he could probably still fuck my shit up in a fight
When will it be my turn for old man strength???
>>35086380
OHP makes it look even easier because you usually only have small plates on the bar so it looks like you're The Press-ing like 10kg
>>35086486
10 years of lifting is a good start.
>>35081418
>i lift weights
has no visible muscle anywhere
I mean I get your excited but bragging about it makes you look ostentatious
>>35086398
kek
>Oh hey anon, looking buff! You know, I lift too and used to bench 400 lbs i sware
>Why i'm a 150 lbs skeleton with twig arms now? Oh you know, muh elbow wrist and having a job like every other human beeing on the planet takes up all my time
>How many creatines do you have on your proteinsteroids
>Deadlifts? Never did those, they are not good for you
>>35086717
So much this, why are people not ashamed about lifting and still not having any muscle?
It's like they confuse real life with instagram and still thinks telling everyone you lift gets you cred
>>35086332
>Where did all this sudden "BMI is great" meme come from?
reality
>it fits maybe 64% of the population accurately enough to be worth looking at.
nice bullshit statistics.
remember, when making bullshit "facts" up, always pic a specific, yet arbitrary number to make it sound like you aren't a fagtard making up nonsense
the only problem with BMI is that it overestimates the musculature of normies.
>>35086946
http://examine.com/faq/how-valid-is-bmi-as-a-measure-of-health-and-obesity/
>>35084530
Kek'd
>>35081418
I hate this. I had this fat middle aged teacher in college, kept constantly comparing himself to me, telling me about his rugby days and shit.
>>35086486
>be me 12 years old
> 4 years into judo
> able to throw my dad around
> he still lifts 10x all my stats
hurr durr how does strength work
>>35086375
Damn, Anon he was probably trying to help.
>>35081418
>what do you do tonight young-anon?
>I Will hit the gym old-anon
>when I was your age I hit the pussy Not the gym!
>but after the gym I will spend the evening with my gf
>just 1 gf young-anon? When I was your age I got plenty of girls craving for my dick!
Yeah yeah, we know
>>35086971
Your dad still play fights you at 12.
>>35086996
haha this. even if it's not about lifting, older people always like to say bullshit like this.
>you're in college and you're not fucking 20 girls a week?
>back when i was in school...
>>35083488
This actually happened to me
Just getting back into the gym now
Feels good
Fuck I felt like such a liar when I was telling people what I used to be able to lift
>>35086227
no, I was definitely way too fat
>>35086322
that's why if measured by bodyfat, I was 24% in high school which is not healthy, but by BMI I was healthy
>>35086717
>>35086913
can't help it, I lift and get very minimal results
people who don't lift look bigger than me naturally
>>35087371
>>35087390
So stop tripping. You have absolutely nothing to offer this board.
>>35084208
My doctor said almost that same thing, though she didn't limit to bodybuilders. She said that BMI is inappropriate for athletes, but is appropriate for most people living a generally sedative lifestyle.
>>35087484
>sedative lifestyle
you mean like opiates? or like sedentary?
>>35081518
>immigrants
>>35086129
Heard all three a million times at work.
Also, in case anyone on this board doesn't already know: the size if your biceps is the only thing anyone who doesn't lift uses to gauge your strength.
>>35087544
most people who "lift" only care about one stat, and that's the bench press
>>35084200
Construction workers are the worst. I'm a civil engineer (EIT) that works in construction inspection and always kek at guys that think they're strong as fuck just because they use their bodies at work.
On my last waterline extension job, i arm wrestled one of the truck drivers because he called me "skinny". Even though he had 30+ lbs on me, still got BTFO.
After we arm wrestled, he was complaining that his elbow hurts and that "he wasn't at 100%." Is it that hard to admit think a younger, lanky guy fucked up your shit?
>>35083532
>>35081457
>>35081515
I'm a mover and can validate.
It takes full body movements to work around stuff.
I thought I could do it when I was doing isolations after 2 years of lifting but wow was I wrong.
I had to switch to Olympic style lifting to actually learn how to move heavy objects with my whole body.
It doesn't matter how strong you are, but more so how you can utilize your strength in multiple dimensions at once.
>>35087561
You have just described the pathetic fantasy that runs through my head every time a (construction) coworker offers me his advice on eating/lifting.
>>35087577
I have to point out strongman style training would be more effective than olympic lifting.
>>35083532
think you could 1 hand a sheet of 3/4" ply while climbing a ladder?
>>35087602
probably yes, but i feel the urge to buy a sheet of plywood just to try this...
the weight doesn't seem problematic, but that fucker would be akward as shit, and want to bump into everything
>>35084200
All tradesman are full of shit. They're such braggart liars.
>>35081418
" If you train in the gym you get air balloon muscles that cant lift anything "
coming from a 6'3' shit twig
> mfw 6'4'
> mfw 315 bench
this nigga..
>>35087587
I did a combination of both before I broke my wrist. But I practiced power cleans, front squats, OHP, and deadlifts mainly. Never really had an issue lifting the heavy shit, but boy oh boy maneuvering a hide away couch down 3 flights of stairs can really get to you.
>>35087629
yeah that's the problem. holding a piece of ply is tough as shit. i could pull 3.5 plate deads for reps double overhand with no grip problems but a 75lb 4'x8' sheet of ply humbled me instantly the first few times.
>>35087499
arnt you that zero test fag with no gains after years ?
>>35086332
It's pretty good for most people. It's great for women.
>>35086303
If you had to fucking cheat why would you be bragging about it? No redemption for u bb
>>35087663
it fails to detect being overfat in 48% of women, it's awful for women
>>35087658
yeah, I made a little bit of gains mostly in quads and chest, but nowhere else really
>>35086492
>tfw only ever OHP with bumpers
>>35081457
I have had this exact situation happen to me pretty much word for word including the fake muscles part
Are you me ?
>>35087684
awww yeeaaaaaa
>>35086359
:DDDDDDDDDDDDDD
>>35085338
Then you weren't really doing deads, just pulling a weight badly
>>35087680
good 2 see u back iopq^
mirin' those gains there
>>35087015
>not playing wrestling and then playing the doctor with your dad when you're 12
>>35085338
Squatting 4pl8 and 10kg off 5pl8 here, you need to squat more
>>35086380
I have weights at home and had the bar set up with 80kg worth of plates. The bar isn't a heavy bar and is listed as only 11kg but whatever, there was 90kg sitting on the floor from warm up hack squats and I get interrupted by knock at the door. Two friends who have just dropped by. Let them in and just mention I was about to start my workout. The small one scoffs at the weight I've got racked up on the floor. Asks me what I expect to gain from lifting that. Tell him it's a warm up and he asks how much it is. Tell him 90kg and he starts saying how he was lifting that much "overarm style" (he meant OHP) back when he used to work out. Guy is around 5'6 and weighs about 70kg at absolute most. Humor him saying how that's impressive and I can't do that much. He keeps going on and his lies start irritating me so I goad him into showing me. He says he's been working all day so he probably won't be able to do it right now and when I suggested he might have meant lbs (which would still have been too heavy for him) he decides to show me. Psyches himself up, tries to clean the weight up and instantly fucks his back up and drops the barbell almost putting a hole in my wall.
Whenever I think about the expression on his face for that split second when he tried to clean that weight and instantly realized he was fucked I still chuckle. I have no idea why he would even attempt to do that. He was off work for 3 weeks.
>>35087371
Why trip on /fit/ when you look like shit?
>>35087777
to tell new lifters to temper their expectations
there's a huge survivorship bias on this board, everyone thinks that after you lift for a few years you'll look huge
this is not true in the general case, it's just that people who lift for a year and don't make good gains generally quit
I'm one of those who didn't quit
>>35087795
>Aim low to avoid disappointment
Kill yourself
>>35087795
>this is not true in the general case, it's just that people who lift for a year and don't make good gains generally quit
>I'm one of those who didn't quit
I think you're an example of not learning from your mistakes. Your diet or lifts or likely both were clearly subpar.
>>35087795
Youre doing something wrong then you massive faggot
>>35087847
>keep going despite failure
there's two ways of looking at this
>>35087850
Sure, neither was perfect. But I tried way harder than the average person even on this board. I read books, I posted form vids, I tracked my macros every day. Did I dial it in to perfection? No. But neither do you, and you probably make better gains than I do.
>>35087795
>I trip for others
Kek get outta here you faggot
>>35087582
Next time someone gives you shit, go for it. Tired of tough guys thinking that fat = strength.
Pic related, my lol14.5" guns that drove that manlet into the dirt.
>>35087872
everybody does something wrong, yet despite that they still make decent gains
>>35087875
I have my own reasons to trip. That is to ask for more personalized advice. I didn't trip for the last year while my girlfriend had cancer. Now I'm trying to get back into lifting.
>>35081518
>>35087649
I have the same dl and I'm weak
>>35081518
Oh my fucking god lmaooo
>>35087965
in what would is being able to lift 360llbs for reps weak?
>>35087561
>civil engineer
did you suck his dick afterwards?
>>35087499
Yeah I meant sedentary but phone autocorrected
>>35087900
>my girlfriend had cancer so now I can trip and you cant tell me otherwise!!!
we dont need more tripfags on this board. fuck off
>>35084530
Never even realized "opine" was a word until now.
>>35088073
>my late girlfriend died from cancer so now I have to make gains for both of us
FYP ;_;
>>35088015
>tfw my fat manlet roommate tells me he can bp 360lbs because he used to take hgh to try to be taller (rich parents)
He eats nothing but pasta and cheese, and I've never seen him do anything remotely athletic
>state park job, outside all the time
>get tan, get effectively strong doing shit like >>35081457
>can walk around in the heat and rain like it's nothing
>feels so good
>desk jockey/IT job now
>back hurts all the time
>feel like shit all the time
>stood in front of my house and people though I was a ghost prop - all the time
kill me
>>35086166
>that guy who watches anime and complains abotu other people
xd lad
>>35081418
>if you're able to work out after working all day you aren't working hard enough
>you shouldn't need to lift weights, your job should build plenty of muscle
THANKS FOR THE ADVICE, DAD. ILL START SPRINTING AROUND AT WORK ALL DAY AND DOING VARIOUS LIFTS WITH MODERATELY HEAVY OBJECTS. Faggot, he's the one who allowed me to be a pathetic skeleton my whole life.
>>35084208
Works for people between 5'5'' and 6'
anyone else is distorted by bmi. 6'4'' men are suggested to weigh like 160 lbs. Thats laughable
>>35089691
>tfw school nurse told me I "should" put on 5 kg
>I can definitely see how a 5 kg layer of fat around my body will be beneficial in any way
>>35089783
At a certain point it is gonna be healthier for you to just weigh a bit more, regardless if it's fat or muscle. Being underweight is just unhealthy.
>>35089869
yeah but if it's a couple of kg below "optimal" it's just ridicilous advice.
>get fatter because this graph
>>35083692
I don't think I've seen a post surmise /fit/ more than this one.
>>35089634
>YOU'RE JOB NEEDS TO BE HARD
>DIFFICULT WORK IS HONEST WORK
>YOU CAN'T CALL YOURSELF A MAN IF YOUR JOB ISN'T SO TAXING THAT IT TAKES SEVERAL YEARS OFF YOUR LIFESPAN AND YOU'RE CRIPPLED BY AGE 45
I fucking hate that mentality that so many old men seem to have. It's just a way for factory owners to trick you into taking pride in your shit job.
>>35088369
Shit, son. Sorry about you and your gf.
>see 12 year old skelly on the Smith machine
>he has two friends on either side helping him to lift lmao 3 plate for a bench press
>he has it set so that he can drop the weight and it won't even touch his chest
>does a huge arch and his friends lift with all their might
>bar budges a bit
>he will tell people that he literally benches 315
>I think of this whenever I see /fit/'s stats
>>35090451
Kek, there was a fat powerlifter's Instagram posted a little while ago, at the top he listed his stats including 585 squat. Video of his 585 squat wasn't even 1/4 squatting it, he was pretty much doing a static hold.
Even his caption said "I know I should go deeper but it's 585lbs!" Or some shit like that.
Literally every time some /fit/izen lists their stats I think of this
>>35090685
Every time I see someone quarter squatting I also think of some anon on /fit/ running around talking shit because he does atg with lmao0.5plate. This place is filled with idiots. I love it
>>35091195
Relevant
>>35086375
I've made it a point never to listen to people smaller & weaker than me
>>35090685
>>35091195
To be fair you can literally double your squat if not triple it if you go for actual quarter squatting. I mean even fucking Bud Jeffries who can squat 900 lbs if not more can do 1,900 lbs with quarter squat by his own admission.
>>35083692
did you bang?
>>35081418
>I don't want to get too big on accident haha.
How do you think muscle works?
>I don't bench
>i press
>>35092406
idk magnets?
>>35092068
Yup. I thought I was squatting 3 plate after my first 3 months of lifting, then I realized I had slowly transitioned into half squatting so I had to cut the weight in half and go through doms all over again
>yeah man I gain muscle mad fast
Then why aren't you muscular you skinny fat faggot
>>35092434
my boy
>>35087680
have you considerated roids?
>>35091797
>implying oly squats aren't infinitely more impressive to beginners who don't know shit about lifting
>implying oly squats aren't infinitely more impressive to advanced lifters who do know shit about lifting
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nLVJTBZtiuw
it is patently obvious which group of squatters is more athletic and impressive, even to someone who knows nothing about lifting weights.
keep defending your shitty ROM you fat fuck
>>35092959
>dat 650lb ATG squat
mirin'
>>35091797
>this is the delusion that /plg/ actually fosters
>>35083692
Work with a guy who is dumb as shit. He hears that i lift and tells me that 1 and a half years ago when he was into mma he got up to 270 lbs lean, and could bench 375. He weighed himself and it came out to 183. Still claims that he must have lost it all because of his bad diet, but he could get it back i just a few months. Another guy asked me for exercise advice, but said he doesnt want to get big, just tone. Said he lifted in highschool and got huge. Claimed he just seems to pit on too much muscle. He told me at his max he was 160 pounds. Told me he wants to look like another guy who is 155 and only does body weight.
>>35086166
400 lb guy tried to give me lifting advice. I told him i deadlift 405 at 240 lbs. He tried to act like a pro because he once hit 460 for one. The guys stomach pokes out from beneath his shirt. Yes, i realize 405 at 240 isnt that impressive, but a lot better than 460 at 400.
>>35088524
>stood in front of my house
Who stood you there? Stand up for yourself man, it's your house.
>>35087759
I used to think i was strong. I once told a guy who was a part of a body building team that i could bench my body weight. I had omky ever benched once and had no idea how much it was. At the time i said this my body weight was 270. There is no way in hell he believed me, but i sure did. I had done pushups for years, and falsely assumed that it would transfer over. I am just now after 2 years benching 270 at 240 bw. I can still only do 80 pushups, but i never train those. I think non lifters just assume that one form of strenght translates to all others, like how they assume that if you are strong you should never lose at arm wrestling.
>>35087759
couldn't you have at least tried to greentext?
>>35089634
I work hard, then i go to the fucking gym at lunch and do an hour of heavy lifting. Before you say anything, yes i am aware that it could be more effective if i spent longer. I usually do a couple of the compound lifts and a few accessories. I am almost on the edge of passing out every single time i leave. Anyways, the reason i do it is that i try not to hold back, secure in the kmowledge that i will have to push even harder to finish out the work day. Its like running in only one direction till exhaustion because then you have to force yourself to walk back. It gets me used to pushing myself.
>>35093521
I always superset everything to get as much in as possible, starting with the compounds, then supersetting accessories to finish it off. For instance i like to combine back and legs. I will do squats supered with lat pulldown followed by romanian deadlifts and tbar rows. Then i try for max reps on pullups. I am aware once again that this may not be optimal, but i have seen a lot of progress, and i cant go after work because of college.
>>35086284
Except that's wrong. Anyone who has ever worked with an Engineer knows that because Engineers have never actually built anything, a myriad of problems occurs when they have total control over a project. Sure, we should probably listen to the college educated guy on something as complex as a Nuclear tower, but a fucking bike shed? No, dipshit, we don't need 4x6 trusses, 2x4 is plenty.
>>35087587
>I have to point out that climbing would be more effective than olympic lifting
>>35093465
Fuck off with your attention deficit, go read a book once in a while.
>>35081418
>2015
>only being able to bench X for Y
You're fucking pathetic
>>35089426
That guy that complains about anime on 4chan
>>35093454
>they assume that if you are strong you should never lose at arm wrestling.
I have a 6'6 wingspan. I tied in an arm wrestling match with a guy with arms 2 inches smaller than my forearm
>>35092821
>have you considerated roids?
I think I'll try to go full retard bodybuilding routine mode first and see if that works
if that doesn't work...
>>35083532
Oh yeah? GRAB THIS
>>35087874
get your testosterone levels checked you ignoramus
>>35094178
>thinking i won't
london?
>guy in my ROTC battalion always talks shit about how his old university was so much better
>they did longer PT sessions
>they ran more
>they ran in real formations
>they woke up earlier
>never shows up to any of our training events because he "can't take it seriously"
>isn't even able to pass the 2 mile run on his fitness test
On top of that he basically doesn't talk about anything other than how much he goes to the gym
>>35093976
that guy that thinks 4chan is still about anime
even in 2008 i remember you weaboo faggots would get mocked if you posted outside of /a/
>>35094254
>rotc
tip kek
>>35094259
Really what board? Tell me more about how /b/ doesn't like anime
>>35086492
>tfw at a distance it's hard to tell the 35 and 25 plates apart
>tfw someone said "Hey anon, I saw you over there with that 95 lb OHP, great job"
>tfw it was 115
>tfw it was the last set
>tfw I my first set was 1pl8
>>35093607
And here it is kek
>>35094614
WOOP DER IT IS
>>35094288
>implying we haven't been calling you fags weeaboo since time immemorial
newfag.
>>35086089
>I dislike squats and deadlifts because they require effort and not sitting down
>>35094614
O.k., bud. Do you have any experience in the construction industry? Or are you taking sides in an argument you know nothing about, which is, in fact, a variant of the Engineer example.
>>35090685
>>35090451
i saw a chink doing this a few days back
>guy comes in, pretty DYEL
>puts bitch pads on the bar, i assume he's going to be bouncing the bar off his chest then
>gets on bench, works up to 70kg
>sure enough half of every rep is done using momentum from bouncing the bar
>i look away to do another set
>look back, he's up to 80kg. i'm surprised because he doesn't look like he could do it.
>grinds out a rep, one arm reaches the pins about an hour before the other arm
>well, maybe he did a few reps that i didn't see
>i do another set and look back
>up to 90kg
>come on now lad
>unracks, does about 8 partial reps lowering the bar maybe 4 inches each time
>reracks, moves up to 2pl8
>same again
>moves up to 110kg
>fails to unrack it
>gets up and walks away
>don't see him again
>mfw
>>35086359
I can't believe I laughed at that pic
>>35088369
Iopq my friend, i hope for you that the time comes fast that you'll realize the excuses you were making for yourself.
You haven't put in the full effort and done your research.
Stil wish an a v e r a g e korean gf upon you though
>>35097061
Iopq is an attention whoring faggot who whines about making no progress every single day. It shits me to know that he could have actually made progress in all his years posting here but instead finds an Internet gf and continues to post his disgusting body for all to see
