Soup /fit/izens?
>Post your day 1 vs current progress to keep me motivated. In the meantime, have a blog post.
Day 1 guy from yesterday reporting, first day lifting (SS routine) competed, 3rd day cutting cal. Had to figure out my 5 rep max, so sets were irregular.
Diet
>under 2000 cal every day so far, sodium too high though
Bench
>set 1: 15 reps @ 95lb way too easy
>set 2: 12 reps @ 115lb still pretty easy
>set 3: found a spotter, thankfully. 5 rep max ended up being 145lb
Sqat
>set 1: 10 reps @ 135lb easy
>set 2: 8 reps @ 165lb still easy
>set 3: 5 rep conformable max (no spot) ended up being 190lb
Pullups
>only managed 6 per set, 5 on last set. Weakest point
Deadlift
>set 1: 6 reps @ 135 definitely worked for it
>set 2: 5 reps @ 155 fucking hurt
>set 3: same, almost bitched out on 5
Cool down
>Treadmill light jog 10 mins
>Dry sauna 10 mins
Everything went better than expected, I think. What say you, /fit/?
(btw I'm 6'1 / 225lbs)
>>35175671
you probably won't even make it 3 weeks, that's why people are not responding
prove me wrong
>>35175718
>prove me wrong
That's the plan, anon
Gimme criticism. I want to hate myself so much I don't have a choice but to make it
>>35175742
Why would I bother? You're just going to quit anyway. You don't look like you have much impulse control if you let yourself get this fat.
>>35175742
thats weird as fuck dude.
anyway your form on deadlift is way off because if you can bench 145 you should be able to hit 250 + on deadlift not joking
>>35175761
Goddamn. Alright, I'll have a closer look at form and practice with a broomstick. I thought I was close, but evidently not.
Remember, it's 5 rep max though, (unless you accounted for that.)
>>35175718
>iopq
Yea nah where the fuck have you been?
>>35175756
More like this.
I want to feel like shit, anon. I hate this body, give me fuel.
>>35175791
you should at the very least be able to do 225 for reps
>>35175811
Thanks anon, this is info I need to know.
No excuses.
>>35175799
serial died from cancer :(
I'm going to put in extra effort at the gym now. I need to make it for both of us ;o;
pls no bully, I know I've still got a longgg way to go but at least I've made a little progress
6'2
~150 lbs on left, ~160 lbs on right
>>35175863
post that pic you used to always post of you naked outside in your back yard
>>35175915
which one?
>>35175867
Nice work so far anon. How long?
>>35175867
Unfortunate hips but solid gains bro
>>35175923
Big sack, short dick?
4 months in.
Rarely work abs but I recently started hitting them hard. Will I have to wait till I cut to start seeing them or will they eventually start popping as I keep working them?
>>35175671
If you are lifting those numbers first day you technique is shit. You should start with fearly light weights and do repetitions just for the technique.
If I remember correctly it is something like 500 reps to get some basic muscle memory on lifts. Also film/have buddy watching your forms. Especially deadlifts/squats. Even in bench people make dangerous mistakes.
Saw a dude doing 140kg deadlift today with the most bent back i have ever seen. This is why im writing this, dont end up like that. Its pathetic.
Trying to get down to around 170-175 pounds.
Wondering if I'll look somewhat decent at that point. I feel a lot better already but meh.
I haven't been under 190 pounds since I was in high school so feels bretty god (currently 24 yo).
Gunna bulk hard after getting to 170ish.
>>35175980
Read the wiki in the sticky
Abs only show from cutting, that's why you see 7y/o kids with 6 packs sometimes
>>35175742
Ok.
You're fat. Judging by that shit tattoo on your right pec, you're also american, unfortunately. I don't dislike Americans, I just am one and am now ashamed you share my homeland.
I bet you're a bretty cool, but I also bet you haven't done anything notable yet with your life yet judging from how your fat is failing to sag past your waist. I'm guessing community college, uni, etc but you either a)half assed it or B) took some benign subject as where you would never have to actually work.
Middle school was probably hard with glasses, being different etc I've been there but you were joke fodder from the gate. Nothing serious, but that's exactly you're problem. Chickenshit middle ground greywater- and boy do you swim in it.
I'm also guessing, since you don't actually work and you use a phone case, you're fairly clumsy. Sports wasn't for everyone, but it was for the cool kids. Oh to be young.
You're bench is shit. I weigh 136 at 6' and close grip the same. How does that make you feel?
Good now hold on to that feeling and understand that I pull 295 at a slight deficit, and that I half ass dieting. Lol more like no ass. Are you seriously going to get out lifted by a skeleton like me? I fucking hope not, otherwise revoke your citizenship.
That beard goatee thing is easily holding you back 7 kilos on your deadlifts, shave that shit up and get down to business.
There. Now go get fucking juicy make a diamond from all the pressure of the shit feeling festering in your gut right now.
>>35175863
Right on, feel like I haven't seen you post in a couple years now
Started in August --> November 1 :)
>>35175954
It's embarrassing but that's 1 year's progress. I wasn't eating nearly enough for most of it though, and being low test (381 ng/dL) probably doesn't help either.
Test levels for reference. Fuark, the average 80+ year old has 50% more test than me.
>>35176052
Work harder
>>35175995
I did work out in hs (8 years ago...), so I'm not completely new, and I'm a mechanic, so my job keeps me fairly strong. I was hitting much higher numbers back then, and was wrestling at 145lb and running cross country. My diet and smoking is what killed me over the years...
Deadlift wasn't one of the things we did often in gym, though, so I'm not surprised my form is awful. I'm really disappointed in pullups though. Used to knock out 15 reps plus 20lbs no problem.
>>35175923
What the fuck is wrong with your body.I mean I seen those progress pics.Did you not eat well?Not be consistent with lifting?Low test?Genuinely curious.
>>35176062
Hell yeah man. Ive been losing right around 6 a month but I just started lifting so I'm super weak. Just want to see some fat off first
>>35176018
I can literally smell the sweat dripping down your fedora as you giddily typed that. Jesus christ the cringe.
>>35176018
https://youtu.be/QezS57OODKc
>>35176084
I tried SS for 7 months, I got stronger, but fatter
I tried to recomp with leangains for about 11 months, but at the end of it I realized I didn't recomp shit, so I just cut weight and looked pretty small and flat
>>35176117
Id honestly off myself if I worked out as long as you and saw that little progress
16 week bulk. Gained 20lbs. R8 my progress?
>>35176133
it doesn't stop there, I did two cycles of UD2.0 and got tendinitis in my right brachialis tendon and my left achilles tendon
then I tried to get stronger, I didn't really get any stronger and still looked bad
so at least 2.5 years of serious lifting and I didn't really improve past what I got in the first 6 months of SS
>>35176117
There is absolutely no way that you lifted consistently. If you have, seriously get your test levels checked.
>>35176138
You literally just got fatter.
>>35176176
I don't see how you're not seeing gains. If you just eat good and lift heavy you should honestly have no problem seeing gains. Actually, you don't even have to have a 100% clean diet just train hard and eat good 80% of the time
>>35176117
You've... come back
>>35176185
waiting for your pics. too insecure?
>>35176176
I wanne glue my nuts to your forehead
>>35176185
I lifted consistently for at least 2.5 years
>>35176192
Oh, I saw gains, but only strength gains really, I didn't put on mass when I bulked, mostly fat
>>35176212
do you think it's accurate to say that this is what messing around with recomps and lean gains instead of just seriously bulking and cutting does?
>>35176273
not really, I didn't have much success bulking either
I just got fat
>>35176278
where does this fit into your timeline?
>>35176303
3 years of lifting, couldn't improve my lifts even while bulking, I gained more weight than pounds on my bench
but at this point I think I wasn't trying as hard because I was already getting discouraged, so maybe it's not a pure experiment
>>35176321
Just hop on test nigger
>>35176278
did you count macros at all?
>>35176278
Your mum took this photo
>>35176278
You look like a gay rapist clown with no makeup
>>35176341
religiously, I know that my maintenance when lifting 3 times a week at 190lbs body weight is 2700 calories. If I wanted to cut, then I would go lower, if I wanted to bulk I would go higher.
I got one gram of protein per pound of lean body mass. I also tried to restrict my fat consumption because when I bulked with a lot of fat I gained a lot of fat. Of course it's the fact that I was in a caloric surplus is what drove my weight gain, but my partitioning (fat vs. muscle gains) was horrible on a higher fat diet.
>>35176212
Have you ever asked a doctor about checking your test levels? I'm srs. If too expensive, just do roids.
>>35176105
Kek'd
>>35176401
they'll just check that they're slightly below normal and tell me to fuck off until I start turning into a woman
I have pretty shit facial hair growth when my dad has a full beard and has to shave every day.
>>35176346
actually, my late girlfriend did
>>35176212
I suspect iopq might be the only real natty on /fit/, wish all these frauds would stick to their own thread
>>35176426
>that defeatist attitude
you sure they're not seriously below normal?
>>35176442
they don't give test until your test levels are very much below "normal"
where normal is an average of test levels of men up to age 80
so even if your test level at age 30 is the same as an 80 year old man, they still won't give you test because your test levels are "normal"
I think it's 300 ng/dL or lower to get TRT
>>35176474
b-but have you tried? do you know your test levels?
>>35176499
probably low end of normal, I still have a healthy libido and I don't have erectile problems
my lack of gains can be explained by having a small frame for my height
I am 6'4" with 6¼ wrists
>>35176534
aight man, good luck to you anyway
>>35175671
I'm very weak from years from shut in status. going on one year lifting. mfw ur bench and squat are higher. mfw i still dl more for reps. not bragging just surprised given you got 75lbs on me.
>tfw you are getting fat but your strength keeps going up
I'll never look good again ;_;
>>35176101
>actually read all of that
Who's the idiot?
>>35176176
Same stats, I'm 6'1 165 lifting 1.5 years
>>35176212
>>35176278
lol i remember you
>>35176389
>>35176534
All your photos are old as fuck man i remember these from years ago. You have a current pic on you? You been lifting since those photos?
>>35176726
goal body
>>35176726
Bro your body is my ideal, what diet and cardio? What strength? What routine desu?
Good luck you cheeseburger eating fuck.
Just don't let Lahey find out, you know how he gets when you try to leave him.
1 year
>>35176981
did you just stretch and squeeze your pics in paint to make them fit or something
>>35176726
natty?
>>35176849
I got smaller because I had a shoulder injury and couldn't even lift my arm above my shoulder
"Hey guys, I've been cutting for some months already... my height is 5.5ft and I weight 163lb, already lost 55 lb, my weight was 217lb when I started. I wanna lose 17 more lbs, my ideal weight is 145lb, I've been eating healthy, mostly vegetables and meat/fish/chiken/turkey. I'm eating literally no sugar, no oil (only nuts, peanuts, almonds etc), no rice, no pasta, no soda.
I exercise 6x week (monday to saturday), I do cardio everyday and SS 3x week, I do 20 min of cardio before lifting and 20 min after lifting, also 60 min (cardio) the days I don't lift (3 days per week).
The last 3 months I've been eating something like 1200-1300 calories, that's why I lost weight so fast but I'm getting tired, Scooba Calculator's says that my TDEE with ""Moderate Exercise 3-5 times/week"" should be 2700 calories so I should cut 500 calories and eat 2100-2200 on average. I find it hard to believe that I will lose weight eating that amount of calories... it's way too much food if I still wanna keep losing weight... is it okay if I eat 1700-1800 average? will I keep losing weight considering that I was eating 1200-1300 cals?"
>>35175671
Are you in Indiana?
>>35177233
1200 is way too little for what you''re physically doing. 1700 seems like a better number and you should still be able to lose weight.
>>35176117
WHEN IS IT MY TURN FOR AESTHETICS
Not day one but close
>>35177331
Current body
>>35176981
>dat chest genetics
I'm so sorry anon, so deeply sorry
>>35177055
>165lbs
Of course he's natty
>>35177330
When you stop visiting 4chan past your bedtime.
Started in april
Came to /fit/ for the memes and the culture stuck.
over about 5 months
should have been faster but i fucked around a bit at the beginning
>>35178255
im sorry m8 but did you follow ss i need to know
>>35178196
nice bulk
>>35175671
Ease up on the weights. You want to do this for two reasons:
You're new to lifting. You have no idea how to lift properly. Even if you know in your brain how to perform a lift, your muscle memory/CNS needs a lot of practice to get the lift right and efficient. You want to practice and learn proper lifting form at lighter weight.
Two, if you start too high on a progression program like SS, you're going to stall. Quickly and often.
So take some weight off and learn to do it right. Think of your first month or two as a training wheels period.
>>35175671
I didn't take any before photos but essentially this
>>35178264
yep
and now my ass is rocking
>>35178635
Yes it does. Compliments on the ass, sexy.
Please rate. What should I focus on. 6'0. 204
3 month progress last month friends came up and fucked up my bulk
>>35178654
cutting
>>35178654
>>35178903 This
>>35175671
Mike Shinoda?
>>35176052
Im sorry about the gyno.
>>35176426
>>35175863
> leaves /fit/ for 2 years
> mentioned his gf died in that time
> everyone on this thread instead comments on his test levels
I know I'm on /fit/, but seriously, are you all fucking retarded?
>>35177344
>>35177331
noice
Timespan?Stats?
>>35179139
No one liked him before or now Tbh
>>35179270
About 2 years. Was like 130lbs now around 160lbs. I also grew about 2 inches taller as well
>>35175671
>225 lbs
>6 pullups first day in gym
neat, wheres the video?
>>35175671
You are an idiot if you cut with your kcals under 2000 unless your body works that way. I would recommend cardio over lowering food. Way easier and definitely more fun.
>>35178196
you got shorter, too many overhead skwats?
>>35178255
Nice, how tall are you?
About 3 months in the difference.
>>35180073
you got fat?
>>35180066
I'm 5 foot 10
>>35176176
>dat body
>benching 210
how?
>>35180073
>not washing off that green slime from your chest for three months
Not making it.
>>35180083
Left is now, right was three months ago.
I lost 18 pounds and got a lot stronger.
Benching 265 for 5.
Squatting 355 for 5.
Deadlifting 465 for 3.
6 month lifing
>>35180140
>making fun of my tattoo because my physique has made serious progress and is probably better than yours
Thanks bro, I'll take the compliment.
>>35180171
resized
>>35180171
20 kg in 9 months ? so you basically started eating food and drinking water finally ?
>>35180171
great job f a m. height, lifts?
>>35180173
>Projecting this hard as a poor form of damage control
NaCl af
>>35180173
Be my guest, offense is always taken and not given. Still, a wise mans shame is a fools pride.
>>35180171
Congratulations :) Looks good
>>35180185
>20 kg in 9 months ?
Actually 20kg in 6.5 months. First picture is January but that's not when I started lifting.
>So you basically started eating food and drinking water finally ?
Yes. I also stopped running 40 km per week and started lifting. Obviously some of it is water weight but there's also muscle gains (and fat - obviously).
>>35180194
183 cm (6'0)
Lifts are bad
>>35180202
Ty :^)
>>35180163
oh generally people put the progress pic second.I was thinking you looked good in the first.Was wondering why you bulked hard lel.Nice work
Start was back late August.
I did a cut with diet and exercise until the start of November, and have been lifting since then.
My weird stats are because I'm working out at the only place I can right now... Planet Fitness.
Routine is SL 5x5 with Dumbbells where possible, and SM for everything else. Also added accessories of cable flys and dips on bench day, skullcrushers and pullups on press day, and facepulls both days.
>>35181525
And I realize I can cut some more. Putting it off for the time being.
I'm eating more to try to help with recovery and progression, but I am practically in maintenance (recomp desu) right now as my weight has not changed in two weeks.
>>35176117
Jesus.
It's like you didn't go at all.
>>35181525
Damn, that's pretty nice for 1 month
>started SS 4 months ago, and eating 3500+ cals per day
>making massive visual gains
>people telling me how impressive my progress is
>already have qt gf so don't care about visual gains, only strength
>favourite lift is squat
>have been stuck on 125 lb squat since the beginning
why even fucking lift brehs
how do i fix this, squat is basically the only lift i care about at this point
>>35176117
>SS for 7 months.
>Recomp for 11 months
>THEN HE CUTS FURTHER
Jesus christ are you retarded, recomp is for people that are advanced and just want to maintain their weight whilst changing their body composition.
>>35181697
>Stuck on 125 lb squat
What in gods holy name are you doing.
Post a video dude.
Also I will tell you this now ignore every single moron that will tell you to start doing some different variant of squat or some kind of accessory.
>>35181664
One month lifting.
Again did diet and exercise for a bit over two months.
Diet consisted of getting rid of soda and snacking and putting down the fork, plus I did IF once a week for about 36 hours.
Still doing IF because I believe there are definite health benefits beyond being a useful tool for cutting, though I am eating progressively more and more and maintaining with it.
Worried at some point it may harm recovery, but if that happens I will probably just try to move it to Sunday before outright stopping IF.
>>35175671
there are very shitty tattoos
>>35181927
OP here
I'm new to /fit/, so what exactly is IF? I don't think I saw it in the sticky.
And still, that's an impressive cut, for sure. I'm cutting and lifting, as well, and if I saw those kind of results in 1-2 months, I'd be absolutely floored. Looks like you're well otw to making it, anon.
>>35181525
Nice work man, you went from goober to i'd probably blow you in a month. I'm a dude BTW
>>35182097
Intermittent Fasting.
>>35182093
They looked better when I was thinner.
I actually apprenticed as a tattoo artist, at one point, and kind of played Guinea pig for a guy I worked with. The duck is a character my father used to draw in his school books that I found. He committed suicide when I was young, but he was good people. Depression is real, and I'm a major advocate for suicide prevention because of it.
The one by my hips is design the guy I mentioned earlier really liked, but couldn't find a volunteer for. It's well done, but fatness has ruined it.
The last one that you can't see was a character design that I used to draw all the time in school. It was my first tattoo, and was done by an inexperienced apprentice for cheap. It's not good, but the girl who did it has really come up in the tattoo world, and become a very respectable artist, so I kind of like it, anyway.
about 1 year of natural lifting, how am I doing?
>>35182260
Looking good dude. Stats?
>>35182097
IF is intermittent fasting.
It was a tool I used early on just as a weekly caloric intake restriction.
Averaged about 3 lbs a week weight loss.
Wish I would have lifted at the same time as I most certainly lost muscle and could be further along in making it.
At least I did exercise at the time. Body weight and some dumbbells.
Now I do IF for the potential health benefits. The author of "Eat. Stop. Eat" had a good paper on it as a Master's thesis.
Though now he has web pages for his book that make me want to scan my computer after visiting them.
>>35182260
stats and routine plox
>>35182498
Nice.
What was your starting / current weight?
>also, I just realized I made a typo in the OP. I'm 215 currently, not 225
>>35176052
brah XD i thaught first it was a woman XD
>>35182540
I'm >>35181525
Think I should revise my earlier start.
It was probably more mid-August than late.
IF is pretty easy and with the other modifications of avoiding junk food and being active will certainly make the pounds melt away.
Just have to be honest with it by not over eating before or after a fast.
My fast consists of only water, coffee, or tea. Nothing added to tea or coffee.
>>35182814
Nice, you're almost exactly my naked weight, and 175 is my current goal, though I'm looking real hard at cutting all the way down to 160, instead, depending on how my body reacts.
>>35176981
>>
nice job my man keep it up you're gonna be a beast
>>35182908
Go for it. I am still modifying my diet and trying to find a good place to be.
Personally think that I'll be able to recomp what with my making noob gains.
So I'm trying to stay in the 175-180 lbs range at least until I can hit 1/2/3/4 for reps.
Seen a lot of people suggest cutting harder than that, but I think it will slow my progression which is my priority right now.
>>35176892
Rarely cardio, 10 minute run before I workout
Diet is random, usually don't eat till 1 or so every day but I have a coffee
I do Pplx2 right now but basically brosplit and I also do abs every other day for about 15 minutes
Stats are 1 rm
D: 345
S:265
B:210
O:130
>>35180023
someone that overweight can cut at a higher deficit than a person who's lean
if you increase cardio instead of cutting food, it's the same result because the only thing that matters is the deficit
>>35180163
>Left is now, right was three months ago.
fucking arabs and their reading from right to left
you're in America now, write American
>>35180103
it's only a bit above body weight, I mostly made strength gains by lifting anyway
>>35181771
it was retarded, that's why I made bad progress
