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Best advice you old fucks have for lads in their twenties?

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grats on not letting wizardom get you down user, we're all gonna make it

Wow I'm glad to see y'all continuing the tradition of /30+/
I'm glad I started these threads so long ago..
Next time use the official thumbnail tho ya dingus

Don't squat, dead srs. It gives you incredible results, I can't deny that, but all the compression on your spine takes its toll after a while. There's a reason why pretty much every powerlifter blows out their back/hip after enough time. Unless you're a pro athlete and need as much leg strength as possible just use the hack squat machine or something, you 10 years in the future will thank you.

I can confirm this. Don't listen to idiots on here who say squats are supreme.

You want to not have a fucked back and knees when you're 40 plus

I'm 20 and I love squatting. Should I stop doing it or just use less weight?

I used to love squatting too and got really good at it. Squatted 4 plate for 2 reps in my prime at 172 pounds body weight. Then the back problems kicked in ...

I can't say with absolute certainty that the same thing will happen to you, but I really don't think it's worth the risk unless you have a good reason to squat, like you're a competitive athlete as I said. I'd just do some bro bullshit instead like hack squats to make sure you don't have pencil legs and call it a day.

I'll probably just squat the bar or pussy weight every now and then. Thanks, solid advice.

What about diddly lifts. I find them much easier on my back/ body

Just turned 32, still getting getting stronger, still have my hair.
10 years in the gym at this point.
Still natty.
Bout to hit the lowest bf% ive ever had and will get an 8 pack, will reach my absolute natty limit.
Maintain it for 2-3 years.

Then get on that hgh TRT and leave humanity behind.
Still poor tho lol

31
Had to drop recreational soccer because the games were late, couldn't keep up with 18-20 somethings, and recovery now takes forever. Drinking heavily now that the bears are back on

nothing ages men like drinking heavily. A big reason guys in their early thirtys still look 25 is they were never heavy drinkers.

I see guys 24 25 who have been drinking heavily for years and they legit look 5 years older than me.
find a better vice limit drinking to once a week, only liquor with a clean mixer

I appreciate that. I've been on one date, three if I'm being generous. I just see how bitter some men get, and I refuse to do that to myself. I know I'll find someone eventually, I'm not unlikable.

Its hard to not have some regret for waiting so long to lose weight, but the push I needed to be serious about it happened when it happened.

I was only joking about the bears. Sunday is my boozing day with redzone when the regular season starts. We let the kiddos have movies while we binge. I know all about people aging poorly; we went to the beach this past Sunday. I'm 6', 175 and was one of the few non-fatties there

redzone fantasy football is back.
I'm so ready.
But bro, if this kneeling for the anthem becomes a bigger thing and they push more SJW shit. I will boycot.
It's the only way to get the sjw jew to listen.

I'm a phins fan, we got Cutler. U jelly

>I'm a phins fan, we got Cutler. U jelly
The bears are paying the price for Angelo and Emery making bone head decisions for a long time. Hope he does well there, but man don't get too upset when he commits a turnover at the worst possible time. Phins defense should be good enough to cover up that part of his game though

I know what to expect from cutty. been a fan and a serious fantasy football player for like 10 years now.
Atleast he can throw a fuckin deep ball unlike Tanahill.

The bears needed a change tho, who is your qb right now?

>The bears needed a change tho, who is your qb right now?
...Glennon. He's getting paid a lot to be absolutely destroyed this year and next while Trubisky gets eased into the NFL. It's going to be a shit show, especially since the bears schedule (on paper) is pretty rough.

Hopefully they give me rage power on lifts and runs during the week.

What field are you in? I work from home and that is the best thing for your gains by far

How fat is your wife?

Was she fat when you met?

Are you still attracted to her?

20 been lifting since 17 really only starting to see gains. 205 bench 295 squat 365 dead at 145 lbs. I hope ur right :/ it feels like I'm just waiting and lifting

>3 years lifting
>Only now beginning to see gains

What the fuck were you doing during those 3 years?

almost 37 here, kinda screwed up my bulk and life took over once again, been lifting for almost 3 years and a former fat ass but currently about 10-15lbs over where I would like to be.

Going to be 34 in a month lads
> Was 230 pounds last June
> Gained weight for a bunch of reasons, but really I fucked up
> Started working out
> Was 220 at the beginning of this year
> was 210 in May - then I began 8/16 intermittent fasting
> I'm 195 pounds right now, 20 pounds left.

Feels good - You can do this.

what does 8/16 mean?

I think you're only allowed to eat during 8 hours of the day with intermittent fasting

8/16 intermittent fasting is when you eat your meals in an 8 hour (or less) period and don't eat the rest of the 16 hours. At this point I've been eating my breakfast at 8am, lunch at 11am, and dinner at 2pm. The other 18 hours I don't eat. I sleep like a baby and the fat has been flying off.

how do you not get hungry.
I become like a raging animal when i'm hungry. Like i'm ready to fight.

i'm 26, this /oldfit/ thread is so comfy

30 here, started getting serious about lifting earlier this year. It was really rough going since my wife and I had our first (don't want to be an out of shape dad).

I'm getting ready to do my first cut, but kind of frustrated that my wife doesn't want to lose anymore weight since the baby. It's not a huge deal since she is only 5lbs heavier than before she got pregnant but I'd be lying if I didn't find her most attractive at the start of our marriage.

It takes time.
It takes discipline.
You have to commit to this cut. By commit, I mean I only work out like once a week because this cut is fucking hard. I do get hungry but when I see how far I've come, my size 36 pants literally falling off without a belt that has gone three notches tighter...its all worth it brah.

I recommend researching into HGH and IF, it's pretty interesting.
There is evidence that when fasted in the morning the body continues to produce HGH for several hours, which a breakfast would hinder.

>37
>lifting religiously since 18
>currently hovering around 180 lbs
>10% body fat and dropping
>5'7" manlet and whatever

I used steroids from age 25 to 28 and haven't touched them since. I was recently beginning to feel as if my testosterone was dropping. Less boners, bummed out, no motivation, etc.

Before going on the permanent lifetime Test cycle I ordered a shitload of creatine to see if it would help. Using 8 grams a day and I feel fucking amazing again. I know creatine increases DHT conversion so maybe that's it. It may not work for me forever, but I'm pretty happy at the moment.

>tfw still making it
>inb4 "manlet... making it... pick one" comment

Congrats on the baby. Kudos for setting an example. Make the fat dads envious.

Is your wife breast feeding? That burns a lot of calories and causes a lot of mad hormone swings. Also try to make date night a fit activity followed up with drinks and dessert instead of dinner. Rock climbing, hiking, yoga, and paddle sports are fun and fairly easy

I know right? I'm 28 and this thread give me hope.

I mean, sure I disappointed my father by not being the son he wanted, but I'm living on my own terms now and he's dying. Silver lining i guess?

I eat like maybe 2 meals a day, but I eat like a pack of hyenas when I do. I never gain any mass unless I go on shitty programming jobs where I work like 18 hrs a day to meet deadlines.

Yea I've tried to skip breakfast but then I end up eating more throughout the day. What I'm doing is working, I'm losing at least .25 pounds daily.

Nice. This is what I think most aspire to. You're going to hit 40 in better shape than most in their 20s.

Turn 30 in January. Combat veteran, finishing up my senior year at uni and then on to law school. Best shape of my life and have a good gf. Doing pretty good.

37 here.
34 years old was 340lbs

>Lost 150lbs
>Started running
>22 minute 5K
>4 hour marathon time
>Stopped lifting
>started lifting again.
>Lost all my fat guy strength from my mondo cut.
>Back up to 2.5 plate deadlift, 150ish lb bench, 1.5 plate squat.
>Running and cutting fucks up all my gains.
>I don't care cause I look cut as fuck even if my numbers are low, thanks low bf.
>25 year old girls lose their spaghetti on me in clubs.
>Former fat guy calves.
>No joint pain.
>All my hair.
>LOST AN INCH OF HEIGHT since I was a teenager.
>Barely any lose skin, only on the bottom of my stomach and the bottom of my ass.

how tf did you lose an inch of height

Thanks man, luckily I'm just at skinnyfat to start (already run, work a physical job, eat okay).

Baby is 100% breastfed and we'll start incorporating solid foods here in a week or two. I'm open to suggestions of good things to start on. Most people have recommended Malt-O-Meal or some kind of grain paste but I'd rather go sweet potato or vegetable mash route.

As far as my wife is concerned she could easily lose the weight but she feels better being a little bigger. I think it's due to the fact we live in a very liberal, fat-positive town and she associates with a lot of them. In her mind being "skinny" looks bad because she's been inculcated into "fat is beautiful" culture for her entire life. I do want her to get into yoga or pilates, which I think would help regulate her mood a little better or give her a break from the baby.

You shrink when you get older, from all the shit in your spine relaxing or compressing.

So far I'm down an inch in 18 years.

32. started working out few years ago. gained 40 lbs. have shit genetics but still look skinny because tall. feels good still though. don't look anorexic anymore.

You have to fight through that. Drink some water and some tea usually gives you a good reset. If you really feel like you won't make it through, try an apple or some tuna. But really, you can make it. Once you get used to it, you'll love the feeling.

once he's dead he's gone forever, just reflect on that before you pass on any chance for reconciliation.

My dad died a long time ago so I can't speak too much about reconciling, but try to be as open to the idea as you can. Watching my wife and her father struggle to have a relationship as he kills himself with food and laziness has been rough. If he can't see you as a man who's made his choices, fair enough, but don't leave him alone on his deathbed if you don't have to.

Steam and mush vegetables or throw them in a food processor, just introduce one at a time (I have a nephew that gets explosive shits when he eats corn of all things). Greek yogurt is a good treat. When it's a little older egg whites, chicken, turkey that's all well cooked.

I've got nothing on the fat positive shit. My wife hated gaining weight. When yours stops breastfeeding and keeps eating, that could definitely become a problem

>being on Veeky Forums past the age of 25

wew

Hopefully as I get more like a greek statue, she'll want to follow suit.
Thanks for the suggestions, I'd much rather do vegetables than fine ground grains.

who /55+/ here?

hate to break it to you user, but you're here forever

>lift for 2 months
>dont lift for 2 years
That was my problem. The first tome ibstarted lifting i was 17, then again at around 21, then again at 23. 28 now and if i would have stuck to it id be a chad by now.

I've been here longer than you've had hair on your wee wee. Get off my lawn, newfag.

Do any of you older guys have any life tips for us young fucks?

Thanks brahs. I'm trying but it's just hard, y'know?

It's like people get to an age where their brain is just like "Yep, that's enough information. No new ideas are needed. It worked before it'll work again..."

It's like, fuck pa, I know you're giving honest genuine advice but the world is different now, please just try to listen and understand me and not just brush off or diminish my concerns because "Back in my day..."

fuck everything before you find your wife

34 here, navy vet, teach philosophy at a local liberal arts college

Was a junk food vegetarian in my 20's. Kept me from being obese or overweight. Diagnosed with hypertension at 30. Did some reading, tried low salt and heavy lifting. Worked well except i hate lifting 5 days a week. Gradually stopped lifting, bp went back up. Fell into deep depression and anxiety. Accepted it was hereditary. Years later, I came across some whole food plant based vegan books. Read a few hundred studies. Started including super foods in my vegetarian diet- with no real results. One day, three months ago, I switched to whole food plant based- no sugar, salt, or oil. BP dropped to normal in about three weeks (30 points systolic). Depression and anxiety are gone. Feels bad that I waited so long to make a change.

You are me exactly, except...I must make it.

Don't get your wife to lose weight. The moment she does, she will dump your ass lad.

It's tough to accept that everything you've learned from blood, sweat, and tears in your life is worth fuck-all. The internet is a humbling experience in a lot of ways so it can be easy to forget that some people aren't used to being torn down to nothing every day.

Drinking is overrated

how do men live like this?
Not wanting their woman to be top notch, fit as fuck.
Are you really that weak and that bad of a lay your wife would leave you if she wasent a land whale?
Fuck everything about that. If your women leaves you over some shit like that YOU werent shit to begin with. You were allready a back up plan. A settle.

Never be the back up plan Men. Nothing more pathetic.

This is why I stopped lifting like 5 years ago, before just recently getting back into it - fucked up my back doing squats. Decided I wasn't going to bother with them this time around and so far so good.

t. lanklet in it for aesthetics

Educate yourself about the stock market and how to invest. Learning about it is boring as shit but extremely necessary in today's economy.

I began investing at 23 with $3,000 I saved up after a couple of years, and then around age 26 I took out a loan of $15,000 and invested that. Taught myself to buy the things that I need before buying things that I want because living cheap while investing the leftover money adds up.

Now at age 37, I've got around $400,000 in the stock market and I own crop land that I lease to farmers for a steady and nearly effortless income. I come from a lower class blue collar family, grew up in a trailer home, and yet I managed to get myself out of the rat race by the age of 30.

School will not teach you how to be a leader, it will teach you how to be a worker. Go to school but constantly educate yourself on a subject that will benefit you. Getting fit is one of those subjects but managing and making money is equally important. Spending money will give you things but having money will give you options and having options in life feels so much better.

Dont stop lifting. Goodis the enemy of great. And like the other user said, fuck everything before settling down with one girl. And dont get married at all.

where to even start user.
Give a road to wealth.
Give me a blue print and I will follow it.

I cant be poor anymore. It's too humiliating. I have some money saved.
Help

Don't get married
Get a vasectomy

Having a kid and/or getting married will kill you.

fuck off Schlomo

>29 here
>I'm a bit of a workaholic if someone here remembers who I am..
>Things aren't so bad right now
>Working in a big field
>Received some new projects in the past couple weeks
>Things are going great
>Traveling for work again, they noticed my gains and commented on it
>Frankly, the odd point is why would they comment on it if they didn't care?
>Well other than that things are going good so far
>Still live alone
>Still a bit miserable sometimes from loneliness
>But either way I'm doing alright
>Currently in a new city for work and returning home Friday morning and have to pick up my projects starting next week........

This. Only a weak man would want to keep his gf fat out of fear shed leave if she was fit.

exactly
neck yourself faggot

Fuck off with your pol and/or christfag bullshit.

holy shit. fuck off back to the misc

Very true.
Thanks. have some tiddies.

Not everyone is a pathetic selfish loser like you. Good on you for not procreating and ending your pathetic gene pool but it's shit advice from a depressive kike so kindly fuck off

what about front squats?

I'm 23 and I'm going back to college. I kinda don't want to because I'm not 100% sure what I want to do with my life.

I do feel like by going back to college I can learn how to network. I'm pretty aspie when it comes to talking to people in a adult fashion.

How do I learn to to be a normie or pretty much a real male.

I'm still a virgin.
How do I even begin to fuck?

Retards like you over procreating is a big part of the problems nowadays. Stay mad tho

nigs arabs, spics and chinese procreating are the problem.
Be real faggot, Europe and America would be just fine without any of above

why would I be mad about jews self genociding

Eurocuck detected lmao

salmon/butter and egg yolks. but most people start with veggies ALDI has a line of organic nongmo stuff thats pretty good.

>34
>waiting for all my sperm donor kids to grow up
>made nearly $3k last week
>still struggling to break 40kg OHP

where are the steroids pls

I have lost control of my life

41. Squats hurt my knees so bad. Leg press it is

This is a blue board user

I am man

I'm so sorry

You need to go full holocaust mode my nigga, you look like dogshit, but there is hope. Cut your hair short, start running and start dieting. Holy shit are you wasting your life. You only get one shot at living a good life, don't piss it away.

We're all gonna make it brah.

Friend... get your diet under control.