QTDDTOT THREAD

Tahini.

Sorry, not pajeet.

Is 3x12 really a meme? What is a good set:rep ratio for hypertrophy?

What ever happened to ennui???

IS THIS ROUTINE GOOD FOR A SKINNY BEGINNER WHO JUST WANTS TO THICKEN UP AND GAIN 10KG?

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What is the cheapest plant-based non-soy protein powder that isn't total shit?

I'm allergic to soy as it turns out, and my doctor said to eat less meat and dairy for health reasons.

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Is it possible to get to Greek god mode from DeVito mode within 3 years?
I want to go to Disney World during its 50th anniversary, and make it my first time going to the water park, since I never did as a kid due to being fat and ashamed.

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Veeky Forums why is this shit so cheap? are we all chugging melamine?

>inb4 muh labdoor
I've been paying attention to this for a while and I had never heard of labdoor in any context other than "myprotein isn't actually bad". also for quite a while they only had like five proteins ranked. I'm not saying labdoor is for sure a shill site, but I'm suspicious.

>muh reddit test
yeah, that's something

>cheap packaging and price discrimination (ie most people buy more expensive shit and pay closer to retail, whey on sale is a loss leader)
maybe, but their full prices are no higher than industry standard, so how does it average out?
can you get peanuts? or any kind of roasted nuts? if so, you can make your own nut butter--blend the hell out of whatever kind of nut you got in a food processor, add salt to taste.

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I have never eaten a vegetable in my whole life. Give me some good recipes.

Just end it all.

I'm constantly on the road away from home due to work.
I need some high protein meal ideas or at least a decent protein bar that isn't a glorified candy bar.
Getting a little tired of starkist tuna kits.

I've been doing RDLs for a month now, and did 315x5 today. The internet says for my weight a 380x1 would be "advanced", there is no way, right? How am I at advanced after a month of doing them?

And yeah I don't bend my knee, and I'm going low enough (shins)

fuck no

Fat /v/irgin here, I'm concerned about my back health after years of sitting in comfy chairs doing nothing but playing videogames. What would be a good simple exercise to strengthen my spine so I don't break in half at a young age?

chickpeas.
Avoid all other legumes like aids.

/thread

Muscle Pharm cookies n cream whey: any good?

Where the fuck did the fasting general went?

Food jew shut it down, sorry fastfriend.

Is A2G the best way to squats? I heard someone say that 90 degrees is as effective

What about minoxidil? Doesn't that stop the DHC or whatever from killing your hair?

Aside from going to the gym earlier than everyone, how do I watch porn inside the gym? I don't want to go to the bathroom every time to pump myself up before lifts.

Also, there are cameras everywhere. Do you reckon the employees zoom in on my phone? Is my phone ever really dark enough that others in the gym can't see the screen?

If I hold my phone upright (90 degrees), there are mirrors pretty much everywhere. What is IDEAL angle range so that I can gander at the goods without being spotted by mirrors, cameras, and other people?

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I'd recommend SS to start with, learning how to squat is really important. GSLP is a great program once you know all the movements pretty well.

I would definitely recommend some carbs as it's just energy to have, even if it's just a piece of bread or two or some rice. Not required tho

Possible? Yes. Probable? Well, you get out what you put in. Going from obese to normal weight could take 10-months to a year, turning around and getting shredded could take anywhere from 2-3 years total. If you are consistent and pay attention to your body and are willing to change your life style, then you could make it. Anyone can.

Sounds like you want brown rice protein powder or pea-protein powder. The cheap-but-not-shit stuff you'll have to figure out on your own bud.

MyProtein is based in england where they more or less get a huge tax cut on production due to some loophole in the law, so they can sell it for dirt cheap. The downside is most of the flavors are fucking gross and it mixes poorly. If you don't give a shit about that stuff, go crazy, it's the cheapest quality protein there is.

t. guy who tried myprotein 5 times and hated every flavor

Steamed broc
Sauteed brusselsprouts w/ salt and pepper
steamed green beans w/ garlic and a smidgen of butter
cauliflower as is cuz it's fookin' delicious
corn on the cob w/ butter and some salt
etc.

What about protein powder? Otherwise look into quest bars or the kirkland generic brand protein bars (which are basically quest bars anyways)

Literally any sort of lifting routine and regular stretching

They couldn't spare enough calories to post today sorry friendo

A2G is mostly for bragging rights. There's not really any true advantage to it and at-worst you can rest your legs by going down too far and lose your tightness.

>how do I watch porn inside the gym?
plz do not watch porn in the gym you degenerate

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is your imagination really so shit that you cant keep some porn in your brain throughout the workout? I watch a few minutes on chaturbate before I go work out, just to remind myself. (I'm on nofap though)

I'm allergic to dairy and not going anywhere near soy, so I've been looking at beef protein isolate. It's better than other non dairy non soy proteins because it has amino acids.

Listen here, buddy. Reality is stronger than imagination, so the effect of REALLY seeing porn right in front of your eyes 5 seconds before lifting is greater than a soundless, grey blur that's clouding in your head from the chaturbate vids you watched an hour ago.

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Just read you said plant based, dw

I want to come up with a new routine for myself based off of PPL or PHUL format, but I'm confused about how to fit both squats and deads twice a week. Can someone offer any ideas?
Is it a good idea to do PPLPPLx if I enjoy working at high volume?

This is a hypothetical question. If you perform the absolute perfect deadlift, should you feel anything at all in your lower back region?

...do you know what muscles the deadlift works?

i just read the sticky and had 2 questions
1. it said not to go under 500 calorie deficit because if you go to low you will go into a starvation mode and stop losing weight. i just started doing a 1000 calorie deficit, will this put me into the starvation mode or is that only for people who are truly starving themselves?

2. the sticky said beginners should start with the Starting Strength routine, but I've already been going for 2 months and doing the normal 3x10 routine everyone else at the gym seems to be doing, should i switch to SS or is there really not much difference between SS and other routines?

Can I train my dick to become swole as fuck?????

I need help on my benching!!!
>doing Starting Strength (I don't need to hear that its a shit program, I want to get stronger and I don't care about aesthetics)
>3 sets for 5 reps
>everything I hit 5th or even sometimes 4th rep my right side goes up first before my left, this happens even on my first set
Currently on 92.5kg for the 3rd time even though I completed all 3 sets without failing. I did not increase the weights because I don't want to cause imbalance as I go up but I can't seem to get the bar in a straight up ascending up.
Any tips to help? Yes, I'm arching, shoulder blades pinched, lats tighten by bending the bar.

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Whenever I come down off a deadlift, the bar always ends up a few inches ahead of where I picked it up. Why is this happening?

Anyone do/done Layne Norton's PHAT program?
How'd you find it?
2nd week here and already up a few kg's in almost every lift, went from PPL so the extra rest day could be helping a lot.

Can someone make a fast thread

How can I get a whiff of a brap from a gym thot without her noticing? Veeky Forums have fucked my sexual preferences.

Do regular cold showers increase the odds of getting sick?

yes I did cold showers for a week and then got ill

Sean from plg got injured with it
Rip says imbalances usually fix themselves in the novice stage so your arms should go up evenly soon enough
Based
Cringe

LOL got injured how?
can hardly blame a program for injury unless it was due to the amount of volume, in which case what a bitch

Are there any bad effects to doing reverse curls on every SS day? I have to replace chins with pulls and cant do normal curls due to tendinitis, and i want big biceps. I also do rows because i couldnt learn cleans properly.

Hes a gde

He's also a dumb fuck, which is probably more relevant to the matter.

Beginner here. Just came back from the gym. I'm hungry as fuck but lunch is in two hours. What do?

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Chicken

What do i talk to a girl in my uni class about apart from uni work?

>Rip says imbalances usually fix themselves in the novice stage so your arms should go up evenly soon enough
I'm sorry to ask this but are you sure? I don't want it to get so bad because I'm using my right side to compensate the ascend of the lift and I don't want it to get worst as the weights go up.
Could it be I'm tired that's why I'm doing it, should I reduce the weight and really slow down the bar speed both descending and ascending to fix the problem? Should I do some DB work as backoff?

Yes but that would be for lunch. I'm fucking dying here.

Im not really sure, rip is wrong sometimes. /plg/ may have an answer, id ask them if i were u

It works for me. I still look like shit after 3 months of it, but my squat went from barely doing 60 kg to ezpz ass to grass 5 x 110kg.

How bad is alcohol after exercise? I know how bad it is in general but let's say that after my workout I'll drink two glasses of wine with a healthy meal. Will it fuck up more than having same amount later in the evening, for example?

Alright thanks a lot, will ask them.

Shouldn't matter, just drink a lot of water.

Bump

> lifting for girls

You make a good point. I might just do them after pullups and not on the other day

is it possible to do strength training and hypertrophy at the same time? I want to look good but I also want to my lifts to be good as well

You mean like basically every fucking strength program written in the last thirty years?

Can't flex bone. Mass is always a limiter on how much you can lift.

so would it be best to start off doing hypertrophy first then?

so would it be best to start off doing hypertrophy first then?

Just do SS and stop trying to reinvent the wheel. You'll have noobgains in all departments, including hypertrophy.

How do you know if you're skinnyfat or just skinny?

>noobgains in all departments
Except upper body :^)

While benching I get a sharp pain on the middle of my delt when bringing the bar down, it radiates all through the delt and is seriously getting in the way of my gains. What do? Its been weeks and not going away

you're probably using your arms more than your back to lift. position yourself up the seat more and use your back more when you bench

do normal push-ups and elevated push-ups workout different areas of the pecks?

Here you go m8
livestrong.com/article/537593-what-do-decline-and-incline-pushups-work-on/

>livestrong.com/article/537593-what-do-decline-and-incline-pushups-work-on/
Cheers m8

Has anyone got any recipes for meals that I could bring to university? There's microwaves there, but I can't refrigerate anything.

i was sick for a week and am still coughing, how long should i wait till i go back to the gym?

pls give swole penis advice

Why am I not sore, Veeky Forums?
Recently picked up lifting again and last week my legs were dying from soreness. Yesterday I did the same exercises and today I woke up to absolutely no soreness.

This is wrong, right?

nah, it's DOMS. either that or you didn't go as hard as you did last week.

Okay, so I am sure this has been asked a million times before but here goes, haha.

Why is it that when I play up how aloof I am, cause emotional spikes with women, speak vaguely when talking about myself, and just generally act like a dickhead that I get laid like crazy? Then when I act like my usual self or get deep with girls that all attraction disappears?

I only ask because I met a girl at university and quite like her. She's the usual kind of bleached blonde, ethnic, tanned woman, that I would act like a dick to and get sucked off by and bang the same night of meeting but something about her is different. I don't know what it is exactly but for some reason getting to know her through university has changed how I would normally perceive a person like her. Obviously I want to sleep with her but this conflicts with my desire to be my authentic self. Is it wrong to act like somebody else if it reliably gets me laid?

I've currently slept with 31 people and am only 22 years old.

Ah, so it still has to kick in? I worked out atound 12 hours ago.
I don't think I went soft this week, did the same execises with more weight.

>12 hours ago.
That's probably why. Wait another 24 and then ask us again.

Hey guys, recently switched from SL to a standard push-pull routine that follows a similar ABAB track but focuses on dumbbells for a change. I've been doing a MWF but now I'm thinking about switching to a MTThF track and I was wondering if it would be beneficial to have two of those days be barbell days and two dumbbell or if I should just continue my dumbbell routine with the extra day. Would it help keep me from getting in a rut or have any positive benefit? Thanks white brothers

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As someone who is always authentically themselves, has tons of friends, but only slept with a few women, god speed user. Being handsome with social clout talking about meaning with dumb shallow chicks doesn’t get you laid.

I only ever get laid when not with my mates, sadly. The minute I am around them I become too authentic and my natural self is not attractive to women for some reason. I have to go out on my own in order to get laid which is really strange.

I would say that I am not attractive and fairly beta with friends. For some reason I can pretend to be more confident, self-assured, and push the envelope when alone though. As you say, I would much rather discuss the deeper meanings of things with women, but the second that I do is the same that they dry up.

>puked my brains out this morning
>no way am I going to make my caloric goal
What do you guys do when this happens? I don't feel like eating anything at all, probably gonna take the day off but if feels awful cause trying to bulk

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I've been talking to this one girl at the gym (typical cardiobunny) without much anxiety since I thought she was still going out with this one dude that's in a few times a week. Today I asked when they were moving while we were cycling and she told me that they broke up, kinda ticked he still shows up at the gym, etc.

She's been laughing at a lot of the dumb shit I say and started taking yoga class with me. I'm thinking about this too hard, aren't I?

What is the best way to improve my cardio, specifically breathing when I have asthma?

At the moment I cycle every day for 1 hour after my work-out, average about 80RPM and my heart rate sits at 110-130. I don't get out of breath, but when I go to rowing training or play rugby I'm very out of breath. Hell if I climb a set of stairs I'm breathing heavily for a few seconds.

What's a usable machine routine? I wanted to start with machines for a little while before starting strong lifts, but google hasn't been too useful for me.

Are you me from 3 days ago?
Anyway, I just made a calorie bomb shake in the evening.
The shake: whey with milk + peanut butter + bananas while munching on 100grs of walnuts.

user I occasionally defend machinefags because I think they get a lot more hate than necessary but if you want to do SL going in with decent strength isn't important, what is important is getting the form right and it takes a long fucking time to get it down. Even if you have to go with just bar get in there and start doing SL just don't get discouraged and know you probably won't see a lot in way of results till you get that form down and you'll have times where you have to deload because you aren't doing it right like not breaking parallel on squats. It can be discouraging but the best time to start is now yo

Oh and she has commented more times than I can count on how great I look. Thought she was just being encouraging/polite at the time.

>omg this girl likes me what do I do!?
Try asking her out you aspie. Fucking insane that this kind of thing gets posted a thousand times but if I want actual workout advice on Veeky Forums it gets drowned out

I'm not used to anyone showing interest and have trouble separating it from general friendliness

Yeah but user, no one can tell for certain reading a post online, there's body language and other subtle shit but from what we have to go off yes she does like you. If you wait too long you'll get friendzoned, if you want to be her friend and are worried about ruining that then just handle rejection well, here's an example: "hey xslut, can I take you out on a date and buy you dinner Saturday night (important not to be too presumptuous, give a future date where planning can occur)"? If Yes then "Alright cool, I know some good places but why don't you give some thought to where you want to go and then text me when you get it figured out" wait for location then recommend doing something in the area after "oh that's right by the putt-putt golf place, you any good?".
If NO answer to date "hey figured it couldn't hurt to try but I'm not going to be all weird about it, I like having you as a friend and will drop it from here on out"

yea you can do PPLPPLx. squats are on the L and deads are considered pull even though you have a leg component.
1. starvation mode is outdated myth.
2.SS is outdated info as well. do whatever if need be but I recommend PPL.
get a gf who entertains ur fetishes.