Does Veeky Forums lift?

Any time between 5:30 and 11. You'll feel good, user.

H-how long does gym take? Is gym expensive? Do I go every day? What do I do, just grind out 50 curls each arm and leave? I've literally only ever used my natural muscle from sports, not once stepped into a gym.

Less than an hour, especially if you're just beginning.
Look up beginner routines and videos on form.
Price depends on the gym. You could do calisthenics in a park for free.

Look into starting strength or push pull legs programs

no, a weak, thin and pale body is Veeky Forums

I agree

of course that I fit

/fitlit/ is the only truth
There is a picture of me in here: instagram.com/hotdudesreading/

>where do you work out?
>the library

Start browsing Veeky Forums. Also, nice dubs.

Yes. I also run and box.

I'm still in garbage shape and hate myself.

Of course I lift but the gym is a nightmare since the first thing autists and incels do to improve their lives is lift. You won't find a higher concentration of the ill-adjusted than in a popular gym in the afternoon.

I can't lift. I have an egon schiele physique. Even if it's brief low impact lifting twice a week, after a couple weeks my body gives out and I can't do it for a while.

/fitlit/, reporting in.

I'm a poorfag, though, so I lift at home with some hard earned dumbbells and bodyweight. Currently, I'm saving for a barbell and better weights. Also run on weekends.

Can't tell if this is a placebo or something, but since I started exercising, about a year ago, I feel like I can concentrate more on any any task, be it work, study or reading, not to mention other general life improvements.

A thin frame juxtaposed with even light musculature produces a dramatic aesthetic. Perhaps your problem was your diet. You don't need to lift very heavy or for that long of a time to dramatically alter your physique.

yeah but I mean my joints or my spine or something else gives out at some point eventually and I can't physically do the things I was doing before that point

The jokes on you, I hope you realize that. There is no possible way to cover this up. You are screwed, no matter how many different ways you try and say you aren't.

Punitive

It takes too much time when I could be reading and writing.

You will never truly get buff unless you dedicate most of your life to it including a lot of your money based on high protein/calorie diets, most people in these threads are just pseudo-fitness nerds with a false sense of self confidence because they have a gym membership and know Veeky Forums lingo.

Going out for a walk or doing a little bit of recreational activity is fine, even doing a couple of pushups and situps if you think you are that out of shape is fine. Anything that costs as much time and money from a hobby such as lifting weights is merely a distraction from more important things, and is mostly just a social tool.

It literally takes one hour a day.

> Never get truly buff

Why do people always say this? They always assume that everyone who works out wants to be the next Arnold Schwarzenneger or something. Maybe it's projecting?

As for "time and money", unless you want to take supplements, getting fit is cheap, and takes about 40 minutes to an hour a day, not every day. It will not affect your reading and the benefits go above and beyond anything social.

This is not true. You can get an athletic-looking body type relatively quickly if you're starting from a thinner base and moreso if you've played sports in the past. You're right that hulking out requires dedication and (((other means))) but you're off the mark. I won't defend lifting "culture" and the self-help rhetoric around, though.

and this is why you will always be a fat lazy sack of shit.

I bet existence is real fulfilling for a retard like you.

Also, home gyms, ever heard of them?

Yes, I used to lift a lot but then I took about six years off and look like a twink now so I started up again a month ago. I am also on a pseudo-nofap where I masturbate without porn once every 2-3 weeks.
Currently reading Anna Karenina (yes, Constance Garnett but I have other translations as well), Osman's Dream.

Got some Latina jailbait's phone number at B&N on Sunday too. I feel the best I've ever felt in my entire life

Drink protein isolate and get rest.

>jailbait

>it's boring

Do you even lift?

The cost of a gym membership + extra food is the only valid reason not to lift. It's true that it is expensive. Anyone who denies this is lifting a shitty gym and probably doing gomad + mcdonalds.

What the hell are you talking about? There are a good amount of us that actually do put a lot of work in at the gym. You can easily get pretty buff and have an aesthetic body at the gym. I spend 10-15 hours a week working out at the gym and have plenty of time left over to read and do other things. You're just making sad excuses for yourself. Doing a few pushups/situps and walking isn't going to do anything for you. Put your kindle down for a few minutes and do sets of squats and deadlifts. Jesus. Being physically fit and in good form is essential if you want to have a good mind. The Greeks knew this, and you should not ignore it. I'm able to focus so much more on what I'm reading and writing after killing myself at the gym every day.

I didn't get her age, she could've been anywhere from 16/17 to 22. You know how short latinas look, yeah?

How do you guys feel about SS 5x5 for someone who hasn't lifted before?
That said I have some muscle from biking, rock climbing, and general sports.

You don't need a gym membership and food is incredibly cheap when you buy the ingredients yourself and cook for yourself.

Home gym+home cooking=serious gains

>masturbate without porn once every 2-3 weeks.
This would make me feel so lonely and I'd be forced to stare at girls whenever I'm outside instead of just running home to fap and feeling much better.
Why would you submit yourself to such cruelty?

Home gym is free? Home gym has olympic bars and bumper plates? Home cooking = free food? Because if not, forget it.

I can still throw a discus around outside and stay active. But if you want to go a good gym and you want a clean bulk, you need $$$.

Shit, user.
Well I stopped hooking up with bitches (most of them were like 5's anyways, no real loss there) and I don't really like nocturnal ejaculation so I figured I'd allow myself one wank every couple of weeks.

I feel a lot better about myself, personally.

SS is excellent imo, but most newbs fail at either:
sticking with the program
not evolving the program to their needs
diet

With SS you'll learn a few basic things. How to lift the basics, to diet, to rest, all based on a lifting program, not just "being an active person". That said, it's very barebones, it doesn't include many accessories that are beneficial or needed. Once you are past 2-4 months you have probably learned the basics, and you can start adding accessories.
The no cardio is a meme, you do need to keep doing cardio. Biking is good, so keep that.
The SS diet is shit, so get that from anywhere else. Go-mad is a joke and is only for the skinniest of skeletons.

>gym: 20 bucks
>food: cheap because it's vegies + carbs + meat + brotein powder
You're doing something wrong. Gym can be cheap, you don't need to have a pool or sauna in your gym. A squat rack or power cage, a bench, and some cable machine for rows, maybe some cardio machine, is all you need and they are cheap.
McDonalds is more expensive than cooking a full healthy meal at home. Make your mom cook for you or learn how to do it yourself, dumbass.

This is like people who "dont have time to read". You actually don't have time to do something slovenly and bad for you, like watch TV or play videogames. If you work out one hour every other day, and you can do your arms and cardio in that time, and your other down time for reading you will still become fit. There is no way, unless you're working 30 hrs a week and a full-time, 15 hr/week student, that you don't have that extra hour (and even then, you probably do, and would probably be better for it). If you are reading every second that you are not showering, eating, and working, you must be living a miserable existence.

Can we slowly start shaming people who aren't /fitlit/, like we did when Ready Player One and the Martian came out, so we can get these r9k and /pol/fags out?

I'm an amateur boxer so yes, depending on the regiment and my weight needs.

Word

Yeah, some of us lift & c.

Pull up bar+kettlebell all you need faggot. less than $50.

Even if you can't afford that, push ups are free. Pull ups are free. Running is fucking free.
I hear a bunch of excuses as to why you're a fat fuck.

Forgot pic.

>slowly
What did he mean by this?

I've been working out using the guide in the Veeky Forums header for 4 weeks so far and I'm significantly less bloated and my arms are getting a bit bigger from muscle.
Feels good man
Don't have much time to read between working out, work, family, etc but everything seems to be in my favor recently

Baby steps nigga

Hello I'm here to help.

Your workout will be max 40 minutes, you'll do SS but add some curls and stuff.

Have fun.

baby steps is exactly how I pace myself, like I said, 30 min sessions, twice a week, basic compound exercises, some minor improvements, adding weight only if I'm absolutely sure I'm making no progress anymore, and then one day bam elbow joint gives out and I can't even work out with reduced weight for weeks. It's really demotivating and I don't want to do it anymore.

thats a dude right?

no just a girl with a scrotum

how is your form, brother?

Why don't you look at the crotch.

I don't fucking want to, I used to squat 195 for 5x5 before law school, I tried again this week, a year later. My gains are gone. My diet is shit. I don't sleep enough. I'm weak and the mental fortitude it took is now gone for other purposes. Also the school gym is full of silent bros, it ain't the lifting senpai like at the old Olympic/strongman gym I used to go to where people would help with form and be friendly.

I respect privacy

Question. I'm 5'11, 210 pounds. Not terribly fat in the gut, but I have huge ass and thighs. All my weight seems concentrated in the middle of my body. I used to cycle a bit in high school, and it kinda leaned me out. I'm no thin by any means, but what kind of result do you think I would get with this body type within a couple months of working out? I'd like to get lean, but I really don't see that with my body type.

>16-22
Don't bother if you're looking for something serious. Latinas in this age group are notorious whores.

No. It's part of pleb-consumer mentality. I am not refining myself into a commodity for consumption. You're pissing away hundreds of hours of your life over the years for something that will eventually just fade away anyways, with the chance of seriously hurting yourself. You're much better off doing moderate excercise for the health benefits and not eating like a fucking pig.

Are you me?

Also what do you do for legs?