Muscle

My friends said it couldn't be learned. I couldn't even lift one a little higher than the other, I was a failure to the highest degree.

For the next month, I raised my eye brows up and down, 5 sets of 45 seconds. I worked my way up and increased my reps.

Then I practiced raising my eyebrows, and slowly lowering one at a time. Vice versa (3x15 4 days a week)

Now I have achieved my goals, my friends were wrong, and also liars. It must sting knowing that I just contradicted their most fundamental beliefs. I was an underdog and now I'm a confident, vascular freak of nature.

Hello! It's Elvis here some people may know me from my previous posts but most of you most likely don't know me so I will introduce myself. My name is Elvis I am 26 years old and I from Latvia! At the moment I am working full time job but in the free time I can call myself a calisthenics enthusiast for the past 13 months and a bit.. so basically 1 year!

I did share my progress in looks and some strength feats but in my opinion this is my biggest achievement for now especially if we consider that I am quite tall 1.89m/6'2 ft. and also quite heavy as well for doing calisthenics (95kg/209lbs). So everything I learn or achieve feels like a great accomplishment and it doesn't come easy for me! It took me almost a year to do proper L-sit (that's because I have quite big legs and I think that is the reason why it was so difficult) so that will put things into perspective how hard progress comes for me!

Time period: 13 months

Training type : Calisthenics

Cardio : Running, Swimming, Cycl

Recognizing the many other physical and mental sensations associated with hunger can help you avoid blaming them on something else. It can also help you remember to eat, so those sensations go away.

Edit: to clarify, this LPT is not: anytime you feel these sensations, you should eat. When you feel something is off (physically or mentally), and there's no apparent cause, reflect on whether you've eaten in the last few hours. If you haven't, you should, before you assume those sensations are caused by something else.

Edit2: Same goes with thirst. Drink water. You may start to feel better.

4'8

235 lbs of pure muscle

8'2 wingspan

very wide head(prevents lower portion of oponent vision/doesnt weigh him down)

can he still make it in the league? is he better or worse? defensively is he now better with the extra muscle and wingspan? or is the height too much to overcome?

edit: u/sim888 has brought him to life https://m.imgur.com/YP1N71a

https://m.imgur.com/Ams7933

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I'm just realizing that this might be kinda pointless now considering most of us are doing online school but it's still a good life tip

31-year-old Dorothy Goods Tapper was a beloved school teacher from Oak Park, a suburb in Chicago, Illinois. Dorothy taught 6th grade at Corkery Elementary School, and according to her fellow teachers and the principal, she was an extremely dedicated and hardworking teacher.

On Thursday, August 29, 1985, Dorothy’s mother, Ora Goods, dropped Dorothy and Dorothy’s 10-month-old son, Alan, off at Near West Side Clinic, where Dorothy’s husband, Doctor Edward Tapper worked as a gynecologist. Ora said she waved goodbye to her daughter and grandson and watched them walk inside.

It would be the last time she would ever see Dorothy alive.

A few days passed and after not hearing from her daughter, Ora became alarmed. After making several failed attempts to locate her, Ora called the Oak Park PD and filed a missing persons report on the evening of Sunday, September 1st.

Tragically, some of Dorothy’s remains had already been found.

The previous day, Saturday, August 31st, police in Portage

I'm currently doing Ivysaurs 4-4-8, which has you alternate between four heavier sets of four reps, and four lighter sets of eight reps, for each exercise.

When I do the sets of four, if I struggle with a set, it's always because of muscle fatigue. Which makes sense to me, because it means I'm lifting a challenging enough weight for adaption.

However, when it comes to the sets of eight, before I even feel that burn in my legs, I find myself struggling to catch my breath, almost as if I were doing cardio. It makes the 8-rep squats feel brutal, and I look forward to them the least out of any exercise in the program.

Seeing as there are many people out there who lift in 12-20 rep ranges, eight shouldn't even be considered "high reps," should it? Well, it feels like a lot to me, because I'm panting like a dog afterward, and the fact that my pulmonary system is getting tired before my muscles do makes me suspect that getting out of breath is preventing me from being able to lift weights

For a 6'0 man is it easier to get <10% and six pack abs if you were ~210 lbs, like football player types, compared to if you were 170-180 lbs? Does big muscle make it easier to maintain lower bf%?

I can maintain 12% pretty well at like 178 lbs, but cant maintain <10% at like low 170s.

Hi there,

When trying to build muscle, what is the most vital factor when it comes to nutrition?:

1. Attaining a caloric surplus

Or

2. Reaching your protein ‘goal’

I’ve heard either one or the other and I’m not sure which is factually correct. In other words, which of the two is the absolute ‘must’ (so to say).

Thanks!

Greetings Gainers,

Based off some recent posts here, I feel a subject needs to be brought up, specifically what I wrote in the title: fat is easier to lose than muscle is to gain.

I bring this up because a lot of gainers are REALLY shooting themselves in the foot in their pursuit of FINALLY gaining weight by being overly concerned about adding bodyfat to their bodies. For one, there's a very probable chance that many of you that are chronically underweight NEED some bodyfat in order to get your hormones in order and set a stage FOR muscular growth, as the body is going to prioritize getting to a healthy bodyfat before it worries about getting jacked, but even if you're not in that situation, it's still something that shouldn't be overly concerning a gainer.

The truth of the matter is that it is FAR more difficult to add muscle to one's frame than it is to take fat away. Think about how often you see stories about someone losing 50, 100, 200, 300+ pounds. It's a VERY common stor

Hey guys,

This is just something I’ve been wondering but haven’t found an answer for.

I know that for steak, a good outside sear is really all it needs because muscle is sterile inside and the goal is to kill any potential bacteria on the outside.

But why does the same not apply for chicken breasts? Does salmonella exist inside the muscle itself? Or do we cook it to be safe in the event of accidental contamination during processing/food prep?

Thanks!

It hurts a different kind of way when it's tiny.

I don’t know if this is the right place to ask but I’m fed up!

Hi, everyone!

For complicated reasons that I'll decline to go into, I really hate the traditional format of working out that's based on a lot of numerical values. For instance, counting reps, distances, times, etc. However, I've been feeling increasingly inspired by strong women I see in media (namely Cara Dune in The Mandalorian and the Amazons in Wonder Woman). I know that exercising shouldn't JUST be in pursuit of a certain body type (I'm also trying to improve my general health), but this is such an inspiration for me and I'd love to chase it.

What kind of activities/sports can I do to build muscle like these women but avoid the numerical format mentioned above?

EDIT: Too many wonderful suggestions to reply to each one individually, but thank you all so much! Definitely going to check some of these out :)

I'm a dancer and I do colorguard so Im pretty muscle-y and I personally love being strong and having muscles but how do you guys feel about muscles on girls ?

It seems there’s plenty of info on how other muscles react to length of time worked out. Abs seems a little more confusing. Since lockdown I’ve done 5-10 minute ab workouts 4x a week. With gyms re-opening id like to know how with the introduction of weights again, and also compound lifts like squats, OHP etc which will stimulate the abs, how much frequency/time would be required to yield good results? Would 5 minutes x3 a week be ample? Or looking at it from a sets point of view, 3 sets of 30-50 reps 3x per week.

I think this specific topic hasn't been discussed in depth on this r/.

We all know about the benefits of semen retention in different ways by different personal experiences including ours, but does it have any relation with building muscle? Spilling your seed regularly will (for obvious reasons) negatively affect gains, however, I'm not really sure if retaining it for long periods of time will positively affect them or if it's simply the same as cumming say once or twice a week.

Thoughts on this?

This is more common than you think. Most people associate headaches with being dehydrated, but it can actually be the opposite. An easy way to check for overhydration is by looking at the colour of your urine. It shouldn't be clear, but it shouldn't be yellow either.