“No man has the right to be an amateur in the matter of physical training. It is a shame for a man to grow old without seeing the beauty and strength of which his body is capable.” - Socrates

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What does it mean to be Alpha? It means a plethora of different things. Different things that all achieve the same end product. The Alpha male is not defined by a few qualities, but an amalgamation of many things that he has bestowed upon himself throughout years of living for himself.

There are few guys on this sub that are excellent writers who use high level vocabulary in a very nuanced way. Gaylubeoil is one, archwinger is another. Plethora of different things is redundant. Plethora already implies a number of items. Bestowing upon yourself sounds awkward. Bestow in general is a word that's very tricky to use. Nice post, but don't be a high-schooler writing an SAT essay.

Posts like this is why I come here. I'm homeless, barely enough food, barely get 6hrs of sleep at least for the next 2 weeks when I get my own place. I still use the gym here, it just has a bench machine/ with the extra stuff on it, dip machine, leg press machine, and some cardio stuff. I've lost so much weight since I got out of jail a few weeks ago but yeah I feel the weight loss muscle loss effecting the amount of looks i get from chicks. I keep hamstering out of the need to lift weights, or if its for me. I've got JRA so my joints are pretty shot, i'm cute but in a high school sicilian kidish way. Part of me wants to just focus on swimming and be like Michael Burry from the big short, focus on value investing and just maintain frame without worrying about weightlifting. Honestly I feel healthier after losing probably about 5lbs of muscle. I'm cut as fuck, but I really haven't been fucking at any point in my life. I'm borderline suicidal sometimes because of it, it's the one part of my life I can't figure out. Last night I'm flirting with this girl and she's shit testing me on facebook, I tell her "drinks at 8, local bar" and she says sounds good. I'm thinking she's kidding because she's sending pictures of herself at work. 2 hours later she's posting pictures getting out of the shower, then I wake up to a picture of her sitting at said bar with a pint of beer sitting alone holding her head. This girl I knew in high school, but we've never really done anything. Knowing what you want is so important, and I think what I want is to get into value investing, as attractive as blue collar work might be, I feel my body isn't built for it. My dad was alpha as fuck, you know, masonry type shit, built sicilian, and that makes my mom an alpha widow. I'm thinking of just spending money on prostitutes and abusing the fuck out of them until I'm more confident in my game. I take these anti depressants sometimes to get through the day. My sister married some super rich guy, he wants to pay me to research companies, I just need the slut solution to fuck my way out of this paper bag.. but yeah this place keeps me going, knowing there is strategy, and things to be done. not just accept fate.

And what if you enjoy cardio rather then lifting weights? I do triathlons as a hobby and meet a ton of cool people through cycling - doctors, lawyers, good looking women. Don't lift weights at all so I guess that makes me a beta.

Thanks, hadn't read this before.

Definitely part of being Alpha, but not even close to being the whole thing.

Lifting is important, but is blown out of proportion by many. You only need to be on a good program for roughly a year to get your results. After that you can easily go once a week as long as your diet and lifestyle isn't in the toilet.

Broke my right hand (dominant) and was out of the gym for 3.5 months. Kept my diet extremely clean and drank sparingly, etc. Started back to the gym 9 days ago and I'm still the same size as all the fags that have been in there every day for years. I haven't lost any size and they still look the same. My lifts were only down 20% and now I'm back to my personal bests.

Try it sometime. Take a month or more off from the gym. When you return, if your lifts and size are shit then you need to look at how you live your life and not how you hit the gym. I was one of those brainwashed fucks that thought if you went more than a week without lifting the world would fucking end.

Meh, can't back this entirely. Not going to act like I'm not an outlier, but lifting never did a damn thing for my confidence or frame or whatever, and I was putting up decent numbers. Talked with a lot of people who have said, too, that lifting is a waste of time if not doing it for a sport.

FTR: My body fat is 17% and I have an all right build for a guy who doesn't lift - 51" shoulders and a 33" waist, so these aren't the words of a fat fuck/skinny fat weakling.

IK this post is going to get zero support, but it's just my own experiences.