Man, this is bullshit. You do not need to exert 115% of energy every single time you go to the gym. Not only does grunting and moaning like a constipated jack off make you look annoying, it makes you look like an insecure attention seeking prick in the gym as well. The key to building a great body is consistency and discipline. You take a fat ass who has never stepped foot in the gym to exercise 3-5x a week with at least 80 percent exertion and cut down some calories I guarantee you would see amazing results in a year. There's no need to overwork yourself to hell and pop a vein in your head from yelling while lifting weights.

I think a lot of newbies don't understand intensity. Like how hard a rep should be and what not. That's one reason why you see a lot of these guys at the gym.

I don't want to get that big, not my thing. I work out pretty hard, though. Mainly because it's healthy and I enjoy it. I'm 5'11, and 158, and extremely cut. I work out 5-6 days a week, usually 3 hours a day, in addition to walking about 5 miles a day over my workouts.

According to that TDEE, my calories needed per day is 2700.

Well the answer to your condescending question is that not everyone takes the same amount of steroids as those people.

But otherwise this is useless, your whole rant can be summed up as work harder at the gym, which is common sense

Tren and ice cream brah, you can play Tekken 24 hours a day, only stopping to pin tren ace and partake of Ben + Jerrys, and get to 6-7% bodyfat with capped delts and striated quads. You'll walk upstairs to bed and gain 5lbs of lean mass. Complete troll but in all seriousness, blasting and cruising on low doses of test can really make this process a lot more fun, even more so if you don't care about having children, just keep some arimidex handy in case of gyno. Lifting natty takes 5 years to look better than 99% of non lifters, but being on gear will get you some worshippers if you do it correctly. The aesthetic aspect is only part of it, the feeling of being on high test is sublime.

This guy is trying to motivate himself larping as his arch-nemesis Alpha Man.

There is a time and place for reps to failure. But if you go to failure on every set of every exercise, you tax the muscle beyond what is necessary to stimulate growth. The cold honest truth is you can stay on a somewhat mediocre workout program and still look amazing if your diet is on point over a lengthy span of time.

Good enthusiasm, though. I remember my first double scoop of preworkout.

"I can't leave the gym a pussy. I can't leave the gym before I legitimately feel like screaming or crying or puking at least three times during my workout. I don't even really care about muscle growth in that moment. I know that these moments, where the only thing there is in the world is pain, are some of the best tests of my manhood that I can get. And they are tests that I refuse to fail."

on a scale of 1-10 of pussiness, you are 20

Are we looking down on self-improvement now? Boy, this sub has turned to shit. 90% of people dont go to the gym because they are lazy, fat, depressed pieces of shit. The few that do, you want to belittle them? No, go fuck yourself.

This has to be a troll designed to make this sub look like a joke.

I understand where you're coming from but overall you sound a bit pretentious. Yes, you pity those who don't put out but blatantly staring them down in order to intimidate them is a bit much, at the gym worry about yourself.

As someone who lifts, there are many, many programmes... Not saying that no one is half-assing their workouts, but a lot of programmes incorporate deloads, or a workout that escalates during the week or one week hard, one week softer.

If you go all ham every time, you're going to injure yourself; and as someone coming back from a pulled back muscle, it doesn't half hinder your workout when you are recovering..... So by all means work out hard, but be careful!

He went so hard he can no longer experience an erection!

A novice should not " go hard". He should pick up a damn barbell and squat/bench/press/deadlift with proper form 3x a week, for three sets of five. Add 5 lbs to each lift until you can't anymore. It doesn't take rocket appliances.

People don't want to hear it but I agree with OP 100 %

I was a college track runner and I've always liked lifting weights, I had a friend on roids who was the same size I was and he would say I have sick genetics but the truth was I've busted my ass so much more than he ever did. I've thrown up so many times in my life from pushing myself that if I don't get close to that than something feels like it's missing

Lift a muscle group heavy for 3-5 sets of about 5 reps with your heaviest set going to failure

Lift the the same muscle group to failure with what I call middle weight where you fail at 8-10 reps each set for 3-5 sets

If you want abs have an ab day instead of a rest day and run, people say I run but I just can't get this weight off! I laugh because they dont bring the pain

There's two ways to run that will change your body completely

The first is the one nobody believes, but this is what I call the nervous system shock. If using a tread mill turn run two minutes at a pace that's manageable let's say 6.5 mph. Each workout go up .01 or .02 mph, it will be easy at first but when you get in some serious shape you'll be topping out the treadmill between 14-15 mph that's about a 2:15 pace or so 800(half mile) which is going to be changing your metabolism and shocking your nervous system but you'll start getting the runners high and loving it

The second is a little more traditional but same concept, run distance 1-3 miles a few times a week lets say 3 times. Start off at a reasonable pace maybe 10 minute miles, it really doesn't matter because as you progress you have to bring the effort. Each time you run pick up the pace by 2-5 seconds for your mile time, by the time your running under 7 minute mile pace your body will be getting shredded

If you want a little more muscle run a little less but still run with high intensity and follow the treadmill workout

If you want to be more lean do the second running workout

If you want abs you have to run! My abs workouts are intense too, toes to bar with a 5-10 lb dumbbell between my feet, windshield wipers, heavy mason twist to v-up superset, ropes and heavy side ups

Most the time the only people I see doing hard ab workouts are swoll shredded black dudes and my white ass

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This guy is trying to motivate himself larping as his arch-nemesis Alpha Man.

Oh lord, you trying to destroy people's joints, ligaments and overtax their central nervous systems?

Good shit man, forget all these other guys who are missing the point.

This is the mindset to have when lifting, this is a winners mindset, i love it.

Lol big muscles just like me... omg you are the worsstttttt

This is dumb. Training is a controlled system.

If you're training to failure every set you're doing it wrong.

Lifting is not about ego or making yourself sore. It's aboi a steady progression over a long period of time.

Double your bicep size? This sounds way too troll-like.

The strongest and most aesthetic dude I know browses his phone between sets. When he lifts he focusses. Is he doing it wrong?

The reality is that there are no overnight solutions. There are no shortcuts. People who have been in the gym longest know that it's not about burning your body out every workout. It's about the long game. It's about never missing a workout or getting lazy.

I sometimes like looking at them straight in the eye in the middle of their set

I think I've seen you at the gym now that I think of it. You were bouncing around the gym on your knuckles, swinging on the equipment and beating your chest to intimidate other males. I thought they kicked you out for shitting in the corner and not picking up your sweet potato leaves?

Deoends on priorities. As a uni student I could afford to go the gym fir 2 hours while being at a 500 calorie deficit. Now that I'm working full time ny body can't cope with the stress of having a mentally challenging job. Yet I still want to go the gym. I find a balance of progress vs sustainability.

At the risk of oversimplifying... OP is right. The vast majority of people I see at the gym are half assing.

The % is higher on the cardio and the machines, lower on the free weights. But still it's a majority.

No, you don't have to explode your eyeballs on every rep or set. No, you don't have to get near-rhabdo every day.
Don't be autistic. Learn the core lesson and apply it.

Are you really working hard enough? Probably not.

Here's the cool part: it's an easy assertion to test. Try it yourself for a few workouts.

You either want the results, or you don't.

Personally, I feel you. It feels disrespectful, to the gym. It's a place of worship, a temple, that they come and desecrate.

I view your sloth as sacrilege.

I can't leave the gym before I legitimately feel like screaming or crying or puking at least three times during my workout.

If you're nauseated or puking during your workout, you're over-training. Seriously, chill on the roids.

Lol. You think doing each muscle group once a week, 2-4 exercises, 6-20 reps is putting in effort? And you think this will build a world class physique? Consistency is the key to gains. Pick a proven program like n-suns or candito, and just be consistent with it. Follow the progression and be consistent and you will improve. Also, if you want hypertrophy you need to be hitting each muscle group twice a week. Once a week isn't going to really do shit.

A workout is satisfying when you're barely able to crawl out of the gym.

What I can't do is keeping up with such regime for more than a couple of months. I lift during winters but I drop all of it once the cycling season begins.

This is another autumn when I realize that all my last year gainz are lost. Fortunately, the results of cycling competitions are better each year.

I think it is extremely important to go to the gym with goals. I think most people do not get results at the gym because they do not set concrete goals. Goals are important.

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This guy is trying to motivate himself larping as his arch-nemesis Alpha Man.

OP had too much E/C/A today. Every set is to failure!!! You get a failure, and you get a failure, everybody gets a failure!

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