littlegreenpills posted:didnt we alread y have one of these and didnt it Tear us apart
ah yes, the swolebriety thread
http://www.rhizzone.net/forum/post/224318/
Instead I just lift, bro. Five days a week.
TG posted:Climbing is awesome and bouldering is great for building strength and technique. I miss my old city which had three climbing gyms as opposed to my current one with zero.
Instead I just lift, bro. Five days a week.
What is your present city of residence?
i now live in pueblo which has a climbing wall at the ymca which is sub-par. theres some outside climbing about 45 mins away but i dont really know anyone down here who climbs
yeah swolebros on the wall always make me laugh because they almost invariably neglect their core and therefore cant climb for shit
camera_obscura posted:are you worried about our safety? if things get dangerous we can just climb something
bas rutten would climb trees to escape from bullies, he was called squirrel boy, but he is also a muscular dude and skilled mma fighter
Prospero posted:if your back and arm muscles arent making you live in a perpetual akward bulky posture that even brushing your teeth becomes a weird clumsy spectacle i dont even understand u
i sat for the majority of my life and weakened my hip flexor muscles causing lumbar lordosis , deadlifting fixed potential future back pain almost instantly
I’d spent half a lifetime dedicated to athletics more common among urban liberals like myself—jogging, cycling, swimming, pursuing cardiovascular fitness instead of brute force.
“I’m really into lifting weights right now,” I said. “Trying to get strong.”
The lawyer’s wife, a marathoner and family therapist, appeared startled, as if concerned about my emotional state. She looked me in the eye and said, “Why?”
Soon, however, I suffered a creeping insecurity. Looking into the eyes of a banker with soft hands, I imagined him thinking, You deluded moron, what does muscle have to do with anything?
Sociologists, it turns out, have studied these covert athletic biases. Carl Stempel, for example, writing in the International Review for the Sociology of Sport, argues that upper middle class Americans avoid “excessive displays of strength,” viewing the bodybuilder look as vulgar overcompensation for wounded manhood. The so-called dominant classes, Stempel writes—especially those like my friends and myself, richer in fancy degrees than in actual dollars—tend to express dominance through strenuous aerobic sports that display moral character, self-control, and self-development, rather than physical dominance. By chasing pure strength, in other words, packing on all that muscle, I had violated the unspoken prejudices—and dearly held self-definitions—of my social group.
fleights posted:camera_obscura posted:are you worried about our safety? if things get dangerous we can just climb something
bas rutten would climb trees to escape from bullies, he was called squirrel boy, but he is also a muscular dude and skilled mma fighter
dana white had yet another adult baby tantrum at the sight of photos of cerrone going rock climbing a week prior to a fight of his
fleights posted:i sat for the majority of my life and weakened my hip flexor muscles causing lumbar lordosis , deadlifting fixed potential future back pain almost instantly
yeah its no joke. i had back pain until around age 18. the change in posture due to lifting made it go away entirely
camera_obscura posted:my favorite is when some dumb bro is too bulky to climb a thing and i scamper up right in front of him like a fay little squirrel
i remember looking at a climbing thread on the something awful forums sometime around 2005 and saw a post about how "every time some dumb football player comes to the climbing gym i climb way higher than he does and help his girlfriend out too" and i quit the website shortly after that, but anyway it's cool to see that certain forms of shameful nerdy wish-fulfillment stay consistent throughout time and presumably place
i just started lifting again this week i do the laziest routine ever 30 min. but i get gains anyways
the other day is bench press, pullups, squats and you just do ABA BAB with one day rest in between and two weekend rest days
gwarp posted:can i lift on a calorie deficit? i take bcaa before cycling on an empty stomach, so i could also take that before lifting, but i don't think it would do anything.
you can't lift on a caloric deficit
c_man posted:weight lifting is a great hobby for insecure nerds. the engineers that i went to college with who went off to make six figures at tech companies are constantly telling me about all of the health benefits to weight lifting right after they get done talking about how /r/seduction is full of useful advice and which league of legends character they're playing this week.
sounds like you should make some physically active friends who aren't engineers
c_man posted:weight lifting is a great hobby for insecure nerds. the engineers that i went to college with who went off to make six figures at tech companies are constantly telling me about all of the health benefits to weight lifting right after they get done talking about how /r/seduction is full of useful advice and which league of legends character they're playing this week.
what do engineers use for birth control?
their personalities