r/rs_fitness

i’ve been consistently working out and eating well for this whole year, consequently i only want to sleep w gym bros.

it’s bad, i know, but the dad bods are boring to me now. i tried to date this guy for six weeks, ended it without caring because i just don’t find normal men as sexy as guys w muscles idk.

men are just getting uglier and less desirable everyday, the least they can do is hit the gym. besides, the traits that come along with it are hot as well.

I’m 5’7 and 140 pounds. My measurements are 32-30-38. I know I could stand to lose another 10-15 pounds, but even when I’ve been 115 pounds my waist was only 28 inches. Is there something I can do in the gym to carve out my waist more, or do I accept that an hourglass figure isn’t in the cards for me? Curious to hear any success stories. I’m Latina but unfortunately inherited the Central American frog build. Current fitness routine is daily pilates and solidcore 3x weekly.

I was recently told by someone that there are a lot more people on gear than I realize - I usually give people the benefit of the doubt on these things. But when I compare today's 'natural' standards with those of top bodybuilders from 100 years ago, it's kinda hard not to scratch my head and think a lot of people online are possibly misleading others.

To be clear: I am not judging anyone and think most 'fake nattys' are extremely impressive and disciplined whether or not they use gear. I also find the speculation itself boring.

I just don't understand the need to lie. You still have a killer physique which you worked so hard to attain, why spoil it by lying?

i don't mean vitamins/minerals that people take when they're deficient, like iron, b12 etc, i want add ons that you truly found beneficial, peptides, creatine, cbd oil, adaptogens, liver pills etc. what works?

Back when I had a gym membership, i would invite friends to my place saturday morning. Before they got there, i would walk over to the mcdonalds and order a bunch of mcmuffins and hashbrowns. We would hang out, share energy drinks/pre workout, and eat mcdonalds until we were stuffed. After, we would walk through the city to my anytime fitness. They charge $5 a guest, and you were only allowed one guest, but they didn’t really staff it on saturdays so i would just FOB in my friends. There was a buzzer that went off when you snuck someone in but i just told them to ignore it. It was fun convincing the more straightlaced friends “its sometimes ok to break little rules.”

I typically workout for about an hour, but with friends it would regularly turn into 2 or more because we’d be sharing machines, letting people work in, and just talking about life and joking around

One of my friends had been doing HIIT classes, and asked if she could lead us in a cooldown abs session after lifting one day. This turned into a ritual where after every saturday, we’d make time at the end to let her larp fitness instructor and put all these strong men through the most torturous ab hell she could.

And we could see each other all getting stronger. Hashbrowns and friendship were the greatest PR fuel you could imagine. Afterwards we’d all walk back, and just non-chalantly hang until the weekends next obligation came about.

I cancelled my membership due to an injury and do home gym now, but its one of the things i miss most. Whenever i get mcdonalds breakfast, i think of them.

I can run daily no problem but I just won't lift so I keep trying to make it easier and easier for myself to train, now I brought a yoga mat to work and do a workout on lunch by hiding under my desk. I'm trying to stick to something formal that I can build up every work day before I reward myself with some cute new fits.

Also do any of the ladies have gym clothes recs? Specifically cheaper alternatives to FP Movement? I like their layered cotton tops. It's easy enough to find cotton tops but I like how fitted the FP ones are

I opened a photo of my high school crush (now married) I fumbled and channeled all the desire and regret and self hatred and envy and anxiety I used to feel. I took my 190kg rest-pause sled press set from 14 reps last week to 20. I think next week I will imagine her pushing the weight down against me, like the 4chan post of the guy benching imagining the bar is unit 01's controls and he's saving Asuka. I hope she's happy.

I was doing my warmup routine in the yoga room at the gym and this 17 year old comes in with that stupid ball and cup. I was dumbstruck as this kid just stands in front of the mirror, doing sets of 10 ball and cup i guess with like 1 or 2 bodyweight squats. He continues this for a couple minutes then leaves. Has anyone else seen stupid shit like this or with fidget spinners or something?

god forbid a woman buy herself a couple new tops after 2 months of consistently training, but ya i'm the consooomer

>!im ok tho!<

Having a full squat rack, plates, and adjustable dumbbells at home is amazing.. But there is something about having the pressure of other people around you and doing your sets in a timely manner. The home gym is great, but my workouts tend to be twice as long with at least half the intensity. I think I’m going to get a membership to Planet Fitness and hit it up once a week to light a fire under my ass and appreciate what I have at home. The mental aspect of communal activity is under appreciated sometimes, at least by me.

You need to find the pain & stay in it

The first step is actively building the skill of having a good mental connection to your muscles. I’m limb dominant, it’s harder for me to grow my chest & back. When I realized I don’t naturally connect well to these muscles I started passively flexing them a lot just trying to contract my pecs or lats as hard as possible so I could translate that to the gym. No I don’t mean “walk around flaring your lats.” Just work on being able to activate them at will. Grease the groove type thing

Like I said the next step is translating this mental connection to the gym & trying to keep it established throughout every set. Put the tension on the muscle from the very first rep, before you even begin the set, & focus hard on not losing it. When you feel that pain right in the target muscle, stay in it. Maintain that feeling until you know you’re getting close to not being able to do more reps, & then make your eccentrics excruciatingly slow.

One good example of this that comes to the top of my head is rear delt training. Nowadays it’s easier for me to find the mental connection but in the past it was harder. So I’d lay chest down on a bench & start doing rear delt flies with light weight. Would initially feel nothing because I couldn’t activate them at will, but after doing a bunch of reps I’d start to feel some burning in my rear delts & upper back. That’s the cue to lock in on the burning in your rear delts, stay in it the best you can, & finish off the set.

We've been in a heat wave for the past week, it doesn't go below 80 until nearly midnight and the neighborhoods been feeling like Madrid. Everyone's out chilling with drinks & pets and kids all night. 10pm pick up game at the park across the street. Too late for me to run alone so I grabbed my rope and started jumping again and remembered how fun it is

Question for the culture: how taxing is jumping rope on the body when compared to running? I don't go into too much of a caloric deficit while running because I'm already injury prone as it is, but do I get more leeway with jumping rope?