to my super swolled up famb of NT...
what does lifting do to you psychologically...
i mean... i know its gets you diesel and what not... but that cant be the only reason...
i've never been a big weight lifter. i played ball in college, and even then, never went hard in the weight room...
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so this whole thing is new to me.
For me, it boils down to 3 things: athletic function, self-improvement, and aesthetics. I've noticed significant improvements to my athleticism in terms of strength, speed, and mobility from lifting. Honestly, your college coaches were doing you a disservice by not forcing you into the gym.
As for self-improvement, lifting weights is one of the best ways I know of improving myself, in a way that strongly manifests itself and that is fun. Sure reading and other pursuits related to brain function improvement are great, but they are less easily measurable and less apparently at least initially. Sure it may be kind of vain, but knowing that you are larger than the average individual you see is a great confidence boost. Also, aesthetics works in terms of attracting "yambs" to borrow your preferred term.
My best advice to you is to remember that everyone starts somewhere. Do you think the swolest guy in your gym was always 210 and squatting 450? Nope, he was at one point at the same level as you. You won't get anything done comparing yourself to others. Perhaps, you should change your mindset and ignore "yambs" at the gym but rather focus on improving yourself. Gym yambs will come later. I'm not part of the school of thought that picking up women at the gym is wrong or should be avoided, but I do believe that you need to have reached a certain level of fitness and aesthetics for you to be successful.
I also stay away from empty calories but you guys stop drinking alcohol? That's the only thing I'll make an exception for. Adjust for calories during the day and avoid the munchies while drunk and it's normally okay for me. It does slow progress down though. You guys go ham like that though? You're MUCH stronger than I am.
SOLEKING - word of advice, I know it's not easy but you have to avoid cheat DAYS. If you must cheat, make it one meal and then go right back to your diet. When you start going days at a time, you ruin all your progress ESPECIALLY if you just started 2 weeks ago. A week of hard work/dieting should result in only one cheat meal. Taking days off gets you no where.
I'd say alcohol has been one of the largest detrimental factors to my training thus far (especially in college.) It's not that I drink too often or all that too much either, but alcohol does have effects beyond the simply the caloric intake. For me, I don't worry really about the calories in the alcohol I drink and I've mastered not eating grimey stuff when drinking (to some extent), what really hurts my training is the lack of sleep and sluggish feelings the next day that result from when I drink.
This bulking phase bruh :x. I'm eating at 2.7k now, and I still lost weight today. I definitely feel like I gained some muscle, but I may bump my calories up to 2.9k.
At the same time, the scale becomes damn near futile at this stage. The mirror becomes more important.
Yo, you're probably not eating enough honestly. 2.7k doesn't seem like a big enough number for bulking. How much do you weight? What's your activity level?
