Post a Picture of Yourself Thread

[SaltyGod]

thanks bb

[Poopythell]

finally, you’re so salty.

FTFY

[DaeJung]

I need to stop skipping leg day lol.

Currently on a clean bulk right now, going from 180 at 6’2. I want to get to 205-210 then cut. So far it’s been fun just eating a bunch of clean food and looking good even with this bulk lol. Feels good to be back in the gym and making gains, getting yolked.

[Shatter]

Meanwhile I can wrap my fingers around my wrist very easily.

[DaeJung]

I can wrap my fingers around my wrist easily too!

[Shatter]

I was trying to say I’m a skinny gymless fella

[Tealeaves]

I have this problem too.

[Tealeaves]

I’ve been trying to gain weight for about 10 months now, and I’ve only gained 5 pounds (assuming it’s muscle and not fat T_T). It’s so damn hard for me to gain muscle. The struggle is so real. It’s probably because I do too much cardio. -_-

[DaeJung]

That’s exactly the problem. If you want to gain muscle, avoid doing cardio. Do what I’m doing and go on a clean bulk. Figure out how many calories you need a day, then divide it up into 1/3s with carbs, fats (preferably healthy fats from like fish, avocado, nuts, etc), and most importantly protein. I like to go 1g/1lbs I weigh, so right now since I’m about 180 I get 180 grams of protein in a day. Now yeah, it might seem like it’ll be hard to get that much fucking protein in a day, but I just eat about 3 chicken breasts, Greek yogurt, pistachios/cashews/peanuts, and I’ll take one protein shake during school, and my protein after my workout.

Now that’s just the important part, the dieting part. You know, the part that is like 80% to get a good physique.

The working out part is like if you want to gain muscle but are struggling, cut the cardio down from every day, to only 2-3 times a week. I like to swim for my cardio, mainly because I play water polo and it’s overall good for your joints and body. Good muscle therapy. But anyway, you should also consider going heavier weight with 6-8 reps per workout, so my bench workouts would be like 205 for 8 reps, then 225 for 6 then 225 or 235 for 6 again. If you do more reps with lower weight, you just lose the fat around the muscle but maintain the muscle “size”. If you want to add muscle mass, increase weight weekly and go low reps.

Here’s another tip that hit me in the fucking head and said “that makes so much fucking sense”, you gotta think about it this way. If you eat 2000 calories a day, and your cardio workouts burn 1300 calories, you only have 700 calories leftover to put on weight. And basically, it’s I think 3k or 3.5k calories to gain 1 pound.

Hopefully that helps! If not, I can answer more questions or at least try to help you out.

Edit : Just realized you are a girl and not a guy, so I’m not too sure if that will change anything with all that info I just put, but I don’t think it should. Also, I’m not sure if you’re worried about the whole “I don’t want to look like Arnold Schwarzenegger” thing, but I can assure you that unless you take steroids and lift heavy weights every day for life, times a million, you won’t look like him.

[Tealeaves]

I definitely do need to do some more lifting. That’s something I haven’t really been doing enough of. I never really was a heavy lifter to begin with. I swam competitively for about 12 years of my life before I became a couch potato. Felt so bad. I couldn’t take it anymore and decided last year that I wanted get into shape again. Swimming is definitely great!

I will try to eat more protein. I don’t think I do enough of that. I have added a protein shake after every workout to the regimen, and have been eating more protein rich foods. Unfortunately, I’ve shied away from consuming as much as I used to because I wasn’t working out at all or not nearly as much as I had in the past. I guess I need to think more like an athlete again. Also, the amount of food I consumed when I was swimming was absolutely disgusting. I still have a horribly fast metabolism. I’m pretty sure that would put me in a monetary deficit. XD

Lol. I’m sure even if I did take steroids and lift every day for the next 10 lifetimes, I would still be scrawny me. Looking like Arnold is not my goal though. I just wish to look a bit more fit; hopefully obtain that chimera of a six-pack and some more muscle definition. Nothing too absurd.

/e: Damn it! Forgot to mention the cardio was something I could not get rid of or limit. I might actually need to up the ante on it.

[Tealeaves]

Uni. Why no picture of your door? God that thing still gets me every time I think of it. XD

[clowner]

taken for insta yesterday

[Shatter]

Name does not check out

[DaeJung]

Remember, it’s more than just protein! Fats and carbs take a huge part in getting bigger too. And unless you want rock hard shits, I suggest you get those into your diet as well

I see where you’re coming from, where it’s hard to scarf down food so easily. I play water polo, which is much like swimming and we burn just as many calories. In the off season it’s hard to find the motivation to just scarf it all down, but I guess for me I just tell myself, “eat or die” kind of. lol. And I know that’s definitely not going to happen, but it’s just the mentality you know? I also have a fast metabolism so I can relate to what that’s like lol.

[IAmShurima]

That’s the most reddit thing I’ve ever seen.

[MrLoaf]

Im kinda jumping into this fitness thing here but I rock climb minimum 4 days a week, however I have been blessed/cursed with the metabolism of the flash so I am still almost underweight.

The last week I thought I worked out more than usual, but it turns out I had lost like 9 pounds eek.

and I’m 5’11" and 135ish yikes.

[Atav]

Like when I was 11 or something

[Atav]

And this is now, also I’m super autistic at taking selfies and my fingers look really weird idk why o_o

[Scorchmist]

you look creepy as hell in the first pic

[IAmShurima]

When she’s going to let you touch the butt for the first time.

In all honesty, I wouldn’t say creepy, just super happy to be alive.