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A sticky til I get this place set up better.

This gym is for everyone. If you are underweight and want to gain mass, you belong here. If you are over weight and want to lose fat/add muscle. You belong here. If you are already fit. Id appreciate your help.

Now. You will find me in FPH threads being a dick to FP. In the gym I will not. I don't like fat people, but if you want to get fit, while we are here, I won't talk shit and I wont allow others to either.

There are no hardgainers and you aren't big boned. It's your diet. Period. I fell for the hardgainer thing. It's bullshit. I haven't been eating enough of good nutritional food nor working hard enough to turn that into muscle. Period. I can lie to myself and blame my metabolism or I can be honest w myself. I do not eat enough.  And if you're fat, sorry, you eat too much and work too little. These are the hard facts we all must face.

I've purchased a food scale and for a little while I'm weighing out everything. I know for a fact that the shake I just drank had 680 calories and 40g Protein. I know exactly how much that chicken, rice, and broccoli my lunch is worth. Eventually Ill be able to look at a chunk of chicken and say ' thats about 100g of chicken' and I won't weigh it anymore.

We'll talk about the work plenty. But we must address how much and what we are eating.

Now give me 5 pullups you lazy fuck.

Was starting to get discouraged because after a certain point it's hard to tell if you're still getting results or just pissing tons of effort into the wind.

After you put a certain amount of effort in to working out, you get to the point where you don't want to waste your efforts. It becomes easier to ie just tweak your diet than it it is to do 5 separate workouts per day instead of just 1.

Also maybe you're already past getting enough effort in ie but you don't know / can't see so you do unnecessarily 2-3x work.

However everybody's 'body' is different. You can't tell if your 'intake' is enough or the workouts are enough until you get measurements. Shit done right could be easy frankly.

Obviously it takes weight off your legs, so if your goal is specifically a leg workout then it's cheating. But so long as you aren't locking your arms, is using your arms in a stairmaster workout cheating if your goal is only to burn energy?

Ohh NOW you did it! I'm in the background of your next tik tok video you bitch!

Maybe some lifting goats have an idea of what I am talking about and know what to do to mitigate or prevent:

Recently got a smith machine set and got back to lifting for the first time since COVID bullshit shut the gyms down. Long time, but finally able to get the equipment I like. The problem I get (had this happen every time I lift, highschool, college, bachelor days, and now) is I will try a higher weight than I have before and I am able to move the weight, but the next day (sometimes in as little as a couple hours) it seems whatever extremity I was using would have numbness or feels like my nerves would be tight/strained/pulled.

Common case: I'd bench 10 - 15 reps in four sets. If I were to increase weight, my rep count usually would drop by two, but still do all four sets. I am able to complete the sets, but be damn near close to failure. Next day my fingertips go numb occasionally and the tendon/nerves that runs over the elbow (outside, think funny bone) would either go numb or be a dull throb. It usually takes a couple days, but then the numbness goes away.

I'm not lifting that extreme of a weight (yet) and eat right and stay hydrated. I have no idea if this is an actual (common) issue with other lifters, and if so would love to know what its called and how to mitigate or stop it. Hope its not the reason why I see a lot of people using compression sleeves around their joints...

Hard to get swole when your hands and feet are tingling.

https://yewtu.be/KwkZhFT61mk

IDK, dude has an interesting take and channel. No idea if you should actually crawl around but I don't suppose it'd hurt. Unless maybe your back is fucked up.