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Master Don Juan
Most of what you'll hear about the gym is either coming from/based on steroid users or broscience. Here's what I've found over time:
1) More muscle mass doesn't lay your life out on a red carpet. The gym door does not lead to wonderland. A fulfilling life is not made or contained in the weight room.
2) You don't need to lift more than twice a week. The body's endocrine system only supports so much muscle mass, can only reconstruct itself so fast, and the soft tissues that your muscles act on in the first place take longer to recover than the muscles do. One day a week for the upper body and one for the lower is plenty, I would argue you can even get away with less, especially if you follow point #3 coming up. You are not going to "lose muscle" by not working out all the time and you are not going to gain more by working out more. You can lift 6 days a week if you'd like to, just know that it's both pointless and will burn you out at some point physically, mentally or both which is when you'll go down to less anyway and then you'll realise what a waste of time it was. Same thing goes for the amount of sets/reps you do in the gym.
3) Use your body for something other than lifting, instead of lifting more days. Whether it's dancing, martial arts, gymnastics, swimming outdoors if you're fortunate enough to live somewhere that's possible, whatever - just do something you enjoy. First of all the cardio this gives is more valuable than unnecessary extra lifting while still keeping your body toned, secondly it'll be more creatively fulfilling than lifting more days. If you don't want to then just do some other hobby - piano or painting or whatever. Anything other than wasting time in the weight room fooling yourself that this is a hobby or that you're actually accomplishing something by being there more.
4) Many gym goers are full of sh!t, some intentionally like fake natties who are everything from casuals to fitness models to pro sports players. Some unintentionally in the average gym goer because they don't yet know better than the broscience that goes around gyms (like the idea of "bulking" for "mass", the magic powers in squats and deadlifts, etc.). And don't think you're gonna get fake natties to admit they're on drugs, how much they're taking or what effects they have - they'd lie on their deathbed, you have to make your own conclusions. The fact that someone is vocal about how natty they are while being ripped is one of the easiest tells that they're on drugs (the other is giving an inflated range for how much a natty can gain). They'll be the first to #hardwork #dedication #noexcuses #genetics, but what they're not telling you is they don't owe their results to that, they owe them to hormone injections. But that would ruin their image and give life to the #haters, so you gotta do your own research. When you have done so and combine it with your own experience, you'll get to where I am now which is knowing that working out is simple and pragmatic and not the mystic, hardcore activity it's made out to be.
5) Don't measure your stats to other peoples'. First of all this d1ck measuring is both mentally diminutive and pointless. Second, like I said, people will be delusional about themselves or lie anyway in a lot of cases and again your life should be beyond this in the first place.
1) More muscle mass doesn't lay your life out on a red carpet. The gym door does not lead to wonderland. A fulfilling life is not made or contained in the weight room.
2) You don't need to lift more than twice a week. The body's endocrine system only supports so much muscle mass, can only reconstruct itself so fast, and the soft tissues that your muscles act on in the first place take longer to recover than the muscles do. One day a week for the upper body and one for the lower is plenty, I would argue you can even get away with less, especially if you follow point #3 coming up. You are not going to "lose muscle" by not working out all the time and you are not going to gain more by working out more. You can lift 6 days a week if you'd like to, just know that it's both pointless and will burn you out at some point physically, mentally or both which is when you'll go down to less anyway and then you'll realise what a waste of time it was. Same thing goes for the amount of sets/reps you do in the gym.
3) Use your body for something other than lifting, instead of lifting more days. Whether it's dancing, martial arts, gymnastics, swimming outdoors if you're fortunate enough to live somewhere that's possible, whatever - just do something you enjoy. First of all the cardio this gives is more valuable than unnecessary extra lifting while still keeping your body toned, secondly it'll be more creatively fulfilling than lifting more days. If you don't want to then just do some other hobby - piano or painting or whatever. Anything other than wasting time in the weight room fooling yourself that this is a hobby or that you're actually accomplishing something by being there more.
4) Many gym goers are full of sh!t, some intentionally like fake natties who are everything from casuals to fitness models to pro sports players. Some unintentionally in the average gym goer because they don't yet know better than the broscience that goes around gyms (like the idea of "bulking" for "mass", the magic powers in squats and deadlifts, etc.). And don't think you're gonna get fake natties to admit they're on drugs, how much they're taking or what effects they have - they'd lie on their deathbed, you have to make your own conclusions. The fact that someone is vocal about how natty they are while being ripped is one of the easiest tells that they're on drugs (the other is giving an inflated range for how much a natty can gain). They'll be the first to #hardwork #dedication #noexcuses #genetics, but what they're not telling you is they don't owe their results to that, they owe them to hormone injections. But that would ruin their image and give life to the #haters, so you gotta do your own research. When you have done so and combine it with your own experience, you'll get to where I am now which is knowing that working out is simple and pragmatic and not the mystic, hardcore activity it's made out to be.
5) Don't measure your stats to other peoples'. First of all this d1ck measuring is both mentally diminutive and pointless. Second, like I said, people will be delusional about themselves or lie anyway in a lot of cases and again your life should be beyond this in the first place.
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