How do people with jobs find time to go to the gym?

[tp4tissue]

Atkins, South Beach, Keto, Carnivore, Caveman, Cholesterol-Code

It's all the same garbage fad diet, not only is it insanely destructive to blood vessels (cholesterol - > heart disease), it causes cancer.

Carnivore is straight stupidity on top of being Horrible for Climate Change.


Reminder, Dr. Atkins died extremely overweight, and his wife refused autopsy to determine cause of death.  Allegedly he went into the hospital for slipping on ice, but most likely he had a stroke/ heart attack which caused him to fall.


It boggles the mind how people can be convinced of something so idiotic, like eating sticks of butter can be the natural human diet.

Social media is kryptonite for morons. People who want to believe SO BADLY that cheeseburgers are the secret to health.

[fohat.digs]

Carnivore is a diet of eating only meat?

Wow! I always thought that balance and variety were the goal.

I used to wonder about those Eskimos eating seal blubber all winter ....

[tp4tissue]

I used to wonder about those Eskimos eating seal blubber all winter ....

The preferred term is Inuit,  Eskimo is like their "N-word."

The Inuits eat seal blubber due to their extreme environment, there's no reliable farming, but the seal blubber is NOT good for them .

500 year old Inuit mummies were discovered frozen in the ice, they had Severe heart disease (atherosclerosis).

The cause? The damn seal/whale blubber. 

Many modern Inuit women have highly toxic breast milk, it's so polluted that they can not breast feed their babies.

The same thing happens with modern Dolphins (mammals) where the very First born pup usually dies from the mother's toxic milk.

Humanity's industrial output dumps roughly ~300 Tons of chemicals per person alive into the environment PER YEAR, why are we then surprised that the ocean is a toxic soup. This toxicity bio-accumulates up the ocean food chain, the larger fish that humans eat are super poisonous.

Not to mention, humans eating bottom feeder ocean- cockroaches (shrimp/lobster), and filter feeders (shells).

If mothers, humans or dolphins, eat tons of fish/ seafood, there will be a huge buildup of mercury, pcbs, dioxins, etc.  The only way OUT of the body for many of these chemicals is breast milk.  Poof, sick/ dead babies.


It makes you wonder why we have all these idiots walking around eating sticks of butter.

[noisyturtle]

Ahh man I know it's trite, but these kids on their phones at the gym.
No exaggeration, I saw this kid do 3 sets of 20 on the cable machine in 40 minutes (no I wasn't stalking him, it is just a very tiny apartment complex gym). Each set took him about 2 minutes, and the weight wasn't even high, like you could tell he set it a much lower than he could lift.

Meanwhile, I took 1 45 second break only after my first 20 minutes of cardio that entire time. Why are you even there bro? Does your dad beat you at home and you're waiting for the drink to knock him out? And I feel like I'm wasting MY time going to the gym, seeing that ***** **** just motivated me to pump harder today 

[noisyturtle]

After trying a lot of protein bars over the last 10 months, there is only one clear winner.
The only requirements were: A minimum of 20g protein, 200 calories or less, taste like candy.

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Barbells are hands down the tastiest high protein workout bars I tried. All the flavors are great, but for me the Caramel Cashew really delivers on that candy bar taste. I'd eat it on it's own as a treat, let alone as a post-workout bar with decent marcos. I'm so jealous of Sweden, as they have all sorts of limited and exclusive flavors and varieties. 
 
Honorable mentions go to Built Puffs and Snickers Hi-Protein, but they are not even in the same league as Barbells in terms of taste. Puffs are really good, but I think you can only get them online so their distribution sucks. Snickers is kinda hard to find, and VERY chewy, so you'll get a jaw workout as well.

[iri]

Noisy, move to England, Barebells are in every supermarket and every petrol station here =)

[iamtootallforthis]

Noisy, move to England, Barebells are in every supermarket and every petrol station here =)

They're everywhere on the East Coast of the US too

[chyros]

Why are you even there bro?

Oh dear, Noisy is turning into one of THOSE gym people .

Gonna see if I can find the bars though. I know a couple of bars that are good, but those are impossible to get, so I'm interested in some good-tasting ones .

[noisyturtle]

I thought every day was a bit much, but I met someone today who tries to get in at least 2 workouts A DAY!
At first I thought I misheard him say twice a week, but no, shoots for 3hrs a day 6 days a week. He wasn't even jacked so I do not understand what he's doing and why so often.
And with a full-time job, 2 kids, and a wife. I cannot comprehend how this man is living his life, it makes no sense.


Oh, and I finally got to try every Barbell flavor and the winner is...
Creamy Crisp
By a country mile, it is not even close in terms of taste for me personally. Creamy Crisp flavor straight up tastes like a delicious candy bar. Kinda like a marshmellow coconut, although there is no coconut flavor in it.

[tp4tissue]

Tp4 unfat 2025 is on going.

[iamtootallforthis]

I thought every day was a bit much, but I met someone today who tries to get in at least 2 workouts A DAY!
At first I thought I misheard him say twice a week, but no, shoots for 3hrs a day 6 days a week. He wasn't even jacked so I do not understand what he's doing and why so often.
And with a full-time job, 2 kids, and a wife. I cannot comprehend how this man is living his life, it makes no sense.


Oh, and I finally got to try every Barbell flavor and the winner is...
Creamy Crisp
By a country mile, it is not even close in terms of taste for me personally. Creamy Crisp flavor straight up tastes like a delicious candy bar. Kinda like a marshmellow coconut, although there is no coconut flavor in it.

I know a few people who do this. It takes juggling but they probably train for something and have a very set schedule

[noisyturtle]

Tp4 unfat 2025 is on going.

Honestly, the best first steps are not even exercise. A full night's sleep and a consistently healthy diet does most of the work. I lost around 30lbs just changing my eating habits over the last 2 years, and only about 15lbs from working out 3x a week for 7 months.

[tp4tissue]

I know a few people who do this. It takes juggling but they probably train for something and have a very set schedule

How do these people have time for starcraft and armored core.

[noisyturtle]

I know a few people who do this. It takes juggling but they probably train for something and have a very set schedule

How do these people have time for starcraft and armored core.

My literal motivation is every single time I go to the gym is:
"OK. Just a minimum of 80mins and I can go home, shower, get stoned, and play video games the rest of the night."

As long as I hit that 80min mark, any extra time is pure bonus motivation. It's just a countdown from when I hit my demotivation wall after the first 20-30mins.

[iri]

I thought every day was a bit much, but I met someone today who tries to get in at least 2 workouts A DAY!
At first I thought I misheard him say twice a week, but no, shoots for 3hrs a day 6 days a week. He wasn't even jacked so I do not understand what he's doing and why so often.

I know someone like this, but he is really ****ing jacked.

My literal motivation is every single time I go to the gym is:
"OK. Just a minimum of 80mins and I can go home, shower, get stoned, and play video games the rest of the night."

As long as I hit that 80min mark, any extra time is pure bonus motivation. It's just a countdown from when I hit my demotivation wall after the first 20-30mins.

80 minutes is insane, you can have a productive workout in 45.

[iamtootallforthis]

I thought every day was a bit much, but I met someone today who tries to get in at least 2 workouts A DAY!
At first I thought I misheard him say twice a week, but no, shoots for 3hrs a day 6 days a week. He wasn't even jacked so I do not understand what he's doing and why so often.

I know someone like this, but he is really ****ing jacked.

My literal motivation is every single time I go to the gym is:
"OK. Just a minimum of 80mins and I can go home, shower, get stoned, and play video games the rest of the night."

As long as I hit that 80min mark, any extra time is pure bonus motivation. It's just a countdown from when I hit my demotivation wall after the first 20-30mins.

80 minutes is insane, you can have a productive workout in 45.

80 minutes is long but depends on intensity and how he breaks it down

[noisyturtle]

I keep running across these YT channels with people who have clearly spent $10's of thousands of dollars building a crazy nice home gym, and then they are totally out of shape or completely non-muscular.
Such a weird trend and thought process when working out is one of the least expensive and most accessible things you can do with your spare time.
Is it like sunk cost, where they think "If I spend $30k on a home gym, it will force me to get in there and use it!" ?
Some folks just have money to burn, guess why that is the reason the 2nd hand gym equipment market is so huge 

[tp4tissue]

Tp4 has spent 10s of thousands on Computers, yet the only thing Tp4 actually bothers to program is Arduino.

[iamtootallforthis]

I keep running across these YT channels with people who have clearly spent $10's of thousands of dollars building a crazy nice home gym, and then they are totally out of shape or completely non-muscular.
Such a weird trend and thought process when working out is one of the least expensive and most accessible things you can do with your spare time.
Is it like sunk cost, where they think "If I spend $30k on a home gym, it will force me to get in there and use it!" ?
Some folks just have money to burn, guess why that is the reason the 2nd hand gym equipment market is so huge 

Everyone's fitness goals are different. Most with an expensive gym are powerlifters or strongman competitors in my experience on social media. So they don't exactly need to be lean lol. Sure there are outliers though

[tp4tissue]

The average exercise equipment gets used EXACTLY 1 time, then never again. /coat hanger.

[noisyturtle]

Final push to 8 months of regular gym. For the next 10 days I'll be going every day for my normal 25/25/20 (25mins doing my core 8 weight training exercises, 25mins doing a 2nd rotation, 20mins aerobics)
This is probably the longest I've ever stuck with anything I actively disliked. Never thought I had the capacity to do so, especially considering I have the free will to just not go at all.

Next goal is 1 year!

[iamtootallforthis]

Final push to 8 months of regular gym. For the next 10 days I'll be going every day for my normal 25/25/20 (25mins doing my core 8 weight training exercises, 25mins doing a 2nd rotation, 20mins aerobics)
This is probably the longest I've ever stuck with anything I actively disliked. Never thought I had the capacity to do so, especially considering I have the free will to just not go at all.

Next goal is 1 year!

At a certain point it becomes routine and it feels weird not doing it

[noisyturtle]

Final push to 8 months of regular gym. For the next 10 days I'll be going every day for my normal 25/25/20 (25mins doing my core 8 weight training exercises, 25mins doing a 2nd rotation, 20mins aerobics)
This is probably the longest I've ever stuck with anything I actively disliked. Never thought I had the capacity to do so, especially considering I have the free will to just not go at all.

Next goal is 1 year!

At a certain point it becomes routine and it feels weird not doing it

Maybe I'll feel the entropy when I stop going? Hopefully more than just feelings of guilt.

[iamtootallforthis]

Final push to 8 months of regular gym. For the next 10 days I'll be going every day for my normal 25/25/20 (25mins doing my core 8 weight training exercises, 25mins doing a 2nd rotation, 20mins aerobics)
This is probably the longest I've ever stuck with anything I actively disliked. Never thought I had the capacity to do so, especially considering I have the free will to just not go at all.

Next goal is 1 year!

At a certain point it becomes routine and it feels weird not doing it

Maybe I'll feel the entropy when I stop going? Hopefully more than just feelings of guilt.

Not so much guilt as you realize how helpful it can be even it's just to go do a little

[iri]

Final push to 8 months of regular gym. For the next 10 days I'll be going every day for my normal 25/25/20 (25mins doing my core 8 weight training exercises, 25mins doing a 2nd rotation, 20mins aerobics)
This is probably the longest I've ever stuck with anything I actively disliked. Never thought I had the capacity to do so, especially considering I have the free will to just not go at all.

That's great, keep on going.