Why don't you lift heavy weights?

Meglomaniac · 2014-08-18T06:50:19+00:00

but im lazy and its haaaard

Toof · 2014-08-18T08:02:49+00:00

Quadriplegia.

thepillwastaken · 2014-08-18T15:25:47+00:00

I'm fascinated that so many people do not get why weightlifting is such a parallel to this lifestyle. Let me explain :

First off, no one is suggesting you juice up and look like a competitive bodybuilder. Bad idea. This is how your heart fails and your cock stops working when you are 40. No Test injection will save you from this fate. Anyway, moving on.

Natural testosterone release. Pushing and pulling plates releases natural testosterone in your body. It gives you all the boost that guys who take test injections pay for, except this is the natural way.
Mood enhancement. Go to your job and then go work out and tell me you don't feel awesome after you get home and shower. For a power boost, do this then go on a date. You will feel fantastic.
- Build. A muscular body commands attention from women. Doesn't need to be a giant veiny bodybuilder look. Just the result of diet and work in the gym. This instantly makes you better in bed due to your body being hard as a rock. Girls will lay with you and just want to feel you against them due to this. It creates sexual attraction.
Sexual and mental dominance. You will be better in bed, look good naked and be a more confident person all around from lifting. It is a building block to sexual success with women. There is much more to it than just that (most which is mental), but consider it the foundation for plate spinning.

Some guy wants to tell me why he doesn't work out? Fine. Don't do it. Not my problem. Thats just one less guy I have to wait on a bench for.

n0c0ntr0l · 2014-08-18T13:08:45+00:00

subbing to trp should automatically sub you to r/bodybuilding because the amount of bad knowledge about lifting/building muscle on trp is atrocious and cringeworthy - how people can be so insightful about one thing and so ignorant of one arguably less complex is astounding

jonsmitherz · 2014-08-18T15:22:00+00:00

Story time! I was speaking to this girl the other day. i saw her checking out lazar angelov (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e9imFDpvER0 for any one who doesn't know who he is) so i asked her if she thinks hes hot. She replied saying hes too "muscly", so i asked her if she likes fat guys as a joke and she said as long as their not too fat. Yet every time our old pal lazar posts a pic of his body on facebook her hamster goes into overdrive and she likes it and comments etc...

Tl;dr Lift lift lift. just do it.

[deleted] · 2014-08-18T12:59:02+00:00

I fucked up one of my wrists a couple months ago, lifting really heavy has gotten too risky. I do what I can with the machines for now.

To prevent future fuckups of peoples wrists I must re-iterate. take your ego out of lifting, don't go beyond your limits and hurt yourself just because you want to be lifting as much as the other tools in the gym. Slow it down and use proper form, half those tards are only lifting that much because they are using momentum rather than their actual muscles to do the lifting. Stop trying to showoff and use the proper form with the weight that you can properly lift. Or you'll fuck up your wrists, or drop the bar on your chest, or ruin your back, or any number of horrible things.

SenorPuff · 2014-08-18T17:34:27+00:00

My excuse: I was pulling 16 hours a day 6 days a week running my business for about 10 weeks.

But I didn't stop exercising. I'd squeeze in a tabata of something when I could. I kept plates in my car. I'd do pushups in the middle of a phone call.

Things are settling down. I'm fuckin ecstatic to hit the gym hard.

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wiking85 · 2014-08-18T13:54:27+00:00

Bad back. I have to be careful

TheRealMewt · 2014-08-18T14:16:29+00:00

I physically cannot handle lifting heavy weights anymore. I feel lots of discomfort in my joints to the point of physical pain whenever I do particularly heavy exercises for any muscle group. Even proper form doesn't save my body from feeling like I'm lifting my last weight every time I push or pull. Bench and pullups fuck with my shoulders. Squat and deadlifts hurt my lower back and my hip.

Doesn't stop me from trying, but I have obvious physical limits to adhere to now than when I did ten years ago.

GuyIncognito3 · 2014-08-18T15:13:56+00:00

Back problems. I can't squat anymore.

I still train with medium weights though.

jonathan_vii · 2014-08-24T11:26:49+00:00

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Current form..18 month transfo, PM me, or if this gets enough upvotes I will do an AMA for my TRP brethren

topredhat · 2014-08-18T06:56:35+00:00

No motivation

c_anthony · 2014-08-18T09:12:04+00:00

The nearest gym is 9 miles away and it's expensive. Not only can I not afford it but I especially can't afford the gas to drive there every day.

I'm going to be moving a month from now anyway to a town that doesn't even have a gym within reasonable driving distance, so it's not like having a membership would help me beyond this point anyway.

Reddthrown · 2014-08-18T07:05:51+00:00

I work hard and need my sleep and taking a gym kit when I travel takes up too much space. Also, I row twice a week anyway. Oh, and my gym buddy can't join me for another week or so because of some threatening injury.

Lilluzzo · 2014-08-18T07:51:20+00:00

herniated discs and scoliosis :(

Humankeg · 2014-08-18T16:22:03+00:00

Lack of energy. I am actually in pretty decent shape, but I have been going maybe twice a week on average, need to go a lot more (been two weeks since also). I seriously think its a medical problem, but I've had tests done and the doctors see nothing wrong. Testosterone is higher than average, thyroid is fine, iron is good.

Mneh, maybe my tiredness is just lazyness. But when I don't feel exhausted, I am going 4-6 times a week. But as of right now, my body is telling me I want 8-13 hours of sleep a night.

theoctopuss · 2014-08-18T16:23:05+00:00

I've been lifting for a few years now. I recently tore my rotator cuff and will most likely need surgery to repair it.

akthero · 2014-08-18T16:55:00+00:00

Because I broke my ankle. I'm not making excuses, just looking for suggestions on how I can work around it. Sitting around all day makes me feel like shit.

raceAround126 · 2014-08-18T17:14:59+00:00

I need a new gym. My gym has so oversold subscriptions, it's pretty difficult to get a session where you can stay active all the time and not have to wait for equipment. But I live in buttfuck nowhere and this is it, so I guess there it is.

When I move, the story will be different. But some days I know full well it's going to be stacked and very little point in going. I have a few dumbbells at home so on those days, I'll at least go for a run and do some free-weight exercises at least.

BluepillProfessor · 2014-08-18T18:03:31+00:00

I REALLY love this post. I don't know a damn reason why you wouldn't lift heavy weights so I will troll through this thread.

Banging hotties is not the only goal in life. Staying alive and healthy are pretty good motivations as well. Over a year ago, before I unplugged my blood sugar, triglycerides, fat/lipids, HDL and LDL were ALL abnormal. I felt like shit!

4 months after I unplugged and 3 months after I started power lifting 3-5 days a week again I had another physical. Blood tests COMPLETELY normal. "T" on the high end of normal. Feeling great!

My Dr. couldn't believe it- said "you are 10 years younger than your last physical. We are done here."

northsidefugitive · 2014-08-18T18:32:52+00:00

Bad shoulder and shin splints. i still hit it 5 times a week on a good week, I just struggle with a lot of different exercises.

NewtonianCooking · 2014-08-19T01:03:43+00:00

My massive dong has me covered. Har har

Derjenige · 2014-08-18T13:57:08+00:00

ITT: Excuses.

You're not going to get "too bulky" from lifting for 3-5 days per week. Look at Zyzz, god of aesthetics. Girls 'mirin everywhere. Guy was on massive amounts of test, tren, clen, t3 for years (not even cycling just blasting and cruising on it) and still had an aesthetic physique with just enough size. And he was doing some high volume shit.

So that should take care of the "lol look what women are gushing over" argument.

If you don't have access to a gym, look up bodyweight fitness routines. There's a reason most inmates are shredded despite many not having access to a gym and needing to get their protein through tuna and peanut butter.

If you're not motivated, what the fuck are you even doing here?

asd1100 · 2014-08-18T11:01:35+00:00

Because I like compound exercises more and I want tone, strength, balance and mobility more than just bulk.

But I don't think that was your point.

gideonrakthor · 2014-08-18T17:08:14+00:00

Curls for the girls.

Serratus that make the girls wanna date us.

Back to bring them hoes in stacks.

Get them quads for those hot bods.

Pecs to make them jaws hit the deck.

Glutes to make them hoes shoutin' hoots.

taw · 2014-08-18T08:37:48+00:00

Humans did not evolve to lift, and at no point in history was that ever useful for anything. This is some modern nonsense. In fact average teenage chimp has far more arm strength that the strongest humans.

Humans evolved to run and do other serious cardio. We are fucking amazing at it. Cycling/swimming/soccer/etc. are also perfectly acceptable substitutes.

Just compare bodybuilders and weightlifters and how fucking hideous they look with any endurance athletes who tend to be pretty damn attractive. There's even meme for that. Who are women more attracted to, soccer players or weightlifters? Do you even need to google to know that?

You could probably say lifting is better than nothing, and it might give serious return if you have very limited time for exercising, but then if you want serious exercise you might as well choose some kind human body excels at. TRP's obsession with lifting is just dumb. Go run some half-marathons instead.

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[deleted] · 2014-08-22T23:05:58+00:00

Cause I'm a boxer and we build muscle from sparring, hitting the bag and shadow boxing. Unlike these beta liftbros my muscle is actually functional

Concord_Fight · 2014-08-18T11:56:32+00:00

Because I've read, and it makes sense to me, that you can't lose fat and gain muscle at the same time. I think low body fat percentage is more important than having lots of muscles, but you have to have both to really get going. At 6'1'' and 182 pounds, I'm ~19/20% body fat with a lean body mass of about 145 pounds. I want to get down to ~160 before I start trying to gain muscle. I'm down ~15/20 pounds from March.

Kalepsis · 2014-08-18T09:32:41+00:00

Because fuck you. The brain is the only muscle necessary to sway a woman's mind, as long as you don't look like Quasimodo. Even then... I've seen a friend of mine with cerebral palsey pull more ass in a month than you'll probably see in ten years because he was intelligent and funny.

bluePillBall · 2014-08-18T07:18:17+00:00

Lifting heavy weights (and by extension, muscles) are from a bygone past where the strongest man could win the affection of the woman. We live in a society where education, money, and fame trumps physical prowess.

Go to school and make six figures. It's time better-spent than 5 days in the gym.

Title	Why don't you lift heavy weights?
Author	n0c0ntr0l
Upvotes	52
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Date	August 18, 2014 6:46 AM UTC (11 years ago)
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