• ArbitraryValue@sh.itjust.works
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    8 days ago

    I’m skinny everywhere except on my stomach. My body thinks that when I diet to lose weight it’s because I want to look like Skeletor, so the first place I lose fat from is my face and it becomes gaunt and looks unhealthy.

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      8 days ago

      That’s just what bodies look like my dude. People with prominent ab muscles are severely/dangerously dehydrated and malnourished.

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        8 days ago

        I’m not expecting prominent muscles. I just don’t want my stomach protruding like an inflated balloon even when the rest of me is bony.

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    7 days ago

    I don’t give a damn about defined muscles. I work out to offset the work in front of a computer, mainly to prevent back pain. I actually have quite decent abs underneath the chubby dad bod I am rocking. The knowledge that the muscles are there is enough for me.

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      8 days ago
      • walk on the treadmill for 10 minutes to warmup
      • look at your phone while sitting in the toilet for 10 minutes
      • walk around looking at weights/machines for as long as you can until someone notices
      • pick an exercise with all the machines taken, stand around looking at phone until one frees up
      • 1x8 with no weight to warmup
      • 3x5 with a random amount of weight, 300 second rest
      • look at the time, if you have been there longer than 45 minutes, round up to one hour
      • drive through Wendy’s for a large baconator combo on the way home. Diet coke though, we’re trying to be healthy
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        6 days ago

        Was more meant as a joke, because an hour seemed really much to me - although it probably shouldn’t

        But looking at your training plan, this looks much relaxed than I’d have expected

        Still, an hour is much commitment, respect