KillerPups
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They be on their phone using the flat bench as a chair while doing a set of curls every 5 mins.
How are some folks in the gym EVERYDAY, yet make ZERO gains?
- Thread starter Colin X
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Intensity.
I do think that diet is the biggest factor in how you look. We underestimate how much we eat.
We REALLY overestimate how many calories we burn.
But that aside I think intensity is why people struggle to make a lot of gains. There's no magic in 4 sets of 10 reps. Those last 2-3 reps have to be hard.
I think people spend a lot of time trying to find the best exercises and the most optimal form and you'd get a lot farther if you just trained harder.
And if you're training hard, you can't be in the gym every day. Because you have to recover. So being in the gym 6-7 days a week sounds good, but it probably isn't..and likely means your intensity sucks.
I do think that diet is the biggest factor in how you look. We underestimate how much we eat.
We REALLY overestimate how many calories we burn.
But that aside I think intensity is why people struggle to make a lot of gains. There's no magic in 4 sets of 10 reps. Those last 2-3 reps have to be hard.
I think people spend a lot of time trying to find the best exercises and the most optimal form and you'd get a lot farther if you just trained harder.
And if you're training hard, you can't be in the gym every day. Because you have to recover. So being in the gym 6-7 days a week sounds good, but it probably isn't..and likely means your intensity sucks.
Not an actual plan/strategy to either gain muscle or lose fat and/or the discipline to stick with it. I've fallen victim to it myself when I just went through the motions. Glad that that I can actually be honest with myself and pull it together and not waste time in the gym. It's mostly diet anyway and if you can't stay the course there it never going to stick.
I know a couple of boomerang folks. I can't say they aren't motivated or lazy because regardless they have consistency. Problem is if you really hit the gym 5 times a week, you get this idea in your head "fukk it, I'ma get the value meal 'lemme get uh double whopper with cheese and bacon, large fries and the onion rings'"
They might add 5, 10, 15 to their or or move up. Then they fall off again, or get injured and regress.
Hell I've boomeranged for years. Not cause of eating or inactivity. As the seasons change my primary activity changes. My primary will be running, then I'll start mountain biking, then I'm hard on calisthenics, then I'm playing tennis, then it's something else. Seems like every time I peak, I'm moving on to the next thing. And it's just like when I was a kid, seasons overlap. There's still winter basketball going on, but now indoor baseball and soccer is starting, and just like back then having multiple different practices and games in the same week, sometimes the same day, as an adult, I have different activity that overlaps.
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