And again, I feel bad doing this, but once you started using my methods to kill yourself, I got skin in the game.
You say “mediocre isn’t acceptable”. You’ll do whatever it takes to not be mediocre, yeah?
Anna’s mom says “You need to gain enough fat that you get your period again. If you do that, you can have a barbell to train with so you can be strong and NOT be mediocre”
…ok, so anything BUT that eh?
Success is about being uncomfortable. You’re comfortable doing things that make other people uncomfortable: that doesn’t mean you’re doing things that make YOU uncomfortable. The choices you need to make have been laid out in front of you: you’re satisfied making the choices that are resulting in the results you’re getting.
This is a BS comparison. To gain strength you have to gain muscle, to gain muscle you (especially at your tiny size) have to gain weight.
Like others have said - not seeing any “flab” in your most recent picture. You look much healthier and that is key. It will be easier to make strength gains once your hormones, fat levels, etc… get back to normal ranges. You can then fuel your body properly.
But you know all this by now - you don’t implement due to the issues you are going to therapy for.
Seriously. Keep this trend of steady weight gain up, and then throw in heavy compound lifts and a good programming without all the stupid conditioning, and we’re gonna see some mooscles poppin’ out in no time. Try to get back to that ‘September’ pic, and it’ll be back down the rabbit hole.
@kolyma Since you posted delicious dish for me, I’ll share a recipe I made for my brother. It’s one of the ones I’m most proud of. Not healthy, but good for weight gain
Bad picture
For reference, an American sized starbucks croissant is 62g
No worries. The issue is primarily with links to training/nutrition sites, blogs, or stores. Direct links to studies (not training blogs discussing studies), general magazine or news articles, and pretty much all non-training-related stuff should be fine.
EDIT: Forgot to add self-promotion. That’s one of the other biggies we try to wrangle in order to keep a lid on spammers popping up. Those bad apples ruined the bunch for some well-meaning folks.
Not surprising, seeing as you did farmers walk the day before. Which, to be honest, I don’t love as an aerobic exercise, but once every few weeks isn’t that bad. If you want to do them again, try to schedule them on lighter weeks, such as when you hit your mid-program “deload”; it won’t affect performance in the complexes as much this way.
A good rule of thumb would be rotating your aerobic methods to line up with specific period in the program. Things like farmers walk (requiring more focus and skill) should be done during lighter weeks, running should be on moderate weeks (middle ground between skill and focus), and stuff like sled pulling or ruck walks (low skill, low focus) should be lined up with heavier weeks.
Very similar to a market in the French countryside, except they’re also in cities and indoors
Meat, no. However, there’s usually a selection of live fish/seafood and in the countryside markets, poultry (chickens, ducks, pigeons) as well. We don’t have to kill them ourselves though
Same in Shanghai. The butchers bring in cuts of meat in the mornings. Sometimes there’s 1/2 pigs just hanging on the stall walls
Good selection of organ meats too
Now i remember u are still in China, i know where u search ur meat ^^ what are u doing, bachelor ?
I miss so much hot pot, and I don’t in Shanghai but in my city when i was living in china, in some street u get some barbecue hide, in a lost street with some fish and mushroom u know the white mushrooms ahaha and rice and vegetables with some cheap piva.
I will maybe go this summer, i will look for a road trip in Asian
