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Covid gave me lots of free time, so I have officially been going to the gym hard every day for almost a year now.

I started out last year, could barely do 1 pull up, and could barely bench 135.

I can do 16 pull ups now, and bench 250. I feel amazing, need new shirts because my arms are too big now.

All it takes is 1hr 30 min per day, 30 min driving, 1 hour focused lifting. Start with every other day doing Chest/tri, back/bi, legs/abs. Look up routines on internet there are dozens. Get up to once per day.

I stream podcasts, and old vids of rock n roll (try AC/DC live 1979). You won’t regret it, but you will regret being a faggot dough boy forever.

Covid gave me lots of free time, so I have officially been going to the gym hard every day for almost a year now. I started out last year, could barely do 1 pull up, and could barely bench 135. I can do 16 pull ups now, and bench 250. I feel amazing, need new shirts because my arms are too big now. All it takes is 1hr 30 min per day, 30 min driving, 1 hour focused lifting. Start with every other day doing Chest/tri, back/bi, legs/abs. Look up routines on internet there are dozens. Get up to once per day. I stream podcasts, and old vids of rock n roll (try AC/DC live 1979). You won’t regret it, but you will regret being a faggot dough boy forever.

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I have a private gym that's been open most of the time but when everything closed last year and I couldn't get in I found some big rocks, got some mesh bags and curled those. Weight sets have ridiculous markups since the lockdown but home depot always has some bricks or rocks for landscaping that make do.

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I cut down a big tree and left some logs long. Carried them up a hill and holy shit was that hardcore workout!

I also used to add paint cans on the bar back when I did 1 rep max.

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But I already lift!

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I lift at home. Have a pull up bar too. Was able to get a cheap set of weights on Craigslist years ago. Well worth it.

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Too expensive now. The weights online are insane. Consider selling yours for a 4000% profit and joining a gym. (I’m kidding)

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I needed to buy two five pound plates recently. I couldn't find them anywhere. Ended up getting two from someone I knew that had extras.

It's crazy how scarce they are now. Glad I had my set up pre covid.

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Damn maybe I will sell some weights and a couple ARs. My hobbies are making more money than Tesla stock lol.

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Have a home setup. Finally got to 2 sets of 5 pullups. Goal is to do 10 in a single sprint. Can do 30 pushups in a sprint if I push hard. It does feel good man.

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>, need new shirts because my arms are too big now.

Yeah, that is a bitch when you can't fit into your favorite shirt and all your old jeans are trying to strangle your quads.

>All it takes is 1hr 30 min per day,

That's A LOT of time at the gym. It doesn't take that much. I'll do 3-4 days a week, 45 min. 1 or 2 days nature cardio (various times).

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The 30 minutes was for driving to and from the gym, I give myself an hour but sometimes it is just 45 minutes. Depends on how I’m feeling if I’m feeling really up I can get it done in 45 minutes, sometimes I’m slow though.

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Right on man, whatever works for you, everyone's different. Personally, after about 45 minutes I'm almost certainly done for the day. Also really lucky that my gym is really close.

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Valhalla is for warriors.

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Thanks. Gonna do it.

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One more thing, don’t go too fast, pace yourself and don’t injure.

It’s a marathon, not a sprint.

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Good, I promise you won’t regret it. Good luck brother.

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I lifted 3x a week for 18 months, from '17-'18 and not much progress. Read the Starting Strength first part about squats and going to retry doing that exercise only, 100% correct

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Starting Strength is awesome, but if you want to learn clean and jerk, you really need to have someone experienced watch you. It's always good to have someone to check your form, but you can get away without it on the bench, row, military press. Not cleans or squats.

Remember though, that everyone responds differently. Switch it up. You might respond better to higher reps, or lower reps, or more/less recovery. Your genetics/hormones/motivation/nutritional requirements are individual.

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Convict conditioning is a good book too.

Breaks down four major exercises, squat, push-up, pull-up, leg raise.

I prefer the gym, don’t believe in the holocough. Better equipment, also chance of watching hot chicks (yeah yeah I’m a misogynist or whatever the fuck)

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That's a lot in a year so I gotta ask, how old are you?

I gained a lot of muscle in my mid/late teens. Now? Not so much.

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I’m between 30-50.

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He's 40.

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Bad Carney, you have to pay me $1

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I started 2 weeks ago. My only regret is not starting 2 years ago.

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Started 3 weeks ago. I've been going 5 days a week.

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Practice your jab though, after every lifting session, because one of the downside of pumping iron, is that you lose speed and elasticity at muscular/tissue level, and the day you need to jab/punch fast, ouch... It's going to hurt, at the connection between the forearm and the arm, biceps mostly

Technique, speed, power

In that order

Starting with technique, insure a good warm up to begin with, and once you're comfortable with the move, you can add speed while maintaining accuracy, otherwise if you're not comfortable with the move you'll hurt yourself working speed right away. And then, finally, add raw power to all of it

So the end, you end up punching accurately, fast and hard

And that's valid for pretty much any technique, punches, kicks, locks, you name it

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I always warm up for the lifting, and so weird you say this because recently I started hitting the heavy bag at the gym. No particular reason, it just called to me, so I had a session beating that fucker.

Talk about cardio! I didn't realize that would help with my overall fitness in the way you describe. I will make sure that is regular part of my routine now.

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