Thread 76470196

60% of the year has passed.

How much progress did you make towards your goals?
Did you fix your diet? Did you get visibly more aesthetic? Did you break your PRs? Did you improve your life at all?

Confess.

>>76470196 (OP)
>Did you improve your life at all?
No. My life was already good. I don lift for good life, i lift for sexy mirror hug time

>>76470196 (OP)
>How much progress did you make towards your goals?
wait you are supposed to make goals??

I just lift as much as I can
and every few weeks the numbers go up a little bit
that's enough to keep my brain happy

I got to to my original weight loss goal (dropped 30 lbs from 215 to 185, around 23% body fat to around 14%), which was great. I decided I wanted to keep going and try to get down to 10% bf before I started putting on muscle, but in the two months since then I've been yoyoing around the 180 lbs mark. Losing those last 5 lbs to my next checkpoint has been harder for me than the previous 30 lbs. I don't know if it's because I've now been cutting for 8 months and my body is tired of it or what, but I just want to see my abs, man.

Diet has been fixed, I've lost a ~14lbs since June and have about the same still to go.
I had a second kid in April so it's been tough to find the time to exercise, things are beginning to calm down now.
A productive year so far.

we're supposed to be lifting?

>>76470196 (OP)
I hurt my hand punching my desk and set back a lot of my goals for a couple of months. it's finally normal again. that being said:
>quit smoking
>no alcohol M-Th
>got a new job after getting laid off & it isn't contract work
a couple more paychecks & I'll be back to normal.

>>76470196 (OP)
My life is shit buit I could beat most people up

>>76470196 (OP)
Cut out alcohol since February and my diet became mostly clean. Since then I have noticed less belly fat and I got some noob gains. Still dyel but I'm making progress.

>>76470196 (OP)
I look wider and thicker, my diet is what I want and I'll beat the shit out if you if you keep antagonizing me.

>>76470267
Hey everyone this guy got fat LOL

>>76470196 (OP)
Never exercised until about a year ago when I started doing calisthenics. Went from 19 BMI lanky noodlearms to 20 BMI lean masterrace. Happy with my current body. Gonna continue doing light calisthenics to maintain.

>inb4 victim weight

>>76470196 (OP)
>75kg for 8 bench to 110kg for 1 and 100kg for reps
>90kg squats to 115kg for 3
>0kg on zercher squats to 140kg for 1
>8 pull-ups / chin-ups to 8 with +20kg weighted
>bodyweight from about 76kg to 79kg
Progress has now slowed down a lot though, not sure what to focus on.
Swapped Flat Bench out for Decline now as my lifts on flat started going down week on week but everything else was the same (figure that one out). Need to focus on my back squat way more but for some reason my body just fucking sucks at it.
Really need to lock in my sleep, it's the one thing I can't do and I could probably unlock my full potential with it fixed.
WAGMI bros

Anyone here ever just get the to the the we g the the and

>>76470447
You said it buddy

Lost about 30lb since the start of the year. A little off from my goal. Not much change in lifts and endurance though since I was bad about working out like I should have been.

I need to lose a final 2-3 kg to lose the last of the belly fat and get down to 12% BF% but I've just plateaued for the last few months. Feels bad, man

Somehow i pulled a goth baddie (an actual goth not the egirl kind), met her at a concert alongside her huge group of friends and we exchanged contacts. I wrote her yesterday and she didn't reply for 4 hours, in that 4 hours i had the hardest gym session of my life, fighting my inner demons while doing unreal PRs for myself, grunting, yelling, screaming, dropping weight, staring into the void in between sets, my heart pounding, my thoughts racing, my breath being so fast it's like i was having a panic attack. She replied to me and invited me to a concert and was generally very warm to me. She said she honestly doesn't remember how i looked like but she will know me when she sees me. It's such a weird thing to say but after me being insecure about my looks for years it just fucking melted my heart.
Even before this happened this has been the best year of my life. I basically carried my ass from the deepest hole i dug for myself.

>>76470196 (OP)
- lost 41lbs since January
- cleaned up my diet
- got a new girlfriend
- have started a regular strength training routine again, after doing barely any training for 2 years or so
- have started swimming at the public pool once a week
- started juggling as my main form of cardio

>>76470544
>Starts melting down if there's no immediate response

For her sake I hope she curves you

On the contrary to improving, this week I finally had a complete mental breakdown to my parents expressing how much of a miserable loser I am and how much I want to kill myself.

>>76470860
Why don't you just simply stop doing that and start winning instead?

Father... for the first time ever, everything is great. I have nothing to confess.

How are you?

>>76471039
I wish I could, but sadly it is too late for that. I have simply wasted too much time.

>>76470196 (OP)
I now bench 245 for reps.
I also squat 245 for reps.
I also calf press 245 for reps.

>>76471109
>calf press
Seated calf raise*

>>76470196 (OP)
ive gone from 245-198 since april

>>76470544
>She replied to me and invited me to a concert and was generally very warm to me. She said she honestly doesn't remember how i looked like but she will know me when she sees me. It's such a weird thing to say but after me being insecure about my looks for years it just fucking melted my heart.
probably no one special in her eyes. Good thing most women don't care about looks as much as guys do

>>76471071
Simply not true faggot

At the start of the year I was completely fucking hopeless.
Now I'm doing pretty good.
>Went from compulsively smoking 2-3 ounces of weed a month to quitting cold turkey
>quit nicotine after consuming it for 10 years
>started seeing my friends again after not contacting them for over a year
>started stronglifts 3 times this year, most recent attempt is going great

Now I just need to stop playing so many video games and get a job.

>>76470544
Good shit brother just keep your 'tism reigned in when you go to the gig.
>>76470860
Maybe expressing how you feel to them was a good thing.

>>76470196 (OP)
I got really drunk last night and decided tomorrow would be the day I would stop wasting my time. I'm only here because I'm taking a shit, when it's done i

I can't cut for shit. I've been trying to cut for the last 2 months and I think I might have just lost 3 pounds

>>76470196 (OP)
Under 300lbs for the first time since before the year started.