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Reminder to start regular exercising. Even light things, like jogging may greatly increase your physical and most importantly your mental well-being.

Oh yeah About 3 weeks ago I've moved to another house. Now I have a levee where I run and public open air gym with lots of chin-up bars. I feel much better since I've started working out.

I've never been slim and I want to get fit now. Hopefully I'll get to do it. Would Lain recommend me some exercises? Obviously I'll diet too. Wish me luck!

>>5679 In college my roommate had a chinup bar and whenever I had nothing to do I would use that until my arms got tired. Its strangely addicting and I think as far as exercises that ones pretty good for you. Maybe pick a minimum number you'll do each go and gradually up the number every now and then.

>>5680 Sarah Connor approves.

>>5680 >>5681 lol'd

>>5679 You can start off doing body weight exercises until you build some reasonable strength. Make sure you use proper form since I did push ups wrong for awhile and I think it weakened my shoulders. I prefer functional fitness versus body building, although you can't go wrong with power lifting or oly lifting once you get comfortable with getting stronger.

>>5679 The key is perseverance. Try to strive for increasing your capacity (do a little more than your 'max' ), but don't force yourself. If you're not used to excercising then you need to start slow. Maybe take a long walk, with some jogging. Start doing some anaerobic excercise (like crunches, push-ups, planks).

>>5679 this is /fit/'s wiki liamrosen.com/fitness.html I tend to trust the other.. chan when it comes to some thigs for example /g/ 's wiki is a pretty good guide for computer building.

>>5698 thanks alot I will give it a read.

>>5679 I bicycle because I have zero effort and bicycling is at least tolerable Occasionally I jog a bit

Only time you'll see me running is from the police.

>>5766 biking is great. i used to commute every weekday: ~10mins each direction. wasn't even that much of a workout but i still felt "healthy". now i have a car so i'm getting out of shape. maybe i'll have to bite the bullet and get a gym membership...

>>5769 Used to go to a gym a while back. But the chads, egos , sluts and bad music were unbearable to me.

i take regular bike rides

>>5774 whats that bud

>>5768 Depending on how occasionally you do it, it would be a great training. You'd have to give it your all everytime

>>5680 >chinup bar I got one of the door mounted ones as a gift, but was never able to do even one. I don't know if it was because I was afraid the thing was going to fall or my upper body strength was soykaf, but still. Even when I was in shape and running several miles a day, I still sucked at pull-ups.

>>5680 Don't do them every day, if you're just starting out, every other day is a good place and feel it out from there. Do pushups on your off days (works the exact opposite muscles)

Long distance speed skating.

>>5782 I couldn't do pull-ups when I was in the best shape of my life. Now I can do like 10 no problem. I have no idea why this is. Maybe because I started swimming butterfly, and then started doing rows... but kind of defeats the purpose of pull-ups if you already have a strong back

>>5782 A few years ago, I bought one of those off a friend because he wasn't using it and was strapped for cash at the time. Ended up deciding I wanted to be able to do ten pullups, could barely manage one at the start. What helped me a lot was an exercise, and I apologize that I can't remember the name, where you use a chair to get over the bar, step off the chair, and slowly lower yourself down. Every other day, I would do 3 sets of as many pullups as I could followed by as many of those exercises as I could and I ended up hitting the 10 pullups in a setting goal pretty fast.

Remember - long term consistency trumps short term intensity

are there any exercises you can do at home without spending too much? I was thinking sit-ups, push-ups, etc but I don't think that would help my whole "body fat" situation. I don't want to really go outside since it's freezing out, and that I'm very introverted. I want to start running, but see above reasons. I feel like I'm giving myself excuses to not do anything. I'm starting to diet also. I'm on the brink of "overweight" on the BMI scale

>>6454 Cute boy aesthetics, specifically recommending spironolactone is a terrible idea. When first taking spiro at 50mg I think (as a transsexual), I eventually got breast growth just from that. Not recommended for someone just going for a cute guy look.

Sometimes, when I'm almost suicidally depressed, I'll do hundreds and hundreds of pull-ups and squats until I literally cannot stand anymore. Makes me feel...content with the Universe.

>>6454 >tfw the cute boy and trap guides have a soykaf ton of helpful healthy info in them. Welp Lains. It's time to be fit and cute.

>>6454 >How to achieve "trap-mode" aesthetics >by /g/ Can't say I'm surprised

>>6874 There's a reason most of Open Source and "nerd tech" is filled with soy boys.

>>6876 With the culture that dominates nowadays it's no wonder most men don't want to be men. Who wants to be the big bad boogie man when you can join the army of opressed opressors? polite sage for being offtopic

>>6869 I'm gonna try that, except I can't do a single pull up so I'll do push ups instead.

I never would have thought running would do this much good for my emotions and mind so quickly. I'm 25, anti-social, and mostly depressed or angry more often it seems with the sad state of affairs I see in politics and news coverage and my soykaf job. Running has significantly changed my outlook on things very fast. I started just running for fifteen minutes or so with my dog. After a bit I picked it up to 30 minutes a day for now and I can already sprint faster and run longer than I would've thought possible. If you're going, keep at it. Don't strain yourself. You can do it, Lains!

>>6909 How true is the proposition that running fuarrrks up your joints. I know it applies somewhat to heavily overweight people.

>>6931 Fat people are heavier and thus burn calories faster than someone thin. I don't recommend anyone who is severely overweight take up running, yet. Walk alot until you burn a lot of excess off before trying to jog at your own pace. The phrase "train, don't strain" goes double here. Stretch! Stretch! Stretch! I cannot stress this enough, it doesn't matter if you don't like it or have never done it till now, your muscles and body will thank you for it. Something like trying to touch your toes, sit-ups with arms over chest to make it easier until your stomach muscles are strong, lunges, leg lifts, squats. A few minutes or so will get you going and you'll feel better. Get a partner to run also, get s dog, a cat, a fish, something; or take to trails and places you've never been close by. You may see some neat stuff when you do. You can do it! Good luck!

>>6454 The Cute boy aesthetics guide mentions that it's a part of a series, the rest being: - Social interaction - Hygiene - Cute boy aesthetics - Athletic boy aesthetics - Safe /rr/ sex Do you happen to have those other guides lying around? I think all of them would be useful additions to this thread. >>6872 >Welp Lains. It's time to be fit and cute. It's always time to be /fit/ and /cute/, Lain. Lastly, I'd like to contribute to this thread with a gem I snatched right from this very website back in the days of Kalyx:

>>6454 >Eat more low-fat food No. Low-fat means high sugar. Sugars are awful for the body. Stick to foods without the "low fat" stickers.

>>6976 how american do you have to be to believe that all foods must be high fat or high sugar? pic related is neither.

>>6976 >Low-fat means high sugar. That would deserve to be slapped onto a >global bogerface :DDD template. I do see your point about industrial food that advertise itself as low-fat, but if you're eating industrial you're fuarrrked no matter what.

>>6453 Jumping jacks is a good cardio burner, and conpletely free. Jump rope is good, too, and only a few dollars. You can cop a door mounted chin up bar for $20, then do chin ups for biceps and pullups for back. Tricep dips are free. Body weight squats and one legged squats are free. You can grab a copy of Convict Conditioning online and follow that for progressions. Some if it is meme nonsense but it's fine for bodyweight only stuff.

>>6976 I agree good fats are great and should not be avoided. Non-saturated fats are super duper healthy and give you a longer time without hunger.

>>6981 I know where you’re coming from, but I moved from Bulgaria to the US and got fat like a pig real fast. The only thing that’s keeping me from falling back to fatness is eating less and running 30 km a week. There’s corn syrup in everything here. Also there aren’t any regulations when it comes to food here. It’s really sad.

>>5679 Whatever you do, make sure to track your total calories (in and out) occasionally for like a week at a time. It won't be 100% accurate, but it will give you a rough idea of the effect of different foods and activities. I was very active, but chubby, for many years. Exercise isn't an excuse to eat in excess, and it was very easy for me to underestimate my intake and overestimate what my exercise was doing. It wasn't until I got my waiting under control that I actually shed some weight. Exercise is not enough.

>>7451 Calore counting works wonders. I use MyFitnessPal because it just werkz , but theres enough info out there such that you could easily make up a spreadsheet and input all of yiur in/out concerning calories if you wish to avoid proprietary software. If you want to be as accurate as possible, invest in a food scale and weigh your food before logging calories. Obviously this would only apply to food you make yourself, since you'd have to rely on whatever info you can get from any place you eat out at.

I haven't exercised in months lain :( I used to ride my bike to school and do calisthenics on my floor every morning but I stopped because my bike broke and I haven't fixed it and I don't have enough free time anymore.

>>5679 Just go with the Paul Wade's Convict Conditioning.

I worked out everyday for a month straight and then just started feeling extremely weak. I started then to get very unmotivated as I don't have any friends or go out anywhere. I kept asking myself, what is the point? I'm thinking about possibly giving it another go but maybe doing less than I was doing before. I mean I was doing three sets a day of hard work outs. This is coming from someone who never exercised or worked out in 32 years.

>>7650 > 3 sets per day everyday I hope you were doing different exercises targeting different areas of your body. Otherwise everywhere says to rest a day between

>>7768 I was doing push ups, sit ups, jumping jacks, squats, lunges, leg lifts, chair lifts (don't have weights so I was literally bench pressing my computer chair), pacing around the house, twist turn stretches, v leg stretches, toe touch stretches, punches, and kicks.

>>7650 Yeah dude that's too much. Just do one workout and if it's not enough then add more resistance

>>7768 Or work your upper body one day and your lower body the next. But you can work your abs every day.

>>5677 I workout 3 to 4 times a week, mixing cardio with strength training. My depression and OCD are at an all time high. Exercise isnt the magic pill for mental well-being just fyi

I started excersising earlier this year and felt pretty good. Now I haven't excersised that much lately and I've been feeling pretty soykaf again but I'm not sure if it is the reason or a cause.

I have been doing quite a bit of exercising since college about ten years ago. Before that, any exericse was minor weight lifting and sit ups. In college, I was trying to get contracted into Army ROTC so my exercise routine was boosted up not just with physical training but also with treadmill running and heavier weight lifting. Even though I was screwed out of a contract despite having done extra volunteer work at ROTC and having helped with recruitment, I continued running and weight lifting. A few years ago, I started getting softer in my exercise routines and I was loosing endurance with speed and running. I did make up by visiting the pool each summer to swim though. Currently, most of my exercise is weight lifting using machines since I do not trust myself with dumbbells and running outside when the pool is unavailable. I intend to do treadmill running again and perhaps get involved with Historical European Martial Arts.

+1 to everyone who said exercise does wonders for your general mood and mental health I'd recommend doing Couch to 5k if you want to get into cardio. Don't go too fast on the running sections, just a jog is fine. Speed can come once you can jog for a long time consistently.

>>5679 Good luck