Why continue lifting if you're not getting any reward?

unironically just be confident bro. if women are already hitting on you then you probably just have 0 self esteem

This is why I switched to powerlifting and decided to cap my weight at 80kg.

>no more bulking
>lean
>dont worry about autistically targeting muscle from broscience angles
>just squat, deadlift, press and bench with rows, dips and chins as my assistance lifts

No point doing the bro split shit if you ain't a normie that just likes getting a pump n calling it a day

I know dat feel breh. I'm around 205 right now but gonna go back to 195 lbs. Got a homegym with a bench,squat,pull up bar and dip station. All I really need. No more going to the gym and having to wait for someone to finish squatting. I highly disliked going to the gym because it's super hard to keep a routine if you're sharing equipment.

Yeah I have been home gyming for the last 2 years now.

I don't miss anything about the local gym.

LMAO fuck going to the local/uni gym.
Wanna do leg day? Ooooops all 3 squat racks are taken
Chest day? Sorry breh all 5 benches are taken too. You can still go and chestpress some dumbbells though...just kidding those are taken too.
brb have to do stupid curls all the time because literally every machine is taken.
brb literally have to compete like a rat in order to get whatever machine I want

I know that shit m8.

The worst thing is when I'd goto the gym all pumped and ready to Squat and then all the Squat racks are taken by hordes of people and not a single rack becomes free even after IVe been at the gym for half an hour, so I had to end up leg pressing or something.

Never having to deal with that shit with a home gym is fucking amazing

Sounds like the ARC at UIUC. What a fucking joke of a gym.

Not him but I used to work out in uni gym and the YMCA before uni. The gym culture of sharing equipment just made me not want to go. I usually went once a week and did full body on a day it wasn't that busy because there was no way in hell that I could come 3-4 times a week and work out the muscle groups I wanted.

Every incelposter should be psummarily executed

It seems to be endemic to university gyms. I'm going to bitch more about UIUC since that's where I've suffered for 5 years to get my PhD; thankfully my escape pod is almost ready.

>1.5 gyms for 45000 students (the half gym literally has two squat racks and two benches)
>Absolutely gigantic building with tons of volume wasted for bullshit like racket ball, squash courts, redundant lifting machines, endless cardio equipment
>Constantly 85 F during peak hours because the HVAC systems can't compensate
>Only open until 9 PM during summer because fuck graduate students
>An endless flood of retards who have zero idea what they're doing

Regarding the last point, I don't care how swole or shrimpy you are if you're properly doing real exercises. I lost count long long ago for how often I see people doing unsafe shit and only aren't hurting themselves by virtue of it being actual light weight.

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My gym isn't as bad. I go to a CSU. 3 squat racks,1 deadlift platform,1 olympic lifting platform, 3 regular benches, 1 decline,2 incline all for 36000 students. I'm not really upset with people who go there and use the equipment. They're all just trying to work out like me. I just feel like we're in some rat race of who will get the equipment when it opens up.

>45000 students
>60% of which are women (27000) - 95% of which women don't lift (1350 women)
>40% of which are men (18000) - 90% of which men don't lift (1800 men)
>1800+1350 = 3150 people.

Your universities gym doesn't have that much more people there than any average gym bro.

Not him. I'm the guy from CSU. The issue is that all those people usually swarm in from 10AM-9PM. I need to go there early in the morning or at night if I want to get any good workout in.

Also, dat feel when your uni is 60% sloots but you're still single. Who here knows dat feel?

There's no way those approximations are correct. Every male undergrad "lifts" in pursuit of roasties and/or because of fitness memes.

The point still stands no one should have to wait 20+ min for a rack at the flagship university of illinois that sucks down an immense amount of public funds on top of tuition/fees.

If you're self improving then that is the reward in itself. What did you expect would happen?

It's little improvements you can't see bro. You can't expect to make it in 6 months. Don't give up.

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>lifting and self improving
>"""no reward"""
self improvement is its own reward. stop lifting for girls.

lifting is the REWARD

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All it takes to get a girlfriend is to man up and find one you think is attractive and gf material then walk up to her with courage and tell her you wanna go out or date.

You gotta be a man.
You've probably imagined a girl walking up to you and asking you out of the blue, thats not gonna happen, you gotta be the one walking up to women and asking them out of the blue, be a casanova.

So you're 30 but you haven't taken a look around and noticed how Chad and Stacey look like haggard partiers, fat with bloated alcohol faces? Have you gone into Walmart and looked at all the fucked up fat people? They didn't think about their health, and turning into that crap is a slow processes that sneaks up people.
>Wahh why bother if I have nothing to motivate me
Mother fucker, you have your health. Most people would kill to be healthy and fit.

>>women regularly hit on me
>>still never had a gf

if the 2nd is true, i doubt the first

Fuck that lol. I'm the guy and its super hard to keep self improving unless you get some type of reward. I'm starting to lift hard again and I'm about to diet down 10 lbs by the end of summer. I still want to get laid at some point. I'm already a strong autist without having to lift. The only reason I lift is to look buff as well. No point in trying to look buff if I don't get laid in the end.

Nah, it can be true, I was probably top 3 in terms of looks on my small school and all the chicks said I was handsome, but was too pussy to make a move on the chick I really liked.

>37y incel reporting
>Every day I go to the gym thinking
>"why"
>and the answer is
>if I don't all those years lifting were for nothing

You're just a weak willed pussy
No seriously. There are plenty of people in the world who don't need 'rewards' in order to continue doing what they're doing. They do it because they know it's what they need to do in order to better themselves. If you want to be a fucking loser then that's cool but don't make excuses about it being too hard to do anything without having a reward. No shit it's hard. Nothing good in life comes easily.

Wow. Good, worthwhile things in life take time and dedication. Who wouldve guessed?? Stop living in the shallow world of instant gratification and needing to see results right away. Thats for fatties and bugmen. Embrace the grind and keep going.

Consider fitness as preventative maintenance.

The reward is the endorphin high you get and the body gains. If all you want to do is fuck then you should be doing pickup. There are DYELs out there who are slaying pussy.

lmao why in the living world would I need to lift other than to look good? Please tell me one reason and maybe I'll stop being a weak willed pussy. I'm already physically strong, I can wrestle and fight guys much bigger than me. I can be healthy with just low bf and not having to lift. Please tell me a single reason other than looks that will motivate me to lift.

That happens to guys that lift and look good but are too much of a pussy or an autist to make a move. I've had so many girls show interest but I was too scared and never having a gf has probably messed me up mentally so at this point I think it's because I'm fucked in the head. And a pussy

6 months is nothing in the fitness game, you dumb boomer. You need to lift for 3+ years to see real gains, athough you started far too late anyway.

LOLing hard @ your life if it takes you 3 years to see real gains. Probably should have ready the sticky breh

>Be me

>Army fag

>Have 5 gyms on post I can go to

>All are well equipped

>Barely have to fight over anything

>Get all this for free

6 months are already enough for people to see that you lift if you start off as an average looking guy (skinnyfat)

>>Get all this for free
That's not free bruh lol

lmao buddyboy not free at all. You're risking your life, something that has infinite value for it. You're getting what you should be getting and you deserve much more

Lmao modern military life is a fucking joke. Basically signing away your autonomy and potentially your life for soulless pseudo-wars in exchange for shit pay and a few shiny trinkets to string you along (I.e. "free" gyms).

normal job is too boring

t. different milfag

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>lifting for women
>being a virgin at 30
you've failed before you've even begun

They must have picked a combat arms MOS like idiots.
>tfw strategic MOS
>will literally never be deployed
>NCO hates that PRT shit and just takes us to the gym in the morning

idgaf if I die on a deployment, I'm an animeloser! I get paid to workout and exist

military is a very good deal for losers

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Lift for loli or 2d.
>get jacked
>reject 3d girls
>this makes them want you more
>but the moment you acknowledge their existence you give them the validation they seek. They'll proceed to ignore you
>so you end up surrounded by thirsty bitches constantly touching you, but you don't forsake the waifus
>this attracts the boys trying to get laid
>they ask for advice
Wii fit and zumba amiright?

Lots of people have to evaluate the value of human life.

Epa says a full human life is worth $9.1 million. FDA puts it at $7.9 million.

2018 E-1 pay grade is $1,638.24 ($19,658.88 annual)

militaryrates.com/military-pay-charts-e1_e5_2018

To make the EPA estimate you'd have to work for 463 years, but the pay grade increases the longer you serve and I suspect it's difficult to stay at E1 the whole time.

So a more reasonable average of E5 at 12 years, $3,310.42 ($39,725.04 annual) leads to a 233 year term to make the EPA life value. Also there's the whole retirement and benefits to consider.

All things considered, the EPA value of life is based on private industry incomes and might not be the best comparison.

Are they getting enough money for their time? I've never served, but those numbers seem acceptable - particularly if you're not in a combat role.

For O-5 at duration max it only takes 111 years.