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we're all gna make it brahs

I want to but it's tiresome and it hurts.

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thank u my mans, pls have a blessed life ahead

I'm in my early 30s and finally getting my life together step by step after being a depressed antisocial NEET for many years.
I still live with my parents which sucks (especially when/if I got a gf) but I don't have a good job.
I'm going to study again to get ahead in life and be able to get a good job.

I know I'm behind all of my peers, people my age are married, have a house, kids, a car.
But better late then never right?

It's hard to be positive all the time though.

i used to have a problem with hentai
but I dont anymore.

i dont know how i snapped out of it. I got sick feeling disgusted with myself, and constantly used porn to help me fall asleep (terrible insomnia)

Thanks.
If anything should change or could be improved, please tell.

hey mans

i was seriously depressed and dropped out of college and bummed around. Teo years ago my partner encouraged me to go back to school and Im graduating this year.

It was the best decision.
I say go ahead for it. throughout you'll keep regretting , and keep thinking that youre too old and everyone ard you is so young. I did.

its better late than never. all the best my dude

>It's hard to be positive all the time though.

if youre anything like me, this is hard because youve been sad for YEARS and youve wired your brain to think in a certain pattern in certain situations (i.e when shit hits the fan)

While the sad thoughts never do go away, the positive thoughts will get louder

I'm the same age group as you. Few of the circumstances are different for me that for you. But I think the biggest one is the living with parents thing.

I have no struggle in my day to day life physically, because I have no responsibility. Makes it hard to do anything cause I don't really need to. I'll be safe, fed and watered even if I just stay in all night.

I plan on moving country in a few months. Jump into the deep end. Sink or swim.

Thank you so much, user.

>I know I'm behind all of my peers, people my age are married, have a house, kids, a car.
>But better late then never right?
It doesn't matter how long you take, as long as you actually go and do it.

Thank you guys!

>Redoing the photos will be difficult but a lot of the recipes would really benefit from this
the focus is at /sig/ and Jow Forums related content at first. That is enough work :)
Using OCR software with small correction helps luckily.

In general, it would be cool if we could find a common layout for files and every user can help re-working everything.
Would safe a lot of time.

meant for you

I had the same problem. Before I went to sleep, I had to fap to hentai (or other porn for that matter). If I didn't, then I wouldn't be able to sleep. It completely wrecked me (chronic fatigue) for years. Last year I got fed up with it and quit. It was painfully hard, but I made it.
For the last few months I decided to only fap to porn in the weekends, but that didn't work. The urge was too strong to fap every now and then not in the weekend. That's why I want to stop fapping to porn all together.
An interesting observation I made during those few months was: the more frequent I fap, the more extreme the material becomes. The pattern is roughly: vanilla -> MILF -> loli -> straight shota -> futanari -> yaoi.

>While the sad thoughts never do go away, the positive thoughts will get louder
some good wisdom here

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Should I wake up earlier to workout? Like 6 am? I work from 4-12 and won’t have time at night. Or should I do so near the middle of the day? If during the morning, would it be better to eat breakfast after or before my workout?

>Should I wake up earlier to workout?
if you finish at 12 and don't sleep till 1 or so, 6 is way too early. you won't get enough sleep for proper gains. get up as early as you need to get your workout done.

>If during the morning, would it be better to eat breakfast after or before my workout?
have something light like a banana, coffee and/or protein shake. take some food with you to the gym so you can eat mid workout if you get hungry.

also, try to drink 0.5 - 1L of water before going to the gym, to shake off the overnight dehydration. ESPECIALLY if you're doing cardio.

Is there anything on Mewing with /sig/?

I'm still not 100% sure how to do it

I'm supposed to keep my tongue on the pallet of my mouth, pushing forward and up while my teeth are clenched?

>Don’t sleep til 1
In that case I should go at 9-10 for 8 hours. Thanks. How badly can not getting good sleep mess up gains though? Say I were to get 6 hours every night?

The very first thing you should do after waking up is drinking a glass of water.
If you want to make a change in your life, start with that simple habit.
A glass of water right after waking up.

Does anyone know how good StrongLifts is for a beginner? People here usually recommend SS for beginners I’ve seen from lurking. Is strong lifts not as good?

damn son
for me it was

vanilla> rape> abduction>mutilation

it was terrible. mostly it being due that this was my coping mechanism for at least 7 years and sometimes in the past Id fall asleep watching.

Im glad Im out of the fog

adopt a cat from a shelter and ask it how

Just pick a programme and do it.

What you are doing now is procrastinating

It's a meme if you are not underage

Though it's still worth breathing through nose and not resting your tongue on the lower part of your mouth

can't really put an exact number on it but it's sub-optimal, even if you were a NEET who did nothing but lift and shitpost. going to work on top of it is just going to make things worse. aim for at least 7 - 8, more when you can get away with it.

What should I keep in mind if I want to combine relatively heavy lifting with martial arts? When I try to combine it now, I'm too fucked up from one to do the other properly. How do I fix this?
Also, should I try out MMA or continue doing kickboxing (

>It's a meme if you are not underage

is it too late for me at 25?

>When I try to combine it now, I'm too fucked up from one to do the other properly. How do I fix this?

always do lifting before the martial arts.
your body needs approximately 48-72 hours to fully recuperate the muscle that has been worked upon.
Assuming you are an intermediate lifter, all you need for lifting is probably 2-3 sessions a week.

Martial arts is great, and requires a lot of practice. If you truly enjoy kickboxing, why give it up? Let your lifting supplement it and fuel you.

the core muscle groups that kickboxing utilizes are your core, and your legs.
Glutes, quads, hamstrings, calves.

Treat lifting like conditioning work.
Maybe work in a programme that allows you to peak at the end of a cycle, so theres fufillment of progress while attending your kickboxing sessions.

oh yeah, your nutrition and rest will have to be tip top
eat fish oil capsules for joint health or flaxseed oil if youre vegan/vegetarian good luck

hentai is fucking brutal, it's been my biggest struggle too, even more than alcohol or video games
It's like some next level sex experience, because it's all exaggerated to be perfect, and intense
and it has anything that caters to any of your fetishes
props to japan i guess

thanks for the detailed response man. What lifting routine or style would you recommend? I'm thinking of doing either something like SS with an easy middle day or Greyskull LP. Something simple with relatively heavy compounds, probably. Is that a good way to go?
>MMA or Kickboxing
I'm moving to a new city soon, and I always wanted to try out the 'ground game', so BJJ and takedowns and such. I'm either going to try out gym A (kickboxing & BJJ) or gym B (MMA and BJJ), but I'm not sure which is the better option.

Yes. The bones dont move that much anymore. Maybe if you keep doing it rest of your life you might see a change in a 10-30 years or something. I doubt there is anything bad for doing it but dont expect to get chad jaw

What videos make you motivated, Jow Forums?

youtube.com/watch?v=iqw_Zo49IPY

FIGGOD is based. But FIGGOD is also very annoying and moronic.

I never liked the violent stuff myself, but I can see why some people are into it.
>sometimes in the past Id fall asleep watching
For me it was the opposite. It was extremely intense.
>It's like some next level sex experience, because it's all exaggerated to be perfect, and intense
It really is. Not even JAV comes close to it.

>Yes. The bones dont move that much anymore.

Mike mew did it in 30s, hes forty now and has a much better jawline in his 30s

please just get the tattoo.
women are gains goblinz,the lof of them

Great stuff user thanks for this!

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Will chin ups,dips and pull ups give me F R A M E?
Will they make me look bigger and chaddier as my back gradually expands horizontally?
in photos usually the abs and chest is shown but does the wideness of the fact also affect how you look from the front?

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youre most welcomed, a few years down the road when youre more experienced, help another person out

why not try both and see which one feels better to you? a few sessions here and there to help you reach a decision.

>something simple with relatively heavy compounds
sounds good! switch the heavy to moderately, dont over tax your body and get injured my dude.

Have a smooth moving into this new city! I hope you have a great time socializing and experiencing new things:)

if you want lats, go for lat pull downs and pull ups. Rows work very well and deadlifts do too.
Lats only 'show at the front' as similar to bat wings when you flex. It also depends on your genetics. Some people are born with lat mucles attaching lower thus looking bigger.

In my mind, there is a picture. It is a hot summer day in San Quentin. I’m in the
yard, queuing to use the pullup bar. I can’t remember the year—it was so long
ago, many of you reading this will not have even been born. But what I can
remember was the guy in front of me—Dixon. Dixon was an inmate so wide,
you couldn’t see behind the man in a hallway. His lats were so damn thick, I
wondered how he could even keep his arms by his side. His deltoids were
genuine spheres of muscle, so large and well-shaped that they looked as if
they’d been sculpted on.
His triceps were
particularly awesome;
when he raised his arms
they hung down like
glistening shark’s
bellies, solid curves of
human steel.
Dixon wasn’t a juicer.
We all knew who used
steroids inside, and back
in the day there were
fewer than you might
believe, if you saw the
physiques. And Dixon
never touched a weight
or a machine—certainly
not to build muscle. He
purchased his incredible
muscles through
bodyweight work, and
he paid for them in pain

>puri puri prisoner is that you?

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> have to wake up at 4:30 am because my schedule is fucked
> work out again at 5:30 pm
Joining the military isn’t fun

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thanks so much man, sometimes I just need some reassurance and a kind user
>a few years down the road when youre more experienced, help another person out
I will, thanks. In fact, I've dedicated a lot of time to helping out others. Chose to become a high school teacher while being a volunteer basketball coach

Nice one bro!

here is the full book i got this from
>library1.org/_ads/BA4EB334EBADA85AD43F7B847E84A0BB
if you don't at least TRY to get into special forces you're a will-let

After only doing bodyweight squats for month i tried to squat on the rack machine and squatted 120 kilos 3 times.
Now i focus on BW calf raises and last time i tried i calf raised 90 kilos.

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Habits I'm trying to start:
>Eating a large serving of veggies before every meal of the day
>Reading for a couple hours before I sleep
>Waking up early without snoozing alarm clock

Habits I'm trying to continue:
>Meditating every day
>Drinking coffee as soon as I get out of bed
>Lifting 3x week

Of course I’ll try, but the job I have has stupid hours. Plus I don’t know how to swim, so it’ll take like 3 years at most to be as fast as I need to for It

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> rack machine
do you mean freely with a bar
or on the smith machine with a fixed bar?

It was a bar attached to 2 others vertical bars, it's just to prevent injuries and i dont think it makes the movement any easier.
if anything it forces you to squat correctly.

that's the smith machine
if you are a healthy young man, don't use it.
It will force you into an unnatural form.

Use free weight whenever possible.

Anyone have any good advice for a recent college graduate who didn't get an internship while in school and has almost no connections? I graduated with no debt due to going to community college for two years and then a state school with scholarships so I'm not financially underwater which is great.

Any of you anons dealt with a chronic/long lasting injury or pain? I've been dealing with foot joint pain for 3 months and I think it's making me go mad.
>can't go for long walks and workout as I would like to
>have to decline social occasions because it would involve long walks if I can't get a bus there.
>transport costs are eating into my finances
>mood swings and internal reeeeeeing over small things which I'd normally be fairly stoic about.

I've finally decided to go to the doctor on Monday although I don't expect much from the NHS, last time I went for ligament issues the GP and physio were such cunts that I look forward to the NHS getting obliterated by the next Tory government.

I've just been focusing on reading and have been smashing a classic novel a week.

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Advice regarding what?

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yeah buddy

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You've done a good thing here user, truely

My willpower is shit. Besides striving to do the thing (not eat shit food,exercise work on stuff etc ) what do you do to increase your willpower 'muscle'? Books, music, videos?

That scream legit sounds like a man dying in fear.

How to navigate getting work

What's wrong with me? Lately I've been stumbling over my words or just stopping mid sentence because the words won't come out my mouth? And also if I fake a smile my I can see my cheeks slightly tremble

Fuck bros what's wrong with me?

sounds like anxiety breh

do you happen to have that gif with a girl being crushed in the leg press. just asking for a friend

No connections == no work in your field. You've got two choices:

1) Take on a more advanced degree (Graduate diploma, Masters, etc) with the explicit aim of cultivating more connections, or
2) Start applying for jobs. Any and every one you can find. Preferably ones that want a college grad, but you can't afford to be picky.

I'll say this explicitly for the benefit of all the poorly socialized college kids in the thread: Networking is the ONLY reason to go to college. Without connections, grades don't matter. I cannot stress this enough - if you don't end up with any connections, you may as well not have gone to college at all.

Just broke up with my GF of a 1 1/2 yrs. Kinda glad she's gone cuz she really didn't care about me. Going into freshman year of uni this year and I'm looking forward to finding someone else. I'm trying to be optimistic but I'd be lying if I said it isn't a bit daunting. I don't really know how to find someone I feel like I'll just stumble upon them and I'm scared it will be a long time before that. Wish me luck bros. Gonna start hitting the gym alot more with my free time before uni starts

Nah I think it's something like post concussion syndrome, got jolted in a car accident 6 weeks ago and felt extremely dizzy, still have headaches and still am not allowed to train
But anxiety could be possible

i've lurked on this board for a year now without actually doing anything but fuck it i will try asking for advice today and post a picture against my better judgement
i work 10 hour food service shifts so i'm beat by the end and don't want to exercise at all. but i'm interested in getting strong, because i like muscle a lot, and just how it looks. but i'm super fucking doughy, and don't know where to start to look better and get a little confidence.
my main hinderence is i don't want a gym membership, the nearest good gym to me (in a good neighborhood) is about 20 minutes away. i want to keep it to calisthenics, pushups, situps, etc. any advice helps. i want to at least try to better myself a little

Forgot my pic sorry I'm 5ft10 and 165 lbs

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It's never too late

There should be a small gap between teeth like 1mm, but believe me mewing is a meme don't expect to get better jaw or chin only thing that is legit with mewing is that it can help you breathing through your nose

Dude Mike mew was mewing his whole life

>be me
>apply for internships en masse
>lose one firm that wanted me because I was waiting for another larger company to respond
>larger one doesnt want me either
>all my friends have an internship set up
>pretty bummed about it
>check my emails today
>IBM wants to do an interview on monday

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>boss praises my work
>says I have what it takes to move up
>apply for internal post
>get interview
>get passed over for someone who has been there forever and isn't even in the same department
>don't even get told, have to find out from other co-workers

How to get over feelings of failure outside of 'just keep trying bro' ?

Rationally, recognise that getting passed over could be due to any number of environmental factors outside of your control. It does no good to beat yourself up over something you cannot change.

Emotionally, don't dwell on it. Focus on things you can control and do well at. Make the decision-maker regret overlooking you by your success.

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Is the shit about women what most people believe here?
That shit was pretty nasty.

it starts by getting your nutrition in check, you will never look muscular if youre a fatass.

i'm really that fat?

Can getting Jow Forums cure my gender dysphoria?

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It does, but theres a risk of you becoming gay instead.

I'm already mostly gay though.

I don't know how this happened bros, managed to score a super qt who is so all about me even tho I'm pretty autistic and treats me better than anyone I've been with. /sig/ has helped and it is continuing to help now my robot ass needs to move out

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are there any resources on overcoming insecurities and improving confidence? or are they found in the mega archive dump?

I made a post in the last /sig/ thread about me freaking out over going to the first date of my life and i just got home from it and wanted to share

>the girl was not nearly as good looking as she was in the pics i saw
>never ran out of things to talk about because she did 80% of the talking
>talked a lot about depression and her ex (both pretty big redflags imo)
>walked her home
>wanted to kiss her but she turned her head and i only gave a kiss on the cheek
>walked back home thinking i fucked up somehiw but then she texted me saying that she enjoyed meeting me and that she wants to go out again
Im not sure how i feel about this. On one hand im really fucking pleased with myself because i didnt run away from the date (god knows i wanted to) but on the other nothing really happened and i was kinda disappointed with the whole thing.
Not sure if i want to go out with her again.

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Doesn't seem worth the effort to pursue any further, good on you for getting out there tho

She already gave two red flags, and that she turned her cheek for the kiss. I may be looking to deep into it but it seems like she would wanna keep you in her pocket until she can't find anyone else. But knowing that she talks about her depression and her ex, you should really just bail and find another date. Women like that will drag you down a hole of sad shit. If you pursue any further its gonna emotionally drain your ass.