>Describing the first fitness forum (if you can even call it that) I ever participated in is very easy - poop emojis. Because it was Jow Forums on Jow Forums. That was a huge influence on what I do (or try to do) with Fittit. Because it's a shithole, and only garbagepersons hang out there. Maybe it's better now. I haven't been back. But I doubt it. The reason for this, I've decided through many years of consideration, is that it's a place where nobody cares about anything because they think irreverence is power and there is nobody telling the children to stop shitting under the dining table they have to eat off of. Everything that made Jow Forums a burning trash heap when I was there stemmed from those two problems - Shitgolems are everywhere, and the adults are on vacation. So one of my guiding lights for all of the last five years has been that r/Fitness should never become Jow Forums. Because you can't get good fitness advice from a place where you could get blasted in the face by dicks and asses, or stupid photoshopped frogchild memes, at any moment, and you definitely can't get it from a place where so few people who know what the fuck they're talking about congregate that one person can tell another, " SS is a great routine, ignore the champion powerlifting coach who told you it sounded dumb and gave you a program he used successfully" without being shouted down. That's a real thing that I watched happen.
imagine being so pathetic that you take pride in moderating a forum for free he even wrote a blog about it lmao
Gavin Gonzalez
Honestly because Jow Forums has way funnier people. I use both. The problem is r/fitness has no problem spoon-feeding retards. We expect a modicum of self awareness and the ability to distinguish obvious bullshit. I don't like the padded-cell mentality of Reddit. It's way too safe there. I like when someone points out my weak delts or tells me I still have room to cut. On Reddit everyone is just so damn positive and friendly, it's fucking gay.
Parker Scott
Post body
Cooper Martinez
I'm gonna be upfront, I'm skinny as fuck. You still wanna see it? I only have back shots btw
Carter Walker
If only he could see what is has become today
Incels Lookism Mind numbing memes like coom posters and guy in the squat rack Tranny fag posting ironically and unironically 5 balding threads up at once
There's a serious hole in my life that I keep coming back for lack of purpose.
Because Reddit is an echo-chamber creating shithole. The entire system is built around it. People sucking each other off for "karma". You could give solid advice and have 300 dyels silence you by downvoting.
Joshua Clark
only post if you have absolutely no qualms about me masturbating to it. i'm a guy btw
Matthew Evans
See this is why I like Jow Forums You would be banned on r/fitness for this Fuckin coomers
Julian Morales
>go to r/fitness >half the posts are some lardass being a lardass and people cheering them on >other half is le motivational pictures AKA thinly veiled selfies. No thanks jeff
>"they're all children!" >"now watch me be unable to express myself without constant swearing and nonstop talking about feces" What a fag lol
Ethan Stewart
He's not wrong, but nobody needs productive discussion on fitness. Literally everything we will ever need to know about fitness has been written down. You gain nothing from talking to anyone who isn't a professional.
If you want to get fit, read a book or pay a coach. Discussion forums are best left for motivation or humor or the occasional shitpost
Austin Garcia
Let's not pretend this website is any different. You just need to know how to navigate through the river of shit for the stuff you need
Adrian Thompson
>Because you can't get good fitness advice from a place where you could get blasted in the face by dicks and asses, or stupid photoshopped frogchild memes, at any moment, and you definitely can't get it from a place where so few people who know what the fuck they're talking about congregate that one person can tell another, " SS is a great routine, ignore the champion powerlifting coach who told you it sounded dumb and gave you a program he used successfully" without being shouted down. >Implying Seneca rightfully writes that all wisdom is public domain once shared, regardless of who might have been the one to share it. Just because there's retards here doesn't mean there isn't often good advice to be found.
Daniel Moore
>Let's not pretend this website is any different. You mean the anonymous one where you get judged on what you say instead of your account points, and there are no repercussions for actually speaking your mind? You sound like those hippy fags who say terrorists shouldnt get the death penalty.
Andrew Ortiz
>r*dditor Yeah Jow Forumsfitness is a shithole. Weight room and bodybuilding are ok but I don’t see why you would actually need constant advice for weightlifting, it’s not rocket science. Jow Forums is for shitposting and fun but don’t use it for advice
Charles Scott
>Reading comprehension No Jow Forums is not like Reddit If you write something dyels/fatties can seethe but they can't collectively censor you
Daniel Lewis
Go back
Evan Gray
Go back
Isaac Hall
Go back
Charles Gray
Go back
William Johnson
Go back
Christian Wright
Reddit is for leftist cuck faggots.
Tyler Howard
Cry more little bitch
Sebastian Jenkins
>Because it's a shithole, and only garbagepersons hang out there. 1) Why does he assume everyone on Jow Forums is working in waste disposal 2) Why did he write persons, when the plural of person is people?
Adam Watson
Why are you such an insufferable tosser? It's funny, pessimistic and full of bullshit, so long as you don't seek actual advice (there is Google for all of the fitness advice you'll ever need) and merely some guidance or fitness related laughs, why would you go anywhere else.
Sebastian Walker
>On Reddit everyone is just so damn positive and friendly, it's fucking gay. What the fuck, that's good. It's mind numbing just seeing people to kys
>Implying I browse fit to get actual fitness advice and not to chuckle with other fit bros
Jeremiah Kelly
>wah someone is being mean about my ebin le Jow Forums boardz
Genuinely, who gives a shit about this
Christopher Gomez
Lol so some fucking janny who couldn't ban people on Jow Forums is criticizing it? Riveting post bro. Everyone knows that however bad things are here it's 20 times worse on Reddit. The jannies are way worse and they ban people as if they own the place. The nerds and virgins on Reddit are 20 times worse
Camden James
Why should anyone go to r/fitness/ anyway? r/weightroom is where you need to go
Landon Fisher
Shut the fuck up faggot. They are fundamentally different. Go lurk nothing but reddit until you appreciate anonymity.
Isaac Scott
>”theres no adults” Translation >”i need and crave censorship”
Gavin Butler
this is made me laugh out loud as i imagined an epicly long post with really good information in it, but strewn throughout the post is NIGGER FAGGOT and accusations towards the Jew menace with pic related a nice tranny cock
Well, he's not wrong. I don't come to Jow Forums for fitness advice, apart from maybe check out PLG threads every now and then. I do come for the humour and the memes and the fphs tho, those are the best.
Really, on fit you have people seriously arguing against arching on bench (despite it being more efficient and safe), you have advocates of nofap (which is just retarded, all you have to do is not fap 6 times a day every day - strangling the cyclop once a day or a few times a week isn't going to affect your life in any single way apart from maybe releasing stress), you have keto tards, you have meat only advocates and who knows how many more retarded ideas being strongly promoted by people who read a single paper hinting at a possibility that X may or may not have some correlation to Y and when you call them out all they do is call you a retard and ignore you.
Bentley Scott
Is this written by a woman, a 'man'(if they behave/type like women, they're cucks) or a lefty? Shit reads long, but there's literally no reason given as to why it's so bad.
Daniel Sanchez
You look nice user, no homo
You literally aren't allowed to call roids on Jow Forumsfitness and like 80% of them are rofl.
Lucas Robinson
your cringe reddit humor is proving his point
Cooper Turner
Exactly. If we were normalfags, we would be posting on normalfag sites like reddit. Maybe you do. That would make you a quasi-normalfag.
Samuel Collins
>like this comment if you find fat people unattractive Fucking kek. So simple, I love it.
Weightroom is the best fitness community I’ve encountered. Actually on topic and has actually strong people there. The mod team is stronger than all of fit.
>9 billion cancerous memes >picks on poor little apu I like apu. Came as a reminder to be comfortable with my vulnerability and avoid contempt of my innocence when I was going down a really bad path.
So Jow Forums is bad because it has people you don't like and the only thing good on it is the /soc/ thread I mean /plg/.
It's not like they have any qualifications to give out advice either. Over there it's just people incorrectly doing 5/3/1 or saying "hey guys my novice progression is over can you recommend a PPL? Lifts? 135lb bench for 4..." It's a website populated by that guy who tells you to use dumbells because "they build more muscle" yet he's 155lbs and benches sub BW after 3 years. Doesn't matter if they say "I totally know this world champion powerlifting coach you guys never heard of and he said X routine is bad!" when Olympian coaches are out there still spouting bullshit about somatypes.
Their hatred for SS is purely political anyway since Rip isn't PC. That's why they can suggest GSLP with a straight face but say SL/SS is bad because there's not enough curls. They're the contrarians, they'll sit there and give a guy 100s of upvotes for saying a belt is worthless but they just mask it with a friendly facade.
Oliver Jones
The sticky is good.
If you can’t learn to wade through the shit to find good advice on this board, you’re ngmi desu
Carson Thompson
They literally love their jewish created world and need it to be a hugbox. Jow Forums is what humanity would be if it were really anonymous... bad or good, this is what people are actually like if they could speak their minds.
Juan Torres
178 cm, flies 3-4x a week for side rear delts, sometimes 4x15,sometimes heavier 3x10 and upright rows 3x15 1x a week and facepulls when I get to commercial gym from time to time for 4-5 sets of 15-20 reps. Home gym Master race.
Consider my shoulders meh bodypart, just know how to pose decent.
reddit is garbage because nobody wants to post wrongthink because if you do, then 2 or 4 or 6 months the line somebody will disagree with you and bring it up as an ad hominem.
that's why user posting is better
Dominic Hall
>Muh exclusive 4chins only club
Get a life
Andrew Turner
As if being HURR BTFO DURR by a Reddit moderator, who actually needs therapists because they’re all soft skin pussys, means anything. What a flaming fudge packing faggot. I’m sure he still lurks here like all the losers who think they’re better than here and it’s user base. If you’re reading this, I’d like to finger fuck your slit until you cry like the bitch you most likely are.
Bentley Hernandez
>Muh exclusive 4chins only club >Get a life Fuck off hugbox niggerfaggot. I bet you aren't even a racist. Go to reddit exclusively or, better yet, go choke to death on used tampons.
Tyler King
>it's fucking gay. Dude...thats racist
Carson Lopez
I dont come here to talk fitness basically
Matthew Harris
This and someone to coach you to proper forms. For safety. After that, you need a spotter. Thats it. Thats fucking it.
Easton Watson
Ha, way to sound like a fucking cry baby. I like this “shithole”, it’s the only place that you can freely ruin everything and sometimes genuinely interact with another human being. The other place is just full of cunts trying to get upvotes. Simply despicable.
Benjamin Edwards
>irreverence is power It is
Carter Hughes
>SS is a great routine, ignore the champion powerlifting coach who told you it sounded dumb and gave you a program he used successfully That's true though, why the fuck would you use the routine of a genetically gifted powerlifter when you're a complete novice?
Caleb Perez
That's a shame, had a feeling you'd be
Easton Nguyen
I like the lack of censorship and practical anarchy of this place. Shititt is too bugman for me.
Bentley Reyes
>there is nobody telling the children >the adults are on vacation >Shitgolems >blasted in the face by ... memes, at any moment >one person can tell another [something] without being shouted down. That's a real thing that I watched happen.
TRANSlation: >Wahhh! Mommy daddy come yell at the other kids who aren't being nice! >Mommy? Daddy? Where are the adults? I need an adult! A random stranger on the internet isn't being nice or using nice words! >Oh.. oh god no... no please... *new post pops up like a gigantic golem looming over the horizon* >*finally dares to look* W-W-WHAT!? NNNOOOOOOO!! *gets literally blasted away by looking at a picture of a butt* >*sprawled out on the ground, head happens to be turned towards the screen, struggling but too weak to look away* >*someone posts a dumb, uninformed comment not worthy of a response* No... no... you can't... *tears rolling down cheeks* Someone... why won't someone yell at him? W... why won't someone stop him? How is this not deleted? How could people let this happen? Is... is this really happening? Oh god... this is real... *blacks out* >Jow Forums: NEVER. AGAIN.
I actually like this. Keeps more fags who will never make it out of here.
I read that initially as patriarchal anarchy... and that sounded MUCH better.
Nolan Wood
Reddit is for sensitive fags
Ryan Roberts
>Him: I feel sorry for you >Us: I don't think about you at all
Hunter Hughes
PATRIANARCHY
GENIUS!!!!
William Jenkins
Creatures like this make me sad to be an oregonian.
Also sad how multnomah county has more voters than all of eastern oregon combined.
and that's how you get kate brown. A new state comprised of Eastern OR/WA + Idaho would be far more reasonable than what we've got now. jesus fucking christ.
Jackson Powell
>Fit is a VIP club for people who actually work out
Carson Morales
No-one criticizes the poo poo golems and gets away with it
it is different though. theres no downboats or upboats here and the thread view is always flat with no replies hidden
Jacob Watson
What's his deal with SS? SS is great and I usually assume people who blast it are either roiders or don't even lift.
Nathan Wright
I've asked in various places why Starting Strength has fallen out of favour and have yet to get a clear response. I don't care for it myself and find the rationale people give to be lacking.
Mason Roberts
Id reckon it’s the “starting” aspect people like to shit on once they’re intermediate
Angel Foster
Yeah, it seems even recommending to read the book has fallen out of favor since everyone now hates the low bar rippetoe hip thrust and absolutely no one likes the power clean
Eli Jackson
I keep seeing Reddit cucks crying but some of the nicest and most helpful people I've ever met have been on Jow Forums, and they weren't nice for internet fame or upvote points or fucking Reddit gold or whatever, they were nice simply for the sake of being nice. To a complete stranger, no less. Sure, people insult each other and dickwave but it's mostly just banter and that's life, anyway.
It's always people like this and places like Reddit that act like the biggest, smuggest, and most smarmy cunts because they've convinced themselves they can do no wrong and their website allows them to insulate themselves from any remotely dissenting opinion while they relentlessly bully people and pretend to be righteous in doing so. They're nothing but a bunch of vain, two-faced narcissists who literally stalk people into suicide but clutch their pearls when someone jokingly types out the word "nigger."
Nicholas Stewart
GO FUCK OFF BACK TO REDD*T NO ONE GIVES A FUCK ABOUT YOU. YOU COME HERE AND START TO CRY. SO FUCKING OKAY NOW GO BACK
