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I've been going 3 times a week for a few months now. When I started, I could barely bench the bar. Today I finally did 60kg (~135lbs) on the bench for 4x5 reps. Still a long way to go, but feels so good!
Small milestones matter, i finally getting to my weight goal. I was originally around 145 2 years ago but im at 171 this year my main goal is to hit around 185 by the end of the year.
Social media really messes with your perception of what people in the gym actually look like. I've been going to gyms for like 15 years now and when you see someone with actual striations that's rare. Or someone who's big and shredded that's rare. Most people there won't look anything close to what you see on youtube or tiktok fitness.
For months my family acted passive aggressive about me taking a little more time away from them to go to the gym or refusing to eat certain foods they bought/made. Then they saw the changes in my physique and now they all want to start following my plan 😂. Honestly, good on them.
@@iosgaming2824 I love a good, wholesome, home-cooked meal, so I eat most of what they give me, and just fit it in to my macros. However, I usually draw the line at things with excessive oil or processed sugar. Oil because I prefer to spend the majority of my cals on things that I can properly eat and taste, and processed sugar because at this point it honestly just doesn’t agree with me. I might have something sugary on occasion a couple hours before a hard workout, but in general things that are high in sugar are not filling and make me lethargic. Edit: Just to give some background, my aunt is a very experienced professional baker and will insist on me having some form of sugary dessert every time I see her (yes, including multiple days in a row). It’s tricky because she seems to derive a lot of self worth from how people receive her cooking.
@@gigachad3925 that’s very understandable and a rational way to go about eating and I can imagine with your aunt being like that, that it would feel very shameful to have to turn some of the food she offers away. When I was visiting my mother and grandmother and my sister for Christmas, we were getting ready to have desert on Christmas Eve and I had bought some protein bars amongst some other stuff for me to eat while visiting and she had bought some pies for desert occasions for the holidays and wen she offered some of the pie for desert I initially denied the offer nicely and said I’ll probably just eat something I bought but then I thought about not wanting to hurt her feelings and I told her I’ll eat some of the pie instead and said why i wouldn’t. She didn’t seem bothered my original decision at any point but I wouldn’t think it didn’t bother her because sometimes people don’t let it be known how they truly feel about something. On Christmas Day though there was a caramel cream cheesecake pie for desert though and I was very interested in it until my sister told me the caloric amount when I asked was 900 calories per slice lol. I just got some apple pie at that point 😂
@@iosgaming2824 Good on you! Just some advice, if you’re ever in a situation like that where you pretty much have to take some form of dessert, and you’re worried that one slip might make you go overboard, take the option with the highest fat over the one with the highest carbs. Yes it will have more calories, but ultimately fat is much more filling and that can both stop you from overeating and give you a valid excuse not to have any more.
As a ex gymcel that used to be skinny fat and ugly i decided to start lifting. I trained very hard and bulked for the majority of my time lifting. Im currently 13 percent body fat and 165 pounds after a cut. I can say the effort was well worth it since I finally got some action and female attention that I desperately been craving for. I’m currently year and a half into lifting and I’m excited for next years winter bulk to see how big I can get.
it always fascinates me to hear about negative gym encounters. people have this “focused bitch face” but it’s just intense focus. every time i interact with someone, even just to say that lift was inspiring, it’s well received.
@@tomaszrokicki1992We all judge. Or maybe it’s more comfortable to call it “making assumptions.” Ah, semantics. Either way, it’s all human nature. People who claim not to either lack self awareness or are full of it. The point is to acknowledge your bias and not let it influence you. I judge/make assumptions all the time in the gym, but it doesn’t mean I’m looking down on someone because I’m conscious it’s an ignorant take. Plus I’m a coach so I automatically go in to critique mode sometimes. But my last thought is always positive, bc I love seeing people in the gym trying.
One more tip for beginners is don't be afraid to ask someone (who clearly knows what they're doing) for help. If you aren't sure how to use a machine, equipment, or do an exercise correctly; ask the experienced gym bro while they're resting/on their phone without interrupting them. Approach with "hey man my bad for interrupting, I'm not sure if I'm doing this right". 9 times out of 10 they'll be friendly and happy to help for a quick minute. Plus this is a good way to get to know the regulars and possibly make gym buddies.
3:10 underrated option; a local YMCA Most of them have a weight room. In which if they do, they ALL have essential lifting equipment (racks smith machines, dumbells, etc) And the membership there is just barely over the cost of Planet Fitness
I go to one the only issue is you have to go in the early morning or after 8:30 PM since the high schoolers take a bench for 30 minutes to do at most 4 sets while they mostly mess around.
I started off at planet fitness and as a beginner, it does work for what it is. I built a decent framework physique with the smith machine and dumbbells. I was there for a little over a year before I jumped ship to blink fitness, a lesser known commercial gym. At some point you do need access to barbells and heavier weights if you want to progress further
Very true. People usually criticize that the better gyms cost too much. I usually tell people it’s not true - you just get what you pay for. You pay $10 a month, then you are going to get a $10 a month gym 🤷🏾♂️ I was at LA Fitness for a while but started feeling the limitation. I switched to a privately owned gym geared more for bodybuilders and powerlifters gym that costs more, and it’s worth it for the sake of progression. Better machines, dumbbells that go up to 2000lbs, broken things get fixed, and a much more serious atmosphere. At a certain point in training, you have to decide how much you want to progress past just being “healthy” and accept the gym as more of a hobby that will take up more time and money.
yea none of this gets "easier" but you can learn to like doing the hard stuff, mindsets important, if your gonna take it serious. But ur gonna have to do it so might as well try to enjoy it
The only people who make sustainable progress are people who enjoy it all: the training and the lifestyle. When you decide to push past being a beginner and just “being healthy” and want to see change, you have to invest more time and more energy (mental and physical) and eventually more money (access to better facility). In other words, it becomes a hobby. I can’t think of any instance where a really fit person who maintains a regular impressive physique that hates doing it.
3:30 I actually went to a gym where a lot of people were exactly like that (only ever men, never once had an issue with a woman honestly). Multiple guys kept coming up to me, judging me, trying to force advice down my throat (they obviously had no idea what they were talking about), and then when I didn't listen, they'd even get aggressive or attempt to rally the entire gym together to collectively shame me (I was 16, these were grown men) I guess in some sort of attempt to shame or peer pressure me into listening to them. So strange. Despite all that I just ignored them and kept doing what I was doing. Some of them eventually gave up (it took months but they left me alone) and I'm still here. All this is to say even *if* people are judging you and looking at you, who cares? As long as they don't come over physically touch you, it makes no different. Just ignore them and focus on yourself. The worst they'll do is throw insults and laugh at you. And when you learn to handle those, you realise just how pointless it was to even care what other people think in the first place.
That’s terrible. Do you still go to that gym? What arrogant douchebags. The only time I ever give unsolicited advice is if the person is clearly struggling, maybe with like the equipment or something. Generally you can tell when someone needs help and is just hesitant to ask. It’s called having good social skills and reading obvious body language LOL
What you’re saying is not cliche. I am currently plateaued on my low bar squat at 350lbs and im pretty sure it’s due to weak quads. I struggled today with 205 x 10 with a high bar stance. I will continue to be uncomfortable prioritizing high bar over the next couple months
Hey Mike thanks for posting this I really didn’t expect this kind of down to earth straightforward video, I have actually quit going to the gym for about 1 year due to college and going back again this year and tbh I noticed that I lost quite a huge amount of muscle and strength which makes me more insecure and demotivated. And to be fair and just I’m the type of person who is insecure and really likes to show off my strength to just impress everyone in the gym rather than doing it by heart for myself even no one gives a big f about me lol. Sorry to ramble on my issue just wanted to thank you for sharing this video Cheers from Malaysia 🇲🇾!!!
I imagine that some people might have a giggle at my "lifting face" when I am getting to the end of a set and the tongue comes out... I don't mind though, I am likely to be giggling at some of the grunts I hear people making! I have been going for about 5 months now and am making decent progress for an old geezer who spent far too many years sat on his butt playing online games, smoking weed and eating crappy food. I have never had any aggro, only the occasional helpful comment from more experienced lifters who pointed out bad form on a couple of exercises such as back rounding when deadlifting. I still have a long way to go but I am seeing some visible muscle and have got rid of most of the blubber around my waist now. Has made a huge difference when it comes to practical stuff like carrying shopping, moving furniture and dealing with the garden!
This is why told myself stay away from the mirrors it's all a mind game. I only take one picture every two months. And i don't even post it on social media. The thing with retaining muscle is a lifetime commitment. So currently im training for boxing 🥊but what you're saying is 100% true. Numbers change but the weights don't. Keep moving forward
I fell for the “fitness assessment” when I was a skinny fat beginner. I got a personal trainer and made no gains while simultaneously wasting money. It was only until I got back to the basics like weighted calisthenics and programming aswell as bulking when I made some serious gains
I used to be all about trying to hit numbers on lifts which in retrospect was all ego because I was lifting to improve my physique and not to powerlift. When I started to not care about the numbers my form, strength, and physique started to improve way faster.
this happend to me, I fasting and training (religious reson) , my rommate was " why do train". he was impling that my fasting could be excuse from train.
yeah wrt the judging thing, that’s one of my motivators to keep progressing! back in my early days of training, i could see the majority of dudes benching my max deadlift for reps. now i don’t! (at least, not at my gym, those 16 year old sarmed fitness influencers are another story) it’s all a competition against yourself blah blah blah but it’s also nice to start to see yourself get more “respectable” numbers as time goes by, and that’ll never happen if you don’t start (even if your starter numbers are lower than you’d like).
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I can truthfully say, out of the gate when I got back to a gym to get on a training program, I wasn't self conscious at all about working out in front of others. I'm older to be fair, so maybe just past that phase of ego or whatever you call it. But genuinely, didn't think of it all. I found if anything, other guys working out equally hard, may occasionally come up to me and throw a recommendation in on form or something, pretty friendly experiences over all. So yah, I'd encourage others to get out there and give it a shot.
The best part is after you’ve been lifting for 10+ years, you can enjoy the bbq and the family time while also having a healthy 4-5 day a week schedule for an hour or so a day in the gym. I used to LIVE in the fucking gym, now I don’t. Still look relatively the same at 235 and lift over 5-600lbs on a weekly basis in a given lift .. while also enjoying the normalcies of everyday life
Hm, maybe you’re using hyperbole to make a point, but I’m not so sure about not being able to enjoy things like BBQ with the family throughout your lifting/fitness journey. You can still enjoy typical things in moderation while still making progress in the gym. Perhaps I’m projecting, but I was very fixated on training when I was younger and the deprivation of the good simple things was not healthy. That’s when you start floating around orthorexia and being obsessive.
Planet fitness is best for bulking 1 set 1 pizza you do 10 reps you eat one pizza and again one set of 10 reps and one pizza to eat 10 sets 10 pizza) 7000 calories easy bulk
hey . I am 15 yro training for 1 year now. Went from 52 kg be 165 cm 20 kg 8 bench press skinny fat to 67 kg 174 cm 60 kg 8 reps bench press not so skinny fat but still with relatively high body fat percentage. I have 12 inch arms and some abs definition. I am still bulking following a well structured program with progression protocol and i have abs anxiety. I was fat when i was 12 and i am scared of becoming fat again.
For personal reasons i now train in home for a while , one guy sometime ago asked me for advices about programming and stuff , he said he little bit of overweight now ,and that's the reason why he wants to train at home first and when he become litte bit better looking he will go to the gym ☠️ people really shoot themselves in the foot with insecurities
Let me start with this... If you are living in Texas and not eating stupid amounts of high quality BBQ... I'm gonna have to call a meeting of the "Families" and figure out what to do with you.
Went through a period of years after college where I didn't go very often because I thought you just kind of had to "grow up". No. Dumb. Went back to grad school at 27 and started going again barely able to bench or squat a plate surrounded by 18 years olds that are basically semi pro powerlifters and it was hard mentally but you gotta just not care and do you. Finally almost back to 2 and 3 plates respectively. Don't bother with other people. If you like it don't quit, and don't quit if you like it.
I remember when I started to work out I began to carry my own food around at work and I would get made fun of for 5 months straight ! They would say things like “ he looks the same “ “ he looks stupid bringing his food around “ and man that would make me want to give up but I didn’t I’m almost at the year mark and now girls are staring when I go to the mall they smile at me they talk to me and I smoked my co workers !!! It feels great now ! I look better than them …What I’m trying to say is don’t give up !
My dad just opened a small local barebones gym and I work there in my free time lol we only had the basics: creatine, whey (preworkout when we have the budge). There is a type of newbies who really want to buy everything. I keep telling them that those are optional and arent going to make them buff overnight lol, they just cant seem to understand that they are supplements and not substitute to actual food.
Definitely depends on the gym, they all have different cultures. I moved to a town with a Golds Gym and it’s all roids ragers and half naked girls, but the 24 hour fitness legit , Rec center legit. Try those trial passes out and find the right spot for you.
Greg Doucette just made a video stating that if you're on a lean bulk and your gaining only muscle and no fat then you are Maingaining. 🤦🏽♂️🤦🏽♂️🤦🏽♂️ Bruh...
RF has talked about this. He keeps shifting the goal posts so he's never wrong. Maingaining is a stupid term he made up because he didn't want to use the word recomposition. The word itself is paradoxical and tells you everything you need to know about Greg.
@@FirinMahLazer1 For real, who the hell believes that if you go on a bulk that you can gain only muscle and no fat, the only reason why you can gain muscle and lose fat in a deficit is because your body uses the energy from the fat to convert to the muscle. Either way the energy from muscle has to come from something you cannot build muscle while maintaining the same bodyfat percentage
If you're new to working out check out Mark Bell's Power Project ep. 863. They talk about setting realistic goals. Basically don't set them so lofty they're unattainable and you get demotivated but don't set the bar so low you aren't pushing yourself.
@@REVIVALFitness For sure. They do a much better job of talking about it than I can summarize in a comment. It was a really good listen regardless of where you're at in your fitness journey.
Mark Bell has fell for some crazy shit though whether he does know its b.s. and just doing it for the views and money or he really believes it, like high ldl cholesterol isn't bad or carnivore is the best. From what I've seen of his training info, it looks alright but I'm not an expert on his stuff besides the crazy and proven wrong things like I first mentioned.
love ur content, genuine question, I just turned 16, I'm fat, 25% body fat I'd say, 215lbs bodyweight. pretty strong for my age (200lbs bench, 315 deadlift) but I know I'm gonna be small and weak if I cut (I've tried), basically I feel fat and small and idk what to do, should I clean bulk? recomp? and how so... I don't wanna cut, should I? please let me know thanks...
Hey bro, How do you feel about an "arm day" ? Do you feel it also falls in category of classic "feel the pump bro, a unique to day to do 10 sets for biceps and tris and shoulders an whatever brah" or is it decent considering?
I actually had to address this recently myself. At a certain point, you simply have to find a way to emphasize arms as you start developing. When people focus on mostly to UpperLower and PPL splits, where you typically save arms for the end, it’s kind of inevitable that they will lag at some point. Apparently this is a common thing, which makes sense, bc what else is gonna happen when you back load a body part for when you are most fatigued and run out of time to add volume? I ran into this problem as I built up. Mike Isratel helped me realize this in one of his videos. So I started moving my arms to the middle of my sessions and it did help. I’d do compounds, then arms, then isolation work for whatever the theme is that day (i.e reverse flys or chest flys) since they don’t involve using the arms as much. However I started seeing the limitations of that eventually so now I’m trying a 4 day Torso-Limb split, which I got inspired by from another channel. It’s doing back, chest, and shoulders one day, then biceps, triceps and legs on another. This worked perfectly for me personally bc my legs are already quite developed, so I can dial back the volume on them while I bring my arms back up. You can also dial back the volume with some torso stuff too. Keep enough to still build, but allow more energy for arms. Then, when things are balanced out, you can readjust.
@@Soccasteve That doesn’t sound like an arm day problem. That sounds like “you did something wrong” problem LOL. There was likely something off with your execution: bad form, too much volume too fast, bad exercise selection or order, etc. Either way, you can’t say arm day is a waste of time bc of your anecdotal experience.
@@robmarsh918 Haha I can though, that's what any reasonable person does when it comes to training advice. You try things out and come to a conclusion based on your results. Arm days are a waste of time for a lot of people, they're small muscle groups that get plenty of stimulation from other movements and don't require an entire day to hit them adequately for a majority of people. If you can recover appropriately from an arm day and you like doing them, then go right ahead.
@@Soccasteve Yeah sure. Forget nuance and just make an overarching counter statement about a training concept that people have used many times over the year. It’s not just a matter of an entire arm day. It’s just the idea that at some point, if your arms and torso become unbalanced from other typical splits (and yes they commonly do) you have to prioritize them in some way. As I mentioned in my first comment, it could be as simple as moving arm movements to the middle of your session instead of the end so you have more energy and can apply more effort. Or you can follow a 4 day Torso-Limb split. Either way “Arm day is a waste of time” is entirely too dogmatic. Some people have bad genetics or simply skip arm workouts (another common consequence of saving them for last in a session) and maybe a dedicated day works for them. The point is that it can be advantageous, depending on the individual…which is how all training concepts and modalities should be approached. Otherwise, your type of thinking is similar to AthleanX’s Killing Your Gains or his Exercise Graveyard crap where he generalizes way too much.
When I first started going to my current gym a trainer who’s a former trainer of the company now had offered me a free assessment and I thought to myself what the hell I’ll take the free knowledge and then later he showed me training payment stuff and asked me some basic fitness personal questions and when I told him I usually come two times a day everyday since I split my daily workout up he literally tried to gaslight me so blatantly and he said something the along the lines of “so you go (blank) often?” and the consistency he mentioned was completely different from what I said. I was confused at why he said that so I just took sometime to too about what he said briefly after and corrected him by saying what my consistency rate is again. I didn’t end up making him a trainer of mine but he wasn’t bad at training from what I had seen and from the little training he did with me prior for free to show me some machines I said I hadn’t used before and after I said my main focuses when it comes to what body parts I was focused on gaining muscle for. I ended up not too long after getting a trainer who would train me when I would text her about things I wanted help with fitness wise but she wouldn’t let me pay her
Is there any reason why you eat so clean even when bulking. Wouldn’t it be easier to hit your calories and more enjoyable to add some junk type foods like desserts
You should try to eat mostly clean but some stuff is ok within reason just to get calories in. That being said I wouldn’t drink soda, eat candy, french fries, fast food, stuff like that but throwing in some slightly processed snacks, pizza, pasta, ice cream can make it easier to gain weight.
hey guys am 5'9 185 lbs prob around 25% bf am eating around 2700 calories rn should i just stay like this for a while? been trying to lose fat while gaining some muscle
Unlikely you need that many at 145 lbs, but if you’re very active outside the gym, maybe close. I need a surplus most people would deem “excessive” myself.
@@REVIVALFitness well i workout 3x a week, walk at least 20k steps at work and i do a bit of martial arts. For reference it took me 3500 to get to 140lbs.
at my gym no body deadlifts more than 600 nobody bench pressing 405 and most def is no body is doing squats with 405 anymore social media really tricked me and alot of people too , most of us are average so go to the gym bro and get your gainz. edit : one last thing is everyone is busy checking themselves nobody is watching you NO ONE CARE AT ALL
im 15, 140lbs, around 16-18bf, currently plaining to continue my cut until I lose 1more kg so around 10 days and im planning to lean bulk for 10 weeks afterwards, does that sound good?
No. No it doesn’t. You are 140lbs, man. And 16 to 18%body fat is right in the sweet spot of being lean but sustainable. The reason you probably don’t look as lean as you’d like is bc you lack muscle mass. Bulk. Please bulk. And not for just 10 weeks. Keep going. At your weight, you need a long term bulk. This is such a common mistake I see younger people making. You can’t have “ab anxiety” either. So long as you fixated on staying lean and having abs, you’re going to struggle more.
The row is kind of hard to judge because there are so many ways people mess up the row and go too heavy, use too much momentum, etc so fixating on numbers if just going to add to the problem. If I had to give an intermediate range I would say 135-155 for sets of 8.
Luckily, the employees in my gym don't give a flying fuck about selling supplements 💀 They just want to leave there shift and go home. They don't get paid enough for some of the shit people do in my gym
Gym is good, capitalism is not good. I'm referring about you saying you have to go to your job vs you have to go to the gym. If you want to make your workplace like the gym, unionize or co-op is the best way. Democratize the workforce baby.
From the one I've been to, it seems good. Biggest problem I could see is that the one near you might be super packed because crunch is relatively cheap.
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When I was a beginner, the things I was carrying in my gym bag:
-protein shake
-lifting straps
-luger 9mm
If they continue… you draw
@@REVIVALFitness When they hog the equipment while typing away on their smartphones.
I've been going 3 times a week for a few months now. When I started, I could barely bench the bar. Today I finally did 60kg (~135lbs) on the bench for 4x5 reps. Still a long way to go, but feels so good!
Good work
Well done! Keep on smashing it!
Nice! Keep at it! I was at 60kg x5 last fall and I'm at 90kg x5 now 😁 the gains will come if you keep at it
Gj bro
Small milestones matter, i finally getting to my weight goal. I was originally around 145 2 years ago but im at 171 this year my main goal is to hit around 185 by the end of the year.
took me some times but I have never been happier having my home gym
Social media really messes with your perception of what people in the gym actually look like. I've been going to gyms for like 15 years now and when you see someone with actual striations that's rare. Or someone who's big and shredded that's rare. Most people there won't look anything close to what you see on youtube or tiktok fitness.
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And you have to account the roid it up guys too. If you really breaks down, there's a handful of natural people with impressive physics.
I love seeing new people in the gym. More people bettering themselves
Unless they spend more time on IG than training, and piss other people off.
For months my family acted passive aggressive about me taking a little more time away from them to go to the gym or refusing to eat certain foods they bought/made. Then they saw the changes in my physique and now they all want to start following my plan 😂. Honestly, good on them.
I get asked every time I’m home “what’re you gonna do, eat more chicken again?”
Did you not eat certain foods they made at all or just not enough of the food to please them?
@@iosgaming2824 I love a good, wholesome, home-cooked meal, so I eat most of what they give me, and just fit it in to my macros. However, I usually draw the line at things with excessive oil or processed sugar. Oil because I prefer to spend the majority of my cals on things that I can properly eat and taste, and processed sugar because at this point it honestly just doesn’t agree with me. I might have something sugary on occasion a couple hours before a hard workout, but in general things that are high in sugar are not filling and make me lethargic.
Edit: Just to give some background, my aunt is a very experienced professional baker and will insist on me having some form of sugary dessert every time I see her (yes, including multiple days in a row). It’s tricky because she seems to derive a lot of self worth from how people receive her cooking.
@@gigachad3925 that’s very understandable and a rational way to go about eating and I can imagine with your aunt being like that, that it would feel very shameful to have to turn some of the food she offers away. When I was visiting my mother and grandmother and my sister for Christmas, we were getting ready to have desert on Christmas Eve and I had bought some protein bars amongst some other stuff for me to eat while visiting and she had bought some pies for desert occasions for the holidays and wen she offered some of the pie for desert I initially denied the offer nicely and said I’ll probably just eat something I bought but then I thought about not wanting to hurt her feelings and I told her I’ll eat some of the pie instead and said why i wouldn’t. She didn’t seem bothered my original decision at any point but I wouldn’t think it didn’t bother her because sometimes people don’t let it be known how they truly feel about something. On Christmas Day though there was a caramel cream cheesecake pie for desert though and I was very interested in it until my sister told me the caloric amount when I asked was 900 calories per slice lol. I just got some apple pie at that point 😂
@@iosgaming2824 Good on you! Just some advice, if you’re ever in a situation like that where you pretty much have to take some form of dessert, and you’re worried that one slip might make you go overboard, take the option with the highest fat over the one with the highest carbs. Yes it will have more calories, but ultimately fat is much more filling and that can both stop you from overeating and give you a valid excuse not to have any more.
As a ex gymcel that used to be skinny fat and ugly i decided to start lifting. I trained very hard and bulked for the majority of my time lifting. Im currently 13 percent body fat and 165 pounds after a cut. I can say the effort was well worth it since I finally got some action and female attention that I desperately been craving for. I’m currently year and a half into lifting and I’m excited for next years winter bulk to see how big I can get.
I remember watching the novice purgatory video when I first started lifting I made a lot of progress since then.
Good work man. Enjoy the ladies but don't let your hormones get in the way of safe practices.
How old were you when you started lifting? Did you bulk for a year and a half?
You gotta look at lifting the same way you look at brushing your teeth or showering daily. It’s not an option to not do it.
I underwent a "fitness assessment", I thought they were treating me good, I didn't know it was a template in all gyms hahaha
Better believe it. I did hundreds, possibly thousands during the span I worked at a big gym.
Just because it's normalised doesn't mean it's normal - I LOVE this message man. 100%.
i actually do look at people but only with positive thoughts. just glad to be around people who love fitness or trying to better themselves
it always fascinates me to hear about negative gym encounters. people have this “focused bitch face” but it’s just intense focus. every time i interact with someone, even just to say that lift was inspiring, it’s well received.
And I judge the hell out of everyone. I'm super nice but my thoughts are pure evil.
@@tomaszrokicki1992 evil thoughts yet acts kindly? you get extra credit for that in my opinion
@@tomaszrokicki1992We all judge. Or maybe it’s more comfortable to call it “making assumptions.” Ah, semantics. Either way, it’s all human nature. People who claim not to either lack self awareness or are full of it. The point is to acknowledge your bias and not let it influence you. I judge/make assumptions all the time in the gym, but it doesn’t mean I’m looking down on someone because I’m conscious it’s an ignorant take. Plus I’m a coach so I automatically go in to critique mode sometimes. But my last thought is always positive, bc I love seeing people in the gym trying.
This video immediately got a like after the Bloodline shoutout!!! ☝🏼☝🏼☝🏼
I’m feeling ucey
We the ones
One more tip for beginners is don't be afraid to ask someone (who clearly knows what they're doing) for help. If you aren't sure how to use a machine, equipment, or do an exercise correctly; ask the experienced gym bro while they're resting/on their phone without interrupting them. Approach with "hey man my bad for interrupting, I'm not sure if I'm doing this right". 9 times out of 10 they'll be friendly and happy to help for a quick minute. Plus this is a good way to get to know the regulars and possibly make gym buddies.
3:10 underrated option; a local YMCA
Most of them have a weight room. In which if they do, they ALL have essential lifting equipment (racks smith machines, dumbells, etc) And the membership there is just barely over the cost of Planet Fitness
I go to one the only issue is you have to go in the early morning or after 8:30 PM since the high schoolers take a bench for 30 minutes to do at most 4 sets while they mostly mess around.
@@True2ChainzLilWayne thats every gym nowadays dude
Notification gang!! 💪🏻gains and 🧠 brains
I started off at planet fitness and as a beginner, it does work for what it is. I built a decent framework physique with the smith machine and dumbbells. I was there for a little over a year before I jumped ship to blink fitness, a lesser known commercial gym. At some point you do need access to barbells and heavier weights if you want to progress further
Very true. People usually criticize that the better gyms cost too much. I usually tell people it’s not true - you just get what you pay for. You pay $10 a month, then you are going to get a $10 a month gym 🤷🏾♂️ I was at LA Fitness for a while but started feeling the limitation. I switched to a privately owned gym geared more for bodybuilders and powerlifters gym that costs more, and it’s worth it for the sake of progression. Better machines, dumbbells that go up to 2000lbs, broken things get fixed, and a much more serious atmosphere. At a certain point in training, you have to decide how much you want to progress past just being “healthy” and accept the gym as more of a hobby that will take up more time and money.
Lol we have the same story
yea none of this gets "easier" but you can learn to like doing the hard stuff, mindsets important, if your gonna take it serious. But ur gonna have to do it so might as well try to enjoy it
The only people who make sustainable progress are people who enjoy it all: the training and the lifestyle. When you decide to push past being a beginner and just “being healthy” and want to see change, you have to invest more time and more energy (mental and physical) and eventually more money (access to better facility). In other words, it becomes a hobby. I can’t think of any instance where a really fit person who maintains a regular impressive physique that hates doing it.
3:30 I actually went to a gym where a lot of people were exactly like that (only ever men, never once had an issue with a woman honestly). Multiple guys kept coming up to me, judging me, trying to force advice down my throat (they obviously had no idea what they were talking about), and then when I didn't listen, they'd even get aggressive or attempt to rally the entire gym together to collectively shame me (I was 16, these were grown men) I guess in some sort of attempt to shame or peer pressure me into listening to them. So strange.
Despite all that I just ignored them and kept doing what I was doing. Some of them eventually gave up (it took months but they left me alone) and I'm still here. All this is to say even *if* people are judging you and looking at you, who cares? As long as they don't come over physically touch you, it makes no different. Just ignore them and focus on yourself. The worst they'll do is throw insults and laugh at you. And when you learn to handle those, you realise just how pointless it was to even care what other people think in the first place.
That’s terrible. Do you still go to that gym? What arrogant douchebags. The only time I ever give unsolicited advice is if the person is clearly struggling, maybe with like the equipment or something. Generally you can tell when someone needs help and is just hesitant to ask. It’s called having good social skills and reading obvious body language LOL
What you’re saying is not cliche. I am currently plateaued on my low bar squat at 350lbs and im pretty sure it’s due to weak quads. I struggled today with 205 x 10 with a high bar stance. I will continue to be uncomfortable prioritizing high bar over the next couple months
Same, with near identical numbers. 315x5 low bar and 200 to 2225 lbs high bars for reps are struggles.
Hey Mike thanks for posting this I really didn’t expect this kind of down to earth straightforward video, I have actually quit going to the gym for about 1 year due to college and going back again this year and tbh I noticed that I lost quite a huge amount of muscle and strength which makes me more insecure and demotivated. And to be fair and just I’m the type of person who is insecure and really likes to show off my strength to just impress everyone in the gym rather than doing it by heart for myself even no one gives a big f about me lol. Sorry to ramble on my issue just wanted to thank you for sharing this video Cheers from Malaysia 🇲🇾!!!
You will gain a lot of that muscle back quickly due to muscle memory.
Who’s Mike? Isn’t his name Dominic?
Dude's name is matt lol
I imagine that some people might have a giggle at my "lifting face" when I am getting to the end of a set and the tongue comes out... I don't mind though, I am likely to be giggling at some of the grunts I hear people making! I have been going for about 5 months now and am making decent progress for an old geezer who spent far too many years sat on his butt playing online games, smoking weed and eating crappy food. I have never had any aggro, only the occasional helpful comment from more experienced lifters who pointed out bad form on a couple of exercises such as back rounding when deadlifting. I still have a long way to go but I am seeing some visible muscle and have got rid of most of the blubber around my waist now. Has made a huge difference when it comes to practical stuff like carrying shopping, moving furniture and dealing with the garden!
This is why told myself stay away from the mirrors it's all a mind game. I only take one picture every two months. And i don't even post it on social media. The thing with retaining muscle is a lifetime commitment. So currently im training for boxing 🥊but what you're saying is 100% true. Numbers change but the weights don't. Keep moving forward
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I fell for the “fitness assessment” when I was a skinny fat beginner. I got a personal trainer and made no gains while simultaneously wasting money. It was only until I got back to the basics like weighted calisthenics and programming aswell as bulking when I made some serious gains
happened to me too, I thought they were treating me really good by doing that assessment hahaha didn't fall for it though dads An athlete
I used to be all about trying to hit numbers on lifts which in retrospect was all ego because I was lifting to improve my physique and not to powerlift. When I started to not care about the numbers my form, strength, and physique started to improve way faster.
this happend to me, I fasting and training (religious reson) , my rommate was " why do train". he was impling that my fasting could be excuse from train.
Very interesting. I often worry more about what I look like vs how heavy I can go.
4:40 nice bloodline reference.
As I age I've realized one major thing... the older you get, the less you care about what other ppl think about you.
The only part of the gym that scares me is talking to the women there 😎💯
I got videos for that too
Needed to hear this one, thank you bro 🤝
yeah wrt the judging thing, that’s one of my motivators to keep progressing! back in my early days of training, i could see the majority of dudes benching my max deadlift for reps. now i don’t! (at least, not at my gym, those 16 year old sarmed fitness influencers are another story)
it’s all a competition against yourself blah blah blah but it’s also nice to start to see yourself get more “respectable” numbers as time goes by, and that’ll never happen if you don’t start (even if your starter numbers are lower than you’d like).
Facts
Gotta become a whole different person 💯
you here bro? you get fat agian?))
If you want to spend the money, a quad lock phone case and car mount goes a long way. Works really well. Use them on my enduro bike and 4wd and can't fault it.
This guy deserves way more subscribers keep up the grind man subs will come
Thank you 🤜🤛
The vertical recording adds flavor 🤌
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It was awesome when you said, "Shout out to The Bloodline."
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2:54 LMAOO, you shoulda said that b4 makin me the plan lmao, great video tho for beginners
I can truthfully say, out of the gate when I got back to a gym to get on a training program, I wasn't self conscious at all about working out in front of others. I'm older to be fair, so maybe just past that phase of ego or whatever you call it. But genuinely, didn't think of it all. I found if anything, other guys working out equally hard, may occasionally come up to me and throw a recommendation in on form or something, pretty friendly experiences over all. So yah, I'd encourage others to get out there and give it a shot.
Revival whats your opinion on hamza and greg fighting about maingaining?can you do a video?
Might have to
The best part is after you’ve been lifting for 10+ years, you can enjoy the bbq and the family time while also having a healthy 4-5 day a week schedule for an hour or so a day in the gym. I used to LIVE in the fucking gym, now I don’t. Still look relatively the same at 235 and lift over 5-600lbs on a weekly basis in a given lift .. while also enjoying the normalcies of everyday life
Hm, maybe you’re using hyperbole to make a point, but I’m not so sure about not being able to enjoy things like BBQ with the family throughout your lifting/fitness journey. You can still enjoy typical things in moderation while still making progress in the gym. Perhaps I’m projecting, but I was very fixated on training when I was younger and the deprivation of the good simple things was not healthy. That’s when you start floating around orthorexia and being obsessive.
Planet fitness is best for bulking 1 set 1 pizza you do 10 reps you eat one pizza
and again one set of 10 reps and one pizza to eat
10 sets 10 pizza) 7000 calories easy bulk
Let's not bury the lead... RF has acknowledged the tribal chief ✊🏼
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MY PROPLEM WITH GYM I FORGET HOW TO DO TRAINING AND I DONT LEARN HOW TO DO MOVES QUICK WHICH MAKE FEEL DUMBINFRONT OF MYSELF AND OTHERS
hey . I am 15 yro training for 1 year now. Went from 52 kg be 165 cm 20 kg 8 bench press skinny fat to 67 kg 174 cm 60 kg 8 reps bench press not so skinny fat but still with relatively high body fat percentage. I have 12 inch arms and some abs definition. I am still bulking following a well structured program with progression protocol and i have abs anxiety. I was fat when i was 12 and i am scared of becoming fat again.
The worst days are rest days
For personal reasons i now train in home for a while , one guy sometime ago asked me for advices about programming and stuff , he said he little bit of overweight now ,and that's the reason why he wants to train at home first and when he become litte bit better looking he will go to the gym ☠️ people really shoot themselves in the foot with insecurities
I need a new year stak brah
Let me start with this... If you are living in Texas and not eating stupid amounts of high quality BBQ... I'm gonna have to call a meeting of the "Families" and figure out what to do with you.
LOL
Went through a period of years after college where I didn't go very often because I thought you just kind of had to "grow up". No. Dumb.
Went back to grad school at 27 and started going again barely able to bench or squat a plate surrounded by 18 years olds that are basically semi pro powerlifters and it was hard mentally but you gotta just not care and do you. Finally almost back to 2 and 3 plates respectively.
Don't bother with other people. If you like it don't quit, and don't quit if you like it.
Great video bro👊🏽
I remember when I started to work out I began to carry my own food around at work and I would get made fun of for 5 months straight ! They would say things like “ he looks the same “ “ he looks stupid bringing his food around “ and man that would make me want to give up but I didn’t I’m almost at the year mark and now girls are staring when I go to the mall they smile at me they talk to me and I smoked my co workers !!! It feels great now ! I look better than them …What I’m trying to say is don’t give up !
Actually some people pay attention quite a bit. Especially insecure people. They will be the first to point out your flaws to distract from theirs.
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you're going to do an experiment and bullk to 300 lbs?
and we so how much your lifts go up?
My dad just opened a small local barebones gym and I work there in my free time lol we only had the basics: creatine, whey (preworkout when we have the budge).
There is a type of newbies who really want to buy everything. I keep telling them that those are optional and arent going to make them buff overnight lol, they just cant seem to understand that they are supplements and not substitute to actual food.
Definitely depends on the gym, they all have different cultures. I moved to a town with a Golds Gym and it’s all roids ragers and half naked girls, but the 24 hour fitness legit , Rec center legit. Try those trial passes out and find the right spot for you.
Revival could you please make a video discussing the safety squat bar? I’m on the fence about buying one.
TLDR: buy it if you can afford it
Maybe it try it out first at a gym?
W video
Bro there are girls in yoga pants, you really think I'm looking at the gym noobs?
the portait orientation camera
Greg Doucette just made a video stating that if you're on a lean bulk and your gaining only muscle and no fat then you are Maingaining. 🤦🏽♂️🤦🏽♂️🤦🏽♂️ Bruh...
RF has talked about this. He keeps shifting the goal posts so he's never wrong. Maingaining is a stupid term he made up because he didn't want to use the word recomposition. The word itself is paradoxical and tells you everything you need to know about Greg.
@@FirinMahLazer1 For real, who the hell believes that if you go on a bulk that you can gain only muscle and no fat, the only reason why you can gain muscle and lose fat in a deficit is because your body uses the energy from the fat to convert to the muscle. Either way the energy from muscle has to come from something you cannot build muscle while maintaining the same bodyfat percentage
Remember guys if you decide to hop on the juice just keep it simple. A gram of test, gram of tren. Just stick to the basics.
Wrong. As Ronnie told us, the basics are uh... test... and dbol.
The car videos aren't the same without the homeless guy outside the car.
He has moved on to more wealthy victims
@@REVIVALFitnessDo you guys still keep in touch?
Bro, bbq is so anabolic. What do u mean skipping out on bbq
Hot take planet fitness is fone machines work great! Just make sure you uit al he musclegrups and train smarr
If you're new to working out check out Mark Bell's Power Project ep. 863. They talk about setting realistic goals. Basically don't set them so lofty they're unattainable and you get demotivated but don't set the bar so low you aren't pushing yourself.
I’d rather someone have a lofty goal and get close than set a weak goal and get it
@@REVIVALFitness For sure. They do a much better job of talking about it than I can summarize in a comment. It was a really good listen regardless of where you're at in your fitness journey.
Mark Bell has fell for some crazy shit though whether he does know its b.s. and just doing it for the views and money or he really believes it, like high ldl cholesterol isn't bad or carnivore is the best. From what I've seen of his training info, it looks alright but I'm not an expert on his stuff besides the crazy and proven wrong things like I first mentioned.
@@weightlifting_socialist I mean, alright I guess? I'm not saying his word is gospel I'm saying this particular episode has some sound advice.
love ur content, genuine question, I just turned 16, I'm fat, 25% body fat I'd say, 215lbs bodyweight. pretty strong for my age (200lbs bench, 315 deadlift) but I know I'm gonna be small and weak if I cut (I've tried), basically I feel fat and small and idk what to do, should I clean bulk? recomp? and how so... I don't wanna cut, should I? please let me know thanks...
You also got it dead on brother. Ego is where it stems from lmao
Also don’t hate on dudes that drive v8s because we love power lmao
How should your programme a push pull legs split when one only has 45 to 60 minutes to train?
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This guy reminds me of a territory days wrestler.
doesn't help that his channel partly shares half the name with a tag team that was meant as the "revival" of classic 80s wrestling style
Cornette intensifies
My favorite jacked car hobo
No lie I never ever cared about how strong I was, it never matter to me. A lot of people care, which is weird. Now I can how I look like
Hey bro, How do you feel about an "arm day" ? Do you feel it also falls in category of classic "feel the pump bro, a unique to day to do 10 sets for biceps and tris and shoulders an whatever brah" or is it decent considering?
I actually had to address this recently myself. At a certain point, you simply have to find a way to emphasize arms as you start developing. When people focus on mostly to UpperLower and PPL splits, where you typically save arms for the end, it’s kind of inevitable that they will lag at some point. Apparently this is a common thing, which makes sense, bc what else is gonna happen when you back load a body part for when you are most fatigued and run out of time to add volume? I ran into this problem as I built up. Mike Isratel helped me realize this in one of his videos. So I started moving my arms to the middle of my sessions and it did help. I’d do compounds, then arms, then isolation work for whatever the theme is that day (i.e reverse flys or chest flys) since they don’t involve using the arms as much.
However I started seeing the limitations of that eventually so now I’m trying a 4 day Torso-Limb split, which I got inspired by from another channel. It’s doing back, chest, and shoulders one day, then biceps, triceps and legs on another. This worked perfectly for me personally bc my legs are already quite developed, so I can dial back the volume on them while I bring my arms back up.
You can also dial back the volume with some torso stuff too. Keep enough to still build, but allow more energy for arms. Then, when things are balanced out, you can readjust.
Arm days are a waste of time and will probably lead to some sort of elbow pain at some point. That’s my experience anyway.
@@Soccasteve That doesn’t sound like an arm day problem. That sounds like “you did something wrong” problem LOL. There was likely something off with your execution: bad form, too much volume too fast, bad exercise selection or order, etc. Either way, you can’t say arm day is a waste of time bc of your anecdotal experience.
@@robmarsh918 Haha I can though, that's what any reasonable person does when it comes to training advice. You try things out and come to a conclusion based on your results. Arm days are a waste of time for a lot of people, they're small muscle groups that get plenty of stimulation from other movements and don't require an entire day to hit them adequately for a majority of people. If you can recover appropriately from an arm day and you like doing them, then go right ahead.
@@Soccasteve Yeah sure. Forget nuance and just make an overarching counter statement about a training concept that people have used many times over the year. It’s not just a matter of an entire arm day. It’s just the idea that at some point, if your arms and torso become unbalanced from other typical splits (and yes they commonly do) you have to prioritize them in some way. As I mentioned in my first comment, it could be as simple as moving arm movements to the middle of your session instead of the end so you have more energy and can apply more effort. Or you can follow a 4 day Torso-Limb split. Either way “Arm day is a waste of time” is entirely too dogmatic. Some people have bad genetics or simply skip arm workouts (another common consequence of saving them for last in a session) and maybe a dedicated day works for them. The point is that it can be advantageous, depending on the individual…which is how all training concepts and modalities should be approached.
Otherwise, your type of thinking is similar to AthleanX’s Killing Your Gains or his Exercise Graveyard crap where he generalizes way too much.
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When I first started going to my current gym a trainer who’s a former trainer of the company now had offered me a free assessment and I thought to myself what the hell I’ll take the free knowledge and then later he showed me training payment stuff and asked me some basic fitness personal questions and when I told him I usually come two times a day everyday since I split my daily workout up he literally tried to gaslight me so blatantly and he said something the along the lines of “so you go (blank) often?” and the consistency he mentioned was completely different from what I said. I was confused at why he said that so I just took sometime to too about what he said briefly after and corrected him by saying what my consistency rate is again. I didn’t end up making him a trainer of mine but he wasn’t bad at training from what I had seen and from the little training he did with me prior for free to show me some machines I said I hadn’t used before and after I said my main focuses when it comes to what body parts I was focused on gaining muscle for.
I ended up not too long after getting a trainer who would train me when I would text her about things I wanted help with fitness wise but she wouldn’t let me pay her
Looks like Hamza is part of the Chest hair gang. He got G shred in tears
Thr funny thing is that his fans have fallen into the maingaining trap.
They are hardly defending g shred. Its funny to read their comments
Gotta say eating lean barbecue can fit into either a cut or a bulk no prob
Anything can fit into either. So long as the calories add up and align with the overreaching goal.
Did you see greg doucette DESTROY that hamza geezer
This vertical video threw me off when it started, I thought my phone glitched
I need to get a new phone mount
People are like spiders they’re more scared of you than you are of them
Hey Revival Fitness, recently Greg has made a beef with Hamza about maingaining, can you join in to make clear that maingaining is a myth?
I feel like it’s just beating a dead horse at this point.
Do you count the weight of the bar with landmine variations?
Yes
For the planet fitness brah’s, just go to eos. Same exact price, 100 times better gyms n equipment. The eos i go to has a good 14 squat racks lmao.
I’ve never been to an EOS but I saw some before I left LA and they seemed like a very good deal
Is there any reason why you eat so clean even when bulking. Wouldn’t it be easier to hit your calories and more enjoyable to add some junk type foods like desserts
You should try to eat mostly clean but some stuff is ok within reason just to get calories in. That being said I wouldn’t drink soda, eat candy, french fries, fast food, stuff like that but throwing in some slightly processed snacks, pizza, pasta, ice cream can make it easier to gain weight.
2 videos in 2 days? What happend?
I’m hopped up on turk builder
@@REVIVALFitnessWe all know multiple videos in a short amount of time is a clear sign of not being natty.
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I'd eat bbq no matter what
hey guys am 5'9 185 lbs prob around 25% bf am eating around 2700 calories rn should i just stay like this for a while? been trying to lose fat while gaining some muscle
Even when jay cutler is working out most people are doing their own thing and not paying attention to him.
I'm afraid to go because of all the woman who will objectify me and harass me with their numbers and hitting on me. Its so exhausting
Is it normal that i need almost 4000 calories to bulk? I'm 145 at 5'9
Unlikely you need that many at 145 lbs, but if you’re very active outside the gym, maybe close. I need a surplus most people would deem “excessive” myself.
@@REVIVALFitness well i workout 3x a week, walk at least 20k steps at work and i do a bit of martial arts. For reference it took me 3500 to get to 140lbs.
Yeah if your activity is high then that’s probably accurate. Even more so if you’re still in your teens and haven’t built your base.
at my gym no body deadlifts more than 600 nobody bench pressing 405 and most def is no body is doing squats with 405 anymore social media really tricked me and alot of people too , most of us are average so go to the gym bro and get your gainz.
edit : one last thing is everyone is busy checking themselves nobody is watching you NO ONE CARE AT ALL
im 15, 140lbs, around 16-18bf, currently plaining to continue my cut until I lose 1more kg so around 10 days and im planning to lean bulk for 10 weeks afterwards, does that sound good?
Also ive been training consistently for only 2 month and I would still describe myself as skinny-fat
No. No it doesn’t. You are 140lbs, man. And 16 to 18%body fat is right in the sweet spot of being lean but sustainable. The reason you probably don’t look as lean as you’d like is bc you lack muscle mass. Bulk. Please bulk. And not for just 10 weeks. Keep going. At your weight, you need a long term bulk. This is such a common mistake I see younger people making. You can’t have “ab anxiety” either. So long as you fixated on staying lean and having abs, you’re going to struggle more.
You need to bulk
what do you think is a good intermediate standard for a bent over row
🤷🏾♂️Just row, bro.
@@robmarsh918 I'm just curious since it's not an exercise often mentioned in the 'what are your numbers' discussion
The row is kind of hard to judge because there are so many ways people mess up the row and go too heavy, use too much momentum, etc so fixating on numbers if just going to add to the problem. If I had to give an intermediate range I would say 135-155 for sets of 8.
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Luckily, the employees in my gym don't give a flying fuck about selling supplements 💀 They just want to leave there shift and go home. They don't get paid enough for some of the shit people do in my gym
Gym is good, capitalism is not good. I'm referring about you saying you have to go to your job vs you have to go to the gym. If you want to make your workplace like the gym, unionize or co-op is the best way. Democratize the workforce baby.
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Is Crunch a good gym?
From the ones I’ve been to, yes
@@REVIVALFitness ok thanks I will switch from planet fitness
From the one I've been to, it seems good. Biggest problem I could see is that the one near you might be super packed because crunch is relatively cheap.
Bruh focus on the road drive safely please 👀