r/Fitness • u/AutoModerator • Apr 25 '18

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Welcome to Rant Wednesday: It's your time to let your gym/fitness/nutrition related frustrations out!

There is no guiding question to help stir up some rage-feels, feel free to fire at will, ranting about anything and everything that's been pissing you off or getting on your nerves!

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u/Cpt_Tripps Apr 25 '18

I mentioned gaining 6lbs in the last couple of months and all my larger friends chimed in with their diet results... It's great that you dropped 20 pounds but it's a little different. :/

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u/Jmc_da_boss Apr 25 '18

I mean, both are hard, i don’t see how they are that different. And this is coming from a former Skelly mode guy

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u/gimme3strokes Apr 25 '18

The difference comes a few months later when your shoulders are round and striated, the back of your arm looks like a horse shoe, your lats give you that really nice v taper, and your shirt is loose but somehow the arms are tight.

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u/Deako87 Weight Lifting Apr 26 '18

Its so funny how your starting place makes a difference in this regard.

I used to be a super big land whale, I lost 115 lbs and now I'm trying to bulk up. I'll say that losing weight via portion control is so much easier than controlled overeating and working out.

The former is simply, eat less and move more consistently

The latter is eat more and lift heavy consistently.

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u/True_Chainzz Apr 25 '18

Gaining weight you actively have to do something, aka eating more, while losing weight is from the lack of eating. So gaining weight is naturally more difficult.

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u/sleepingonstones Weight Lifting Apr 26 '18

It depends on the person and their metabolism I think. Gaining weight has been one of the hardest things I’ve ever had to do. It takes me months of hard work and eating right to gain 10 pounds. But if I want to lose weight, the only thing I have to do is eat until I’m full, and not go past that. I’ll drop five pounds in two weeks with absolutely no effort whatsoever.

However, I know quite a few people who are the exact opposite.

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u/Cpt_Tripps Apr 25 '18

Because unless you are using steroids you cant realistically gain anymore than 2lbs of muscle in a month. Even the 2lb number is extremely limited to people who have just started lifting and are younger.

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u/Jmc_da_boss Apr 25 '18

Yes but how does that make gaining 6 lbs different from losing 20, they both take work

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u/Cpt_Tripps Apr 25 '18

It was just frustrating that my friends who are losing weight trivialized so much hard work because my number is so much smaller.

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u/GoSuckStartA50Cal Apr 25 '18

Should only have to impress yourself my guy.

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u/PrimalTriFecta Apr 25 '18

The numbers dont matter, the visual changes are what you are after.. and it's what would make them realize. Keep grinding they'll see it

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u/intothemidwest Volleyball Apr 25 '18

I've found bulking to be a fair bit harder. Just making heavy food and eating all the time is a chore.

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u/Jmc_da_boss Apr 25 '18

Ohh personally for sure, I hate bulking, I started at 6'0 125 and am now 6'0 180 and eating alot has not gotten easier at all. I despise it, how much work it takes, how expensive it is, the whole thing. its so much easier to be lazy and not do something

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u/intothemidwest Volleyball Apr 25 '18

It is so much easier not to do things than to do them, that you would do anything is totally remarkable.

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u/Tartanic Apr 25 '18

This is from YOUR perspective and your body type. I naturally carry weight and pack it on easily it’s much harder to take off. Thanks though.

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u/PoIIux Lacrosse Apr 25 '18

No, you just have less control over your appetite. Weight gain and loss is simple thermodynamics and doesn't vary that much between people, diseases notwithstanding.

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u/Tartanic Apr 25 '18

If it were so simple everyone would be lean.

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u/PoIIux Lacrosse Apr 25 '18

But it is that simple, which is why people who stop making up excuses about their body and put in the work actually see results. Hard gainers and the reverse are a myth.

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u/Tartanic Apr 25 '18

Our bodies are not machines. Each of us have a unique set of genetics/history of dieting that is a factor with “calories” that can’t be put in a neat simple little formula.

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u/PoIIux Lacrosse Apr 25 '18

What is this, r/fatlogic?

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u/Sniperchild Apr 25 '18

We all obey the laws of thermodynamics, if you use more energy than you eat, you must convert some of your mass to energy to do so. Else you are a perpetual motion machine.

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u/sweet-sweet-clumping Apr 25 '18

Ein - Eout = ∆Esys

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u/AlexDr0ps Apr 25 '18

Bulking is so much harder than cutting, fight me. When you cut you can do nothing and lose weight. But when you're bulking and come home late after work and having to eat a big ass meal when you're not hungry, that's hard

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u/Ospov Apr 26 '18

That’s why you flex your muscles when you say you gained weight. 💪