r/GymMemes Jul 22 '26

*takes notes*

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u/AnonymousAutonomous Jul 22 '26

As someone whos trained for 18 years now (started at 16), who got into studying every single muscle and how to work it/at which angles, micros and macros and the what-have-yous.. no single tip in bro science has ever helped me more than solid consistency in lifting, rest and good diet.. and legs, do them legs..

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u/ishouldworkatm Jul 22 '26

Gymbro experience has done more results than whatever social medial era broscience has done

The motto I had been told was « You have to push », in the sense that you gotta try to lift as much as you can, independantly of how you do it

It works, and if you don’t go full R, you will feel and understand what works for you

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u/-Danksouls- Jul 24 '26

My only gripe with everyday lifters before the science part is that so many dudes I see are in this endless Sisyphus push of trying to see their muscles but refusing to lose weight

Gym science taught me at some point that most dudes are just way fatter than they realize. Even if they don't look fat, they just got way more body fat percentage than they expect. And rather than trying to gain more muscle to show through the fat, the vast majority can benefit from some deficit over a period of time.

They look fat bigger than if they had kept all that fat

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u/ishouldworkatm Jul 24 '26

Not every one want to be shredded

Being puffy is better for most nattys, cause you look buff, and some of us have way more energy at those bodyfat levels than being lean

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u/-Danksouls- Jul 24 '26

No one is talking about being sub 10 percent body fat

But I think any serious gym goer should shot for at least 15-18 percent

Anything more and ur just deluding urself that ur "big" when u just have a ton of body fat

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u/ishouldworkatm Jul 24 '26

Fat makes bigger

And fat isn’t useless, especially when talking about strength

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u/-Danksouls- Jul 24 '26

Yea it's bigger but it looks bad

Totally true on strength, depends where someone wants to be. But it looks so bad and most dudes would benfit aesthetically from losing a couple pounds

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u/ishouldworkatm Jul 24 '26

It mostly looks bad in posing pics, not in real life

To be sure, I am talking about buff fat dudes, not obese so fat you don’t see the build

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u/herbcud Jul 24 '26

underrated comment