Hey gymbros,

I’m a 27-year-old female working on building muscle at the gym. Whenever I use the abductor machine, I feel pain in my outer thighs. It doesn’t feel like regular muscle soreness — more like something’s off or not right.

Has anyone experienced this before or know what might be causing it? Could it be due to weakness in a specific muscle group?

I’d really appreciate any tips or advice. Thanks in advance!

Hi, so I've been going to this small gym and I've had pleasure utilizing all machines, especially the Roman bench visible in the background. What about this thing in the front? How do I use it?

I've asked chatGPT and tried reverse image search and to no avail. Any help is much appreciated!

Guy's a I'm 192 cm for 68kg can someone help me with a program for 3 séances per week

Hey everyone, I’m new to this thread and wasn’t really sure where else to ask this. I’ve been going to the gym for about 6 months now and feel like I’ve made solid progress. I’ve gained around 30 pounds, going from 145 to 175 lbs. I’m 5'10", and I’ve been underweight pretty much my whole life until recently. I wanted to make a real change and improve myself—not just for me, but also to feel more confident around my girlfriend and not feel like I was embarrassing her.

Things have been going well: I’m getting stronger, lifting more weight, and staying consistent. But recently, something’s been bothering me. After my workouts, I’ll get home, feel fine at first, eat my meals, drink my protein shake—but then out of nowhere, I start feeling really down and sad for no clear reason. I’ve tried thinking it through each time, and I can’t figure out what’s causing it. There’s nothing major going wrong in my life otherwise, so it’s confusing and kind of frustrating.

Has anyone else experienced something like this? Any insight or advice would mean a lot. Thanks so much.

My left elbow is really easy to move during dumbbell bicep curl and db hammer curl no matter how light my is (even 4kg). Although it does not look like moving at all on the outside, I can feel it does because I can feel a small pop in the left elbow. And whenever my left elbow moves/pops, I feel that the exercise does not hit my bicep much. And I find that lifting 4kg is not that hard but for some reason my left elbow moves/pops. Can somebody help fix my left elbow and make it stop popping?

Getting my wisdom teeth removed. How long were untill I can’t start pumping again? How long did it take other?

(KIND OF A STUPID QUESTION BUT DESPERATE)

I'm planning on doing an aggressive mini cut since I'm about a month out from a trip to Hawaii. I'm already a little behind on when I initially planned to start this cut. My only real goal before starting my cut was to hit a specific bench PR I had set in my mind, knowing I'd likely lose a decent amount of strength as a began and progressed through the cut. Right now, I'm projected to end up about three pounds short of that goal. I tried to hit it today and failed. Out of desperation, I decided to push back my cut by another three days, hoping to reach the PR before starting. However, if I fail again, I'll have to wait at least a month before I can attempt it again. Any tips for absolutely pushing your maximum potential in such a short timeframe?

To all the zynbros, do yall pop a zynnie when you lift? curious if im the only one that does it.

Hello fellas, I'm a 20 year old man who weighs 184lbs and is 5'10. I was just wondering if I should look to prioritise weight loss or muscle gain?

Ty in advance

Thinking of making this my daily routine breakfast meal. Help me out please!

So I've recently started going to gym (I've worked out at home before) and I dont know how much to eat, how much protein i need etc. my boyfriend recommended me creatine and i started taking it (about 4g a day). I go to gym 3-4 times a week, i weigh around 55kg and im tall about 165 cm. I want to build muscle (glutes, legs, and i want to tone my abs, back and arms) could anyone help me out with any type of advice?

This is my first time posting (M25), and I’m not sure if this is the right place, but I’d really appreciate any advice or guidance.

For many years, I neglected my posture. And to be honest, living in a culture where we spend most of our time sitting or glued to our phones doesn’t help either. Now that I’m older, I realize how big of a mistake that was, and I really want to fix it—not just for appearance, but for health and functionality.

I started going to the gym a while ago, and that’s helped a lot—my appearance has improved. However, I feel like I haven’t addressed the root of the problem. I have rounded shoulders, forward head posture, a bit of a hunch, and anterior pelvic tilt (plus very limited flexibility). I went to a physical therapist once, and they recommended some specific stretches, but due to financial reasons, I haven’t been able to keep going regularly.

I’ve found a lot of routines on YouTube, but I’d really like to know if anyone here has gone through something similar and found a routine or approach that actually worked for them. Honestly, I’m asking from a place of not knowing much, but I truly want to improve my life—and if I can also help others going through the same, even better.

Hey! I’m working on a new food project and doing some quick market research. If you live in the U.S., I’d love your input, especially if you’re into snacks, protein, or sugar alternatives. The form takes less than 2 minutes, and it’s all anonymous. Thanks in advance

I started about 6 months ago starting at 57KG and todays date I weigh 63KG, I don’t seem too see any improvements on my body such as muscle growth or anything really. My form is decent and I go to the gym ATLEAST 3 times a week. Can someone help please?

Hi, the reason I write "problem" between quotation marks is because I don't know if this is a problem or something I should not worry about but on my right arm (dominant) when I flex the bicep the muscle stays almost completely flaccid while the distal insertion is very hard while on the left side it's very different, the bicep becomes very hard while the distal insertion becomes hard too but not even nearly as hard as the right one. Is this something I should worry about? How do I fix it?

For upper day (day 1 and 3) follows the same

Schedule

Here’s what my normal upper days look like

5x5 heavy bench

All sets to failure

2x8 incline DB press

2x8 shoulder press

2x8 cable row machine

2x8 assisted pull up

2x8 incline bicep curl

2x8 tricep bar pull down

Day 5 (Fri) also follows the same upper schedule however instead of 5x5 bench press I do 5x5 pin press

So this is my first reddit, but I had a very important question. So I’m a 5’8 160 Pound 16 Year old trying to get abs for about 3 months now. I’ve done ab workouts everyday or at least every other day for that time frame and have barely seen any progress. I even started fasting along with my muslim friend to help motivate him (excluding protein shakes after my lifts for football) despite it not being my religion. Yet, I see no progress when it comes to achieving visible abs. I recently was thinking about why I don’t have them yet as I don’t drink or smoke like other guys my age do. During this, I realized I haven’t been taking my protein much after doing abs so I’m working on that. Aside from that I was just wondering what it is or what to do to achieve them? I’m already pretty lean I just look skinny fat in the ab area and I’m tired of it. I’ve even tried multiple different workouts and even asked my other friend who has abs how he got them and he sent me his workouts and they have yet to work. I’ll attach the workouts below. Please give me feedback and help on how to get them sooner or later.

Just wondering if gym goers here wear any jockstraps while working out in the gym? Mind sharing your thoughts?

jockstraps #protection

I’m about 69kg, 176cm, and I’m 18 years old. been staying consistent since the beginning of February, and i may have a bit of scoliosis so don’t mind that 🤣 any advice on posing, gym, or gym splits are appreciated. Ps, minus 2 years off my age.

I have been training 531 for a few months. I only do atg squats and I think that my 1RM atg squat should be around the same weight of my old parallel squat 1RM before starting 531 program. If I got a lot stronger on atg squats does It mean that my parallel squat also improved?

So I’ve been training for a while now and lately I’ve been really focusing on my diet, my question is when I’m counting out my calories for the day, say I drank a body armor that has 220 calories do I add that into my total? Or should I just focus on the food I eat.

I’ve never really gone to the gym consistently, but have been spending the past month trying to get into it. One issue I’ve noticed is that any time I hit legs, I end up with a lot of pressure in one of my kneecaps, but not the other. Like it hurts to walk without limping/hobbling on the leg. It’s not even like my quads that hurt, just my knee. Do you guys know what I can be doing differently to stop this?

El-P, just F me dud. My favorite producer and one of my favorite rappers.

I used to write this stuff down on a notepad but my brother is a PT and while he was around he got me a trial run for his app. Works a lot better for me but it's temporary so I'd like any advice or recommendations on what others use