took months to recover

mostly because I tried to go fast

Those hormones deplete only when your glucose depletes and your body goes into ketosis.

my testosterone was woman levels when I checked it

I wasn't in ketotosis

We're different mang

Im checking my glucose level and I'm fine

what body fat level will you be at at 110lb?

do you measure your fat?

chinks sell some decent calipers

Nah.

At 110 I'm gonna lose some muscle probably.

you're losing muscle regardless

at 600 calories a day muscle and fat go out the window

doesn't sound like you mind, just saying

if you were lifting you'd notice how much heavier everything feels and your loss of stamina over time

I've gained visual muscle size since the start of my diet tho. Biceps got bigger. Don't know if that's from the push-ups and other bodyweight exercises I do.

direct correlation to muscle consumption in the body

nah it'll be from losing fat

you get the visual illusion of looking bigger

from the fat around the muscles going away

Nah I gained like two inches in bicep girth

I mean one inch

I'm gonna find my measuring tape.

Fug holy shit it's nearly 3 in the morning.

one inch is negligible, how long have you been doing push-ups and bodyweight stuff?

you'd need to measure it all cold

and I bet you've measured it post-workout

Nah

I measure in the morn

After rest

Dude I used to lift.

It's all good

Stop judging me.

>used to
I'm one of those guys too kek

injuries etc

what were your PRs?

I was 82kg bench, 140kg squat, 160kg deadlift at my max, nothing impressive

Ugh I don't even remember I was all over the place because of my declining health.

Like I said I overdid my heart.

I don't get much of a racing heart lifting, cardio does me in

It's more about the strain

The sudden increase in blood pressure.

What strained you?

squats?

Yeah

what weight?

And dead

I only got the pressure at 110kg for some reason, the time under pressure

felt like I needed to get it off me asap

You get any bone problems?

nope

The thing that really spooked me is my friend snapped his wrist while lifting.

yeah that'll happen

most people have bent back wrists while they lift

my friend does, makes me cringe

Bone doesn't keep up with muscles

he'll snap it one day

benching and squats bent back wrists are insanely common

and snappings

The snappening

Snap city

should have told your friend to cut it out

or got him some wrist wraps

He wasn't lifting heavy

how much was he lifting?

I bet it was bench somehow

It was just the strain and micro fractures I guess

I don't know I wasn't with him.

He just said he was surprised it happened

was it on bench? I saw it happen to some black guy at my gym lel

He wasn't lifting heavy and it ended up snapping.

he was like AGH suddenly pinned

That's gross

He had no spotter?

>spotters
not many people use them at a certain point, I used to lift at a powerlifting gym for competitors

with no changing room

I guess wrist is better than throwing out your back tho

people just keep an eye on each other

Slipped disks. Or spinal fractures.

it's a shame personal training is such a racket

people need mandatory form training

but with PT training taking about 3 weeks and every other PT being an absolute joke with horrible form themselves

They need to maintain form too. People compensate a lot without realizing it when they push weights.

well yeah that comes from putting too much on the bar

too fast

that's just a rookie mistake

Which PTs are guilty of I see a lot.

yeah because becoming a PT is the easiest thing ever

the exit exams are a joke

I wouldn't know.

how long were you lifting before you quit?

I got to the 2 year mark and entered snap city

Not that long. Like a year.

I had problems with stamina and poor gains that left me in frustration.

were you eating big?

Turns out heart

oh I guess autoimmune would slow it down

I was increasing my carb and protein yeah

I mean eating BIG, I firmly believe that's the way, I had shit gains in my first year because I'd do 2 weeks of eating big then pussy out