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post 10000130539 04-18-2026, 01:10 PM
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Is there a point when you would give up on fitness?

Like if you were fat and couldn’t lose the weight, or you’re too old?

Or would you never give up?
If you’re born to the iron, you’ll know it the first time you lift!
post 10000130543 04-18-2026, 01:13 PM
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if we disregard serious illness i don't think so working out is a mental relief for me but it has changed through the years and decades
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post 10000130546 04-18-2026, 01:14 PM
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Originally Posted By LAHipster1⏩
if we disregard serious illness i don't think so working out is a mental relief for me but it has changed through the years and decades
I’m fat but making progress by walking an hour every morning before breakfast. I don’t plan on giving up
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post 10000130549 04-18-2026, 01:16 PM
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giving up is not an option

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post 10000130551 04-18-2026, 01:16 PM
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Originally Posted By AceCorona⏩
I’m fat but making progress by walking an hour every morning before breakfast. I don’t plan on giving up
keep at it son

the saying "success is found in ur daily routine" is 100% true

but also have a strategy for the days where u are unable to walk before breakfast try to make the strategy robust so u have a fallback plan this is how u build success in the long run and stay on track
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post 10000130553 04-18-2026, 01:17 PM
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Originally Posted By AceCorona⏩
I’m fat but making progress by walking an hour every morning before breakfast. I don’t plan on giving up
eat less

walking isn't fitness, that's a meme
post 10000130561 04-18-2026, 01:26 PM
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Originally Posted By nothingshocking⏩
eat less

walking isn't fitness, that's a meme
I figured out how to eat 2,100 calories recently and made some progress
If you’re born to the iron, you’ll know it the first time you lift!
post 10000130569 04-18-2026, 01:33 PM
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Don't ever give up ACE. You remember how you felt after that long walk a couple weeks ago when you had your blood drawn? Never give up ACE.
post 10000130573 04-18-2026, 01:36 PM
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In a wheelchair or to have some life altering injury from an accident basically
post 10000130577 04-18-2026, 01:39 PM
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Originally Posted By nothingshocking⏩
eat less

walking isn't fitness, that's a meme
but why not both?

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post 10000130579 04-18-2026, 01:45 PM
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I hear you shouldn't train to failure or very near to it, when you hit 50 because you may have a heart attack. Can anyone confirm is this true or not?
post 10000130582 04-18-2026, 01:48 PM
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Originally Posted By AWillis⏩
giving up is not an option

srs
This
post 10000130591 04-18-2026, 01:55 PM
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post 10000130598 04-18-2026, 01:57 PM
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lol'd @ "couldn't lose weight"

Everyone can lose weight, you don't even need to go to the gym to lose weight. fat people disgust me with their excuses

Originally Posted By ScrillaIsBake⏩
In a wheelchair or to have some life altering injury from an accident basically
ive seen people who are paralyzed from the waist down in wheelchairs pull up to the gym and do whatever workouts they can.

Zero excuses for people with 2 working legs to be fat.

Originally Posted By AceCorona⏩
I figured out how to eat 2,100 calories recently and made some progress
you need to cut your calories even more. srs.

its not complicated to lose weight. its mostly diet, stop putting food into your mouth.
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post 10000130661 04-18-2026, 03:17 PM
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Originally Posted By BasedBagel⏩
lol'd @ "couldn't lose weight"

Everyone can lose weight, you don't even need to go to the gym to lose weight. fat people disgust me with their excuses



ive seen people who are paralyzed from the waist down in wheelchairs pull up to the gym and do whatever workouts they can.

Zero excuses for people with 2 working legs to be fat.



you need to cut your calories even more. srs.

its not complicated to lose weight. its mostly diet, stop putting food into your mouth.
I do mainly agree with you, Someone has to keep the flame. Someone has to weed out those who haven't got what it takes. The champions, the legends…..they serve as a purpose, a challenge, an incentive.
Those guys who went from 350 pounds to 180 didn’t do it by magic, they cut back on their calories
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post 10000130667 04-18-2026, 03:25 PM
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this guy did it before he met his fat plus size ex wife who ended up leaving him again after she enabled him to get fat again

went from 310+ to 170. dieting hard, lifting and cardio



then he simped and fell for a fat sloot. got back into eating with her and rotting, because she is a slob, he gained it all back and more



absolutely disgusting regain

became a bit of a slayer at 170. forget the loose skin, his face was decent

now looks like dog sh*t at like 320+

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post 10000130729 04-18-2026, 04:18 PM
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Originally Posted By BasedBagel⏩
lol'd @ "couldn't lose weight"

Everyone can lose weight, you don't even need to go to the gym to lose weight. fat people disgust me with their excuses



ive seen people who are paralyzed from the waist down in wheelchairs pull up to the gym and do whatever workouts they can.

Zero excuses for people with 2 working legs to be fat.



you need to cut your calories even more. srs.

its not complicated to lose weight. its mostly diet, stop putting food into your mouth.
I don’t drink alcohol, use drugs, or smoke tobacco so there’s really no reason I can’t get into shape, even at 55. I can’t argue with your logic
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post 10000130731 04-18-2026, 04:19 PM
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I never give up. I never have and I never will again.
post 10000130734 04-18-2026, 04:23 PM
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Originally Posted By AWillis⏩
giving up is not an option

srs
This. Lol at “too fat and can’t lose the weight” ok brb fantasy land
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post 10000130737 04-18-2026, 04:25 PM
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Hip thrusts at the squat rack its all so tiring.
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Originally Posted By AceCorona⏩
I don’t drink alcohol, use drugs, or smoke tobacco so there’s really no reason I can’t get into shape, even at 55. I can’t argue with your logic
Just drastically cut your calories. Skip meals every day. It's not easy being hungry, takes self-control to refuse to eat. Drink lots of water, cut out sugar from your diet.

If I put you on an island and come back in 2 months, you'll see a difference. It's all about the calories.
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post 10000130744 04-18-2026, 04:29 PM
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I was sort of like that at 25-27, just thought I couldn't gain muscle effectively without bloatmaxx.

Glad I stuck it thru, now I wasn't natty but my diet and training regime was strict

Pic: 5'9 183lbs

Now I have to try not to over eat at night or I gain fat, but rn 20% bodyfat 205lbs
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At this point, zero chance. I'll be going to the gym for the rest of my life. I almost went nuts over Covid when the gyms closed, and eventually started driving 40 minutes each way to another state to visit the gym.
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post 10000131344 04-19-2026, 07:14 AM
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It would take being stuck in a hospital bed for me to give up on training.

Originally Posted By nothingshocking⏩
eat less

walking isn't fitness, that's a meme
It's fitness compared to being sedentary, so better than nothing, but it's not training. What I like about walking for losing weight is the time it takes. People who have trouble with controlling calories should schedule a nice long walk during the time when they tend to snack. Replace a bad habit with a good one.
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Originally Posted By radrd⏩
It's fitness compared to being sedentary, so better than nothing, but it's not training. What I like about walking for losing weight is the time it takes. People who have trouble with controlling calories should schedule a nice long walk during the time when they tend to snack. Replace a bad habit with a good one.
Let's not call something it's not. Words have meaning. It is not fitness. It is a step (literally) towards fitness. No one is getting fit by walking.
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I have at multiple points in my life had a top 1% physique, I never did anything with it or made money off it so it didn't feel worth it, didn't pull sloots even.
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Lifting is pointless. Your gonna end up being that gay boomer in the gym that talks about what he used to lift


Go start a family and build a homestead
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Doesnt seem to be much of a point to do it without gear. All the broscience makes it hard to actually figure out what works.
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