Anonymous #2 17w

Just say you can’t move 2 plates

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Anonymous #3 17w

Sorry little guy

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Anonymous OP 17w

hahaha it’s crazy how insecure you are

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Anonymous #3 17w

You literally can’t even bench 225

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Anonymous OP 17w

if your entire worth is tied to how much weight you can push off of a bench, your life must be pretty worthless, bud. hope you find some other purpose in life besides just being a chud on social media 🙏

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Anonymous olivia_m 17w

That they became happier, that they overcame anxiety and joined a public gym. There are so many achievements for people to make, more than just strength, and every one of them is a difficult journey that they are qualified to give advice for. Maybe some advice won’t work for everyone, maybe it will. But we’re a community, that means we share. It’s not all vanity, all “look at me and praise me” it’s personal, and people, and sharing

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Anonymous olivia_m 17w

If my goal was to gain strength, I would certainly take advice from somebody who can bench 3+ plates

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Anonymous olivia_m 17w

But I would also see immense value in someone who’s max was once 100lbs and is now 200lbs

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Anonymous olivia_m 17w

Someone who was underweight and struggled to eat, but still managed to gain ten, twenty, thirty, however many pounds, and worked their ass off to get to where they are. Their experience qualifies them one hundred times over to share advice and help people with similar problems

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Anonymous #7 17w

So don’t give advice to people who wanna move weight. Also there’s no better way to check if you’re fit and in shape than if you can move weight.

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Anonymous #6 17w

not everyone is here to throw around iron. i’d argue most aren’t, they’re here to lose weight and while not impossible, you aren’t boosting your maxes while slimming for most. at my peak lifting, i was not healthy lol. thats not true at all. strong≠fit

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Anonymous #7 17w

Fair enough, for weight loss advice and such. I think you should still be able to actually move some bare minimum of weight before giving lifting advice to people who want to seriously lift though.

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It means you know how to lift and your advice about how to move weight is worth listening to

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Anonymous olivia_m 17w

Ok but if you can bench 3pl8 you’ve worked harder and know more about benching, and probably lifting, than someone who went from 100 to 200lb on bench

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Anonymous #6 17w

I genuinely don’t understand the point of lifting for its own sake, so you can push 225, but you look wildly out of proportion?

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