/lit/ - Literature

>>8657820
>>8657820
>tfw both lift and read

feels good man

>>8657858
I really, really, really, really, really like this picture.

>not lifting your brain by reading
>skipping the brain day
Come on brah

>>8657900
So you're neither tooo strong or to intelligent?

>>8657820
Do you even read, bro?

>>8657917
I'm 6'4" and can bench press 220 lbs, and I read roughly 30-40 pages daily. It's really not that difficult to balance both, both take up maybe 1-3 hours of your day total.

>>8657820

>Pick up book. Check for bookmark or previous damage.
>Haven't read.
>Little meaningless scribbles on back, open to look for pictures. Back breaks.
>Try a quick flip-through. Pages fly out everywhere.
>Mfw another library bill, when all I wanted was to be able to enjoy some clever banter with my /lit/ bros.

>>8657927
Spoken like a true basement dweller with no actual sense of the value of time.

>>8657820
>be me
>get book
>try to open book
>tear book in half
>call taxi
>tell driver to take me to library
>tell driver step on it
>get to library
>pick up book
>tear in half
>man looks at me
>hfw

>>8657944
Actually I just stopped playing games as much. In high school I pretty much played games exclusively in my spare time, in post secondary now I've all but dropped them and balance reading/working out between studies.

>>8657927
You're pretty dense laddie

>>8657944
>>8657962
Poster count didn't go up. Why are you so bitter?

>>8657927
>30-40 pages daily
Never gonna make it

>>8657985
this

>>8658005
>>8657985

>>8657927
>30-40 pages

People who talk about page count like that usually aren't readers.

>>8657985
>>8658005
>>8658015
These. I stopped doing this when I was 10. It's never too late to save yourself from intellectual purgatory, anon.

>>8658015
>>8657985
>>8658005

How do I make it then? How many pages do I need to read?

>>8658015
>>8657985
>>8658005
>>8658023
Measuring in pages is not something I generally do, it simply served as an example for an approximation of an average daily reading session. Obviously it's not written in stone, it just served an example of how it's entirely possible to both read and work out/stay in shape.

Though maybe I'm just responding to bait and wasting my time. In this rare case on 4chan I hope this is bait, and not just mere spiteful bitterness.

>>8657927
>220

How's the last 8 months been?

>>8658062
It's extremely difficult to get into shape at such a height. My friends at 5'10" who are more fit than me do not even bother measuring macros but I have to in order to account for giraffe status. It's a slower process m8.

>>8657953
>American student

S'cuse me. Call me when you have to support yourself.

>>8658038

800-1000 a day, plus writing, minimum.

Anything less is for hipster posers who lift and want to seem superficially deep to even more shallow potential sexual partners, not for any actual literate person.

>>8658099

I'm down for the reading part, but what the hell am I suppose to write about?

>>8658080
I work as well, around 15-20~ hours per week. It's not much but I'm doing all I can. I think you're just bitter under an inferiority complex with nothing to offer over another person.

>>8658097

Nah, you're just full of shit. Or reading entry level garbage and self-help books with no informational load or retention, which amounts to the same.

>>8658107
see >>8658104, technically it's even less than that.

I think you really are just bitter that someone can balance reading with workouts. It was certainly very difficult, in high school I was way too into gaming, like I would get all the achievements for every game and whatnot.

>tfw also fluent ruski, reading the russians in native tongue

how mad are you right now?

>>8658099
>800 pages a day

Pffft. fucking trendy poser. try 8000 then come back to me

>>8658103

Why write if you have nothing to write about? Nobody's forcing you.

If you are trying to start, write notes on what you are reading, keep a journal, or try rewriting scenes you like, and then compare them to the original and see how far short you fall.

>>8658099
embarrassing to admit desu but I can't tell if this is sarcasm or not. if the latter, there's some serious compensation going on here, supported by the bitterness at the thought of someone being both fit and well read. pretty embarrassing r9k tier drivel to think about.

>>8658099
lol

>>8658113
Why would I be mad, or care at all? I am just calling you a shitty poser for stating that you spend 2-6 hours every day either working out or doing serious reading, work let's say 4 hours, and study full time. You're just the average typical self-help ad-bait site.

But anyway, what is your Russian level at, and what is your favorite novel?

>>8658168
>why would I be mad

But you clearly are. Again I refer to the inferiority complex, you're heavily projecting and obviously angry that you have absolutely nothing to offer to others compared to me (despite using literature as a form of compensation. terribly dishonest desu.) Especially making sure to bring up how "average" I am in a dismissive manner.

>inb4 armchair psych

It's just common sense/10th grade psychology/sociology.

I'd love to read all day when I can but right now I can't. In 3 more years I will be able to, though.

>>8658183

Yet you "accidentally" skip over the only thing in my post that has any relevance to the board, which what the Russian lit, while hoarding on the typical troll bait shit.

I don't care about, or your claims, I call bullshit, and you can't prove me wrong. What you can do is show that you are able to read and think, and potentially say something worthwhile. But that would actually take effort and ability, that you don't have.

>>8657949
>be me
>writing notes for current read
>pencil snaps
>paper catches fire
>try typing them instead
>keyboard snaps in half
>computer catches fire

>mfw

>>8658214
It's pretty ironic someone that claims measuring in pages is an invalid way to prove literary merit would turn around and pull the /mu/ tier "post your favorites". As if name-dropping proves anything either.

Quit being such an insecure faggot dude. There you go again making sure to point out how stupid I am, because it makes you feel like you still have something to offer over people like me.

I read and speak fluently since birth/childhood, no autistic "measurement" to stroke my epeen with.

>this thread

>>8658226
>how stupid I am

Because you show yourself to be, by avoiding simple discussion about literature.

There is nothing pretentious about asking what you like and what your experience is of something you claim to be literate in.

There is something about stating your height, bench-press and page-number, and going >Dude why so jealous

We are on a literature board, literary experience is subjective and experiential, and it is offensive to me that you claim to read, but refuse to talk about actual literature, which is why I call you a dimwit cunt.

>>8658099
This is me pretty much, i lied to a girl this weekend about reading Camus and Sartre because she was into french stuff and i thought it would make me more interesting.. sad thing is that it worked and now i feel like shit, feelsbadman

>>8658324

Don't worry, feeling like shit is the essence of existentialism, if any talk about it ever comes up, avoid facts at all costs and say stuff like it hit you so hard, and you were down for a week after reading that, etc. No need to even read through all the garbage.

>>8658294
If you weren't a scrawny manlet you'd know that height was specifically mentioned to show that all different people can do it. It's much harder for slightly taller people to work out/gain muscle, so it was demonstrative to show that even at that inconvenience, it's still possible to do both.

Sorry; didn't know that anything in this thread had anything to do with literature other than spiteful shitflinging. You yourself haven't said anything literature related here. You've realized you look like a butthurt retard so you're entering mature rational man damage control mode.

Just would like for the concept of literary people having to be weakling nerds to be eradicated. It's incredibly annoying to never be taken seriously when talking about things like that irl simply because I look athletic.

>>8658069
You arent eating enough. Your excuses are poor.

>>8658417
>So much butthurt.

I'm sorry I touched a nerve with you. Maybe cut back on the steroids, or whatever.

>>8658099
400-600 is standard

>>8658510
>Mfw underachievers think this.

>>8658417
Debilskaya dela tut.

>>8658514
Not everyone is either a high schooler or a NEET you know.

>>8658549
Ochen grubaya varaszcheniya anon.

>>8658567
Anon, how slav are you on a scale of one to babushka

>>8658579
Id have to say kotelti and borscht.

>>8658553

And not everyone was made for the /lit/ life.

>>8658585
I would read all day too if I wasn't living off welfare and had to work, you know. Reading when doing nothing else is absolutely meritless.

>>8658099
wtf how are you suposed to read 800!! fucking pages a day when most people read 20 pages\hour? LIAR!

>>8658069
>It's extremely difficult to get into shape at such a height
No, your nutrition is shit and you're a lazy faggot.
Just over 2pl8 at 6'4 is pretty pitiful if you've been lifting more than a year.

>>8658099
>lifting
>bad
That guy is a faggot but come on now

>try and read a novel a dear friend recommends
>incapable of controlling my own strength and accidentally rip the book in half

>>8657820
> science experiment gone wrong gave me super strength
> keep ripping the book in half

>tfw to weak to read

>>8658099
>up to 1000 pages a day

You were the short kid in 6th grade who told all the other boys he had a 7-inch penis.

>>8658116
You little pseuds ain't shit. I read AT LEAST 16000 pages a day. Get on my level.

>>8658235
I clicked on this thread for the same reason I watch youtube videos with thicc women in the thumbnail

>>8658099
I dont even read. I just borrow all the books then look at a summary on the net. They will never know.

>>8659009
> tfw NSA thinks you're an intellectual threat to the system and probably has you on some lists but you're really just a fucking loser

>>8658619
TITCR

>>8658944
>try to open book
>it doesn't open

>>8658791
Jealous manlet spotted - keep this on /fit/

>>8658099
Anyone that bitterly tries to imply that people in shape are inherently stupid or anything of that sort is always without fail a spiteful out of shape loser that uses other interests to compensate for being a mouth breather.

You're not doing it for the genuine love of it, you're forcing yourself to do it as a survival tactic through feelings of inadequacy in other areas. You're the poser faggot here.

>>8658791
Its easy to say that when you're 5'10" brah

>Inb4

We both know you are.

>>8658099
If you read less than 3000 words a day then you are subhuman and belong in prison

>Tfw 5ft6"
>Tfw one of the tallest guys in my gym

It is interesting, and not at all surprising, to see how many manlets try so hard to compensate for their height. At 5ft6", I might also be guilty of this - but where I live is practically Hobbiton, and I'm a little taller than average. Most girls are 5ft-5ft4".

physical well being is done through healthy food and walking. beyond this shows that you either do it because
-you are bored, aka a failure
-you are a homo, aka a failure
-you do it for women, aka a man devoted to please women, like all men, aka a failure
-you cling to your health, aka a failure living in fear of death

=>you are a pleb as soon as you lift.

>>8659660

>physical well being is done through healthy food and walking
>you are a pleb as soon as you lift

You are a plebeian par excellence.

>tfw too smart for a literature degree

it's difficult to fit in all my studies, lifting/swimming, and general pleasure reading. Not enough hours in the day lads

>>8659655
where the fuck do you live.

>>8659584
and lifters do it to compensate for their lack of intellect hurr durr

>>8659660
you are not wrong

>>8659660
what about athletes? check mate

>>8659660
you are pleb if you lift weights

patricians train calisthenics

>>8658417

Why do you keep replying to this fucking asshole, man?

This nigga is probably a fat hambeast who looks for excuses to feel better about himself being fucking lazy, and not distributing his time to give importance to his health, as any fucking adult should.

>>8661031
>calisthenics
Literally glorified party tricks

>>8661061
>lifting

glorified gay tricks

And regarding calisthenics read convict conditioning, he explains the philosophy of why its superior to weight training pretty nicely

Honestly, you can do both if you manage your time correctly. As much fun that shitposting on addictive 4chan is, you can turn off the computer, and open a book, instead. Seriously, think about all the time that you spend looking at your phone that you could be reading instead. Now you dont have to dedicate as much time to reading in the evening, and go to the gym.

Or you can be a real nigga, and get up at 6, after having gone to bed at 10, and work out in the morning like the greeks.

>>8661078
>inb4 some bullshit about functional strength
Nice try Jimmy, weightlifting is the logical conclusion to the male aesthetic.

>>8661173
nah its not. Its unhealthy and unnatural, and a jewish scam

you dont need any equipment to look good, feel good and be healthy

>>8661201
>jewish scam
You sound like you fell for the mainstream health media meme, stop making baseless assumptions on lifting because you only know about Planet Shitness types.
Fitness is a separate entity to health, saying it's unhealthy is fucking stupid.
Lifting is a life style choice that isn't about just "looking good" in the eye of the public, if that were the case you could blast roids for about a month and never have to lift again for another year.
It's about human challenge and absolute limits, not satisfaction with mediocrity.

>go to classes, lift, go out sometimes, play video games with friends, read, then go to bed
I'm just now realizing I'm a redditor fuck

>>8661201
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yTO6fAJf1GM

Really though, its planet fitness thats the jewish scam

>>8661173

>He calls that a squat

Sorry, but going down any further than 90 degrees is asking for all kinds of trouble.

>>8661425
>/fit/ says if you dont do squats you are a pussy
>when I do squats my knee sounds like a pussy getting fucked
>the next day it inevitably swells up like a softball of fluid

OHP has replaced squats, i dont even care anymore.

>>8661425
Holy kek you're retarded
Educate yourself: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0fN3NhZ5Ifc

>>8661446
Check your form, you're obviously doing something horribly wrong.
Squats don't put a lot of pressure on your knees at all because of stretch reflex, they're even used for severe knee injury rehabilitation

>>8661452
>Check your form, you're obviously doing something horribly wrong.
Yeah like tearing my ACL wrestling and having my parents find my Indian surgeon at a mall kiosk about 15 years ago.

>>8661461
Did you even read the sticky?
>Anyone with a diagnosed medical condition should follow their doctor's advice on what activity level is safe for them. If that doesn't match what this guide says to do, don't follow this guide. The dietary advice here is pretty universal, but there may be specific medical conditions that call for different diets. Don't ignore qualified medical advice based on something you read here. With that being said, most General Practitioners are not experts on health and fitness. Consult a nutritionist or exercise/sport scientist for the best advice.

Hit 3pl8 deadlift last week.

It was sumo

>>8661516
Sumo is fine if you also do standard.
The "sumo is cheating" meme goes out the window when you're lifting fucking 3pl8, good job brah

>>8661531
I did conventional up to 125kg, but I kept having issues so my brother suggested sumo and it was all better from there. Long femur short torso master race.

>>8660987
they want to stay in good health.

sorry, not having the willpower to stay in shape doesn't make you smarter than those that do.