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@toosmartforyou01 One time, a dude saw me benching and was like "Be careful! You keep doing that, and you're going to look like me!" I said, "I hope! You look AWESOME!" It made his day, and we're pals now.

@alidvx So you really gotta try as hard as you can to take the shame out of struggling, because there should be no shame at all in struggling to do modified pushups. Even super duper modified ones! Your body is built in such a way that it makes it harder for you than it does for others. I've...

@countrygirl011 I think it's because you're doing a lot of isolation machines. Where the machine kind of forces you to only use one muscle group in a specific way, so the weights involved are lighter, but you use that one muscle in a certain way until you tire it out. But if you're doing a...

@heartofberries I think it's important to remember that the study that showed American kids were bad at calisthenics compared to others in the world was done in the 1940's. At the time, it was more common around the world for kids to stand in lines and do synchronized calisthenics as a form of...

@twallacejolly So, I think that might be true for most people, and who knows maybe for me. But like, I'm a person with a body that's not only fat, but bizarre. Truthful or not, I don't think anybody wants to look like me. My body is ugly, and hearing stuff like "Your body is someone else's...

@hkr006 Definitely give it a try, but watch how your joints feel. I'm fat and a bad runner, so YMMV, but I found that I had a terrible time trying to run and lift at the same time when I was running on the street or on a treadmill, but I switched to trail running and I'm going an hour a day...

@biblicalquality I don't have a goal body. I just want to be as strong as possible, which means getting bigger, which looks like this sometimes. I just want to look like me, and be the most athletic version of myself that I can be. I want to keep my bodyfat levels at a healthy level where fat...