• southsamurai@sh.itjust.works
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    1 month ago

    Whew, the artificial samesexness is dripping on this one.

    That being said, there is something pretty awesome about discovering your body like that.

    You’re doing puberty, or it’s doing you, and you’re in this toxic relationship with it. And then you discover something like lifting that puts you into connection with it, and your whole way of looking at the world changes.

    When I started lifting big, it was a weird experience. I was never small, my family runs to big hairy dudes. But I wasn’t big, just big. Broad shoulders, broad hands, and potential. My family on my dad’s side also puts on muscle easy. So, when I started lifting at 16, it was like fucking magic. All that testosterone finally given something to do other than cause pimples and boners.

    You go from this awkward, ill fitting body into mass. It changes the way you think about yourself, and that changes how you think about the world. It can be a negative thing, and I certainly had some phases where it was. But it’s a net positive most of the time.

    And I definitely ran into the difference between being a slightly pudgy and non muscular doofus and being a decidedly muscular, but slightly pudgy doofus. Again, positives and negatives, but you definitely get more attention from girls/women. Sometimes not good attention tbh.

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    1 month ago

    Get into cycling. T-Rex gets no love… But baby big guns suck on the hills… but baby put your forearm next to it, see? My legs are each bigger than your waist. Bae, I’ll be back some time after dark, got to build base like almost every day for the last month. I can’t go out tonight bae, my race starts at 8 am tomorrow. No I won’t be able to tomorrow either. I have a recovery ride to do and then I’ll be wiped out completely.

    The odds of meeting people on the road for extracurricular activities is pretty much nill for a racer. The odds of simply finding anyone that can keep up is pretty much impossible unless you actually meet and invite them, and group rides are usually like unofficial races. Roadie kit is like super anon costume too.

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        mfw, I absolutely destroy like a god on MTB

        No joke, I was super dangerous on mountain before I was disabled by a driver equivalent of a third grader behind the wheel. Some of my worst crashes were on mountain. I was not super mobile or skilled, but had the legs to fly. I rode a 6in travel carbon cannondale jekyll to try and make up the difference and get myself out of some hairy situations. On an XC bike, I crush all… till I crash.

        Mountain is fun, like a vacation, but a mountain bike can only be a friend, while a road bike is like a really great lover. If you know, you know.

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    1 month ago

    Anon you can always buy a strap-on and have her use it on you if that’s what it takes to maintain the friendship.

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    1 month ago

    He has essentially become a woman? Has to worry that all his friends may just want to get in his pants?

    If it’s 4chan why is he not exploiting it?

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      Yeah, because the only way a guy can want a platonic friendship with a girl is if he’s gay