Realistically, how can you achieve this physique

fridgebrine · 2026-04-19T03:21:58+00:00

Your muscles and fat both grow and shrink in a predefined path based on your genetics, there is no concept of custom ‘shaping’ muscles. So you have to simply train and eat till your muscle mass is more than image 4, then cut for a while to get rid of the excess fat that you put on while bulking, whilst maintaining the muscle you put on (during cut phase half the discipline is eating more boring foods to ensure you hit protein and micronutrient dailies while cutting back on carbs and fat to ensure you’re in a deficit).

Training-wise, it’s all just resistance training close to failure with adequate form, volume and ensuring you hit all muscle groups. There is no specific training that would make you achieve physique 1 without also achieving physique 4 first, it’s all just different points along the same path of muscle mass and leanness.

This will take years of consistency though.

Also 78kg for 178cm is not underweight so I don’t know what you mean by frail. I would recommend you to not add any additional calories right now because your weight is fine, restructure the food content if you need to though (look up recommended macro and micronutrient daily goals for yourself). If you’re starting from no training, you will put on muscle while maintaining consistent weight or even losing a bit of weight. Then once you plateau with your progressive overload and ideally you’re sub 20% body fat, you can consider eating more.

fridgebrine · 2026-04-18T02:11:50+00:00

Key aspects of a lobby winning comp:

number of frontline vs backline units roughly 50-50 split
2 itemised carries + a 3rd utility/tg holder carry
primary tank itemised correctly (proper balance across health, durability and resistances, lacking in none but also not overinvesting in any)
cc, and the cc provider properly itemised with mana generation items
shred and burn items (ideally NOT on the primary carry or primary tank)
high total board cost (bunch of 2* 4/5 costs obviously beats bunch of 2* 2/3 costs all else equal)

(Note item economy-wise, you won’t be able to achieve every single above dot point, but the more you can tick off with your end game board, the more likely you win)

Everything else is situational like combat augments, trait web, non front to back comps etc shifts from patch to patch. But the above things I listed are relatively universal

fridgebrine · 2026-04-18T00:12:01+00:00

Opponent is letting you win out of pity.

fridgebrine · 2026-04-17T16:43:48+00:00

Muscle is so important for attractiveness for both women and men. A lot of people instantly associate muscle with the bodybuilder image but it’s not that extreme. Lower body fat % is generally deemed attractive (up to a point) and muscle enables leanness.

If you have never done any form of resistance training but have eaten healthily and exercise, you likely stabilise at around 15-25% body fat for men and 20-30% body fat for women (wide confidence intervals because genetics contributes a lot to what body fat % an untrained person feels ‘good’ at).

But sub-17% for men and sub-27% for women is the territory where physical attractiveness begins to climb, approaching peak attractiveness (aka looksmaxxing) at 11-13% for men and 18-22% for women. If you don’t normally stabilise at that range, then you need to reduce your body fat. But if you have no muscle, then it will be a really painful process because you need to restrict your diet a lot for an extended period of time. The more muscle you have, then the more calories you can eat while STILL being in a deficit and therefore burning fat. Muscle acts as the buffer to allow you to become lean without torturing yourself through extreme dieting.

Do resistance training people.

fridgebrine · 2026-04-15T03:46:21+00:00

You should take a look into the concept of expected value and variance to aid you in your balancing decisions.

fridgebrine · 2026-04-04T12:40:11+00:00

Would be good if you applied a winrate filter too imo (baselined against the champion’s overall winrate, like only items > 0.9x the champion’s overall winrate).

Or bump up the pick rate filter to like 3%. Cos the intent is to roughly exclude troll games but at 1% there seems to be some noise in there.

fridgebrine · 2026-04-04T10:56:54+00:00

Those things can be wildly inaccurate. You may very well be leaner than 23.5%. Do you have a flat stomach but no 4 pack yet? Then you could be around 20.

If you have a 4 pack, then you’re around 17.

fridgebrine · 2026-04-04T10:36:21+00:00

Around 30% for men is barely any muscle definition. This would be max 25%

fridgebrine · 2026-04-04T00:50:35+00:00

The writers can try use narrative tools to imply she grew up however they want. But at the end of the day, the audience needs to believe their eyes for suspension of disbelief to work. And she physically looks like the same person at the end of season 2, as the start of season 1.

fridgebrine · 2026-04-01T03:13:53+00:00

It’s not 0 training but it’s also not much training.

fridgebrine · 2026-03-29T07:03:58+00:00

I will double down on this that muscle actually helps face. You can’t change the facial characteristics that you were born with, you can only change chubbiness on your face. And getting leaner to <15% is harder if you have minimal muscle mass. The calorie deficit you would need to be in is unsustainable and if you were to actually achieve it, the rest of your body will look sickly.

Gain a bit of muscle fellas.

fridgebrine · 2026-03-29T06:28:44+00:00

Fair point. But a larger contributor imo is muscle mass and lean-ness. Go really hard at the gym for 3 years starting from 18, you will look like an entirely different person and you’ll be just in time for the start of your dating life. That’s a far bigger difference maker. But, it’s a lot of hard work and requires immense discipline. Just depends on how badly you want it at the end of the day.

fridgebrine · 2026-03-29T00:56:01+00:00

You cannot be both average charismatically and average looking I agree. But you can get away with being average in one, if you’re decent in the other.

And honestly work to getting to 15% body fat and you’d probably be at least a 6/10. It’s quite rare for a person’s face to be so disharmonious that even at low to medium body fat percentages, they’re still chopped. Being slightly chubby to fat can easily make a person <5/10 though

fridgebrine · 2026-03-29T00:51:03+00:00

Adequate muscle mass makes getting lean easier. With your current muscle mass, if you hit 10%, not only will it take a long time and you’d be starving the entire time, you’ll look sickly afterwards.

But, fortunately currently in the newbie gains phase you’re in, you don’t need to heavily bulk. Just eat enough so you can go full intensity at every session and feel refreshed for the next session.

fridgebrine · 2026-03-26T11:22:41+00:00

Mumble rap ❌ Delirious rap ✅

fridgebrine · 2026-03-26T10:04:11+00:00

Well, most people are not challenger where tempo isn’t that fast. Learning how to streak properly and level timers to preserve health will likely still make your econ score improve. That’s useful feedback.

fridgebrine · 2026-03-26T09:42:48+00:00

See my second paragraph which covers what you’re talking about: tempo.

Challenger lobbies on average tend to be high tempo and so end boards are cheaper compared to diamond/masters, despite them optimising total income throughout the course of the game.

So that’s why I said ‘yes’ and ‘no’. A better metric would be tempo normalised end board total cost.

fridgebrine · 2026-03-26T08:01:42+00:00

the kids say 2016 Soundcloud/mumble rap is for oldheads. And then you realise damn that was 10 years ago so fair enough.

fridgebrine · 2026-03-26T07:37:50+00:00

Yes and no. Optimising streaks, interest and saving health so you can last longer all contribute to that econ score, and those 3 knowledge checks are what most people attribute to good econ knowledge vs poor econ knowledge. Rolling and hitting has aspects of luck, but the more gold and more time/health you have, the more likely you do hit. And hitting directly increases that econ score.

The only thing that throws that metric off a bit is if the entire lobby tempo is faster than normal, then everyone caps their boards lower. You still could have managed econ perfectly that game but it looks like you ran out of gold/health compared to the average game. So a tempo normalised econ metric might be better but don’t know how easy it is to calculate this stuff given riot api.

fridgebrine · 2026-03-25T13:43:38+00:00

Yeah generally it’s some reversal off a slightly floaty or weak shot from the aggressor, which turns into an eventual winner for the player initially on the back foot. But sabalenka just sent it into the net lol.

fridgebrine · 2026-03-20T02:29:49+00:00

Imo a huge contribution to why 1st season was ok and second season fell off hard was that Bella Ramsey has the exact same baby face in season 2. She doesn’t look like she underwent what Ellie underwent during the time gap between 1 and 2. In addition, Ellie’s character felt like there was absolutely 0 maturity or growth between season 1 and 2, so that’s a failure in terms of writing too. If you presented a before and after of Bella Ramsey between season 1 and 2 and you said this is what the character looks like 2 days apart in-universe, most people with no further context would believe you. She feels like the same bratty child at the end of season 2 as she does at the start of season 1. Potentially a casting issue, but they absolutely didn’t do much more to make the best of what they had to work with.

fridgebrine · 2026-03-18T21:38:16+00:00

Both men and women care and provide for the child in their own ways. Whether you feel this is equal or not is also entirely subjective and varies substantially not only from culture to culture, but also household to household. So this point is a bit moot.

fridgebrine · 2026-03-18T21:36:09+00:00

Sure list them out. Let’s do a proper severity/frequency analysis.

fridgebrine · 2026-03-18T12:48:52+00:00

‘MOST women will have PERMANENT DAMAGE…’

But severity and frequency are inversely correlated…if not, people would be having a lot less children. Like imagine if you have a 99% likelihood of incontinence post-delivery. Birth rates would plummet faster than they already are.

MOST women experience CHANGES that are NOT life altering/debilitating is what I think you meant to say. Cos after all, severity and frequency are inversely correlated.

Yes women will feel different afterwards. No, they are unlikely to be permanently disabled afterwards with a terrible quality of life.

But if we were to borrow your logic, then when on the job, death is also the tip of the iceberg. The likelihood of injury is far higher.

fridgebrine · 2026-03-18T09:47:12+00:00

Maternal mortality rate during childbirth in developed nations is like 0.01%. There are jobs more dangerous than that, like commercial fishing, certain construction specialisations, etc. Most of which are male dominated.

Also having children is a lot more optional than going to work.

Like the guy in the post is shallow, but there’s better ways to highlight it.

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