#benchpress challenge

[nerdvsquarterback]

🐺 CHAPTER 19 has officially been posted 🐺

when i first started writing ch19, max was supposed to get a bro advice session about ainsley. except it devolved into a meathead death match with max literally fighting for his life under the barbell.

turns out max isn't emotionally equipped to talk openly about his feelings for ainsley yet with the bro pack. max needs to physically suffer first. he needs to bench his problems. he can’t be vulnerable right now, but he can lift so hard that he ascends to a higher plane of existence.

💀 also, can we fucking talk about kyle and beckett? between max x ainsley, zach x francis, brody x theo, and now kyle x beckett, i have accidentally built an entire interconnected, unhinged, testosterone-fueled, omega-destroying, chaos-laced football dynasty????? oh NO haha

the character development journey has been incredibly real and i'm scared asf excited for what the bro pack's going to do next 😝 when i think of them, i just think of a bunch of feral bros. lovable idiots with gains for brains. that's the entire inspo.

what to expect in ch20: well, ainsley's in for a real fucking treat, that's for sure. max is wired off gains and at his worst (best??).

[starwonderz]

meechi. seeing the one post by someone recounting on how mysekai, all of WxS can lift the weights but only Mafuyu can lift the weights out of N25. beautiful. poetry to me.

[pseudowho]

Operation: Babymaker-- Wet Dreams

When it comes to trying for a baby, Nanami Kento always works overtime. And the reader had better be ready 💛

When the busy days and exhausted nights keep you and Kento apart, things get a little...creative 💛

💜 💛 Part 1 LINK HERE: A Trip to the Tailors

💜 💛 Part 2 LINK HERE: Benchpress

💜 💛 Part 3 LINK HERE: Ditch the Party...again

💜 💛 Part 5 LINK HERE: Honeytrap/Maid Café

💜 💛 Part 6 LINK HERE: Grapple

Warnings: 18+ throughout, breeding kink, fertility/infertility discussion, somnophilia (m receiving and f receiving)

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"I miss you. So much. I'm going to be home so late, I know it."

Kento could picture you now, leant against the wall, the heel of your palm pressed to your forehead, trying to massage away the impending headache. Eyes drifting closed, he sighed, craving you back home.

"I'll wait up for you," Kento assured, smiling as you sighed, feeling that soft breath whisper over his ear instead. You had been gone for days, and Kento had resisted every urge to stroke himself to the thought of you, knowing he should save himself for when you were home.

Images of all that cum, dripping from you, and being pushed back in with his fingers, and the sound of your voice, had his cock swelling embarrassingly fast. Picturing your disappointed face over the last two months, the small pile of negative pregnancy tests, he felt a competitive surge, a challenge. Kento shivered, jaw clenched, cracking his fingers in anticipation.

"And if I do fall asleep," he half-joked, wicked, "do feel free to have your way with me."

A giggle, a hushed moan ("Kento, stop-- you'll give me ideas"), making him twitch against his pyjamas. Kento reached down, trying to squeeze his cock into submission. Hand shaking, hooking himself out of his pyjamas to sit, hot and heavy, leaking onto the honey-blond hair of his belly, Kento begged, low and husky.

"Tell me more," he hummed, edging himself with no intention to finish, stroking his slit with one pre-cum wet thumb, "about those ideas."

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You were right about being late home.

At 2am, you crept through the doorway, stripping all the way to the bathroom, moving seamlessly from front door to shower, finally feeling the grime of the day wash off you in glorious wet heat.

You heard soft snores from your bedroom as you stepped out, hair wrapped and drying. Reaching out to where you knew Kento had left his t-shirt for you-- clean, but with just enough him smell on it to make you feel deliciously his, your face softened at his sleeping form.

Half upright, propped on pillows, Kento's hands rested on a folded book across his chest, face sideways, warm and relaxed in his slumber. You crept over to him, needing to touch him, scratching your nails languidly through his sleep-mussed hair.

Kento groaned, his chest rumbling in his sleep, and you felt a stir of want in your belly to see his hips twitch upwards, as if he were between your legs in his dreams.

Biting your lip between your teeth, remembering your conversation on the phone, you ghosted your hand over Kento's bare navel. Scratching your fingers down his happy trail, you were delighted to see his belly twitch, his eyebrows pinching together.

Possessed, you climbed slowly onto the bed, your hips either side of Kento's knees as you reached into his bedside drawer, retrieving the little remote control vibrator he hid there.

"God, Kento, you're so beautiful," you whispered in the dark, lowering his pyjamas just enough to free him, soft in your hand, "you don't even know it."

Leaning forwards, lightly squeezing Kento's cock, you slipped the vibrator inside your underwear, sliding it between your rapidly wetting folds, switching it on. You hushed your own moan by opening your mouth, and sealing it around Kento's twitching cockhead.

His mouth had dropped open in his sleep, one hand slipped from his chest to fist at the duvet, a shivering gasp in the night. You let the spit collect in your mouth, tonguing his cockhead, wet and warm, sucking the blood to his length. Awash with the eroticism of him hardening, completely unaware, inside your mouth, you rolled your pussy against his legs, using the pressure to rock the vibrator against your clit.

You swiped your tongue around him, feeling him grow between your lips, his tip hitting deeper with each bob of your head around him. You tasted salty pre-cum, licking it down with a swallow, thrilled by his unadulterated twitches, gasps, and slow sandy moans.

Half-hard against the roof of your mouth, you released Kento, and he whimpered in protest, fucking himself up into your spit-wet hand. You were captivated by him, obsessed with the way his body reacted so viscerally; hips twitching, brows furrowed in anguished pleasure, pre-cum dripping out into your hand...

...you could have cum then and there, jerking him off faster and harder to have him spill in your hand. Instead, you slowed, stretching out your tongue to taste him again. Spitty, mewling around his length as you edged yourself with the vibrator humping against his legs, you moved your mouth fluidly as you pictured Kento awake, knuckles deep in your hair while he fucked your mouth.

Solid and throbbing in your mouth now, Kento panted, hair mussed, cheeks flushed as one hand fisted the duvet, and the other reached up behind him to squeeze the pillow, his fingers rolling over something absent mindedly in his dream.

"Is it me?" You whispered against him, painting your lips against his cockhead while Kento shuddered, "Is it me, in your hands? I hope so." You felt his thighs and back twitching rapidly, feeling his impending orgasm, desperate to feel full with him, desperate for the day you could finally surprise him with his morning coffee and two sweet blue lines--

Giving him one final lick as his hips bucked up towards you, you stripped your underwear, holding your vibrator in place as you held his cock upright, rubbing it against your entrance. Kento's gasps were shuddering and desperate now, words ghosting over his lips, his hands shaking, white-knuckle-clenching the sheets.

You quickly lowered yourself, taking his whole length in one smooth drop onto his hips.

"Oh fuck, Kento--" you mewled, not pulling him out at all, rocking him inside you and feeling his tip kiss your deepest walls, already fluttering around him and desperately close to orgasm, "-- feel so good-- so full-- cum inside me please please please--"

You begged him like this as you pleasured yourself on his cock, circling the vibrator over your clit in trembling little movements. Kento mumbled, your name on his lips, teeth gritted as his pleasure began to peak, lost in the wettest dream.

Rutting yourself down onto him, hips wiggling just a little harder to feel him in your belly, Kento grunted, euphoric and convulsing beneath you, and you encouraged it as you came with him, clamping down around him, lost in a blissful haze with his reflexive orgasm inside you.

"Fffuck.. that was amazing," you smiled to yourself, full of admiration to see Kento relax, marshmallow soft and slumped against the pillows. You pressed a kiss to his chest, slipping him out of you with a shiver, legs clamped together, snuggling yourself under his arm as you put his softening cock back into his pyjamas.

You fell asleep like this, ecstatic that you had shared your wicked little ideas with him before you got home.

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Kento woke early, to the birdsong dawn and you, soft and snoring, under his arm. Wakefulness came to him slowly, unsure why he felt sticky inside his pyjamas, why there was a pair of your underwear on his belly, why the vibrator he liked to pin between your legs was now under the covers, pressed against his thigh--

All the puzzling couldn't stop the way his cock answered the question for him, that morning testosterone whoosh making it rock solid against his belly in seconds.

"What have you been up to, you dirty little minx?" Kento whispered, low and conspiratorial as he snaked one arm under your head and neck, the other lazily lifting your leg over his hips as he shucked his pyjamas down, kicking them off.

Kento's other hand grazed down the front of your body, moaning to feel your thighs and pussy, soaking wet and dripping with more than just your arousal.

"Did you fuck me while I slept?" He whispered against your ear, feeling your body squirm against him, far away in your lavender clouds, "How...presumptuous of you. I should rather have been awake." Kento's fingers dipped between your folds, sliding easily into your entrance, fingering you with his own cum. He groaned to feel your walls flutter around him, pressing three fingers into you as you mewled, twisting against him.

Kento laughed softly, deep and sleep-gruff, "Come now...you've had bigger than that," he teased, teeth clenched with the taboo thrill of using you while you slept, "and just a few hours ago, too...shall we fill you up some more?"

Kento was possessed, overtaken by the squelch of his fingers pistoning into your sloppy cunt, biting his lip with husky groans to feel you jolt and wiggle, whining against him. Adding his thumb over your puffy clit, tightening his arm over your neck and chest, Kento felt his cock leap against you as you sank your teeth into his arm, mewling in your sleep.

"Good girl," he encouraged, "we'll fill you up again, hmm? Have you all fucked-out and dripping, all tucked up in bed..." Kento moved his fingers faster, reaching as deeply as he could, pressing against your spongey sweet spot, "...and then I'll make you breakfast...and fuck you some more."

You cried out, twitching weakly as you came, wet and clenching around his hand, and Kento was so far gone, lost in how good you'd feel, all pliable and blissful in his arms. Locking your thigh over his hip, Kento began to push easily into you, clasping you against him with his other arm across your chest.

Feeling you, floppy and sleep-warm against him, had Kento biting into the back of your shoulder, nuzzling and nipping, resting his cock in your tight walls for just long enough to pull himself back from the edge.

"...haaah, darling-- too good...s'too good-- fuck, 'm not letting you out of bed today--"

Kento started to move within you, drunk on the wet drag of himself through you, moaning, shuddering into your neck. He kept this torturous pace, fast enough to feel you shiver with pleasure, and slow enough to keep you from waking.

Kento's hand roamed your body unashamedly; squeezing the soft pouch of your belly, trailing fingertips lazily along stretch marks and cellulite, the softness of your hair, the full plush of your breasts and thighs, rolling your nipples in a way that brought him faint, distant memories of his dreams that night.

Eyes closed, deep in the sensual little cocoon of your bed, Kento whispered dirty little thoughts to you, the sunlight warming his back, casting shadows on his hips as they rolled into you; "--send to you work tomorrow-- haaah, fuck-- cum dripping down your legs-- your panties in my pocket-- lock the staffroom door and-- and--shit--"

Hips stuttering, groaning and burying his nose into your soap-scented hair, Kento came, holding you by the belly as long spurts of seed painted your cervix white. Feeling you shuffle and whimper, Kento bit into you with a growl, instinctively trapping his cock inside you. Grunting as his cock twitched weakly, emptying him of the last few spurts of cum, Kento felt you twist your head towards him, sleepy as you nuzzled the side of his head.

"...mmmm...morning, gorgeous."

Receiving a fractured little groan and hot, fast pants in response, the rest of your body began to wake, and you wiggled with a smile to feel Kento's cock, warm inside you.

"...sorry," offered Kento, sheepish, "...couldn't resist." You giggled, accepting musty morning kisses from him as you pictured him the night before, fast asleep, irresistible, book folded open on his chest.

"I know what you mean. Want to go out for breakfast?" Kento groaned, eyes still closed as he manhandled you onto your back, pressing sloppy kisses onto your face as you giggled, being rocked from side to side.

"Another day," he begged, voice low and persuasive "you're too busy today-- got a baby to make."

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My pussy wrote this, and she hopes you liked it 💛

[copyspaghetti]

I made another age swap edit because this meme wouldn't leave my head

This is what Arataka gets up to when he isn't at the office

[ID: a four-panel comic made out of edited anime frames. The first one is of adult Kageyama Ritsu, in a grey suit and tie, making a grim face and saying "I sued an 11 year old kid, and won." The second one is of adult Teruki in a green patterned suit, pink dresshirt, turquoise tie, and winking as he says "I challenged an 11 year old child to a basketball game, and won." The third is adult Musashi in exercise clothes and a beard, confidently saying "I challenged an 11 year old kid to a benchpress competition, and won." The last panel is 11 year old Reigen opening the door to Spirits and Such where Mob waits for him, teary-eyed and snotty, exclaiming "Shishou, I've had the worst day of my life!" /End ID]

[allgoldenelite]

okay so here's my summary of ibushi's latest 2 videos (here and here) from his youtube channel

pls make sure to read this at your own discretion. it's honest, but not exactly cheerful.

this summary is not entirely chronological; i've grouped some points together for cohesion

the vids were taken about 2 weeks after marufuji vs ibushi was announced, so around 12/17 ish (i'm just bringing this up bc i saw some confusion bc ibushi was reported by noah to be in the us rn until at least the 27th)

ibushi starts out the 1st vid by saying how completely different american and japanese wrestling are; the example he uses are cheers, [in aew] whenver anyone makes their entrance the crowd is chanting their name

in japan it has a different quality to it; [i assume he's talking about coming out at the noah show to challenge marufuji here] it's strange to him when he can only hear his theme and there's neither boos nor cheers, but he was glad it got a reaction

as for how he's doing physically: says he'll be frank: his left ankle and the back of his right hand (there's a visible dent on one side of the back of his hand and he says he doesn't have much grip strength there but for powerbombs and germans he grabs his wrist with his left hand so he can still do those) are fractured and his shoulder isn't healed cause he never got surgery for it

the ankle is the worst out of the 3, he can't jump or do highflying and walking 400 m (0.25 miles) is his limit, even walking around everyday is pretty rough

he's been able to benchpress 88 lbs now, with 200 as a one time thing, but he can't do much actual wrestling match practice, worries about what he can do; sums it up as that physically things aren't really on the up and up at all

but he believes marufuji is going through the same thing [being hurt in a lot of different places] and that the match won't be bad because of that; he believes it will be good precisely bc of the shape they are in, the injuries they've sustained

as he's said in the past, he doesn't care about what place he is on the card even tho ppl care a lot about match order, but he has the opportunity of being in the main with marufuji, so [he'll make the most out of it]

the ring remains a place for him to express himself, unable to highfly or injured as he may be, that's part of it too

he could go out there and be like "no i'm recovering i'm practicing hard everything's going swell" but that wouldn't change the fact that it's not true

he's doing what he can do get better, but operating within the limits of his body and how he can workout

even so, he won't give up and expresses confidence, [he seems motivated for the match and to go through with all of this], he's been doing this for 20 years and nothing scares him anymore

he says his instinct/6th sense for wrestling isn't as sharp [anymore] either since he doesn't really wrestle outside of aew these days, and again japanese and american wrestling are completely different and he's matching himself to wherever he wrestles, so he will do the same for the noah match

as long as it's getting a reaction out of ppl, he's happy; as long as he's getting something out of it he's happy, there's no right or wrong here for him

he's not nervous for the match at all, just hopes he can put himself out there in his purest form, so that ppl can decide for themselves what it is he represents for them/how they experience them

the video ends with him saying that he doesn't wanna be gloom, but if something unfortunate happens [i interpret this to mean another injury] this will be his last [match]

[he also then says make sure to watch his matches (since you won't know which one will be the last), and while i don't think he's lying with the sentiment here at all, my suggestion would be to take this as it is for now but not despair too hard about it]

the 2nd vid is mostly a recap of him seconding a kickboxer he trains for his match at korakuen hall on 12/17, interspliced with more footage from ibushi talking in the secret base

just as the fictitious "ibushi pro wrestling research institute" represents his status as a freelancer and a means by which he express himself in his purest form to ppl, it's also a means by which he can take on ppl under his wing

[ibushi has talked on twitter before how he has several trainees who are former/current kickboxers or MMA fighters wishing to become pro wrestlers] he thinks more of them will make their debut in the future; he's not doing this to boast that he's the one training them, it just naturally happened this way

even tho the ipwri is not actually a promotion, [ppl he's training and ibushi himself] get announced/lower third-ed as being from there, so it has established itself in the world

[there's a backstage scene here of ibushi talking to machida (machida lost the match) and altho there isn't much to tl (it's just ibushi basically giving him a pep talk), i still think it's worth checking out, it's very sweet]

lastly he says the institute is taking applications and as long as your feelings/motivations come across, he's happy to read them, even tho there are already too many ppl showing interest rn

[002yb]

AAAAAAAAAAA YOUR DICKJOYFIRE FIC????? OMG IM ON MY KNEES. i love kory and Jay and i grew fond of jayroy and jaydick is my absolute OTP and aaaaaaa. Your brain is justtttt. OmG i love all that you write. Would you consider writing more about the four of them together? Smothering Jay with love and him being the maiden heart he is♡

Anyways, im really a fan of your fics they are awesome

Ahhhhh, you're always so delightful @alexandraisapenguin thank you so much. ///u/// This turned out to be more general ot4 though ;u;

Gym Shenanigans

Friendly competition between the four of them that's really just the boys taunting and challenging one another and being motivating in all their dumbness.

And Kory is so fond as she smokes all of them. Scorched earth policy, sorry boys. ;)

But it's all good because the three of them are so (˵ •̀ ᴗ - ˵ ) because wowie hot damn, look at their girlfriend go.

Something something they all benchpress each other and Jason loses it each time when all of them do him. Which omg what? Hot? Help?

Dick being the first though and it takes so much coaxing and Dick swears he's got this. Which he does. It's only a few reps, anyhow. Still, the moment Dick presses Jason up, Jason panics and flails and ends up throwing himself out of Dick's hold and landing on his chest and Dick wheezes because oh god. Meanwhile Kory and Roy are !!! because whoops, spotting is a thing and Jason is mortified forever because again, omg.

But Dick just laughs through his wheezing and holds Jason to him before he can run off and Jason is sweet and blushy as he hides in Dick's chest and it's cute.

Speaking of chests - Roy marveling Jason's pecs. Like how you can catch glimpses of it through the low cut of Jason's sleeves. Dick following suit once he notices Roy's staring. And Kory following along not long after and wow, she thinks she understands the infatuation with breasts now. Amazing.

Jason spitting and sputtering because wth Kory //A///

Kory saddling up next to her baby boy and comparing chests and laughing because it's impressive! Has Jason ever tried to hold anything in his cleavage? So convenient. Also-

(Also, unrelated thought: Jason laying on top of Kory and their chests being smushed together and Dick and Roy just blatantly staring until they're called out and it's ahahahha)

General muscle appreciation. Like Roy's back. Roy basking in the attention but also being sweetly sheepish about it. Just something with him waving them off and being all, 'oh stop, guys,' then promptly flexing his back muscles. Dorky sweetness and cute flirting ahhhhhhh.

But wait. Dick getting stared at and objectified by other gym goers because he's beautiful handsome gorgeous. And while it's uncomfortable, he deals. Nothing new, right?

Only Jason puffs up and is ready to throw down, just sending the nastiest glares and snarls at men and women alike. He's got Kory right there backing him up too while Roy uses his impressive back to act as a screen and the combination of it all lightens Dick's mood so much and he loves them all dearly. ;U;

Sauna. Where Kory basks in the heat and unintentionally raises the temp until her boys are toasted and she has to drag them out and fan them back to safe temps.

Shower. Where Kory suggests showering together and yeah, sure. Only Jason bails out of embarrassment, maiden at heart that he is.

[charliemwrites]

corporal whiskers who makes it a point to bite where her marks cant be hidden, yes she has been threatened with a rabies shot and compared to old yeller

corporal whiskers who is the hardest to peel off when getting out of bed, besides from being so clingy she practically radiates comfort and sleepiness when woken up from her nap (it was a new record of 14 hours (ive genuinely slept that much once))

corporal whiskers who straddles captain daddy and just feels every ridge and bump of his face, staring intently at everything and committing it to memory

corporal whiskers who ghost finds standing stiff as a board in the kitchen, who as he comes closer, says hello in a deep voice that is Not hers (shes really good at making voices and noises)

corporal whiskers who makes a challenge for herself to unnerve and seduce ghost just to see if she can, the times where she tries dont work but when shes busting down doors and picking up hostages with one arm? thats when ghost starts getting a bit flushed.

corporal whiskers with an insane sleeper build. she drools over the idea of benchpressing her teammates and during group trainings she does leg days but once its afterhours shes deadlifting whats basically two captain daddys in weight

Corporal Whiskers my beloved ❤️ I can absolutely see him popping a boner over that insane sleeper build hot damn. Meanwhile, Castle has been into her from the start, Simon does not get to change his mind now

[talaofthevalley]

I think the most interesting way to develop Amity herself further outside her relationship with Luz or her family is tackling her mindset regarding strenght and worth.

You never quite get the feeling Amity grows out of the mindset that looking down on people for not being strong or having weak magic is something she needs to work on overall, only that she shouldn't treat Willow specifically that way because she turned out to have always been powerful.

I also think the funniest way to tackle that is making Hunter be the one to challenge that mindset.

Hunter has no internal magic, he relies on external sources to do magic, first through his artifical staff and then with Flapjack. Thus, in the eyes of your common witch, without a staff he's weak and helpless.

But if you look at how Hunter fights and how he reacts and moves in the show, it is very obvious he's far from helpless without a staff. He parkoured up to a rooftop in the same amount of time it took Luz when she had the boost of a magically created ice block to fling her up. His fighting style is very physical, using his staff as a bludgering weapon. He hiked up the Knee on foot while keeping out of sight from Kikimora and the scouts. He fought Amity to a stalemate when she had King as backup, he was physically and mentally exhausted, using Flapjack for the first time, and desperate to the point of recklessnes.

Any attempt from Amity to imply Hunter is more vulnerable compared to their friends because he has no magic would be ridiculous. And maybe it's coming from a good place, she's seen him get hurt so much without being able to help, and those worries combining with her preconceptions towards witches with weak or no magic turns her into a kind of condescending worrywart.

Listen it'd be so funny watching her try to interject or watch out for Hunter when he is the most physically fit in their group by far and used to fighting with no magic. He could probably benchpress her no problem. Andthen you have Hunter who have many past experiences with people not taking him seriously because he has no magic. Disaster in the making.

[swolesecrets]

America is Obese.

Before I begin, I think it is crucial that I tell you a bit about me... My name is Gwyneth, I am a 17 year old girl who loves fitness, starting my fitness journey around 2-3 years ago. I have always had a caring and empathic personality, ultimately hoping to help people. For that reason among many others, I plan on pursuing a career in nursing as well as personal training. My goal is to preach the wonders of the fitness world whilst assisting people to attain their goals. Welcome to swolesecrets...  

The detrimental obesity epidemic is an overlooked societal issue specifically throughout the Western community. "The latest estimates are that approximately 34% of adults and 15–20% of children and adolescents in the U.S. are obese." According to https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov, this concludes that obesity is a health concern that affects every age segment of the U.S population. Just how detrimental can an obese population really be though?.. VERY bad. 

Defined by the Oxford English Dictionary, the term obesity is “The condition of being extremely fat or overweight; stoutness, corpulence.” Ultimately posing affects one's physical capabilities and quality of life. 

“But how does someone else’s physical health affect you?” 

As a gym nerd myself and an aspiring personal trainer, it is simply a fact that this growing obesity epidemic will have an impact on the society as a whole, and here’s why… Given that as seen by definition; this state of health imposes compromises to the individual's physical demands… We can foresee economical issues given that more people are incapable of doing difficult jobs essential to a functioning society, such as trade work, floor nursing and emergency services amongst many others, and in fact increase tax rates and pose negative effects on the healthcare system. 

Just within recent years, obesity rates have spiked immensely. In terms of a historical science stand-point, early primates and our ancestors were “physically fit”, because it was a factor that determined their survival rate, which can be proved by the Darwin Theory. “Survival of the fittest” literally and metaphorically. 

It is most important to note that weight does not correspond to obesity! Everyone is different, in terms of metabolisms, genetics, bone structure and where they may carry weight. To say that being “skinny” or being “larger” is healthy or unhealthy is unfair, the truth is, there's no set definition of what a healthy person is as long as their body does not compromise them from expected average tasks and their favorite activities. Did you know that exercising speeds up your metabolic rate naturally, thust decreasing your risk of obesity.

In the most simple way, weight is determined by the average ratio of calories being consumed to calories being burnt. When the average person consumes more than what the body is able to burn, that's when we can observe a gain of weight.

“But do the pros REALLY outweigh the cons?”

There are so many reasons why exercise is beneficial for humans' emotional, physical and psychological well-being. I think that everyone could benefit from exercise, especially for themselves. It doesn't matter how you do it, the fitness world is so immense from weightlifting, zumba classes, pilates, yoga, aqua fitness, sports, swimming, cardio, home workouts, biking and perhaps even walking your dog.

Let's be real, many of us don't like exercising at first. I certaintly didn't. I was in grade 9 during the pandemic when I first set foot in the gym, not knowing what the muscle groups were even called. Nor what a benchpress even was. Thankfully though, through my mask no one could see my facial expression of udder confusion looking up "back workouts for girls", "instant ab workouts", "toned full body workout." into my TikTok search. I think thats one of the many reasons why fitness could benefit EVERYONE. It allows you to challenge yourself; work towards something. For me personally I truly believe fitness has helped immensely with my mental health. From being so isolated in my room every day throughout lockdown, fitness taught me determination, improved my work ethic, allowed me to process my feelings and gain confidence.

With that being said, throughout this Blog I will discuss the insides of the fitness industry including, the many benefits of working out, motivation sources, my journey in depth, healthy nutrition advice, my favorite workouts, time management with working out and much more…

[positivelybeastly]

🖤

attractiveness:

repulsive / hideous / ugly / not attractive / unappealing / not unattractive / meh / no preference / ok / mildly attractive / nice looking / cute / adorable / attractive / pleasant on the eyes / good looking / hot / sexy / beautiful / gorgeous / hot damn / would tap that / perfect / godlike / holy fuck there are no words.

So, Hank is a man who considers himself in control of his passions. He has to be! He used to be able to benchpress a metric ton, now he can benchpress ten - his claws can rend concrete - his teeth can snap bone like toothpicks. He has to be able to control himself.

But.

He has a weakness for men and women who are strong, passionate, and more than capable of dominating him (see Abigail Brand, Cecilia Reyes, Simon Williams, etc). Victor absolutely qualifies. It doesn't hurt that Victor is rugged as hell, and his vibe can change from wild man to urban tyrant with just a haircut. He also has a hidden weakness for Victor's classic costume (the fur neck floof, specifically) which makes it hard to concentrate if Victor isn't in civvies.

personality:

grating / irritating / frustrating / boring / confusing at best / awkward / unreasonable / psychotic / disturbing / interesting / engaging / affectionate / aggressive / ambitious / anxious / artistic / bad tempered / bossy / charismatic / appealing / unappealing / creative / courageous / dependable / unreliable / unpredictable / predictable / devious / dim / extroverted / introverted / egotistical / gregarious / fabulous / impulsive / intelligent / sympathetic / talkative / up beat / peaceful / calming / badass / flexible.

You can pretty cleanly track a trajectory here, but it's worth noting that a lot of these traits remain very much in Hank's mind even as he softens on Victor. He will still get frustrated, he will still find himself disturbed, he will still find Victor bossy and unpredictable and egotistical and impulsive . . . but. The thing is, Hank doesn't like easy romances. He likes people who challenge him. Victor may not be classically educated, but he's smart enough to make Hank have to think, and Hank likes that - right up until he doesn't.

how likely they would have sex with them:

not if they were the last person on earth and the world was ending / fuck no! / never / no way / not likely / not sure / indifferent / I’m asexual / maybe / probably / it depends / fairly likely / likely / yeah sure / yes / would tap that / hell yes / fuck yes! / wishing that could happen right now / as many times as possible / we are already having sex.

Hank is a lot more of a horndog than he lets on - his classic, Avengers slut era may have ended, but that energy never really went away, he just had a lot less places to put it. So to find someone who has a similar stamina to him, who's as resilient as him, who's even more in tune with his inner animal than him . . . there's a very strong sexual compatibility in there, and even though they may not have the healthiest personality interactions, sexually, Victor is very good for Hank.

level of friendship:

never in a million years / worst of enemies / enemies / rivals / indifferent / neutral / acquaintance / friendly toward each other / casual friends / friends / good friends / best friends / fuck buddies / bosom buddies / practically the same person / would die for them / true friends / my only friend.

This is one of those strange cases where I don't know if I'd call Hank and Victor friends, but Hank would die for Victor if the situation called for it - if there was a Muramasa blade situation or the like. There's just a little too much clash in what they enjoy, in what they find pleasure in (other than each other) for them to be truly friends, but they make absolutely incredible romantic partners. It's a really interesting tension, where they're constantly skirting around the fact that they shouldn't really work together, and yet they do.

first impression of them:

i hate them so much / i don’t like them / i don’t trust them / they annoy me / they’re weird / I’m indifferent / meh / they seem alright / they’re growing on me / truce / I think I like them / I like them / I’m not sure if I trust them / I trust them / they’re cool / they’re genuine / I think we’re going to get along / I really like them / I think I’m in love / oh fuck they’re hot / I love them.

I actually looked this up, and the very first time they properly met and exchanged dialogue on panel, Hank was tied up in the good ol' high tech spread eagle, and Victor was slipping out of Psylocke's telepathic control. Suffice it to say, I do not think Hank was impressed at the time with Victor's showing.

current impression of them:

i hate them so much / i don’t like them / i don’t trust them / they annoy me / they’re weird / I’m indifferent / meh / they seem alright / they’re growing on me / truce / I think I like them / I like them / I’m not sure if I trust them / I trust them / they’re cool / they’re genuine / I think we’re going to get along / I really like them / I think I’m in love / oh fuck they’re hot / I love them.

Oh boy is this is a goddamn mess of emotions.

[j2zara]

I really do like writing Ellie POV but there is something very funny about being in J3's head. Imagine you strike up the world's most confusing situationship with your insanely cool hot mysterious barbarian coworker who could benchpress you and then some and sure she's surly and disappears at odd times and clearly not over some mysterious ex that obviously must exist but nobody knows a thing about and usually you would hit it and quit it but you like her so much that you break all your own rules and get to know her a little more only to find out she has an insane conspiracy board and believes herself to be the the cursed reincarnation of the former vice principle and is also on a mission to, in spite of her deal with a literal pit fiend, fuck over the priorities of said pit fiend and instead find her long lost boytoy and gay boybest friend who you're not sure but think could be entangled with her in some mickey17 AND challengers shit. But the strap is fire so you play along

[govindhtech]

RIKEN And Cleveland Clinic Use Qiskit For Quantum Innovation

IBM Introduces Its Most Cutting-Edge Quantum Computers, Advancing Quantum Advantage and New Scientific Value. The most effective quantum software in the world, Qiskit, can accurately expand the length and complexity of specific circuits to 5,000 two-qubit operations on IBM quantum computers. Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute advances quantum-centric supercomputing, while RIKEN and Cleveland Clinic use Qiskit to combine quantum and classical resources to investigate novel, scientifically important challenges.

IBM, Algorithmiq, Qedma, QunaSys, Q-CTRL, and Multiverse Computing��s Qiskit services may boost performance while making it easier to create next-generation algorithms.

IBM today revealed quantum hardware and software advances to run complicated algorithms on IBM quantum computers with unprecedented speed, accuracy, and scalability at its first-ever IBM Quantum Developer Conference.

Qiskit may now be used to precisely execute certain classes of quantum circuits with up to 5,000 two-qubit gate operations on IBM Quantum Heron, the company’s most powerful quantum processor to date and available in IBM’s worldwide quantum data centers. These features now allow users to further investigate how quantum computers might address scientific issues in a variety of fields, including high-energy physics, chemistry, materials science, and life sciences.

As IBM and its partners get closer to quantum advantage and IBM’s cutting-edge, error-corrected system, which is scheduled for 2029, this further advances the era of quantum utility and continues to meet milestones on IBM’s Quantum Development Roadmap.

Certain mirrored kicked Ising quantum circuits with up to 5,000 gates may be executed with the combined enhancements of IBM Heron and Qiskit. This is about twice as many gates as IBM’s 2023 demonstration of quantum usefulness. Through this effort, IBM’s quantum computers’ performance is significantly enhanced beyond what can be achieved using brute-force conventional simulation techniques.

The utility experiment from 2023, which was published in Nature, showed the speed findings in terms of processing time per data point, which came to 112 hours. Using the same data points, the same experiment was conducted on the newest IBM Heron CPU, which is 50 times quicker and can be finished in 2.2 hours.

To make it easier for developers to create intricate quantum circuits with speed, precision, and stability, IBM has further developed Qiskit into the most powerful quantum software in the world. This is supported by data collected and posted on arXiv.org using Benchpress, an open-source benchmarking tool that IBM used to evaluate Qiskit on 1,000 tests, most of which were from third parties. The results showed that Qiskit was the most dependable and high-performing quantum software development kit when compared to other platforms.

New Software Tools to Advance Development of Next-Generation Algorithms

With additional Qiskit services like generative AI-based capabilities and software from IBM partners, the IBM Quantum Platform is further broadening possibilities and enabling a growing network of specialists from many sectors to develop next-generation algorithms for scientific research.

This includes tools like the Qiskit Transpiler Service, which powers the effective optimization of quantum circuits for quantum hardware with AI; Qiskit Code Assistant, which assists developers in creating quantum code using generative AI models based on IBM Granite; Qiskit Serverless, which runs initial quantum-centric supercomputing approaches across quantum and classical systems; and the IBM Qiskit Functions Catalog, which makes services from IBM, Algorithmiq, Qedma, QunaSys, Q-CTRL, and Multiverse Computing available for features like managing quantum noise performance and simplifying the development of quantum algorithms by abstracting away the complexities of quantum circuits.

By utilizing steps towards quantum-centric supercomputing approaches, Algorithmiq’s tensor error network mitigation algorithm (TEM), accessible through the IBM Qiskit Functions Catalog, provides the fastest quantum runtime it’ve yet to provide to users while providing state-of-the-art error mitigation for circuits at utility scale.

“This are expanding TEM’s capabilities to support circuits with up to 5,000 entangled quantum gates, a milestone for scaling quantum experiments and solving complicated issues, given the recent breakthroughs it’ve achieved to integrate quantum computers with post-processing on GPUs. This may pave the way for quantum calculations and simulations that were previously limited by noise constraints.

The goal of Qedma is to provide services that enable the customers to operate the longest and most complicated quantum circuits, and advancements in IBM quantum hardware and software are essential to this goal. Together with to own successes in error mitigation, which can provide through Qedma’s service in the IBM Qiskit Functions Catalog, its are eager to continue it goal of empowering users worldwide to develop algorithms using today’s quantum systems and produce results that are more and more accurate and valuable to science.

Qiskit Fuels Quantum and Classical Integration Towards Future of Computing

IBM’s vision of quantum-centric supercomputing, the next step in high-performance computing, aims to combine sophisticated quantum and classical computers running parallelized workloads to easily deconstruct complex problems using powerful software. This will allow each architecture to solve specific portions of an algorithm for which it is most appropriate. Such software is being developed to rapidly and easily piece issues back together, enabling the execution of algorithms that are difficult or impossible for each computer paradigm to do alone.

The Cleveland Clinic, a renowned academic medical center and biomedical research institution with an on-site and utility-scale IBM Quantum System One, and RIKEN, a national scientific research institute in Japan, are investigating algorithms for electronic structure problems that are essential to chemistry.

In order to properly mimic complicated chemical and biological systems a job that has long been thought to need fault-tolerant quantum computers these endeavors mark the beginning of quantum-centric supercomputing technologies.

Methods based on the parallel classical processing of individual quantum computer samples are early examples of these kinds of operations. Researchers from IBM and RIKEN have carried out sample-based quantum diagonalizations in quantum-centric supercomputing environments, building on earlier methods like QunaSys’s QSCI method. These methods use quantum hardware to precisely model the electronic structure of iron sulfides, a compound that is widely found in organic systems and nature.

The Cleveland Clinic is using this same technique, which is now available as a deployable Qiskit service, to investigate how it might be applied to implement quantum-centric simulations of noncovalent interactions molecule-to-molecule bonds that are crucial to many processes in chemical, biological, and pharmaceutical science.

This study exemplifies the success of to research collaboration, which combines the world-renowned healthcare and life sciences expertise of Cleveland Clinic with IBM’s cutting-edge technology. Using state-of-the-art tools like Qiskit, it are working together to push beyond established scientific limits in order to further study and discover novel therapies for patients worldwide.

Intermolecular interactions are crucial for possible future applications in drug discovery and design, and it were able to study them for the first time on the on-site IBM Quantum System One at Cleveland Clinic by utilizing the partners at IBM’s sophisticated electronic structure algorithm for quantum computing.

RIKEN Center for Computational Science

Through the Japan High Performance Computing-Quantum (JHPC-Quantum) project, which is being carried out by the RIKEN Center for Computational Science (R-CCS), it supercomputer, Fugaku, will be integrated with an on-premises IBM Quantum System Two that is powered by an IBM Quantum Heron processor in order to create a quantum-HPC hybrid computing platform. The director of the Quantum-HPC Hybrid Platform Division at the RIKEN Center for Computational Science stated. “It will strongly support the initiative’s goal of demonstrating quantum-centric supercomputing approaches by using it platform as a first step towards this new computing architecture in the era of quantum utility.”

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[fitnessmantram]

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[expandingetheria]

I did used to be adamantly this skinny ! And it is nice having an actual wardobe again

But also

Now i’m barely a challenge for people to lift nobody wants to benchpress me and tease me i miss that .

bWWAaOoUuRrPpp

Her eyes widen as her hair is blown back as she’s caught point blank in the belch .

“ oh .. wow . “

[supercodi]

⠀ Motivation has been pretty hit and miss for me during this time. Especially when I found out it could be months before gyms in CA can open again. It has been quite a test of discipline but one thing I always find motivating are challenges. ⠀ Thanks to @mollyddunham I do have access to a barbell and heavy weights so I’ve decided to designate two days a week to work on my squat, deadlift, and bench press. I can tell I have lost some strength in my legs for sure but we will see what I can do by the end of the month. ⠀ ⠀ My numbers so far: ⠀ ⠀ ✅ Back squat: 235lbs 5x5 ⠀ ⠀ ✅ Deadlift: 235lbs 5X8 ( I am going to bring these reps down to 5 next time I dunno why I did 8 LOL ) ⠀ ⠀ ✅ Bench: 185lbs 5x5 ( I feel like I could have done more but spotting isn’t exactly social distance friendly so I will not exactly be going dangerously close to failure. 😂 )⠀ ⠀ Let’s see what I can do strength wise during this month! ⠀ ⠀ Have you made any goals/challenges for yourself this month?! ⠀ ⠀ #fitness #compoundlift #squat #benchpress #deadlifts #strength #workout #barbell #fit #health #maychallenge #challenge #ftm #ftmfitness #flexfriday #bodybuilding #motivation ⠀ https://www.instagram.com/p/B_qbey_gOLs/?igshid=qpmlkeg2kfve

[swolenikov]

NAME A HOCKEY PLAYER MORE ELITE THAN ANDREI SVECHNIKOV I’LL WAIT