I see... I'll be going to Jakarta first so haven't paid this yet

like, it seems everyone is just born with V shaped body and slim genetic

so they just have to lift some weight and they get a good physique (I had a friend in italy that did this, we went to the gym together and did the same things, but after just 6 months he was getting compliments from people and i wasn't, because he was slimmer because of genetic + the fact that his parents made him do sport when he was a kid. but mostly it was genetic, he could eat 4000 calories without doing sport and not get fat, when I tend to get fat instead)

I know that americans and in general western people, specially the one that uses and post on social media, tend to use steroids a lot, and nowadays people can get just a bit of steroids to look good and have muscles without becoming a Mr. Olympia or things like that. there are studies that prove that taking steroids and doing nothing gives more (much more) results than working out with no steroids

but I don't like the possible health implications.

also, on instagram they use lightning and photo editing, but I saw people from real life, like I went for a walk in perenan and it was crazy, all good looking men and women with fit bodies. i'm 6 feet and that seemed like, the average

so it's either a crazy pre-selection and survivorship bias of "western people walking in perenan", or it's maybe that they take a bit of "artificial" help

or just anyone has good genetics? lol

i don't have V-shaped body. my shoulders are still wider than my waist but my waist is not narrow, I can feel the bone, I should become like crazy slim, but I never succedeed in getting slimmer than a certain amount

It feels impossible for me to have a visible six pack or four pack

Then if I go around I feel like I'm walking on instagram lol

I tried in my life to eat healthy and exercise but it just seemed I cannot get the same results (all the results get hidden from the fact that my body tends to not wanting to be slim as the people I'm referring to)

So a bit I lost my hopes

I also have a thing about the teeth that I couldn't fix, and I don't have the money to fix it (I have to do a couple surgeries and public italian healthcare didn't do shit afetr 7 years of going to the dentist) and in Bali every people from the west has perfect smile with white teeth as an hollywood actor lol

So just to be as a normal person of USA or Australia or North Europe I have to spend, based on ChatGPT and Grok data lol, around 18-30K Euros to fix the smile (I never really smiled all my life in public, just do a light smile with closed mouth). Ok that's just genetics + my parents that couldn't afford teethcare as maybe something from a better country (economically) could do. When I was a kid they could have just put braces and increase the space so that in the end I wouldn't have ended up with having two canines that had no space

And also I have to either work out so much that I cannot even make money and starve myself or something, or take steroids

Yeah there must be some kind of pre-selection

When did this thing about the fitness started?

for me it's first time in bali , I've been here around a month

Also, it is true that people take some kind of boost.
Even Alex Hormozi takes testosterone for "natural maximum", and when he started doing business he selled a course to how get ripped in 6 weeks, using himself as an example but he was taking testosterone, in fact.

If I take a little bit of certain steroids I could get the same physique
Is it true that all this people are lifting in a strict way and eating healthy everyday?
How do they manage to do that and also have money etc.

Yeah probably , I know that, their average salary is like 7-8 times the italian one. That could be it
But I'm really trying to understand the situation and make a plan on how to improve maybe in the next couple years

tell that to someone that has hyperinsulinemy and doesn't know it. lol. not me but a person I know that discovered it after 4 years of working out and found out that even eating 20g of bread per day would prevent results.

Or tell that to someone who took drugs for mental health that made him/her gain 45kg in just a few months for a bad doctor. (another person I know)

I don't like the extreme point of view you're proposing here.
Tomorrow you could find out you have cancer and lose your muscles.
Not everybody has the same statistics chance.

I'm talking about understanding the possible causes and trying to see if I can implement something that I'm maybe missing
I already tried in my life to lift and eat clean and I did that for prolonged period of times and still got shit results compared to other people.

After becoming nomad we had issue on eating healthy while travelling, that's the reason we "stopped"
Now we fixed that finding a way to cook while travelling and we learned where to find the food etc and what could be the things to cook

I think that to get that physique I should do cardio everyday like running and lift and do calisthenics. Basically all kinds of training (strength + volume + cardio + resistance). That would be the only way to remove any "possible reason" to not get fit + heating healthy simple food and with calorie deficit

I will try again this time.
I got a good amount of kg after being blocked for a bad surgery for months a couple years ago. I lost most of them but I have to lose the last part (probably the most difficult)

I think i will still get a testosterone check

How old are you

One can anyway still complain and do the work required. But I agree that it's not ideal.
But we cannot simply say that "all is mindset". Because it isn't. Life is more multifactorial.
becoming nomad out of nowhere as an italian and starting a (even if little) company to earn remotely etc is not easy
I think that most people here in Bali didn't have all the various issues but I know it won't help me

But still I cannot judge my self harshly because some differences are true.
I can agree with trying to improve etc.

But the fact that you could get fit only means that.
And lots of factors could amount to that (for example if you used to sport in your life when you were a kid etc)

In that 12 months which training / diet did you do ?

Also you could just be a survivor or a person on the good side of statistics.

What I'm saying is only that not being top percentile is not always a result of bad mindset or whatelse.

There are lots of fake things in this world. Lots of things that can happen. lots of things just related to "being born" and where.

But I simply shouldn't listen too much to everyone who is from London, Germany, Netherlands, USA, Australia, Canada and similar

Because italy has nothing to do with these realities, and listening to people making logical reasoning but from a completely different start point, is not useful

You can probably get to the top 1% of most things, with 2-3 years of effort. Top 0.1% is much more difficult, but there's not really many excuses for not getting top 1%. You just have to want it enough. Absent some severe disability (like missing all limbs => can't run a marathon, obviously) it's all in your hands

tldr, less excuses, more doing - if you want to get to where you want to go

lpnmngkqhzu do you suggest multifrequency or monofrequency. Should I train every muscle 3x a week or have one day for each. I always and only did monofrequency in the past

https://youtu.be/2Bb18-8-0YQ

Average tourist guy at Finnis club or walking in Perenan

"just lift BBBRRRRUUUUH"

https://www.adamfrater.com/about

Average american

yeah just eventually had the opportunity to co-own gym a in london 🤣 so I "moved through the atlantic" (what an effort. unbelievable. soooo difficult)

then "it didn't went good" and he went to "rock bottom" . lol
so he casually stayed 1 month in europe and then founded a company selling dreams about fitness and selling it in USA and made 1 million dollars first year (from what he self-reports)

That shit is not natural.

they all take gear ruining body perception.

New rules, now everyone has to come to pass an interview in person in order to extend a visa. Earlier, one could do it online.

https://www.imigrasi.go.id/siaran_pers/2025/05/28/tekan-angka-pelanggaran-keimigrasian-wna-wajib-ke-kantor-imigrasi-untuk-perpanjangan-izin-tinggal

Hey! Good news! I've just extended my evisa online for another 30 days. It's a B1 type

I'm not sure if this is just the payment and we still need to go for the interview, there is no other document attached to the receipt

So that's nice.

Just paid mine and now waiting verification

Hope it won't take too long

Curious what the process was like, and any tips on how to increase your chances of securing one

We can directly go to the office without asking for a meeting