I was talking with someone once about doing one arm rows for lats, and he tried to say that doing the left side and right side one after the other counts as two sets.

Eventually I just let it go, because he was too low IQ to understand the premise I was making, that it counts as one set despite training both sides.

What’s the dumbest argument you’ve gotten into about training?

sigh

son it's too many to count

believing that u need really advanced exercises like building an intricate setup with two benches at the cables and getting the angles just right to "hit" some small muscle in the back

that the mind muscle connection is critical this is just cope from unnatural lifters who want an excuse not to train hard that is my opinion

u can only train for 40 minutes before u go catabolic such bs

"cardio kills ur gains" is so common and only true if you are doing very very strenuous cardio which most gym goers is NOT do ur cardio it's good for the heart srs

u need to do 8-12 reps to build muscles this is incorrect when i was young i did low reps built great also study after study keeps showing gains for 25-40 reps per sets too it's crazy the variability that seems to build muscle

Had a acquaintance who would round his back doing deadlifts, barbell rows, etc. when I asked him about it he said he purposely does it to build his lower back. Guess in his mind, any kind of pain = good.

it was about whether you should lift all 8 days of the week

What was the conclusion here?

Good examples. The world will never fall short of idiots

Some fat old guy told me that I need to lift less weight when I'm cutting

What a fucking retarded argument lmao. The guy's a fucking moron that needs to be handheld through everything obviously.

Here are some that come to mind:

1. "You need to do a bunch of different exercises to hit all muscles from different angles". No. Just no. If you're past beginner strength levels you need to focus on progressing key lifts because you can only recover and progress on a limited amount of work because you're using heavy weight. The reason you have no chest, no shoulders and no arms is because you're basically circuit training through several pressing variations with bitch weight and not going hard enough on any lift. If you just built up to a ridiculously strong flat bench, all of your pushing muscles would be well developed. The other pressing variations are icing on the cake.

2. Mind muscle connection over training like a beast. That's one of the biggest false training advice that's fucked over countless naturals. You need to focus on progressing on big compound movements (apart from deadlift) with good form if you want to put on muscle naturally. MMC is definitely an excuse to train like a pussy and never use heavy weight. Used by guys on who hopped on roids way too early that know they'll snap their shit up if they go heavy because they didn't earn their muscle so their tendons can't keep up with the weight their muscle can lift.

3. Cope like 3-rep sets are 'ego lifting'. It's called strength training and it isn't all low rep sets. There's also moderate weight back off sets. He shut the fuck up pretty quickly when I did high rep set with weight he can't bench for one rep. I even let out a Zyzz style "fuark" as I completed the set.

Never argued. Forged in iron. No need to argue.

Inb4 this ain't a western

There was this one time some guy argued with me about the number of days he trains in a week


You can’t train half a day…..

This wasn't an argument but the closest thing I guess.

Some skinny fat employee "trainer" at a gym told me that's not how you're supposed to do squats when I was doing atg squats, and that I should never go below 90 degrees.

I just said "yeah ok" and continued doing my atg squats beside him. I think he was mad because the girl he was trying to flirt with was ignoring him and watching me

it's mostly truths that never gets questioned also if a big guy works out a lot for 40 minutes max and does 8-12 reps he might think that's the only or best way to train so he passes this on and young kids will believe that he is right so it becomes dogma

if Im in a dumb argument, Im 100% trolling / rage baiting