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Thread: This lifting = life or death motivational BS has got to stop

post 1475010381 12-13-2016, 10:04 PM
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Originally Posted By FannySkelper⏩
It's so bad

People are acting like they're checking into Auschwitz for a few hours on a gym trip. Like it's some super hardcore suffering experience.
lmao agreed. people think they're doing some hardcore act in the gym. it's just lifting weights...
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post 1475012001 12-13-2016, 10:23 PM
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While I agree people that take this kinda stuff 100% serious are dumb; I think it's important to have the mindset of life or death while in the movement/exercise itself, considering most miscers don't even lift I can't imagine they'd understand this.

If you truly want to push your body past what it's already capable of doing easily, you have to put yourself in a fight or flight mode. We don't live in life or death scenarios frequently anymore (most of us at least) so we have to trick the mind through various means to get to this point. Why do you think strongman/powerlifters sniff smelling salts before big lifts?

Also not everyone has the same level of motivation to just hit the gym regularly. I mean if any of these videos saves even just 1 life of an overweight person by pushing them into the gym, who are you all to knock it down?

At the end of the day though, much like Arnold once said in Pumping Iron, it's important to be able to have a laugh about it all and understand everything in perspective. It's not the end of the world if you don't get a 1 rep max on a squat but when you're in the movement itself, to truly push yourself, you have to have that mindset.
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post 1475029561 12-14-2016, 04:19 AM
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Originally Posted By MunicipalWaster⏩
While I agree people that take this kinda stuff 100% serious are dumb; I think it's important to have the mindset of life or death while in the movement/exercise itself, considering most miscers don't even lift I can't imagine they'd understand this.

If you truly want to push your body past what it's already capable of doing easily, you have to put yourself in a fight or flight mode. We don't live in life or death scenarios frequently anymore (most of us at least) so we have to trick the mind through various means to get to this point. Why do you think strongman/powerlifters sniff smelling salts before big lifts?

Also not everyone has the same level of motivation to just hit the gym regularly. I mean if any of these videos saves even just 1 life of an overweight person by pushing them into the gym, who are you all to knock it down?

At the end of the day though, much like Arnold once said in Pumping Iron, it's important to be able to have a laugh about it all and understand everything in perspective. It's not the end of the world if you don't get a 1 rep max on a squat but when you're in the movement itself, to truly push yourself, you have to have that mindset.
Like I said, no issue with competitive strength athletes doing this as it's dangerous and truly maximal effort with dangerous loads.

If you're doing that fight or flight stuff in the gym recreationally tho... Son.

Nothing wrong with getting amped up and focused but its not fight or flight
post 1475029811 12-14-2016, 04:27 AM
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Originally Posted By FannySkelper⏩
Like I said, no issue with competitive strength athletes doing this as it's dangerous and truly maximal effort with dangerous loads.

If you're doing that fight or flight stuff in the gym recreationally tho... Son.

Nothing wrong with getting amped up and focused but its not fight or flight
sometimes you have to. Better that than being stuck at a poverty 5 rep max and looking the same 6 months later.

How much you squat? I get what that guy is saying. Not everyone will. You don't have to be cringy but for optimal fast gains you have to be a little crazy sometimes.
post 1475030821 12-14-2016, 04:51 AM
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Originally Posted By DassItMan⏩
sometimes you have to. Better that than being stuck at a poverty 5 rep max and looking the same 6 months later.

How much you squat? I get what that guy is saying. Not everyone will. You don't have to be cringy but for optimal fast gains you have to be a little crazy sometimes.
At the moment I do Bulgarian split squats due to permament swelling in one of my knees from bjj/wrestling injuries sustained years ago

Currently do 135lb x 10 each leg on them and snatch grip deadlift 405x 5 at the moment. I like snatch grips as they recruit the quads nicely as its a bigger ROM almost like a squat/deadlift hybrid.

I agree you have to be crazy etc sometimes.

But when you look at programs like 5/3/1 or the cube method there's very little craziness its all tapered and consistent effort across the board. Its a marathon not a sprint nomsayin
post 1475031231 12-14-2016, 05:02 AM
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Yeah this video was pretty bad, but some I really like. For a lot of people, lifting and the gym life is a transformation process, thus the inherent motivation.

this is one of my favorites
post 1475031551 12-14-2016, 05:07 AM
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Originally Posted By FannySkelper⏩


Lifting is a luxury, recovering with good nutrition and adequate rest is a luxury. It's not some life or death struggle. If you want that go to 3rd world Africa and see how much you care about making your rear Delts pop you *******.

I can see it in competitive sports and even lifting sports like weightlifting, power lifting or strongman where the huge loads can injure or kill you but this YouTube fitness "the hardcore struggle of lifting" **** has got to stop

Can you imagine in ww2 if we had YouTube, would people be making fukking montages of the Normandy landings? We have it so fukkin easy nowadays that battles of narcissism are seen as battles to the death.

Does this **** bug anyone else?
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post 1475031791 12-14-2016, 05:11 AM
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I've always thought this was corny as hell

Do these people actually buy into what they're posting? Is it just an act because they think it will gain them attention?

Its almost as if they're prophisizing like some cult religious leader and people eat this chit up.

So you have to ask yourself who's dumber? The false prophet or the idiot that follows him
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post 1475031831 12-14-2016, 05:11 AM
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post 1475031881 12-14-2016, 05:12 AM
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Originally Posted By LaCosaNostra90⏩
well thats mostly just professional bodybuilders or fitness "gurus". like wow you're life is so hard you eat a lot lift weights and take roids, wow much courage
Exactly. Look at Steve Cook, who's turning into a real attention whore these days. FFS

post 1475032121 12-14-2016, 05:15 AM
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Yeah humans have been active and moving since the day dot. People now want a pat on the back for going to the gym or running a few miles, pissening.
post 1475032501 12-14-2016, 05:19 AM
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Originally Posted By arn710⏩
I've always thought this was corny as hell

Do these people actually buy into what they're posting? Is it just an act because they think it will gain them attention?

Its almost as if they're prophisizing like some cult religious leader and people eat this chit up.

So you have to ask yourself who's dumber? The false prophet or the idiot that follows him
It's an act targeting naive teens to get them to buy BS products they promote.
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post 1475032941 12-14-2016, 05:27 AM
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Tbh these kind of youtubers are the reason I watch only powerlifter channels because they at least have useful instructional videos/tips a lot of the time.
Better than watching these 160lb twinks and their drama.
post 1475033131 12-14-2016, 05:30 AM
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The reason this phenomenon exists is because success with little effort has always been about appealing to the masses.

Unfortunately with our respective cultures the masses have little to no intellectual integrity; drawing appeal from bright lights, fast paced oversaturated editing, quotations from glorified celebrities, and mainstream, conformist ideals/aesthetics.

And thanks to the advent of the internet it's even easier to appeal to this mass, constantly consuming market as opposed to investing time in contacts and developing your business inside a niche. The prevalence and subsequently high exposure of those who have been successful through this medium have only propagated the issue and ultimately led to many carbon copies, all with the same-but-different brand of apparel, quotations and social media content.
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post 1475033151 12-14-2016, 05:31 AM
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If people bring that attitude to anything they do I think it's awesome. It's the mindset to have to get things done.

.....however, that doesn't entail their IG/FB cataloging of every workout they have. That's for show. So I hear you on that.
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post 1475033421 12-14-2016, 05:35 AM
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Originally Posted By AD117⏩
This

Highly fking disagree OP. Thats good advertising. Why tf would you b*tch about something that gets people to better themselves? You couldn't think of allowing something more meaningful to rustle your jimmies?

OP: I cant believe that brah is making motivational videos for others to get in shape! Fking so mad rn, who agrees?
Some ******* ITT: haha so true brah repped

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post 1475034531 12-14-2016, 05:56 AM
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While it is stupid, they know their audience.
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post 1475034691 12-14-2016, 05:57 AM
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That's pretty gay bro. But if it motivates people, then good luck to them. Just don't watch it, *******.
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Everything in our current culture is represented in an over-dramatic fashion. Sporting events are advertised with dramatic music and represented in a way that would make you think the two teams were going to war, not playing with a ball. TV shows take an insignificant event and put dramatic music behind it to elicit an emotional response from the audience.
post 1475035971 12-14-2016, 06:19 AM
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Originally Posted By FD1997⏩
Tbh these kind of youtubers are the reason I watch only powerlifter channels because they at least have useful instructional videos/tips a lot of the time.
Better than watching these 160lb twinks and their drama.
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Just because people in Africa are suffering doesn't mean I should stop lifting.
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damn Arnold was the GOAT

if he didn't retire for 2 or 3 years he would have had 10 Mr O's.
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Originally Posted By porcupinetree⏩
Just because people in Africa are suffering doesn't mean I should stop lifting.
Exactly, its about celebrating what you've been given and being grateful
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My youtube is all cars, guitars and politics. The fitness channels are so lame... either fake natties posing to EDM like it hasn't been done before or some fat ugly powerlifters teaching you how to half squat for the 500th time.
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Reminds me of him

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When people don't have much going for them in their lives, they make up a new struggle. In this case it's lifting. It's life or death because there's no real life of death struggles in the lives of most people. It's the same way people create relationship drama. It's life or death there too because they're bored.

Boredom is a funny thing and it creates weak men/women and only really exists during good times when there isn't much to worry about.
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live and let live.
you mustnt have much happening in your life OP if you let chit like this effect you so much lol

who gives a **** what other people do
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Agreed.

They should make these videos about curing diseases, or solving world hunger, or doing thingsoutside of your own vanity.

Only then would they make sense. I used to be guilty af myself.

With that said though, to anyone who uses fitness as an outlet to do good for others - I can respect that.. though I don't totally look down on people who aren't more selfless, I just admire it.


edit: This is all my opinion and outlook, of course.
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Originally Posted By Nicro327⏩
Brb, get ripped or die trying
Brb, lift till you puke
Brb, it's a marathon not a sprint
Brb, a man should not grow old without knowing of what his body is capable

Brb.... all these "hardcore" *******s do is pick up a weight and set it down, then take a 5 min break and repeat. It is not "hardcore." The only "hardcore" thing about this dumb trend is the amount ofcringeI have to endure on a daily basis listening to this crap

99% of the people in gyms don't even break a sweat while in the gym. I'm always bewildered because I seem to be the only one actually putting in work while everyone is on their phone taking 20 min breaks or talking in the squat rack for hours at a time. (Except for the hot girl with an insane squat booty that I have a crush on)
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OP you're wrong, even them african boyos care about making their rear delts pop

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