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Thread: What’s your unpopular lifting/fitness/bodybuilding opinion?

post 1574934381 03-03-2019, 03:16 AM
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• If your lifting natty for ANYTHING other than health, wellness, mental health, and longevity.. your completely wasting your time.




• Recreationally taking gear is one of the most cringe, insecure, and hilariously stupid things you can do.






• No one cares about your gains, and 99% of the population thinks you have a small dink and are compensating.














































































• Steroid users are drug addicts. Their pathologies, cognitive, behavioral, and emotional devices used to rationalize their substance uses/abuses are identical and sometimes even worse than hardcore drug addicts.
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post 1574935721 03-03-2019, 04:35 AM
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Originally Posted By LaCosaNostra90⏩
Don't need more than 100g of protein a day unless your on a bicycle
why you're small

nobody has an excuse to be fat, it's detrimental to gains and health. anything over 15% is unacceptable if you're serious about yourself
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post 1574935851 03-03-2019, 04:41 AM
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Lifting for aesthetics is pathetic and beta.
Either lift for sports or make lifting your sport(powerlifting/strongman)
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Farmers walks > big three
Agreed. Went to a Strongman gym a couple of times, hnnnngh at Farmers Walk
Originally Posted By radrd⏩
Doing yoga isn't gay and can actually be beneficial.
yes
post 1574935891 03-03-2019, 04:44 AM
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No need for much focus on legs, unless for athleticism or powerlifting. Golden era had it right
post 1574937331 03-03-2019, 05:39 AM
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-compound lifts are a necessity, not for just strength, size, ect but it will improve your quality of life and health
be the turtle in the race.
post 1574938991 03-03-2019, 06:40 AM
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The king of lifts is squats not deadlift

Below knee rack pulls + RDL > conventional/sumo deads

Sprint work should be in everyone’s programming

You can train delts, abs and calves every single day.

Doing shows is dumb. Cringe at my gym buddies who do them. Have friends that boxed and fought MMA who were less miserable trying to make weight, compared to guys dieting for a show to win a trophy.
post 1574939181 03-03-2019, 06:47 AM
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Originally Posted By manletstrength⏩
Bikini competitors are just sl00ts using the bikini division as an excuse to be wh0res.
most bikini sloots barely lift and were already primed with exceptional genetics
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post 1574939211 03-03-2019, 06:48 AM
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Nothing improves body comp like barbell complexes srs.

There's something supernatural about them. All your major muscles just get a chit tonne of time under tension and it just makes you thicker everywhere. Since you keep the reps low, you can use as much weight as you can for your weakest lift (In the example BB rows would be the weakest lift).

brb - 5 BB rows, 5 hang cleans, 5 front squats, 5 OH presses, 5 back squats, 5 good mornings
brb - all your major muscles get 30 reps. (except chest tho)
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post 1574939251 03-03-2019, 06:49 AM
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You shouldn't lurk by people benching hawkwardly bert staring them like a complete *******

- Most personal trainers are full of chit and I've passed by 90% of them in my gym, in my first year of proper training
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post 1574939521 03-03-2019, 06:56 AM
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My all time super unpopular opinion is that tanning is too troublesome.
post 1574939581 03-03-2019, 06:58 AM
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Originally Posted By redraider86⏩
Fitness should really be about consistency and having fun. If you'd rather get a root canal than lift weights, do something else that makes your body fit and your mind happy.
I agree. I used to make fun of jazzercise and the like. But if jazzercise or yoga is the only exercise you can make yourself do, it’s infinitely better than nothing.
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post 1574939831 03-03-2019, 07:07 AM
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Originally Posted By Nesque⏩
sleep is not important to make gains
They are as a natty
post 1574939941 03-03-2019, 07:09 AM
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Originally Posted By AdvancedDreamer⏩
They are as a natty
They are for everyone. You'd be completely retarded to think it isn't important.
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post 1574940611 03-03-2019, 07:25 AM
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Originally Posted By Nesque⏩
sleep is not important to make gains
some dumb opinions itt
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post 1574940821 03-03-2019, 07:32 AM
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Wait what are we talking about again?
post 1574941041 03-03-2019, 07:37 AM
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Originally Posted By JungleJenetics⏩
some dumb opinions itt
Lots of them aren't even opinions, more like denial of proven facts.
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post 1574941151 03-03-2019, 07:39 AM
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Anyone can get big arms, legs, chest etc... what seperates the men from the boys is putting in work on diet and cardio and getting lean.
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post 1574941261 03-03-2019, 07:42 AM
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Shoulder pressing is not needed for big shoulders.
post 1574941401 03-03-2019, 07:45 AM
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Originally Posted By ayyy⏩
how much effort you put into lifting is more important than trying to perfect your diet down to the gram
This x100 especially for general population
Consistency is king
Once I started enjoying and going hard at the gym was when I started making the best progress physique and strength wise

Also after a certain point the cons of lifting heavy outweigh the pros physique wise imo
post 1574941471 03-03-2019, 07:46 AM
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you don't have to do direct ab training to get abs.
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post 1574941781 03-03-2019, 07:53 AM
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rename this thread to "Lifting Advice NOT to take" and sticky it
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post 1574942041 03-03-2019, 07:59 AM
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Shrugs are an unnecessary lift, often done for ego more than anything else. Most compound lifts hit the traps good enough.
post 1574942131 03-03-2019, 08:01 AM
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Originally Posted By QuadraQuint⏩
Unaware of nitrogen balance. Looked it up briefly.

Correct me if I'm wrong, I know amino groups in protein contain nitrogen, NH2. Let's say I drank nothing but BCAA powder and got my positive nitrogen balance vs excretion, wouldn't I still be depleted? Calorically speaking the BCAA probably wouldn't be much but it wouldn't be farfetched to say I got adequate nitrogen, no?

Let's say I wanna bulk. I get adequate nitrogen via BCAA to get positive nitrogen balance, but not the calories. That will still build muscles?
There's more to it than that. But if you achieve PNB on a high protein, clean diet then yes, you can build muscle even on a "deficit". You'll build muscle more slowly but you'll also avoid useless bulk/cut cycles.

I eat 1500-1800 calories a day. In the last six months, my body weight has not moved from 194-196 but I've changed my overall body composition. Smaller waist, arms slightly bigger, etc.

It's the long man's game but at least you can stay lean year round. This is of course disregarding my perma-bulk old AVI.
post 1574942261 03-03-2019, 08:04 AM
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Originally Posted By rockr101⏩
rename this thread to "Lifting Advice NOT to take" and sticky it
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post 1574942441 03-03-2019, 08:10 AM
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You only need at MOST 3-4 days in a gym to weight lifts unless your goal is to be a pro bodybuilder. And an hour tops at that. Stretch and do some cardio for overall fitness.
post 1574942531 03-03-2019, 08:13 AM
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Originally Posted By wincel⏩
abs are useless to train (aside from aesthetic purposes), and you will develop the core strength as needed in other exercises
Everything apart from what I left in the QUOTE is well-known by people who can infer from papers and have at least average IQ lol.

However, you are dead wrong about not training abs directly. Some people's core remain super underdeveloped if not trained directly.

Some people try to extend this logic to pretty much any muscle, suggesting that you should directly hit even the most miniature muscles. This actually does make sense if you are top 5 % gym-goers who are physique competitors interested in spending a lot of time touching up but other than that you don't need it. Abs though are a huge muscle, they basically counter your back.
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post 1574942591 03-03-2019, 08:14 AM
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You don't need to track macros and count calories to make progress & get a nice physique.

Lots of cardio is alright for cutting
post 1574942761 03-03-2019, 08:18 AM
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Originally Posted By Judgment⏩
I eat 1500-1800 calories a day. In the last six months, my body weight has not moved from 194-196.
there are 120lb women that lose weight on that low cals man, what is your average day of food with everything in grams
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Not everyone is going to look better at really low levels of bodyfat. Some people just don't have the right facial structure. Their body might look better but their face will look groce and make them look hideously underweight.
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