I remember that. Considering how much he pontificated, and how opinionated and argumentative he was, he lost a lot of respect after that.
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I can attest that is partly true. I never hooked up with anyone on this site though. I did say I was one of the less cool people though.
Thatās sad to hear. He also had a good grasp on how to use nootropics and even opened his own shop and even had a YouTube presence around 2014, if memory serves.
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Man, all of this takes me back.
Started reading TN around 2005 as a lurker, joined in 2008 (as FattyFat) to share my physical transformation story (TL;DR: overdid it with bulking where I gained LOTS of muscle but also got fat; was able to dial it back to look decent without losing much of my muscle in the span of 3-4 months).
Almost every year around Christmas, Iām reminding myself of the TN classic āMerry Christmas, Bobā.
Iām mid-40s, now. Happily married, very happy and lucky to be a father. Business is going well. But where my 20s had been my health and bodybuilding heyday where I managed to stay big, lean and mean and had been very consistent with my diet and training, my 30s had been the decade that crushed me from a health perspective.
All my discipline, my former tools etc., everything that had been working during my 20s stopped working in my 30s, a decade where I had been in pain, mostly, unable to walk 300 ft without excruciating pain and ending up a sweaty mess. āMerry Christmas, Bob!ā hit me pretty often and hard in that decade. I would imagine there are lots of similar stories out there.
Took me until my late 30s / early 40s to connect the dots and get things going again. The silver lining to my body being what it was in my 30s was that I finally went into business for myself.
Throughout it all, lifting has been and still is my one true way to ground myself, one of the few reliable things in my life Iām passionate about (apart from my wife). In a way, itās a form of meditation that I never managed to achieve with other meditative approaches.
And with āMerry Christmas, Bobā just around the corner, this gives me an extra appreciation for what I was able to regain, for nostalgia, and for all the cool exchanges I had on TN. And motivation, too.
Hereās to all the TN greats of years past - missed, but never forgotten!
edit: and Iād be remiss in forgetting to express my gratitude for TN and BioTest, especially Tim Patterson, TC Luoma, Chris Shugart and Christian Thibaudeau.
Was pretty stoked to see Shugartās posts on X and how he remained his authentic self during and after ārona.
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