I even disliked others cheering me to push harder. I’m then thinking, “I suppose you think I need you cheering for me to make this next rep.” If anything, they were disrupting my concentration. I never needed motivation.
I believe that if you are not self motivated, maybe this isn’t for you.
I think this is where I’m lucky and/or doing the right kind of work. My enthusiasm doesn’t seem to dim as long as people are still engaged. I have this in my office, and it absolutely represents how I feel about this sort of thing:
No offense but, this is what created a generation of pussies.
Yeah I sorta agree… outside of maybe getting someone to show you lifting form and throwing together a beginners routine. The rest lays on a ones indvidual shoulders.
I’m the same way. I get annoyed with “support,” or I block it out all together. Theres a moment stuck it my head from years ago. I asked another guy at a gym to spot me on the bench for a set of 5. He proceeds to the “good rep, keep going, you got this.”(Corny, but whatever he’s spotting me) Then at the last rep as i’m grinding it out hes yelling at me to breathe. He’s like “exhale bro, breathe, breathe!” I was happy for the spot, but that was enough. I racked the bar and said “don’t fucking tell me when to breathe, asshole.” We never spoke again after that. LOL
This reminded me of the season I ran cross country in high school. I didn’t want to play football because the team was terrible, I wasn’t great, and the positions I wanted to play on varsity were taken by a senior (I was a junior). But my school had an award for the few people who managed to letter in three sports a year for all four years of high school. My girlfriend ran XC, so I joined her.
It was terrible! I would have been better off doing nothing. It made me slower and decreased my vertical for the following basketball season. I remember people cheering for me and I was thinking “Shut the f— up. I hate this. It’s awful. I’m terrible. And no, I’m not doing great! Just let me suffer alone with the sound of my labored breathing.”
I would love to earn a living as a trainer because that’s my true passion.
To me it’s tourture being on a computer all day, unless it’s remote work from home.
Give me a problem is my drive, I don’t want to prevent the problems.
However allow me to be the anti capitalist again as usual. Capitalism and training don’t belong. The trainer needs money and the trainee says “I pay you, therefore……” Your health and your muscles don’t care about your capitalism.
And the capitalist wants everyone back at the office, that’s where other capitalists make out. Screw Fox News and there “you need to get back in the office BS”, clowns.
You rather give people fish than teach people to fish.
Checks out.
I have no idea what this means tho?
I see no connection between capitalism and WFH or RTO or, more importantly, this thread. From an expense reduction standpoint, I can pay you less and have less office space overhead if you work from home.. that sounds capitalist to me, no? RTO has more to do with culture, shared vision, ensuring processes are followed, etc.
Nope @dchris everything I do in training is teaching people how to train themselves. That’s why I’m so controversial around here, bruh. 1-rep, celery, grapes, none of that is a cookie cutter approach, it’s called experimenting and changing when needed.
You got that confused. I was speaking about working my normal BS job, on a computer.
With that said though, there is still something to be said about problems, if you think there is never a problem, you are wrong, things always change and in lifting that is big.
Btw olives are now on my agenda.
Meat, it’s the wrong attitude to say, meat and nothing else as much as it’s wrong to say celery is good so I’m gonna eat a whole pack everyday.
Example: when I’m working with my team at work, I’d rather show them how to get physically stronger as opposed to what we are at work for, and that’s just my drive. I got 2- young guys on my team 18 and 22, they seemed to enjoy talking lifting with me a 45+ year old. The others my age or older on my team had no interest it. I even told them how I had my EZ bar with me and I’m gonna sneak some curls in the garage before our dinner.
Yeah, but you dont know how to train for shit and your results speak to that.
That’s actually not why you’re controversial.
I wasn’t confused. I know you were talking about your job. That’s why I said:
I have no idea where this is coming from. I have been a consultant nearly my whole career, only exception was 3 years doing corporate strategy, primarily in advisory services and strategy. You mentioned fix a problem, vs. prevent problems. I’d rather solve the root issue than address symptoms, which is what your statement means.
uhh, nobody really likes to work. I rather talk to people about, well, nvm, I rather not talk to people, but if I had to, I’d rather talk about hobbies. That’s human nature.
Man.. this is just creepy. I would also have no interest in talking about lifting.
And you use steroids and still don’t even look like you use steroids. How sad that must be…….
Maybe it’s because I’m not eating enough celery
I changed careers at age 40 because the world changed after 50years.
I’ve been struggling ever since to learn how to solve a root problem because I just don’t “get” the new stuff. I’m trying but I’ve worked for 30years now and I sacrificed my health to change that career, I’m a little bitter about it honestly. So now I get judged by the guys who don’t know what they are talking about, like Andrew.
I’m building back up from all I lost, my financial life and my strength.
So that’s the way I’m am. I will never sacrifice my health for career again I don’t care how a loser I look like to you capitalists. I work to lift and thanks to Andrew cause I thrive on his crap even though I don’t need it.
I also look bigger and tighter and better arm cuts now than my avatar. So “sticks tongue out”.
No days off, I’m lifting right now to better Andrew.
I judge you because you stand on a podium trying to tell people what you’re doing works… but it clearly doesn’t, and you’re too blind to see it.
So I judge you for being blind and believing your own bullshit. Get off the fucking podium until you learn what the fuck you’re talking about.
Whether you believe it or not, I’m not rooting against you. I’m just telling you to shut the fuck up until you have results to show, and you just don’t have anything to show.
Once you learn that you know nothing, you can start to learn something.
If I happen to be one of the reasons you wake the fuck up and start making actual progress, im happy to be a part in it. Whether that progress is in spite of me, or because of me, I really dont care.
Just get off the fucking podium until then.
I don’t think there is anything wrong with podium thinking.
Some people have poverty genetics that’s me, I’m aware I’m a twink. But that does not mean I have nothing to offer.
I can use all the steroids I want, it won’t help me.
I have made exceptional progress in the last 3-years, and you have zero, absolutely zero clue how hard that is over age 40. It’s hard enough at age 30, but it doubles past age 45. I used to think I can just lift a few days a week just to stay “in shape” Well it’s more than that and even though I’m a twink I can hold my own with a lot of higher level people in fitness and if not I’m right on their tails, and you and they will all continue to see me coming!
You’re podium “educating,” though. Do you see an issue there?
This is done in your head. Quietly.
That means you dont make posts about it telling everyone you’ve found the secret to ultimate gains like you did with your celery nonsense.
Unless you know how that word is really used, you might want to rethink saying this.
You keep comparing yourself to me and I always deflect because I dont give a shit what you think about me, so I dont bother getting defensive.
But if you really want to go there…
^Nov 2022
^Nov 2025
If you want to call that “no progress”, thats fine.
But in that time, I also:
completed my degree
paid off all consumer debt
have savings to buy vehicles outright
got promoted. twice.
dealt with the death of my Mother In Law
and the abandonment of both of my parents (my choice)
almost divorced, now living in a great marriage
and have been doing the best I can to raise my daughter into a good human.
Now, if you’re done trying to compare yourself to me, I’d suggest you start looking inward and getting your shit together. You might be 15 years my senior physically, but you’re still mentally weak like a child.
Stop living in your delusions.
Stop comparing yourself to others.
Stop believing in your own bullshit.
You’re not growing or making progress because your training is completely ineffective, and by the muffin top under your Britney Knot avatar picture, I’ll assume your diet is similar.
You want to make progress? Stop thinking you know so fucking much.
You don’t.
Start doing the shit that works for everyone else and I think you’ll start seeing that it works for you too.
Or you can go back to your everyday 1 rep max training that no bodybuilder, powerlifter, or strongman has ever gotten results from.
You are your own worst enemy, and your fragile fucking ego is holding you back.
Honestly, if it wasn’t for the muffin top, the picture is what I’d expect from a twink.
Yeah. Either he outed himself, or he’s just made a lot of really, umm, unfortunate decisions.
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