[quote]red04 wrote:
[quote]Kanada wrote:
I lost my vision to a genetic abnormality[/quote]
I totally forgot your blind, and while this may make me an asshole: LO FUCKING L… so you lost your vision to a genetic abnormality, yet, genetics ‘don’t exist.’
Anyhow, given your post above where you essentially state your willingness to address any genetic predisposition as ‘luck of environmental influence,’ it has become clear the argument can go nowhere. Pzpz
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Haha it was the biggest blessing in my life. Not when I drove my dad around 2 months after a heart attack and couldn’t properly see the lanes because my incompetent eye doctor signed off on my vision test because of a certain technicality that allowed me to seem visually competent when in fact I was seeing 20/200-20/400 depending on the eye. A few weeks later though, under examination by an expert, and I grew up real fast with a proper diagnosis.
It has very little impact on what I could do, and no impact on ho you should see me, pardon the pun. If I managed to end the argument, good. I can sum up where we stand.
You are born as a person who will grow. Whether your physical stature will be in the middle or an outlier is not totally up to you. Many have shown that height is very individually genetic, and I will not attempt to tell anyone to believe in themselves that they will grow. Yes, single physical factors may make some fields impossible. The list of things I will certainly never be is long enough to be disheartening, and as many on here have pointed out, I am and have been misinformed. Or at least purposefully misrepresenting my argument in an attempt to create discussion.
In bodybuilding, on this site, there are people who show 0 desire to lift, or at least portray no persona related to lifting. I don’t care, they post funny shit sometimes. There are also those who ask or state the most ridiculous things, acting as if there is a program that will work. Really, these noobs need to understand that a program is a convenient method over pushing your body, and you will find none of the actual big people here follow any one program because they understand the principles behind effort. (how has nobody asked how I can see yet?) They have templates that serve as useful guiding tools, but as far as subscribing to a workout that a newcomer can walk into and experience results from, it is far more important that we teach a new lifter how to work hard. Saying, and this will seem familiar, “If you have been lifting for x years and you can only curl x amount you should give up” only creates a bitter and disheartened member of our society. I have come across bullies and cliques who refuse to include me in their clan all my life, and I know how to get advice from people when they hate me. I know how to react to negativity and take the time to improve myself because I don’t believe people hate me, but I am special. I refused to accept that PX didn’t like me, but that doesn’t mean he was going to spend time teaching my sorry, skinny, and generally not very accomplished ass. However, I knew I could learn lessons that I could teach other people whom PX, or any other established lifter here, would not.
When those lifters, who for 2 years have failed, it is most likely because they don’t understand the principles behind lifting. 2more, I laughed when I saw your dip picture (he got called out for it) cause it was like, old man we can all tell you just bought a tight spandex shirt, put as much weight on our belt as your could, and had some dude snap a picture of you in a position that could have resulted in a terrible accident. Dude was doing dips with 125 and would have been much better served doing unweighted dips. But the thing is, why shouldn’t we help him? More importantly, how is he doing it wrong?
Because we have a tough time explaining things which come naturally to us. I can’t tell anyone how to gain weight, well I could. My own failures are cause I don’t mind being hungry, and I figure I may not have gained a pound IN FOUR YEARS but I have consistently gotten stronger and more injury proof. I spend time teaching people I know who have hurt themselves how to heal because that is more important to me than me being 180 lbs and dead sexy when I’m at least a little sexy at 160. Can I squat 315? I don’t think so but I stay away from those kind of lifts, on a regular basis at least, because I am actively learning the little things that will help one day and lets be honest, that’s almost twice my weight. But I can tell you when your inner quads are a weak link. I can tell you that you haven’t hit full extension on a shoulder press.
At this point I feel like I just wrote an essay, so there must be a call to action. Big lifters, examine what you do and how you do it. When approached by a lifter who isn’t making progress, don’t assume they understand that the point isn’t to get really really tired but to have as many repetitions at as close to 100% as possible. Anyone is cut out for bodybuilding, but it is our job to tell them that they can. And then challenge ourselves by figuring how we do what we do. Then, all the noobs will leave and come back as far less annoying versions of themsevles, and we can all be friends at a barbecue.
