Vent- I hate the genetics excuse. People say ‘it was easy for you coz of ur genes’ they dont take into account the 2 bours a day 6 days a week and strict dieting that is the predominant part in training. Its easy for them to blow it off when they dont see results ‘coz they dont have the genes’ not just coz they dont work hard enough- End Vent
Ever see somebody that you know would be huge if they trained?
My one friend doesn’t train at all and he’s ripped, well I don’t know about body fat percentage, but all abs visible and veins and striations.
He’s not big, but he’s got a lot more size than most kids. He has maybe 15 inch arms and is pretty decent in general. He doesn’t work out at all, eats crap, and when I ask, he attributes it to his father and grandfather being boxers…
Another kid I know that is a sophomore now that I’d see in the weight room on occasion last year. He’s this fat kid, but as a freshman, he was benching 70lb dumbbells for high reps. I talked to him this year and he says that he works out maybe a few times a month or whenever he feels like it.
All he does is bench and curl, but the numbers are still impressive for his age/experience. His forearms are also pretty damn big.
With proper training/nutrition, they’d be huge.
the title of this thread is hilarious.
[quote]chitown34 wrote:
Obviously genetics play a role, but it’s also likely that each generation in that family passes on its passion of weightlifting to the next. If both of your parents are lawyers, there is probably a higher chance that you will be a lawyer too. [/quote]
Hey, this thread was going just fine. No need to complicate things by bringing logic into the discussion. 
show me the wheels
Post pics with a spoon.
[quote]That One Guy wrote:
Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding. It is the bitter potion by which the physician within you heals your sick self. Therefore, trust the physician and drink his remedy in silence and tranquility." - Khalil Gibran [/quote]
Aroo? Not quite. That was more like Boondocks paraphrasing Khalil.
[quote]Khalil “The Real Deal” Gibran wrote:
Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.
Even as the stone of the fruit must break, that its heart may stand in the sun, so must you know pain.
And could you keep your heart in wonder at the daily miracles of your life, your pain would not seem less wondrous than your joy;
And you would accept the seasons of your heart, even as you have always accepted the seasons that pass over your fields.
And you would watch with serenity through the winters of your grief.
Much of your pain is self-chosen.
It is the bitter potion by which the physician within you heals your sick self.
Trust the physician, and drink his remedy in silence and tranquillity:
For his hand, though heavy and hard, is guided by the tender hand of the Unseen,
And the cup he brings, though it burn your lips, has been fashioned of the clay which the Potter has moistened with His own sacred tears.
[/quote]
All I can think of when I read that was that one time when I was watching that scene where Hannibal Lecter is feeding Ray Liotta with his character’s own brain, and I started like totally yelling at the screen,
“Oh my god! Nell! Don’t you get it, yet? He’s like WAY in love with you! He like totally deigned to use a transparently obvious reference to ‘On Pain’ by Khalil Gibran!” That was so frustrating–total headdesk facepalm.
And the subsequent amputation “dilemma” scene after that was so bogus I was like totally personally insulted by like the director, y’know?
At any rate, I still have absolutely no idea why I or anyone else should be concerned with what genetics may or may not portend. Cool pic of the mom.
Imagine getting a handjob from that old lady! Hoo-hah!