Ehā¦ I prefer optimal training methods not just āgood enough.ā Letās be realā¦ most people look good IN SPITE OF their methods, few of which are actually rooted in physiology. Theyāll grow doing anything as hyper responders, genetic lottery winners, etcā¦
I have the genetics of the Elephant Man so I need to really understand how these things work
Maybe I should have been more specific in that they know how to put muscle on themselves. Theyāve found something that works. So getting back to my point, if you see someone with less than ideal genetics who has made significant gains, then either he or the person who coached him, knows what they are doing. The idea that there is one guy out there who is the king, makes no sense to me. Israetel and Carter know what theyāre talking about but neither one is exactly coming out with ideas that are exclusively their own creations. Even the knees over toes guy based most of his methods on Poliquin, which he acknowledges to his credit, and Poliquin gave credit to those who he learned from.
Since there is so many ways to skin the hypertrophy cat I donāt think their is one ākingā but off the top of my head John Meadows advice still works and his presentation is all lot more approachable than Carters.
Even some the HIT advocates or DC training is great advice.
Itās just weird to claim one end-all expert in a vast field.
No one is the king of hypertrophy.
ARTHUR: Well, I am king!
DENNIS: Oh king, eh, very nice. And how dāyou get that, eh? By exploiting the workers! By 'anging on to outdated imperialist dogma which perpetuates the economic and social differences in our society. If thereās ever going to be any progress with theā
WOMAN: I didnāt know we had a king. I thought we were an autonomous collective.
DENNIS: Youāre fooling yourself. Weāre living in a dictatorship. A self-perpetuating autocracy in which the working classesā
DENNIS: I told you. Weāre an anarcho-syndicalist commune. We take it in turns to act as a sort of executive officer for the week. But all the decision of that officer have to be ratified at a special bi-weekly meeting-- By a simple majority in the case of purely internal affairs,-- But by a two-thirds majority in the case of more majorā
WOMAN: Well, how did you become king then?
ARTHUR: The Lady of the Lake,ā¦ [angels sing] ā¦her arm clad in the purest shimmering samite, held aloft Excalibur from the bosom of the water signifying by Divine Providence that I, Arthur, was to carry Excalibur. [singing stops] That is why I am your king!
DENNIS: Listen, strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government. Supreme executive power derives from a mandate from the masses, not from some farcical aquatic ceremony.
ARTHUR: Be quiet!
DENNIS: Well, but you canāt expect to wield supreme executive power just 'cause some watery tart threw a sword at you!
ARTHUR: Shut up!
DENNIS: I mean, if I went 'round saying I was an emperor just because some moistened bint had lobbed a scimitar at me, theyād put me away!
ARTHUR: Shut up, will you. Shut up!
DENNIS: Ah, now we see the violence inherent in the system.
ARTHUR: Shut up!
DENNIS: Oh! Come and see the violence inherent in the system! Help, help! Iām being repressed!
ARTHUR: Bloody peasant!
DENNIS: Oh, what a give-away. Did you hear that? Did you hear that, eh? Thatās what Iām on about. Did you see him repressing me? You saw it, didnāt you?
Jason F. Blaha. And the F stands for exactly what you think it means.
Whoās Dennis??
A constitutional peasant.
Itās Arnold.
These guys are just following his playbook.
Biggus Dickus.
Do you find that risible?
Actually we should start saying this about missed lifts.
Owls are just cats with wings
An opossum is a fusion between a cat and a rat
Soynold
Not really risible, but it is not like I go to renaissance fairs. Yeesh.
Anyone who is a successful lifter is going to use the methods that work. In virtually every case, theyāll be borrowing from the wisdom of others. Carter is wise, but Meadows has rizz.
If I have not seen as far as other people, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders.
This picture looks like the seafood version of Don King; not the sort of king being discussed.
That fish has the blues.
And some seriously dank jazz cabbage.
This type of view of the US is interesting to me. The US as a coherent nation with a stable, continuous government is one of the older countries in the world. Older than Japan, Germany, France, Italy, China, Russia, India, Spain, India, Australia, every country in Africa, every other country in the Western Hemisphere (I believe), and most countries in Europe. A few European countries managed to move from monarchies to constitutional republics in a sort of contiguous way (UK, Denmark), but itās a bit murky if you can just get rid of a king (or keep him around in a ceremonial capacity) and say itās the same country. A few micronations are legitimately very old (Vatican City, San Marino). A few Asian and pacific Islander countries also have these types of history, but they are the exception.
In short, the narrative that the US is a āyoungā nation has to rely on some very creative logic and definitions. Nation needs to be defined as a roughly consistent border with mostly the same people living there but allowing for a certain amount of migration and governments just being wholescale replaced. And even then, nothing can be too cut and dry since the borders and people and governments do actually change quite a lot. And then, there is an element of having a recorded history that somehow comes into play without being well defined. In other words, I think by objective standards, most nations are actually quite young and the US is rather old.
The governments change. The people and ācultureā donāt change very much or quickly.
I think of countries more as the people who live there and the place than its form of government.
The US has a short memory, which is why itās future focused and ignores the past. We donāt have monuments like the Great Wall, the Pyramids, or the Colosseum to remind us of a past.
We have this ācity on a hillā mentality, so thereās always an apocalypse on the horizon that directs our energy.
No matter how long it exists it will always think of itself as a young nation because itās ignoring its own past. But thatās a feature, not a bug.
Are you Gore Vidal?
Iāve never read him, but after looking him up Iām curious now. Time to educate myself.
