Just because something “doesn’t make sense to do” doesn’t mean it doesn’t pay off.
For example, it doesn’t make sense to have sex all the time with one or more women because it’s not good to have too many babies. But it doesn’t take away the fact that it “pays off”.
Are you agreeing with me? I am disagreeing with your premise that “Everything that pays off is worth doing”. It sounds like in a weird way of saying it, that you agree with me?
I do agree with you when you said that it may not be something that is sensible to do (if I said that right), but my point is, it still pays off even though it is not a sensible thing.
“Everything that pays off is worth doing” is not a universal truth.
Explain.
That’s not worth doing.
Ah, because you can’t.
Fair enough. Moving on.
Actually, he one-upped an explanation… He demonstrated it.
Yeah, I’m not against rationalism, just that people generally don’t need it until they have enough experience and have produced results to be considered near advanced level. Then they can science the fuck out of this shit as much as they want. The way they interpret studies will be entirely different from the way someone with less experience and results will interpret them.
I think @bulldog9899 or @FlatsFarmer brought up Josh Bryant. He’s a good example of the kind of person I’m talking about.
But, of course, I would caution people to be wary of certain coaches who are big but are using “science” as a value added thing to sell their products. It’s become a competitive market out there and even some of the accomplished guys are selling bullshit(I’m not talking about supplements).
Arnold’s a bloody brilliant guy. I read his biography Total Recall and saw how much he even contributed to the creative process of his earlier hit movies and the marketing of them. People don’t give him enough credit for how smart he really is.
Of course, all the Arnold impressions people do are pretty damn funny. Not complaining about those lol.
I have to bring this up. Reason is the slave of passions. No human being has such impeccable psychological and intellectual makeup that everything that he says is 100% unbiased. Just not gonna happen. We can only do our best and nothing beyond that.
For example, why does John Broz propose daily squatting and why did his mentor Antonio Krastev told him to squat everyday? Because that’s what they grew up on. It’s not a scientifically-sound conclusion. Broz saw a strong dude (Krastev) lift insane weights and got inspired. Krastev got coached by a dude who coached dudes who ended up becoming champions. It’s hard not to believe that EMPIRICAL result.
At the end of the day, no one has it right. There’s tons of ultra lean powerlifters who know jack shit about true conditioning and tons of martial artists who know jack shit about the BASIC principles of strength training. You also got doctors who don’t know about why athletes aim to reduce cortisol levels.
So really, we’re all forced to just rely on the words of authority figures as a convenient and viable shortcuts to knowledge. It’s luck…
This whole thread reeks of you trying to justify to us in a “logical” way that your plan of squatting every damn day is this irrefutable brilliant plan.
My man, if you like squatting every day and it’s working for you, more power to ya. Log your process and progress and we’ll cheer you on, but don’t try to “Ben Shapiro” us.
lol.
Not the whole thread, I assure you. My post with my syllogism was supposed to be separate but it just got merged here. The original purpose of this thread was to entice deep discussion. But anyway, it’s funny how you mentioned logging my workouts because I was planning on doing that TODAY.
You mentioned Ben Shapiro. I love it. I’m a fan of him even though he comes off as a little bit arrogant. But I do like him because he’s sharp as heck.
And no one has claimed otherwise.
Who says it’s not a “scientifically sound” conclusion and why would you assume that they only do it because “that’s what they grew up on”?
I go by simple probability. The probability of a doctor knowing what he’s saying is much higher than the accuracy of what you’ve written in this entire paragraph.
Luck has nothing to do with this. No one is forcing you to listen to anyone. You can easily go to the gym and learn by observation just by looking at and/or having conversations with multiple successful people doing what they’re doing.
And, please, seriously, spare me the pseudo-philosophical nonsense. You suck at this.
Hey come on man! That hurt!
It’s not pseudo!
It’s not pseudo dude. Pseudo if it’s fake, but the concepts I’m bringing up here are legit.
And it’s not polite to call someone who spends his life in philosophy as someone who’s sucking. Perhaps back up your words with arguments and DISSECT the stuff I said and tell me why you think they suck. Otherwise, you’re the ignorant one.
It’s not worth doing.
