Ok, man, I apologize. Sincerely. I took an entire year of jurisprudence which left me absolutely hating anything to do with philosophical debates, hence my sarcasm and my unwillingness to go any further into this.
You can take it up with @T3hPwnisher, who was a political science and philosophy major IIRC, if you really are interested in a real, intellectually honest philosophical discussion and not just random ramblings trying to appear to be smart, which is the sense I’m getting from your posts.
Again, I apologize for my previous posts, even though I was being brutally honest in my last sentence in this one. Please don’t take offence at that. You can just write me off as just another random dickhead on the internet if it upsets you too much. I’m not doing this as a personal vendetta or anything like that and I sincerely have nothing personal against you as a person in any way.
It’s really difficult for outcome focussed people to worry about the nuances of better approaches when the biggest factors are about application, being consistent, continuing to train for long enough and not getting sidelined by injury for too long.
If you’re an Olympic athlete or train one and you get 1 chance in four years, millions are on the line and tiny details matter then maybe this is a good thing to ponder.
For the rest of us, it is about moving the resistance a little better this month than last. This is extraordinary simple and the difference between fantastic and okay is really small so there is very little value in thinking about it more than this. Maybe send a DM to Greg Nuckols
I think results get used too freely to justify things in the muscle building world without enough thought sometimes.
I mean, here is an example of a rule that I could share but really shouldn’t.
You can’t get a big chest unless you do flys.
So I found that I can’t get a big chest unless I do flys but there a few things behind this. Firstly I’ve never pressed super heavy because of a rotator cuff injury that I can’t quite fix. It also means that my shoulder is slightly pulled in and the ROM on my right side is poor. I also have long arms. So flys work for me but for people who can press heavy, have shorter arms and good mobility might not need flys.
Results for me don’t mean results for someone else if they do the same as me. Another case in point is the vastly different muscle building routines on here. Low frequency/ high frequency/ volume etc. What works for one can’t work for all.
I was going to take a stab at premise 3. Activities that produce great results which are worth doing must be done by employing a similar reasoning to yours.
