[quote]rainjack wrote:
AccipiterQ wrote:
Tristram wrote:
As far as seeing this kind of stuff, I got it quite a bit when I interned in a public accounting firm recently. It was people who thought that a good workout was walking up/down 2 flights of stairs 3 times a day. It is people asking me if I workout/train, and then they look at me like I am from Mars when I tell them what I do and how I train. I think it hit the peak when someone told me that they found a study that said that drinking 6-8 glasses of water a day was not all that benificial. She then supported this idea by saying that she didn’t have to go to the bathroom very often if she didn’t drink all that much. How lazy can you get? Now, to be fair, there were a few folks there who were in pretty good shape, but by and large, these folks just could not stand the fact that some people actually get off of their asses and train sometimes. I also got the “fat is bad for you” line a good bit. This was often said to me as a person chowed down on a cerial bar that had nothing but carbs in it, or fat free chips. I think its the ignorance of a statement like that that appauls me the most. Certain types of fat are bad, yes, but the human body needs fat, carbs, and protien, in the proper proportions, to stay healthy.
I will end on this note. We have gotten into a very serious and heated debate over a lot of different topics, all because of an article that, as near as I can tell, was intended to be funny first and foremost. I just can’t help but laugh at this a little bit.
haha yeah the article was supposed to be funny, I got a chuckle out of it.
As for people looking at you like you have two heads…it’s because most people DON’T train like we do here…there has never been a time in history when a majority of people trained as hard as most on this site do.
There’s also the problem that a lot of us, when asked about how we train get very snide and condescending (not saying you do) with the people asking. I’ve caught myself doing so a few times and apologized. For some reason people in very good shape get this sense of superiority often times. The reaction a lot of people here are bitching about isn’t because of some ‘metrofication’ of society, but maybe a reaction to how they present themselves to others.
Says the guy who can’t seem to take a picture that isn’t of his flexed abs.
Dude. Never, EVER act like you are part of the same club I am a part of. You don’t train like I do. You take metro, ghey ab shots. You have the disease and you don’t even know it.
Not that I give a shit how you choose to live, or what you want to look like - but please don’t include yourself in any sort of “real man” fraternity.
And while we are on the subject - please clue me the fuck in on how you became an expert on ruminant nutrition.
Please stop acting like you are part of any world I am a part of. You are not. To assume you you are shows just how detached you have become from exactly what real man actually is.
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See and this is EXACTLY what I was posting about. You take this attitude, and others do too, that you are somehow ‘superior’ or ‘elite’ because you train harder. But someone who doesn’t may do something ELSE with more enthusiasm than you do. But you come off like a total asswipe. The ghey myspace pictures I’ve taken and posted on here have all been captioned as such, and are blatantly a parody. I have about 10 pictures on here of my legs, quads, ham strings, and lats. But you choose to focus on something else and come off sounding like a douche with a false sense of superiority. and THAT is a big reason why people give ‘body builders’ so much shit. Part of it is because someone in piss poor shape also probably feels bad about it, and if you’re in good shape you make them more aware of this. But a HUGE part of it is the attitude.
Like look at this statement: "To assume you you are shows just how detached you have become from exactly what real man actually is. " I am DYING to see what your list of what a real man is actually looks like. I’m dying to hear it. Does choking down more supplements than me make you a real man? Does going to the gym a couple hours a week extra make you a real man? Is it your ‘dedication’ to the gym that does? PLEASE tell me, because otherwise you’re just spouting off and you sound like a complete assfuck.
