Lmfao now that is just creepy !!
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You started it man
I’m here for the gun show
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Good to see you mate, Not sure how much of a show it is, maybe if I actually trained them for the next year😂
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I just assume that he has already texted her those pics.
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Na those ones were shirtless ! 
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Lol imagine that! One might almost think I’ve been giving out good advice for many years by now 
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Yer who’d have thunk it !!
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I have a decent dose of Doms this morning. Mostly in the legs but biceps are telling me they don’t like me too.
It always amazes me how changing a few movements even when the weights aren’t too heavy really wakes up parts of the body that just don’t get used.
This has really got me thinking about what accessories I will add through the next few training blocks. Need to have a good think about weak points and see what the coach thinks.
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I always find it funny @The_Mighty_Stu how there are guys like yourself and @BrickHead on here who have years of experience in training, competing and coaching and people still don’t listen or ignore the advice all together. Back when I started training I would have given my left arm to have 10 mins to talk with a real bodybuilder. Hell back in 1993 I drove hours to get to a seminar just to listen to Dorian talk about training. Imagine being 18 and able to come on here and learn from people with real achievements and 25 years experience !!! The whole world has just gone crazy.
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Because someone from YouTube told me about a study (that I didn’t read, cos readings hard, done on 2 aged spider monkeys) on how to get maximum hypertrophy with no hard work and a lot of expensive stuff!
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Yeah, I’m never going to understand it either. It took me years, years before I could acknowledge how far I had come in that I have gone from being someone looking for some type of constantly confirmation I was doing the right thing, to feeling confident enough, from my repeated successes, from the repeated successes of people who sort out my help, from the secure knowledge that I actually had an education and a background that I was applying scientifically supported approaches that unquestionably made sense,… and yet… Maybe the world has changed, maybe it’s always been this way where people without the experience or knowledge have a difficult time admitting as such.
There’s certainly no lack of charlatans and Conmen pretending they’re more accomplished than they are. Heck, we can see it with people passing themselves off as Experts every single day, when all they’ve done is “write” a few articles that are pretty much stolen from the works of others, and pay an up and coming lifter or two to say that they’re being coached by them when everyone in the sport knows otherwise. That’s the Darkside of social media built reputations I suppose.
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Can you link me that video please?
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Genuine question: how many of them know they are conmen, and how many just genuinely don’t realise that they haven’t accomplished very much?
I can certainly name a few that have made a very conscious business model of establishing very very “embellished” (outright false) online reputations solely from the couple of things I mentioned. Ask yourself how many “authors” you read online would you 100% believe everything they write and portray themselves as?
My list to answer that is small, and I assume likewise among other industry folk for the Exact same reasons. I’m a NY guy, and I can tell you that the fitness community, especially where I am on Long Island, is very small. As such, seeing articles online from a Long Island “coach” filled with lies that every member of the community in NY knows are such, just looks bad on the site publishing them, BUT It still manages to instill that false persona and “their” approaches into the minds of beginners or those who just don’t know better.
Again, it’s a business model, a dishonest and disreputable one at that.
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I understand this, I certainly don’t condone it but I do understand people using other peoples idea and accomplishments to better their own financial situation. What I don’t understand, is when someone is told exactly what works by someone who has shown it works on themselves and multiple other people and the person either ignores it or tries to quote some internet or youtube study to argue against it.
I also dont understand why there is so much need for people to ask whether a program is best for them or not. Just to the damn program and see what the results are.
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Monday 28th September - resto week 2
GHR
88 x 8 x 4 sets
Inc bench
Bar x 10
70 x 5
80 x 10 x 3 sets (176 lbs)
These take a little getting used to. Good pump.
Lat pull down
72 x 12 x 4 sets
these burn !!
Land mines
15 x 10 x 3 sets
Rolling tricep ext
SS dumbell curls
15kg x 3 sets
Arm splitting pump !
Another good little restorative session. Nothing hurt and got a good pump.
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The timing on this is funny. I went to teach at a thing for young army kids training to become officers this weekend. I’m old enough that I’m the only one there at this point that was in my field and the only one with any combat experience, and nobody had a single question for me - even though what they were learning was specifically my subject matter.
Anyway, they weren’t bad kids (like nobody was playing on their phone and they weren’t hiding out or anything), I just think our access to “noise” has become so ubiquitous we’ve devalued real information.
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I wonder how much this has to do with people spending too much time online and not enough actually fave to face having conversations.
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Some amazing couple of sessions over the last week…keep it going
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