What makes you think I give a shit about Wendler? All I do is recommend the 531 PROGRESSION MODEL because it is idiot proof(almost) and easily adaptable to anything you can think of.
Client pictures? I can get you lots of “client pictures” easily if you’re willing to foot the bill. I am not making this up. Easily.
You guys gotta stop idolizing internet personalities.
That’s kind of his thing though, he’s even said something along the lines of “bros get it right too” when talking about conventional knowledge versus studies. I think he’s just found a way to really summarize and quantify knowledge and repackaging it for beginners.
I’m very thankful for the hours of basic knowledge that he put out for free! I didn’t start lifting until I was 22 and had 0 knowledge going into it. I made some progress but then it really took off after learning how to program, why and how to deload, nutrition, etc.
Yes people have figured this stuff out a long time ago but that knowledge has been packaged in a noob friendly way and taken advantage of the internet we have to spread that info around the world for free. I think that’s pretty cool.
Thats the issue you see all the time… with all the information out there on the internet for people to see ,it has over complicated things. You have this " expert" say one thing another contradicting what the other guy says. On and on it goes and you have inexperienced people stuck in the middle. Things just seemed simpler when all one had was a monthly copy of a muscle mag.
Honestly I think guys are actually afraid to experiment on their own and have become reliant on other experts. But I have stated before the gym culture has changed where you dont see experienced guys taking new guys under their wings anymore. At least not like they once did…
I don’t really see any experienced guys hanging around. I see a lot of lean/thin folks just trying to feel good and stay healthy. The other majority is your long time “bodybuilder” who eats crap and drinks too much (like a college kid). And the rest are lost newbs and weird people.
I guess this could all be because I go to a family oriented gym, but I have a family and need the child care service.
Well my old ass is just being nostalgic for what it was like way back.
How can we ever talk about Directed Adaptation and Adaptive Resistance if we don’t have a fancy name for the simple stuf… errr… I mean, for the underlying foundational concepts?
This is some of the best advice for modern society you’ll come across.
You talk the talk… But do you walk the walk? 
My gym has people who go to the Arnold’s and place well and females who deadlift over 500lbs. I do okay but I’m more trying to prevent myself falling on my ass and backward down the hill than walking any walk Haha
There aren’t that many women in the world who deadlift 500. Powerlifting watch has 5 of them. You have multiple women deadlifting OVER 500?
I wish I could be one of them LOL
Every women’s weight class above above 114 has a 500lbs+ record? The WR is well above 600lbs. I stopped counting the number of 500lbs+ deadlifts in competition over at openpowerlifting when I got to 50. Two women in my gym deadlift over 500lbs.
Edit: Technically one of them I’ve only seen 220kg which is 485lbs (I thought 220 was 500 but 226 is 500)
The problem is: eat and train hard does not make you money on the internet. Back in the day that is what all the guys did, and they made more progress than the guys walking around today. Growing up with 80s and 90s bodybuilders, I can tell you. They didn’t give a shit about the science or what was said elsewhere. They just worked. That was it.
I have never really been into the guys like Mike I, the 3dmj squad, Greg Knuckols, and all these other new-age science, arm chair experts, simply because they overcomplicate an already overcomplicated industry. I get it, science is cool, its sounds convinving (I am science graduate myself), but at the end of the day, your basically all trying to say the same thing: more work to grow, pull back a little to recover. Eat more to grow, eat less to lean out. SIMPLE.
Me personally, I wish social media and online gurus would just fade away to dust so that we can get back to the hard work the golden guys put in.
I don’t know that arm chair expert is a fair label for those who have held world records lol
Fair enough. But my point still stands: information overload these days is confusing the shit out of many people.
That’s fair, my bad - it came across as accusatory and I was just impressed more than anything haha
Yep I can confirm your comment regarding the era you mentioned. I’m one of the grey beards on here. God I miss those times! Like i mentioned up the line during that time frame the amount of information was very limited. That being a few monthly mags and doing what the bigger guys were doing in the gym. Which in retrospect might not have been a bad thing. Hell I would even say my own core training philosophy has not really changed that much at its core from when I was a kid to be honest.
I’m in the same boat. Getting to the point I’m walking the walk. But with a walker
Won’t happen. The fact that you can get paid based on your subscribers guarantees this. You don’t have to know a darn thing to attract followers. Look the way they want to look and tell them what they want to hear and you’re an Insta trainer.
Now that I think of it, I should post my before and after pics on social media and start selling programs. I’ll give credit to some gimmick because hard work and discipline aren’t popular.
9 time Power Lifting World Champion from the 70s. Old School!
