Flame Free! Every once in awhile, I feel good about my lifts, feel like I’m making some progress, and then I read through some of the training logs on here and get so fkn pissed (I’m genuinely happy for folks hitting PRs and just generally being strong as shit) but I just want to throw my damn hands up, yell ‘f*** it’ and retire because of all of you strong sonsabitches. 
*Also, well done on making me feel bad about myself, hateyouall 
If you want an even bigger laugh, then wait until CT describes why this makes perfect sense due to chemicals a b and c and their neurotypes.
I’m not gonna lie - CT really knows how to throw way too much information at people that do not need to do anything but shut up and work.
Edit: should add I respect him a lot, just disagree with the superduperscience approach
CT was my favorite fitness writer when I got into this a few years back. I’ve cooled off quite a bit on his recent stuff, but his pre-2015 or so work I still dig.
He provides too much info yeah but I made great gains on his recent programs and well the last year under his tutelage, I made the best gains since nooby gains despite having depression for 6 months and killing myself with very heavy drinking, drugs and garbage food for 2 months
That my friend is ebola, not acne
Awesome you made such progress under those conditions dude.
Definitely wasn’t a dig at CT or his recent work, the guys resume speaks for itself. Just an acknowledgement that it doesn’t resonate with me the way some of his other stuff does.
He knows more than I do, and I don’t doubt that he’s right about most of it, I just think we see this overflow of knowledge being thrown at people and they spend so much time thinking about all this “optimizing” shit that they forget to just work. That’s probably why CT is great for pro athletes - they’ve already done the work, now he can optimize their approach. For beginners and most people, it’s too much.
I feel that way all the time.
A large % of people could read one or 2 books on the subject and be set.
Thanks man. It was hard. I guess really at that time it was training that kept me going on.
I guess some coaches/programs have more appeal to some people. Just like I never did 5/3/1 and that’s the only program I never tried I give to my trainees because you just cannot ignore the positive returns. I’ll defy try it someday though
I watched Westside vs The World and got bored after 20 mins so I turned it off and rewatched Shogun’s Assassin. It was Louie’s fault.
I gave it a watch a couple days ago. I think the gist of it was: We’re all a bunch of A-holes to eachother and can’t figure out why people keep leaving the gym.
Today is crap. Got a chest infection, missed a heavy triple, and I’m 1kg heavier.
So blow it. I’m having a peanut butter sandwich and some beer!!!
Ironically from allot of former members have said, they were told to make the guy next to them better than themselves .
make it a Guinness
Never!
I hate the stuff. Which is odd as I’m a rugby man. Usually the black stuff is kind of a given for us!
Make it a burger
Like tough love taken to a sadistic level.
I also got the vibe of “You can go anywhere you want. Your records stay here.”.
Well I never said that those guys were the most mentally stable
