Meh. The majority will just fuck it up again.
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Yeah a half way quality one isnt bloody cheap!
That’s a good point.
We’ve got lots of awesome coaches/resources/info/communication now, and people are still talking about fucking “burpees.”
Ill be honest most of my own philosophy and methodology hasnt changed much over time. There might have been some evolution but at its core its still the same.
Look, I’ll give you guys an example.
I tell someone that he needs to 1)train with intensity, 2)go to failure on his last set and 3)fatigue the muscles to grow.
The next week he’s trying to start a discussion with me about optimal RPE for each type of exercise, MRV and how to balance volume vs intensity.
What do I tell someone like that lol?
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It floors me that somehow guys in the past were able to make progress without RPE scale or MRV ( sarcasm alert)
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Lol.
Seriously, I don’t get it. This shit is so simple it’s actually instinctive. Animals play fight and do fucking acrobatics with toys when they are young so their bodies are built up for when they have to really fight or hunt and subdue prey when they grow up.
We can’t be dumber than them.
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I have stated it time and time again… Allot of what I do is firmly based on the K.I.S.S principle.
Most guys are all striving to have some mystical perfect program and loose sight of whats is important!
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Thanks man, @bulldog9899 told me in private that his wife is getting everyone one for Christmas. Dont tell other people tho, it’s a surprise.
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Tell them they read the textbook, now get to the gym. The answers are in there.
Confession:
I started messing around with RPE six or seven months ago.
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Nono I think it’s perfectly fine if you know what you’re doing and use it as a tool to gauge fatigue and progression. I use it sometimes to make myself hold back from pushing a set too far if I’m training to improve a few selected lifts.
I’m talking about people who don’t know what they’re doing.
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Jamie Lewis has a quote which, though incredibly crass, I just can’t shake.
“Lifting weights is so simple that they do it in the special Olympics”
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They’ll come around if they want.
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Ever notice that they seem to be the ones drawn to the over complicate stuff the most?
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The problem I find with all this super-advanced-sounding terminology being so readily available is that anyone can pretend to be (and feel like) an expert.
There’s a non-fitness forum I frequent with a fitness section and a guy there is constantly posting and giving people training advice that’s backed up by his vast technical knowledge of strength & conditioning. Never mind that he has a four-year-old training log in that section and can’t deadlift three plates.
I’ve sometimes pointed out that he is even less qualified to give advice than I am, and I most certainly am not, but he always simply says “I read.”
Right, yeah, but unless those books you’re picking up weigh 200kg that means absolutely fuck-all. Maybe if he spent less time reading and more time lifting he’d actually have some advice worth listening to.
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I still wonder if this is just a fitness thing or not. I see it a LOT on fitness forums, where someone just consumes a lot of media on the topic and deems themselves an expert irrespective of personal results.
Are their guitar forums where guys give advice on downtuning and debate the merits of humbucker pick ups even though they can’t play 2 chords? Are their fly fishing forums with guys who live in Nevada and only ever see a fish at the buffet? Is this unique to this hobby?
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Christ all mighty … that seems to be the motto of allot of guys! That or I watch youtube!
Lets be honest how many of them dont?
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Oh yeah, while it was a bass forum that I frequented this was rampant in terms of gear choices and playing technique.
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Given my mention about fishing as well in the comment, I’ll wholly admit I read “bass” the wrong way the first time.
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