I’d be tempted to go if I were you. I think you’d like. Go as hard as you can until you die, then repeat. That sounds like it’s right up your alley.
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It was originally what I vectored toward before strongman (to compete in), but the gymnastics moves were a no sale with my buggy shoulders. But I think it’d be a good supplement to what I’m doing. Trying to get the mrs involved too, just because she seems like she’s getting burnt out with distance running.
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I’m wondering if people have ever heard the bands Wendler names his programs after. This one made me want to shove icepicks in my ears.
I youtubed it on my main tv so it was blasted through the large speakers. 2 of my cats start posturing and making fighting noises.
Tv: “Growwl…raaggh… ahhhhh grrrrggg”
Cats: “Ohhhh…nononononom”
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I have only trained once in 2 weeks and that session consisted of 200 curls and 200 side laterals. Probably won’t train much over the Christmas period either!
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That’s most of his suggestions and most of the suggestions you will get in any thread named “Music You Train To”.
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This is what all metal sounds like to me.
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I gotta be honest. I was introduced to this song on one of those threads and after laughing nonstop for multiple listens, I play it sometimes to irritate the relatives on my wife’s side when they come over to visit.
I feel rather torn between the “lifting is the best antidepressant” saying, and “antidepressants also do their job…well.” Lifting is great. It’s natural, releases a bunch of happy dolphins, and basically free. But the little manufactured multicolored skittles also help. Am I traitor? Lol . I find both helpful.
No, you’re not. Contrary to what many fitness professionals imply or boldly explain, lifting weights, a luxury, does not get one out of every miserable or tight situation. From several of their writings, one might wrongfully conclude that lifting is the base of all skills, and that from it, financial jams will be gotten out of, one will have to fight potential mates off with a stick, mental illness will be avoided, bad treatment will be avoided (you know, because you’re so muscular and scary looking and better than your fat and unfit citizens), and you’ll do well in just about anything else (because you’re just that driven generally).
Contrary to this, some of the most deducated bodybuilders and powerlifters I’ve met or know of are physically, emotionally, and intellectually lazy and damn undisciplined in just about everything else!
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You remember when this sport was still underground? The most hardcore straight bodybuilders were usually the ones who couldn’t get laid since most had lots of social and emotional issues, which was what attracted them to this in the first place.
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As I’ve admitted several times, I was one of those troubled people.
Many subcultures are filled with such people. Do ya think extreme metal, punk, and hardcore is generally played and listened by well adjusted people? Who else displays such uncalled-for rage, aggression, abrasive sounds, and literally SCREAMING?!
Gee, I wonder why I was attracted to those genres also? And the NYC graffiti scene, which I didn’t partake in but was intrigued by too.
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You didn’t like Coffinworm, did you lol?
I honestly can’t tell if people actually like this music or like to have people know they like this music to be hardcore or ‘metal’.
To me it just sounds like anger and chaos.
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There is no shame in relying on medical technology and pharmaceutical enhancement to have a better quality of life.
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Believe me, having listened to punk, hardcore (particularly New York Hardcore, a scene unto its own in which many band members were gang members), black metal and death metal, there are people, including myself, who actually love(d) the sound. But, congruent with what you say, they’re genres to which “scenes” are attached and they provide immediate shoe-ins to make friends, particularly with other lost souls.
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And Creme Brûlée is basically burnt pudding. People assign value and affinity to things that others don’t.
I can tease the genre because I do not enjoy nor understand how others can, the same way I get called a nerd for my love of sci-fi stuff.
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Brick, I’m honestly not poking fun at, or looking down on the metal genre lol, just some of the really awful parts of the genre. I have liked certain bands like Sepultura and Death for their riffs and vocals respectively. I thought Carcass was very interesting musically when they released Heartwork. Cannibal Corpse had the fucking funniest lyrics ever but I hated their music. Coffinworm is GOD AWFUL IMO.
When I played in a band for fun in my teens, there was kind of an amateur band scene where everyone I knew liked different genres but they always liked death metal for some reason so I ended up listening to a lot of stuff. 90 percent of demo tapes sold at jamming studios were from death metal bands. Every week there would be a free outdoor concert comprising of amateur bands at the local youth center and it would always be mostly death metal, ska and punk bands. First time I heard harmonized growling live, I nearly died of an asthma attack from laughing too hard.
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What has Creme Brûlée ever done to you?
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Considering this is the flame-free thread, I’ll go so far as to say this: they are genres for which scorn and shamed are deserved in some cases, I believe. I’ll try to follow up with this considering this is an area of interest.
Unfortunately due to the NDA I signed with my settlement Im not at liberty to explain.
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