[quote]Roland Fisher wrote:
Ramo, that is so hurting my feelings. lol. I will respond to say that if you read my profile, you’d know that I don’t list my weight. I listed 185 as a final goal after coming back from serious injuries. Read more on that profile link, I’m a veteran that has been much larger at times (depends on how active I was in the ring and what weight class I was fighting in), and trained many others.
If you wish to focus on someones weight and not their experience, I respect that, it will pay dividends in the long run for sure. I believe it is more productive to focus on someone who has proven results. Again, it is a matter of focus, focusing on what matters more and you cannot go wrong. I assume that is why you mentioned it wise to read the coaches here, they have proven results, I do not, either do you.
The trouble with this beautiful technological advancement called the Internet is there is no accountability. Anything you write, or I, cannot be verified, I wish it could. What does that leave us? Only with critical thinking skills and reason.
Do you have that ability? Can you read Thib’s article and his post article clarifications and really still say his is way off? Can you evaluate the posts I made and give a logical response? It seems you can only divert the discussion to a personal attack… not really, I don’t think it was.
Let’s just say then that instead of rebutting what I said, you chose to bring up my weight. That shows me either you didn’t read my posts or you didn’t understand them, or you don’t care about intelligent discussion.
As for the fact that you can read the articles here and you don’t need anyone reiterating them, then why do you post? Everyone else can read the articles here just as you. Why have a forum?
Ramo, you are someone who has misses the point of any forum. They are to discuss, with ideas and thoughts that stand on their own merits. Attack an argument’s premises or conclusions, anything else reveals your lack of intelligence.
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Roland:
You’ve questioned my intelligence, reading skills, reasoning ability, and some other stuff. You say that I’ve missed your point, or that I’ve failed to address it. I must admit that you are right. I happen not to care in the least what your point was.
The thing is, with regard to building muscle, a person in your position has no business making points. You should be learning from people who actually HAVE SOME MUSCLE!
As for my point, it was this: When I first discovered this forum, there were a number of serious lifters posting here. Jay Floyd, Ross Bowsher, Patricia Smith, Landon Evans, Erica from Diablo, even Whit Baskin posted once in awhile(former WSM competitor). These people have all actually accomplished something as lifters. They got sick of the forum and left precisely BECAUSE OF PEOPLE LIKE YOU.
You are a mental masturbator. You are not a lifter. You don’t sound anything like a lifter, and I’ll bet you don’t look anything like one.
If it were up to me you wouldn’t frequent these (or any other) strength/lifting forums any more. Of course, it’s not up to me. So I posted because I feel, and I think there’s some sentiment here among REAL LIFTERS, that there are too many mental masturbators here. You don’t contribute anything worthwhile; you just have an opinion that you think is fit to share with serious lifters. Guess what? None of us want to hear it, if that means anything to you.
If you really wanted to get better at whatever your pursuit (bodybuilding/powerlifting/underwear modeling, whatever), you would talk less, listen more, and pour a little of the effort you expend being a jackass on the internet into lifting some heavy shit.
All the best.
You fucking clown.