I sat down for lunch one day in my cafeteria and my friend sits at the same table with a personal pizza and a large ice cream sandwich. So, trying to give him a hard time, I say “dude, that’s what? 4,000 calories and like a billion grams of fat for lunch?”
So he gets around to asking me: “Well, which one is bad for you, calories or carbohydrates?”
I kid you not.
My reply? Both and neither.
It’s hard to blame him for his ignorance when all you see in the grocery store mags and on TV is the propagation of idiocy regarding “evil” calories and carbs etc. We live in a sad world, my friends.
i think people like to remain ignorant as to set themselves up for failure then have the cop-out of “well i did this and this and that and nothing happened, so i really just cant change blahlblah”. like they know deep down if they really wanted to make a change they could do some research or ask around or just whatever but instead its like lemme take the easy way out.
Speaking of roid rage, I was watching a show on National Geographic channel about testosterone and those assholes said that testosterone doesnt actually cause increased aggressive behavior. It does increase risk taking behavior. It also increases the badness you feel for losing status(so if someone disrespects you youll be more likely to crush their face in) It is also decreases verbal skills and increases spatial whatchamajigger skills. It was a fairly interesting program.
[quote]rander wrote:
Speaking of roid rage, I was watching a show on National Geographic channel about testosterone and those assholes said that testosterone doesnt actually cause increased aggressive behavior. It does increase risk taking behavior. It also increases the badness you feel for losing status(so if someone disrespects you youll be more likely to crush their face in) It is also decreases verbal skills and increases spatial whatchamajigger skills. It was a fairly interesting program.[/quote]
lol, You saw that too? Yeah, that show was kinda weird though. But honestly, I still believe testosterone does cause more aggresive behavior.
Did you like the last thing they talked about? I found that stuff always creepy.
[quote]rander wrote:
Speaking of roid rage, I was watching a show on National Geographic channel about testosterone and those assholes said that testosterone doesnt actually cause increased aggressive behavior. It does increase risk taking behavior. It also increases the badness you feel for losing status(so if someone disrespects you youll be more likely to crush their face in) It is also decreases verbal skills and increases spatial whatchamajigger skills. It was a fairly interesting program.[/quote]
[quote]ukrainian wrote:
“Whey protein is just like steroids.”
I think it should be legal to hunt people for stupidity.[/quote]
This white guy that wants to be a black guy told me that he works out a popeyes. He said that if he did protein powder like everybody else at his gym then he would be just as big. He was talking about it like it was some kind of illegal hardcore drug like meth.
i was sitting on a bench between sets of w/e i was doing at the time and a few of the guys from Westside-barbell were training at the same time. they had the usual spectators but as one certain guy reps out 405 on the INCLINE bench i overhear a couple high school kids asking each other out loud, * why does he have to grunt so loud?* like its breaking there concentration while they bench there 135 for 5 reps of something?! i was Stunned i mean seriously? This guy has a 1RM of 860lbs. You’d think the little punks would show some respect instead of making dumbass comments
[quote]rander wrote:
Speaking of roid rage, I was watching a show on National Geographic channel about testosterone and those assholes said that testosterone doesnt actually cause increased aggressive behavior. It does increase risk taking behavior. It also increases the badness you feel for losing status(so if someone disrespects you youll be more likely to crush their face in) It is also decreases verbal skills and increases spatial whatchamajigger skills. It was a fairly interesting program.[/quote]
I read something along those lines a while back. Basically the idea was that it’s not excess test that causes aggressive behavior, it’s the opposite. Low test levels cause increased aggression, so here was my thinking(next logical step kind of thing): guy takes roids, which lowers or shuts off natural test production, levels in his system drop, experiences ‘roid rage.’ Just my theory, though.
As for dumb stuff said in the gym: years ago, when I was doing more traditional bodybuilding-type routines(cause that’s what they said in M&F), I was trying to get a friend out of the bar and into the gym. He actually showed up a couple times, and was doing arms with me(lucky for him it wasn’t Burnout Curls Day, bro) one time. I was showing him different tricep exercises, and was doing reverse grip pressdowns. He looked at me, in all seriousness, and asked:
[quote]ukrainian wrote:
“Whey protein is just like steroids.”
I think it should be legal to hunt people for stupidity.
[/quote]
I support this 100%. If not hunt, you should at least be able to walk over and smack them.
[quote]caveman101 wrote:
sorry to hjack, butwhos the guy in game_overs avatar?[/quote]
More importantly, who is the girl in boatguy’s avatar?
“Bicep curls are better than chin-ups, they’re the best bicep exercise you can do.”
This guy reads Muscle and Fitness religously, so he definitely knows his shit.
I showed him this website and I think he was really getting into it until his girlfriend threw a fit over all the pictures of half naked chicks on here. After that he just bashes T-Nation every chance he gets. :[
my mate - what do you do when you train?
me - you know, deadlifts, squats, push press etc.
my mate - ( picks up db and starts curling) is this a deadlift?
no shit