2 Words: BODY BUILD. I have wanted and want to BUILD my BODY.
I lift because it is a means to self-actualization, and it’s also highly addictive.
Chicks dig strength and muscle.
It makes me strike harder and out-muscle the higher belts at the dojo.
I love that people gawk at me when the bar bends during deads, or look utterly confused when I do olympic lifts.
I lift because it preserves that thrill I would get as a kid when I grew another inch or I noticed something “different” in the mirror compared to a while ago. Noticeably wider shoulders, more forearm definition, the little things.
I lift because I still remember what it was like to be a 7th-grade Nintendo kid and how powerless I felt when the sporty guys were stronger, faster, more confident, and got more girls.
I lift because when I go out on weekends, I see some of the “sporty” guys from old school days with new beer guts and double chins and it gives me a feeling of sadistic pleasure inside that I’m stronger, faster, more confident, and get more girls.
I love always having a goal for the week. Even when the rest of life is so dull, I have a personal challenge four-to-six days of the week that absolutely MUST be fulfilled.
Most of all I love how the more I lift in the gym, the lighter everything else in the world gets.
– ElbowStrike
I lift because I’m a man, and all men should strive to be alpha.
[quote]texasguy wrote:
Mad Titan wrote:
texasguy wrote:
CaliforniaLaw wrote:
Someone needs to tell Jeff Monson (one of the greatest submission grapplers in the world) to lose some of that non-functional muscle.
jeff monsons career ended after having his shit rocked by much less muscular guys time after time.
like tim sylvia right? please
look up his record. the quick, smaller guys were better built to whip his ass.
check out requirements for military special forces too. there is a reason they only take a certain size.
“hyooge” muscles have their place and those places are in the gym or on a stage [/quote]
uh yeah I was in the marines. I was considered overweight for my height and weight but because of my bodyfat I got a waiver. Even though I was only 180/185 people used to think that would slow me down…the key phrase is used to think…to start listing what I did would be like bragging so I will stop here. The bottom line is muscles don’t slow you down
[quote]Mad Titan wrote:
texasguy wrote:
Mad Titan wrote:
texasguy wrote:
CaliforniaLaw wrote:
Someone needs to tell Jeff Monson (one of the greatest submission grapplers in the world) to lose some of that non-functional muscle.
jeff monsons career ended after having his shit rocked by much less muscular guys time after time.
like tim sylvia right? please
look up his record. the quick, smaller guys were better built to whip his ass.
check out requirements for military special forces too. there is a reason they only take a certain size.
“hyooge” muscles have their place and those places are in the gym or on a stage
uh yeah I was in the marines. I was considered overweight for my height and weight but because of my bodyfat I got a waiver. Even though I was only 180/185 people used to think that would slow me down…the key phrase is used to think…to start listing what I did would be like bragging so I will stop here. The bottom line is muscles don’t slow you down[/quote]
if you train them to function how they need to. i am going to go out on a limb here and guess that the marines did not dump you off at a weight room and let you do your thing?
they made you run alot, do lots of pushups and pullups for endurance, then run some more… they made your strength functional strength.
going to the gym, running on the treadmill for ten minutes and then lifting weights is not conditioning muscles to provide functional strength at all, which was the original argument.
silly willy.
[quote]texasguy wrote:
Mad Titan wrote:
texasguy wrote:
Mad Titan wrote:
texasguy wrote:
CaliforniaLaw wrote:
Someone needs to tell Jeff Monson (one of the greatest submission grapplers in the world) to lose some of that non-functional muscle.
jeff monsons career ended after having his shit rocked by much less muscular guys time after time.
like tim sylvia right? please
look up his record. the quick, smaller guys were better built to whip his ass.
check out requirements for military special forces too. there is a reason they only take a certain size.
“hyooge” muscles have their place and those places are in the gym or on a stage
uh yeah I was in the marines. I was considered overweight for my height and weight but because of my bodyfat I got a waiver. Even though I was only 180/185 people used to think that would slow me down…the key phrase is used to think…to start listing what I did would be like bragging so I will stop here. The bottom line is muscles don’t slow you down
if you train them to function how they need to. i am going to go out on a limb here and guess that the marines did not dump you off at a weight room and let you do your thing?
they made you run alot, do lots of pushups and pullups for endurance, then run some more… they made your strength functional strength.
going to the gym, running on the treadmill for ten minutes and then lifting weights is not conditioning muscles to provide functional strength at all, which was the original argument.
silly willy. [/quote]
You sure are stupid. So far, you have proven that you can argue with people who have actually been in the military about what is needed FOR the military. Good job. You keep that up, Poopsie. Only someone really really small and weak would feel that much need to prattle on about how useless big muscles are.
[quote]Professor X wrote:
texasguy wrote:
Mad Titan wrote:
texasguy wrote:
Mad Titan wrote:
texasguy wrote:
CaliforniaLaw wrote:
Someone needs to tell Jeff Monson (one of the greatest submission grapplers in the world) to lose some of that non-functional muscle.
jeff monsons career ended after having his shit rocked by much less muscular guys time after time.
like tim sylvia right? please
look up his record. the quick, smaller guys were better built to whip his ass.
check out requirements for military special forces too. there is a reason they only take a certain size.
“hyooge” muscles have their place and those places are in the gym or on a stage
uh yeah I was in the marines. I was considered overweight for my height and weight but because of my bodyfat I got a waiver. Even though I was only 180/185 people used to think that would slow me down…the key phrase is used to think…to start listing what I did would be like bragging so I will stop here. The bottom line is muscles don’t slow you down
if you train them to function how they need to. i am going to go out on a limb here and guess that the marines did not dump you off at a weight room and let you do your thing?
they made you run alot, do lots of pushups and pullups for endurance, then run some more… they made your strength functional strength.
going to the gym, running on the treadmill for ten minutes and then lifting weights is not conditioning muscles to provide functional strength at all, which was the original argument.
silly willy.
You sure are stupid. So far, you have proven that you can argue with people who have actually been in the military about what is needed FOR the military. Good job. You keep that up, Poopsie. Only someone really really small and weak would feel that much need to prattle on about how useless big muscles are.[/quote]
Lol I love it.