I have posted in the check in thread before.
There isn’t anything else I can argue with in your post.
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I am uncomfortable with speculation regarding the amount of balls I do or do not have.
I have the average amount. No more, no less.
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Indeed you did; I apologize, I did not look all the way back to last February’s check-in thread, where you posted a selfie of a pretty-decent-looking-but-not-otherwordly upper body, which suggests that you are in roughly the same level of physique development as most of us chumps (except for mystery men like Yogi, who admittedly has never provided evidence of his supposed veins-in-lower-abs physique, so I guess I’m willing to take flipcollar’s word for it that he exists and does, in fact, look like he lifts).
I don’t really care. I’m merely pointing out that, if your issue is that Yogi doesn’t post any videos or progress photos to back up his expert-ness and is therefore one of the chumps that the place is overflowing with, you should realize that you’re in basically the same position. That’s fine; although many of us post training video or keep a log to document our progress, I don’t believe that need be a requirement for participation in forum discussion. I do agree that people who have some documentation of their own feats and/or progress could potentially carry more weight than someone who’s basically saying “Trust me, I know things” but we can all make our own judgments on individuals and their credibility (um, like you did when deciding that “the forum director” does not sufficiently impress you).
Anyways, if you’re better than the rest of us chumps, you’re free to post a video of yourself deadlifting 700 pounds or a photo of yourself onstage in a physique competition, something that demonstrates your non-chumpness, and I will be happy to give your opinion more esteem than the other chumps populating these forums. Until that time, you’re no better than Yogi or “the forum director” and we will continue posting away using at least 20 characters to express our thoughts to one another.
EDIT: I should add that your page does indicate that you’re a longtime member, so it’s possible that at some point prior to this you did regularly post videos and/or training details. My comment should specify that you have not done this recently.
Ha! I stand corrected. We now only need 4 characters!
Anyways, back to Yogi’s Random Training Thoughts.
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What’s goin on in this mothafuck… oh…
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Oh, I care. My panties are knotted in a friggin bow right now! How’s mdix get an invite to see the ol yogi bears and I don’t! That’s some hoe ass shit, man!
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I apologize for saying that this site is filled with chumps. It’s not a physique related thing for me.
Chump as I see it, is someone who gives the impression that they are at a high level when in fact they are mediocre. Champ=high level
Chump=acts like they are high level but are not. A person could be a chump because of their physique depending on how they have been presenting themselves. But, just because a person has a poor physique doesn’t automatically make them a Chump.
Wouldn’t the average amount be less than two though? I’m going out on a limb and guessing you’ve got a lot more men walking around with fewer than two balls than you do with 3 or more, so I figure the average has gotta be around 1.8 or so.
If so, it really makes your achievements even more impressive.
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That would be a mean average, but I’m operating off of mode.
Plus, you gotta factor margin of error along with sampling bias.
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You can have my invite. I am going to pass on the putting of my balls in yogi’s face. But, knock yourself out. Better yet, knock yogi out when you give him a tea bag
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Can’t say I’ve ever gotten the whole chump vibe from yogibear to be honest. He just seems like a fun guy to be around and half the time he’s either being somewhat self deprecating and the other half, he’s being honest as shit. Spilling off thoughts most of us have and would agree with.
That and @ActivitiesGuy nailed it on the head when he said not having photos/training log/whatever doesn’t make you less of a member.
Unless… You’re doing this so he posts a pic so we can all see what he looks like. If that’s the case, dang, this is an unnecessary amount of effort placed into seeing a grown man almost naked on the Internet.
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so you’re saying I didn’t actually meet him? lol.
here’s the thing. I don’t think you’ve read his posts enough. In the T Nation transformation thread that’s been going on, he’s been 100 percent honest about what his phyique is currently like. He’s also been honest about being a trainer. And honestly, I don’t think I’ve read any training advice he’s given that I don’t at least partially agree with. He and I don’t really train the same way, but the basic principles are similar, and we have substantially different goals at that. And ON TOP OF ALL THAT, Yogi has never claimed to be an expert.
So my last thought here, is I wonder what specifically you disagree with him about. What has he said that’s so egregiously incorrect about training? What has he told beginners that absolutely won’t work for them? As I recall, you’re a performance-oriented guy, as I am, when it comes to lifting. Yogi isn’t that and has never claimed to be.
Anyway, I just don’t see a reason to be such a dick, particularly in Yogi’s own training log.
Final thought: I remember reading your posts a lot a year or 2 ago. Whenever it was that you posted a lot. I always thought you were rather condescending, inflexible, and often wrong-headed in your own advice. And from what I’ve read, you’ve never really accomplished anything in the lifting world.
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I was promised half naked pictures damn it!!! Eye candy to be exact! That shit better be worth the wait!
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Yog’s, have you ever looked into getting an inversion table?
There does not seem to be much solid research on them, although I have noticed that some people swear by it. They are not too expensive, so im considering giving one a shot. What are your thoughts?
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How MUCH T3? @Thiago_Monteiro amounts?
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Woke up, saw “Yogi’s Random Training Thoughts (33)”. I thought “this ought to be good”, I wasn’t prepared for what followed.
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I never looked to see what section it was in. I saw it in the most popular tab, or one of the other tabs. I didn’t go into training log section and find it. I just read the title as a think tank. Then read through a little and it didn’t jump out to me as a training log.