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this thread was inspired by this thread
http://www.getbig.com/boards/index.php?topic=607684.0
when I read the above thread, I was taken back to a time where my life was training, dieting, looking in the mirror, tanning and nothing else
The weird thing I was doing all of these things yet I didn't compete
I just had nothing else in my life so I through myself body first into creating this life
...but I got older and I, organically, started to not care so much about my "abs"
I didn't care about meal prep
I started eating anything I wanted....btw- when I say "eating anything I wanted" I didn't mean "everyday was like a buffet"....if I felt like eating a whole pizza- great.....however, some nights I just wanted cereal....shit- there are some morning where I just eat a bagel and yogurt.....
I go back to the theme of getting older and how certain things don't organically matter as much as they used to
I don't have to force myself to think "you can't keep up".....you just honestly don't care about certain things anymore
You also realize that the Weider magazines may have fucked you up a bit because it sold you a lie
It sold you a image of what you are supposed to be and if you weren't "francois Benfatto" then you were nothingness
when did you get over the fact that you didn't have to go to a tanning bed before you hit the mall because if you weren't tan then girls wouldn't like you
however- lets not get crazy---I'm not gonna say be a slob lke Jason Blaha and start saying "yeah- I don't mind having a dad bod because FUCK THE MEDIA MAN!!!"....jason blaha was never anything and is a liar who NEVER had a great body....he should never talk about male body dysmorphia...if anything he should take up anorexia
uuummm.....I ranted and went off on tangents and I'll admit that I didn't proof read anything that posted but you get my drift
i forsee alot of edits to the above because of grammatical stuff
discuss
btw- the above shouldn't make sense to anyone under the age of 25....to you youngsters out there now is the time to buy into the myth and do your "8 meals a day, 8 hours of sleep" gimmick......you're young and now is the time to work for the machine
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35 was my cut off point and started embracing the tiny tit lifestyle.
Looking somewhat decent, relative to your genetic talent, is always important though.
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Looking somewhat decent, relative to your genetic talent, is always important though.
and then there is this too and I don't know if I verbalized it in my initial post
granted--it's important to have a decent fullfilling life but It by no means mean becoming a slob
in a related question to "looking good" after getting over the "Weider fallacy"--how long does it take for 35 year old you to set a healthy body image without remember absolutely shredded you from when you were 23?
it's like--you still look amazing......alittle "softer" but the only reason you think that is because, well, only you think that when in reality you look better than a majority of the people
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in a related question to "looking good" after getting over the "Weider fallacy"--how long does it take for 35 year old you to set a healthy body image without remember absolutely shredded you from when you were 23?
Wrong forum - remember, most here who "lived the lifestyle" never really got in shape to begin with.
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Never. I love it. I love eating clean, I love keeping a certain "system" of how I fuel my body, thus it rewards me with feeling great. I still take SOME of the food I eat on a longer trip, merely due to the fact that on the road food is usualy horrible and I'm used to quality food products way too much to stuff myself with some fast food or some shit.. Used to take a lot more, but after years of trial and error I've noticed that nothign "bad" happens if eat less for a few days, or I skip a meal or two... thus a lot more relaxed approach, but certainly still a strict way of living and it's among the greatest things that happened to me, and it's been over 15 years of doing this.
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What do you consider the bodybuilding lifestyle?
I train and eat pretty clean these days. I don't consider that a "bodybuilding" lifestyle. I consider it staying healthy.
However, I have left behind the whole eating 6-8 times a day, the 30 minute anabolic window, and obsessing over missing a work out. This changed happened about 4-5 years ago.
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im 35 now and i have been training (well for real ) since 19 ish 20. I was year round hardcore/ the diet the training, used to ge pissed as hell when it snowed because my sports car could not make it to the gym. Now that im older though i tend to take the winter months off, not saying to be a total slob. I just stray from the diet a bit and the workouts got from 4/5 days a wk to 3/4 and the weights i use are much lighter. but i still turn it on every spring and summer, and i will continue as long as my body allows me to.
I still enjoy follwing bodybuilding to, im just not jumping all over every mag and competition that occurs, its more like the arnold and the olypmia now a days. I still would like to attend a mr O one of these years
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However, I have left behind the whole eating 6-8 times a day, the 30 minute anabolic window, and obsessing over missing a work out. This changed happened about 4-5 years ago.
YES---i'm talking about this......lets not get things muddled......lifting and being relatively healthy food wise is always important
however, I've become pro "eat anything I feel like" as of late.....notice I said "feel like".........fact is I don't "Feel" like eating a whole pizza by myself every night...I like to eat but I don't "Feel" the need to stuff my fucking face....if I "feel" eggs, I'll have eggs...If I "feel" burritos then I'll have burritios
it's "feeling"....
EDIT: also- part of "getting over the lifestyle" has something to do with finding something other than "lifting, brah" for exercise
how many of you have "cut the cord" being a gym rat for exercise and have become a BJJ freak or even more of a *gulp* "cross fit person"
EDIT: and also, i'm talking about getting over judging yourself based on your body image....when did you get over "how attractive you are" based on your Bodyfat percentage? BTW- PLEASE don't not see that as a tacit endorsement of "Fat Acceptance".......
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I train and eat well too, but try not to obsess. I say "try" because even though I am always successful in letting reality overcome my BB OCD, I still hear the voices that talk about shit like the anabolic window, getting all my macros in and training deficiencies.
It's an illness which never really leaves.
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and then there is this too and I don't know if I verbalized it in my initial post
granted--it's important to have a decent fullfilling life but It by no means mean becoming a slob
in a related question to "looking good" after getting over the "Weider fallacy"--how long does it take for 35 year old you to set a healthy body image without remember absolutely shredded you from when you were 23?
it's like--you still look amazing......alittle "softer" but the only reason you think that is because, well, only you think that when in reality you look better than a majority of the people
If you are a critical 35 year old and used to look outlandishly good - you won't recover. It's just a small painful road as the years go by where degradation of your phsical appearance eats away some easy opportunities of joy.[1]
On the other hand if you can stay fit and pursue different venues off succes it may not be a big problem. You most likely will never look like an old fart thanks to your genes.
[1] Mensa Level Optimism :D
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I train and eat well too, but try not to obsess. I say "try" because even though I am always successful in letting reality overcome my BB OCD, I still hear the voices that talk about shit like the anabolic window, getting all my macros in and training deficiencies.
It's an illness which never really leaves.
Exactly.. now when I think, I really can't remember a single person that has been really into it and managed to "escape the lifestyle", and I know quite some guys who have been lifting for like 30 years, when I meet them - they are still in shape, still eagerly talk about their current eating/lifting habbits/etc.. But honestly, I really love this illness and I'm fascinated by someone like R.Robinson, S.Nubret, O'Hearn, that's what means to really be "ill" in that sense, you "quit" when you die, simple as that, fighting that fight till the last breath.
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it still haunts me in my head but i haven't done it in a year.
last summer i obsessed my self with bodyweight excercise because i stopped lifting due to the illest noise my knees were making i just said fuck this if i can't even do 20 rep sets on deadlifts and squats without my knees sounding like wall nuts cracking, seriously. it wasn't until i started to have "time off" from training when i saw how soft my body rly was, no deep muscles at all, all surface and i started losing gains very fast after any type of time off and i didn't lose nearly as much gains when i lifted.
i still whanna start lifting but to be honest, i have gained another mental illness and that's being embarrassed to go in the gym. kinda the same feeling that you need to be tann before you go outside in the sun. i hate my self. it comes and goes, but i mostly hate my self and i'm very bitter to those who enjoy life
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it still haunts me in my head but i haven't done it in a year.
last summer i obsessed my self with bodyweight excercise because i stopped lifting due to the illest noise my knees were making i just said fuck this if i can't even do 20 rep sets on deadlifts and squats without my knees sounding like wall nuts cracking, seriously. it wasn't until i started to have "time off" from training when i saw how soft my body rly was, no deep muscles at all, all surface and i started losing gains very fast after any type of time off and i didn't lose nearly as much gains when i lifted.
i still whanna start lifting but to be honest, i have gained another mental illness and that's being embarrassed to go in the gym. kinda the same feeling that you need to be tann before you go outside in the sun. i hate my self. it comes and goes, but i mostly hate my self and i'm very bitter to those who enjoy life
may I ask---when you see some dumpy, pale nerd with a attractive woman how does that make you feel?
also, are you at the point (or, ever were at the point) where you said to yourself "yeah- I can't date right now because I didn't lift today or I'm feeling flat"?
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may I ask---when you see some dumpy, pale nerd with a attractive woman how does that make you feel?
;D
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may I ask---when you see some dumpy, pale nerd with a attractive woman how does that make you feel?
it makes me feel i should have learned to speak at least five languages and get some sort of degree that allows me to make bank
it also makes me feel like she's most probably his friendzone girlfriend, or his sister.
it also makes me feel i should have gotten help from a bunch of shrinks when i was 13 to help me with better character development, instead of dwelling every day in the shadows
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it makes me feel i should have learned to speak at least five languages and get some sort of degree that allows me to make bank
it also makes me feel like she's most probably his friendzone girlfriend, or his sister.
it also makes me feel i should have gotten help from a bunch of shrinks when i was 13 to help me with better character development, instead of dwelling every day in the shadows
Your parents probably weren't very supportive, were they?
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may I ask---when you see some dumpy, pale nerd with a attractive woman how does that make you feel?
also, are you at the point (or, ever were at the point) where you said to yourself "yeah- I can't date right now because I didn't lift today or I'm feeling flat"?
Remember when you were 14 years old and you were ANTI everything (as most teenagers are)? Well, that is pretty much Devilsmiles, except he is in his mid-20's. :D He's never quite outgrown that part of himself. EVERYTHING is BAD!!! GRRR!!! "MOM, YOU DON'T UNDERSTAND ME AT ALL!! NO ONE DOES!!!"
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Your parents probably weren't very supportive, were they?
my parents were extremely supportive, at least very loving and understanding and always there for me. but they never forced me to do shit neither and allowed me to bang my head on the wall by videogaming 24/7 and to get false sense of reality, so... when i started to be afraid of going outside to buy candy from the store because i thought "people would laugh at me", they still didn't do nothing. never forced me to do anything at all, ever. they preached a lot, but never forced.
also, are you at the point (or, ever were at the point) where you said to yourself "yeah- I can't date right now because I didn't lift today or I'm feeling flat"?
oh yes i had that... i still have that, if i don't workout at least i can't do anything else. i had the phase when i went to solarium 40 minutes at a time just to get that glow to the skin before going out, after training of course.
Remember when you were 14 years old and you were ANTI everything (as most teenagers are)? Well, that is pretty much Devilsmiles, except he is in his mid-20's. :D He's never quite outgrown that part of himself. EVERYTHING is BAD!!! GRRR!!! "MOM, YOU DON'T UNDERSTAND ME AT ALL!! NO ONE DOES!!!"
well, u made it very simple but it's not that. it's much worse than that. i'm in my late twenties, i will turn 30 this year. when i started to go to the gym, and started noticing gains after 2 years of training i started to go to the solarium. it build a huge shield of confidence around my undealt insecurities from my teenage years, and now they are in the surface again with my life being what it is now and i'm like... shit.
but it's not all that bad, i'm very much wiser and more knowledgable than when i was young, i'd say i operate in adult level but my emotions are fucked and i lack motivation
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my parents were extremely supportive, at least very loving and understanding and always there for me. but they never forced me to do shit neither and allowed me to bang my head on the wall by videogaming 24/7 and to get false sense of reality, so... when i started to be afraid of going outside to buy candy from the store because i thought "people would laugh at me", they still didn't do nothing. never forced me to do anything at all, ever. they preached a lot, but never forced.
oh yes i had that... i still have that, if i don't workout at least i can't do anything else. i had the phase when i went to solarium 40 minutes at a time just to get that glow to the skin before going out, after training of course.
well, u made it very simple but it's not that. it's much worse than that. i'm in my late twenties, i will turn 30 this year. when i started to go to the gym, and started noticing gains after 2 years of training i started to go to the solarium. it build a huge shield of confidence around my undealt insecurities from my teenage years, and now they are in the surface again with my life being what it is now and i'm like... shit.
but it's not all that bad, i'm very much wiser and more knowledgable than when i was young, i'd say i operate in adult level but my emotions are fucked and i lack motivation
I live in America. I don't know what a solarium is.
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my parents were extremely supportive, at least very loving and understanding and always there for me. but they never forced me to do shit neither and allowed me to bang my head on the wall by videogaming 24/7 and to get false sense of reality, so... when i started to be afraid of going outside to buy candy from the store because i thought "people would laugh at me", they still didn't do nothing. never forced me to do anything at all, ever. they preached a lot, but never forced.
oh yes i had that... i still have that, if i don't workout at least i can't do anything else. i had the phase when i went to solarium 40 minutes at a time just to get that glow to the skin before going out, after training of course.
well, u made it very simple but it's not that. it's much worse than that. i'm in my late twenties, i will turn 30 this year. when i started to go to the gym, and started noticing gains after 2 years of training i started to go to the solarium. it build a huge shield of confidence around my undealt insecurities from my teenage years, and now they are in the surface again with my life being what it is now and i'm like... shit.
but it's not all that bad, i'm very much wiser and more knowledgable than when i was young, i'd say i operate in adult level but my emotions are fucked
Same here - this year I will start studying again. Most likely I'll be twice as old as the average student but better than nothing and in our modern world a person without serious skills is as good as useless.
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im still training in cut off denim shorts and lumberjack shits and carrying round fifteen gallons of water when i train
so i dont get dehydrated
i eat seventeen meals a day so i stay anabolic
i do exercise routines with names like tyranosauras pecs
i spend 10k a month on supplements because the advert had a guy in a lab coat on it
outside of that i dont really follow the lifestyle
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im still training in cut off denim shorts and lumberjack shits and carrying round fifteen gallons of water when i train
so i dont get dehydrated
i eat seventeen meals a day so i stay anabolic
i do exercise routines with names like tyranosauras pecs
i spend 10k a month on supplements because the advert had a guy in a lab coat on it
outside of that i dont really follow the lifestyle
haha :D
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ahahahah I cant date right now because i didnt lift or feeling flat ahahahahah ! I was soooooo like that back in the day.
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....... after my last show and about 20 years before that when I decided to stop being a narcissist.
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I know that devilsmile is a euro because he used the phrase "solarium" for tanning bed
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Yes the bodybuilding lifestyle fades, but the love of being huge and pumping iron lives forever in the blood!
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oh yes i had that... i still have that, if i don't workout at least i can't do anything else. i had the phase when i went to solarium 40 minutes at a time just to get that glow to the skin before going out, after training of course.
Holly shit... I'd say you have about ten years to live and then you'll die of skin cancer.
How is that for some motivation??
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I live in America. I don't know what a solarium is.
ok, bad ass :D
Holly shit... I'd say you have about ten years to live and then you'll die of skin cancer.
How is that for some motivation??
yeah it's crazy what a man does to look good. why can't an average hight skinny white male look good just being white? unfair
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If you had kept eating 8 meals a day and lifting progressively heavier weights each workout you could have been 300lbs with abs by now.
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im still training in cut off denim shorts and lumberjack shits and carrying round fifteen gallons of water when i train
so i dont get dehydrated
i eat seventeen meals a day so i stay anabolic
i do exercise routines with names like tyranosauras pecs
i spend 10k a month on supplements because the advert had a guy in a lab coat on it
outside of that i dont really follow the lifestyle
quality... ;D
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ok, bad ass :D
yeah it's crazy what a man does to look good. why can't an average hight skinny white male look good just being white? unfair
I know a 5/10 fella who went to study to China. Guess what - he had a very good success with local females over there. Pretty much any white/caucasian male is a model playboy in asian countries. Consider moving to one of these, your cock would fall off from fucking these little whores.
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it makes me feel i should have learned to speak at least five languages and get some sort of degree that allows me to make bank
it also makes me feel like she's most probably his friendzone girlfriend, or his sister.
it also makes me feel i should have gotten help from a bunch of shrinks when i was 13 to help me with better character development, instead of dwelling every day in the shadows
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You can join the Army, they'll help you for FREE with that... :D
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I know a 5/10 fella who went to study to China. Guess what - he had a very good success with local females over there. Pretty much any white/caucasian male is a model playboy in asian countries. Consider moving to one of these, your cock would fall off from fucking these little whores.
i've heard good stories like that before. never had sex with an asian woman neither, i can imagine it would be fun :P
speaking of asian girls, when i was at my best, tann and all that stupid shit, there was this 5'1 korean phat ass girl training in my gym for a short time. she would always come train late at night. when i talked to her she could just tell how fucking thirsty i was, there was no way in hell i was gonna get that pussy. she looked your stereotypical perfect face korean chick, but with round butt and legs and hour glass waist. no chance ;D. yes i did talk to her, i asked her out and her number, i even tried to goof on her, nothing worked. i came from the solarium tanning bed pumped up without a shirt and told her good night, she was like " k bye" like i was a pop up commercial.
ironically few years later i saw her biking with a very huge fat caucasian man who looked 3 times older than she was. but i had no other game except my "hot looks" that i sustained for short period of time, i was too obvious. i should have just dressed in loose jeans, black sneakers and an average black t shirt and cut my hair. i was so dellusional back then, i couldn't carry my self right. metrosexual fashion definitely made me look gay, i thought i looked good... fucking idiot
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You can join the Army, they'll help you for FREE with that... :D
sounds like a really good idea, i'll look in to it right now :D
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this thread was inspired by this thread
http://www.getbig.com/boards/index.php?topic=607684.0
when I read the above thread, I was taken back to a time where my life was training, dieting, looking in the mirror, tanning and nothing else
The weird thing I was doing all of these things yet I didn't compete
I just had nothing else in my life so I through myself body first into creating this life
...but I got older and I, organically, started to not care so much about my "abs"
I didn't care about meal prep
I started eating anything I wanted....btw- when I say "eating anything I wanted" I didn't mean "everyday was like a buffet"....if I felt like eating a whole pizza- great.....however, some nights I just wanted cereal....shit- there are some morning where I just eat a bagel and yogurt.....
I go back to the theme of getting older and how certain things don't organically matter as much as they used to
I don't have to force myself to think "you can't keep up".....you just honestly don't care about certain things anymore
You also realize that the Weider magazines may have fucked you up a bit because it sold you a lie
It sold you a image of what you are supposed to be and if you weren't "francois Benfatto" then you were nothingness
when did you get over the fact that you didn't have to go to a tanning bed before you hit the mall because if you weren't tan then girls wouldn't like you
however- lets not get crazy---I'm not gonna say be a slob lke Jason Blaha and start saying "yeah- I don't mind having a dad bod because FUCK THE MEDIA MAN!!!"....jason blaha was never anything and is a liar who NEVER had a great body....he should never talk about male body dysmorphia...if anything he should take up anorexia
uuummm.....I ranted and went off on tangents and I'll admit that I didn't proof read anything that posted but you get my drift
i forsee alot of edits to the above because of grammatical stuff
discuss
btw- the above shouldn't make sense to anyone under the age of 25....to you youngsters out there now is the time to buy into the myth and do your "8 meals a day, 8 hours of sleep" gimmick......you're young and now is the time to work for the machine
I am happy to have inspired another Getbigger towards some mind expanding reminiscences. I will treasure this almost as much as that one pm from Navy Mike.
Also don't just count the negatives from the lies, there is a positive also from realizing how much BS is out there in the world. That very very valuable lesson is something I attribute to having learned from my bbing lifestyle. And better to learn it from something less important like that than from a failed business or marriage.
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Exactly.. now when I think, I really can't remember a single person that has been really into it and managed to "escape the lifestyle", and I know quite some guys who have been lifting for like 30 years, when I meet them - they are still in shape, still eagerly talk about their current eating/lifting habbits/etc.. But honestly, I really love this illness and I'm fascinated by someone like R.Robinson, S.Nubret, O'Hearn, that's what means to really be "ill" in that sense, you "quit" when you die, simple as that, fighting that fight till the last breath.
I agree with this. I also continue to harbor fantasies that someday I will have enough time to properly train and stay in better shape. I'm planning on owning a gym in my retirement.
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I still train consistently but was never able to stay with a super strict diet.
I eat pretty healthy but not killing myself over it.
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Saw a buddy of mine get married and divorced before the age of 25 because he let the "lifestyle" (particularly that IIFYM bullshit) make him obnoxiously obsessive over his daily macros.
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If you have never gone in a competition or at the very least been a training partner with someone who was going in a competition then you have never lived "the lifestyle." I make an exception for those who have 10+ years of consistent training. I suspect very many here are just delusional.
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Saw a buddy of mine get married and divorced before the age of 25 because he let the "lifestyle" (particularly that IIFYM bullshit) make him obnoxiously obsessive over his daily macros.
there are two things here that legit blow my mind
1) the divorce over not being able to "hit your macros"
2) getting married THAT young
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I'm 36 I've been training 20 years straight. I don't care as much as I used to but I still train when I need to, not as heavy but slower and always to failure. Best quality and condition I've ever had right now. Being obsessed is the problem, however if you want to get somewhere you have to be pretty obsessed. As long as it didn't effect me in university or then working I didn't really mind I always worked it around things that I considered more important.
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If you have never gone in a competition or at the very least been a training partner with someone who was going in a competition then you have never lived "the lifestyle." I make an exception for those who have 10+ years of consistent training. I suspect very many here are just delusional.
This is true too. Most are just imaging they are "living the lifestyle" (then "life gets in", as THEY tend to say, and it's all over). I've been training and "living the lifestyle" for over 15 years and when I meet someone who has been the same I can tell instantly, but that is rare occassion. It's mostly a transitional phase for most other, not something they do as a way of life/a mindset/a philosophy and art of itself.
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Trully lving the lifestyle is this, everything else is just an attempt:
https://www.instagram.com/timbahwolffff/?hl=en
https://www.instagram.com/helmutstrebl/?hl=en
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Trully lving the lifestyle is this, everything else is just an attempt:
https://www.instagram.com/timbahwolffff/?hl=en
https://www.instagram.com/helmutstrebl/?hl=en
here's the thing though----are these two guys genuinely happy?
and I don't ask that in a "rhetorical" way.......if those guys are genuinely happy and think they live a rewarding life then I have no issue with them living there lifestyle
for me, I organically still care about working out but I just don't give a shit about "okay--today is monday so I have to train legs because that's what I do every monday" or "well, I'm hungry now but two hours haven't past since my last meal"
I didn't care about any of that anymore
while I try to hit a body part once a week, I won't flip out if i didn't train biceps during the week
I only eat breakfast and dinner and eat whatever I want.....notice again that I said "whatever I want" and NOT "stuffing my face like a pig".....a lot of people translate "whatever I want" wrongly......
I think that this is harder for people like me who defined themselves so much by his physique for so many years.....
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here's the thing though----are these two guys genuinely happy?
and I don't ask that in a "rhetorical" way.......if those guys are genuinely happy and think they live a rewarding life then I have no issue with them living there lifestyle
for me, I organically still care about working out but I just don't give a shit about "okay--today is monday so I have to train legs because that's what I do every monday" or "well, I'm hungry now but two hours haven't past since my last meal"
I didn't care about any of that anymore
while I try to hit a body part once a week, I won't flip out if i didn't train biceps during the week
I only eat breakfast and dinner and eat whatever I want.....notice again that I said "whatever I want" and NOT "stuffing my face like a pig".....a lot of people translate "whatever I want" wrongly......
I think that this is harder for people like me who defined themselves so much by his physique for so many years.....
"Happiness" is a very trivial concept. What does it mean to be "genuinely happy"? I personally ceased to search for any kidn of "happiness" some years ago. When people ask me for whatever reason "But are you really happy", my answer is always "I'm not after happiness so I don't really care". Successfull survival is what fires a "feel good" state of mind in our brain, so pretty much survival should be a goal in order to feel "happy" (but that is a transient emotion anyway, just like all other).
Being physically fit and strong, for me PERSONALLY, is probably the best thing, maybe even better feeling than sex, I'm not sure yet. I could loose all my material assets and become a homeless bum, but if I'd still be strong and fit - I'd still smile in the morning, because only a sky is the limit. That's how I see it, but I get that other people may see it differently. So to answer your (semi-rhetorical) question, I'd guess they are among the happiest animals (keeping in mind that being constantly "happy" in this animalistic reality one must be retarded or intoxicated by alcohol/narcotics), next to these who are filthy rich and these who are mentally retarded (so even showing a finger makes them "happy"), but that is only my guess.
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To add to that question, it's best to ask themselves, and here's what one of them has to say (1:28):
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Trully lving the lifestyle is this, everything else is just an attempt:
https://www.instagram.com/timbahwolffff/?hl=en
https://www.instagram.com/helmutstrebl/?hl=en
these guys give off the impression of total alpha, manly man, "living the life", blah blah, but really to me this instagram shit screams man-boy insecurities times 1000. think abouT what goes into taking these pics and uploading your "hot" pics for likes on some app. there aint nothing organic or manly about these guys. real men would not do this. sure they look good though, but they know it
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these guys give off the impression of total alpha, manly man, "living the life", blah blah, but really to me this instagram shit screams man-boy insecurities times 1000. think abouT what goes into taking these pics and uploading your "hot" pics for likes on some app. there aint nothing organic or manly about these guys. real men would not do this. sure they look good though, but they know it
These guys make their living off their physiques, from modeling to training clients....posting on instagram/twitter/facebook is how you market yourself in the 21st century. Not doing it just means you're falling behind
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there are two things here that legit blow my mind
1) the divorce over not being able to "hit your macros"
2) getting married THAT young
Got married at like 23. He used to compete as a physique guy, but he wasn't so anal about the macros thing until after the marriage had started. He would seriously let 8 grams of fat ruin his day.
His wife, who is good looking, says that he also lost his sex drive (probably directly due to his low bodyfat %, and limited diet). She wanted to go out to eat on the weekends and grab ice cream, or a drink or two... unfortunately she practically had to submit that request in writing a week in advance.
It really is a mental problem. I guarantee that they'd still be together if he dropped to IIFYM bullshit, pinned some test, and popped Viagra. The girl just wanted her brains fucked out.
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Got married at like 23. He used to compete as a physique guy, but he wasn't so anal about the macros thing until after the marriage had started. He would seriously let 8 grams of fat ruin his day.
His wife, who is good looking, says that he also lost his sex drive (probably directly due to his low bodyfat %, and limited diet). She wanted to go out to eat on the weekends and grab ice cream, or a drink or two... unfortunately she practically had to submit that request in writing a week in advance.
It really is a mental problem. I guarantee that they'd still be together if he dropped to IIFYM bullshit, pinned some test, and popped Viagra. The girl just wanted her brains fucked out.
has he improved or is he still mentally ill?
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being "a real man" has nothing to do with posting on social media
just know who you organically are and be that.......be proud of that
a great example of a "real man" (even though it's a fictional character) is "peter" from the movie "office space" after the group therapy session
that's a example of a real man
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has he improved or is he still mentally ill?
haven't had much contact with him in a couple of year, but judging from his IG... no.
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The girl just wanted her brains fucked out.
i'm quoting this so some of you guys who don't get it yet can read it
just read it
shit---I need to read it to remind myself because even i forget
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all in all this body culture along with other things are completely meaningless. i just recently found out that my uncle has colon cancer and is in great pain. he's 60. for the past 25 years he's been focusing on his family, not egoistic body image, allthough he did some marathons etc. i can tell u this, he doesn't give a shit that he wasn't sticking needles in his ass and train 24/7 to pursue extremely hedonistic lifestyle in his youth, he now just wants to enjoy the company of his wife and two children and make it square with god. he doesn't regret nothing he never did. he said that he's alright, he will meet my father and his father in heaven when he dies (meaning my dad and my grandfather if u didn't get it), and he was all smiles without any strong pain meds. he has found the center of happiness in his death bed, without muscles, without pussy, without instagram superstardom.
i ask my self why is hedonistic lifestyle so hypnotic? this "survival" is the meaning of life sounds extremely flawed in my ears. but i still i want it. i want to look good and sexy and i want all the attention and i want to be cool just to market my self to other fools. but for what, lol. i know i would be fooling my self with it.
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being "a real man" has nothing to do with posting on social media
just know who you organically are and be that.......be proud of that
a great example of a "real man" (even though it's a fictional character) is "peter" from the movie "office space" after the group therapy session
that's a example of a real man
i disagree. posting pics is what women do. Im too busy with living life, doing my hobbies, career, etc to stage pics to give the impression of living life, when actually they are just posing like they are living life...it takes time/effort/insecurities to be doing that shit. immnot saying i dont have insecurities btw
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these guys give off the impression of total alpha, manly man, "living the life", blah blah, but really to me this instagram shit screams man-boy insecurities times 1000. think abouT what goes into taking these pics and uploading your "hot" pics for likes on some app. there aint nothing organic or manly about these guys. real men would not do this. sure they look good though, but they know it
Times are changing, you should get used to it (regarding uploading pics, etc..). And every artist at all times wanted to show off their art, that is understandable. I'd be uploading pics day and night if I'd achieve that kind of physique. I'm sure they are making some serious money out of that too, so... can't really find much wrong with that. If you have body that is so superior - please show it for everyone for as long as possible, many will be motivated, inspired, and it's just nice to look at, that's how I see it.
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i disagree. posting pics is what women do. Im too busy with living life, doing my hobbies, career, etc to stage pics to give the impression of living life, when actually they are just posing like they are living life...it takes time/effort/insecurities to be doing that shit. immnot saying i dont have insecurities btw
i can agree with you on this. the instagram pictures and videos give the impression right away that their life is epic and desirable. like this one chick, my neighbor. posts pics of her self shopping, gym, clubbing. but everytime i see her she looks nothing like in the pictures, i don't get the same vibe of her at all. she's just a normal hoe who pays taxes with the average lifespan of 75 years. attention whoring, looking for acceptance that's all, she needs a fucking hug. oh and she's not making any money of posting her life in instagram, she just likes the attention
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being "a real man" has nothing to do with posting on social media
just know who you organically are and be that.......be proud of that
a great example of a "real man" (even though it's a fictional character) is "peter" from the movie "office space" after the group therapy session
that's a example of a real man
Exactly. No need to try to please everyone... it's not possible. Everyone uses their own strenghts that they have, be it a body, brain or some talent, to survive in this game called "life".
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Exactly. No need to try to please everyone... it's not possible. Everyone uses their own strenghts that they have, be it a body, brain or some talent, to survive in this game called "life".
well said
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the whole "IG crowd" cancels itself out though because the men who do Instagram will group themselves with that clique...they'll date IG girls and keep everything IG
furthermore- they think that YOU are the weirdo or "beta" because you don't post pictures of your food or shaker bottle on IG
this is all Tribal stuff
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the whole "IG crowd" cancels itself out though because the men who do Instagram will group themselves with that clique...they'll date IG girls and keep everything IG
furthermore- they think that YOU are the weirdo or "beta" because you don't post pictures of your food or shaker bottle on IG
this is all Tribal stuff
last summer this one chick i was talking with in the park where people workout, so i chatted with her whatever casually. she asked my instagram. u should have SEEN her face when i said i don't post anything in instagram, as if i was some sort of weird human 1.0 that she can't connect with. truly weird. her way of addressing me changed as well, like i was some sort of patient. not a world dying for i tell u that
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i ask my self why is hedonistic lifestyle so hypnotic? this "survival" is the meaning of life sounds extremely flawed in my ears. but i still i want it. i want to look good and sexy and i want all the attention and i want to be cool just to market my self to other fools. but for what, lol. i know i would be fooling my self with it.
That is how world is wired, not much any of us can do about that. That is what the "code" of life is, at it's core even if we understand the absurd of it. That ir probably the reason why clever people cease to care about "life" itself. Like me - a hedonistic nihilist atheist. I enjoy my time here, really enjoy, as I've been pretty lucky to be able to do that, but do I care if I die tomorrow? No, unless it will be very painful. Do I care whether there's "life"after me? Hell no, not a slighest. That's what happens when you start to understand life too much. But that's how it is, we can't choose.
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Just a bunch of crazy narcissistic kids for the most part. Life's barreling down on them like a freight train. It's the sound of inevitability, Mr. Anderson. Hope they enjoy it while they can.
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i can agree with you on this. the instagram pictures and videos give the impression right away that their life is epic and desirable. like this one chick, my neighbor. posts pics of her self shopping, gym, clubbing. but everytime i see her she looks nothing like in the pictures, i don't get the same vibe of her at all. she's just a normal hoe who pays taxes with the average lifespan of 75 years. attention whoring, looking for acceptance that's all, she needs a fucking hug. oh and she's not making any money of posting her life in instagram, she just likes the attention
Well there are plenty of people that SHE knows who wouldn't be able to photoshop even one decent pic, because they are too ugly fat, poor, etc... She simply like teasing them, she feels good knowing that she has it better than at LEAST some of these around. That's how it works in this animalistic reality.
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That is how world is wired, not much any of us can do about that. That is what the "code" of life is, at it's core even if we understand the absurd of it. That ir probably the reason why clever people cease to care about "life" itself. Like me - a hedonistic nihilist atheist. I enjoy my time here, really enjoy, as I've been pretty lucky to be able to do that, but do I care if I die tomorrow? No, unless it will be very painful. Do I care whether there's "life"after me? Hell no, not a slighest. That's what happens when you start to understand life too much. But that's how it is, we can't choose.
we can't choose. that's brilliant because it's true in a lot of ways, but not 100% tho. people could detatch themselves from the chain that's keeping their mind still, but it's harder to do than it is to build a great physique, but most people rather defend the chain than try to detatch themselves from it
Well there are plenty of people that SHE knows who wouldn't be able to photoshop even one decent pic, because they are too ugly fat, poor, etc... She simply like teasing them, she feels good knowing that she has it better than at LEAST some of these around. That's how it works in this animalistic reality.
as rich pianas wife said; "yep" :D
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Just a bunch of crazy narcissistic kids for the most part. Life's barreling down on them like a freight train. It's the sound of inevitability, Mr. Anderson. Hope they enjoy it while they can.
I'm sure they at least have more sex, with more beautiful people, so it's worth just because of that alone.. (do you realize how many people are hungry for sex, or how many would like to have sex with better looking partners, etc..). This world is about suffering mostly, these who manage to escape it for even a little while - they are lucky.
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we can't choose. that's brilliant because it's true in a lot of ways, but not 100% tho. people could detatch themselves from the chain that's keeping their mind still, but it's harder to do than it is to build a great physique
as rich pianas wife said; "yep" :D
It is possible to overdrive that animalistic mind at least temporary, it's called "being spiritual", yet I'm not convinced that at the end it still won't be about survival and fighting for the material goods/food. In principle, if you understand well how a machinery/system works, you can manipulate that system, but brain inner wirings are not a simple machinery and control that by using the same brain becomes some kind of quantum stuff..
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I don't think there needs to be any "deep" explanation about why people are still having sex lol
it doesn't take a Noam Chomsky to explain to you why cumming is the bomb yo
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Im too busy with living life, doing my hobbies, career, etc to stage pics to give the impression of living life, when actually they are just posing like they are living life...it takes time/effort/insecurities to be doing that shit. immnot saying i dont have insecurities btw
A bit ironic to be making this point while posting on a message board.
But, in the amount of time it took you to post this, you could have uploaded 2 facebook photos with comments.
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I'm gonna post something for some young men on here that they NEED to read
Just KNOW that there are A LOT of good looking women who will be attracted to you and NOT care if you bench three plates
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It is possible to overdrive that animalistic mind at least temporary, it's called "being spiritual", yet I'm not convinced that at the end it still won't be about survival and fighting for the material goods/food. In principle, if you understand well how a machinery/system works, you can manipulate that system, but brain inner wirings are not a simple machinery and control that by using the same brain becomes some kind of quantum stuff..
how many spiritual people u know? i know one, his jewish, 43. he has no desire to the earthly things, he is the most calm, sane and at the same time most eductated person i've ever met. u wouldn't believe what papers he has if i told u, because this is getbig, nobody believes shit. . he has iphone6 tho. i asked him that isn't that the most earthly garbage u could purchase and he said that sure it is but it makes listening gospell so much more covenient, lol. i should hang out with him more, no homo. i should ask him were the original herews black, that's the real question here
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I'm gonna post something for some young men on here that they NEED to read
Just KNOW that there are A LOT of good looking women who will be attracted to you and NOT care if you bench three plates
Muscles are mainly to impress other males (to make them fear you), girls go after that..
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how many spiritual people u know? i know one, his jewish, 43. he has no desire to the earthly things, he is the most calm, sane and at the same time most eductated person i've ever met. u wouldn't believe what papers he has if i told u, because this is getbig, nobody believes shit. . he has iphone6 tho. i asked him that isn't that the most earthly garbage u could purchase and he said that sure it is but it makes listening gospell so much more covenient, lol. i should hang out with him more, no homo. i should ask him were the original herews black, that's the real question here
I know one, a very smart, very very well rounded fella, but he's more of someone who has accepted the reality and just doesn't care anymore (teaches other people that and makes a terrific living out of that lol.. not sure how is that spiritual. Very conflicting.). All other that I know are just confused weak imitations of "being spiritual", hiding their weakness under that bullshit.
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Nothing wrong with the bodybuilding "lifestyle" as long as it doesn't control your entire life and you've got self-awareness to have everything else in perspective.
I still train 4-5 times a week, constantly trying to better each workout. I enjoy it, I'm fairly injury free, I feel like I'm still making progress at 38, and I eat as well as I can and prep the vast majority of my meals with bodybuilding in mind. And try to get 8 hours sleep a night.
But my life outside the gym is also sorted - decent job which pays the bills with enough left over for fun and games, decent car, and I have my own home with the mortgage rapidly being paid off.
I'm quite aware of the lies that were sold to me by the Weider magazines like Flex, Muscle & Fitness etc and I'll never compete, simply because I know I don't have enough drive to get into contest shape. I've dabbled in the dark side too, and wasted tons of money on supplements over the years, but it's all been fun and I wouldn't change it for anything - that's what life's all about, learning as you go along.
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I know one, a very smart, very very well rounded fella, but he's more of someone who has accepted the reality and just doesn't care anymore (teaches other people that and makes a terrific living out of that lol.. not sure how is that spiritual. Very conflicting.). All other that I know are just confused weak imitations of "being spiritual", hiding their weakness under that bullshit.
yeah doesn't sound too spiritual to me. probably very smart and educated but stopped fighting desire.
this guy however could teach sexy hoes philosophy in the best univeristies and make fat 4 figures a month, he could even teach teachers, but instead he chooses to take care of elderly people, wash their asses, give them medicine and clean their houses.
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yeah doesn't sound too spiritual to me. probably very smart and educated but stopped fighting desire.
this guy however could teach sexy hoes philosophy in the best univeristies and make fat 4 figures a month, he could even teach teachers, but instead he chooses to take care of elderly people, wash their asses, give them medicine and clean their houses.
One of the ways to feel "happiness" is to participate in something "bigger"/"collective", thus putting a "meaning" to your existence. It's still purely ego driven, ironically.
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One of the ways to feel "happiness" is to participate in something "bigger"/"collective", thus putting a "meaning" to your existence. It's still purely ego driven, ironically.
LOL it's true! everything brings satisfaction to the ego. i don't feel so bad for not doing much with my life when it comes to this subject. most of the days i feel depressed. i guess i'm one of the better people :D
but i'm very selfish doing what i'm doing so i'm full of shit.
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LOL it's true! everything brings satisfaction to the ego. i don't feel so bad for not doing much with my life when it comes to this subject. most of the days i feel depressed. i guess i'm one of the better people :D
but i'm very selfish doing what i'm doing so i'm full of shit.
All who post on Getbig are doing something. Bringing joy to others via stories of trips with parents to Shawn Ray Musclecamp or orange roughy squirts. It's all good entertainment. Thank you all!
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LOL it's true! everything brings satisfaction to the ego. i don't feel so bad for not doing much with my life when it comes to this subject. most of the days i feel depressed. i guess i'm one of the better people :D
but i'm very selfish doing what i'm doing so i'm full of shit.
Just try to learn to love and accept yourself unconditionally, doesn't matter whether you are a king or a bum, if you learn to love yourself - life will be a lot easier. Don't put too much pressure on yourself, maybe you won't become "anything" in this life, maybe you won't shoot that "bullet" you have...........so what? It does not matter.