Totally agree! I can understand this whole warm-up business if your only job is to lift weights, for the sake of lifting weights (i.e. powerlifter or olympic lifter).
But I don't think there's many professional strongmen out there.
So what's with all this warm-up shit? Honestly, guys have gone to the gym for decades and built great physiques without 30 minutes facial stretching and pre-activation and foam rolling and ART and all this shit. It's just marketing bullshit to a sub-culture of a sub-culture, propagating bro science. "Oh, the reason I'm not big, is because I have imbalances preventing my t-spine from allowing me to dorsi-flex properly in a squat so as to keep my pelvis in posterior tilt". Seriously, spare me. What a load of shit for the average guy.
Just pick something up that wont crush you, lift it a bunch of times with some good form, and you're done. That's 99% of it. The rest is all bullshit.
But we lifters love to overcomplicate what should be a simple hobby.
Again, for all the athletes and what-not, sure. When I was an athlete, it mattered. I'm not anymore. Just an average guy in the gym. Not going to be in WSM, or bench in a shirt, or make the Red Sox farm team...just an average guy. So average workouts will do for me just fine.
Lots of sets, lots of reps, lots of exercises, not so much weight I can't feel the muscle for 15 reps, full ROM...don't eat too much, starve a little bit, try to eat good foods that came from the earth... It's really that simple.
yah brother, meanwhile theres this gimmick retard "wolfox" calling me out for a bench press "challenge"
hes a soaking wet 170lbs natty and thinks im "weak".
so weak that he doubts i can bench 220 for reps,oh well.
not that it matters, it doesnt occur to such retards that a rep isnt a rep.
the one athlete with superior muscle mind connection and positioning on bench etc will get more benfits from 1 plate a side bench that the one wiht inferior muscle mind conection.in his case,theres no muscle, and the mind is cuckoo, so yeah lol.
comparing reps and weights has fuck all to do with intensity as far bodybuilding goes, im sure you do know what i mean, how hard is the muscle squeezed for the whole rom etcetc.
a bodybuilder doesnt train to just somehow lift a weight,we train to lift it in a very precise way.
cheers, loving your posts
