One day I would like to dump all weights, dumbbells and barbells into the Pacific Ocean so that they can do some good and build up reefs or something.
I swear I am sick of the total ignorance I see on a daily basis from bodybuilders and wannabe trainees. The ignorance is overwhelming. It is so sad to see everyone copying what others are doing and almost no one getting much in the way of results. That is okay because most believe steroids are needed to get really big.
There they are banging away in the free weight room. The clanging of the dumbbells hides the emptiness inside the brains of those people. I see people using ropes for triceps and abdominals. They do bench presses for pecs. Few do full squats. Most make only meager results from all that effort. It clearly is a form of postering that many do but gain little for all that work.
Can it be that whole populations of trainees are uninformed? Well, they are all following some theory or other. Whatever it is those principles are adhered to like a religion. If you try to talk to any of these knuckleheads they remain impenetrable because they totally believe they know what they are doing. Their results suggest otherwise.
I really am ashamed of this sport called bodybuilding. I am ashamed of associating with so many ignorant people with bizarre beliefs and habits. All that work and what for?
This really is a sad pastime. Look at the boobs of female bodybuilders? Does any man actually fancy that bizarre look? Then male bodybuilders end up with tits that rival what the gals have. It makes no difference if you have certificates or not because the ignorance is universal.
One would hope that in this century we could abandon the unprofitable ways of the past. Is this what we find? Nope. There is just as much ignorance today than before. Protein sales are up. Supplement companies make profits. Home gym equipment stores are doing fine. Yet so many believe absolutely untenable things about training. I wonder why the false ideas and theories persist? Why do we still see ab machines advertised on TV to give people abdominals? That is preposterous and downright false.
Is it really that difficult to know something about muscles and how to affect changes in them? My conclusion is that the web of knowledge that is bodybuilding gets transferred from individual to individual and little in the way of critical examination is ever made to check what is being believed. Thus, we perpetuate the same old nonsense and it spreads like a disease. Those who do know something about hypertrophy must wonder if this knuckleheadedness is permanent in our culture.
I so dislike the bigotry that is written by bodybuilders and on line wannabes about fat people. Instead of tolerating and understanding others we often read rather pathetic attacks about others. Every bodybuilder makes a journey from ordinariness and I should hope that no one forgets the transformation. The journey is usually a long and arduous one. Respect of all individuals is what informed bodybuilders should practice.
Thank goodness we have a separate room for free weights at our gym. We just installed a big boxing room. No doubt a lot of those guys will be pounding on those punching bags. The din from that free weight room is actually painful for me to hear. I try to stay out of that room and go there mainly to access our maintenance room. I do some full squats from time to time but a Smith Machine is just as good. I made one with an incline so the movement is similar to free weight squatting. Come to think about it I seldom see bodybuilders squatting and they seldom do full squats. The lack of doing full squats must explain why so many have chicken legs.
