i love the fitness industry.
a scam it is not.
there's great products being offered and being invented all the time.
such as?
its awesome that people can find a work in the industry and that people can be motivated.
Why? People can be motivated and find work doing anything. How does the fitness industry relate to other industries? It's near the bottom, almost completely worthless.
and the money that comes in that enables bodybuilders etc to compete fulltime and not need other jobs its just great. and contests being arranged like mr olympia etc
bodybuilding contests are actually the lowest point in the "fitness world": the competitors are not healthy, the "competition" has degenerated from athletics to "looks only", they aren't attractive, they utterly alienate everyone except young people who have a healthy drive to improve their strength.
bodybuilders make a living by bridging this healthy drive to an utterly perverse "ideal". just look at the ludicrous eulogizing ("going to war", " whatever it takes", etc.) which only makes sense when muscular appearance is placed as one's highest value. you only have to look at the ordinary purpose of muscle (to move the body) to see that bodybuilding makes no sense, it leads to muscular obesity, posing (i.e. standing still), organ and joint degeneration, horrific stamina, etc.
even back in arnolds days when he didnt have any money he sold fitness stuff so he could start his career which lead to him being able to make movies etc instead of being poor and having to go back to austria and drive a truck.
so arnold got out of the fitness industry as soon as he could. good for him. he realized that only mentally ill pursue fitness as a main goal, and chose more sensible ways to reach his original goal, which was "to be remembered for thousands of years". as such, fitness obviously took a distant back seat to his other aspirations, which is how it starts out for everyone.
only when people get sucked into the fitness world and, with no means of escape, lose track of their original aspirations do you end up with the modern absurdities that are supplements, lifestyle guruism, bodybuilding contests, and the like.
in short I APPLAUD the fitness industry and all the great things it brought with it. without it we wouldnt have arnold we wouldnt have professional bodybuilding we wouldnt have getbig.
getbig's best characteristic is its disdain for and relentless critique of bodybuilding.
