Skewed perspective possibly, but I feel like no other hobby attracts so many retards. When you're a kid and go to learn how to ride a bike you just keep getting on the bike and trying and failing and doing longer and longer rides and pedaling more intensely until you can just ride the damn bike, when you want to learn to play an instrument you just pick the thing up and play it over and over until you get good at it, when you learn any skilled trade you just keep doing the thing until you get good at it and people generally accept that this works for pretty much everything a person could want to do except for weight training be it for strength or bodybuilding. Nobody got better at riding a bike by sleeping more, doing ice baths, eating a different macro split, googling 'CNS Fatigue', and asking dumb questions on Reddit...They just ride the bike. Yet, the modern average weight lifting enthusiasts seem to be very much stuck on focusing on all the things other than picking a fucking barbell up and adding more weight to it over time. They're out here reducing their training volume, intensity and frequency while typing up spreadsheets and running calculations and timing their nutrient intake and counting how many steps they take to make sure they don't go into a caloric deficit but then they spin their wheels and when you explain to them that this shit literally only works if you move the damn weight it becomes half impossible to get through the hive mind mentality that they're bought into.
I pitch to a lot of people for coaching since I'm still not 100% fucking sick of doing it for the fun (it's nice when I get smart clients) so again I could very well just be seeing an incredibly skewed view of the 'average' but considering the clickbait garbage I get in my social feeds about lifting it would seem it's more than just my local area being full of retards. All this is not to say that recovery, rehab/prehab, nutrition aren't important but those are only 5-10% of the process and the other 90%+ is the actual weight lifting. I swear the modern bodybuilders and powerlifters expect to put in an hour a week of lifting, show up and tell the judges 'Oh hey I hit my 3800 kcals and 250g protein with 1g carbs and got 12 hours of sleep every day and wore my CPAP so just go ahead and mark me down for a 1st place win in my class' and lol that is just not how it fucking works. Thanks for reading my blog post, my side job really grinds my fucking gears sometimes and I imagine I'm not the only one here who has had to deal with this shit in a professional or casual setting.
I pitch to a lot of people for coaching since I'm still not 100% fucking sick of doing it for the fun (it's nice when I get smart clients) so again I could very well just be seeing an incredibly skewed view of the 'average' but considering the clickbait garbage I get in my social feeds about lifting it would seem it's more than just my local area being full of retards. All this is not to say that recovery, rehab/prehab, nutrition aren't important but those are only 5-10% of the process and the other 90%+ is the actual weight lifting. I swear the modern bodybuilders and powerlifters expect to put in an hour a week of lifting, show up and tell the judges 'Oh hey I hit my 3800 kcals and 250g protein with 1g carbs and got 12 hours of sleep every day and wore my CPAP so just go ahead and mark me down for a 1st place win in my class' and lol that is just not how it fucking works. Thanks for reading my blog post, my side job really grinds my fucking gears sometimes and I imagine I'm not the only one here who has had to deal with this shit in a professional or casual setting.
