The great bodybuilding tragedy.
We all know the type. They spend 10 hours/week or more in the gym but couldn’t bother to spend 30min/week doing their research. Now if they are to pathetic and hopeless to do a little research every week you know they are nowhere near the type to log calories and keep a training journal…e.c.t. So its the most idiotic situation imaginable….waste 100’s of hours in the gym because you couldn’t bother to spend 1hr doing your research.
So of course they go nowhere and many quit.
But there is this special tragic idiocy that actually drives me a little mad. Its the type who blame their body type. We’ve all heard it…"I’m an ectomorph, I can’t gain weight," I’m a "hard gainer," ect. ect. "I’m and endomorph..I’ll always be chubby"
So these individuals can go on for years spinning their wheels and making no or very little progress but they never actually admit to themselves that they are hopeless and that they need to go back to the drawing board. Rather they just keep repeating the same old paradigm to themselves…"I’m a hard gainer, I’m an ectomorph," "I can’t get a six-pack, I’m an endomorph," ect.
One other situation that bugs me at least as much…..The old "look how big he is…he must be on steroids" line. I really hate that one. Just because you’re too inept to get it done properly does not mean that everybody else is just as inept and therefore the only explanation for their success must be the roids. This seems to be the favorite alternate excuse..but it’s all the same mindset.
So the tragedy is that if they simply never got those pathetic excuses in their heads, they could have saved themselves years of training and just done something useful with their time. Or maybe the ones with strong character and some brains would finally have started doing their research and logging their efforts.
Me, I’m an endomorph, but I will have a six pack, I will reach single digit body fat, and I’ll get it done this year!
December 29, 2007 at 11:50 pm
Unfortunately fitness like all sports is full of drugs and cheats - so people presume that most achieve it that way - call that human nature. on the other point in your blog ; if we call people pathetic and underachievers thats what they will be! Didn’t that come into a Rocky story line? its better that they train albeit blaming other issues than not train at all. Incidentally if some one has the traits you describe they will affect what can be achieved.
March 19, 2008 at 4:29 pm
Dude, I love this blog entry. It describes half of my friends. They keep blaming being fat on stress in life, or they’ve got to knit a f’in blanket.. and other bs excuses. Then when I finally get them in the gym they’re like.. ehhh.. I’m not built for this. I have to think to myself.. then what ARE you built for? Sitting on your ass and typing? Well, I’m dam good at that but I can still fit in one airline seat. *I’m venting, don’t worry, I don’t hate fat people, they just piss me off when they’re lazy excuse making morons*. Oh, wow, there’s my mean streek. Anywho, I can appreciate what you said in your blog. Keep up your great work man. I’ve got faith in your ass!
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