This is the picture that convinced me that bodybuilding is a dead end hobby for losers. Imagine spending hours in the gym, pinning your ass off just to pose with other gymcels in a dark room, and when youre not doing that youre spending hours trying to optimize the perfect science routine to make your muscles bigger. These guys don't even look happy.
t. doesn't understand hobbies
exercising is not a hobby.
Define what you mean by hobby then so we can laugh at your moronic definition you obviously came up with to try to exclude it
I’ll never you people. If exercising and going to the gym isn’t your thing, then fine. No one is twisting your arm and forcing you to go to the gym. If you don’t wanna do it, then don’t. It’s as simple as that. But to actively shit on people who do find enjoyment out of something that you are undeniably better off for doing, I’ll never understand. I’m not even talking about putting on a shitload of mass and becoming a steroid monster. Just changing your diet around, cutting down some excess fat and putting on some extra lean muscle is just one of those thing where you are objectively better off for doing than not. Same as if I said you would be objectively better off if your job paid you more money. It’s not like a controversial thing to say. It’s just a truth.
It’s not like it’s a huge sacrifice you’re making either. An hour of your day that you likely would have spent fricking off anyway and changing some foods you were gonna eat anyway, in exchange for better health, mood and sleep seems like a pretty nice trade off.
Are you a zoomer? Grim.
I understand hobbies, but modern bodybuilding is mental illness. It's akin to self harm. Every other era including the Golden Era was at least chasing some form of beauty that could admired.
I absolutely understand hobbies. And thats exactly what I dont understand about the popularity of modern lifting. When I started, and I started "only" 12 years ago, lifting was so fricking underground its not even funny. There was no gymshark, no alphalete, no youngla, no youtube fitness, no influencers, no ghost oreo whey protein, nothing. Back then you had people lifting, who wanted to lift. This "sport" is for the 0,00000000000000000001% mentally ill minority. It is absolutely insane how mainstream roiding and looking like a tumor has gotten.
It just so artificial and promotes mental illness. This content shouldnt get much more than 50 views. And its so obvious by the results and looking at people in the gym in reality. People dont really want to bodybuild, they just want novice results and a beach body.
I still don't understand why does someone being bigger than you and taking drugs by his own volition make you seethe so much?
pretty easy, just don't do steroids and you wont look like you try too hard and you'll also look far more appealing
this. + cruising test if your older or have health issues in my mind is ok
why are so many people incapable of understanding the difference between "your" and "you're"
Your exaggerating, Black person
>simple spelling mistake
Manlets don't look appealing at all though
Their problem isn't their height. It's that they're roided bodybuilding freaks. You can be short and have a good-looking physique as long as you're lean enough and not so big that you look as wide as you are tall.
Jeff Nippletard is such an embarassment.
I've seen LEGOgay nerds lose their fricking minds over their childish hobby.
I've watched adult men throw shit around the room over a fricking video game.
I've watched grown men cry because they fricked up their bowling game during a tournament and didn't take the top spot.
Every hobby/sport has people who take it too seriously, but you know what's worse, OP? Black personisraelites like you who don't even lift yet spend their time screeching about people who do. You should have a nice day, let me know if you need ideas how to do it, I'm here to help.
My fault for leading with wha sounded like a blackpill. Lifting is a fine hobby, hell there's nothing wrong with hypertrophy and physique goals but sacrificing most of your life and health to look and perform like a greasy meatball is stupid.
>sacrificing most of your life and health to look and perform like a greasy meatball
Most "bodybuilders" aren't doing that, any more than most 40k gays are spending $3000 to put together a 2000-point AdMech list or most "preppers" are actually building cabins in the woods full of ammo and potable water. Every hobby has "that guy" who takes it way beyond what most people would consider reasonable.
But why do you care?
Literally, nobody here gives one frick what you do. You could lift, you could be taking 20 dicks at the local glory hole every night, but in the end, nobody cares nearly as much about what you're doing as you seem to care about what others are doing.
It makes you sound pretty gay overall being this upset that someone would go beyond whatever you're willing to do because they enjoy it more than you do.
>why do you care
Because I wanted to talk about it. Don't spend time on forums if you don't want to discuss things.
I have a home gym. You're the lowest common denominator in any fitness space if you use public gyms.
post home gym and physique
Hobby?
“No man has the right to be an amateur in the matter of physical training. It is a shame for a man to grow old without seeing the beauty and strength of which his body is capable.”
-Socrates
"I slept and I dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and I saw that life was duty. I worked--and behold, duty was joy."
-Rabindranath Tagore
Im glad the masses like you are abandoning the gym
Less competition
Cabin? Ammo? Potable water? LOL In a WROL scenario? Assuming we haven't been nuked first(forget duck and cover, just kiss your ass goodbye and remember the best nuts you ever got off while getting vaporized), just study Mad Max and Fist of the North Star. Every dumbass with a rifle will give his position away or panic and use their ammo up. Big stick win. Ape alone weak. Ape together strong. Find a big stick. Find group of goons with big sticks. Join goons. Assert dominance, if able, or take ration of resources pillaged. Enjoy until someone else asserts dominance and leaves your corpse to rot in wasteland. End.
I exercise in my homegym.
>I’m not even talking about putting on a shitload of mass and becoming a steroid monster.
This is more along the lines of what I'm criticizing.
What you're criticizing is like 1% of "bodybuilders"—who are, in turn, like 1% of the strength training community.
you can do bodybuilding without knowing who the frick are those guys. I recommend you do, I don't give a shit about any "fitness" youtubers and never will. The only one I cared about was Rich Piana
Imagine getting an email from mike isreal asking for you to come and meet him and do a video with him lmao no thanks hahahah
>posing right under led lamps
yea now do that in direct sunlight see what happens.
>bodybuilding is a dead end hobby for losers
did anyone think it wasn't? bodybuilding has been loser shit for decades
if you watch the actual video the most pathetic thing is the way that manlet israelite takes himself so seriously and won't shut up when someone is simply lifting heavy thing up and down
BB is the most based physical hobby but good luck finding a decent place.
>lowest injury risk
>can participate in any activity and be decent at it from the start thanks to overall strength and coordination
>ensures your bones/soft tissues are healthy into old age
>improves hormonal profile
>improves mood
>actually makes you look good
>forces you to eat healthy
>can do it anywhere, find heavy thing -> pick it up put it down
I'm 35 and am stronger/bigger/healthier than at 20. Meanwhile all my other actual athlete friends all have tendon problems and look dyel.
they have fun and didn't develop body dysmorphia from their ~~*hobby*~~
Yeah they developed tendinits and two dudes (basketball and judo) slipped discs instead. I did martial arts and handegg - lifting is way more fun.
>handegg
ya had me until handegg
ever try rugby
Skinny fat aesthetics, back and knee issues with nothing to show for it, exhaustion from chronic alcohol consumption, 9-5 and a nagging fat wife.
This the your average 'yeah I was a former athlete, bodybuilding is so pathetic haha' after 30. Often sometimes seen in the gym doing quarters squats and divebomb benching.
True
I think a bigger problem is that it's a picture of 3 drug addicts.
That's why the ascended lifta prioritises fun and intensity instead of autistic calorie counting and routine optimisation. And when the time is ready he displays his physique with pride on a sunny beach. He doesn't spend his time pinning and obsessing over calf insertions or wrist width just to strip down to his underwear and pose next to some equally roided gremlin in a dimly lit basement.
Advice to all gymcels thinking of going "le monk mode". Don't. Go out, have fun and enjoy life
They are literally posing in a gym that cost 100K usd to set up, being recorded by 10K usd cameras with potential to earn thousands just from dumbass dudes who go "i want to frick that guy buying his merch gets me partway there i'm gonna jerk off in sam sulek's favorite shorts".
where is this narrative that they're "unhappy" or "just posing with gymcels" coming from?
it's like saying tom cruise wasted his life hanging out being stared at.
>where is this narrative that they're "unhappy" or "just posing with gymcels" coming from?
My eyes.
Yeah, don't become like those freaks. But it's still definitely worth lifting and taking it seriously until you get to Hollywood actor levels. But once you're at that point, it's time to just focus on maintaining what you have, and go outside and talk to girls to enjoy the benefits of the physique you've built.