Dead on or Total Jerk?
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I read the article. It sounds like it was written by a younger guy with a very thick neck and a very small penis.
LOL
I liked the part that I read the bloody finger nails and calluses where a bit much lol0 -
I wish someone would have let me read this about 5 years ago when I was really in to walking around the block and doing stomach crunches to try to lose weight...
I love the good information in it, but obviously as evidenced by some of the above comments, truth is not always welcomed if the messenger is brash.0 -
Dead on! Chalk those who disagree to the pathetic and delusional group he referred to.0
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*snort*
Caustic, but he has a point. But ultimately it boils down to what you want to achieve, and how much effort you are prepared to put in.
I want to be muscular, athletic-looking, and fit as fock. I'm not going to get that by walking an extra stop on the bus, so I have to work hard for it. But that's not to say that my metaphorical friend, who wants to move a little bit more in her day-to-day life, is wrong for getting off a stop early.
ETA: Quoted for truth, but it's times like this that being a Brit brings a whooooole different meaning to certain Americanisms...
"If the heaviest thing you carry is a fanny pack on your mall-walking expeditions to the Latte Shoppe, well, then, guess what, that's all that your body will grow: a fanny. A big soft fanny. Is that what you want? A big soft fanny?"0 -
*snort*
Caustic, but he has a point. But ultimately it boils down to what you want to achieve, and how much effort you are prepared to put in.
I want to be muscular, athletic-looking, and fit as fock. I'm not going to get that by walking an extra stop on the bus, so I have to work hard for it. But that's not to say that my metaphorical friend, who wants to move a little bit more in her day-to-day life, is wrong for getting off a stop early.
ETA: Quoted for truth, but it's times like this that being a Brit brings a whooooole different meaning to certain Americanisms...
"If the heaviest thing you carry is a fanny pack on your mall-walking expeditions to the Latte Shoppe, well, then, guess what, that's all that your body will grow: a fanny. A big soft fanny. Is that what you want? A big soft fanny?"
i loled at that part....
and i totally agree with the rest of what you say. you have to put the effort in to get REAL changes.0 -
"Have you seen that Planet Fitness ad, where the big dumb goon says "I lift things up and put them down," over and over, like a big dumb goon? Ha, what a big dumb goon, right? What a mindless, repetitive, boring, lifestyle he has. He just lifts things up and puts them down. What an uncreative, inside-the box workout program he has, that big dumb goon. Just lifting, and putting down. Over and over again.
GUESS WHAT THAT'S WHY HE'S A F***ING MONSTER."
Loved this part. I used to laugh at this ad,but somewhere along the way I built the habit of "I lift things up and put them down." And damn, it has made a difference.0 -
I'd like to know how he got to decide what work out and fitness means. There are a ton of words (despite words not actually weighing anything) that are used by different people to mean different things. In fact if you 'corrected' every 'incorrect' use of terminology you would start a debate that would never end as even the term correct is subjective!! Correct for who???
If you walk your dog, is it a work out - apparently not
If you run with your dog, is it a work out - perhaps
If you power walk, is it a work out - Those guys who can competitively walk as fast as I can run would probably say yes
At 110lbs a damn good run will get your heart pumping, make you sweat and you will feel the burn.
At 310lbs a brisk walk would do the same thing
Oh well it's his pedestal and as long as he is happy there then who are we to complain.....and we can still lose weight, improve our health, lower our BMI and get 'fitter' without screaming or bleeding if we want to!!0 -
He's "Dead on".0
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OK, so the guy is abrasive. But I don't read many success stories that say "I lost 100 lbs by cutting out soda and walking around the block 5 nights a week."
If your only goal is to be able to move a little more, more power to you. Me, I'm 47 years old and a grandfather, and I plan on backpacking the Grand Canyon on my 50th birthday.0 -
He's a jerk. Being causally more active is better then being sedentary and for many people that's a good start. Let's not put them off.0
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Total jerk. There are many roads to fitness. Why is it that so many lifters constantly play the "my workout is better than yours" game?
And, FTR, my 85-year old mother walks the dog for exercise. And, yes, it is challenging enough for her to be considered a workout. We're not all the same age, or in good health. There is no one-size-fits-all workout that is right for everyone.0 -
I think the part that some of you are missing is that he said it needs to challenge YOU, not necessarily everyone else in the world. Workouts that might be hard for me, could be a cake walk for someone else. He also said that there was nothing wrong with going out and walking, but you won't get ripped from doing it. I think he was dead on, and the world could use a touch more abrasiveness as well.0
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I think many of the nay-sayers have missed the point. It's all about pushing outside of the comfort zone. The stuff he listed are examples, mostly aimed at relatively healthy individuals. However, someone who weighs in at 400+ is likely going to be put in extreme pain, and turned into a caloric inferno just from the aforementioned walk around the block. For ****'s sake, if any of us were to put on weighted vests equivalent to what that person weighs and walk around the block, we would experience the same thing (with very few exceptions).
It's more about "if it doesn't hurt it doesn't work" than anything.0 -
Total jerk. There are many roads to fitness. Why is it that so many lifters constantly play the "my workout is better than yours" game?
And, FTR, my 85-year old mother walks the dog for exercise. And, yes, it is challenging enough for her to be considered a workout. We're not all the same age, or in good health. There is no one-size-fits-all workout that is right for everyone.
Rippetoe's mother was deadlifting at 90 years old0 -
Rippetoe's mother was deadlifting at 90 years old
Her technique on the clean and jerk was pretty good too.
Lets not talk about the state of her snatch.0 -
Dead on. People need to hear the damn truth sometimes. They just baby themselves into thinking they're working out when they are physically capable of doing more, but make lame excuses as to why not. See them all day on MFP. And he wasnt comparing one person to another only themselves. People complain to much about why they're not losing weight and you look at their workout and its strolling in the park and theyre eating over their limit. No duh youre not losing weight. Minimal effort will yield minimal results.0
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Rippetoe's mother was deadlifting at 90 years old
Her technique on the clean and jerk was pretty good too.
Lets not talk about the state of her snatch.
NASTY HAHA0 -
Rippetoe's mother was deadlifting at 90 years old
Her technique on the clean and jerk was pretty good too.
Lets not talk about the state of her snatch.
omg I died.0 -
I wish all the lovely members of my gym that like to pay all that money for membership only to walk 1.6 mph on the treadmill while they yap on the phone were reading that. Especially the one a few days ago that lasted about 10 minutes and left. Wtf, that is called a warmup?!0
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Rippetoe's mother was deadlifting at 90 years old
Her technique on the clean and jerk was pretty good too.
Lets not talk about the state of her snatch.
omg I died.
Best thing I've read all month:drinker:0 -
Great article!0
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I only read the first half and will read the rest later but it comes off a little of a douche way of complaining about complainers. There are plenty of people that can say the same about what he considers workouts. I always thought people have to start somewhere and not everybody has the same goals. Also their are plenty of people that physically can't exercise because of disease and/or illness that is so obvious to the eye. They can say or do what they want, but for me I will live and let be.0
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I'm just curious if sitting on his high horse, on his pedestal is classed as High Altitude Training?0
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it's spot on.0
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Loved it! :drinker:0
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This guy would be branded and meanie and a bully if he posted on MFP.0
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Can I just say, I LOVE LOVE LOVE this??!0
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This guy would be branded and meanie and a bully if he posted on MFP.
I don't think so...well, I don't know.. maybe Diane would get angry.
I have done A TON of walking/running.. and it helped me tremendously.. but he is right 100%...I think I shall add some bricks and a backpack and a child with a brick to my walks!0 -
That may not be how they lost to whole 100 lbs, but it wouldn't surprise me if a good number of the success stories started that way...OK, so the guy is abrasive. But I don't read many success stories that say "I lost 100 lbs by cutting out soda and walking around the block 5 nights a week."
If your only goal is to be able to move a little more, more power to you. Me, I'm 47 years old and a grandfather, and I plan on backpacking the Grand Canyon on my 50th birthday.0 -
Spot on! lol, I have friends who are shocked when they see my calories burned from my HRM readout. They can't believe that I can burn 1000-1300 calories in an hour... well, I don't stop moving for that hour, other than to grab some water and move to the next circuit. Some people need a reality check, you don't make changes by eating bad food even if it is under your calorie allotment, and you don't reshape your body by doing easy tasks. However that being said, if you have been so sedentary that a walk around the block is hard, then great start there, but at some point you need to raise the bar. People wonder why they plateau, because they don't push harder, they continue to do the same things day in and day out until their body gets used to the routine and figures how to work with what it's got. At some point you need to increase, I have been increasing the difficulty every week and so far have lost my 27 lbs in 3 months.... it CAN be done!0
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