HammerjackHappy Zero Cool Day!
tetris11They’re all jacked because back then the keyboards were so stiff and the patch cables were so heavy that joining a network and typing in your login credentials burned more calories than a half marathon
tomkattThat’s your idea of jacked? They look like scrawny kids.
Tarquinn2049To be fair, the more built guys in the scene are what jacked looked like before it was common for normal people to just take steroids. They certainly aren’t what someone that devoted enough time to computer hacking to be the best at it looked like. Since it already takes at least 4 hours a day to look like that without steroids.
UndercoverUlrikHDSince it already takes at least 4 hours a day to look like that without steroids.
No that’s not true. You could train 3 times a week with 1 hour workouts and get a similar result as long as you’re consistent. 4 hours at the gym is too much time unless you take excessive rest periods and/or uses it as a social arena.
It’s actually pretty funny to see a real power lifter next to a youtube-popular muscle builder, 1/4 the size, but can lift 4x as much.
The strongest powerlifters are huge, and specify in only 3 movements. Take a powerlifter out of those 3 specific movements and bodybuilders doesn’t look all that bad.
Steroids just make muscles that get in the way of utility. Rather than properly useful muscles.
Strongmen are even bigger than bodybuilders and there’s no loss in “functional strength”/utility.
Not a single part of you comment is accurate, are you into fitness/strength sports?
I may have the exact amount of time wrong from what people are saying, and I was assuming he didn’t only work on his arms, but I can concede that since we only see his arms it’s all I really should comment on.
And no I don’t have much interest in it myself. So I probably got specific terms wrong.
The words I should have used are people training specifically to ‘be’ strong versus people training specifically to ‘look’ strong. Whatever the proper words are for that.
The whole focus of my post, other than saying the wrong specific words, is that people’s ideas of what it takes to get strong have been skewed by the prevalence of steroids. It’s now assumed if your muscles are less than an inch thick, you “don’t even lift, bro”. When that kind of size is pretty hard to attain outside of a gym. Like even hard labourers are gonna look like that without lutting in proper time and attention.
I used to lift heavily in high school to help in sports, I’m on the shorter side but I still to this day fill out the sleeves of a typical polo. I haven’t been inside a gym or worked out other than my mostly daily walks in over twenty years and still have relatively defined muscles. I’ve never used anything other than protein powder when I was in high school although I did hit the gym three times a day five days a week back then (my teachers let me skip class to go workout). Nobody is going to mistake me for being cut but I’m also nearing fifty and still have large muscles compared to a lot of people I run into. At this point I have to assume it was from rigorous lifting while I’m my youth and retaining a portion of that or genetics which I’m less inclined to believe but only emotionally because I strongly dislike my bigoted family.