No Camera Lifting
In our age of “pic or it didn’t happen”, and “it doesn’t count if it isn’t on video” sometimes it’s all for the better to simply leave your phone/camera in the locker and not take it out regardless that day.
Imagine a world where a PR was a PR whether you did it in front of witnesses, alone, in a meet, or on video? Where it counted under any circumstance as you were your own 3 white light givers?
I get filming occasionally for checking your form. I get filming some cool shit that happens for putting online (YouTube is fun for me, I assume all the people on Instagram enjoy it to some degree). But when every rep by powerlifters is form check videoed, and every exercise is filmed ass angle from plain faced fitness types it’s gone too far. Bodybuilding and the gym would have been better off staying some fringe thing thought to be overly narcissistic and gay, fitness being derived for the masses by labor jobs no longer worked, walks no longer taken, basic calisthenics that are no longer performed, and tables being occasionally stood up from.
Leave your camera in the locker for once. Not every PR or PR attempt needs to be on camera, just like often your headphones just get in the way.
It Turns Rant
I miss the days of the high school weightroom. Alone, no camera, silence or a cd popped into the player, and just fucking bringing it. Squats, dips, db rows, then doing some (often giant setted) full body volume not tripping over anyone as I was the only one there.
I once stated “I am the anti-thesis of who would go to a bodybuilding show.” One overhearing this misheard, laughed, and repeated “I am the antichrist to bodybuilding”, well with the culture the way it is, it’s accurate enough.
- I don’t care about the perfect split, or perfect diet.
- I refuse to make my numbers official just because. “MEET!!??!?!??!?!”
- My views on injury, and the talking about it have been written clearly multiple times, as have my thoughts about overtraining. HARDEN THE FUCK UP!
- I have a personal gripe about the push to turn females into little males via lifting be it turning them overly muscular, overly lean, or via the complete loss of tits. I’m not against a female lifting in theory, but a lot of what I’m seeing in practice is wrong. (To stay attractive a certain amount of softness ie femininity is needed. You’d be best doing lots of ass, some lats, some shoulders, some cardio, and little else. I’m not against female health, nor completely against them lifting.)
- Related to the last: There should be male only lifting spaces. Our society has very very few male environments.
- You don’t need your own music every fucking session.
- You don’t need to film every fucking thing.
End of today’s rant.
-J