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apologies for the off topic - but cheers for the link major! The student way to get fit! (ie: cheap!)

RwD

 

It's the first video I personally think he has no clue what he is saying, basically cut and paste from Google.

It's so "simple" yet so wrong, bulking up is very complex, and it's not straight forward. Proper bodybuilders bulk and get a little fat because they gain more muscle doing so, if they didn't, they wouldn't put on 30lb of fat and then risk losing valuable muscle. He states that you don't need to get fat to put on muscle, which is true, but (and this is a big but) it will take a long time for you to gain the same amount of muscle than someone who is also putting on a stone of fat. I know he is promoting fitness more than bodybuilding (look at this cardio video, a big example of him being biased towards being fit rather than losing weight) but he is just too simple when he explains some things.

His muscle control videos are awesome, and I do a lot of the things he does, but I can't help to think that he just Googles some stuff. Another example is the 5lb of muscle per year, yes this is true, but what people don't understand is that he is talking about lean muscle, muscle without anything in it. Your muscle in your arm is filled many things which makes it heavier and stronger, but to say to people who might not know much about this, is just wrong. A lot of people on bodybuilding forums put on 20lb - 30lb of muscle per year, and I remember seeing someone putting on 40lb of muscle in 9 months (with steroids, but still).

Lean muscle is different to muscle mass and muscle weight...

 

I do completely agree, but you answered it yourself.. He is promoting fitness over mass (In one video he says if you only have half an hour a day to work out, it should be spent entirely on cardio), but he is trying to reach people who haven't the damnedest clue about how to get fit, lose weight healthily. or build core muscle, and on a budget. I do find I laugh at his "advanced" videos, until I try them (the 5 gallon push-up was a shock to the system), but for the audience he's appealing to, I can't disagree with any of the videos on his channel.

 

But looking at Scooby, do you really think he is a fitness related person?

Majority of the viewers I am guessing want to look like Scooby, but with him being biased towards fitness rather than muscle building, you'll never look like him if you run 3x a week for 60 minutes, hell, 1 x 30 minutes is enough to stop decent muscle growth.

Unless you eat a stupid amount of calories, you won't gain anything.

Bodybuilding = Eat - Lift - Eat - Sleep

 

... POSE.

 

i'm not sure what's awesomest about this picture, but i suspect it might be everything.

 

Actually, I do think scooby is quite fitness related.

I'm going to assume that 99% of viewers don't look like scooby, as you'd expect, but having someone overweight/underweight or unable to run a mile just eat, lift, eat and sleep, they certainly won't look like scooby, they're just going to damage themselves, see no positive results, and become disillusioned with it altogether. Before you even consider body-building you should ensure you are fit first and foremost. If you don't have the time to lift weight, like me, do some press-ups/sit-ups/dips/pull ups immediately after cardio, they take less than a minute to do and you will see core results. If you want to be like scoob, isolation is essential, perhaps he should make that a bit clearer I guess.

 

Isolation is not the key to being massive. Compounds are. Oh yeah and steriods/hgh etc.
Isolation is fine if you legs are lagging, or you think your pecs arn't getting big enough etc. but rubbish for building all over muscle. That is why compounds exist.

 

Isolation is great for bodybuilding, but it's not an excuse to lift light.

To get that big, you cannot be fitness related, it's impossible, maybe after yes, but to build that kind of chest I can guarantee he did not run 3 x a week while doing so.

 

Any chance of taking this conversation to a dedicated thread? I'm sure people that are interested would prefer to have the conversations how to make yourself enormously muscly in one easy-to-find place.

 

personally i find 6 packs and/or 'muscley' men vile. it looks stupid.

 

Your telling me you'd rather have

This

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/106/305186351_54e13e2fcc.jpg?v=0

Over this?

http://www.manitobaharvest.com/images/upload/jeremyshore1.jpg

 

Woo!

 

A keg is always better, right?


(Your signature have a typo in it, BTW)

 

Fixed for me

 

tbfh. 6-packs etc look weird when they're really defined (Mr Universe/Bodybuilder kinda defined) - That said, I don't see why anyone would have something against some light definition of the stomach.

I'm more of a "develop muscle that actually does something" than a "develop muscle that makes you look like a walking wall" kinda exerciser. Rather comically, I look fat rather that muscly :B

 

irony?

 

Hmm... No comment.

 

Muphry's Law in action.

 

Both pukey, imo. Get some fat on those bones