Why is the Veeky Forums scene full of scams and endless suckers falling for them?
Let's go through a few of them:
The six pack scam. Bodybuilders managed to sell suckers on the idea that you should walk around unnaturally lean so that everyone can see... Your belly. Who the fuck wants to eat some weird ass diet all the time and not be able to enjoy a few drinks and some eats in case it smooths you out and you lose your definition? Do the suckers even know that bodybuilders only get that lean for a few weeks every year when they are competing and most the time they are pretty damned fat? Do the suckers even know that 'roids make the diet and vascularity shit work?
The entire bodybuilding scene. The original audience for bodybuilders in the 1960s was gay men. And guess what? It still is. Bodybuilding as you know it was created by a pair of Canadian Jews (Joe and Ben Weider) who ditched all the genuinely competitive elements from competition (feats of strength and gymnastics) in favour of their own personal opinion on how good the bodybuilder looked. Which had an awful lot to do with how many magazines they could sell with the picture of that bodybuilder on the cover.
Bodybuilding is all about steroids and HGH and a bunch of drugs. It ain't healthy and it ain't fitness. In fact it is the opposite, it is all about mental illness and bizarre and useless body shapes and sizes.
The supplement scam. This one came from bodybuilding. They couldn't sell you more than one barbell set but they could sell you endless quack potions and powders every month with the promise that they would help you reach 'your potential' and get you looking like Mr Olympia (who doesn't take any of that shit because it doesn't work). They sell you powders that have the taste and texture of something scraped up off the Negev desert because suckers thing that if it tastes bad and goes down like a bellyful of sand it must be extra good shit!
Competing clean. This is a real doozy. Everything is drug tested right? And everyone says they are clean... Because they are all full of shit and lying. Every sport is full of sneaky bastards on drugs. Baseball? You know it. Football? Oh yes. Athletics? You really think the Russians are the only ones at it?
You even have weird myths that have sprung up because of it. You know the ones. That black people have genetic advantage for sprinting and for long distance running. Sure wouldn't have anything to do with them taking drugs would it? Yes it fucking would, and yes they have been caught at it. Kenyans and long distance running? Busted. Sprinters? Like Ben Johnson was the only one...
The Veeky Forumsness clothing scam. You need those special running shoes to run faster and further don't you? Do you fuck. It is a scam. They don't make you fitter. They just make your wallet emptier. Same with the gym clothing. Just a rip-off.
Carter Watson
Veeky Forums is bullshit. It is just scam piled upon scam.
You ever been in a gym and seen those Nautilus machines? Scam. Nautilus and the entire HIT thing is a scam. It doesn't work. Mike Mentzer didn't build his body on HIT, he built it on steroids and barbells.
Jackson Gomez
Powerflifting is fucked too.
How many competitions are for natty lifters? And how sure are you that no bastard on the juice gets in?
Then you have raw vs geared lifting. Raw makes sense. Geared is just bonkers voodoo. May as well let the lifting shirt do the bench press and send the guy in it out to the back to eat some donuts.
Oh wow, look at that six pack. They so Veeky Forums. They so healthy. They sure get all the girls...
Cameron Phillips
>special running shoes
No, spending multiple hundreds on a pair of running shoes will not yield miracle results, but a pair of running shoes versus a pair of tennis shoes, like pic related, will stop you from damaging your legs.
The "fitness clothing" that really gets on my nerves, is the jeans and shirts that are stitched to fit someone who's been bodybuilding for several years, but they market it to DYELs and charge twice as much as any regular clothing brand.
Luis Edwards
Aerobics classes for women scam. Jane Fonda and all the others ever since have been scamming women. Feel the burn! Yeah. Feel the burn all the way to the emergency room. Great way to get injured, no use for health or fitness.
Lucas Phillips
Nope, it is horseshit. The science doesn't back up the claims.
You can actually run just fine in a pair of army boots and get the same or less injuries than running in running shoes.
One of the real problems is just plain doing too much running. Unless you are one of the handful of genetic freaks that are suited for it all you get from doing to much running is overuse injuries or acute injuries when you have an accident (turn your ankle or get hit by a bus).
So how about the squats and deadlifts scam? Actually, the working-legs-at-all scam. No one, especially not women, give a shit about your legs. All you'll get is wasted time and an increased chance of hurting yourself.
Asher Reyes
Depends what you are doing it for.
Lifting for a genuine purpose - to be stronger for something - makes good sense.
Lifting because you think it will make you look good and get you girls is just plain dumb.
Lifting because you think it will make you look good for other gay men makes sense. There is a gay muscle worship scene.
Colton Powell
Its actually pretty easy to maintain a six pack visible nearly all the time.
You just have to actually to real fitness and not just lift 3 times a week.
You play a team sport on the weekend, gym a bit, run a bit and dont eat too much shit and youll have one
Christopher Cruz
Home gym natty master race here. If you feel for (((their))) scam its your own fault.
Jaxson Taylor
Army boots are meant for running retard
Sneakers will take you further than converse than running because sneakers won't break your feet. Same with army boots. Steel toe boots can be run in too if you have the endurance to keep picking them up.
Bentley Turner
>Its actually pretty easy to maintain a six pack visible nearly all the time.
No it fucking isn't. You run around topless all the time where you live?
Why would you think that anyone wants to see your 'six pack' belly anyway? Are you gay?
Elijah Morgan
>women like chicken legs and pancake ass Nope, do your squats boys.
Gabriel Garcia
Don't be a dumbfuck. Army boots were never designed for running.
Aaron Bennett
Lots of women like abs, and it's seen as a sign of being fit and healthy.
Isaiah Bennett
Can confirm went for a snowy jog in my Merrell hiking shoes and wrecked my knees for 3 weeks. Never again. Never had that problem jogging before in my Nike shoes. I didn't even jog but 2 miles.
Alexander Cox
>Why is the Veeky Forums scene full of scams and endless suckers falling for them? It's because they have the ideal target for this shit; lazy fucks. They know there's a market for shortcuts, and know that it can take weeks, if not months, for people to spot it's not working, and they also know that the vast majority of people will simply give up before they realise is a scam, or simply not follow the workout/diet plan properly to begin with.
The beauty of it, though? The same people will come crawling back, time after time. They will never fucking learn. The fitness industry has the ultimate golden goose, and we should all be grateful for those retards funding the sort of shit that we might actually benefit from.
Ryan Rodriguez
>Why is the Veeky Forums scene full of scams and endless suckers falling for them? because fitness is the #1 thing people want to have but don't want to work for/can't acquire easily
Juan Howard
>Lots of women like abs, and it's seen as a sign of being fit and healthy.
Yeah, they like abs because you say so. Sure bro, Imma believe everything you say...
And being unnaturally lean and eating a weird diet to stay that way is a sign of being fit and healthy? Well let's all go book our holidays in the Belsen conce... Holiday and fitness camp then!
Don't be a dumb motherfucker. You think girls can see your six pack through your shirt and coat in the middle of winter now??? Or are you going to run around in the snow with your top off so the girls can see how swole and lean you are??? Because the girls are sure gonna be all over you like white on rice if you do mentalist shit like that...
Gabriel Smith
that will be dehydration + the stage lights
they dry out to look more cut, but nobody generally walks round like that
Ryan Stewart
Winter is for bulking user.
Leo Perez
Where did the low bf guy touch you, user?
Cooper Flores
Dude you need to chill the fuck out and stop jumping to conclusions, I don't run around shirtless and have a super weird diet, I just eat less and run more in the summer because girls like six pack abs. If they didn't so many male models and actors wouldn't get them either. It's not as hard as you think it is user.
Jose Ramirez
Low BF% = Lean face.... the only real reason to lift weights is to help you get leaner and build/retain muscle so your body resembles something like this pic.
Parker Anderson
Because going jogging in the snow is a real smart thing to do.
Charles Ortiz
That is gay bodybuilder worship thinking.
The reason to lift weights is to get stronger, not to look like a gay icon. Unless of course you are gay.
Jack Thompson
this should be a sticky. good job synthesizing, OP
Jeremiah Collins
Face is all woman care about and that physique is more than enough. Getting strong and big from the gym is an absolute cope for subhumans to distract them from their shit tier genetics.
Levi Johnson
So it is starting to sink in to your head that the low bf stuff is gay and for the gayers.
Daniel Anderson
It's snowed that morning roads were clear. Just salty didn't wanna ruin my nice shoes. Go run 3 or 4 miles in some shit shoes and tell me about it then
Jordan Davis
>male models Picked by gay designers to appeal to their own gay tastes.
>actors Those would be the ones who juice to get jacked for a role and then go back to being skinny or fat after the job is finished.
Jonathan Nguyen
>No one, especially not women, give a shit about your legs. Actually women care more about legs then even men. Having chicken legs make you feminine.
Hunter Perez
>denying attractiveness of abs >not retarded
Get out you fat powerlifter
Kevin Baker
>there is only one reason to lift
Luke Jones
Since they can't see through all the clothes might as well not workout
Jordan Johnson
Sure sure, abs are real attractive. If you are a gay man into bara bodies.
Kevin Perez
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Evan Diaz
But jujimufu said they were great...
Joseph Carter
That's why all the olympic athletes wear army boots.
Gabriel Walker
That's why running spikes exist.
You don't need them. You don't run on a specialist athletics track.
Jaxon White
Used to believe the Veeky Forums meme that abs are super hard to achieve then one day I was comparing progress with my sister (who doesn't lift but is on her way to be a gymnatic techer) and she had superb abs. Started doing some hanged L-sits on top of my usual swimming routine a month ago and I'm on my way to catch up (I don't lift either btw). Once you're low bf% you can maintain there and keep your abs forever. If you can't eyeball your macros to simply maintain, you're a failure of a human being. And if you still need to bulk, well you weren't planning on having much definition during a bulk do you? Don't dirty bulk and you need just 2 month to cut and have the whole summer when you can maintain your abs.
Henry Smith
Well Lotta talk but no pussies running in their work boots and Walmart shoes yet? Odd since they say it doesn't matter. I can guarantee every person who says that doesn't actually run or does once a year or walks a mile and calls it cardio.
Nolan Hughes
And anyone with any sense doesn't do much running anyway. Lots of running makes for ruined ankles, knees, and hips. And that's without the soft tissue injuries.
Brandon Watson
by visible he means that his "six pack" has definition at all times, not that he shows it on display 24/7
Andrew Parker
agreed, user
we should all just balloon up to 400lbs and die of septic shock after our feet rot off
you're that butthurt bong from /pol/ the other day aren't you?
David Nguyen
I keep my six pack in the fridge. I don't want to know about or see his belly because I am not gay.
Robert Roberts
You're confusing being fit with being a bodybuilder. OP is not wrong.
Isaiah Phillips
Get help, lad, you're obsessed
Noah Lewis
OP, why are you angry?
Ian Russell
Why do people bother typing out bait-posts this long? You can get replies with far simpler stuff.
Jaxon Thomas
Nigga why you gotta go and gift him a (You)
Colton Baker
What a cancerous thread
Adam Howard
>'do you fuck?'
Jaxson Jackson
protein powder is useful for getting your total amount of protein grammes for the day without having to get it all from chicken which is more than most people want to eat. Everything else is true.
Dylan Ortiz
Hahahaha, bro just work out and stop being so insecure about being a fat fuck you retard.
Owen Hernandez
Sure most of Veeky Forums is trying ot get bigger than needed to look good. But you can get abs with 3 times a week hanged leg raises at home on a pullup bar and keep them all year round eating at maintenance. Meanwhile bodybuilders hit the gym more, laugh at bodyweight exercises and make a science of eating.
Benjamin Richardson
High test dude, high test.
Adrian Edwards
>You run around topless all the time where you live? During winter it's visible at the pool and in the bedroom. During summer, you can lounge around home shirtless and at outdoors activities like the beach.
James Flores
Burf. No one's out here running every day but once a week or so. It's made my knees and ankle so much stronger. They feel way less wobble on lifts and if I wanna go out back and toss the pig skin around I'm not a blob of muscle who is winded in 5 mins...
Parker Myers
Dude, did you even think that through?
You have to force feed yourself protein??? Why the fuck would you have to force feed yourself protein in the shape of chicken or anything else? Do you not realise you are thinking and saying some really weird shit?
Jordan Wilson
It's okay, you don't have to be in the closet forever. You can come out and embrace your gayness and love for other men's bodies.
Jayden Myers
OP is a fucking insecure retard who thinks have a 6 pack is unattainable and women do not find it attractive, while simultaneously calling it gay bc sour grapes and all that jazz >>>>>>unnaturally lean Human beings literally FUCKING EVOLVED to run long distances and be light on their feet, that was there natural advantage. Go be retarded and don't have abs, we don't care, but don't resent other people cause they have what you don't. Fuck
Leo Miller
>Why is the Veeky Forums scene full of scams and endless suckers falling for them?
EVERY scene is full of scams and endless suckers falling for them. You think the fashion industry isn't one, huge yearly scam? The art world? Education and text book prices? The US just elected a legit con man, for fuck's sake.
Jayden Taylor
>O-only homos have abs trust me haha trust me pls everyone stop laughing
Juan Allen
Oh?
OP didn't say it was unnatainable, so why are you lying about that?
Human beings evolved to WALK long distances, not run them. Gets kinda hot in Africa dude. Not a good idea to do a load of running.
White people in Northern climes aren't well adapted to being ultra lean. Cold and being ultra lean ain't a good combo.
>be light on their feet You do know that is a euphemism for gay don't you?
Everyone has abs sweetie. Most people don't feel any need to obsess over them or try to show them off to others. Most sane people prefer to have a few beers and some junk food from time to time and don't sweat not having defined abs because of it. Try letting your panties out the bunch and live a little.
Josiah Martinez
Is your sense of masculinity under thread sweetie?
Bless.
Parker Parker
>sweetie? >sweetie.
are you actually gay?
Jack Ross
>thread >sweetie
Justin Sanders
Are you really that dense you can't tell when an user is taking the piss out of you?
Thomas Stewart
>an user is taking the piss out of you? I'm new to the thread and haven't read everything thoroughly. I'm not from texas though, and guys here only say sweetie if they're literally gay.
Josiah Martinez
this fucker has been shilling this shit on /pol/ too. seriously fuck off manlet
Jonathan Flores
Are you crying because OP burst your bubble and showed you up for being a mug who buys $100 of supplements every week?
Or because after reading the OP you don't feel so good about looking at yourself in the gym mirror and sending snapchat pics of your 'swole and ripped' body to your boyfriends?
Noah Fisher
You just wanted to say that you have a home gym didnt you
Grayson Long
Who the hell buys 100 dollars of supplements, I get a tub of protein power for like 60 dollars a month
Jaxon Clark
ITT: Butthurt retards. Lol
Jack Hernandez
>haha, you buy 100 dollars worth of useless stuff that doesn't actually do anything? that's fucked up, man, I spend 40 dollars less on useless stuff that doesn't actually do anything
Brayden Davis
Other way around: Thick thighs + thick ass = feminine. Small thighs and hips = masculine.
Well, except in the US, I guess, lol @homos.
But anyway, yeah, OP is pretty much right in everything. Sorry.
Joseph Young
Ahahahahahahahahaha. You mug.
Does it go down like a bellyful of dust scraped up offf the Negev desert too?
Ahahahahahahahaha.
Joshua Adams
And guess what people women find extremely attractive most of the time. Male models and actors, you never hear talking about a fat actor saying "I bet he's so strong"
Chase Wilson
Goes down like a liquid because I mix it with milk, I don't always get the time to cook a good enough meal for a decent amount of protein throughout the day, so protein shakes make it easier
Easton Phillips
>Do you not realise you are thinking and saying some really weird shit? No, he isn't. Look at this whole site. Everyone is fucking crazy.
Luis Anderson
niggers are naturally predisposed to be quicker runners though...
they have a naturally higher density of fast twitch muscle fibers; look it up next time kiddo
Gabriel Gomez
Work dat six pack. Work it. Looks soooo good. All the girls looooove dem some six pack on a man jus' like dat. Mmmm-mmm-mmmmm.
Ethan White
>niggers are naturally predisposed to be quicker runners though...
Yeah, when they are running from the police. Aside from that, no there ain't no genetic advantage in running for any racial group.
Brayden Walker
Wow, they must have worked sooo hard to get those six packs.... Those guys are really swole...
Dylan Hall
We evolved to run very far. Many animals can't match our endurance. We can push ourselves to go 50+ miles. You sound like a fatass who's never taken cardio seriously.
Chase Scott
Yo Veeky Forumsbros you better chug down some protein shakes so you can have a Mr Olympia six pack like Ronnie.
Jose Howard
You sound like some ignorant cunt who never learned any basic anthropology. Crack open a book sometime instead of cracking open the weight gain 4000.
Colton Wilson
>basic anthropology >doesn't know that the many anatomical adaptations we have developed for running long distances How about you stop making excuses for being a dumb lard and go out for a run? I bet you can't even run a mile.
Jeremiah Harris
No motherfucker, I'm too busy reading Practical Programming for the tenth time and chugging down my GOMAD so I can get a six pack like Ronnie Coleman.
Landon Stewart
From UK, presumably
Nolan Kelly
Exactly running hurts knees. It makes them stronger and can help ease knee pain and arthritis over running causes knee issues. Now run lard ass
Christian Thompson
>what are athletic sponsorships? > what are running in spikes for performance?
He's talking about run of the mill fucking running shoes you hermit
Daniel Barnes
Yeah sure, and playing soccer is the safest thing you can do to keep fit and never get injured ever.