Another Gimmick About "Bodybuilding" that Few Men Consider When Lifting Heavy Weights
I keep forgetting to post about this little "detailed" fact about living heavy weights, but it's been an especially consuming thought that I somehow keep forgetting about even though the last weeks I've been lifting some heavy objects "naturally" in moving furniture and equipment around which is why I've been exhausted...
The thing is, when you go to the gym and lift "dead weights", or even with the controlled machines, the thing is, chances are if you had to lift a truly heavy object in the wild, let's say a huge rock or boulder, or even a tree stump after cutting a tree, the "dead weights" never account for the type of "girth" of an object, especially a large box or real-life situations of oddly shapes objects.
While these "dude gym bros" boast about how much pounds they can lift, I can tell you something for a fact...
I've seen even some of the most ferocious bodybuilders who post about lifting triple digit weights, when it comes to actually grabbing an entire object themselves which has wide girth, their "abilities" somehow plummet, except when they have a VERY strong back and developed core.
Lifting Dead weights or barbells, dumb bells, the weights on these things are extremely concentrated to the discs and your grip is only based on a very small rod or handle.
When you lift truly heavy objects that are wide, grip is sometimes even more important than how much you can regularly "lift" in the gym, and if you lose your grip or form, any so-called "LBS" you lift in the gym are completely blown out of the water by the oddities of the object you are lifting and moving.
Random, but I really thought I would post this for perspective.
For example, as an Old Man that I am, I've been lifting heavy objects like massive loudspeakers that weigh between about 70 - 100 pounds in the last few weeks, and I can still lift these relatively well for a short distance on my own, but I see a lot of Men, even delivery guys who struggle with it, it's not easy especially for very wide boxes or based on how the weight may be "distributed" in a particular object, and the thing is this never taken into an account when one lifts with the structured weights in a gym.
But I have to say that my recovery time sometimes over a few days has begun to slow in doing this repetitively.
The fact that my spine is still "intact" this late in life, I can only owe thanks to the fact that I never overly exerted myself in my younger years, like most foolish Men do. Don't get me wrong, it's nowhere near as strong as when I was younger, but I see most Men who've blown their back out these days by their 40's and have damaged "discs", putting them in a hard position.
It's amazing how much the weightlifting lifestyle "hoodwinks" Men into believing fake results, and do not account for real-life situations where you would need to lift such heavy objects that are not based on fixed, repritive sizes and motions, which really mean NOTHING outside of that environment.
I stopped lifting after Goatis documented how dangerous it was to overall health. It was the correct decision. Not only so I save time and money, I feel great.
ReplyDeleteThese days, I just walk about 7-10 miles a week, in the woods park near my house. Getting sun and enjoying the scenes.
I cringe that I used to bench over 300 and squat over 500...how stupid and dangerous. And no benefits.
Another thing about these body lifters...is they generally are soft and weak in real world fighting situations. When I played football in college, many were strong, but mentally weak and not very courageous...so there is a dynamic at place where they have to compensate for their weaker masculinity.
You played American football!? A roman like you should've played rugby, pads are for women in American football
DeleteThis reminds of a co worker my dad used to work with in the early 2000s he was bigger than Ronnie Coleman but could barely move a mattress, a frickin MATTRESS! It goes to show you that the gym is really for the weak and dumb slaves.
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