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Was anyone else expecting bodybuilding.com? Not that I spend much time there, but I’ve always liked the forums. One of the few old 2000s style forums left compl
by joenot443 4y ago
Was anyone else expecting bodybuilding.com? Not that I spend much time there, but I’ve always liked the forums. One of the few old 2000s style forums left complete with avatars, quote text, shared shibboleth. and a healthy skepticism of newcomers.
- raverbashing 4y agoYes Rich discussions yes, but also discussions like these https://old.reddit.com/r/funny/comments/2rbqzh/bodybuilders_argue_over_how_many_days_there_are/ https://old.reddit.com/r/funny/comments/2rbqzh/bodybuilders_...
- Gunnerhead 4y agoIncredible!
- nelblu 4y agoAlso, back in the day there were some legacy bodybuilders giving free advice on those forums. I remember discussing with serge nubret around 2008ish, good old days :)
- iamacyborg 4y agoSimilar to the letsrun forum which used to have olympic class coaches (ie Canova) dropping words of wisdom. It is a toxic hellhole now, unfortunately .
- zoklet-enjoyer 4y agoBodybuilding.com forums got me interested in nootropics. Those guys are trend setters and some of the first people I would consider biohackers
- jokowueu 4y agoFor me it was longecity that got me into nootopics . I got in the first group buy , it was nsi-189 since then I've been invited in underground groups that go far beyond that . Super interesting world we are living in
- zoklet-enjoyer 4y agoOh yeah! I was on longecity too
- jokowueu 4y agoIf you are interested add me on discord and I'll add you to some rocket chat servers just to look around https://pastebin.com/nYqPfWq5 https://pastebin.com/nYqPfWq5
- kilroy123 4y agoWhat kind of underground groups?
- jokowueu 4y agoGroup buys for meds related to untreatable illnesses, etc through independent chemists or labs either in china or eastern Europe
- travisporter 4y agoI’m still extremely skeptical. How would a newbie go about learning about this stuff? Wiki is not very encouraging
- rTX5CMRXIfFG 4y agoNot me, no. I decided to be formally educated in sports science precisely because the internet is awash with disinformation regarding fitness, bodybuilding.com included (and, honestly, HN). There are some posts there that get the science right, but there’s a lot of falsehoods too, or unindividualized, “over-engineered” advice. On a more on-topic note: I’ve never consciously held ExRx in high regard, but considering how exhaustive and encyclopedic its curation of exercises is, perhaps I should have. One also couldn’t argue that it contains false content because it merely collects exercises instead of prescribing them (unless of course they’ve added some section where they do, which I don’t know of and cannot comment against).
- pokot0 4y agoI feel like every field where science is lagging behind has this problem. Is this not the case? It seems to me that we know very little about how the body works, processes food, etc. Saying "Sports science" feels very different to me than saying (for example) "rigid body physics". The latter can predict the behavior of objects very precisily, the former struggles a lot and can hardly use the scientific method to begin with.
- rTX5CMRXIfFG 4y agoSorry, what do you mean we know very little about how the body works and processes food? That sounds to me like fields like medicine or physical therapy or nutrition should be impossible, and yet they exist. And correct me if I’m wrong but it doesn’t sound like you know the scope of sports science? It’s a combination of the fields that I made an example of above plus physics, too, and many more (such as business and psychology), but oriented specifically for the purposes of sport and recreation.
- sdwr 4y agoScientists and "put up or shut up" people optimize for diff things. People who get results, in my experience, do the right things but don't usually have correct explanations. Part of it is the subconscious figuring out what works, and hanging it onto the closest known concept. The other half is that false beliefs are practical and helpful sometimes.
- theFletch 4y agoYes, that was one of my first resources for online information. I've never heard of the site from the article.
- b112 4y agoIndeed! Bodybuilding.com helped this guy too (this is an old, classic post from there): https://imgur.com/a/EOpfb https://imgur.com/a/EOpfb
- brandonmenc 4y ago20+ year ExRx crew checking in, so no.
- dylan604 4y agoI was really hoping it would have been something outlandish like website for Richard Simmons.
- rchaud 4y agoThat a 24-year old site still exists in largely the same format today, without drowning in a million affiliate links is plenty outlandish.
- inopinatus 4y agoAs soon as I saw the title I knew it was gonna be exrx.
- lr4444lr 4y agoI liked the site, but let's be honest: they didn't vet contributors too well, and they were full of contradictory advice.