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After looking at a few photos of the author via Google I am unimpressed by their physique. This article could've been written by ChatGPT. I would advise anyone
by zer8k 3y ago
After looking at a few photos of the author via Google I am unimpressed by their physique.
This article could've been written by ChatGPT. I would advise anyone reading it to heed the warning at the bottom:
> You are not on the website of a medical doctor, nutritionist, or registered dietitian.
Importantly, they also are not a certified trainer. You don't need to be one, but if you aren't one I'd expect you to at least look the part. I'm not one either, but based on a lot of the information being far too surface level to be useful this is a cleverly disguised ad-rev cash grab.
I especially enjoyed this note:
> But here's the tricky part: “Natural” doesn’t always mean you can’t take other substances like HGH and insulin
I know of no standard body (USADA, etc) that allows these. Some may allow it with a Therapeutic Use Exemption. You are not natural if you take exogenous hormones. A diabetic taking insulin will not realize the same effects as a person without diabetes when doped with insulin. The amount of insulin bodybuilders and athletes take is insane. You can tell the author has never taken part in a sport where this is wildly common. I competed with a few people who doped insulin so heavy they nearly were hospitalized.
Call it ad hominem but I'm not going to take advice from someone who does not appear to take part in any fitness whatsoever. Put it into practice, set some decent PRs, and then talk about it. Otherwise this is no different than any one of 1,000 fitness spam sites talking about the same information.
- pavlov 3y agoThe author is a venture capitalist. This may explain why he feels qualified to offer advice on anything and everything to people who are actually doing the thing he's not.
- vGPU 3y agoIndeed, and the only one of the “example” photos he provided that looks like they’ve ever touched a weight in their life is the one that he claims is only possible with steroids. The rest of them just look like regular skinny guys.
- ProjectArcturis 3y agoLol yup. Who's going to take swole advice from this guy? https://farm1.staticflickr.com/496/18306982748_e272f519fc_b.jpg https://farm1.staticflickr.com/496/18306982748_e272f519fc_b....
- warent 3y agoI once had a remote coworker who looked very similar in Zoom calls, and I'd subconsciously assumed he was probably kind of small and skinny. When we met in person for the first time the guy was shredded and really bulky, he could probably bench press me. You can't guess someone's physique by their head!