I’m going to have to respectfully disagree. If exercise were a pill it would be the most prescribed medication in the world. Diet and exercise cure a litany of medical issues that are too long for me to list here. I know an 82 year old man who survived a car crash that broke his chest, half of his ribs, and his ankle because he exercises everyday. He also eats brussel sprouts for breakfast everyday. It’s important enough that everyone should be doing it and if it is your only hobby then odds are you will still outlive most everyone who took up arts and crafts instead.
Essentially your point here is:
- exercise is beneficial
- a lot of people arent doing it enough
- other hobbies do not have the same physical benefits
Lifting is beneficial, and I do acknowledge that in my original post, but I suppose I wasn't clear enough: I agree with everything you said, it's just that (like a lot of things) people take it to extremes:
- Eating vegetables and being somewhat concerned with animal welfare: Normal
- Militant vegans: lunatics
- Voting Clinton/Biden at the election, donating to the campaign: Normal
- 72 tweets a day on how bad trump is, plastering Clinton/Biden stickers on everything, screaming into the sky when the election results are released: Trump Derangement Syndrome
- Lifting 3-6x a week, making sure you generally eat healthy: Normal
- Spiraling into madness because you missed a session, being unable to eat a meal unless you at least vaguely guesstimate the macros: Lifting Enslavement Syndrome, as I'd called it
As
@NoReturn put it it's also potentially eating disorder fuel.
There's also the question of "do you lift to improve the rest of your life, or do you live to lift", which leads into my other point in the first point: the fools who seem to believe lifting is the only self-development you need.
There's quite a few tiktok videos I've seen which implies that the OP would simply eat protein and lift all day if they could. There's at least one where the OP proposes a school (which they propose naming "Muscle University") where you learn about bodybuilding, homework is PRs and the cafeteria serves only high protein food. Yes, these tie in with the first point, but what I also notice is the proposed lack of non-physical development.
(I wonder why I hear this quote so much less than Socrates and "
It is a shame for a man to grow old without seeing the beauty and strength of which his body is capable")
Everybody here agrees with the 2nd part of the quote, but here I draw attention to the first. You say I'd live longer than a guy who only did crafts and arts if I only lifted; I say
FUCKING DO BOTH.
If the only part of the human experience you value is lifting, you're undervaluing everything else. If I asked you what you'd do if you couldnt go to the gym don't tell me "I'll do pullups and stuff in the park" or "I have a home gym". What if you got ran over by a car and now you're wheelchair bound for a few months?
Bro dodged a bullet.
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Finally it's the fact that the guy seems incompatible with the people who aren't as obsessed with lifting as him. Same fucking deal as deranged SJWs or Vegans who have a "with us or against us" mentality
