Alright, alright, MY BRUDDAHS!
Let's go through a bunch of BOGUS NONSENSE that not only is still around but sometimes is perpetuated by pretty Instagram "experts" that outside of being gifted with stellar genetics for looks, can barely form a sentence, and are probably on steroids.
Heavy lifting makes women bulky.
My, oh, my— I wonder what have I done wrong— here I am at the peak of my manliness HAHAHA lifting the heaviest weights that I can, eating my protein, sleeping real good, carrying around my very own PRIVATE endogenous steroid factory deep within my ba... nevermind— yet, took me several years of dedicated effort, with points where I literally trained my shoulders every single goddamn day so I could finally look fucking "bulky".
NO, MY GRRLS, THAT'S NONSENSE— you're not going to look like a man with round shoulders and traps for days unless you ACTIVELY train them like your life depended on it AND took steroids on top of it, like a professional Crossfit Athlete HAHAHA.
Stretching before a workout prevents injury.
Nope— a little bit of stretching can help you get loose and access a better range of motion, but dynamic mobility drills with bands and some resistance are probably WAY BETTER for this— stretching, like, REALLY trying to stretch and access that painful sensation actually disrupts the sensitivity of your muscle spindles, which are specialized sensory receptors located within skeletal muscles that are responsible for detecting changes in muscle length and rate of change in length, and directly INCREASE your risk of injury.
Weightlifting is bad for your joints.
Fuck no, HEAVY resistance training is actually the very best thing for your joints — better than every collagen pill, every stupid injection, and sure as hell better than 99% of surgical interventions— just understand that HEAVY is relative, heavy is heavy for you, not anybody else, so work within your limits and strengthen your tendons, ligaments, joints, and bones by BANGING IRON, MY BRUDDAH!
Heavy tension creates the need for an adaptive response in soft tissue, and overloaded movement provides that soft tissue that isn't irrigated by blood like muscle and other organs with fluid carrying nutrients and building blocks for that adaptation to occur.
You need to train abs to get a six-pack.
Nope, as much as I hate to say this, abs are "made in the kitchen"— in my case, "outside the bar" HAHAHA— it's 100% straight-up just a matter of losing body fat, if you lose enough, you'll have "abs".
CHISELED abs, like an utterly shredded 8-pack, or such a strong core that you have abs at 18% BF— sorry to disappoint you, exactly like your calves, it's mostly genetic, direct training has tons of athletic applications, but few on the domains of looks— don't get me wrong training abs directly will improve their look mostly by teaching you how to flex them, but nothing revolutionary, the biggest change will come by reducing body fat.
You can't build muscle without supplements.
Oh, this one is actually true, it's IMPERATIVE that you buy "The Potato Ultra-Extra-Hyper-ISO Protein Turkesterone 9000-3D" and use the promocode POTATOGETSRICH if you want to finally build some muscle— HAHAHAHA.
Supplements are 10000% NOT NECESSARY— they can help, MINIMALLY, caffeine, creatine, Fish Oil, Vitamins, and maybe Ashwagandha— pre-workouts are overrated and can hijack your ability to have great sessions without it.
You can't build muscle after the age of 40.
Yeah, RIGHT, you can't watch cartoons after 20, too— WTF are you talking about? HAHAHA
Building muscle is a metabolic activity, there is, in fact, a loss in metabolic rates in the general population as they age— but it's caused by 5 steps:
STEP 1 - LACK OF PHYSICAL ACTIVITY— which leads to STEP 2 -LOSS OF LEAN BODY MASS— which leads to STEP 3 - HORMONAL IMBALANCES— which leads to STEP 4 - REDUCED ORGAN EFFICENCY— which eventually leads to STEP 5 - DEATH, your me·tab·o·lism, the chemical processes that occur within a living organism in order to maintain life finally finished being reduced.
Switch STEP 1 by REGULAR STRENUOUS PHYSICAL ACTIVITY, and watch all the rest follow along— to immortality AND BEYOND!
You can sure as hell build muscle after 40, after 60, after 80— our bodies don't stop developing at the end of puberty (25) it only stops developing WHEN WE DIE, we've always done our best to KEEP PUSHING!
Okie, Dokie, this was a lot of fun— I had prepared a lot of other topics to tackle, but this shit is already too fucking long— so I'll just post them in the comment section, and if you guys want me to tackle them in a full article tomorrow, just leave a comment down there hyping ya'boy up HAHAHA, and I'll do my best to make it happen. 💪
STAY ON THE IRON PATH, MY BRUDDAH!
Big KISS
THE POTATO MAN
Exercises for spot reduction of fat.
You need to constantly change your exercise selection to "shock" your muscles.
Do Pullups and Pulldowns with a wide grip to grow your lats.
You should avoid all forms of cardio if you want to maximize muscle gains.
Lean Gainz
You need to eat a large meal before bedtime to prevent muscle loss overnight.
Weightlifting stunts growth in adolescents.
You should avoid carbs to lose weight.
Deadlifts are bad for your back.
Squats are bad for your knees.
Bench and curls aren't functional
LOL @ abs are made outside the bar.