Lifting is ok...

mordanus · 2014-07-31T22:31:01+00:00

We recommend for everyone here to train in martial arts. It is said all the time. It builds confidence and may even save your life. However lifting is way more important. The amount of confidence that lifting will provide you is huge. Women can't tell at a glance if you could win a title but they can tell if you can bench like a beast. They equate that to masculinity and the confidence that you receive from women openly lusting after you all day is huge.

Also your body goes through a lot of changes when you lift. It helps fight off depression, build testosterone, burns extra calories etc. Lifting is the basic spot to start if you are working on improving yourself. We say start lifting a shit ton here because it will solve the majority of men's problems and still most of us don't do it.

juanqunt · 2014-08-01T03:14:46+00:00

Watch some Frank Yang videos. Non-functional muscle mass is a status symbol. You won't be able to maintain a perfect fitness model physique if you are poor or lived in the dark ages. Everyone look at you in awe, because you're an artwork and represent an ideal that everyone wants to achieve. You are turning yourself into a luxury good. Think about diamonds and gold jewlery. What practical purpose do they serve?

That said, I also think it's important for a man to know how to defend himself.

HedRotPiliCeppers · 2014-07-31T22:12:58+00:00

Lifting is about discipline, consistency, and looking and feeling good. Having a routine and following that routine. Continuing to improve in something with definite empirical actualization of goals is also rewarding.

Also, lifting heavy things makes me feel awesome. its like growing a beard, its not necessary, but men are specially equipped for it, so why not be awesome at it?

dancing_junkie · 2014-08-01T02:18:23+00:00

I grew up very fat. In my high school years I weighed around 280 lbs. I was constantly depressed and always felt awful about my body.

Once I started lifting regularly and losing weight, I began to feel like an actual human being. Even better, other people started to treat me like a human being as well. From my perspective, lifting changed the entire world more than it changed my physical appearance.

On one of my first days at the gym, I had no idea what I was doing. I was deadlifting dumbells and benching under 100lbs. I felt like shit. My mother had always taught me to quit when things were too hard, and the gym was no exception.

But a thought passed through my head. There were so many other dreams I had, things I wanted to experience, and I knew that if I couldn't even master my physical shape, I'd never be able to fulfill anything else in my life.

I remember staring into the mirror at the gym, my fat cheeks swolen red, and thinking to myself, "Man, if you can just lose this weight, if you can just stick with it, you can do anything."

Life can be chaotic and unpredictable. You don't know if your dreams will pan out or if you'll ever find true love. But the gym will always be the gym, and weights will always be weights. It's the one place in the world you can go to that will always make sense.

For me, the entire world changed but the gym stayed the same.

2014-08-01T15:46:42+00:00

Strong people are harder to kill than weak people, and more useful in general.

2014-08-01T14:14:57+00:00

I actually have this pet theory that women are strongly attracted to men with a high capacity for violence. Now this tends to correlate with highly visible physical indicators like size and BF%, but it also correlates with particular types of attitudes. Aggressive, high risk-taking, cold, etc. You can see it plainly in how women gush and obsess over serial killers.

So when you see bodybuilders who are jacked out of their minds to the point where they couldn't even throw a punch, I'd say that's not attractive strictly because they have no capacity for violence. And I'd say that there is an aesthetic component to athletic ability that incorporates balance, flexibility, and grace of movement that is subtly perceptible compared to size and BF% but equally important.

I view male aesthetics as those of a beautiful machine. A machine isn’t just for show. It must perform well. And based on indicators like shoulder-to-waist ratio, low body-fat, height, and the recent suggestions of evolutionary buttressing of the male face to protect from punches, I think that our machine is meant to fight.

That said, I’m currently just a few months back into MMA after taking a year off. In that year I was lifting heavy and now I’m 30 lbs bigger, most of which has gone to my legs and my back. While speed, technique, and endurance are all things that I’m lacking in and am working to improve on, I’ve got a much stronger base now and when grappling with lighter guys I’ve been throwing them around like ragdolls. Size matters.

anonlymouse · 2014-08-01T17:55:17+00:00

Using MMA as a substitute for weight training is a great way to get injured. Lift first, it's injury prevention.

Nofaphercules · 2014-07-31T22:18:26+00:00

Yeah its not like powerlifters and strongman are all just looks.... The logic is strong with this one.

ReverendDexter · 2014-07-31T21:45:17+00:00

What my point is what does that muscle do besides become a fashion of just some eye candy for a chick?

Stop liking what I don't like!

People lift for different reasons. There's nothing wrong with the pure pursuit of being swole.

CapnTBC · 2014-07-31T21:54:11+00:00

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ShakeWell_ServeChill · 2014-08-01T06:01:16+00:00

A chimp knowing how to fight is never going to take town a gorilla that doesn't.

Title	Lifting is ok...
Author	dancing_junkie
Upvotes	0
Comments	33
Date	July 31, 2014 9:28 PM UTC (11 years ago)
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