Why you shouldn't lift - a buzzfeed video

raisins3142 · 2016-06-05T19:43:23+00:00

Yeah, now that I lift, I notice how most men have skinny, weak looking arms. Unless fat, most men do not naturally have large arms. The exceptions (aside from lifters) are guys with freaky good genetics or have a hard labor job. It is foolish for your body to spend energy building and maintaining unused muscle, so it's natural state when a sedentary guy is skinny fat.

Occams_Shiv · 2016-06-05T20:47:41+00:00

What is striking about this video is the degree to which these young men have adopted a highly feminized way of talking about themselves. They speak about an externally created "standard" (vs. an ideal) of attractiveness as if it was arbitrary, and hamster at length about the unattainability of these "perfect" bodies, even when 2 out of the 4 examples they chose are men who went from being physically average to "perfect" in a very short time.

This is a deeply female frame. I am shocked.

Physically I was just like these guys for all of my Teens, 20s and early 30s, but I never would have spoken about myself using such feminized language.

The saddest thing about watching this is knowing that these men could look and feel much better, with much less time time and effort than they ~~imagine~~ (hampster.)

ovoxokhalil · 2016-06-05T21:19:18+00:00

They act like it takes 15 yrs of 5 days a week in the gym + steroids hahahahaha

FLFTW16 · 2016-06-05T22:00:08+00:00

I'm reminded of a story I heard about Arnold Schwarzenegger. When he was growing up he had pictures of male models and body builders on his bedroom wall. His parents thought he was gay. In reality he was learning about ideal proportions, beauty, and setting goals for himself.

When these guys see how thin and sickly their arms are they don't say "I'm going to start doing push ups every day" instead they talk about loving themselves more and not giving in to society's standards and how having strong arms would mean they were failures in other aspects of life. Complete hamster rationalizations.

I work out a lot and even though I haven't achieved my ideal I'm in a much better place as a failure than if I had done nothing and simply considered myself "beautiful" or "healthy." If you shoot for the stars, even if you fail you will have reached the moon, or whatever the quote is. The point is strive. Strive in everything that you do. Admit that you want something and start setting goals and working for it.

troghin2 · 2016-06-05T20:57:38+00:00

This actually makes me happy. Less competition than the usual less, lol.

former_liberal · 2016-06-05T23:13:37+00:00

Just saw a HuffPo article on why "feminism is good for men." Among the benefits are that it can be cool for men to sleep in and binge-watch Scandal on Netflix on their Saturday morning. Our culture doesn't want you to better yourself. They want to suck the time, energy, creativity, and ambition from the hapless masses.

gostwiththemost · 2016-06-05T20:15:52+00:00

It's interesting listening to these betas vocalize their inner monologue. Instead of saying "hey maybe I should learn nutrition and weight training, so I can look better like these celebrities I look up to", they come up with a million bullshit excuses why they can't or shouldn't.

Chris Pratt is my role model when it comes to fitness. Look at what that guy did, it's awesome. He got some crazy face gains as well. He even posted gym selfies so you can see what he really looks like without the movie special effects and lighting.

I have lost 22.5 pounds as of today, via a low calorie high protein diet, lifting and doing HIIT cardio. As soon as I lose 15 more pounds I'm going to start bulking. Goal is to look like Chris!

hores · 2016-06-06T02:11:26+00:00

What straight man says Cristiano Ronaldo "looks frickin delicious?"

What a bunch of gayprop

Bradthedolphin · 2016-06-05T20:49:09+00:00

Wow, at the end when he says "maybe you should love yourself for more than just your body." It's hard to even fathom how fucking retarded that frame is.

First off, your body IS you. So if you don't love your body, you actually dont love yourself.

Second off, there IS no "more" than "just" your body. YOUR BODY IS YOU. So he's "loving himself" for some shit that... Doesn't even exist.

I get that he wants to "love himself for his mind" or whatever bullshit idea, but the fact is that his mind is just one component of.... his body.

IF YOU DON'T LOVE YOUR BODY, YOU DONT LOVE YOURSELF. BECAUSE YOUR BODY IS YOU. It's that simple.

But the fucking cucks in this video will never understand that. When I'm railing their GFs in the ass, the funny thing is... All three of us, me, the cuck, and the GF will be loving MY body. Because only I realize the simple obvious truth that you are your body. These fucking cucks are in denial so extreme I can't even understand it. They've disassociated themselves from their bodies and now they're making up little platitudes to justify the fact that they forgot that THEY ARE their bodies. FUCK EVERYTHING ABOUT THIS VIDEO.

(Except on another level I'm glad it exists because it's such a great propaganda tool to propagate the cuck mentality... I'm gonna fuck ALL of these guys girlfriends, while they work extra hard making cool new technology for me to entertain myself afterwards :))

TL;DR: you should love your body, which is just another way of saying that you should love yourself. 😘

Stythe · 2016-06-05T23:42:28+00:00

This video makes me angry. I was fat and then skinny fat for most of my life only really pushing myself withing the last year or two and have seen huge improvements. Never during that time would I have tried to deny I was fat. I knew I was and I was lazy. People would try and be nice about it but I knew and I was embarrassed. .....So when the hell did we switch the shame I had that drove me to get fit into bullshitting ourselves?

This entire video is a bunch of pussies making excuses and denying how they feel about themselves..... WHILE ADMITTING THEY FEEL SHITTY. And that one guy who says "it's not our job. People with time, money and the right team can get those results." Buddy, MAKE it your job to take 3 hours a week to save money buy buying healthy foods and do it YOURSELF.

This video literally made me want to go fuck one of my plates to make them submit. Seriously, it pissed me off that much. This video should be banned so more people don't by into this bullshit.

DrGaiynz · 2016-06-05T20:25:49+00:00

The cringe tho. Lets not forget this is scripted, there was no was any of the guys would admit that's what he would love to look like. I just hope deep down they realised they ought to work for that.

dimarond · 2016-06-05T20:50:04+00:00

This video is a perfect representation of the male hamster. These guys were competing to see who is gonna spin the wheel faster. Then again this is what the media does daily to remind the average Joe Blow that its ok to be mediocre.

awmace5 · 2016-06-06T07:29:44+00:00

“No man has the right to be an amateur in the matter of physical training. It is a shame for a man to grow old without seeing the beauty and strength of which his body is capable.”

Socrates

bountyhunterdjango · 2016-06-05T20:54:46+00:00

What kind of message is that video sending? Christ getting in shape isn't that hard, just do it and quit being a pussy...or sure, learn to love your body no matter what, then only pull 6s and die of a stroke in your 40s...

ItThatBetrayed · 2016-06-06T01:59:15+00:00

I barely made it through that video, so much cringe. It's so pathetic to hear them make all the excuses about how hard it is to attain such physique. Hearing those guys hamster about how you can only look like that if you don't have to work, are wealthy, have a trainer and nutritionist made me pity them, and realize just how lazy they are.

I work full time (graveyard even), have my son 4 days a week, and do online courses. I have lost 50 pounds over the course of 8 months by only changing my diet. And I'm only NOW starting to go to the gym 3 days a week, because I want more, so I have to put more work in. I strive for a better me, a better physique. And to hear them say I can't achieve that is an insult, when I'm well on my way.

They can't stand up for themselves against themselves and demand higher standards, so how can they expect to get high SMV women?

[deleted] · 2016-06-05T20:59:24+00:00

I was hoping at least one of them would be like "wow... I need to get to the gym, that's awesome!"

But nope.

makechangegreatagain · 2016-06-05T20:28:03+00:00

Another media outlet promoting the blue pill matrix and cuck-mentality. What else is new?

coop_dogg · 2016-06-05T20:32:31+00:00

The third guy and the first guy we're loving it and then they backtracked to saying nobody could look like that. YOU COULD. I feel bad for them.

concerned_thirdparty · 2016-06-05T21:44:49+00:00

I haven't lifted much in awhile. Found it took away from my speed in Thai boxing and judo. wondering if that was in my head and I should add heavy lifting back to my already painful routine

BananaHammie · 2016-06-05T22:32:56+00:00

Sorry but as someone whose had an incurable skin disease since before highschool, if being thin is your only issue and its easily fixable but all you do it bitch, fuck you. Seriously

Expectations1 · 2016-06-05T21:09:44+00:00

Maybe they should also watch the video of the amputee doing flys.

Also, lifting and looking good is something that cannot be bought, no matter how wealthy you are, this i believe is what is truly attractive about achieving a great body.

jiveraffe · 2016-06-06T07:47:36+00:00

Wow, so much scripted male hamstering. Of course, if you watch it until the end you the "body positivity" banner so naturally they were going to find excuses at the end for their audience to chow down. Telling the truth that the majority of men are just lazy, soft sacks of shit with no self-control won't get advertising dollars. People want to be entertained and fed happy lies, not cold, uncomfortable hard truths.

crimsonpowder · 2016-06-05T22:06:15+00:00

Before I got serious about bodybuilding, it only took me 4 hours per week in the gym, a jar of protein powder, a $20 food scale, and a little bit of knowledge to naturally attain what they think is so impossible.

All you have to be is be a non-dumbass. They can get everything they want if they take two hours and read this.

These men aren't confident; they hate themselves; they are weak. This translates into all areas of their lives and it's the reason why JUST lifting by itself already puts you above the gray hordes of betas.

sorceryofthetesticle · 2016-06-06T07:51:01+00:00

For fuck's sake what a bunch of fags.

RXRob · 2016-06-06T13:52:56+00:00

Get a haircut. Have a shave. Exercise once a week.

Congratulations, you've entered the 20%. It's literally become that fucking easy. What a great time to be alive.

Jakei34 · 2016-06-05T20:59:29+00:00

Why I stopped watchin BuzzFeed

marinewannabee97 · 2016-06-06T01:12:47+00:00

Hello anger my old friend.

In all seriousness I will quote homer Simpson "women will like what I tell 'em to like" The women at buzzfeed may not like to admit it, but they would take a Frank Zane or Arnold Schwarzenegger over any of these beta males. Case in point, Emma Watson and her rugby player boyfriend.

Ronin11A · 2016-06-06T14:37:55+00:00

I wake up at 5am to run the Texas Method before work.

Do I like lifting early in the morning? No, it sucks, and even my dog looks at me funny when I roll out of bed at 0500. But I do it because it's my time. I fucking claimed it, and no one can take that time from me.

I can't hamster away how "tired" I am after a bad day at work, or how I just want to sit with my pupper and drink a beer.

If I have to work late, I don't get angry because I missing my gym time.

It removes all obstacles, it removes all excuses, and it holds me accountable. But these pussy-whipped male feminist bitches wouldn't know a thing about that.

solidsnork · 2016-06-05T23:41:02+00:00

This is the cringiest shit I have seen in a long fucking time. The hair dressers openly insult them and they laugh and agree. Funny how the one hair dresser called him a 4 and he got insulted. You could see the dresser kinda regretted dropping that at first.

Christ.

ChadThundercockII · 2016-06-06T15:01:27+00:00

The Korean guy is actually good looking. And the tall guy is too. They just need to lift and they'll be semi-gods. No homo though.

ransay3277 · 2016-06-05T20:25:08+00:00

I watched this video (I just got back from the gym when I checked out the red pill) and although I wish I could say something witty or deep: I have no response. I got nothing.

Brandnburg · 2016-06-05T21:15:20+00:00

Buzzfeed is always cringeworthy and quite saddening actually, as i am someone who really tries to gain more weight and muscles, it's a hard way sure, but i try because i want my body and mind to be well and powerful. I especially have trouble because i am a hardgainer and have hyperthyroidism, but i don't give up, so sure guys go ahead and denounce how "shallow" it is, if someone's actually working on themselves of becoming better. Damn Buzzfeed-Cucks ;)

icamehron · 2016-06-06T06:52:06+00:00

The second you are ok with your body is the second you lost the battle. -Dr. Cocks.

ItsAFuckingCrocodile · 2016-06-06T07:00:45+00:00

I haven't finished it yet... but I'm already sad.... the Korean guy, Eugene, is one handsome fucking dude that could be slaying if he weren't such a beta.

NiceTryDisaster · 2016-06-06T07:15:26+00:00

I refuse to watch that video and give it one more view. Watch this instead to cleanse yourself

Reddened · 2016-06-06T07:20:13+00:00

Too cringey, I couldn't watch the whole thing, but I saw enough. Seems like it's just going to keep getting easier to stand out as a man these days.

TheUnknownMe · 2016-06-06T12:32:51+00:00

So instead of saying. "Oh Jesus I could look like that if I diet properly and go to the gym 4 times a week? Hell sign me on!" They go like "Oh, well, there are more important things in life, you need time and money to get ripped, bla bla bla, excuses, excuses, excuses"

Jesus Christ.

1III1I1II1III1I1II · 2016-06-06T08:32:41+00:00

Nearly all great men of history haven't been bodybuilders. It's not as important as you guys seem to think it is.

StoicCrane · 2016-06-05T23:53:24+00:00

Since I've started lifting again for over a month now women go out of their ways to do things for me without me even asking and open doors for my passing. I'm sure they're willing to open other things for me too if I weren't in monk mode. A buff chest and a V-neck can go a long way.

HiGuysiamkewl · 2016-06-06T02:16:33+00:00

I'd like to think that even if i had never found TRP, I wouldn't be as far gone as these guys...

heapbigfun · 2016-06-06T03:27:47+00:00

Am I the only one infuriated by this? BuzzFeed now proactively appealing for weakness. They want men to want to be weak, and don't even bother to try to hide their heinous agenda.

Shamlei · 2016-06-06T03:55:03+00:00

Do they even search a long time to find those guys ? I'm afraid they don't even need to..

Luckyluke23 · 2016-06-06T04:38:13+00:00

I think it's crucial for us to understand that we don't really have competition. In two, maybe three years time you can go from SMV hell to a really decent level. Because others are not even trying. The majority of men population is shit nowadays. They get a fucking tengible picture of what they could be and still they don't react. They don't want to be saved. They don't want to be woken up. This is our competition.

i feel like i have 0 svm now, please tell me this is true.

Donny577 · 2016-06-06T04:57:47+00:00

Jesus when i heard "there just aren't enough hours in the day at 9:49 I wanted to slap a baby.

aDrunkenWhaler · 2016-06-06T05:40:54+00:00

They could all get those bodies within 3-6 months of working out 3-4 times a week.

penworth · 2016-06-06T06:25:26+00:00

The stinger of the video is that its for "Body Positivity" Week. That says it all really.

SJDoublePenetration · 2016-06-06T06:31:06+00:00

Been saying this for years, game is incredibly easy nowadays with so few men putting in any effort what so ever. Some how they misinterpretted loving yourself with being okay being a miserable failure, and it's just fuck pathetic.

Make Dating Great Again.

billsmashole · 2016-06-06T07:00:05+00:00

Sure it's great that guys give up so that there is less competition. Unfortunately women have given up too and there are less thin in shape women to go after. It's a give up shitty society we live in.

rtf111 · 2016-06-06T08:45:33+00:00

But the video has 146k likes and all the girls' comments are saying they don't like 6-pack abs or big muscles!

Kwantuum · 2016-06-06T07:30:23+00:00

These retards don't even realize how little work is needed to achieve that. They're acting like it would suck up all their time. There is 170~ hours in a week, you can look ripped with 5 of those, but you have to want it and work for it. It is NOT a huge time sink.

human_enquirer · 2016-06-06T07:54:06+00:00

Saw an article on Vice a week ago that got me all pissed off It was the third frontal attack on masculinity I saw to that point in time out of that fish-wrap of a newmedia publication.

Namkcalb · 2016-06-06T09:08:42+00:00

Yeah... The skinny Korean and the tall guy could easily be top twenty percent with 3 months work.

The balding dwarf, maybe not, but some effort would at least get him at least some attention.

Marsupian · 2016-06-06T09:16:46+00:00

Theres not enough hours in the day!

I dont have money for my own training and nutrition team!

Blah, blah, its not my job to look good!

Fuckin pussies! You cant spend 30mins 3x/week at home doing BW training to at least look halfway decent? Is that too fucking hard? The endless fucking excuses and delusion is getting me more pissed than that horror story marriage on #1. I just want to punch these skinny doormats and tell them to grow a set of balls instead of hating themselves.

summerswag · 2016-06-06T10:14:18+00:00

For the younger men (like myself) among us, this should also tell you to start lifting NOW. It's way easier to get a good body now and maintain it then, than it is to get that good body once you're older and you can actually make up those excuses (no matter how invalid they really are).

Get that one-up now, you'll reap the rewards for the rest of your life.

yizolo · 2016-06-06T13:39:20+00:00

All I see is a few lazy fucks who would rather hamster their way out rather than do any actual work.

"I will never look like that."

That's becuase you don't have the mental or physical discipline necessary to achieve it.

should_ · 2016-06-06T15:54:13+00:00

When this propaganda machine tells you not to do something...already a good sign you should be adamantly doing it.

Diabolical_Nuke · 2016-06-06T15:54:44+00:00

I love the "There's not enough time in the day!" excuse. These guys could go to the gym three times a week for about 30 minutes. They could do squats one day, deadlift another, and bench/shoulder press the third day and look way better. But alas, improving oneself is more difficult than making excuses.

Plus, they all were raging homos so the "competition" they bring doesn't matter.

bourbonhipster · 2016-06-06T16:20:31+00:00

"Why you shouldn't lift" - Said no strong man ever

AskYouEverything · 2016-06-06T18:24:58+00:00

Intellectually, I know that I'm not any less of a man because I'm not big and strong

Lol if you say so, dorkchop

edit: Also

Like he's better than it, but he also wants it

that's pretty good advice actually on how to look at a woman

One Last edit: Some of these guys have very good facial structure, and really it shows how good looking and masculine you could be putting the effort in

sulyvann · 2016-06-06T21:18:37+00:00

Building muscle is a lot of hard work, almost anyone that is reasonably intelligent can realise this intuitively, the men in this video do want to look their best but are afraid of putting in the work at the gym and therefore make feminine excuses to not only make themselves feel better but to also gain female approval.

Also, they only seem to pay attention to the surface value of being ripped and not what it actually signifies, well developed muscles are a sign of strength and good health. Who doesn't want to be strong and healthy just becuase they don't have the time? This is pathetic.

Redasshole · 2016-06-06T21:23:48+00:00

You know it's bad when they aren't even entairtaining fantaisies about being like that.

otterbrine · 2016-06-06T23:50:40+00:00

BuzzFeed is an absolute piece of shit

Zeddprime · 2016-06-07T00:37:45+00:00

This is the PERFECT motivational video, to help me get to the gym more and eat cleaner. Because every time I don't feel like it, every time I reach for a good excuse not to, some wise rationalization about why it's OK to work on something else instead... I can see that "r-strategy" behaviour on full display in this video, and snap myself out of it.

Yakkaina · 2016-06-07T01:42:57+00:00

I look strong as fuck. This is terrifing. I don't like that at all. No one wants to be friends with this guy. Nervously laughs He looks like a jerk... Laughs

I watched this guy's reaction for myself. This is what denial looks like. The image was done to the point it convinced him that, he could look like that. But in reality he doesn't. Therefore, in order to protect his ego he projects his insecurities onto an imaginary man with his face.

I'm pretty sure these guys were not prepared to see what they could look like, who they could be.

From their reactions, I can't feel justified in mocking them. Instead I pity them for just how much their line of work must torture them (they are called the "try guys", literally human test subjects. Some of their other videos have them being put in drag and made to perform in front of their loved ones.)

AspotMadness · 2016-06-07T02:49:41+00:00

I think you guys may have missed the point that the video is implying: the media can craft ideal body images using photoshop alone, therefore being ripped could be considered fraudulent. Buzzfeed is suggesting that most of what we see is a lie anyway, an unrealistic goal, while at the same time the four (horsemen) are saying they'd be lying to themselves to pursue such a vain and hollow goal. A sort of Orwellian doublethink if you will. This is beta programming at it's finest.

Also, many of you are suggesting they could reach the Ronaldo type physique with a little dedication, but the truth is it does take tremendous effort, consistency and discipline to build that kind of physique, not just 3hrs/week. I've been lifting for 3 years and just now reaching a head turning level of physique. And I push myself more than average. I think most professional trainers will tell you it truly does take years to reach the top levels (without gear).

prodigy2throw · 2016-06-07T05:46:40+00:00

Ahhh Buzzfeed. Stop wasting your time

[deleted] · 2016-06-07T08:37:05+00:00

Guys. This was done for "body appreciation week" .. OBVIOUSLY these dudes are gonna say all this PC crap. It's just how some people cope. I hate that a lot of dudes are gonna see that and accept that reality, but what we do except wait until they see the light?

darkrood · 2016-06-07T09:40:38+00:00

Seriously, why people still pull stuff from Buzzfeed?

That is the place that will eventually ask men to castrate themselves as comedy.

That will be the ultimate try-guy edition: being a trans woman and back ;)

Edit: In case some of you haven't figured it out. This is meant to comfort women with insecure body images looking at photos from Cosmopolitans & People magazines. You really think they care about how regular straight men feel about their bodies? You can see joe smore chowing down his burger, looking disgusting, yet can completely tune out the existence of Justin Bieber even if they saw him.

TL;DR: Men don't talk or feel like this, it's just Buzzfeed doing its thing :D

Islander1776 · 2016-06-07T13:41:04+00:00

Lifting/working out 3 times a week is not really that huge of a commitment. I feel like being skinny and flabby as a man shouldn't be that much of an insecurity. I mean I'd be happy if I was a bit taller but shit I'm happy with how I look. I do exercise regularly which has helped me look like what I want to look like though.

hollybegin · 2016-06-09T05:21:47+00:00

It was painful to watch as far as I'm concerned. Just a bunch of shrimps, snotty and effeminate, absolutely untolerable AH....and I'm in a good mood! Plus.....BuzzFeed!? Really?

RP_Ese · 2016-06-06T15:58:07+00:00

Its really sad.

"Hey, I dont want to look like a douche!"

How did they come to this rationalization?

Because we have been told in media and other circles the same thing over and over again (specially in movies):

"The douchebros are sexual, strong, stubborn and just don't get it! And that is bad!"

Yet always:

Female co-lead girl usually attracted to the bad guys Guys who magically get noticed by nothing (I love you, but Im looking at you Scott Pligrim) Feminism AKA Chop-your-penis-your-sexuality-is-bad

No one who sees this cant seriously take it at straight value. Theres just no way.

BEN-90 · 2016-06-10T09:21:10+00:00

I'm glad people think this way because the more this kind of idea is perpetuated and accepted in society, the more the red pill people like us become the minority and the sought after group by females (contrary to what is being taught by said females).

oberbernou · 2016-06-06T03:20:19+00:00

That wasn't funny at all, thanks for wasting my time

The_DogeWhisperer · 2016-06-05T20:14:07+00:00

My favorite part is when the ~~chink~~ east asian fellow says that changing your outsides won't help you if you have problems with your body. Imagine if he said that to a tranny.

EDDbDG · 2016-06-06T07:23:03+00:00

The video is obviously bullshit but I don't get the obsession you guys have with bodybuilding. Y'all fags look like roast chickens. Might be good on the dinner table but I don't really wanna hang out with one, or date one, you know?

Title	Why you shouldn't lift - a buzzfeed video
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Date	June 5, 2016 7:26 PM UTC (10 years ago)
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