Man, when I was like 16 I got so sick of being made fun of for being the fat kid that I took an axe down inna woods, chopped down a tree, and started doing log-lifts all the time. I got strong as fuck, but I didn’t lose no weight. I actually got bigger.
Same thing happened when I got into fighting. I got even stronger, and I got *fast*, man, and nimble, like a cat. Still chubby.
Body-building culture is a bunch of crap, my dude. Functional muscle is not necessarily toned or lean. You can be swole as hell and still be heavy. And that’s cool.
Embrace your inner barbarian. And when fatphobic little gym twinks try to body shame you, you should DESTROY THEM with your MIGHTY AXE
Can comfirm, i am Quite Fat ™ but i still hit my punching bag hard enough last week make it touch the ceiling and broke a finger in the process
You know, I train with (martial arts) a bunch of dudes, and a few bodybuilders have showed up over the years.
And every damn one of those huge shredded motherfuckers has the endurance of a fucking newborn puppy. Fifteen minutes into warmups and they’re panting for air like like they’re about to die. I’ve sparred them and every one of them telegraphs their moves about two weeks in advance, and are slower than my dead grandpa because their huge useless muscles get in the damn way.
Now. I also work with a couple of guys who are not weightlifters. They do, however, do very physical jobs and are Big Dudes. Picture this sort of build.
No abs to speak of, a bit of a tummy, and those motherfuckers can pick up one of the weightlifters and throw them.
And they’re fast. Like, unfair fast.
Bodybuilding culture is bullshit. Embrace your status as a giant barbarian and if anyone gives you crap throw them off a mountain.
i love and support all strong, fat people
This time, I DO mean to post it.
Bodybuilders don’t lift to be able to do work, including sports, combat, or even really lifting heavy weights. They lift to make certain specific muscles look big and defined. That’s why they have no endurance, that’s why they have no body fat, that’s why they can’t spar or do farm labor, that’s why they have no flexibility, that’s why comparatively tiny rock climbers regularly make them look like fucking chumps in tests of useful strength like, oh, I dunno, actually holding onto a heavy thing for more than one second. That’s why über-jacked Marvel superhero like Chris Evans and Hugh Jackman and Kumail Nanjiani all complain about how dehydrated and on-the-verge-of-passing-out they have to be to look Like That on set. They lift for aesthetics, and that’s a fine reason to exercise if it’s what you want, but expecting bodybuilders to be able to pitch hay bales all day is not realistic because it’s not what they’ve trained for. Powerlifters and manual laborers (i.e. the functionally strong) don’t look like bodybuilders because functional strength is a result of prolonged full-bodied work to build an entire body’s worth of support rather than just focusing on the muscles competition judges will salivate over.
