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PAGAN said:
I bought 'Brawn' many years ago. If I'd stuck to the advise in it I'd have got a lot further a lot faster.
What do you think is silly about the concept of 'Hardgainers'? Ectomorphs of which I'm one are basically the recognised scientific classification of a hardgainer.
It never ceases to amaze me how some people will argue genetics isn't the single most important factor in being successful at most things and that if you don't have a natural aptitude for something then all the work in the world will only ever leave you struggling to compete with those that do despite their level of effort.

Rick said:I was past thirty when I joined Adlington Barbell. I am fat, lazy, damaged in variety of ways, and have a demanding job, many hobbies, and little aptitude or discipline, which is why I'm still not very good. But I've won national titles and a commonwealth medal. I could certainly have done better. So can you.

VanillaGorilla said:'lifting' is becoming more and more popular. With crossfit and the internet and taking instagram pictures of meals and self shots of carefully downlit abs, endless bro sayings and tapout tshirts galore.

These people need a hobby, and they have chosen well.

They won't last though. Their interest will wane and disappear.

Real lifters will outlast them, they do it because they don't know how not to do it.

They can't tell you why, but they clamber up every time injury or fatigue or money or circumstance kickes them in the bo***cks.

It's not about self proclaimed 'hardcore' attitudes or trying to be some sort of warrior / viking obsessed gym dick. It's more about working on becoming a stronger person.

In the same way that sone people have to draw, or play music, or cut themselves, some people have to lift.

All very pat but it's what I think.

cowie said:
Wowsers