Seriously, why do normies take his advice, and listen to him? Literally EVERYONE I know that starts gymming follows his bullshit advice.


The reason Im confused is when I came up, I followed guys like Candito and Blaha and people clowned me saying "you dont wanna look like that so dont train like that". Looking back, fair, though I still got love for candito. Instead everyone followed advice of sliced bodybuilders.

But why has it switched now? the RP guys look like shit, so why is every normie obsessed witht hem and their bullish advice?

Whats the switch? is it cause their style of training is lazy and novel?

>>76403619 (OP)
>is it cause their style of training is lazy and novel?
Their style of training is the most overcomplicated mess ever.
You want a tricep exercise? Let me tell you about 20 different ones, and how exercise x is worse than y, unless you do y a certain way. And that's just for one muscle group, not one muscle; there are separate exercises for them too.
They really turned something that the most braindead people used to do into rocket science.

>>76403631
True what I mean is you overcomplicate it to the way the standards dont apply so they lift lighter but feed their ego because the lift is harder.

To Normies, the most complicated answer is the best one. This is why they trust politicians so much. People like this because they like to think it’s complicated

It’s why you get people on here who have never stepped in a gym before but want to do Olympic lifts. It’s like never having driven a car and deciding you want to start with Le Mans 24 Hours

>>76403619 (OP)
What happened to his belly?

>>76403619 (OP)
Why do people go to the gym just to look like fat guys who never got off the couch?

>>76403619 (OP)
I want to pop his belly like a balloon

>>76403619 (OP)
>But why has it switched now
>now
SS had a huge following in early 10s /fit/ and it's still is in the sticky. Nobody on SS including Rippetoe looks good

>>76403619 (OP)
because youtube pushes his garbage into everyone's recommendations and normies are too dumb it's because of Jew nepotism and not because of the quality of his advice.

>>76404042
Because it's a [starting] STRENGTH programme, maybe?

>>76404053
Guys who teach you starting strength shouldn't look like they're starting themselves.

>>76404056
Go do your single arm prone cable lat pullacrosses, twinkshitter

Rows definitely target your triceps some amirightguys

the average person considers "science" to be a mark of truth, and they stereotype lifters as being dumb jocks. therefore when they want to know how to lift, they look for "scientific" advice. mike has the veneer of science in his presentation, and a large following, which convinces many people to listen

>>76403619 (OP)
Because "everybody wanna be a bodybuidler but don't nobody wanna lift no heavy ass weight." Ronnie was unironically right. If you just train the main compounds, and train them hard, and target certain muscles like the biceps or delts with machines/dumbbells, and go to failure regularly, you will get results. Normies don't want to hear that. They don't want to accept they just need to train harder. They want some silly app that tells them they need to do horizontal curls to get past their 14 inch arms.

>>76403619 (OP)
Appeal to authority. Afaik RP was the most watched fitness channel the last few years. More watched for example than Sam Sulek. Why or how did that happen? I cant answer that specifically, but that's why they follow his advice.

For me, nothing has changed though. Kinobody, Jeff Seid, etc. If you want to look like them, you should train like them. Pretty simple. I don't train like a marathon runner, I don't do calisthenics, I don't do powerlifting, I don't do Mr. Olympia training, I train like the people who have in my opinion the ideal physique train like.

He's a well known Jew marketed by a Jewish run youtube by a Jewish marketing company.
That's why, good promotion. I've found his advice very mid at best.

>>76403619 (OP)
SCIENCE SAYS GAY SEX IS BENEFICIAL FOR YOU.

>>76404158
So you roid

>>76404169
I got burned by it
>YOU MUST CHASE VOLUME AND DOMS, IF YOU STOP GETTING DOMS YOU NEED TO CRANK UP THAT VOLUME!
Eventually I am doing retarded shit like 12-16 sets per session for chest and I am giving it my all per set. I hit a brick fucking wall. Much better sticking to the tried and true 10-20 sets where I settle on even the lower end of that

>that one single based retard on fit that thinks he is over-complicating it and comes to every Mike thread to say so

>>76404056
>look up starting strength coaches
>all look strong
Seems to work

>>76404692
Bro you are a fucking dumb ass sorry to tell you that.

>>76404630
And do you think guys like Israetel or Blaha or Rippetoe don't?

>>76403619 (OP)
if you talk slow and in a confident, authoritative tone people will just believe whatever bullshit you say. Also be sure to be unnecessarily verbose

>>76404630
dude kino is natty lol. do you even lift?

jeff is natty too, he won the natural mr olympia. he hasnt roided the last 10 years

>>76403714
That's an old pic and OP is hoping yall don't know it so he can get anons to call Dr Mike a fatass

>>76404056
absolutely mind raped by social media into thinking
>shredded = strong

>>76404078
>austrian philosopher from the 20s
You guys just pull nutcases out of the ether

>>76403619 (OP)
Candytoe was a solid source especially around his time when most of the info around was shit. Blahino was always a shitter who changed opinion every vid because he was clueless himself. Tried to attract viewers by engaging in natty or not drama. Guy can't accept that there are people out there squatting 300kg+ natty since he only does 220kg with years of roiding.

Israetel when he came up was sensible and actually had a scientific background. He didn't used to post a lot of vids but the ones he made were solid. Nowadays he spams videos, quality has been lowered, and I honestly think he's losing it mentally with the fkn back skin removal / liposuction. If he wants to look better he should shave off all that upper body hair and fix the gut (prob stop steroid abuse). He fails to realize people would respect him more if he stopped roids, got skinnier and explained his reasons. He's in his 40s and should rly start to prio his health.

>>76405307
He has to talk about something he cant just have 5hrs of lifting footage and technique variations and shit, plus i know im periodizing shit differently ever since a literal jew thinks he can lift weights better than me. Stick to finance and law cave kike.

>>76405317
>Be a retard and get massive bloat
>Pay thousands to get surgery on it
>Noooo, you cannot judge me by the before pics!
Kill yourself, jew shill.

>>76405895
philosophy, the field where work is famously relevant for 20 years at most

posted it again mom

>>76403619 (OP)
Get got me on skipping legs and aux work to manage cns fatigue, gains are getting better. Also pec minor/major work.

>>76403619 (OP)
Mikey mike cant smoke an entire bowl without shitting himself

>>76403619 (OP)
>FUCK KIKE ISRAETEL AND DEATH TO THE INTERNATIONAL JEWERY
Did he go too far in his latest 3 hour video?

>>76406499
I liked it

>>76405317
Thats a recent picture. He always has a massive gut and its even worse now from internal swelling from his love handle removal surgery.

REMEMBER MENTZER, I. AM. BETTER. THAN. YOOOOUUUUUUUUUUU

>>76403714
Side effects of liposuction

>>76403619 (OP)
>person is on screen talking with an authoritative tone
>person on screen links "research" that the audience will never read anyway, because nobody seems to understand how research works anyway
>person on screen gives anecdotes from their experience doing thing

Normies, and especially women if you've had a gf, will take anything someone says on tiktok over your word no matter how retarded or harmful it is.

>>76403619 (OP)
>hur dur if you follow sound advice from ugly guy you will turn ugly too
Terminal stupidity. People also watch them for entertainment. You dont have to do what these influencers do to the tee. Do your homework and read a random page of bible.

>>76403631
>>76403631
I just don't understand why Mike wants you to keep adding sets until you inevitably burn out and have to deload every 4 weeks

>>76404042
>>76404053
>>76404056
>>76404063

Starting strength is a good way for noob lifters with zero experience to build up a basic foundation.

It's not supposed to be something you do for years unless you just want to be a powerlifter who only cares about squat, bench and DL gains.

You do SS for however many months then switch to a brosplit, PPL, full-body or whatever the hell you decide to do.

>>76406979
He must be really short, I'm 250 and look nowhere near that fat.

>>76403619 (OP)
now post a recent unedited pic of him

>>76404780
I was new to training, what do you expect?

>>76407209
it's a good way for noob powerlifters to get into powershitting and is explicitly meant to be paired with a dreamer bulk

>>76403619 (OP)
He looks like shit because he has shit genetics, he still has more muscle than I ever will or want. I have yet to see anyone giving any argument to explain why his advice is not good besides "he is ugly" and "his advice is too complicated for my tiny brain to follow".

Test

Slowpoke here. Just found out that Mike is planning >9000 more skin and fat removal surgeries. Holy shit the Mike apologists in fucking shambles.

>>76403619 (OP)
>saying "you dont wanna look like that so dont train like that".
people in /fit/ fell for SS for decades...

>>76411430
emphasis STARTING, programs are for people too dumb to figure out their own

>>76404078
>democratically elected

democracy is a sham, the founding fathers knew this

why should I trust some random guy that people like (because thats who they really vote for, not "the expert", just the most likable guy) instead of somebody that actually has education and experience with running the government

>>76407176
I fell for this stupid fucking high volume bullshit at first. I overtrained to a point I literally bled out my ass and had to see a doctor. I had to take some time to adjust and stop listening to fat roiders. Now with lower volume and higher intensity the gains are plentiful.

>>76403619 (OP)
>is it cause their style of training is lazy and novel?
It's because their training is literally
>inject roids
>get on a machine of your choice
>scroll instagram on your phone
This thing is real and it's called "lazy training" it's ridiculous. Being socially inept autist is a blessing in disguise, I can't imagine myself having to deal with these retards on daily basis.

>>76411441
i don't want to look like that even starting, do you?