This one came from a dude who I otherwise agree with on most things.
He probably doesn't know I saw this, which is fine.
But he claims that men who train extreme are doing so in the name of "self punishment" and its done to cover up inner weaknesses.
My thought?
Um - not quite. While its true that EVERYTHING in life is a cope (so you could say you feel on cloud nine after a massively tough workout and you don't without it, so you're coping - simple example) - its also true that "self punishment" is discipline (dude claims it isn't) when done to FIX problems. That's the only way to fix anything permanently. Discipline plus persistence. I think the guy missed context there, but whatever ... he's not quite a Goggins fan, so it shows.
Goggins has gone on record saying his inner demons come back to bite him in the ass daily - or they WOULD, without that extreme approach to life in general - such as what I've always had, because that is all that delivers RESULTS.
You cant really argue with his results, or mine, can you?
Hmmmmmm? Crickets..... ?
Collaleral damage will occur along the way, that's just life. Life is war. If you analyze it deeply, that is. The people making the above comments have clearly not, mentally at least, had tough beginnings, were never born underpriveleged to the extent some others are, etc etc. So, they don't have an understanding of WHY extreme mentality is required. Is it any surprise that most of us with that mentality are either white WINNERS in life (like Pres Trump) or the Habibs and blacks that have made it out of the bucket of CRABS? Ask any black about other blacks, you might be surprised how they talk about them. Same thing with yours truly. When your OWN are your greatest enemies, you learn to fight from the day you're born, else you're finished. There is no in the middle, I've explained it many times before.
Some Christians believe in the principle of substantiation, these sorts usually believe in self flagellation too, at least mentally. Sometimes, physcially. Yes, that's not an exaggeration either. I don't quite subscribe to either theory, to me its about DISCIPLINE. What must be done, must be done. In my case it aint inner demons coming out or not - I love them demons. I exist peacefully with them, much more than all the fat cucked faggots I see all around me.
For me its about pushing my limits, getting better daily, better and better shape,, younger etc. I could easily just "maintain" myself with far less extreme workouts at this point, but why? Nothing is stagnant in nature. And I'd be a hypocrite to rest on my laurels, especially when I've ranted so much against it (deservedly so, its true) ... you either go up or down, plenty waiting to take your place at the top, hungrier than you ... and I'm anything BUT a fucking hypocrite, as y'all know.
Plus, with the lunacy around you, I've said it so many times before, you retreat into yourself, and you work on yourself, and fitness and sexuality are the two core aspects of masculinity that simply cannot be ignored no matter what.
This fellow also made the comment I agree with about "most male fitness influencers being in the closet".
Couldn't agree more. I ban people from here, they show up with different ID's on the sexuality website, ban them there, they show up here, and so forth. All covered before, which is why its easy to sell to and manipulate these sorts.
I aint complaining, that's for sure!
If I start listening to my "feelings" and training when I feel like it, like most of you jokers reading this do, then I would no longer be the Bodyweight Exercise Guru amongst all else, and wouldnt have the RIGHT to brag proudly about what others call me either, neither would I want to, since then I wouldn't be called all these very complimentary names I am, because I wouldn't deserve it.
No my friend, training hard daily isn't necessarily self punishment, but even if you do see it that way, if its an net positive, and physically it is - then why not?
Punishing workouts, they say. Is that bad? No. And you know it.
Self improvement is what I'd say, nomenclature aside, you can only improve if you force yourself to do things you don't want to, or feel like (because they're good for you).
And there it RESTS. Hehe.
Oh, something else I disagree about, he claims that those that constantly do shirtless workouts etc ...all they've done is prove they can take their shirts off.
No.
Now, in the past I never took my shirt off, yes, not because I was fat, but because I didn't really want to peacock around like a lot of the other clowns on steroids do (make a show of myself, as a customer once rightly said). But in the heat of China, subtropical weather where you sweat one second like a bucket, second second drenched with TORRENTIAL downpour, third second, you're drenched with sweat again, weather that makes you feel like you're breathing FIRE INTO YOUR LUNGS literally, all covered in the relevant books, weather that would make Rambo and a billy goat puke, weather where the girls constantly got air copted out due to dehydration (does a woman ever drink water, even when told to? No, lol) ... darn near EVERYONE was with their shirt off (men).
THIS is real hill climbing, I remember Kelly saying as the sweat bucketed, showered off me. He actually likes those workouts (we spoke about it last year).
Social media bragging is gay, yes, that's why I never liked doing videos at all in the first place. Hey, those four - six hour hikes in that weather. I didn't even take my phone, dumb or not, despite women constantly wanting my WeChat, something Glyn Bozo couldn't STAND. Could have, but why? WORKOUTS ARE THE PRIORITY. All else can WAIT. Including the liter of water and liters of red tea I "punished" myself with later, hehe.
But anyway ... then you have fat Ben sorts who are fat inside, but try and cover it up outside, and they will not even ONCE do shirtless pictures without not tilting their chin up, pulling their stomach in, etc, all the time claiming, despite their own closest pals calling them out FACTUALLY as shared on the other site ... ?
So it goes both ways, friend. I used to be EMBARASSED to take my shirt off at the beach, my wife at the time would want me to do it anyway but I wouldn't most of the time, now, I'm pretty much always shirtless.
Hey, if you earned it, you have the right to show it (and by that I don't mean steroids or other junk either, I mean REAL STUFF).
Ok, off with me for now.
Regards,
Rahul Mookerjee
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