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Man the Exalted Hero
Let’s get this out. The fitness industry, as cringey as it sounds, it’s mostly one big illusion that preys on impressionable young men and skinny fats looking to turn their lives around further worsen by an unabated combo of contradictions and information overload, in essence, the internet. It’s easy to get discouraged by training and fitness accounts if you’re new.
Cognitive dissonance is the psychological term for an imbalance between your intentions and your actions, the mental strain, stress, and discomfort resulted from high levels of dissonance can impair your progress and intentions. The fitness industry seems to operate on perpetual confusion that has riddled people around it with the horror of cognitive dissonance, of the contradiction between official truths and one’s own perceptions. The pursuit of consistency between one’s self-concept and behavior including one’s external perception of behavior can be a strong drive and that is something the fitness industry has maximized and sometimes exploited.
Many are interested in hot takes for engagement, not sharing any real methods that work, just the same tired played out threads about how cutting out drinking, sleeping better, taking what supplements, and lifting raises the testosterone. Meme studies so absurd the only takeaway is knowing such methodology as tracking 10 untrained individuals was used and published on some journals. At the end of the day they have zero value and will not make you squat 1.5x your weight, put on pounds of muscle, and lose fat. What you read online, absorbed in class, or regurgitated without putting into practice is never going to cut it.
Real lessons begin at the squat rack when you failed that Olympics’ depth you were trying to mimic accidentally invited several eyes in your direction not by watching some 165 lbs guy theory-crafting dumbass looking movements to replace the OHP because they’re easier and “safer” just for you to forget about it 5 minutes later—or—indulging in unproductiveness of surfing uninspired contents on Instagram that not only going to set you up with unrealistic expectations but also pose serious risks to your health if you buy into their stuff.
Bodybuilding isn’t just all about visuals as people would like to think, it’s a whole discipline of sport of its own and like every sport, it requires dedication, passion and willingness to put in the time and work in order to be good at it. Work, years of work.