
The Hard Truth
The problem goes deeper than that though. I believe the wrong path is preached and basically standardized among new lifters from their first days of exposure to the iron community. We need to be telling young people the truth about calories. The fact of the matter is that very few of you will end up as competitors in the iron sports – that’s the hard truth. Given that reality, it’s reasonable to ask the question of how far is far enough. The habits and regimes we undertake early in our lives forge the life conditions, and sometimes the pathologies, we will have to regulate and deal with later on in our lives. It’s stupid to overeat for any reason. But I find that advising people to throw out sensible dietary measures in favor of outlandish and dangerous regimes to be particularly despicable. And you will note that many of the people dispensing these guidelines are also accredited “trainers” of some variety. These buffoonish clowns are more dangerous than they are annoying these days. The advice we need to be dispensing to folks is to challenge themselves to learn more about their heredity, nutrition, and physiology… No one owns this knowledge, and doing your own research is an integral part of owning your own destiny. Clamping onto and completely buying into the ramblings of some asshole is the wrong way to go. Remember, they don’t have to live with the choices you make – YOU DO. No one will be at your hospital bed apologizing for the fuck-wit advice they gave you as you lay wondering whether you’ll live another day, or just die alone and stupid.
That’s the fucking hard truth – I don’t expect you to like it.
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