Friends has misconceptions about weight training, what do?

[paulvulf]

I have 2 friends who are convinced that 1 hr cardio per day + lifting light weight for 12-15 reps, a diet well under maintenance and eating mostly carbs is the only healthy way. They also have misconceptions about protein powders, saying they are unhealthy and don't actually help build muscle but bloat them with water (wtf.) They also assume that any person of substantial mass is unhealthy/using steroids. They also disagree that abs should be treated like any other muscle and insist on doing 100 rep and **** like that.(very srs) They won't accept anything from here (has the word bodybuilding in it) and make me /rage. What do misc?

[Ka0s]

Get swole while they continue to suck

[iJarhead]

Ignore them while you obtain mass and women

[DefeateR]

let them do what they want. You've tried to inform them and they're not interested, nothing else you can do.

[Got_tickets]

If it's the word bodybuilding their scarred of show them some fitness model routines that have lower rep ranges and gradually they should come round to your way of thinking.

[SWAGNEBULA]

I have 2 friends who are convinced that 1 hr cardio per day + lifting light weight for 12-15 reps, a diet well under maintenance and eating mostly carbs is the only healthy way. They also have misconceptions about protein powders, saying they are unhealthy and don't actually help build muscle but bloat them with water (wtf.) They also assume that any person of substantial mass is unhealthy/using steroids. They also disagree that abs should be treated like any other muscle and insist on doing 100 rep and **** like that.(very srs) They won't accept anything from here (has the word bodybuilding in it) and make me /rage. What do misc?

same here some of my friends choose to listen and want to get swoll

while the others keep doing their BS routine you did what you could they chose not to listen

just keep going hard to prove em wrong

[paulvulf]

sounds good brahs. I swole by the middle of summer

[skazclaw]

be swole

[Sorun]

Same here lol. My friends pretty ripped so he dosent ever listen to me. He said to do 50 crunches before bed and ill get ripped abs. xD

[HeliumNucleus]

The image of modern bodybuilders doesn't exactly do much for lifting, to be fair. If the word 'bodybuilding' terrifies them as much as it does, maybe show them some amateur powerlifting/strongman/weightlifting with people from the lighter weight classes, they might actually think "hey that's pretty cool, and he's not massively bigger than I am!" and decide to give it a go.

If they still think lifting is "bad", show them football players, rugby players, fighters, etc, all "normal" sport players lifting as a big part of their training. If neither work, your friends are probably just a bit stupid. (srs)

[Coltt45]

wat

[EliteExtra]

I have friends who lift like this:
Mon- arms
Wed- shoulders
Thur- hest
Fri- abs

and say you don't need to work back because doing other muscles works your back out at the same time lol.

We all have gym idiot friends man

[redrex94]

Let them do what they want, when they stay the same and you start to see progress im sure it will adventually change there mind.