ITT: We share broscience we've been told/heard at the gym

[madnegrobro]

Was at the gym yesterday, and heard these gems from some 140 pound asian kid:

- "Ok so, overhand barbell rows build mass only, and underhand rows only build strength, don't do both, just focus on one dude"
- "The key to deadlifts is to NEVER let the weight touch the ground, that way the weight is always transferred to your back"

Proceeded to teach his mates atrocious deadlift form, and box squats on a Smith Machine


A few others:

- "Faaaark look at that guys veins, he must be on steroids"
- "If you wanna shape chest, just use the Pec Deck man, don't worry bout the flat bench, it makes your pecs flabby if you overwork it bro"
- "I don't eat eggs because they have too many carbs"
- "Hey Madnegrobro, I think you should do more reps on your incline bench man, 5 reps won't do much for you brah"
- "My mate who is in fitness says you should only eat around 50g carbs on a bulk man, you're going overboard and you're gonna wreck your liver and kidneys"

etc, you get the idea

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[_Watson_]

Brofessor Broforce

[benlfc]

hey man i see you here quite a lot, dont work out too often or your veins will explode

[_Watson_]

hey man i see you here quite a lot, dont work out too often or your veins will explode

whered you hear that? the fitness connection?

[madnegrobro]

hey man i see you here quite a lot, dont work out too often or your veins will explode

LOL, repped

[TheCurator]

'Machines build bulk, free weights give you shape'

facepalmed a hole through my head

[honeyflavoured]

Squating and deadlifting is the best exercise for overall muscle growth.

[lewman123]

You should take creatine man, i use it with my rubber exercise band and im gonna put on heaps of muscle.

[CaptainOatss]

you have to drink your protein shake within 7 seconds of the shake mixing or else the protein dissolves too much

(srs)

[ckckck]

"LOL u wont get any taller doing dem squatz"
"deadlifting phucks up your back dont do them"

[madnegrobro]

'Machines build bulk, free weights give you shape'

facepalmed a hole through my head

You should take creatine man, i use it with my rubber exercise band and im gonna put on heaps of muscle.

you have to drink your protein shake within 7 seconds of the shake mixing or else the protein dissolves too much

(srs)

"LOL u wont get any taller doing dem squatz"
"deadlifting phucks up your back dont do them"

Holy phuck, and I thought my gym was bad

[frasersteen]

Love it when people bro-science up my squat form. Not saying my form is perfect, I tuck at the bottom and back is not always as tight as it should be but it ain't bad.

- You shouldn't squat wide like that because you can damage your knees
- Try using the pad otherwise you can damage your vertebra

I just tell them that the guy who taught me to squat squats 340kg, that normally shuts them up (know I'm safe since he is national IPF champ).

[borimrr]

This one guy came out of nowhere while I was curling in the squat rack and told me:

"Are you aware that there are people in this world that have a severe medical condition which causes them to be that way? My mother for instance is one of those people. She is a truck driver that has bad knees and a bad back from driving the truck but you probably do not care about that case either. Oh well I am not one of those people I am 6'4" 245lbs and I exercise every day. I would love to see you say something like to my mother in front of me. Probably never happen though you are probably just an internet tough guy. I doubt very seriously you would say that to someones face. Just my thought.What do you think. Oh I am sorry you probably do not have a brain. I on the other hand will be happy to buy you a plane ticket to come here and see if you have the nerve to say that to someone I know."

He was really 6'4", but he didn't look like 245lbs.

[Johnyboy532]

Its ok to sacrifice your form so you can go heavier, cause going heavier builds more muscle. (The guy was squating down half the distance when he was doing bent over rows because the weight was way to heavy, be he thinks its working)

Everybody else uses bad form when working out their back so its ok. (This one was swinging his upper body so far back doing widegrip lat pull downs it looked more like a variation of a seated row)

[Al Shades]

Real world anecdotes =/ "Broscience"

And I've got the best bit of broscience you've ever heard:

"Hey, let's get on pubmed and learn how to be bodybuilders!"

People lifting weights in gyms know more about training than nerds in science labs.

/thread

[Mariusz22]

You have a 20 minute window to take protein after you lift or it's useless.

[madnegrobro]

Love it when people bro-science up my squat form. Not saying my form is perfect, I tuck at the bottom and back is not always as tight as it should be but it ain't bad.

- You shouldn't squat wide like that because you can damage your knees
- Try using the pad otherwise you can damage your vertebra

I just tell them that the guy who taught me to squat squats 340kg, that normally shuts them up (know I'm safe since he is national IPF champ).

Yeah, that's one thing that really gets under my skin. Guys who very rarely squat, or squat like 40-50kg, telling me how many reps to do, how deep to go, etc. I spent ages trying to get my form on point; watching videos, doing bar only squats next to a mirror to check depth and back, and then some dickhead comes of nowhere and goes "Hey bro, you're gonna fux ur knees up if you go that deep".

Feel like just grabbing them and shaking them, telling them it's been proven that ATG is better than parallel because the knee is at full flexion, but alas, I'd get thrown out of the gym

[heartswild]

"You can add mass while cutting"
" I started to take creatine and gained 6 pounds of muscle in a week"
"You don't need to work legs... you work them out just walking in everyday life"
"Load as much weight as you can on my bench. I will only go down 3 inches"

[DR.GG]

Squating and deadlifting is the best exercise for overall muscle growth.

facepalm

[TNGsQ]

im here to hear noobs in the misc bitching about so called broscience from experienced lifters who are friendly to share their advice while dumb know-it-all-miscers constantly make a fool of themselves in the studio without noticing.

[NR_LIFT]

everything about bodybuilding is broscience.

there is no science to bodybuilding.

the science is, you either have the genes or take steroids.

doesnt matter what routine you do...what you eat...thats all bullshyt. utter crap.

Please stop preaching your broscience, so according to that your saying person X has the genetics therefore doesn't need to train hard or eat? Success comes to those who work for it, not to those who whinge on a forum about their crappy genetics and how they have tried every workout/diet plan for 5 years yet wont start a journal log.

[LiftingBRB]

"once you hop off protein powder you shrivel up and end up smaller than before gym!"

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"Hey liftingbrb, your on protein aye?"
"Yeah brah, you thinking of getting powder too?"
"Nah I'm gonna stay all natural"

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also, madnegrobro, our gym is filled with *******s who share these little tips among the other *******s, creating a circle jerk of *******ry of unimaginable levels, yes mad.

[cptdgraham]

"deadlifting phucks up your back dont do them"

i love when ppl say this. i just laugh and tell them "no YOU are bad for your back because you don't know How to do them!" then i finish it off with something that you can't comeback from, i then say..............



























......GAYLORD!

[Hoop_Dreams]

See a classmate from a few years ago who is swole, and probably around 10-11% bodyfat.

I ask him what he eats and he said "I usually just eat top ramen, likes loads of it."

[pablocai]

"if you want to gain mass, your preworkout meal shoud be 2 liters of milk, 3 bananas and lots of sugar"

"if you do low reps and heavy weights, once you are 50 or 60 years old you will be not be able to walk"

"you have to train biceps at least 3 days a week"


both guys that told me this, are obese, and one of them had like 2 heart attacks

[chriskav]

Was not at gym but in the workplace,


'I am looking to slim down, what protein shakes can I get to tighten me up?'

[ezmac31]

training hard has nothing to do with it.

just saying. if that was the case we would all be training all day everyday and getting huge within 2 months.

strong excuses for not being fit..

[NR_LIFT]

training hard has nothing to do with it.

just saying. if that was the case we would all be training all day everyday and getting huge within 2 months.

Oh wait your the guy who claims he trains harder than Jay Cutler mhmmm...

[Dipman00]

training hard has nothing to do with it.

just saying. if that was the case we would all be training all day everyday and getting huge within 2 months.

training hard =/= training all day

the worst thing is when someone asks you for training/nutrition advice followed up with i dont wanna get too big, YOU DONT GET BIG IN A FEW MONTHS YOU KUNTTTTT

[brianhorne3]

Worked out with a couple of buddies of mine yesterday, they hardly ever go and when they do just follow me. Looked over at some guy, guy had decent mass and was shredded. They said "Don't ever try to workout to look like him" I said "why hes got a pretty good build" They said "his biceps and triceps are too short, they end too far from his elbow". Did not have the motivation to explain that insertion points were genetic and not routine based......