04-03-2019, 11:27 AM
(04-03-2019, 06:21 AM)Simple Simon Wrote: I remember Stuart McRobert's 'Hardgainer' magazine would always talk about providing advice specifically for the "drug-free, genetically typical", but rarely showed pictures of such people. (The people on the cover were drug users, but B&W photos mainly from the 50s.)
The truth is, if the reality of what a drug-free, genetically typical trainee could achieve was shown, how many teenage boys would ever have bothered?
People who buy books or browse foruns about lifting are a small niche when you consider all gym goers.
The vast majority of people would be ok with what they could reach just with strenght training and keeping fat under control, but the people who spend money on fitness related stuff would not.
The false expectations hurt these people in a different way than the fitness obsessed crowd.
They are told that the fake natty phisiques (that is too freakish for most people) are the result of extreme hard work, intensity, dedication... so, by logic, a true natural phisique (that is what they want) is result of semi-consistent low-effort in the gym.
As a result they aren't able even to get close their natural potential, so they either give up or became that guy who goes to the gym for 10 years and still cant do 6 chinups.