You can actually bear to sit through sh*t like that on TV?
The guy is what we call a “mug” in England.
I think people should stop associating weight lifting with masculinity. These guys eating tonnes of boring food in order to impress other meatheads at their worthless pursuit are obviously missing something - including many brain cells.
I would have disagreed with your post a couple years ago, but at this point I'm in the same camp. Though I think that there's value in a fitness regimen, I do see a lot of the bodybuilders as being ridiculous now. It's not a healthy for an adult man to spend several hours a day in front of a mirror flexing his muscles (figure of speech), that's something that many of us did when we were 13, and it makes sense at 13. They often also spend 6 days a week at the gym, even if the workout is only 1 hour you add in the overheads and that's really two hours a day, couple that with a job and they might have nothing else going on. The steroids are unhealthy, and as you say they eat boring foods. Here is Scott Herman's suggested diet:
Diet
8:00 A.M.
- Pasta
- Apple
- SYNTHA-6™ protein shake
10:00 A.M.
- Bagel and peanut butter
- Banana
12:00 P.M.
- Brown rice, chicken and broccoli
2:00 P.M.
- Bagel and peanut butter
- Apple
5:00 P.M.
- Brown rice, chicken and broccoli
6:30 P.M.
8:30 P.M.
- SYNTHA-6™ protein shake
- 9:15 P.M.
- Bagel and peanut butter
11:00 P.M.
- Kashi cereal with plain vanilla yogurt
12:00 A.M.
That diet is boring, anti-social, useful for muscle building and nothing else, financially expensive, potentially toxic for the brain and central nervous system, and finally, it's a full-time job in and of itself. There are some bodybuilders who suggest going to 6 meals a day rather than 3, or in this moron's case, 9 meals a day. Aside from the fact that this is based on pseudoscience, the reason that most normal people don't do so is that preparing food and eating it becomes a full-time job.
The most beautiful women that I know are not with men who have perfect bodies. They're with men who have good bodies, but not perfect ones. I've often wondered why that is. One reason is that such men are rare, so if they're picky in that axis they might end up alone, and that's fair. However, another reason is that the extra effort to have a perfect body is equivalent to a full-time job, which means that such a man becomes boring, a lunatic, and possibly unemployed.
There's a middling romantic drama that came out a couple years ago called "Me Before You". In it the woman is first dating a fitness freak that she doesn't leave. On her birthday, he makes her a salad, and he brags to her that her dinner is only ~300 calories. It's portrayed as a horrifying, unromantic moment, and played for laughs. We're laughing at the man's expense, as we should.
I heard of one couple in Australia, where the man was a bodybuilder. One time, the woman bought herself a slice of cake, and ate it without letting him sniff it first, and lick a whiff (I'm serious). He snapped at her. I forget how it went, I think that he went to get help but I'm no longer sure.
tldr; Men should stay fit, but not make it a full-time job.
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