BEYOND STRONG

29 explanations - No. 5

Fat is unhealthy

For some reasons this gets everyone's knickers in a twist, especially fat people.

If you are fat, you are unhealthy. It is a medical FACT. Fat can cause everything from heart disease to diabetes to gout and everything in between. There is nothing good about being fat. Ask your doctor or any medical professional.

Being fat is not a disease as many would have you believe. You can catch a cold or measles but you can't catch fat. Fat is a human disorder where people put too much food into their mouth for weeks, months and years and don't exercise. Yes, some people are more predisposed to being fat than others just like some people are extremely skinny.

I am not 'fattist'. However, I am also not going to praise a fat person for losing weight. You shouldn't have gained so much in the first place. The fact you lost it is great and good for your health. Keep it going.

Nobody credits all the consistently heathy and fit people in the world. And nobody should either. It's a health choice to live like that but in the same vain nobody should credit a fat person for losing weight.

If you are fat and reading this you probably hate me. However, I am going to do you a favour. Do this and you will not be fat anymore.

• Stop overeating.
• Cut your portion size.
• Eat mainly foods that are grown or killed.
• Exercise for 3 hours per week in total. That can be 30 minutes six times a week or 45 minutes four times a week or even an hour three times a week. Most of you spend longer watching crap TV in ONE NIGHT!

You can't catch fat!

 

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I couldn't bring myself to post a fat or skinny picture so instead...more Cory...

 

 

 

29 explanations - No. 4

EVERYONE wants muscles!

I don't care how ridiculous that statement sounds because it's true whether people know it or not.

For people that do any form of physical performance, having a solid, muscular frame built through consistent weight training will give you an advantage in almost every sport or activity. Not to mention the by product of having a decent looking body which has the added effect of improving your own self esteem and hopefully your attractiveness to the opposite sex (or same sex I guess!).

Now how much muscle you have is going to differ from person to person. Not everyone wants to look like Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson but no one can deny that he looks incredible. Some would rather have that lean and ripped look of a Ryan Reynolds but for many, especially strength aficionados that is just too skinny. For ladies, I would guess that top figure and fitness models would be the high end of muscularity and the lower end would be the likes of Jessica Biel who is more 'athletic'. Somewhere in between is where everyone else wants to be.

Now a small minority will want to be ultra thin. Makes no sense. It's unhealthy, you will be weak and you look sick.  At the other end of the spectrum and I don't know for sure but I don't think anyone wants to be fat! Also a very small minority wants the extreme muscularity of a high end, professional bodybuilder, male or female. I would guess that even the 70's bodybuilder shape is too much for most guys and that Cory Everson's 80's almost, figure/fitness body may be too much for most girls. However, you can't not admire those physiques.

It makes no difference what level of muscle you want to attain whether it be skinny muscles, massive muscles or somewhere in between. I stand by my original statement - EVERYONE wants muscles!

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The amazing Cory Everson.

The equally amazing Serge Nubret

The more attainable physiques of Ryan Reynolds...

...And Jessica Biel.