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[-] Carnelian@lemmy.world 97 points 5 days ago

Gym myths are my favorite. The best past is the extreme prevalence of survivorship bias, with most of the bad advice coming from people who have succeeded but are themselves mistaken about why.

i.e. Massive bro is adamant that everyone should be taking BCAAs, beginners are inclined to believe it because it looks like he knows what he’s talking about.

I think the fitness industry makes most of its money this way tbh

[-] Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 15 points 4 days ago

the "sad" reality of fitness is that it just boils down to "do exercise, eat 2 hours before an intense workout, creatine helps give a little strength boost".

There's no magical thing you can do to make things easier/faster other than just going harder or, you know, steroids (which has obvious downsides). And everything else that people tend to worry about, like the precise amount of protein to eat, is just.. like yeah it has an effect but if you just do shitloads of workouts and eat when you're hungry it's basically impossible to not get stronger.

[-] zea_64 3 points 4 days ago

Funny thing is I can say I'm on steroids when I go to the gym (hormone medication). Though for some reason, the steroids I'm on are never the ones gym bros talk about.