Is this bait? There are literally no jacked & shredded geniuses. What exceptions are there? A single quote from Aristotle? Mishima, who's writing supposedly deteriorated after the fact? Hackenschmidt, who's completely unknown to non-bodybuilders? Can you think any? I'm all ears.
https://twitter.com/roanwar/status/1390664444087312393
I would like to be wrong about this, but I don't think I am: bodybuilding, much like endurance training, is antithetical to mental work.
Being active on the other hand, hours and hours of lindywalks, that's true for almost every genius.
Being active on the other hand, hours and hours of lindywalks, that's true for almost every genius.
With that said, I think gym-goers have higher intelligence than average. It doesn't make you dumb, rather the opposite: It simply drains energy from mental work.
Answers so far are very underwhelming, unfortunately it seems that I'm right. Chris Langan is literally famous for his IQ and not his achievements - if anything I'd count him as an argument *against* bodybuilding. Yes I know he has a cool sounding theory, maybe I'm unfair.
Nietzsche, jacked? Really? Doesn't look like it from any photos I've seen.
Kafka was maybe a good shout? idk
On the other side of the ring, we have basically every inventor, composer, scientist, author, painter, poet etc that truly changed the world.
Kafka was maybe a good shout? idk
On the other side of the ring, we have basically every inventor, composer, scientist, author, painter, poet etc that truly changed the world.
Now, I'm definitely not against lifting!!
It's cool as hell and people should do it more, not less, obviously. But there's no discourse on this, and there needs to be.
It's cool as hell and people should do it more, not less, obviously. But there's no discourse on this, and there needs to be.
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