Woah, actual discussion to unpack.
Tasty Meat, I'm just going to say that if Samson and Boogie are both telling you something, you should probably listen. They are the guys that know what they're talking about.
Mups, I'm flattered, but I hardly think I'm Mr. Fitness Guru. Shit, I think anything I really know about fitness and diet I learned from you guys on this thread over the years.
Anyhow, Andrex. Notwithstanding the merits of the product or ab rollers in general, you said product reviews can't lie, and then I mocked the product's marketing. You then seemed to concede the lame marketing, but then pointed again to the number of user reviews to validate the product.
If you can concede that a product markets itself specifically to people who don't know anything about fitness, using all of the traditional, well-worn bullshit tropes of the fitness-product industry, it is illogical to then turn around and use the numerous positive product reviews of the
very same people who were gullible enough to bite on that advertising.I'm not saying there's no place for ab rolling exercises in a workout regimen, but pointing to product reviews from people who don't know any better is not a convincing argument.
More generally, your goals are
all over the place. Last page, you wrote that for this year, you are thinking about doing "1/2" GOMADS in order to "bulk up a little" because you want to be "far less skinny."
And then you talk about getting an ab roller to try to get more ab definition. While bulking.
And then Mups recommends some deadlifts for you. And you say that you can't do them, it's an ab roller vs. nothing. So you can't do deadlifts. While.....bulking.
So your idea of "bulking" doesn't seem to involve any.....strength training. Just.....eating more.
But you want abs.
