Is this true? What would other cultures do with their weights?
I like how he doesn't elaborate
>>76795732It leaves the reader to think about it and discuss. The mark of a good author.
>>76795732It's pretty obvious.The curl is the most narcissistic of exercises: it isolates, it faces the mirror. The bicep becomes the fetishized commodity, a self-contained symbol of “personal improvement.” The American doesn’t lift to move something; he lifts to display that he can lift. The movement folds back into itself -- pure consumption of one’s own reflection. Capitalism rendered in biomechanics.The press, meanwhile, is inherently communal and functional. It’s about transcendence -- to raise the weight overhead, to extend beyond the self. The Soviet doesn’t isolate; he integrates. It’s an expression of labor, of the worker’s body asserting dominance over gravity, not for beauty, but for production, for purpose. A dialectical victory over resistance.So when you see the American curling and the Soviet pressing, what you’re really watching is the difference between a culture of self-worship and a culture of collective struggle. One worships aesthetics; the other worships effort.Of course, both are illusions -- the American thinks he’s free but is enslaved by vanity, the Soviet thinks he’s serving the collective but serves ideology. In the end, the true revolutionary would probably deadlift: he confronts the weight directly, lifts it from the ground -- the pure act of labor stripped of spectacle.
>>76795742>the true revolutionary would probably put deadlifters in camps to serve the collectiveftfy
>>76795742This is the best thing I have read in weeks. Thank you.
>>76795725>>76795742on some real g shit my first instinct would be to latty raise that bitch what does that say about me (other than that i have fucking dynamite shoulders)
>>76795742Holy. Fuck. This is why I never drop this board.
>>76795742>It's pretty obviousStopped reading right there.
>>76795742Very Aristotelian of you, anon.
>>76795735OR he’s a lazy faggot. either way we all end up taking dick in the end
>>76795742do you think replacing the em-dashes with double dashes makes it less obvious that this is chatGPT?
Americans first impulse when picking up a weight was to curl itSoviets first impulse when picking up a weight was to steal it
>>76795761its ai faggot
>>76795875So?
>>76795771>>76795742it's over btw
>>76795909I ran the text through two different AI detection tools and both said 0%
>>76795725Dont know about everyone else here but curls are way more functional in terms of carrying all your groceries into your house in 1 trip.
>>76795725>>76795732cultural muscle memory, the American is lifting slop up to his gullet and the Soviet is raising his arms in surrender
>>76795927no -- you -- didn't
>>76795927i used literally the first one that came up on g**gle
>>76795952ah, is that why india prefers squats, to remind them of taking a shit in the street?
>>76795742ok slavoj
Russians don't have values.
>>76795742A++ post. Would screen cap.
>>76795742This is the most pretentious shit I've ever read
>>76795742Meds
>>76795909Didn't even need to run it through this test. It reads exactly like chatgpt
>>76795725>american guy curls any random weight>soviet guy curls and presses any random weightthe fuck is this dork trying to say? unless its a dumbbell, i have never seen a dyel try to curl some random weight.
>>76795742thanks grokgpt
>>76795742What prompt did you put in to get this?
>>76795742based llm powered poster, the 4channer has been truly deprecated
>>76795725browns would swing it over their shoulder a la Persian or Indian clubs
>>76795742its not that deep little bro, soviets invented kettlebells and they were much more common there than dumbells, what is most known and popular kettlebell movement, overhead press, so what would a soviet do when he picks up a dumbell for the first time ever ? overhead press
>>76795742Redditors have no idea what they're missing.
>>76795725Personally my reflex is usually snatching and overhead pressing it t. nafri
my favorite part about you retards is that you always just take whatever premise or scenario OP gives at face value and then start arguing about it.
>>76796988Meant overhead squatting
>>76795742LMAOBased
>>76795742Cool story, brah.
>>76795742>PHYSICAL INSTRUMENT - GODLY[SUCCESS]
>>76795952kek
Here in Argentina, we do things a little differently. We lift weights up and down until our muscles get sore and tired. We call this "ejercicio" and we will do it alone or sometimes with friends. It's really a source of stress relief and offers a sense of community, or "communidad" as we call it here. Americans simply would not understand this.
>>76795742>the true revolutionary would probably deadlift: he confronts the weight directly, lifts it from the ground -- the pure act of labor stripped of spectacle.Demolishing his spinal column for nothing = true revolution
>>76795725Probably worship it as a demon god. Indians crushed themselves with it
>>76795725A black's first instinct is to start running with it.
>>76795927And I got pretty serious with your mom a few decades ago, what of it?
>>76795742>>76795909This is how the Internet is going to die. At some point you will just assume you're talking to an AI and be forced to go outside and socialize.Based
>>767957421. Good post2. AI post3. The beauty you build through bodybuilding is also a service done to those who see you
>>76795742how about you collectively struggle to get deez nutz in your mouth bitch
>>76797060cerra el orto mogólicono sabes ni que estás en América, amigo>"communidad"volvete a tu país de mierda o a la reserva aborigen más cercana
Unless it's a warmup: Why press a weight so light you can curl it the first time you pick it up?If you aren't sure you can press it: Why not try to curl it to make sure and get a feel?If you are so out of shape and out of your depth in front of a weight that a fucking kettlebell or something is "an alien thing you meet an impulsively react to" 2001 SO monolyth style: Why risk a multi-joint movement? Risking the spine. Twisting the body if unilateral? Putting the thing in neck breaking/nape crushing positions? Maybe using explosiveness, even.>Pavel observed that the people with an olympic weightlifting culture were retarded and weak>"I'll butt scoot down this near perpendicular to the ground angle building right into concrete while vodka drunk and high on industrial glue" cultural values
>>76795909lmao imagine thinking every post with punctuation is ChatGPT. sorry bro, some of us just passed high school english. not my fault your brain short-circuits the moment you see a full sentence.
Eurofags are silly
>>76797507AI responses are boring as fuck. I get bored after two or so questions to ChatGPT. It's like talking to a poorly informed textbook.
>>76795725Russians don't first try to crack their weight to see what's in them to drink?
>>76795768shut up idiot>>76797470Do you ever get tired of being a bitch? No joke, deadlifts can solve than.
>>76797966What an awful pointless post. This kind of dead air, no point, unfunny drivel is a hundred times the threat AI is.
>>76795927You are such a stupid piece of shit. I ran it through several and they all said 99% AI.
>>76795725India - they try to rape the weight
>>76795838It's so blatantly chatgpt. OP wrote "it's pretty obvious" and then asked chatgpt to "write a philosophical elaboration of (pasted image)", tweaked it to look less like chatgpt, and then pasted it here for the sweet internet points
>>76797507It really is. So many problem in the world are caused by screen/internet addiction. The internet destroying itself and free everyone is hilarious.
>>76795742SO if I want to comrademaxx, I need to press and deadlift. Go it, comrade.
I feel like this thread was a turning point for the board, and not in a good way.
>>76799449the amount of engagement being wasted on blatant aislop and inability for some to even detect its presence is definitely concerning
