Topic: Are you freakin' kidding me!

[Andy Dick]

This is why the USA stucks at strength sports because of this sort of BS.  This is from the major newspaper here in Milwaukee.  Talk about biased and one sided.  They contacted our high school to take pictures of our guys working out for this article.  We shot that idea down with the quickness.

http://www.jsonline.com/blogs/news/133028228.html

[Arturo Gómez]

It is same thing that car.
If you show a car or a plane to a Neanderthal man, he will say that is an infernal machine to kill people. And he will be right.
And we know that those people know about train with weights, the same thing that Cro- Magnon man knew about cars.

[ViKtoricus]

I understand your frustrations Andy, but there's no hope here in the USA as far as strength sports.

The only strength sports we excel at are strongman and powerlifting, which are the kind of sports where bodybuilders can dominate by simply depending on their girth and not REAL, athletic power.



The only way for us to make a change is to start out small. Remember this article I posted in another thread: http://users.aristotle.net/~diogenes/insane.htm



Remember, start out small. And when you become a true authority in the world of strength training and are more respected than the misinformed doctors, you place your convictions in a position of invulnerability for the world to see.

[Andy Dick]

Ughhh, the emails are already coming in, unbelieveable.  I thought I would post this article online, it is one of the greatest articles I have read on the safety of weightlifting/weight training.  I am posting it for something in your arsenal if any of you ever have to encounter this sort of foolishness.  It has become a staple in my fight back agains this foolishness.

[Mike C.]

I went to a high school football game recently, and about every third play, there was some kid being helped off the field due to an injury.  Nobody had any problem with that.  Sheesh!

[ViKtoricus]

Ughhh, the emails are already coming in, unbelieveable.  I thought I would post this article online, it is one of the greatest articles I have read on the safety of weightlifting/weight training.  I am posting it for something in your arsenal if any of you ever have to encounter this sort of foolishness.  It has become a staple in my fight back agains this foolishness.

Thank you for sharing.