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cobrahead1030 said:
To be considered a bodybuilder you have to compete in bodybuilding competitions. You can do so as a hobby, in one of the hundreds of amateur shows held every year, or you can acquire a pro card & try to make a career out of it. Either way, it's pretty accurate to say that being active in competition is a requirement to being a bodybuilder, instead of just a guy who lifts.

That might seem like splitting hairs to someone who isn't familiar with that community, but it's a pretty substantial distinction.
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And much like the cocaine look of a young Lynch Dimartini etc, Body Building is also EXTREMELY unhealthy.
 
Mikeyboyeee said:
And much like the cocaine look of a young Lynch Dimartini etc, Body Building is also EXTREMELY unhealthy.
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For most people competing on a serious level it really is.

You've got maybe 10-15% of competitors who are genetically built for it, and can stay big and shredded year round, while maintaining a healthy diet and lifestyle. The overwhelming majority trying to hang with those guys are doing some torturous show prep dieting, dehydrating, carb depleting, and weight cutting just to be able to peak for half a day of competition.

Realistically, you can get away with that once every year or two and be alright if you're seriously disciplined, but for the guys doing multiple shows a year, it's pretty hard on your system. Not to mention hard to function at your day job, when you're mentally zapped from eating nothing but boiled chicken and tilapia for 5 days at a time.
 
He's defo in the "Aesthetic" fitness group. Big biceps but can't run a mile. If you wanna be fit, go get fit. If you wanna look like your wife is fucking the gardener.... got big biceps.

I see loads of dudes here do it, they break up with a girl, or get their ego dented. Then over work their biceps at the gym in some vague attempt to reclaim their "masculinity" by lifting things and putting them back down in a gym. It just screams insecurity. A bizarre corner of the Gym I will never understand.
 
ghosty999 said:
He's defo in the "Aesthetic" fitness group. Big biceps but can't run a mile. If you wanna be fit, go get fit. If you wanna look like your wife is fucking the gardener.... got big biceps.

I see loads of dudes here do it, they break up with a girl, or get their ego dented. Then over work their biceps at the gym in some vague attempt to reclaim their "masculinity" by lifting things and putting them back down in a gym. It just screams insecurity. A bizarre corner of the Gym I will never understand.
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This has gotta be the worst viewpoint on fitness I have ever seen. Being “fit” has many different meanings. I don’t even know where to go with this….
 
VESmedic said:
This has gotta be the worst viewpoint on fitness I have ever seen. Being “fit” has many different meanings. I don’t even know where to go with this….
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Quote to me what you think is wrong, and I'll clarify?
 
TheGreatGreen said:
I saw DT live in mid 2019.

Petrucci shredded brilliantly and flawlessly all night and had great feel too. There wasn't a thing wrong with his playing.

Maybe his playing was different when he was younger and he's simply changed a bit with some age but there was certainly nothing to be desired from his playing when I saw him. He was every bit as much of a virtuoso as he's always been.
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And he need to remember and practice too many long songs, compared to the days when he was playing from 2 albums.
 
lol this thread has really gone off the rails. I love Seagal. I have respect for his knowledge and skill but can sniff out all his B.S because there is so much of it.. it is the gift that keeps on giving. Watch the clip below, so funny.

 
I don't know about bodybuilding but I think pickups/gain has a lot to do with it. I find his new signature sets (especially the Sonic Ecstasy) basically unusable with how compressed they are. Then keep in mind he runs a boost circuit in the guitar itself for solos, hits the front end of the amp with some kind of OD, and the JP-2C lead setting is pretty high gain on its own.

If you just grab a Ibanez JPM or an earlier EBMM JP and plug it into a Mark IV or something, compared to a JP16 or a Majesty they sound and feel completely different even without all the boost/od switched on.
 
I reckon Petrucci understands the difference between Hypertrophy and relaxed economy.

He's singularly great at stuff, because he researches and has focus.

Except for coloring his shit with ultra-black-beard.
 
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