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Unheard History of Bodybuilding Forums

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Re: Unheard History of Bodybuilding Forums

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Awesome thread, where body builders argue about how many days there are in a week: https://forum.bodybuilding.com/showthread.php?t=107926751

  A WEEK IS NOOOOTTTTT SUN-SUN!!!! IT'S SUN-SAT, S-E-V-E-N-DAYS!!!!

  Sun-Sat is only 6 days?!

  Sunday ONE
  Monday TWO
  Tuesday THREE
  Wednesday FOUR
  Thursday FIVE
  Friday SIX
  Saturday SEVEN

  Arizona public schools=FAIL
Oh my lord that is hilarious.

Another hilarious thread from bbf: https://forum.bodybuilding.com/showthread.php?t=139812923&pa...

Re: Unheard History of Bodybuilding Forums

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post #3

Awesome thread, where body builders argue about how many days there are in a week: https://forum.bodybuilding.com/showthread.php?t=107926751

Omg, this is awesome. I love this quote: > "You don't count what day it is when counting days, I just explained that. If today is SATURDAY, it's not 2 days until SUNDAY now is it?" The sheer concept that Sunday to Sunday = 1 week versus Sunday to Saturday = 1 week is kind of bending my brain.

Sun -> Mon = 1, Mon -> Tue = 2, Tue -> Wed = 3, Wed -> Thu = 4, Thu -> Fri = 5, Fri -> Sat = 6, Sat -> Sun = 7

So Sun -> Sun = 7 days = 1 week!

OP's mixing duration with a "period" of time.

Re: Unheard History of Bodybuilding Forums

#54

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Admitting to being a miscer might put you on privately run HN blacklists.

Thats next level echochamber. Do people actually do this?

Yup, even custom css to help point out who you should downvote.

Re: Unheard History of Bodybuilding Forums

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Elliot Rodger posted on the Misc subforum. In retrospect, reading his posts is like a morbid dark comedy - the lack of social awareness, the insecurity, all shone through to the point of feeling insincere. It could very well have been a troll, there was no way to know. It's no wonder he barely aroused alarm despite posting his ideologies on many a public forum including Youtube. He indirectly mentions posting on Misc…

ok grandpa. No need to throw the baby out with the bathwater.

Hey man wanna slap-box for like thirty seconds ?

Re: Unheard History of Bodybuilding Forums

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Body building forums were really weird places, back around 2002, up until maybe 2004 when MySpace started to explode, and then, eventually Facebook. I remember encountering at least one, and the passages I read tended to brush up against a sort of dimwitted infantile fan fiction, mixing bizarre fantasies with near-zero understanding of human anatomy and physiology. One particular discussion that sticks out in my mind…

Why was this marked dead? It doesn't seem off-topic or anything.

Green users often get their comments deaded. Possibly because they used the word "sockpuppet" which would definitely be a heuristic for low quality flamebait.

Re: Unheard History of Bodybuilding Forums

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A really intriguing story related to bodybuilding is the story of DatBTrue. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/26/sports/doping-thomas-mann... He convinced a lot of people that he was an expert at all things science despite using an incredibly immature writing style. It turns out he was a lawyer!

>He convinced a lot of people that he was an expert at all things science despite using an incredibly immature writing style

I find this hard to believe considering the many years I spent on his forum, and especially in comparison to many of the advice touted by gurus from other hubs.

One excerpt:

-11th November 2012, 11:57 PM -How a dose of GHRP-2 affects a change in GH - CHARTED OUT

"Sometimes people seem to get confused... When you use a GHRP or Mod GRF (1-29)/GHRP two things happen. One the GHRP or Mod GRF (1-29)/GHRP enters the blood stream and slowly disappears from the blood stream. But what it does (by binding to cells in the pituitary) is increase the appearance of GH in the bloodstream.

So GHRP or Mod GRF (1-29)/GHRP are involved in a two-step move that modulates the appearance of GH. The two-step dance is nicely graphed out for us in Pharmacokinetics and Pharmacodynamics of Growth Hormone-Releasing Peptide-2: A Phase I Study in Children, Catherine Pihoker, Gregory L. Kearns, Daniel French, And Cyril Y. Bowers, Clin Endocrinol Metab 83: 1168–1172, 1998

https://imgur.com/Rce8byc

In words, you can see GH peak in the blood stream at 30 minutes. This understanding you are probably familiar with. You can see that the initial drop in GHRP-2 corresponds to the GH rise. This disappearance primarily comes from GHRP-2 being taken up into the pituitary. An analogy would be 100 people on the street, 30 minutes later 70 of them have opened doors to houses on the street and entered. There are still 100 people, but only 30 left on the street with 70 in the houses. At the 30 minute mark GHRP-2 reflects the lesson of this analogy.

After 30 minutes there may be more binding opportunities for GHRP-2 in serum and so some may also be taken up but most will be cleared over the next 1.5 hours.

What is responsible for GH's disappearance from serum? Well to use the people/street analogy, it too begins to open doors and get off the serum street and bind to cells. This continues to take place over the next hour.

So to put this two step into context, both GHRP-2 & GH follow the same pattern. They appear in serum and then disappear because they have found their respective doors. However GHRP-2 steps out on the street 30 minutes earlier then GH which is not awoken until GHRP-2 wakes it up.

GH will then bind to receptors from approximately 30 minute post-injection to 90 minutes post injection."

This is one small sample. There was a wealth of information lost when the forum was taken down.

Re: Unheard History of Bodybuilding Forums

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Bodybuildingforum is one of the most entertaining and influential places on the internet. I honestly believe it to be on par with 4chan in scope of "internet cultural influence"

Yeah, one thing that helps to get the idea is the number of KYM articles that point to that site as the source of memes.
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