Post by Oti on May 28, 2009 4:40:02 GMT -5
I absolutely cannot STAND those stupid infomercials you find on T.V. at 3 and 4 AM. Stupid products that don't work and outlandish promises that can't be fulfilled.
AHH! Seriously, this makes me more angry than somebody punching me. I'm disgusted.
These companies take advantage of stupid, desperate, overweight people by telling them using some stupid device for 10 minutes a day will tone* their bodies and make them sexy. You know, like those big, buff studs with the perfect tans and no body hair? Or, if you're a woman, you'll be a nice size 2 with perky breasts and super tight abs.
I just wish we would stop screwing each other and make the truth available. It's there if you look for it, sure, but not everyone does. It's like my friend who's still in school - he's been weightlifting for football since he was a little kid. What the coaches taught him was all he knew. We argued up and down for hours about a TON of things that I told him were wrong and just plain stupid. But here's the twist: I didn't just argue with him. I BACKED UP MY ARGUMENTS. I explained EVERY, SINGLE thing to him. If he had questions, I answered them to the best of my ability. I told him why something worked, why it didn't, what could be done to improve it, etc.. Now he knows thanks to me. No one else on that team does, though. They're still in the dark, blindly following the coaches.
I wish the world worked so that instead of these BS products on T.V., we saw ads for a super package that included everything truthful. To lose weight, you need to eat better food. You also need to cut back on the calories, but that usually comes with the better food thing. On top of that you need some resistance training of some kind (bodyweight, barbells, dumbbells) and some cardio to get your heart and lungs in better shape.
Why is that so hard? I just don't get it. As crazy as this sounds, sometimes I wish I would just wake up and weigh 80 lbs more, like Tim Allen in The Santa Clause. I would clean up my diet and work my fat a** off until I was back in shape. I think it would be fun. Hard as Hell, yeah, but I like hard work. I wouldn't be interested in Sasuke if I didn't like hard things.
Now, there are some things out there, like the Total Body Gym, Bowflex, etc. that probably work. I mean, I haven't tested everything, so I don't know for sure, but I believe they do. The problem is, though, that they portray the fatties-turned-sexeh people as having only used the machine for, say, 10 minutes a day, three days a week. Doubt it. Bodies like those take a lot more work than that. On top of that, they fail to say how the people followed a DIET. Diets are stupid, sure, but they do yield results, even if they're only temporary. They put the diet thing up in teeny tiny letters at the bottom of the screen, yeah, but they don't SAY it. If they SAID it, the desperate people at home eating chips and cheeseburgers would know they had to do work and thus not buy.
I know this is how the world is, but Jesus @$&%!*% Christ, it makes me want to experiment with genocide.
I want to design a work-out machine and sell it one day. I want it to include all the GREAT exercises - squats, dead-lifts, chin-ups, etc.. And I want to include a book with it, written by me, about how to change your lifestyle, eat better, work out hard and truly change you life. And if it doesn't work for you, then damn it, you can have a million bucks cause you're a freak. Or, you know, a liar.
/rant
Sigh.
Thanks for listening. I have to go q-tip the blood from my ears, now.
*To use the word "tone" in this context is incorrect.
AHH! Seriously, this makes me more angry than somebody punching me. I'm disgusted.
These companies take advantage of stupid, desperate, overweight people by telling them using some stupid device for 10 minutes a day will tone* their bodies and make them sexy. You know, like those big, buff studs with the perfect tans and no body hair? Or, if you're a woman, you'll be a nice size 2 with perky breasts and super tight abs.
I just wish we would stop screwing each other and make the truth available. It's there if you look for it, sure, but not everyone does. It's like my friend who's still in school - he's been weightlifting for football since he was a little kid. What the coaches taught him was all he knew. We argued up and down for hours about a TON of things that I told him were wrong and just plain stupid. But here's the twist: I didn't just argue with him. I BACKED UP MY ARGUMENTS. I explained EVERY, SINGLE thing to him. If he had questions, I answered them to the best of my ability. I told him why something worked, why it didn't, what could be done to improve it, etc.. Now he knows thanks to me. No one else on that team does, though. They're still in the dark, blindly following the coaches.
I wish the world worked so that instead of these BS products on T.V., we saw ads for a super package that included everything truthful. To lose weight, you need to eat better food. You also need to cut back on the calories, but that usually comes with the better food thing. On top of that you need some resistance training of some kind (bodyweight, barbells, dumbbells) and some cardio to get your heart and lungs in better shape.
Why is that so hard? I just don't get it. As crazy as this sounds, sometimes I wish I would just wake up and weigh 80 lbs more, like Tim Allen in The Santa Clause. I would clean up my diet and work my fat a** off until I was back in shape. I think it would be fun. Hard as Hell, yeah, but I like hard work. I wouldn't be interested in Sasuke if I didn't like hard things.
Now, there are some things out there, like the Total Body Gym, Bowflex, etc. that probably work. I mean, I haven't tested everything, so I don't know for sure, but I believe they do. The problem is, though, that they portray the fatties-turned-sexeh people as having only used the machine for, say, 10 minutes a day, three days a week. Doubt it. Bodies like those take a lot more work than that. On top of that, they fail to say how the people followed a DIET. Diets are stupid, sure, but they do yield results, even if they're only temporary. They put the diet thing up in teeny tiny letters at the bottom of the screen, yeah, but they don't SAY it. If they SAID it, the desperate people at home eating chips and cheeseburgers would know they had to do work and thus not buy.
I know this is how the world is, but Jesus @$&%!*% Christ, it makes me want to experiment with genocide.
I want to design a work-out machine and sell it one day. I want it to include all the GREAT exercises - squats, dead-lifts, chin-ups, etc.. And I want to include a book with it, written by me, about how to change your lifestyle, eat better, work out hard and truly change you life. And if it doesn't work for you, then damn it, you can have a million bucks cause you're a freak. Or, you know, a liar.
/rant
Sigh.
Thanks for listening. I have to go q-tip the blood from my ears, now.
*To use the word "tone" in this context is incorrect.
