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12345hn6789 on Feb 6, 2023 | parent | context | favorite | on: Why the conventional wisdom on how to grow muscles...

I mean sure you can say this about the majority of things.

Programming is just typing away and compiling your program. It's not that complicated.

If you want to be proficient at BB / power lifting / <weight-lifting activity>, doing more research and optimizing is important

9dev on Feb 6, 2023 [–]

But most people don’t want to be proficient. They want to stay mostly healthy and get laid

12345hn6789 on Feb 8, 2023 | [–]

Getting healthy and looking good is the base line. If you workout for 6 months and don't see immediate changes you probably did something wrong. If you workout for 12 months and aren't looking better youre not proficient

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