Breaking Down the Bro Bible
When I first walked into the gym for my premiere experience
as a paying gym member, at a moderate-to-poorly equipped fitness suite in a
sports centre in Kidderminster, I didn’t have a clue what the hell I was doing.
I took a look around, glanced down at the generic workout card I had been given
by the smiling faces behind the desk, and picked the least-imposing (yet most
masculine, obviously) machine I could see and went to work.
Except, as previously stated, I didn’t have a clue what the hell I was doing.
Until, that was, a pretty swole-looking guy came over and gave me what he felt was some much needed advice. As a new recruit to the gym fraternity I was pretty keen to take on this guy’s words of wisdom, thinking he’d have me looking like Hercules in no time.
I was mistaken.
Turns out this guy was a total bro, spouting standard broscience.
Except, as previously stated, I didn’t have a clue what the hell I was doing.
Until, that was, a pretty swole-looking guy came over and gave me what he felt was some much needed advice. As a new recruit to the gym fraternity I was pretty keen to take on this guy’s words of wisdom, thinking he’d have me looking like Hercules in no time.
I was mistaken.
Turns out this guy was a total bro, spouting standard broscience.
Broscience - "Broscience is the predominant brand of reasoning in bodybuilding circles where the anecdotal reports of jacked dudes are considered more credible than scientific research."
That’s not to say he wasn’t
friendly, or he wasn’t a cool guy, or that he was a rung lower on the
evolutionary ladder, it was just broscience.
So what I’m going to do is take this opportunity to share with you some of his advice, so that you either don’t take it on-board as fact when some other gym bro decides to ‘initiate’ you (if you’re fairly new to the gym), or so that you don’t become that guy doling out this kind of uninformed advice and, frankly, damaging people.
So what I’m going to do is take this opportunity to share with you some of his advice, so that you either don’t take it on-board as fact when some other gym bro decides to ‘initiate’ you (if you’re fairly new to the gym), or so that you don’t become that guy doling out this kind of uninformed advice and, frankly, damaging people.
