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  • 22-08-2015 5:02pm
    #1
    MEGA BRO WOLF 5000
    Registered Users Posts: 17,417 ✭✭✭✭


    https://www.facebook.com/gregg.marsh1

    Just browsing facebook this morning and I come across this, I couldn't believe it. This lad is training people for 8 and a half hours at a time...

    "Synergyse one day arm cure" From the videos they do indeed seem to be working on arms, I can't honestly believe any personal trainer would do this though?! Am I going mad, am I seeing things? Please tell me I'm wrong.


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    #2
    Zillah
    Registered Users Posts: 17,371 ✭✭✭✭Zillah


    No, he seems totally legit to me...

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    Alf Veedersane
    Registered Users Posts: 24,553 ✭✭✭✭Alf Veedersane


    Spends 8.5 hours sculpting guns...






    ...realises he's too weak to pull the trigger.


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    Oryx
    Subscribers Posts: 19,425 ✭✭✭✭Oryx


    So will those guys:
    a)be unable to pick up as much as a paperclip for a week?
    b)injure ta fook
    c)be one hit wonders who never train seriously again?
    d)all of the above?


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    cloudatlas
    Registered Users Posts: 3,709 ✭✭✭cloudatlas


    Might as well go in to the gym and ask for muscle spasms.


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    Zillah
    Registered Users Posts: 17,371 ✭✭✭✭Zillah


    Oryx wrote: »
    So will those guys:
    a)be unable to pick up as much as a paperclip for a week?
    b)injure ta fook
    c)be one hit wonders who never train seriously again?
    d)all of the above?

    Well, you see, the human body is like an untidy house. You let it all go to hell for a very long time and then you do one big, strenuous day of effort to get it all cleaned up and in shape.


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    MEGA BRO WOLF 5000
    Registered Users Posts: 17,417 ✭✭✭✭MEGA BRO WOLF 5000


    I'm sorry but I'm appalled at that. I know one of the lads involved in that as that's the reason I kept seeing it on my Facebook feed. I don't think pummelling your arms for 8.5 hours in a day will do you ANY good, in fact I can only imagine the damage it does. Is anyone gonna call this "professional" out??


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    MightyMandarin
    Registered Users Posts: 3,723 ✭✭✭MightyMandarin


    Rule #1 when becoming a PT: Don't take ideas from Rich Piana



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    coffee_cake
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Politics Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 81,310 CMod ✭✭✭✭coffee_cake


    At this stage I'm like hey whatever works for you and isn't dangerous
    There'd be a difference between someone like mr giant muscles there trying out different things to achieve his goals vs people who are doing it like a one off boot camp and will be scared off training for life if they are new to it ... imo


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    Alf Veedersane
    Registered Users Posts: 24,553 ✭✭✭✭Alf Veedersane


    bluewolf wrote: »
    At this stage I'm like hey whatever works for you and isn't dangerous

    Guns doe.


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    coffee_cake
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    Alf Veedersane wrote: »
    Guns doe.

    suns out guns out!!!


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    Alf Veedersane
    Registered Users Posts: 24,553 ✭✭✭✭Alf Veedersane


    bluewolf wrote: »
    suns out guns out!!!

    Gun crime has been low of late.


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    #13
    Augme
    Registered Users Posts: 5,151 ✭✭✭Augme


    Not going to lie, I'd actually like to try it if I wasn't such a lazy ****er.

    To me it seems like a physical and mental challenge that will have very little positive effect. In that sense I'm not sure if it's any worse than most crossfit competitions or other long distance events - marathons, ultra marathons etc etc.


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    strelok
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,162 ✭✭✭strelok


    you tend not to get a huge amount of untrained and unfit people poncing about in ultra marathons though


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    Augme
    Registered Users Posts: 5,151 ✭✭✭Augme


    strelok wrote: »
    you tend not to get a huge amount of untrained and unfit people poncing about in ultra marathons though


    Who said these people are untrained and unfit? The reason untrained and unfit people don't do ultra marathons is because they wouldn't last. Very same with 8 hours arm exercises. I can't imagine anyone who is untrained and unfit could ever complete 8 hours of arm exercises.


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    strelok
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,162 ✭✭✭strelok


    I'm just making a fairly baseless assumption.


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    #17
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 50,630 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Heh, he used to be my PT many moons ago :pac:


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    #18
    JJayoo
    Registered Users Posts: 6,561 ✭✭✭JJayoo


    People are talking about it = it works

    and by works I mean it makes him money


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    Naos
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    Augme wrote: »
    Who said these people are untrained and unfit? The reason untrained and unfit people don't do ultra marathons is because they wouldn't last. Very same with 8 hours arm exercises. I can't imagine anyone who is untrained and unfit could ever complete 8 hours of arm exercises.

    I would imagine anyone who is trained and/or fit would know that it would be utterly pointless to do 8 hours of arm exercises.


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    Zillah
    Registered Users Posts: 17,371 ✭✭✭✭Zillah


    Naos wrote: »
    I would imagine anyone who is trained and/or fit would know that it would be utterly pointless to do 8 hours of arm exercises.

    If you do a bad workout consistently for ten years you'll be in decent shape and not know a bloody thing about fitness.


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    JJayoo
    Registered Users Posts: 6,561 ✭✭✭JJayoo


    What if you did an 9 hour arm workout.....


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    Dtp1979
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    JJayoo wrote: »
    What if you did an 9 hour arm workout.....

    Id say 8 is for optimal growth


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    Zillah
    Registered Users Posts: 17,371 ✭✭✭✭Zillah


    Feck it, I'm going to work my biceps 24hrs a day for the rest of my life.


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    Alf Veedersane
    Registered Users Posts: 24,553 ✭✭✭✭Alf Veedersane


    Zillah wrote: »
    Feck it, I'm going to work my biceps 24hrs a day for the rest of my life.

    15.5 hours rest/day is optimal for recovery. And you need time off to go buy new tank tops.


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    Mr. CooL ICE
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    Alf Veedersane
    Registered Users Posts: 24,553 ✭✭✭✭Alf Veedersane


    Nicolas Cage wrote: »
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    Percy Bishes Shelley, whut


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    #27
    rubadub
    Registered Users Posts: 32,373 ✭✭✭✭rubadub


    Maybe it's so people doing "8 second abs" are not sitting around twiddling their thumbs for the rest of the day.


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    #28
    MEGA BRO WOLF 5000
    Registered Users Posts: 17,417 ✭✭✭✭MEGA BRO WOLF 5000


    He just posted on his Facebook that his clients have seen "growths of half an inch" in the four days since.


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    Mellor
    Registered Users Posts: 39,030 ✭✭✭✭Mellor


    The Honey Monster wrote: »
    He just posted on his Facebook that his clients have seen "growths of half an inch" in the four days since.

    Inflammation is a bitch alrite


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    #30
    MEGA BRO WOLF 5000
    Registered Users Posts: 17,417 ✭✭✭✭MEGA BRO WOLF 5000


    I almost feel silly for going to the gym 5 times a week, 52 weeks a year when I could have achieved results in one day.


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    Zillah
    Registered Users Posts: 17,371 ✭✭✭✭Zillah


    The Honey Monster wrote: »
    He just posted on his Facebook that his clients have seen "growths of half an inch" in the four days since.

    I was just laughing at him earlier but I'm actually getting angry at him now.


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