In this day and age, everyone has an opinion on everything. We are constantly bombarded with useless jargon from pundits and losers who look like they haven't seen the sunlight in several months. People with bags under their eyes from never-ending leering at the blue light emitted from their computer and phone screens; their bodies loosely resembling a malnourished ghoul that crawled out from under a sink hole in a lithium-ion waste dump, held together and powered by Ritalin and iced coffee. I look at them and think—what insight could these people possibly have to offer me? They are clueless! These people have no credibility, because they don’t pass the most important test.

These people don't lift. They aren’t on the daily iron grind. They don't hit PR’s. They haven’t developed the unceasing hunger of progress like lifters have. Lifters put more weight on the bar, perform more reps, practice progressive overload—this is the true progress which shriveled up laptop progressives don’t understand. Lifters achieve glory time and time again. The rewards of achievement have instilled a tremendous drive in all of us. The drive that screams for us to attain physical superiority even when we don’t feel our best. This same drive spills over into all aspects of our being over time, morphing us into a new entity, and we are reborn from this. The lifter metamorphosis! 

For pundits or social media ghouls who don't lift, there is no such metamorphosis. These people are stagnant and out of touch. They have no real life experience, no meaningful social interaction. They’ve created a skewed reality in their heads based on the endless online interactions they have in their echo-chamber, and have embraced it as if it were the real world. They’ve created a fake world based on weakness and this is why they want to tear down the strong. 

The soyjack psychology stems directly from their pale skin, thin limbs, and fear. Lifter psychology is built on confronting the challenges that life throws at us. We aren't told that the world should cater to us because we are suffering. We are taught that we need to get stronger. We may fail a lift time and time again, but with devotion and training, the muscles in our body grow and adapt until one day that same weight we were struggling with becomes merely a warm-up. Our minds grow and adapt with our bodies. Persistence and perseverance are the echoes we hear, the fruit of which we bear in our succulent physiques: chiseled statures and a dominant aura. The lifter ascends!

The opinions that lifters form are derived from their journeys in the iron temple. You can’t separate mind from body. We know that life is suffering and we conquer it every day. That’s what makes our opinion better and more important than the average non-lifter beta-soyjack. Those people have been coddled. They are children stuck in adult bodies. Their parents failed them. Their minds are not fully developed because their bodies are not developed at all. They have never left their comfort zone. Intellectually, they cling to their favorite childhood blankey and wail fervently at a relentless world that refused to slow down for them. Their insecurities have manifested and possessed their minds, bodies and spirits. Every single thought or idea is directly influenced by the whisper of diffidence constantly nagging them from the deep crevices of their conscience. For this they are not to be taken seriously. They want to drag as many individuals down to their level as possible. Especially lifters! 

At the end of the day, the strongest evidence that lifter opinions matter more really boils down to one clear and blunt litmus test: who has the better physique?

Next time you want to know whether or not someone is saying something true, ask them to take their shirt off and flex. Would you rather take advice from a 10/10 Chad with a tremendous, strong physique, or a sloppy normie with zero muscle mass who struggles to get out of bed in the morning because he feels too overwhelmed? The mental gymnastics these people have to perform in order to make their soy-induced dribble seem viable is astounding. They feel as if they must trick you in order to sway your thoughts and actions. They are like salesmen, trying to sell you on an idea instead of presenting it to you in a straightforward way. While a well-stacked Chad can simply tell you what he feels is right, in the simplest of terms, and it will resonate. It will encourage. It will carry weight. Your spirit will be at peace as you hear the confidence and witness the overall demeanor in which the message is delivered. No backhanded tricks or hidden agendas to watch for, only purity and purpose. 

The message is simple. LIFTER OPINIONS MATTER MORE!

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