Are you ready to have all of your closely-held stereotypes about bodybuilding bros confirmed? Because this 2008 message board thread from BodyBuilding.com, innocently titled “Full Body Workout Every Other Day?”, has EVERYTHING. Not enough thanks can be given to Spencer Hall, Ramit Sethi, and the BroBible transcription service for unearthing this gem.
Here we go. A novice bodybuilder begins by making a mental math mistake, only to be corrected by a meathead/mathlete hybrid capable of counting days and executing basic division:
m1ndless: If I go every other day I will be at the gym 4-5 times a week, is that over training?
I typically work out for 60-90 minutes, I push my self and raise the weight each week.steviekm3: That makes no sense. There are only 7 days in a week. If you go every other day that is 3.5 times a week.
You might think this would lead to a fight between m1ndless and steviekm3, but this is a bodybuilding forum. The testosterone is trap-deep, and two completely unrelated parties take the proverbial baton:
TheJosh: Monday, Wednesday, Friday, Sunday. That is 4 days.
How do you go 3.5 times? Do a half workout or something? lol
Justin-27: 7x in 2 weeks = 3.5 times a week, genius.
And yeah, 3x a week, full body workouts are good.
TheJosh: I never said anything about going exactly 7 times, like I said, if I go every other day, that is 4 DAYS A WEEK. How hard is that to comprehend?
Week 1 – Sunday, Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday
Week 2 – Monday, Wednesday, Friday, Sunday.8 DAYS IN 2 WEEKS
In your terms,
8x in 2 weeks = 4 times a week, genius.
All Muscle and No Brains? lol
You probably noticed the flaw in TheJosh’s math (or basic counting skills). You weren’t alone:
steviekm3: You double counted Sunday – that is 2 weeks plus 1 day.
Did you fail grade 2 math ?
PLUS your old post said 4 or 5 times a week. Now you just neglect to mention the 5.
Grow up and admit when you are wrong. Believe me you will get a a lot further in life this way.
TheJosh: Are you retarded?
Maybe you should look at a calander, I didn’t double count sunday, my two weeks started and ended on sunday, exactly 14 days.
What don’t you understand?
EDIT – Here is a Calender, I made little dots for each day so you could comprehend.
[the calendar is no longer up]
Justin-27: Dude THAT IS 15 DAYS!!!!!! Are you that effing mental? You can’t have a week go Sun-Sat, then Sun-Sun. Look at the damn pic you posted, count the days what do they equal?!?!?! FIFTEEN!
Kids these days.
I was right, 3.5 x a week, and so was the first guy to post it, and you my bright friend are el wrongo.
Maddeningly, TheJosh was undeterred by the presence of basic logic.
TheJosh: It’s 14 days, try again.
Maybe you should try counting on your fingers?
If you workout on the 8th, you wouldnt start counting the days til the 9th, because that is one day, then the 10th would be two days, and so on until you get to the 22nd, which is 14 days.
Justin-27: COUNT THE FUKING DAYS! How many days are in 2 weeks moron? 14
I am saying you train 7x in 2 weeks, which in other terms is 3.5x a week. I cannot believe I have to type THREE replies for you to get this.
Here fuktard read this:
Sun-on
Mon-
Tues-on
Wed-
Thurs-on
Fri-
Sat-onSun-
Mon-on
Tues-
Wed-on
Thurs-
Fri-on
Sat-Sun-on
Mon-
Tues-on
Wed-
Thurs-on
Fri-
Sat-onSun-
Mon-on
Tues-
Wed-on
Thurs-
Fri-on
Sat-^You tell me how that works out? I see 3x one week, then 4x the next, which???? EQUALS SEVEN IN 2 WEEKS!
In case you forgot, ONE WEEK is Sunday-Sat, NOT Sun-sun, that’s 8 days moron.
In case you had any doubt about the tenacity of someone who frequents a bodybuilding forum, TheJosh responded by repackaging his same dumb argument.
TheJosh: For me to get this? You are the one who is not getting it, it’s simple, just look at the calender and COUNT THE DAYS.
There is 7 days in a week, if you workout every other day, you work out 4 days a week, how hard is that to ****ing comprehend?!
Ill do it out in 4 weeks for you, maybe it will make more sense?
Week 1 – Sunday, Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday
Week 2 – Monday, Wednesday, Friday, Sunday
Week 3 – Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday, Monday
Week 4 – Wednesday, Friday, Sunday, Tuesday
Week 5 – Thursday, Saturday, Monday, Wednesday
Week 6 – Friday, Sunday, Tuesday, ThursdayNo matter how you look at it, if you workout every other day, you work out 4 times a week.
A week is sunday-sunday.
I think you just don’t know how to count, it’s alright, I won’t tell anyone. lol
Sunday-Saturday is only 6 days, do you have 6 days weeks where you live?
Justin-27: I’m right, you’re a effing moron. A WEEK IS NOOOOTTTTT SUN-SUN!!!! IT’S SUN-SAT, S-E-V-E-N- DAYS!!!!
Sun-Sat is only 6 days?!
Sunday ONE
Monday TWO
Tuesday THREE
Wednesday FOUR
Thursday FIVE
Friday SIX
Saturday SEVENArizona public schools=FAIL
Oh, you thought we were done here?
TheJosh: You don’t start counting on sunday, it hasn’t been a day yet, you don’t start counting til monday. You can’t count the day that it is, did you never take basic elementrary math?
MONDAY is 1 DAY
TUESDAY is 2 DAYS
WEDNESDAY is 3 DAYS
THURSDAY is 4 DAYS
FRIDAY is 5 DAYS
SATURDAY is 6 DAYSSUNDAY is 7 DAYS
Today is SATURDAY, so how many days til SUNDAY? 2 days? NO! It’s only 1 day.
How many days til MONDAY? 2 days, NOT 3 DAYS BY YOUR COUNT!
God Damn You’re Retarded.
Justin-27: Ok I counted it on my fingers.
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
22Tell me that does not equal 15 and I will give you my 350Z.
What do you mean you don’t start counting on Sunday? IT’s a fuking DAY!
How can you deny the 4 weeks I posted? Tell me this smartguy, how many times would you train in 4 weeks? ****, look at your cute calendar and tell me it’s not 14 in one month.’
TheJosh: You don’t count what day it is when counting days, I just explained that. If today is SATUDAY, it’s not 2 days until SUNDAY now is it?
If you get paid every other friday, you get paid every 2 weeks, correct? That’s 14 days, so how is sunday-sunday not 1 week?
Last Satuday was 7 DAYS AGO!
Jeez
TheJosh: I never said “feel”?
Like I said just in a PM..
It’s like math, if you have 4, and you add 3, that gives you 7, not 6. If you start counting at 4, and add 3, you start counting at 5, so it would be 5,6,7, NOTTTTTT 4,5,6 by your count.
Justin-27: I have a feeling you are so mentally retarded that we need to take the “week” lingo out of this and go to numbers.
Do what I said above, tell me how many times you train in 4 SEVEN day weeks, aka one month.
Use the calendar for your retarded eyes to see the truth.
By now it’s clear TheJosh works out his brain every other day, eight days a week, and we just caught him on an off day. Or, as Justin-27 puts it:
Justin-27: You are the dumbest boy alive. Jump off a bridge.