>still, don't you think it's kind of a wussy way to make political
>decisions, to vote on testosterone? "vote for the manly men!" only a
>girly-man would vote that way in the first place.
Yeah. i think it betrays something if people are whining about rightnut poppin fresh doughbuoyz and geeks. My comment was a nod to what I thought was a crit of an ARnold mentality imported into the left. So, I played on how Arnold is ridiculed as an icon of the tendency to make training more complicated than it need to be. Arnold = anti-girly men; Anti-Arnold = Quitchyer Bitchin' and Butch up, Choad or Sleep, Eat, Shut up, and Lift. (for some anyway)
Actually, you have a greater chance of not being a doughbuoy if you train like sprinters or use similar principles developed in fartleking. Sprinters have more lean body mass than other athletes. (have to double check that, but i'm pretty sure that's correct)
Anyway, the phrase is a response to those who make it way more complicated than it needs to be. Like obsessing about "the cardio zone". I'm guitly, too: spend way too much time calculating ratios for a carb up. A lot of these guys just honk down 5 lbs of smarties and are done with it. I rightly get told, quitchyer bitchin' and butch up!
http://www.stumptuous.com/ (she's an academented women's studies prof and trainer. there's a great article on how she helped a body builder train/detrain and diet in order to become a woman--as part of his transgender therapy and surgery. heh.)
quitchyer bitchin' and butch down? can't find the article at the moment, though.
Kelley