Hardcore -- What it is...

[Citruscide]

If you look up HardCore in a dictionary, you'll find Intensely Loyal. Die Hard. Dedicated.... to bodybuilders, it's a whole lot more than that... it's a way of thinking... a way of life.

For several of us on this board who saywe are "hardcore"... it means training balls out as hard as you can without foo-fooness. And by Foo-fooness (at least as I have observed it in gyms I've worked out in), I mean nice, fancy clean equipment, expensive gym sound systems pumping Rick Dees and the weekly top 40, cardio equipment connected to the interent so you can "surf" while you are exercising, magazine racks that feature such titles as.... hell... magazine racks period.

A nice dark, dank, hole of a gym with concrete floors and a gym that demands you use chalk. Weights that are time tested and made of scarred Iron and Steel. Bloodstains on the floor from insane workouts within the asylum of pain.

But just a gym isn't being "hardcore" -- Hardcore is training your legs so hard that when you are running to the bathroom to puke, you don't know if you are going to make it. It's not caring if the music is playing, because when you train all you can hear is the blood pounding through your ears.

Hit on women at the gym? Fuck that... pick up some girls for dinner and drinks... talk to them then... until then Junior... stop wacking your dick and train.

Train hard and don't screw around... I love the gym.

Kronk knows what I mean... and I know BFold knows what I mean... as the KC Crew does too...

C-ditty

 

[zackdarnell]

All I can say to that is "Hell yeah!"

 

[jeremys]

i like it...

 

[skaman607]

wow . . . you really have a way with words

 

[b fold the truth]

Something felt deep inside...



B True

 

[needsize]

To me hardcore is never missing a scheduled workout for anything, and putting everything else aside to make sure you eat when you need to eat and sleep when you need to sleep. It's going balls to the wall in your workouts, and never letting pain be anything other than an incentive.

Where you train I dont think has anything to do with it though. I train in a shiny yuppie gym, i dont have a whole lot of choice in the matter. But I dont rely on my surroundings to be hardcore, i bring my hardcore with me where ever it is I go to hit the weights. You guys have seen my videos that I just posted, the gyms dont get much more pussy than where I train, but there is no doubt that I do it hardcore

 

[Citruscide]

To me hardcore is never missing a scheduled workout for anything, and putting everything else aside to make sure you eat when you need to eat and sleep when you need to sleep. It's going balls to the wall in your workouts, and never letting pain be anything other than an incentive.

Where you train I dont think has anything to do with it though. I train in a shiny yuppie gym, i dont have a whole lot of choice in the matter. But I dont rely on my surroundings to be hardcore, i bring my hardcore with me where ever it is I go to hit the weights. You guys have seen my videos that I just posted, the gyms dont get much more pussy than where I train, but there is no doubt that I do it hardcore

I have to do the same thing myself. I train at a 24 Hour Fitness... it is as FOO FOO as it gets brother. But I truly appreciate the gutteral gyms... I truly do.

And no, just going to a "hardcore" gym doesn't make you hardcore... but it is where I feel most at home.

C-ditty

 

[vinylgroover]

........all of the above and......never using cables.

 

[needsize]

I have to do the same thing myself. I train at a 24 Hour Fitness... it is as FOO FOO as it gets brother. But I truly appreciate the gutteral gyms... I truly do.

And no, just going to a "hardcore" gym doesn't make you hardcore... but it is where I feel most at home.

C-ditty

I agree, I came from a place that was dark, dirty, and filled with competitive bodybuilders and nationally ranked powerlifters. Hell, my training partner had squatted over 800lbs in competition. But now thats gone, and I'm stuck in a 24 hour a day, shiny, yuppie-fest. So now I am considered a freak by most of the people that train around me, they openly stare and make comments when I hit it up hard, ie, deadlift over 500 for reps. But frankly I'm starting to thrive on it anyway, I've always liked negative attention....

 

[ConstantChange]

One of the best threads I've read in along time. Excellent post!