Dammit, not only am I envious of her bodybuilding results, but I always wanted a career as an escort to women!! If only I was born 6'0" with blue eyes, not 5'8" with hazel eyes!!
I tried the role-playing escort job for a time. Showed up at some upscale home dressed as a plumber. Because of how I look the broad thought I was an actual plumber. I just knew I shoulda went with the standard pope doing a peeler routine, damnit!
I found an NOT subtitled upload of the entire movie and emailed the link to my 30-year-old daughter (she's the fifth of our six kids). She's the one who, regretfully, also inherited my love for iron.
I never promoted nor encouraged my iron addiction to any of our kids (I'm a "find-your-own-hobbies-and-passions-in-life" kind of guy), apart from showing them each a minimal program comprised of squats, OHPs, SDLs, and bent-over rows to keep in mind for if they ever wanted to use resistance exercise in their lives.
She was living in another city and decided to get in better shape, so recalled that program and began using it. Discovered she loooovvved it.
Met her now-husband at the hardcore gym she decided to use. She competed successfully in powerlifting, in 123 and 132-lb classes, for a few years, then decided to try a physique contest. Placed second in that. She continues to train for health and fitness; she and her husband have an extensive home gym as well as train in a nearby hardcore gym. It's fun having iron addiction, with all that's related to it, in common with her. My wife cringes when visits and phone calls take a turn down the iron road, because my wife knows my daughter and I will talk iron non-stop for an hour, lol
I tell her I hate her because she inherited my self-discipline, perseverance, and dedication and my one decent bodypart, my lats, but inherited her mom's great genetics for muscle everywhere I lack!!
The Iron Bug can sure be a "good" or a "bad' one, depending on the person. One of my daughters caught the bug years ago and is now returning to the fun after some issues and such. I LOVE IT! These subs worked for the version I downloaded . . . https://subdl.com/subtitle/sd1660606/gentle/english
Warts and all. I sure enjoyed the way color was used in a "black & white" way, all the shadows emphasized that way to create a specific mood at times. And they didn't blink once about portraying drug use, lack of health, endless alienation from others and the whole darker "back story" at high levels, and now the lower ones as well. Hella film!
It's still fictional not documentary, but at last, a film attempt to depict more of the bleak, jagged reality that's the modern competitive subset of bodybuilding.
I watched the UNsubtitled upload I'd found, before you graciously posted the English subtitled (THANK YOU). Even in Hungarian, those dark and dirty warts of competitve bodybuilding which the Weider Smoke N Mirrors Machine and the surreal "Pumping Iron" Idyll strategically minimized or ignored glare intensely and painfully. (Even from her sole physique contest experience, for example, my daughter learned firsthand about one of them, how politics dominate even low-level judging).
Our non-competitive lifelong iron addictions could be psychologically-damaging, life-derailing, and relationship-detrimental bad enough whenever we forgot priorities and let what should be subordinate to our overall life become our master. Worse is that master the competitves let rule them, a devouring monster from the depths not a funtimes-on-the-beach surf buddy.
Dammit, not only am I envious of her bodybuilding results, but I always wanted a career as an escort to women!! If only I was born 6'0" with blue eyes, not 5'8" with hazel eyes!!
ReplyDeleteI tried the role-playing escort job for a time. Showed up at some upscale home dressed as a plumber. Because of how I look the broad thought I was an actual plumber. I just knew I shoulda went with the standard pope doing a peeler routine, damnit!
DeleteI found an NOT subtitled upload of the entire movie and emailed the link to my 30-year-old daughter (she's the fifth of our six kids). She's the one who, regretfully, also inherited my love for iron.
ReplyDeleteI never promoted nor encouraged my iron addiction to any of our kids (I'm a "find-your-own-hobbies-and-passions-in-life" kind of guy), apart from showing them each a minimal program comprised of squats, OHPs, SDLs, and bent-over rows to keep in mind for if they ever wanted to use resistance exercise in their lives.
She was living in another city and decided to get in better shape, so recalled that program and began using it. Discovered she loooovvved it.
Met her now-husband at the hardcore gym she decided to use. She competed successfully in powerlifting, in 123 and 132-lb classes, for a few years, then decided to try a physique contest. Placed second in that. She continues to train for health and fitness; she and her husband have an extensive home gym as well as train in a nearby hardcore gym. It's fun having iron addiction, with all that's related to it, in common with her. My wife cringes when visits and phone calls take a turn down the iron road, because my wife knows my daughter and I will talk iron non-stop for an hour, lol
I tell her I hate her because she inherited my self-discipline, perseverance, and dedication and my one decent bodypart, my lats, but inherited her mom's great genetics for muscle everywhere I lack!!
The Iron Bug can sure be a "good" or a "bad' one, depending on the person. One of my daughters caught the bug years ago and is now returning to the fun after some issues and such. I LOVE IT! These subs worked for the version I downloaded . . . https://subdl.com/subtitle/sd1660606/gentle/english
DeleteIt’s different all right.
ReplyDeleteWarts and all. I sure enjoyed the way color was used in a "black & white" way, all the shadows emphasized that way to create a specific mood at times. And they didn't blink once about portraying drug use, lack of health, endless alienation from others and the whole darker "back story" at high levels, and now the lower ones as well. Hella film!
DeleteI second that motion and emotion.
DeleteIt's still fictional not documentary, but at last, a film attempt to depict more of the bleak, jagged reality that's the modern competitive subset of bodybuilding.
I watched the UNsubtitled upload I'd found, before you graciously posted the English subtitled (THANK YOU). Even in Hungarian, those dark and dirty warts of competitve bodybuilding which the Weider Smoke N Mirrors Machine and the surreal "Pumping Iron" Idyll strategically minimized or ignored glare intensely and painfully. (Even from her sole physique contest experience, for example, my daughter learned firsthand about one of them, how politics dominate even low-level judging).
Our non-competitive lifelong iron addictions could be psychologically-damaging, life-derailing, and relationship-detrimental bad enough whenever we forgot priorities and let what should be subordinate to our overall life become our master. Worse is that master the competitves let rule them, a devouring monster from the depths not a funtimes-on-the-beach surf buddy.