The Dissident Right often disagrees with each other; sometimes they’re productive disagreements, sometimes not so much. One thing that we can all unanimously agree on, is that White Western men are facing an identity crisis; especially when it comes to “masculinity.” This is a topic that is usually discussed on a near daily basis, in some form or another, amongst our circles. It is even mockingly discussed by our enemies that write about the shrinking white demographic with a grin on their face. When the Dissidents discuss these things, people offer their solutions to these problems, but unfortunately, sometimes the medicine is worse than the disease. I want to talk about the medicine, and in this particular case, it’s bodybuilding.
It is fairly common that I see memes or conversations where the implied message is “more muscle=more alpha,” and I get it, I really do. I’ve watched Pumping Iron countless times. I’ve been a consistent serious weightlifter for 15 of the 29 years of my life. I’d never consider myself a bodybuilder because I’ve usually been a little too marbled for that claim and lifting big numbers always took first place with me; but I’ve always been strong with a visible weightlifter build. Weight lifting is still a big part of my life, except I’ve incorporated it into “strength and conditioning.” In short, strength and conditioning is to become strong and athletic while the priority of bodybuilding is to appear strong and athletic; glamour muscles. Ideally, you should try for both. Tim Kennedy is the ideal aesthetic, in my opinion. With that said, despite him being a 100% badass, cage fighter, and Green Beret who will fight you to the death, he’s lost fights from gassing out too early. Usually, that’s the only reason he seems to lose. Big Engines require a lot of gas and you pay for it, but Tim Kennedy is still nowhere near a bodybuilder.
It’s not as if we don’t have examples, you can YouTube countless videos of bodybuilders and powerlifters getting lit up. The best any of those guys ever did was by a true strength and power hero, Mariusz Pudzianowski. Look at his size when he first entered MMA in comparison to his size after a few years in the octagon; he shrunk down by half and did it intentionally. During his first fight, he turned purple and looked like he was going to die. Those muscles need a lot of blood and this isn’t Game of Thrones, those guys aren’t crushing skulls with their hands. In real life, The Mountain gets playfully touched up by a little trash talking Irishman.
Now, I know right away that’s going to trigger people and everyone is going to know some guy that’s a bodybuilder who threw a Ford 350 100 yards across a football field or beat up 20 guys. Maybe they’ll even feel the need to rebuttal with their own totally real and not made-up physical achievements. I’ll save you the time: Congratulations, I’m happy for you and I’m impressed.
But this kind of thinking can have real consequences. First and foremost, if your arms are so big you can’t even swing them, if your back, chest, and shoulders are so big and rigid that you can’t even scratch your back, you can’t fight. Period. You might be able to maul some soyboy or some other unskilled fool that doesn’t know what he’s doing, but that’s not how you should measure your martial prowess. And if you have a family, you’re putting them at risk. We have all seen the stories of the casualties of diversity; don’t you want to be ready when that time comes for you? If you’re reading this, chances are I like you and wish you and your family a long, safe and happy life. Stop settling for just looking like you know how to fight, become combat ready.
Don’t believe me? Go join your local MMA gym, or even just a grappling sport like Brazilian Jiu Jitsu or wrestling. On your first day of MMA or BJJ, I guarantee you they put someone who is half your size against you. Because they know Bodybuilders have incredibly fragile egos and when that ass whooping comes down from Bilbo Baggins, they want to see if the bodybuilder tough guy is going to be a crybaby about it. Because they usually are. One thing is certain, if you’re a big stiff weightlifter/bodybuilder type, you’re going to be shocked at how unprepared you are against a real fighter.
There’s many excuses you can make as to why you shouldn’t or can’t go to a fighting gym: time, money, location, etc. I’m sure some of you have legitimate reasons but I’m also sure many are just making excuses. None of the guys who train have a surplus of time, I sometimes have to bribe people to be able to make time to go. Stop viewing this as an option and start viewing it as mandatory. What’s more important than your ability to defend yourself and loved ones? Your video games? Social media? Your glamour muscle soft ass weight lifting regimen?
You can still lift weights, make no mistake, being strong helps and it’s a large part of my game. But I think you’ll find that being in a combat sport will motivate you to hit the weights harder because your strength and athleticism will get tested constantly. It’ll give you real motivation to train instead of just trying to earn pointless bragging rights for some arbitrary amount of pounds you put on a barbell. Plus, when you actually train hard, it’ll make you want to eat right and you may get the abs you’ve always wanted without even making that a goal. It’ll just happen as a consequence.
Bodybuilding is functionally useless and is just a vain narcissistic pursuit and, in my opinion, actually makes you more fragile of a man. Not saying we shouldn’t care about what we look like, or that being muscular is a bad thing, but Ben Askren or Roy Nelson will always be more dangerous than Halfthor Bjornson or Kai Greene. Stop trying to look tough and start becoming tough. It’s not too late and it may save someone you love one day. If you’re a father, you know this should be an immediate priority and should be something you want to teach your kids. It should be up on the list with fishing, hunting, and basic auto mechanics. What better way is there to ensure your son or daughter is not taking anyone’s shit in school? If your son can defend himself against bullies, word will spread fast and your son will have the discipline not to let it go to his head.
For those trying to get jacked to attract a woman, I’ve got news for you: most women don’t care nearly as much as you think. If it does, it will only attract a woman to a certain point, which lends itself to the degenerate hookup lifestyle. What a good quality woman wants is skills and confidence; being jacked is not much of a skill and it can build a very fragile confidence. I promise you, getting your blue belt in Brazilian Jiu Jitsu or becoming skilled in kickboxing or wrestling will build and retain your confidence way more than finally deadlifting 500lbs.
I write this article not to criticize anyone’s lifestyle; you’re your own adult with your own principles and philosophies on life. I just write this as someone who has had to learn these lessons myself. I feel it’s only right to try to help steer people away from this mistake. I want everyone reading this to be capable when they need to be, especially in a time where we’re soon to be outnumbered, each and everyone of us needs to be a lion. Don’t be the next foolish looking white boy getting T’d off on. I guarantee you within a month your whole world changes for the better.
O I’m a good old rebel, now that’s just what I am. For this “fair land of freedom” I do not care at all. I’m glad I fit against it, I only wish we’d won, And I don’t want no pardon for anything I done.
Anything done in excess is bad.
BJJ, MMA, Muy Thai, and wrestling are indeed great sports for your health and confidence. It’s a ton of fun and a very fulfilling hobby. Skills in those martial arts will also help you have much better odds in an unarmed 1 vs 1 fight.
Also unarmed 1 vs 1 fights are the sort of thing white guys who get drunk and stupid have with one another and are RARELY that serious. This is also absolutely nothing that a real trained fighter (or any other civilized person) should be routinely engaging in.
If you’re worried about the legitimate THREAT to yourself and your family you should be thinking in terms of groups of nonwhites (probably blacks).
No unarmed martial art is effective against two or three guys much less ten. NONE. Unlike a blue belt – show offy muscles may actually have a useful deterrent effect and cause the naturally cowardly pack to move on to a softer target. But the real defense here is FIREARMS and secondarily (where necessary) BLADED weapons and/or CLUBS.
From the standpoint of defending your family 1) availability 2) will to use and 3) basic proficiency with these weapons is what matters.
Situation awareness and good decision making is far MORE important still. If you’re a BJJ blackbelt with a concealed glock and two tactical folders at the ready… and you’re LIVING AROUND BLACKS you’re absolutely doing it wrong. You’re a home invasion or teen knockout game away from tragedy for your loved ones.
One on one honorable unarmed fighting is like high trust society, rule of law, monogamy… white person stuff. All great things but don’t expect the hordes to engage in them. Plan accordingly.
An even better way to keep your family safe is to put that time you spend body building into commuting from a more rural area to work.
Move your family out of the urban sprawl where you are likely to confront diversity in any scenario that could end in you needing to do your “duty” as a father/husband.
Benefits of this include but are not limited to,
1) better smaller schools.
2) clean air and water
3) proximity to whats left of nature
4) lower crime
5) no blacks
6) unrestricted carry of firearms,
generally.
Theres a reason white flight is a thing. Quit talking about winning fights that are more likely to actually be getting jumped by three negros with knives. Discretion is the better part of valour. Three guys with knives and the element of surprise are always going to win against you alone, even if you are Jean Claude Van Dam.
Training for an ambush instead of avoiding it is a young mans plan. Use your three digit IQ instead to pick more favorable ground to occupy.
Learn woodsmanship.
I agree with this article and have been thinking along very similar lines. If I ever get around to it I think I have significant thought to add to it. In the meanwhile, thanks for posting this.