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What is Cyberpunk?
Cyberpunk is a science-fiction sub-genre dealing with the integration of society and technology in dystopian settings. Often referred to as “low-life and high tech,” Cyberpunk stories deal with outsiders (punks) who fight against the oppressors in society (usually mega corporations that control everything) via technological means (cyber). If the punks aren’t actively fighting against a megacorp, they’re still dealing with living in a world completely dependent on high technology.
Cyberpunk characteristics include:
- Dystopian city setting where mega-corporations rule
- Full integration of technology into society, featuring cybernetic implants
- Outsider protagonists (punks) who often are very familiar with the technology around them
- Hard boiled detective and film noir vibes and influence
- Themes dabbling in trans-humanism, existentialism, and what it means to be human.
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No that's not true. You could train 3 times a week with 1 hour workouts and get a similar result as long as you're consistent. 4 hours at the gym is too much time unless you take excessive rest periods and/or uses it as a social arena.
The strongest powerlifters are huge, and specify in only 3 movements. Take a powerlifter out of those 3 specific movements and bodybuilders doesn't look all that bad.
Strongmen are even bigger than bodybuilders and there's no loss in "functional strength"/utility.
Not a single part of you comment is accurate, are you into fitness/strength sports?
I may have the exact amount of time wrong from what people are saying, and I was assuming he didn't only work on his arms, but I can concede that since we only see his arms it's all I really should comment on.
And no I don't have much interest in it myself. So I probably got specific terms wrong.
The words I should have used are people training specifically to 'be' strong versus people training specifically to 'look' strong. Whatever the proper words are for that.
The whole focus of my post, other than saying the wrong specific words, is that people's ideas of what it takes to get strong have been skewed by the prevalence of steroids. It's now assumed if your muscles are less than an inch thick, you "don't even lift, bro". When that kind of size is pretty hard to attain outside of a gym. Like even hard labourers aren't gonna look like that without putting in proper time and attention. Whatever the specific real proper amount of time is.
I used to lift heavily in high school to help in sports, I’m on the shorter side but I still to this day fill out the sleeves of a typical polo. I haven’t been inside a gym or worked out other than my mostly daily walks in over twenty years and still have relatively defined muscles. I’ve never used anything other than protein powder when I was in high school although I did hit the gym three times a day five days a week back then (my teachers let me skip class to go workout). Nobody is going to mistake me for being cut but I’m also nearing fifty and still have large muscles compared to a lot of people I run into. At this point I have to assume it was from rigorous lifting while in my youth and retaining a portion of that or genetics which I’m less inclined to believe but only emotionally because I strongly dislike my bigoted family.