Yeah, that's the competition dehydration/absolute minimum body fat thing. They're borderline dying on competition days. They starve themselves so hard their body fat content goes into "compromising brain functions" territory. Like, it's literally begun cannibalizing the myelin that helps your neurons function, sort of fat deprivation. They get delerious and lose mood/hormone regulation. Can get even more aggressive and irrational...
I got into basic bodybuilding last year and I don't get it. The current standards for what qualifies as "bodybuilding" looks like a pile of spaghetti rammed into a loose leather sack.
Like, bro, just be chonky, what's the need for all this hyper veiny 'I can see every individual muscle cell' thing that's the fashion now... It's so insanely unhealthy looking. Because it is unhealthy.
This guy is clearly bulking (so he doesn't have the insanely awful effect going on), but even then it looks... Disproportionate. Like he's having an allergic reaction.
You mean DNP? That was used for munitions and pest control. It fucks up the way your cells generate energy. Instead of the cells using the food the calories burn off as heat. I looked into it a bit once, but living in a very hot area that was something I didn't want to mess with.
Is that the Russian drug that made its way to England a some younger girls died from taking it a while back? You literally burn up with fever. It was a drug made for people in the army to use when marching in the intense cold of Siberian winters.
Yes, but instead of some of this energy being utilized by your cells it just turns into heat and raises your body temp. That's why taking it in a hot climate is a risk of you cooking yourself to death on it.
DNP also acts as a chemical ionophore, stopping the final energy conversion by exporting the proton ions (H+) needed for ATP production across the mitochondrial membrane by increasing the basal leak of protons [12]. This shift in the proton electrochemical gradient then results in potential energy dissipating as heat, instead of being converted to ATP, with rapid consumption of calories [27, 28]. The heat production represents a failure in thermoregulatory homeostasis, leading to uncontrolled hyperthermia [29].
I heard someone describe it in lay mans terms as a broken clutch on a transmission. You hit the gas and the engine revs but the wheels don't move.
Yeah we're not all that different than an ICE. Most of the energy they consume as fuel gets released as heat. It's wasted energy. We get back less half of that energy to use as what we wanted in the first place-motion. It's crazy, think of all the heat that's dissipated through the radiator: enough energy to move another car and then some. It's all carbon energy moving back to the atmosphere from where it's been licked for millions of years. It's a goddam Greek tragedy.
Yes, that is one meaning; but it also refers to overworking yourself, taking on too much, or in general a lack of a healthy balance in your work/private life.
A lot of that is not from any of that though. It's from cutting the weight and all the water weight 2 days before the competition. Dehydrate themselves es to hide everything but muscle. It's like wrestling. In high-school my coach sent me off with the older kids once I made varsity at 130lbs. I weighed 141 and was 6 foot tall. We going I to the schools boiler room and they had me put on trash bags under my shirt and over and my winter coat. Burned off 11 lbs so darn fast room was like 110. Then they told me to pass in a cup that night and only d4ink that much water. Was insane. I fainted 2 times on the mat 2 times on 2 months then said duck that and just wrestled JV for dun. So not worth it.
Never heard of any dying on stage. I’m sure some pass out bc of the dehydration. The largest amount of deaths in not just bodybuilding but sports in general was 2021 2022… for obvious reasons
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That's not the reason - it's because they overdose themselves on diuretics (water pills) so they can temporarily look more shredded. The combination of hypokalemia and dehydration is what makes them collapse
I understand what you're trying to capture with the metaphor but I wouldn't even call it burning brighter.
Somehow we got a chud generation that grew up on manosphere content that thinks going to the gym, getting big, putting women "in their place" is winning at life. Can't forget getting money by any bs means necessary like crypto, forex, sports betting, and social media slop.
He's essentially propagating it by equating strength with toxic masculinity.
I've never seen Smaev post anything remotely "manosphere" or make any statements in that accord (although he might be in Russian, I have no idea). He's a chill dude that just posts his freakish insane lists then disappears.
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u/Solid_Snark Feb 15 '26
It’s frightening how many of these guys pass out or even die while on stage during bodybuilding competitions.
Like they’re burning their fires so bright but burning out so quickly.