Let's get RECRUITS!

**axioma** · 03-18-2010, 08:28 AM

I just stopped by MD to check for messages and took a look at the Masters....a freakin' ghost town! I closed down three or four threads back in January! I know this site has some problems and I don't think the higher ups really appreciate the brain trust they have in this forum...however, it is what it is. We can make it better.

I am going to make a goal to recruit three Masters members in the next two weeks, get them to post. I will get people who will benefit and contribute to the chemistry of this forum.

I can't say enough about how much I have benefitted from this site and especially this forum! Let's keep it growing and get some fresh....well, it won't really be fresh...NEW blood.

**IL WNBF Pro** · 03-18-2010, 09:11 AM

So you are looking for people who post here...to post there?

**Mac** · 03-18-2010, 09:24 AM

Originally Posted by IL WNBF Pro

So you are looking for people who used to post there...to post here?

Maybe he means this. Interchange the words here and there.

**introvert** · 03-18-2010, 10:41 AM

i'm new here, i think with all of 3 posts, but i lurk quite a bit in the background trying to learn.

i must admit i am a bit intimidated...while in my small corner of the earth i think i am in shape and do a good job, i have no stage aspirations. rather, i'm trying to build the best body i can, and leave it at that.

and while i want the best body i can, i wonder if my "ideal" is consistent with those that post here, those that want to get on stage. i am content with my approx. 10% bodyfat, and don't much care if my symmetry is spot on, and could care less if my serratus anterior is fully developed.

i just want to lift heavy shit and look pretty good.

and so, why am i posting this? i suspect, without knowing, that stage master competition is a rather small world. to encourage new members, then, perhaps somehow the horizons need to be expanded to include folks like me?

please don't get me wrong. the one thread i started i was treated with courtesy and respect, and the failing is mine. perhaps, though, the majority of would be posters have similar failings.

**Mac** · 03-18-2010, 10:48 AM

This Master section is NOT all about getting in shape to get back up on stage. There are many that don't have that goal and many that do. Keeping a thread alive is something you need to do, or let it die.

No need to be intimidated. You can be 6'5" 275lbs on the internet, if you want to be.

Welcome to RX Masters introvert

**introvert** · 03-18-2010, 10:53 AM

Originally Posted by MacTech

You can be 6'5" 275lbs on the internet, if you want to be.

hahah. i love e-stats. certainly better than my own stats.

ok, i'm game. i'll give it the old college try. i'll start a journal in the next few days, get my camera going, and see if i can't have some fun.

**bodyhard** · 03-18-2010, 11:47 AM

I have been trying to get some knowledgeable masters over to this site, but a lot of them are just comfortable where they are at and just don't want to have to "fit" in at a new site.

**IL WNBF Pro** · 03-18-2010, 12:41 PM

Originally Posted by MacTech

Maybe he means this. Interchange the words here and there.

No, my dumb ass should have re-read what he wrote...makes perfect sense to me now.

**Baldiewonkanobi** · 03-18-2010, 01:04 PM

I have been recruiting since day 1. So many of the other sites are all about everything BUT Bodybuilding. I try to bring over men/women who just plain love this odd addiction of ours.

Baldie

**axioma** · 03-18-2010, 01:40 PM

Originally Posted by IL WNBF Pro

So you are looking for people who post here...to post there?

I meant THIS site has some problems, over THERE is MD which just sucks, but THIS forum is the what I am talking about recruiting to...man, don't confuse me...

**axioma** · 03-18-2010, 01:41 PM

Originally Posted by Baldiewonkanobi

I have been recruiting since day 1. So many of the other sites are all about everything BUT Bodybuilding. I try to bring over men/women who just plain love this odd addiction of ours.

Baldie

Thanks baldie....the poster? the t-shirt idea?

**axioma** · 03-18-2010, 01:44 PM

Originally Posted by bodyhard

I have been trying to get some knowledgeable masters over to this site, but a lot of them are just comfortable where they are at and just don't want to have to "fit" in at a new site.

yea, that's true. that is the reason I don't go to another site which is pretty good, but you don't want to leave your friends....unless you can take them ALL WITH YA! I am going after some people who are clients of mine, 40's - 50's who would benefit by having some brothers and sisters in IRON. The people I am thinking of, really don't do anything computerwise, so be gentle....I just learned how to post a pic.

**esplendido** · 03-18-2010, 06:03 PM

HEY! Only badass, take-no-prisoners, hardcore, ballbusting (pardons to the ladies), rode hard and showing it, MFers allowed to post here! Sumbiches wanna turn this into an "Antiques Road Show" forum! Why....I oughta...oughta....

....forget what I oughta. Where's my frickin walker?! Nurse, my geritol...PRONTO! And don't sit on that cross stitch I'm workin on, dammit! It's a doily with Arnold's double bi shot stitched in.

Um.....sorry......I'll step away from the syringe. Enough test for now.

Nurse! Come look at this! I've got a woody to die for....NURSE!!!!!

**freebirdmac** · 03-18-2010, 06:16 PM

I'm not interested in getting on stage, just would like to look like I could. Sure don't want to look rode hard and put up wet either

What I like about this forum is not having every other post about eating 1200 cals, don't want to get bulky, and all of the other repetitive newbie stuff. I just want to get better, smarter, and bigger!

**Wetdawg** · 03-31-2010, 06:06 PM

Originally Posted by MacTech

This Master section is NOT all about getting in shape to get back up on stage. There are many that don't have that goal and many that do. Keeping a thread alive is something you need to do, or let it die.

No need to be intimidated. You can be 6'5" 275lbs on the internet, if you want to be.

Welcome to RX Masters introvert

But I am 6'5" 275, should I be 5'11" 200 on the internet?