I’ve spent the last 10 minutes looking at motivational posters on a popular bodybuilding website.

It’s safe to say that the fitness motivation fiasco is a series of illusions manipulating the individual. Motivation is fine but not in the form of propaganda geared towards the benefit of a minority. Below are a few motivational quotes that actually tell you what’s going on in the muscle industry. Hope you love the irony and sarcasm.

1. The life of a bodybuilder is not about lifting weights. It’s about how many times your organs can fail from drug abuse without you giving up on “the dream”.

2. Keep calm and pin them glutes hard.

3. Winners train. Losers complain and buy our supplements so we can buy drugs. Thanks, losers!

4. Hard work beats talent when talent doesn’t work. Steroids beat hard work no matter how hard talent works.

5. A winner never whines {when pinning}

6. Life is too short to be small. Become a fat permabulker today.

7. You only get out what you pin in.

8. 7 habits of the highly successful bodybuilders. Pin. Pin. Pin. Pin. Pin + GH. Pin. Pin.

9. Remember this: your body is your slave; abuse it, disrespect it, kill it, damage it, spit on it. Impressing strangers is very important.

10. Everybody wants to be a bodybuilder, but nobody wanna pin them glutes for 20 years.

Clarification: The term “pin them glutes” refers to the act of injecting steroids into the gluteus maximus muscles. This is an activity practiced by all professional bodybuilders.

For decades the general public has been misled by strong propaganda presenting the gym culture as something very innocent and pure. Nothing could be further from the truth.