Body Building Forum "Days In A Week" Dispute

About

Body Building Forum "Days In A Week" Dispute refers to a viral debate that took place in 2008 on BodyBuilding.com, a website featuring editorial style content as well as a web forum where people discuss bodybuilding and fitness-related topics. After a user named m1ndless asked if he would see progress after doing a "full body workout every other day," various members of the forum began to argue whether this meant working out three times a week or four. The bodybuilding forum's "days in a week" dispute has made notable appearances in internet discourse in subsequent decades.

Origin

On May 17th, 2008, Body Building forum user "m1ndless" began a thread titled, "Full Body Workout Every Other Day?" The user asked others on the forum if it's safe and productive to do full-body workouts every other day due to time constraints. "m1ndless" received a response from "all pro" on May 17th that said that working out three times a week is fine (seen below).^[1]

Subsequent replies from other BodyBuilding forum users like "Josh" and "steviekm3" gave rise to debate about what working out "every other day" entailed, given that this could mean three or four workouts any given week.

The thread continued for five pages, devolving into name-calling and debates over rudimentary math (seen below).

Spread

On January 4th, 2015, Redditor @bendigedigdyl posted a link to the debate to /r/funny^[2] with the title, "Bodybuilders argue over how many days there are in a week." The post gathered over 14,000 upvotes in eight years. Various Redditors recounted their favorite parts of the thread in the replies, as seen in a comment by /u/Cromar (seen below, left) and another by /u/75elky (seen below, right).

On June 19th, 2023, Twitter^[3] user @ScottWamplerRIP posted a tweet noting the dispute, gathering over 30,000 likes in a day (seen below).

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