You wanna know what the real problem is in here? A small number of the posters posting in here, frequent the fitness section on NS.com. Over there, the majority of the regular posters are powerlifters, and many of them train at PTC in Frankston under Markos. There's no problem there, and anyone who does read the NS.com fitness section would know that there are some strong guys training there and achieving, as far as what they're after, great results.
The problem is that these same guys, have little to no respect for anyone who doesn't train purely for strength. They mock pretty much everyone else who's mantra isn't squat/dead/MP and eat. The typical topless guy at summadayze etc, they laugh at.
Now, I've been to summadayze, KMG, Future etc, and we all know there's plenty of guys there with their shirts off, some even train specifically for these events, so that they can get their shirts off and pick up, or just look good (in their opinion) in general.
To be honest, from what I've seen on NS.com, the bodies aren't something I'd aspire to personally. They might be capable of squatting/benching/military pressing and dead lifting big numbers, but from an aesthetic point of view, they're not what I and many others are after.
Now, no one is saying that they're wrong to train the way they do, but that doesn't mean that how they train is RIGHT, and how anyone else trains is WRONG. I'd much rather look like the typical 'gear head from summadayze' than the typical powerlifter on NS. They'd all laugh at that, and they do, the only problem is some people take it to heart, whereas I couldn't give less of a f**k what someone else thought of my goals if I tried.