[quote]Bricknyce wrote:
I, for one, did NOT gain the most of my LBM on a TBT program. The only reason I follow a TBT program now is because my fitness and life goals have changed.
I spent the first year of training with TBT programs. The first program I tried was a HIT-style program for beginners that I found in Muscle & Fitness. Then I switched over to a Bill Starr routine. After that it was all splits. And one of my biggest growth spurts in the past few years occurred when I followed a Westside routine. My neck, hamstrings, and upper back seemed to blow up in weeks on that routine, probably secondary to the all the squat and deadlift varations, upper back work, GHRs, and straining with maximal bench press variations. My bodyweight reached its highest, 245 - 250#, on that routine. I was also eating bigger than I ever did in order to get my bench up.
I’ve posted the split routine I did best with many times on this site.
I’ve been following bodybuilding for 13 years, attending shows and reading books and publications.
However, I do know there are some people who are ignorant to the world of bodybuilding and naive. They see a bodybuilding forum on a site they visit and they don’t think to themselves before posting something related to weight training, “Should I post this here? Let me think if it applies to bodybuilding in the truest sense of the word.” They don’t know the form of bodybuilding we’re speaking of here. They don’t know the techniques, history, or major players of bodybuilding. So they’re going to wind up in here. I used to be a bit more intolerant of them and their postings. That was before I came to understand human nature better.
There are plenty of things that I don’t know about or have expertise in. For example, no matter how many times a financier of any sort - a trader, analyst, stock broker, etc. - explains their job duties to me or how a financial instrument works, I NEVER EVER understand what the fuck they’re talking about. However, I’m not going to post in finance forums because I have no interest in those things. When I want to invest, I’ll educate more. But nearly all of the average public wants to lose weight or look better. So where do they wind up? Here, on internet fitness forums.
The lady simply wanted to compliment an author, an innocent, kind-hearted gesture, and then gets posts thrown at her that she probably can’t even relate to or understand. MOST women don’t apply bodybuilding standards to their opinions of male attractiveness. The guy she saw probably had the most attractive - NOT most fit in the literal sense - body in the gym. That’s how most of the general public gauges fitness: how one looks. She she asked him what methods he uses and it turns out it’s Chad Waterbury’s stuff. So she decided to throw him a compliment.
Talk of 300-pound behemoths, “70 lbs of LBM”, 405+ benches, 600+ deadlifts and squats, Dorian, Ronnie, NPC, IFBB, “dry”, “symmetry”, are completely alien to 99.9% of the population nor would they care about this lingo if they knew what it pertains to. I accept that.
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I think you underestimate the lady, for one. Secondly, as some pointed out, huge in a hurry hasn’t been out long, so it seems like the guy was actually new to CW’s stuff. Third, 99% of the population probably doesn’t care about chess, but that doesn’t mean that people on chess forums appreciate people coming in to talk about checkers.