[quote]CappedAndPlanIt wrote:
But when a beginner starts to ask about damn near any training variable (read up when I asked about deloading/rest techniques), they’re told to “shut up and train”.[/quote]
I said that? Where?
Training hard and experimenting are not mutually exclusive. In fact, you should be doing both.
Let me give you an example. I train my chest hard. But through experimentation, I learned that I cannot bench press hard. If I do, I ruin my shoulders. I can do dips at really funky angles well below parallel (which people say is a way to hurt your shoulders, but which feels great to me). But perfect form with even a trivial amount of weight on the bench ruins me.
So I trained hard and learned through experimentation that dips were right for me.
It’s the parroting of everything written in an article that’s the problem. It’s treating an article like Gospel that’s annoying.
If you take the right route and train hard and analyze less, you will realize that probably 75% of articles are just full of made-up shit.
Also, the very way you framed your question to Trib. When Trib said, “Train hard,” you started talking about some concepts you read in the article, as if to say: “But Thib, clearly you know nothing or you would know [insert concepts someone wrote in some article on the Internet].”
But you gave you opinion in “gaining muscle while losing fat” in such a way as to argue. You did this in another thread. There, I mentioned that training hard while doing sprints would burn more fat overall than training in the “target heart rate,” you came back with: “But you burn a greater percentage of fat in you stay in the target heart zone.” But the point I made (which was clear) was that worrying about the proportion of fat was counter-productive, and worrying about total fat burned was what was really important.
When I wrote that people are not losing fat while gaining muscle, you said, “steroids and newbies can.” Well, no shit. I never said otherwise. So why even introduce that when the context was clear that I was not talking about either subset of people.
It’s like you just want to find a way to be argumentative. Either that, or you want to show everyone how much you “know.” Neither motivation is particularly good.
Plus, you were the guy who didn’t know the different uses for Surge and Metabolic Drive. Some guy who doesn’t know when to use a high-glycemic-carb-and-protein mixture vs. when to use a slow-digesting-protein-only substance really doesn’t have many thoughts.
As I noted, above, that is not how you phrase things. You would say this: “But I read on Sherdog that you’re supposed to do it this way.” Even someone more “civil” than I would say, “Why don’t you shut the fuck up and just listen?”
Oh, and you need to just stop repeating everything you read in some article. I guarantee that if you literally never read another lifting article again but simply trained hard, experimented, and reflected on what works and what doesn’t, you would be better off than the guy who sits around reading every article as if God herself wrote it.
In a perfect world, you’d read the article and realize that most authors have an agenda. Most want your money: They want you to buy their books or to hire them. Few are writing articles because they genuinely care about moving knowledge forward. Hence, why you see, “Best program ever” crap in articles, and why many articles read like infomercials.
That doesn’t mean articles are worthless. It simply means that you should realize most authors have an agenda, and many have a dubious truth telling ability when it comes to their background. Once you read the article in that light, you know what is crap - and what isn’t crap - in what you read.
Now look at the people on this thread. Do I want your money? Does X? Does Trib? We obviously care enough about your development that we have responded to you.
Yet because we don’t tell you what you want to hear or treat you like you know a lot of stuff, you get offended.
If you want people to kiss your ass, start paying them. People who want your money will be polite as hell. People who don’t want your money will be less tactful but more truthful.
You are young and impressionable. (If I had to guess, I would put you at 19.) Stop believing the hype and start training harder and eating smarter. You will learn more from hard work than you will from one-thousand articles.
