[quote]pushmepullme wrote:
Letting a guy who trains bodybuilders try to train me and prescribe my diet. He had no idea how to train a powerlifter.
Being too intimidated to squat in the rack for almost my entire first year of training.[/quote]
Is there a difference between a powerlifting diet and Bodybuilding diet?
Spending 2 years at a gym without a place to do real squats.
No power rack, no squat rack… just a shitty smith machine.
Huge waste
My current wife is.
She bleeds my motivation and spirit. Its in her corrosive attitude, word and presense.
One of you guys can take her off of me and call me a douche, and I will laugh at you.
She’s even toxic to a person who has pride in their toxity.
Anyway, I just squated after strengthening my lower back. Felt good.
I been avoiding them for a couple of years. I’m ready to get back in the game.
My current wife is.
She bleeds my motivation and spirit. Its in her corrosive attitude, word and presense.
One of you guys can take her off of me and call me a douche, and I will laugh at you.
Wow…tell us how u really feel.
I’d say, not eating enough and being afraid of getting fat, which has done nothing but make me a skinny bitch. Still working on not worrying about getting fat, and just trying to get big, its an everyday thing.
Here are my mistakes:
-not training arms directly
-not eating enough in the beginning
-doing a bunch of different rep schemes in my workouts such as wave loading, etc and not resting enough
-an extreme cut when a started to loose my abs
Good thing this is all in the pass and you grow from these learning experiences.
Not training legs for about a year other than a few leg presses here and there.
Analysis paralysis. Not keeping it simple and switching routines and diets and GOALS every two weeks.
In order:
-Eating too little and training 3 hours 6 days a week on my beginning days.
-“Bulking” and getting more fat than muscular, being afraid to move because I would increase my caloric expenditure and loose muscle.
-Cutting more than 12 weeks (I’m talking about an extreme cutting). After week 12 I began to loose muscle and my definition began to diminish.
-Train like a powerlifter. I got my left peck overstretched and unbearable lower back ache.
-Undereating again wanting to have striations on the legs and on the pecs, when I realized I just didn’t have enough muscle.
-A 6 month layoff eating like shit and doing nothing.
This is what I roughly remember, but I think mistakes are some of the toughest knowledge teachers.
[quote]elusive wrote:
The Mighty Stu wrote:
-Fear that a single day, or even a single meal that veered off of my diet would cause irreperable damage.
Im guilty of those two. I also didn’t realize how many calories it takes for me to grow and I wish I just started weight training earlier on in my life.
With all that said, I enjoy my “mistakes”, because I’ve learned through experience and Im stilling learning. Thats whats cool about this all.[/quote]
x2 and missing a day at the gym, when I was supposed to train.
[quote]49ersFan81 wrote:
Not training legs for about a year other than a few leg presses here and there.
Analysis paralysis. Not keeping it simple and switching routines and diets and GOALS every two weeks.
[/quote]
Oh man, that’s a serious one and I think everybody in their first year or two is guilty of that one. Especially when you read a site like T-Nation… All these things you wanna try all at once.
Bulked from 140-180 a few years back. Saw a pic of myself on my friend’s boat, panicked cause I had a bit of a gut/love handles, crash dieted down to 160, lost more muscle than fat.
Did Waterbury’s 10/10. Bad idea.
In fact, I have only been training and eating “properly” since this past August. Steady strength and size gains that will allow me to continue on this path for years w/o getting too fat.
Not staying current with new training methods and ideas- although many are older concepts which have been rebranded. Once stability balls started making an appearance I tuned a lot of the ?new age? methodology out. In hind sight the this was a mistake and I?ve found that maintaining a steady flow of new information has given me a much better perspective for self evaluation and some damn good additions to my base of knowledge and training.
[quote]Stength4life wrote:
pushmepullme wrote:
Letting a guy who trains bodybuilders try to train me and prescribe my diet. He had no idea how to train a powerlifter.
Being too intimidated to squat in the rack for almost my entire first year of training.
Is there a difference between a powerlifting diet and Bodybuilding diet?[/quote]
He had me on 1100-1400 calories a day with two hour weight workouts as well as a shit ton of cardio.
[quote]pushmepullme wrote:
Stength4life wrote:
pushmepullme wrote:
Letting a guy who trains bodybuilders try to train me and prescribe my diet. He had no idea how to train a powerlifter.
Being too intimidated to squat in the rack for almost my entire first year of training.
Is there a difference between a powerlifting diet and Bodybuilding diet?
He had me on 1100-1400 calories a day with two hour weight workouts as well as a shit ton of cardio. [/quote]
hahahahahahahaha
I can see that totally helping with your strength gains.
Now that I’m into powerlifting I’ve stopped listening to the bodybuilder advice. I need my food and I need to lift heavy shit.
PS. I would die on 1100-1400 calories, doing cardio and 2 hour weight training sessions.
Your trainer was clearly just an idiot. Even a bodybuilder trying to get bigger and stronger would never put themselves into a caloric deficit. Did you tell him you just wanted to get stronger and lift heavy shit? Did you at any point tell him you wanted to get stronger while losing weight or am I right to assume the guy was just a moron?
Not eating near enough for me to gain but thinking I was. Finally buckled down and kept a food/calorie log and calculated my metabolic rate to figure out how much I needed. Still not quite there but working on it by force-feeding myself every couple of hours.
And being a little carbaphobic…
Not lifting other body parts when injured - mainly this last summer when I injured my shoulder and cut out ALL training instead of keeping up at least squats and ab work.
Using AAS too soon. I regret that shit all the time.
The one good thing that came out of it is that when I lost all of the gains after an anavar only cycle I finally realized how important nutrition was. Now I am able to make gains off and on cycle.
Another big mistake I made was not eating enough on off days. My appetite is shit on days I don’t lift so I’ve learned to force it down on those days.
Using steroids before I had a good grasp of disciplined training and nutrition. When I first started working out I had amazing gains and went from 165lbs to 200 in 3 months. Then at the ripe age of 18 I thought I was ready for prohormones ect…until 6 months ago where I blew up from 200 to 262lbs at one point. Now I want to do things natural and its really hard to be patient…
The thrills and tragedies of youth.
[quote]Da Vinci wrote:
Your trainer was clearly just an idiot. Even a bodybuilder trying to get bigger and stronger would never put themselves into a caloric deficit. Did you tell him you just wanted to get stronger and lift heavy shit? Did you at any point tell him you wanted to get stronger while losing weight or am I right to assume the guy was just a moron?[/quote]
x2
Well, he knew I didn’t want to put on weight because I’m always on the weight class border…
But I think he took it a little too far.
I’ve always worked my legs…but you need to PROGRESS and keep going heavier and with more reps. I have frequently gone up and up and soemthing stops and I end up not continuing.