Listening to anything from Weider
Listening to anything from magazines
Listening to anyone who doesn’t lift weights
All of my injuries and accidents
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The whole try-out-every-routine-thing
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Following the don’t directly train shoulders or arms crap
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Not training to failure
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Last but definitely not least, not eating enough
- spending 30 hours a week at the gym
- not eating enough
- training the same body part every day
- running all the time
- taking half hours breaks between training to play ping pong
- ignoring rotator cuff weakness and lack of humeral stability
- Bsn supplements
- nearly 2 years training like this
- 1.5-2 gallons of milk a day, + pounds of yogurt
Aside from not knowing what I was doing for the first couple months, when I hit that point where I was no longer super-lean but also did not look the least bit muscular I spun my wheels for a little bit.
It’s a lot easier to not care about leanness now that I’m putting on noticeable muscle.
Good thread, heres mine:
- Buying into supplement hype and wasting so much money.
-Underestimating the importence of nutrition around workout time, especially PWO.
-Thinking that steriods would make up for my poor diet and routine.
-Focusing too much on the scale and not enough on the mirror/tapemeasure/logbook
-Eating too much at the wrong times and gaining way more fat than muscle.
-eating super squeeky ‘clean’ all the time.
-Being paranoid about overtraining and not hitting bodyparts frequently enough.
-SS fasted cardio
-dropping calories by too much and too quickly when cutting.
-hopping from routine to routine, when really it was my diet at fault.
-using too much weight bench pressing and not involving the chest enough.
-doing pulldowns instead of chin ups/pullups
-not squating in the right footwear.
-not training my arms/forearms and traps directly.
- Wished I had deadlifted earlier ( only been deadlifting for 3 years now )
- For the longest time, I believed in only one training philosophy, that is split training ( In addition to body part splits these days,I now incorporate upper/lower body splits, and yes, TBT every so often as well ).
- Too much volume in the belief that if 3 sets of squats worked well, then 5 or 6 sets would be even better ( I have cut my volume in half the past 2 years and strive to increase my intensity each workout. My results and strength gains have been much better ever since )
- Way too much low intensity cardio ( typical cardio day would be 45 - 60 minutes on the treadmill at 60 - 70% max heart rate -These days I incorporate HIT, interval training, hill sprints and honestly can say I have dropped way more fat from this type of training)
- Believing those assholes who says competitive BBers aren’t on drugs
- Changing programs too often.
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Not doing enough cardio
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Doing low rep work and not enough high rep work
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Wasting my time trying to teach myself how to squat safely all the while not making any gains in my legs
4.One time I held my breathe on a last rep I was struggling with doing db presses. I felt something really wierd in my left eye afterwards but it looked fine. Later I was in the shower and I had this really sharp pain in my eye. I looked in the mirror after and the white of my eye was full of blood.
- My all time biggest mistake… making working out complicated like it is rocket science. Recently I decided to drop what I know and start over with just a simple program and I am having so much more fun now. Because of the fun I am actually starting to make progress I am happy with.
Thinking that I knew exactly what I was doing.
Ran cross country when I was 12-13. Not a runner then. Not a runner now.
Recently set a personal goal for myself to run a 5k this spring/summer. Pretty easy attainable goal. But I run maybe 10-30 mins all yr. For the last 16 yrs!!!
So started to run lightly on a treadmil. Couldnt even do 5 mins without stopping. After a few weeks I got to the point where I could do 45 mins. One night I was in the zone and ran 6 miles! Pretty fast progress. Next day could barely move my left leg without pain walkind down stairs. After plenty of research found out I had/have a tight itb and had a condition called anterior knee pain. After stretching the itb and rolling on the foam roller. It got better. But live and learn. Just ran to far in a short amount of training. Worst part was not being able to jog. Im actually starting to like it.
Long time ago I did some overhead squats without properly warming up my shoulders. Big mistake!
Not learning to squat correctly from the beginning, making upper body much more of a priority than my lower body early in my training and finally doing that slow tempo shit for almost a year!!
- switching routines too often
- jerking off before workouts
- eating too many carbs
- eating too little protein
- not enough cardio
[quote]Der Candy wrote:
- jerking off before workouts
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That’s considered a training mistake? -lol
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My biggest training mistake was using a ladder type squat rack at the local YMCA which had just did away with their squat cage. My left leg buckled on the second rep of a heavy triple and instead of being saved by the pins of the squat cage, I dropped to the ladder part of the “new and improved” ladder rack while putting a twist in my back. This really hurt and caused me pain in the form of back spasms for several weeks. The moral for me is to never squat heavy without a properly set up cage.
Giving up weights when I was 15 because friends\family told me that I was going to “ruin” my body and that “young people aren’t supposed to lift weights”.
[quote]Short Hoss wrote:
My number one mistake, which I owe X for saving me from, is not eating enough.
X may not remember, but on my old user (I’m the guy who started the BB Bunker), I pm’ed X about eating, and he told me to eat a damn burger. X even told me specifically what he does to his burgers to cut back on grease.
Needless to say, thanks for X’s kick in the ass and showing me what mistake I made, I’m now closing in on 200lbs at 5’6, and still growing.[/quote]
Care to share how to cut back on grease?
…not eating anywhere near enough for the first year, which went hand in hand with not learning enough about nutrition. my life changed when a colleague introduced me to T-Nation
…thinking i can work through injuries without letting my body recover just to reach my alotted number of workouts a week - generally not listening to my body enough. needless to say ive had countless niggly injuries in my 2 years working out
This should be stickied somewhere.
Not concentrating on progressive loading
Not doing any cardio
Not squatting initially
Avoiding dietary fat
I’d say the biggest training mistake I made was. Was being young, ignorant and not finding a mentor or some one knowledgable to guide me in the start. Would’ve saved me alot of headache.
Other mistakes would have to be.
1)Thinking full body workouts were the only way and best method of training
2)Not eating enough, eating to damn clean (was seriously undereating on carbs)
3)Involving myself with “toxic” people whom only care about getting drunk or smoking weed regularly. (real tough one)
4)Not starting earlier (would’ve started at 13-14 if I had a time machine)
5)Ego lifting and hurting myself.
6)Obsessing about miniscule shit (macro percentages and rep schemes)