[quote]Aragorn wrote:
Sentoguy wrote:
Professor X wrote:
pf wrote:
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If you did 20 rep squats correctly there is NO WAY you would be able to then do a 2RM squat AND run home. You wouldn’t have been able to do either, walking to the dip/chin station should have been a struggle. You are not training as hard as you think you are. Sure the volume may be there but your intensity is obviously lacking.
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Are you still a teenager? It may explain your insaitable appetite.
Great post.
I have trouble walking to the car after training legs…yet these people are able to run the fuck home?
Do they think we are exaggerating or just half assing it when we say our legs are fried after training?
I mean, damn I just made a thread about this.
If you can finish your leg day, walk outside the gym and the first thing that pops to mind is, “Wow, what a great day for a 3 mile jog!!!”…then you SUCK at intensity.
x 1 million
OP, you say that all the food you eat goes to fat and not muscle (which I’d have to agree with others is likely a vast exaggeration). Well, the reason is likely what X mentions above. You think you are training intensely when it comes to the weights, but in reality you have no idea what intensity is.
Here’s a real life example of what you are doing – This guy comes up to me at the college gym while I’m deadlifting. Nice guy, don’t know him from Adam though. Asks me a couple questions on deadlifting, training, asks me to show him the proper deadlift form. I say Ok, I’ll do it, show up at _____ and I’ll show you how to do DLs. That goes ok, he tries, gets things mostly right.
A few weeks later he comes to me and wants me to train him. Says I obviously know what I’m doing, and the way I lift weights is “inspiring”. Says he’s lifting “really, REALLY hard” but he’s never been able to break 170 lbs bodyweight. I tell him “ok, but on the condition you show up, don’t bitch, and do what I tell you no matter what”. He agrees.
1st day is back and bench-- Kroc rows are up–I tell him to get out a dumbbell to warm up on, he gets out the [u]20s[/u]. I’m think “ok…”. We do a set. I tell him, “you are going to go up in weight, doing sets of 10 every time until the top set” He wants to go 20, 25, 30, 35. Grunting, everything.
I tell him to grab a bigger dumbbell. He brings back the 40s. I say that’s not big enough, go higher. He brings back the 45s. I tell him “go grab the 70s”. He looks at me like I’ve got 3 heads " I can’t lift that much". I say, “do it anyways”.
He knocks out 10 good reps at 70 lbs. Looks at me wide eyed and says “that’s incredible, I’ve never lifted that much before!” And I say “that’s because you weren’t training hard before, you just THOUGHT you were”.
Over the summer he puts on 20 lbs of muscle and breaks 190. [/quote]
I have hundreds of stories like that.
Nearly every single person I have EVER worked in an exercise with (meaning I needed that machine/bench but they were on it so I asked if I could work in) has somehow been able to lift more than they ever have if I push them to.
It shows most people in most gyms (and even on this site considering how many claimed they don’t sweat while lifting) do NOT push their limits when they train. they are just going through the motions.
It makes the cry of “steroids” every time they see someone bigger just make them look even more pathetic.
