Well said BBB, Sxio I admire your honesty, most of us wasted years of precious training time trying to follow pro bodybuilders routines when we were starting out, myself included.
There was a very interesting article on hear recently called ‘how tall guys get jacked’ I can attest that training for tall lanky people is different, I’m 6.2 and have always been crap at pretty much everything in the strength department except dead lifting, I could dead lift 390lbs in under 1 year of training the lift but lower back problems have pretty much forced me to stop doing that exercise (my main lower body exercise is the belt squat now) as a 6.2 ectomorph who weighed 150lb’s at 19 years old and couldn’t even do one press up when I began training i feel that me gaining 50lb’s naturally over 6 years isn’t some thing to be ashamed of, it’s certainly not my greatest achievement and I would liked to have done more, but we have to (and can only) work with what we have got right?
I actually believe that mesomorphs who are athletically orientated are no good at giving advice to people like me (they were the people I originally went to as I wanted to be like them) because they have never had to start form where I started (lucky them) like Dave Tate says, if you want to teach someone to squat 800, you better have squatted 800, if your a lanky ectomorph who wants to bulk up then a 6.4 ectomorph who’s done what you want to do is a good person to seek advice from, the captin of the football team never had to do what you wanted to do so how can he put himself in your place?
perhaps it is partly my fault, I never played any sport and ate such a piss poor diet when I was young I had a vitamin deficiency when i was 13, so maybe some of it is self inflicted. Anyone under about 6ft (as stated in ‘how tall guys get jacked’ ) will be able to gain differently to guys over that, I tried for years to make deep barbell squats work for me, and they just didn’t and don’t (and I’m flexible enough to over head squat in bare feet) I’m not looking for sympathy, but lets ask for some pics and a testimonial form some one who went from a 6ft plus ectomorph at 150lbs to a 250lb powerhouse naturally in less tha 10 years because I don’t know anyone who’s done that.
I have a friend who is about 5.10ft, 31 years old, who was a champion skier and boxer in his teens and early 20’s, he now only lifts weights.
He has benched 150kg’s naturally, and recently began a cycle (after about a 6 month layoff from the weights (he’s quite lazy now) of 100mg test prop eod and 8iu gh eod, in 3 months he dead lifted 260kg benched 190kg and squatted 200kg, and can also do one armed pull ups with either arm, how would you all respond if I came on here saying… anyone taking more juice than this, who has been training longer, is not training hard enough or properly if they cant do what he can. It’s obvious he is an athletically gifted mesomorph (and that boxing training teaches you to work hard,and I’ve seen him train, and he does train bloody hard) but at the other end of the spectrum are your lanky ectomorphs, and my point here is that people like him, and people like me are at polar opposites pretty much, but as my dear old mum say’s…“if we were all the same the world would be a boring place”
