Lifting is a study-evasive activity just for the time being.
In 10 days I’ll have an exam (everything from 1 september).
So I’m sacrificing an much loved activity, what I’m sacrificing other things for.
So I’ve been super-sacrificing (giving up gymtime for studytime) for about a week or 3 now just to get my exam right.
I’m not a superprofessor so I need to work hard.
But at university, it’s not the smartest guy that gets top grades, it’s the one who works the hardest to get them.
But the 20th of December, Erasmus will unleash all the cropped up agression and frustration on the weights like never before.
I took a nutrition class and it went against everything T-Nation said. The digestion stuff was okay, but the stuff about eating 6-12 servings of grains, avoiding fat, and eating very little protein was the usual BS mainstream dietitians say.
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I had a similar experience. My class was based a lot on the government’s newly revised pyramid system as far as nutritional pointers. The professor also warned us about the dangers of “creatinine” supplements. To the best of my knowledge no such supplement exists.
Creatinine is a by-product of a reaction in the body involving creatine (I think. Feel free to correct me everyone.)
Anyway, I was pretty disgusted that she didn’t even know how to pronounce the words of the substances she was casting aspersion on.
OP, props for holding it down and getting a sick grade. Hopefully you’re having a better experience than I did.
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Artem wrote:
not remotely…
It has helped me in lots of other ways outside of the gym, but grades are not one of them. I still get good grades, but going to the gym every day takes a few hours out of my “at home” time. I basically get home, go to the gym, do homework, and sleep. I don’t really have free time on week nights anymore. This is all between/while trying to get in food.
It’s an upgrade from my old schedule (Freshman year) though…
get home, World of Warcraft, oh shit it’s 11… I’ll copy the homework tomorrow morning
…fuck I have a quiz on this crap tomorrow…
Damn I know what the WoW binge is like, I was the same. My girlfriend wouldn’t call me either because i’d be busy playing that game.
Then I started lifting, haven’t touched it since.
Has BB helped me outside the gym? Yeah its changed my life style. In regards to school it just keeps me interested on certain topics. Math still sucks though because I still can’t count past 45, because the weights don’t go above that.
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Haha, I thought I was the only wow-junkie on here
Quit this spring and started lifting, still only have 2 and a half hours of free time if I’m gonna sleep for 7 hours. I hate living in the middle of nowhere.
Edit: I’m lucky though because I have a great memory so I can still afford to slack off. I haven’t written a number in class and still got our highest grade, MVG, on both tests this year.
As far as my knowledge of nutrition, and some biology etc, yea it’s helped. But my grades seem to get hurt by bodybuilding somewhat. I’m the type of person that can get so into something, that I tend to give everything else the back seat. Bodybuilding and strength training is just something I’m very very serious about now. I feel that I have given school a backseat this semester due to the amount of time I have been into the gym, nutrition, reading about the gym and nutrition etc and working, and overall being too worn out to do the appropriate amount of study.
I don’t think this holds true for everyone, I feel this is more of a personal flaw than anything else, just throwing it out there. But like I said before, I have gained ALOT of knowledge through reading on the subject and of course knowledge can always be applied in standard courses like biology, nutrition, health…etc…
It is my life. It has influenced everything directly and indirectly.
It has gave me the self discipline, ambition, foresight and goal setting skills to succeed in school and out of school.
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i agree.
if you have the drive to go in and tackle an all out squat day, week after week without missing a beat you can amast to any challenge.
i feel like if you have the discipline for BBing you have the discipline for anything.
on the flipside sometimes training hurts my studies because i might go do a leg or back day and be so wiped out that i can hardly focus on schoolwork. its really hard to juggle a job, full time school and bodybuilding all at once and still do well in all three.
What’s hurting me in school is that I don’t have a fucking clue what I want to do when I graduate. I have NO IDEA what I want to go to college for. My only passions are politics and weights. I don’t really want anything else.
Before I lifted I played warcraft all day.
WoW took over my life, I had something dumb like 250+ days played. My gf left me cos I choose to play a game over spend time with her, even though she played it too and still does.
Haven’t studied but have learnt a shitload about myself and the human body which I find just amazing.
Studying has helped my grades tremendously. I literally spent ALL last weekend at the library studying for finals and when I took my finals, I was able to answer the questions almost effortlessly.
Studying may not be as much fun as lifting weights, but it is the most effective method in earning good grades.
