Man I can relate to a lot of these lol.
That’s why one of my absolute favorite quotes is: “The stronger I get, the weaker I feel.”
I remember:
- Thinking Bertil Fox would surely win the Olympia.
- If I have more then 4 eggs a week I will get high cholesterol because Mum’s doctor said so.
- Running the 100 meters sprint in High School in 12.1 sec and thinking I’ll be able to get down to 11 seconds within 2 years.
- Buying heaps of Joe Weider’s Mega Max and Inosine and thinking it would make me Huuuuge.
- If I could just squat like Ed Coan I too would be awesome.
- Jogging to the gym for a weight session before playing A grade basketball.
- Thinking I was unbreakable.
- Not using machines for years because apparently they don’t build muscle.
I remember when:
I had to lie about taking creatine and NO-XPLODE because they were roids and I would get hyooge
Binge drinking in college and still thinking I was making good gainz
Thinking I was hyooge and not fat while binge drinking in college because I lifted heavy and ate a lot
I remember when I felt good about pulling over 300 pounds for the first time ever. Or when I thought peanut butter, a protein shake, and milk was enough protein (lol). Or being told creatine is bad for your (kidneys?) by someone who doesn’t even understand how important protein is for all humans.
I remember buying protein powder/gainer with Orchic in it!
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[quote]DSSG wrote:
I remember when I felt good about pulling over 300 pounds for the first time ever. Or when I thought peanut butter, a protein shake, and milk was enough protein (lol). Or being told creatine is bad for your (kidneys?) by someone who doesn’t even understand how important protein is for all humans. [/quote]
This was a huge issue in high school, and somehow everyone thought creatine just destroys your kidneys.
Follow up on my previous post, I remember when I ate tons and tons of clean food while being fat per Prof. X’s advice to get hyooge. I got strong as shit, but I also looked like shit. I now weigh the same with 10-25% less bodyfat now that I have been much more systematic about my approach.
I remember when I would stay up until 1AM to try to catch an episode of American Muscle on ESPN and wake up extra early to catch that Flex Magazine workout show with Shawn, Flex, Kevin etc.
[quote]bdocksaints75 wrote:
That the stuff locked up in gnc was steroids[/quote]
Haha like Prime and Pink Magic!!!
Thought the same thing…
[quote]Angus1 wrote:
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If I have more then 4 eggs a week I will get high cholesterol because Mum’s doctor said so.
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Not using machines for years because apparently they don’t build muscle.
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-I’ve had the egg thing too. I was warned by literally everyone that eating ‘‘those many eggs’’ would clog my heart. I remember even being told that I should only eat 3 a week.
-I also didn’t use machines for a long ass time b/c I believed all the ‘‘functional’’ bullshit
Others include;
-not knowing the bar is 45lbs/20kgs and thus listing my lifts without it. I always used to wonder whether my math sucked when I watched lifting vids and couldn’t get where the extra weight was coming from
I remember:
-Doing compounds for biceps
-Being afraid of overtraining boogeyman
-Drinking GOMAD despite being lactose as hell
-Jumping straight into keto thinking it will get me shredded ASAP
-Over thinking this training stuff
-Saturated fat was the devil
[quote]gurbob wrote:
I remember :
225lb bench press - felt godlike…
315lb bench press - felt awesome…
405lb bench press - felt like i had more in me…
475lb bench press - last week…pissed i missed 485…how things change.
hitting my first 600lb pull …felt godlike…havent been able to do it since.
also i remember weighing…240lbs, and feeling weak and tiny.[/quote]
I remember all those bench milestones very vividly.
225 was the epic one though. I think I was about 16 and playing football in high school. Just felt awesome being able to finally hit that 2 plate pinnacle with everyone watching. In my mind, that was when I crossed over from being a newbie to a real lifter.
315 was huge just because it puts you into a rare level of bencher. I was in my first year of college.
I remember 405 for being that lift that made all of the hard work seemed like it paid off.
I remember when I thought steady state cardio was rubbish for fat loss…
oh wait, I still think that! =)
I used to think creatine swelled up your heart with water and you died.
i used to think when I finally deadlifted 500-600lbs I would be so enamored by my own strength that I would have fun in public by lifting up heavy shit just because I could.
I used to be amazed by this small asian kid when I was a freshmen in high school because he could power clean 135. That shit was amazing. He was only able to bench press like 115 while I was doing 200 but I couldn’t even power clean 115. I was like…holy fuck this kid has some mathematics of quantum neutrino fields programmed in his asian brain to pull off a lift like that.
I used to think whey was pronounced “Wee” and when I read about it in a workout protocol in some muscle and fitness magazine saying “Take one scoop of whey protein post workout” I thought it was scooped out by an ice cream scooper and it was solid and creamy like ice cream but had some extremely bad taste which just added to the dedication required to eat it making you a beast if you committed to it.
Man, I was a fucked up 14 year old.
I remember when this thread was started. Seems like yesterday.
[quote]jskrabac wrote:
I remember when I thought steady state cardio was rubbish for fat loss…
oh wait, I still think that! =)[/quote]
HaHa! I agree. You must be an advocate of Layne Norton.
- I remember when I thought if I doubled up on my Cybergenic steroid vitamins, I would double my gains.
- I remember doing 15-20 sets of chest and arms every other day for months.
- Thinking a few sets of leg extensions once a week would be plenty for the legs…as long as I went to complete failure.
- I also remember wearing 2 pairs of boxers under my jeans because the girls told me I was skinny and had no ass.
[quote]AzCats wrote:
- Thinking a few sets of leg extensions once a week would be plenty for the legs…as long as I went to complete failure.[/quote]
I remember thinking that running a mile before and after every workout was enough for my legs!
I remember when:
-I hit 150 lbs and thought “this is it, I’ve made it”
-I took what guys said in magazines as the gospel
-I was convinced that I HAD to be on every BSN supplement to make gains
-I never went above 5 reps on anything
-I benched 225 for the first time
-I benched 315 for the first time
-I benched 405 for the first time (I was actually much more “wowed” when I hit 315 for the first time)
-I thought as long as the scale is increasing, I’m getting more and more JACKED!
-I thought things like Prime and Pink Magic were steroids and would get me huggggggge
-I knocked myself out by stacking extra plates on this shitty lat pull down station at the Y (hate that place) and the rope (yes, I said rope) snapped, allowing me to yank the bar directly into the crown of my head.
-I used to think that yanking up 60 lb dbs in a pathetic excuse for lateral raises would make my delts huggggge
[quote]jskrabac wrote:
I remember when I thought steady state cardio was rubbish for fat loss…
oh wait, I still think that! =)[/quote]
What do you think is best for fat loss? Fasted walking and HIIT?
I remember when I first started training at 16 I could get a good full-body workout with nothing but a pair of 5kg dumbells.
I remember when:
-I trained daily on a cheap version of a bowflex
-I assumed that by drinking 2 protein shakes a day on top of my 1500cal diet, I would be huge
-I thought my 300lb squat in a smith machine was monstrous
-I assumed that once I pulled a 315 deadlift, everyone in the gym should applaud
-I would do my 5x5 fullbody routine and feel sorry for all the guys doing anything different
-I was the strongest guy at my gym (having worked out at a rec center mostly frequented by senior citizens)