[quote]Ripsaw3689 wrote:
[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?[/quote]
Yep. Stick to one or the other consistently. Don’t mess with in-the-middle intensity. Smooth sailing or balls out.
[quote]lumbahjack wrote:
[quote]Angus1 wrote:
If I have more then 4 eggs a week I will get high cholesterol because Mum’s doctor said so.
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
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For around 8-10 months, I pretty consistently drank a dozen eggs every day. I should be dead by now, according to the FDA and many other health organizations.
[quote]hungry4more wrote:
[quote]lumbahjack wrote:
[quote]Angus1 wrote:
If I have more then 4 eggs a week I will get high cholesterol because Mum’s doctor said so.
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
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For around 8-10 months, I pretty consistently drank a dozen eggs every day. I should be dead by now, according to the FDA and many other health organizations. [/quote]
You had them raw?
I puked on leg day for a month strength. Thought it made me hardcore.
Would chug a full Redline on an empty stomach, then sip on grape juice mixed with chocolate protein powder while I did alternate sets of ATG squats and raw Deads. Never counted sets, just did them until I threw up. Then I would go home, eat a box of whole wheat pasta and a 1lb log of ground turkey meat from the frozen section in Walmart…man I miss college.
chug a full Redline on an empty stomach- This would make me puke
grape juice mixed with chocolate protein powder- This would make me puke
box of whole wheat pasta and a 1lb log of ground turkey meat- and this
I thought Skip Lacour was natural.
At uni watching some fellas train heavy and low rep, thinking that is not functional and they wont get big from doing that.
Not training abs as my squats, deads and OHP was enough stimulus.
Not training arms for 18 months because I got enough work in through compund movements - plus I don’t like it.
Thinking taking a pre/during/post workout supplement was cheating.
So dumb…
[quote]sexyxe wrote:
Not training abs as my squats, deads and OHP was enough stimulus.
Not training arms for 18 months because I got enough work in through compund movements - plus I don’t like it.
So dumb…[/quote]
TBH, I actually started training arms and abs in Jan 2012. :-/
Bought some weight gainer when I was 15 mixed 3 scoops with milk in the blender and thought I was gonna get huge instead I just got the shits…I didn’t lift either
-Diet (both quantity and quality) was irrelevant. As long as I lifted and did cardio, I would put on weight and get a better body.
-Fast food was a good enough postworkout meal for me.
-Leg press once a week and cardio was good enough for my legs… Who needs legs anyway?
-99% of my workout consisted of DB benching, alternating DB curls, and abs.
-It didn’t matter how much I smoked and drank or how little I slept.
-I thought I was doing good in the gym (more like everyone else sucked, rude awakening when I started going to a powerlifting gym lol) and that bodybuilders were vain morons who spent way too much time in the gym staring at mirrors and didn’t know shit… Even though, in retrospect, that’s a much better description of where I was at back then.
-I thought a 2 plate bench was pretty damn good.
-Horrendous form was acceptable as long as I lifted the damn thing.
-I thought I would be huge at 165lbs.
-I thought I knew more than all the other bros lifting at the gym (maybe I did back then, but that’s still saying nothing).
Somehow, I believed all this shit simultaneously and still managed to gain 10lbs and lean down to get an impressive-looking (for me?) set of abs, though shit all in the strength department, in the first 8mo and kept it for the 4mo in the summer when I took a break. God knows how I managed that because I sure as fuck don’t.
3 sets of 10. One to warm the muscle up, one to break it down, one to build it back up.
I shit you not, one of my friends said that to me and I did not question it at the time. Lol. You can imagine how blown my mind was when I discovered you could do less than 10 reps.
When I said we should try 5-8 reps I was a revolutionary. When I said I was going to try 12-15, I was called a lunatic. It’s a rough time being a broscientist.
[quote]The Hoss wrote:
3 sets of 10. One to warm the muscle up, one to break it down, one to build it back up.
I shit you not, one of my friends said that to me and I did not question it at the time. Lol. You can imagine how blown my mind was when I discovered you could do less than 10 reps.
When I said we should try 5-8 reps I was a revolutionary. When I said I was going to try 12-15, I was called a lunatic. It’s a rough time being a broscientist.[/quote]
Hehe, man, that’s even giving it more thought than I ever did in the beginning.
I remember when I started to lift at the tender age of 18:
1: I weighed 48kg.
2: I did all the machines in the gym.
3: I did one set of 20 reps on each excercise.
4: I failed with the barbell when trying to benchpress.
5: I stopped after a couple of weeks.
6: started back up 5-6 months later with a couple of friends. ( we trained at home of one of my friends )
7: Our session consisted of 4x10 with bench, 4x10 with incline DB press, 4x10 with Barbell curls/Chin ups, 4x10 with sit ups.
8: We did the session described above ever other day aka 3-4 times a week.
9: I said one session I wanted to reach 50kg x 10 within some months in bench and my friends told me that was unrealistic.
10: We had oatmeal with raisins as a post workout meal.
11: We thought muscle buildt with the aid of protein powder turned to fat if one where to stop training.
12: My goal at the time was to reach a bodyweight of 60kg and my goal was to do 50kg ten times and that I would be done if I reached that.
I can list more, but this list is starting to get long.
God, one I just remembered.
Thinking when I hit 80kg I’ll be big. That and getting 16" arms would be big - at the time having 14" arms.
[quote]sexyxe wrote:
God, one I just remembered.
Thinking when I hit 80kg I’ll be big. That and getting 16" arms would be big - at the time having 14" arms.
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I had similar starting measurements. Let me say though, that if you’re on the shorter side, a relatively lean 16" arm can look pretty impressive. I thought I was a tank when I first broke 16 -lol.
S
^ I was going to say that about the 16" arm
I remembered another one: I didn’t realise that you added the weight of the bar to your weight lifted. Added 20k to my bench almost instantly! If only I could do that again.
[quote]rds63799 wrote:
I remembered another one: I didn’t realise that you added the weight of the bar to your weight lifted. Added 20k to my bench almost instantly! If only I could do that again.[/quote]
Guilty. When I was a few months in, my friend was boasting a 70kg bench and I was stuck at “55”. We used different gyms for a long time, and it wasn’t until I was up by another 15kg that he came into my gym and explained to me how much of a moron I was.
[quote]IFlashBack wrote:
[quote]hungry4more wrote:
[quote]lumbahjack wrote:
[quote]Angus1 wrote:
If I have more then 4 eggs a week I will get high cholesterol because Mum’s doctor said so.
Not using machines for years because apparently they don’t build muscle.
[/quote]
-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
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For around 8-10 months, I pretty consistently drank a dozen eggs every day. I should be dead by now, according to the FDA and many other health organizations. [/quote]
You had them raw?
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Yup. Over my life, I estimate I’ve gone through about 5,000 raw eggs so far, give or take a few. I think it’s about one in every 20,000 eggs that has an appreciable level of salmonella, so hopefully when that happens (if it hasn’t already) I’m immune to it by then.
I remember when I wrote my training log out in full instead of using abbreviations and symbols that are completely indecipherable to anyone else.
I remember when I thought I could KFC my way up to the physique I wanted.