what is the level thing?
how many Biotest products you buy, Level 1= you have made a purchase, Level 2= top 10,000 custormers or something up to Level 5=top 100 or whatever
Hello,
I’m new to T-Nation and I just started my diet today and I must admit (like all who were beginners)… This is a very DIFFICULT diet! I am a foodie that loves to cook gourmet and eat and am missing the texture of food. I am counting the days until my first H.S.M., this Thursday. Any ideas on how to stay focus and not stray?
Hello T-Nation, I have been reading some good information from your forums and decided to join. I am glad I found a place with real answers. Bout to start up my training after 2 years of being off.
Hello.
Justin
26
270lbs
Starting lifting again in October after about 8.5 years off except for two 3 month periods. I hope to keep it up this time. It really helps when they gym is less that 100 yards from your work, and you have a workout partner.
Anyways I’ve continued to make great progress every week on every lift except curls since I started in Oct. I just benched 330lb yesterday, and may have been able to do ~10 more after not being able to bench 225 in Oct.
I really want to gain about 200lbs on my squat this year which I think is very doable since I haven’t really trained it that hard. I also want to hit 400 on the bench and 135 curl.
Hey folks! returning T-Nation member(cant remeber old acc name), been a lurker for the past couple years. Good to be here!
Do I count as a lurker if I’m been reading T-Nation articles for a while but never really looking at the forum until this week? Whatever, I’m here, and I’m up for it now.
I’m 46, 6’5, 235 lbs, never been really into sports but used to lift at home as a teenager in what I now realise was a half-assed, unstructured way. Always been fairly strong, but that’s nothing to shout about, as I made no contribution to that strength myself, just happy moving stuff around for friends who needed it.
Not particularly proud of my stats, except that I used to weigh a helluva sight more than I do now. Found the Nation about 18 months ago, read up on diet, applied it and shed about three and a half stone of lard, which translated to six inches off my waist. Joined a gym 12 months ago, but got instantly banned from the weights area due to borderline hypertension. Got that sorted by the quack, although I’m on pills for the rest of my life 
Started lifting August 09, and am making happy progress. Using 5/3/1 and carb cycling, eating clean and enjoying watching the PR’s rack up.
Hey everyone, also would like to Thank the creater of the site for making something awesome such as this. I am new to the body building world, I am in the east coast of canada, I was 300 pounds, ( trying to post some before and after pics) I work out weekends and one day a week, is all I can do for now because my work schedule does not allow me to get any more out. I am wondering will this help or should I work out more. Perhaps buy a home gym? I am now 245-55, I try not to wieght myself much as it is not to lose much wieght I know I will gain with muscle lose the fat. Again ty all. and Hope to make some new freinds.
Naturally, we all have to get our first post out of the way… just to get it off your chest, kind of like a barbell on the benchpress. The most dangerous editors in the world have offered up a goldmine of valuable information; anyone new to the site or forums, go check out the veritable library of information that these guys have provided for anyone to read. The relentless and intelligent pursuit of muscle is accompanied by lessons about manhood, sex, nutrition, and life in general. If you’ve got half a brain, you’ll take advantage of this. I sure have.
-TR
Hi there…on my first week of V-Diet…so far so good. Question about workouts…what if your busy but want to get your three exercises in…can you go back-to-back? I worked out today and would like to tomorrow followed by Saturday or Sunday. Any serious concerns with doing this or are you just exhausting your muscles?
Hey everyone
new here. im from wollongong, Australia.
been training for 3 years.
22 years old. 23 next month.
5’11
90kg
BF 14%
great site here i have been browsing thought i would join and learn more and share knowledge i have to others
thanks
tom
T-Muscle and T-Nation… Nothin like it out there. I’ve been lurkin for 4 or 5 months now and it might as well be my homepage. Incredibly useful information, things I end up applying on a daily basis in the gym, as well as plenty of people with lots of experience under the barbell looking to help and provide perspective.
What’s good my name is Kolonji and I just started working out and everything.I want to get some sort of muscle and some sort of abs so I won’t feel so weak.I’m about 5’7,129 pounds and I’m 15.Any help is greatly appreciated!
1st Post-
I have been lurking here for awhile, just changed my focus to gaining as much power in my lifts as possible. I discovered Dave Tate’s post (on another site, though I am sure it is here also) about using DE/ME training. Tried it for a few weeks, and I am hooked. Those heavy ass (to me) singles feel great. I am now eyeballing a powerlifting meet. Here for the motivation, never stuck with anything solid, just been pluggging away at my own thing forever.
Hello,
I’m also new. My goal is to maintain the strength I have (I’m in my thirties now) and build on it to become a lot stronger. I’m 5’5" 150lbs. I don’t pay that much attention to my weight … it comes and goes, and I’d only care if I dropped to a level indicating some sort of illness. I just started using a gym a month ago, so I found this site in my quest for information about how to use free weights properly. I’m a laborer, so I’m not interested in hurting myself at the cost of my paycheck. I enjoy the site, and I’m sure I’ll learn a great deal.
hello from scotland, im new to T-Nation site, been training for 3 years seriously, and a few years before that but wasnt that clued up then and ate crap, like seeing the advice thibs gives here among others.
im 5’11" 28 years old , 185lbs. target to get to 200lbs.
Hey guys, I’m new to TMuscle but I’ve been checing out the I, Bodybuilder program for awhile now. Currently in the last month of Eric Cressey’s Maximum Strength; and I plan on starting the IB program shortly after completeing it.
I’ve been a PT for 9 months now and have only recently realized that a lot of my previous 8 years of training was not a waste exactly but not to my potential.
Anyways, a bit about myself and goals;
Height - 5’ 8.5"
Weight - 160lbs. Goal - 170-175lbs
BF % - 12.5 Goal - Under 10%
I’m looking forward to checking out the forums and everything they have to offer on here. Good to be here guys, cheers.
Hello everyone, Im male spanish 172 lbs 12%BF
I’ve been lurking around the site for the past two years and been training for the past three. I guess it’s time to participate and stop watching. I want to say that i just love to read every week articles and even digg in the old ones, you guys rock. I simply think that Tnation have the best bodybuilding info out there.
Thanks and see ya around
How do I post on this. Totally new but not born yesterday.
Now, since I know how to post, I have a physical impairment on my right hand that only allows me to use resistance tubes to build mass. I have been working out for 2.5 months pretty consistant. How do I continue to see improvement. I work with a 3-tube setup. Red blue and black tubes combined. How many sets of reps at a time, how often, and what muscles should be worked together and on which days?