[quote]jCaesar88 wrote:
Shit. looks like i need to start a log. I didn’t think it’s that important.
What am i doing with this, just writing down the exercises,sets,reps and weight used during each workout?[/quote]
just write down the weight used on the last set, exercise and how many reps. That simple.
less clutter and a much clearer goal to overcome next time you train.
[quote]TakeDamage wrote:
not doing squats and deads for the first 2 years.
not eating enough
not worrying about moving heavier weight each week
did all this for about 2+ years and im pissed.
fuck it though only 20 and im not a small guy. probably top 25% in my gym. could of been way bigger :/[/quote]
Dude, you’re only 20; don’t worry about what could have been! There’s still a lot of time left, man.
[quote]jCaesar88 wrote:
SmallToBig wrote:
jCaesar88 wrote:
Shit. looks like i need to start a log. I didn’t think it’s that important.
What am i doing with this, just writing down the exercises,sets,reps and weight used during each workout?
You don’t keep any record of what weight / sets you did yesterday … or ever ?
How do you know your progressing every workout, if you have no records ?
Idk dude, doesn’t seem that hard. I mean, not that hard to remember what you did last week.
But I see your point. Seems beneficial especially in the long run.
So what do you put down, what I mentioned earlier?[/quote]
I also write on the back of the page how I felt the workout went, how I felt during the workout (tired/pumped etc). Also maybe go back to the log a day and or 2 days after and write how the body part felt, how you felt after the workout. Maybe thats over analysing things a small bit but I’ve always found it beneficial.
Not using straps or chalk sooner.
Almost had a bad accident one night when I was progressing through the 40kg dumb-bell incline press barrier; sweaty hands, grip slipped while I was getting them in position, nearly wrenched my shoulder out 
[quote]Professor X wrote:
Chi-Towns-Finest wrote:
I was a sloppy 15% bf at best, ate too many calories.
!
Your profile lists you at 185lbs. I don’t understand how “15%” was such a negative when the goal should have been more overall size anyway.[/quote]
I suppose it wasn’t that negative, although 15% may have been a conservative estimate. Looking back at photo’s I believe I looked sloppy, I definitely could have been eating much cleaner foods during that 18 month period.
Note: I was just under 215 lbs at this percentage.
No setting realistic expectations for myself (i.e. “Adding 2 lbs of muscle gain per week sounds reasonable.”)
Using the scale to judge progress, rather than the mirror. This goes for both bulking and cutting.
Not understanding how to eat for my own body type.
Not necessarily regrets, but these things have definitely made the biggest differences in the amount of progress I have been able to make as of late.
Eating 2000 calories when I should have been eating 4000.
I’ll be honest… My biggest mistake ever was that I’ve found THIS site. I’ll explain why. First, I used a push-pull-lower split with 3 excersises perr muscle group and 5*10 reps from every excersise…
I know that the volume seems tremendous for a beginner, but it was all what I was said to do. Later I found this site and came across all that fancy stuff, not written for beginners, overcomplicated workouts and so on.
Then later fortunately I began to read this forum, learn how the most impressive members train, I also learnt a lot from the biggest guys in my gym (well, one of them was a really great help, he was a gymnast for about 15 years, and been lifting about 10 years, so he’s a bit of massive and cut)
Honestly I love this forum a lot, even though I don’t really care about the main site anymore. upsz
Intuitive training and eating for 2,5 years…
Too much of the same food, I had to cut from ~20%BF because of that and not training with enough intensity. I also was pretty rigid on eating every 2 hours. Sad progress, until I discovered not to over analyse everything and also have a life.