I was researching injury rehabs when I found it a few years back. Little did I suspect it would turn into an educational odessy.
I also learned some interesting things about myself too.
Before I got on T Nation I THOUGHT I knew how to work out. I BELIEVED I knew how it all works. But I didn’t at all… I didn’t even know any of the basics.
But anyway the OP is right. This is a gold mine
I was in the Air Force and one of my supervisors who we so lovingly nicknamed the house because, well he was built like a fucking brick shit house, and it was rumored he used to move houses. Literally. Picked up buildings and physically moved them.
Anyway, one day I was in his office and he was asking me what I wanted to accomplish in the gym. I told him I wanted to be bigger (I was like 150lbs then) and stronger. Then he showed me some articles on here about getting bigger and stronger.
4 years later it’s still the site I frequent most often.
Made a new years resolution this year and didn’t know where to start in terms of proper exercise and nutrition. I subscribe to Men’s Health so I bought Chad Waterbury’s book “Huge in a Hurry” and he mentions it in there.
some guy on this other forum, a rap forum, gave me the link b/c the health & fitness section on that site sucks bawls.
Training with my buddy a long time ago and he is a big bastard. Anyways he would always share info with me and I am an analytical bastard so I always wanted to know more, but I just started googling things he would say and one day I just happened to stumble upon T-Nation.com. After reading some articles by Waterbury and John Davies, and of course a few atomic dogs, I was hooked.
Also back then the forums were pretty different. There was a lot of people who were really helpful and since the site was pretty new anyways, no one had too much attitude. Everyone was a forum newb so it was a bit more friendly and helpful. Anyways, I like it here and have fun so thats why I remain here.
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I was researching steroids.
runnersworld.com/ some annorexic dude was asking others how they cuold build muscle. This site was linked.
Searching for Tribulus products back in 2002…didn’t sign up for forums until 2006.
The articles were all I needed to read then.
It was linked in a Highland Games discussion board on a training thread, so I checked it out. Of course, I spent my first few weeks on T-Nation exclusively in the Ass Worship and SWGF threads. Actually, the Got Curves thread was going strong back then too, before it got a little over the top.
My old trainer wrote some articles for here and FA. She was the only trainer in the place that kept clients that got results.
Been reading since 1999 I don’t remember how I found it. It was before I knew about Google.
I just wanted to be stronger and more muscular.
This was back before the forums were around and Poliquin and Ian King were regular contributors. Those were the days.
I’ve been here pretty much since the beginning, but I don’t remember specifically how I came across the site. I mainly came here for the articles and the supps. I used to buy the original MD6 like it was going out of style.
Was recommended T-Nation by an employee at the local Popeye’s a nutrition/supplement store.
[quote]canaduke wrote:
Was recommended T-Nation by an employee at the local Popeye’s a nutrition/supplement store.
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Popeye’s sells fried chicken in the South.
My undergrad roommate sent me a link to “27 Reasons to Be Big” and I was hooked. This was back in '04.
“Merry Christmas, Bob,” linked from another site.
[quote]Ghost22 wrote:
canaduke wrote:
Was recommended T-Nation by an employee at the local Popeye’s a nutrition/supplement store.
Popeye’s sells fried chicken in the South.[/quote]
And in every seedy mall in Mass. (^:
I was looking up nutrition and training articles back in December or January, and came across a few articles from here.
I forget? Looooong time lurker tho.
I remember looking for some cheap protein in '06 and finding T-Nation. Then read some articles every so often for a while, then got in on the forums. Glad I found T-Nation, it helped me found out about EliteFTS, which led to my strength training actually making sense lol.