Great job T-lords!! T-radio is beyond anything I’ve ever seen done in an e-community before. I actually get to hear CW’s, JB’s, and Dave Barr’s voice.
If this ain’t the coolest site ever, I’m gayer than SpongeBob Squarepants.
Thanks.
Damn straight! Really f-in cool!
Dr. JB is completetly right- get off the internet and into the GYM!! (Sometimes I need to take this advise myself.)
Really glad to be a member of the T-nation and looking forward to the future of T-nation and Biotest.
Thanks guys
Jeff
I agree but also agree with the double tap piece from John Berardi on how some lifters seem to replace hardlifting with the acquisition of knowledge. I have had the same opinion when logging onto some of the topics on this forum. I see some of these guys analyzing the smallest details of every single aspect of training and nutrition…yet when they post a picture, the overall size gained from this extreme attention to scientific detail is minimal at best.
No one cares if you have picked apart the ingredients in your protein shake when you are making LESS progress than the guy who spends more time actually lifting really heavy weights and simply eating “A LOT”.
Some on this forum seem to have turned away from hard work in an attempt to impress newbies with ridiculous focus on details that are not as important in the grand scheme of things.
That is not a small issue either. It has pervaded this forum like a disease in some aspects. No one cares if your form is text book, if you have taken an electron microscope to your chicken breasts, or know the links to every single program on this forum. If you can’t fgure out that you need to KEEP IT SIMPLE and lift heavy ass weight, no one cares that you have a PhD in T-Mag.
Fuckin’ right!
I should’ve been asleep a long time ago but stayed up to hear the double taps.
Ahh, the never ending contributions of T-nation to my quest of becoming the biggest mother fucker alive.
Damn you guys are good! Best site ever!!! Connecting the voices to the faces is great.
YES!!! Very awesome addition.
Also Great post yet again ProfessorX.
One thing that might be mistaken from it though is that, corect me if i’m wrong, he/you are in no way advocating a lack of education/learning, but simply that a line needs to be drawn. Education and building ones Grey matter is very important also. It is good to pick apart things, test them question them learn, but damn it you have to also put all that thinking to use. You must work it. A strong mind and a strong body. Just check out some of the Profs. other psot to see a mind at work, and the avatar will show hias results of moving HEAVY weight.
I am in no way saying I am superior to anyone in the physique dept. but hey I am trying and am making some great progress. I am consistantly beating my own PR’s and competeing with MYSELF.
For several years I picked apart evrey aspect of my diet. A made little to know progress in moving more weight or adding size in that time. But I did Learn what I needed to and have built a solid mental basethat I needed. I am now comfortable being an FFB and have put all I learned to use. I am now making progress… Simply by relaxing and going to do what I know is right through what I learnred. Lifting some damn weight, working my ass off, and eating correctly.
Just relax, do what you know is right and work your ass of and results will come. Keep growing metally and physically through education anbd hard work adding in things as you find the aid in either category.
So pretty much what I gather you are saying is, yes educate ones self by all means, but to a point. You cant expect all the reading and pondering to make up for the Physical work that is needed in the gym. Nothing wrong with being wise, but to be both wise and strong takes more than twice the work. So go move some damn weight, then read up and learn while you are recovering and eating. LOL.
Rant over. And ignore any spelling and punct. probs. I am a bit tired and over loaded right now with other life issues. Saving my energy for the gym here in about an hr, 
Kinda hijacked this thread but I loved the message sent there and am a firm beleiver in the point that not enough ppl are putting all the gained knowledge to USE. T _nation passes on all this great info. NOW GO USE IT!!!
Thanks T-Nation for the AWESOME new addition again by the way,
Phill
[quote]Phill wrote:
One thing that might be mistaken from it though is that, corect me if i’m wrong, he/you are in no way advocating a lack of education/learning, but simply that a line needs to be drawn. Education and building ones Grey matter is very important also. [/quote]
There is no doubt that learning is important. However, this is bodybuilding. How many people took a class on basketball before they ever played? How many feel as if they should take a few hours of college basketball 101 for a year before they ever set foot on a court? Bodybuilding isn’t much different. Knowledge supplements hard work…NOT the other way around. Your efforts will show in your progress, assuming that you aren’t missing the basics. What I see is people skipping right over the basics as they move into whatever program has the most german sounding name and utilizes the most numbers and different training styles. They have taken this to Calculus III at college level when some of the best physiques on the planet were built with basic math.
Some of the best training I ever got came from training with these two other powerlifters. Neither one was shooting for a college degree and, judging by even John Barardi’s take on “country accents and the relation to intelligence” they were not trying out for MENSA either (By the way, “Y’all” is a part of my vocabulary). You wanted to increase the number of pull ups you can do? We hit pull ups everyday as the last exercise. EVERY freaking day. There were no scientific calculators involved and not one person pulled out a chalk board. Guess what? The number of pullups I could do on my own increased fast enough that I matched them in less than a month. Was it overtraining? Judging by the squeamish threads on this board on the subject, it probably was. Did it work? Yes.
While the act of getting on stage is not considered a sport to many, and while many of us will probably never compete, the act of pushing yourself is very much related to a sport. That takes a mental component that does not involve equations, scientific journals or identification of specific parts of the genome project. It takes heart. You can’t study it. You simply drive and push through it. Yes, you can learn that…but not in a book.
[quote]Professor X wrote:
There is no doubt that learning is important. However, this is bodybuilding… [/quote]
LOL… This is excatly what I was trying to say that you were saying and I was agreeing with. Some things just dont require as much of the MENTAL hard work and demand more of the PHYSICAL hard work.
No how matter say an architect dreams renders and toys with a set of plans the damn building wont be shit but a picture until some hard asses put in the work and follow his guidelines and build the damn thing.
Having worked construction quite often ,this analogy works perfect in bodybuilding as well. No matter how well the plan was you always have to change and simplify a few things to fit the specifics of the building on site, or in turn your physique. You just have to build the damn thing. Find what works for the specific building through hands on WORK, same goes for building one physique, you have to put the time in under the bar, and find what make YOU grow.
You put it a lot more elequent and edumacated than me. Sure I may be a Grad student now and all, FINALLY. But I’m a Master of Fine Arts Grad. A painter. Readin, writin and rithmatic just aint are strong points. LOL No matter how much I read I cant seem to make a painting drawing or sculpture without picking up the physical tools and doing it.
Ya’ll is part of my vocab as well by the way,
So Ya’ll have a good day,
Phill
Right on, Prof. X and Phill. There is a big difference between theory and practice. We may have some theorists around here on the forums, but thank God they aren’t the T-nation writers! They practice what they preach.
Stay Strong,
Dan
Awesome! Damn, I don’t have time to listen to any of it right now… but I will in an hour or two.
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ProfX,
I think, as usual, you are right on the money with your analysis. I too am tiring of hearing of details such as “if you heat milk to 26.32 degrees you experience 0.6% denaturing of certain proteins”.
[Note to asswipes, those numbers are made up, don’t go reseting your scientific calculators]
It’s simple… read the following using the voice of the governator:
[i]- work hard
- eat food
- sleep
- repeat above girly man[/i]
Don’t get lost in the details!
Why can’t they hear me when I talk back?
Great Job, guys. Keep it up!
In addition:
I don’t care how shitty your program is, if you believe in it whole heartedly you will make gains on it. So long as you push yourself. And you usually push yourself harder when you buy into the program.
You could have the “perfect” program and still never make gains. I have trained a lot of people in my life and there is something to be said about “belief” in your program.
Great new feature!
Glad (most of) you enjoy it!!
As mostly a newbie still(I’ve been reading T-Nation for about 4 months and have had a gym membership for about 5 months). I was(and still am) overwhelmed by a lot of the information I read, and I know this site has some of the greatest minds and products in this sport/lifstyle whatever, but still you need to put that information to work for you. Everything new I read about diet and what foods to eat I put to work, every new training tip I learned I put to work in the gym. And it got to the point where I wouldn’t eat anything becuase heaven forbid I eat 2g of fat with my P+C meal, I’m bulking for fuck sake! And it got to the point in the gym I would just walk around and think about how no one knew what the fuck they were doing yet they were all much bigger than I was. I finnaly learned to “unlearned what I have learned”, that I can’t be on every diet on the planet at once, or incorperate every training program into one huge workout. I started to lax up a little, to keep it simple, and realize that I don’t know everything and I WILL make mistakes (a lot), learn from them and get bigger, it just takes time.
Another great addition to an already kick-ass website. Awesome.
A suggestion:
How about making the mp3 files available separately, so we can download and play them on our players–great for when we’re commuting or jogging.
I’d LOVE to dl rather than stream for that very reason!
Not to mention that streaming radio is frowned on in some offices. DL’ing this would be great so that I could listen at work.
GREAT addition. Love it.
[quote]choyt wrote:
Not to mention that streaming radio is frowned on in some offices. DL’ing this would be great so that I could listen at work.
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Maybe it’s frowned upon because they want you to work when you’re at work.
[quote]Breakdown wrote:
Maybe it’s frowned upon because they want you to work when you’re at work.[/quote]
Wow, guess we should rip out all of the radios here since listening to them wouldn’t be working, eh?
The issue is about 170,000 employees eating bandwidth to hear streaming media.