I started a couple of months ago.
It’s awesome.
If you don’t mind me asking, what did you start?
I keep and update my workout logs on my phone so people in my gym must think I’m one of those c***s who’s always texting.
I text in the gym sometimes too…
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I do the same thing. I usually write my stuff out but occasionally I have to use my phone. I also save my workout plans to my phone and have to remind myself what to do.
I also text. I set my timer for 1 minute between sets. I can text during that time without prolonging my workout.
Slip in a little Archer reference here?
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This. I’ve read Dan Ducchaine’s books and several others. But I’m not even friends IRL with anybody on juice.
Also I don’t feel I’ve “earned” them yet. I haven’t gone for 30 days without missing/moving a workout or missing cals/macros at least once. Life keeps getting in the way here and there. If I don’t have training/nutrition/sleep on lock, then I wouldn’t be maximizing the risk/reward of the anabolics.
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I used to keep a mini moleskine book but I’d be sweaty and tired and my book would look nasty with squiggly lines. So I do it on my phone then post to my training log… (frequently with video - plug)
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haha, nice! I’ve been off everything for a long time now (definitely reflected in my physique), so I’m super jealous.
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one of the reasons why I genuinely believe EVERY adult male serious about lifting should do at least one steroid cycle in their lifetime.
You will never, ever, get your shit locked in like you will on your first ever cycle. I’m not kidding. That first cycle you are so excited about it you will not miss a workout or skip a meal under any circumstances whatsoever.
Honestly, even if you were just injecting placebo drugs the mindset you have on that first cycle would net you a shitload of muscle through pure determination alone!
You get progressively lazier on subsequent cycles as the novelty wears off…
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back to confessing:
In a few weeks’ time when I’m lean and sexy looking I’m going to use swimming as cardio purely so I can take my shirt off in front of the smoking hot lifeguard at my gym
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To me it’s not even about elongating the process as much as it impeding on my personal time. A lot of time I have no music on in my headphones. I just put them in so people don’t talk to me. Sometimes I’ll listen to podcasts because after my first workset I don’t even know anything is on half the time. I get lost in my own head a lot and it’s the only hour or so I get to myself.
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This isn’t exactly a confession, but the more I go to a commercial gym, the less I wanna pursue a career as an Exercise Physiologist and coach. Today I saw an accredited physiologist and trainer coach someone to do quarter squats with elevated heels because the client couldnt hold a neutral spine. Try coaching your clients properly?
Then another coach was getting his client to balance on a the crossbars of loaded trap bar and rep out on bodyweight squats.
I know I’m a newbie but what the hell are these trainers trying to achieve with that kinda crap???
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Beating a dead horse with this post… I still find it amusing how newer guys feel like they are experts because of all the videos and internet articles they have read. But they have no real hands on experience… When dealing with these types I feel like Clint Eastwood in this movie clip…
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Oh youre going to love my new post
Sounds like functional fitness is still popular. That’s the same crap that I saw when I started working in a gym over 10 years ago. Instead of building a base of strength why not stand on one leg and do single-arm cable rows? It’s FUNCTIONAL!!!
The reality is that people need the simple foundational movements but they’d rather be told to do stupid shit that might be difficult but isn’t physically taxing. Case and point:
That crap vs real squats with weight on your back.
Oh…if by chance that was in response to what I posted. I actual had not read anything you had posted as of yet.
Nah. Just before you posted about newbies commentingnon other’s training I had put a rant about accredited trainers doing dumb exercises with their clients
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Take it a step further… Pretend to drown, and get rescued by said hot lifeguard!
Just make sure she is definitely on duty, you don’t want to start getting resuscitated by her big bear of a sidekick. Lol
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Just the tip…
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Straight from the sandlot playbook.
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