.Training hard, eating enough food, enough rest, adding weight to the bar or more reps at a certain weight makes me grow.
.That I am different to nearly every single person in the gym because of my passion and hunger. Its this passion that enables me to live the bodybuilding lifestyle as good as i do.
.If you decide to go out for a while at night, bringing your next meal with you in the car is the best thing you can do for your overall succees. Leaving the bar to sit in your car to eat is very empowering and shows to yourself that your in this game for real.
.People dont know shit about food. If your goin to the gym to train, you might as well take the time to go on bodybuilding sites and study nutrition threads and articles.
When it comes to training for size one thing I’ve learned is that aside from safety there are no rules.
In other words whatever hits the target muscle group effectively is good. That means, cheating, partial ROM, weird dopey looking exercises, off the wall intensity techniques, totally uncool equipment, etc. can all be very very useful. If it works the target muscles how you want and doesn’t get you hurt it should at least be in your toolbox IF size is the goal regardless of what anybody else in the world thinks of it.
There are no mistakes, only lessons. Growth is a process of trial and error, experimentation. The “failed” experiments are as much a part of the process as the experiment that ultimately “works.”
-Cardio is extremely important, despite what some misinformed outspoken individual(s) on the internet tells you
-Almost all supplements are a complete waste of money
-Don’t do exercises you don’t find enjoyable because for every exercise that stinks there are probably 10 more that do something extremely similar that you actually enjoy and therefor will do better at ( I speak of this because of all the time I wasted trying to teach myself to do squats properly when I could have just been doing leg presses and lunges like I am now)
There’s nothing like being in a crowded gym alone … if you don’t understand that now, keep at it, someday you will.[/quote]
I think that’s an awesome one. It seems everyone at the gym but me avoids anything other then upper-body with maybe a leg press and a lunge with a 10lb dumbbell thrown in. Not that I’m quite able to pull a lot but at least I do. The deadlifts and squats really make me stand out where I lift. Especially in my vibram five fingers.
I would say my biggest one is that every day is a test to better yourself one way or another - in the weight room or not, and as long as you’re making solid progress, anything goes.
[quote]DanErickson wrote:
-Don’t do exercises you don’t find enjoyable[/quote]
I was just gonna say you SHOULD do the exercises you hate the most! I’ve learned that you usually hate the things you suck at. I see no benefit to coddling your weaknesses, they should be taken out back and shot.
[quote]bushidobadboy wrote:
LankyMofo wrote:
Out with a torn rotator cuff. My thread in TCA has little detail in it. Thanks for noticing I’ve been gone, lol.
I noticed you were gone. Can’t say I’m thrilled you’re back though.
I understand what some of you guys are saying, but I find it more useful to work whatever movements get me the best results whether I like them or not.
Hating an exercise doesn’t guarantee it’s your best choice any more than liking one necessarily means it isn’t.
Sometimes people will avoid ones they don’t like simply because they don’t like them (read difficult). That is foolish, but I wouldn’t make my personal affinity for an exercise the criteria.
If it ain’t broke, don’t attempt to fix it. If you are progressing, then what you are doing is working. Don’t jump on the fad of the month just for the hell of it.
