What's Your Biggest Mistake?

Nutrition
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[quote]Growing_Boy wrote:
My biggest mistake was thinking that BSN supplements were gonna make me huge. That was a long time ago fellers. 7th grade to be exact. 2.)using shitty form for the sake of more weight. 3.)Training for the hope that the opposite sex would check me out. [/quote]

What’s wrong with 3 bro? It’s a nice bonus.

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[quote]Ratchet wrote:
try to “clean bulk” when i lift for an hour a day then go to a 2 hour lacrosse practice. I’ve had way better gains since I started drinking milk and eating everything in sight, and bodyfat has actually gone down/stayed the same while eating more… [/quote]

I approve of your avatar.

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[quote]Azzurri wrote:
learning that i can be socially functional without binge drinking. [/quote]

2)Eating entire bags of peanuts/walnuts/almonds. 500gs a bag. Not very good when “Leaning down”.

  1. Thinking the world was going to end the next day; so i’d stuff myself and enjoy my food everyday.

  2. My Ex-Girlfriend.

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[quote]tayjeremy wrote:
Azzurri wrote:
learning that i can be socially functional without binge drinking.

2)Eating entire bags of peanuts/walnuts/almonds. 500gs a bag. Not very good when “Leaning down”.

  1. Thinking the world was going to end the next day; so i’d stuff myself and enjoy my food everyday.

  2. My Ex-Girlfriend.[/quote]

Haha, I used to house bags of walnuts/almonds when I first started, only knowing they were “healthy” but not knowing anything about nutrition and aslso wondering why I never lost any BF

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[quote]yasser wrote:

  1. Found Intermittent fasting
  2. Sprinting
  3. Supplementing with adequate fish oil
  4. The power of raw eggs

These are your biggest mistakes?[/quote]

Sorry my bad these are things I wish I had found earlier. I will add my biggest mistakes:

  1. Force feeding myself in order to grow
  2. Eating too close to bed time for years
  3. Not striving to increase the weight I was pushing in compounds
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My biggest mistake was taking my diet too seriously. The only rules I follow now are:

  1. eat every 2-3 hours
  2. eat atleast 40g of protein
  3. stay away from carbs during the second half of the day

Everything else is just hair-splitting. As an “endomorph”, I’ve found that these 3 principles are the only ones that are really important for not getting fat/putting on muscle.
Second mistake was thinking nutrition was more important than my time in the gym. Nutrition isn’t what stimulates growth; training is.

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I wish I would have started counting calories when I first starting lifting in high school. I would bust my ass every day and wondered why I was ripped but couldn’t put on adequate size. The first year when I finally started to count and increase calories I gained 15lbs and was sill very lean.

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  1. Not finding T-Nation sooner.

  2. Doing the same thing for 3-4 years, expecting progress.

  3. Not deadlifting at all and not squatting deep before finding T-Nation, didn’t want to slip a disk, or hurt my back , ya know.

  4. Not finding Marunde and/or NAS sooner.

  5. Oh yeah, and marrying my ex-wife.

As they say hindsight is 20-20!!!

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[quote]tayjeremy wrote:

  1. My Ex-Girlfriend.[/quote]

You too huh?

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I wish I hadn’t fed the Mogwai after midnight.

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Overtraining

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assuming i had enough carbs in my diet… because most people want to cut carbs out of theirs i didn’t think i would have been deficit in them. As soon as I changed that I started growing…lol This is probably not the biggest but definitely one mistake that, now fixed, has recently helped with making major improvements…

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10 years

[quote]benmoore wrote:

4.Letting toxic people screw up my training and nutrition.

A few of my bigger ones =][/quote]

yes