What's Your Excuse?

Bigger Stronger Leaner Competitive Bodybuilding
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I wanted to get big, but I didn’t know how.
I started lifting with a big bodybuilder and asked big guys questions.

I barely had any money to lift weights.
I volunteered to help kids so I could lift for free.

I couldn’t afford to eat that much food.
I paid my friends back for taking me out to eat all those times.

I ended up getting an injury one day.
I healed and went straight back to lifting.

Someone near and dear to me died.
I let the grief out with the weights.

I had to work manual labor for 60 hours a week.
I made lifting a priority to fit in my schedule.

I had too much school work.
I sacrificed the TV and related for the time to lift.

I was too full to eat that last piece of meat.
I closed my eyes and ate it anyway.

No matter what I do, I can’t gain.
I stepped back, reviewed everything, and made corrections.

I gained too much body fat.
I stepped back, reviewed everything, and made corrections.

My lift numbers wouldn’t go up.
I lifted heavier weights.

I couldn’t get better at a specific lift.
I concentrated on that lift more.

I read and read and couldn’t progress.
I put down the papers and picked up the weights.

My arms wouldn’t grow past 14 inches.
I did heavy ass isolation work.

I had to move.
I found a new gym.

I got married.
I got my spouse to lift with me.

I got kids.
I let them play while I lifted.

I’m too old.
I lifted the weights anyway.

People like Ali Jawad lost his legs.
He benched 286lbs.

What’s your excuse?

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Nice post.

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Well damn… now this makes it really hard to come up with a good one.

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good stuff

should have been posted on here:
http://www.T-Nation.com/tmagnum/readTopic.do?id=2008412

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I wanted to get strong, but I didn’t have a clue.
Whatever I did was wrong which didnot make me strong.

As I was scratching my head with confusion, surfing the web for information.
That’s when one fine day, I bumped into T-Nation.

As I was reading all the great information, putting it in action…I was heading towards the state of sheer perfection

As I got Bigger and stronger
Full of rigor knowledge and vigor…I did mistakes no longer.

The saga continues…

This is the fastest what I could think of, lol.

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This is sticky worthy.

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I made the thread because I was fed up with the dumbasses who make excuses here.

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I didn’t have the time.
I made the time.

I was weak.
I became strong(er).

I was scared of the weights.
Now the weights are scared of me.

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Haha, my friend swears he’s “too weak to lift”…

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Still researching…not ready to lift yet. But once I find the single best routine…then I’ll start.

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[quote]vbm537 wrote:
Still researching…not ready to lift yet. But once I find the single best routine…then I’ll start.

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Then you’ll never start, because how could you know what the best routine is without even trying it?

And plus, what’s on paper doesn’t always end up being the same in the weight room. Have fun never lifting and continually reading.

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[quote]Fulmen wrote:
vbm537 wrote:
Still researching…not ready to lift yet. But once I find the single best routine…then I’ll start.

Then you’ll never start, because how could you know what the best routine is without even trying it?

And plus, what’s on paper doesn’t always end up being the same in the weight room. Have fun never lifting and continually reading.[/quote]

Hahaha…you gave me a good laugh…I intentionally stated it that way so no one would think I was serious. I was making fun of the newbies that come on here and say stuff like that. There is no such thing as the single best routine…I think most people got the sarcasm. So thanks…I’ll be in the gym.

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The internet makes it hard to discern sarcasm. My mistake.

Also funny that a thread like this only gets 11 replies, whereas worthless threads are plentiful with them.

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[quote]vbm537 wrote:
Still researching…not ready to lift yet. But once I find the single best routine…then I’ll start.

[/quote]

So true(sadly). That’s why if someone’s thinking about lifting but is still on the edge, I just tell them to stop being a wimp and do what I say. Has worked pretty well so far.

I couldn’t tolerate the pain,
I learned to love it.

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I only want to get bigger arms so I can only go once a week, after all, I wouldn’t want to overtrain.
Do heavy compound lifts and watch your arms explode

I don’t like going alone.
You find others there in the same position as you - looking for a training partner.

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I can never seem to get stronger.
I worked on form, put more weight on and ground out the reps until I had to get stronger.

[quote]Fulmen wrote:
The internet makes it hard to discern sarcasm. My mistake.

Also funny that a thread like this only gets 11 replies, whereas worthless threads are plentiful with them.[/quote]

There’s less to say when someone’s right…

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I can’t stop eating junk
My diet’s not that bad
One candy bar won’t kill me
I’ll start next week
I’ll get in shape for my 40th birthday
I’ll get in shape for the Christmas pictures
I’m just smooth/bulking/training for strength

I read the Physique Clinics had a Phoenix moment got back in the gym and started the V-Diet.

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“I don’t want to get too big like those gross bodybuilders. I just want to be ripped–like Brad Pitt from Fight Club.”

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I’m dead.
There’s probably a gym in heaven.