if you had never chanced upon t-mag?
It seems like most of us have gone through epiphany after epiphany about diet and training while reading some of the articles here.
I know I’d still be doing workouts from Jean-Paule fitness, performing a thousand crunches a day and wondering why I wasn’t getting any definition on my abs.
Oh yeah, I would’ve probably bought a (shudder) Bow Flex too.
I’m hearing all this smack talk about Bowflex. Am I in the dark here? I thought they were decent machines. Clue me in.
id still be in the gym 6 times per week for upwards of two hours training “instinctivley.”
Well, let’s see. I’d be a few pounds heavier, 10 percentage points higher on my BF. Self esteem wouldn’t be anywhere near what it is today. I wouldn’t know how to squat or deadlift or do a chin-up without assistance. I would NEVER have arms that look as good as they do (the rest of me is catching up with the arms ). I’d be sitting on a couch watching TV, eating takeout, wondering WHY THE HECK I CAN’T LOSE WEIGHT!!!
More important than anything listed above, I wouldn’t have a whole BOATLOAD of cyberfriends.
T-Mag Rocks!!!
I got my first article published at t-mag two years ago. Perhaps, I never would have been inspired to jump into this business if I never came across the cutting edge info here.
Mike Mahler
i’d be a 165 lb weakling who keeps on wondering how come he can never put on weight even though I lift 6 times a day… plus I wouldn’t have something to aim for, or all the incredible knowledge you guys divulge. Coming across this site is TRULY a life changing experience.
I’d be fucked.
Like P-Dog…I would still be in the gym upwards to 2 hours a day thinking that long workouts were what was needed to build quality muscle.
Since T-mag came into my life, I have learned the imperative importance of post workout nutrition, meal choices, and meal timing.
Also, I have met so many great people here. Granted I have yet to meet anyone face-to-face, but you can’t help but feel that you know these people, know what I mean?
Ike said it best…“I’d be fucked.” I think that pretty much sums it up.
I would be following p-dog’s plan in the gym.
Also would be highly strict on my diet, never refeeeding, and wondering why i’m still always sore from overworking and undereating.
And I would be benching/squatting much less weight, and be using more machines instead of almost all free weights.
Same bodyweight, except fatter with less lbm.
I’d be eating fried bread O:)
John Berardi rocks!
I’d be reading that glossy brochure for the “Body for Life” competition, wondering what happened to all the good information that it used to contain.
ike, youve been dropping some pretty fucking truthful posts lately. keep it simple and keep it coming!
Seguis-
Sorry, I didn’t get to this thread earlier. JP doesn’t do thousand crunches a day and he does have some very good contributor’s that are on his forum like “Bill Hartman” for one is a regluar poster on there, and he has a wealth of knowledge.
Don’t knock Jp site around he’s got some good info on there also. Have you notice that he also jp post on here also. And some of us t-mag lurke over there once in awhile. I know there’s a few T-mag readers on that web site.
If there were no t-mag though I would not be spending my time on the internet nearly as much.
In Health,
Silas C.
fitone–I’m sorry if it sounded that way but I didn’t mean JP had me doing 1000 crunches a day; that was my own idiotic concoction.
And you are right, just because it didn’t work for me, is hardly a reason to bash the program (everyone responds differently to excercise regimens).
BEACH MUSCLES!!!
Hey, I’ve got a bowflex, I’ve had it for years and I’m not going to trade it in just because I’ve started reading T-Mag. It’s a great adjunct to free weights.
I’d still be bitter and hateful at Bill Phillips for single-handedly destroying MM, and wondering where the hell guys like TC were who can tell it like it is, and not try to pander to the mass market.
Bill Phillips sold out…
At Burger King
And to the people that bashes Bill Phillips, I don’t know if I like him or not but I can’t bash him. He help the fitness industry get away from bodybuilding to make it in every day normal peoples lives. Now what’s wrong w/ that? So what if he started off talking about steriods and what to buy ect and then went to his BLF platform.
He saw an oppertunity and seized it.
sitting on a cybex circuit looking into the free weight section and dreaming.