That you only need to eat 300-500 calories above maintenance levels to max out your muscle gains.
I was walking through the locker room with my container of Surge after a training session when an older gentleman(45 or so)stopped me and asked what I was taking. He glanced at the NAME on the container, not the nutritional data on the label, and announced that I didn’t need it. His wife is a medical doctor and she told him and in turn he was telling me.
I actually gave this advice to a couple of girlfriends: “No, baby, you should swallow. It will stop you from getting cancer of the esophagus. No, really they did a study.”
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Having fat in your diet is bad.
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All the flexibility you need you get from weightlifting alone.
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Arnold’s Encyclopedia of Modern Bodybuilding.
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Eat less times a day to ‘lose weight’. Yes, muscle weight.
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Lift in the 8 to 12 rep range exclusively. Anything heavier and lower in reps isn’t important or smart for mscle growth.
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You will die from a low carb diet. I had a ‘dietician’ argue this with me once. About the maddest I’ve ever gotten at someone over something so trivial. She was SO insistant, with not once reference or argument to back her point up over repeatedly yelling, “Your brain needs carbs! Your brain needs carbs!”
I’m getting mad just thinking about it right now. And yes, she was fat. Grrrrrrrr…
Kubo
<enter me doing front squats, from the floor, so clean and then front squats in reality>
Some guy: dude, you shouldn’t squat without the saftey bars in place. (I’m outside of the rack all I use it for is to load plates) You’ll hurt yourself.
Me: I can’t
SG: What? Why?
Me: uhh, cause I’m cleaning it off the FLOOR first.
SG:You should just take it off the rack instead.
Me: Then how will I get stronger in the clean?
SG: what is a clean?
SG: Doing that won’t make you strong.
Me: So the olymic weight lifters at the olymipcs aren’t strong??
SG: It involves too much “cheating” so anybody can do it.
Me: You do it. <I point to the bar with a nominal 180lbs.>
<I just sit there looking at him, then the bar, then him, then the bar. then I chalk up and go again.>
Cool guy.
-chris
[quote]dude-dilly squat wrote:
I actually gave this advice to a couple of girlfriends: “No, baby, you should swallow. It will stop you from getting cancer of the esophagus. No, really they did a study.”
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that’s hawt. I use “It will make you lose weight around the abdominal area because semen contains a lypogenic compound that… blah blah blah. insert science jargon. mention flux capacitor etc. etc.”
-chris
[quote]dude-dilly squat wrote:
I actually gave this advice to a couple of girlfriends: “No, baby, you should swallow. It will stop you from getting cancer of the esophagus. No, really they did a study.”
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Um, this is fact… and cnn says so.
Carbs make you fat
Your body can only handle 30 grams of protein a sitting
Varying grip or stance widths does not alter muscle recruitment [that was told to a class by our 24hr fitness instructors. It was a mandatory class if you wanted to be a trainer there, it was for their in house certification. I had to calm myself down].
[quote]Deserteaglle wrote:
And my FAVORITE!!!
Crunches are worthless.[/quote]
They basically are.
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Cross-country ski coach: “You need to stop doing intervals and do hours and hours of long, slow, distance training to build your aerobic base.”
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Same coach: “You need to stop taking creatine and stop lifting weights if you want to improve your time in the 5km sprint.”
Advice that took me from 20th in North America to utterly insignificant in less than two years.
– ElbowStrike
“Eat lots of pasta, it’s all you need to get huge”
Heard this when I was 16, from the biggest guy I had ever seen at the time.
Static stretching prior workout is bad.
hahaah I laughed my ass off
This is from my Sport science teacher at college last year.
If you miss 1 workout you have to do 3 workouts just to get to were you were at that workout you missed.
Machines are far superior to freeweights.
High reps tone.
A gymnast trains for 6 years before competing, This applys to every gymnast.
Beat that.
[quote]MNguns wrote:
Static stretching prior workout is bad.
hahaah I laughed my ass off[/quote]
It’s not bad, but as far as I’m aware you’re better off doing dynamic stretches before working out and concentrating on static stretches after.
While doing the Velocity Diet, I explained the general premise to a friend who then commented:
“That’s the stupidest idea I’ve ever heard. All those protein shakes will make you fat.”
Right, buddy.
[quote]Donut62 wrote:
When doing good mornings I was told by some scrawny trainer that I needed help with my squats, and if I signed up he could give me advice.[/quote]
I just got the same comment. Except it was from a fat guy just training. He was actually pretty cool about it. Told me I was doing squats wrong and would hurt my back. I said I was doing good mornings correctly and would strengthen my back. He was curious so I explained the exercise and he sort of nodded a bit and said he’d give them a shot some time.
From a chiropractor, while I was recovering from a pinched nerve:
“Make sure to do shrugs a few times a week with weights and you have to make a big circle with your shoulders to work the whole muscle.”
[quote]Houshin Akai wrote:
I stopped talking to him before considering how to break his skinny, emancipated frame.[/quote]
why do you hate freedom?
[quote]MikeyKBiatch wrote:
dude-dilly squat wrote:
I actually gave this advice to a couple of girlfriends: “No, baby, you should swallow. It will stop you from getting cancer of the esophagus. No, really they did a study.”
Um, this is fact… and cnn says so.
http://www.sinc.sunysb.edu/Stu/pip/
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This article has the potential to be printed out and framed on my wall. So I can just point to it when needed.
“Don’t do curls in the squat rack.”