not drinking enough water because i thought it would add fat
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Uhm…WHAT?
That isn’t even normal to think like that. You can’t blame that on being a newb.
Fattening WATER!!!
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well true its a stupid mistake to make, and their is no real way i can defend that stupidity except that i use to be fat, i mean fat as hell 215 and then i got into bodybuilding and excersise and dropped to 130 last summer and i was so happy that i feared to gain it back so i barley ate or drank anything and would weight myself hourly.
i was stupid at this time however i learned more as time went on and now after a bulk of 20 pounds (unhealthy bulk, which was another mistake i made) i rest at a happy 150, the water thought was stupid and i have learned my lesson and will never make stupid bro/orthorexia mistakes again
[quote]BearMode wrote:
well true its a stupid mistake to make, and their is no real way i can defend that stupidity except that i use to be fat, i mean fat as hell 215 and then i got into bodybuilding and excersise and dropped to 130 last summer and i was so happy that i feared to gain it back so i barley ate or drank anything and would weight myself hourly.[/quote]
That does sound too ignorant to be true, but I have a friend I have tried to help with fat loss, and he CANNOT understand that the weight of the food and drink you put into your mouth have nothing to do with the fat weight your body gains or loses. I have him drinking a shake for breakfast with Metabolic Drive protein, berries, peanut butter, Superfood, and tons of ice. It fills a huge glass, and OBVIOUSLY it’s mostly water, but if his weight plateaus he becomes convinced the shake is at fault because it’s so much volume and so heavy!! He then refuses to drink the shake, instead goes and eats 4 cream puffs which are “like nothing.” Yeah, it’s partly an excuse to just not stick to a diet, which is no fun, but no matter how many times I explain it, his brain comes back to the volume/weight of the food being fattening.
-Thinking that there must be something wrong with me or my training if I can’t eat over 3500 cals without gaining more than a 1:1 ratio of fat to muscle.
-Doing Cardio while dieting
-Not realizing how magical BCAAs are.
-Always over-eating when trying to gain size, leading to stagnation because I cut down after I get too fat.
-Progress has definetely been made, but never optimal
[quote]Amonero wrote: 1: Not ramping sets, thinking 5x10 meant 5 sets of the same weight for 10 reps, and that you only increased weight when you could get all sets fpr 10. wlcome to Stagnation, population, me. Thanks to professor X for clearing up that. Strangely, this is how alot of (small) people here train.
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Can you explane that a little bit more in detail??
Definitely the biggest mistake I ever made was not eating enough carbs. Along with that, overestimating what I was taking in and actually not taking in sufficient calories or nutrients to grow.
[quote]Professor X wrote:
That “not eating enough” will hold back the progress of most of these newbs. nce I was in college, that was the one thing I did NOT have a problem with…and needless to say, massive calories and tons of hard work beyond average can make up for a shit load of failures in other places.
There were YEARS that I didn’t get enough sleep, but my food intake and work ethic filled in the gaps even if I may have gained a little more body fat than I wanted.
The ends justify the means.[/quote]
How many hours did you typically get throughout undergrad and dental school?
Thinking that my arms would get bigger than 14" without direct arm work.
Trying to grind out reps at my heaviest weights while trying to do the “perfect rep” ← fucking retard.
Neglecting basically all shoulder work when I started training. And then wondering why my shoulders were lacking.
[quote]Professor X wrote:
That “not eating enough” will hold back the progress of most of these newbs. nce I was in college, that was the one thing I did NOT have a problem with…and needless to say, massive calories and tons of hard work beyond average can make up for a shit load of failures in other places.
There were YEARS that I didn’t get enough sleep, but my food intake and work ethic filled in the gaps even if I may have gained a little more body fat than I wanted.
The ends justify the means.[/quote]
How many hours did you typically get throughout undergrad and dental school?[/quote]
4-5 hours. Food intake and work ethic can compensate for quite a bit.
[quote]pumped340 wrote:
How many hours did you typically get throughout undergrad and dental school?[/quote]
4-5 hours. Food intake and work ethic can compensate for quite a bit.[/quote]
How did you feel during the day? I went for almost a month with no more than 4 hours of sleep a night at uni and started feeling really run down halfway through. After that I promised to myself to do what I can to get at least 7 hours of sleep every night, unless I’ve got a good reason not to.
Do I know you? Have you been watching me? You just described the last 3 years of my lifting life! Fixed all that shit about a year ago and making good gains now. Just trying to keep this 34 year old body healthy.[/quote]
At least your not 45 like me and just now getting it…
Nothing wrong with TBT or whatever that program by Chad Waterbury. My friend and I started that program back in highschool…we ate like horses, stealing cafeteria food like madmen all day long at school. Hell 3x a week was plenty for us lifting, and eating. I didn’t sleep at all ever in highschool only had naps, but I had some awesome gains in that program. We squatted ALL 3 days with the different rep ranges (3-5, 8-10, 12-15)
and benched 2x a week, close grip bench press the 3rd day, military press one day, DB’s the other day.
Hell man we worked our asses off so hard those were some of the best workouts I ever had in the weightroom.
All you guys saying it’s shit man…with actually trying to INCREASE the weight EVERY workout or do more reps (AT ALL COSTS POSSIBLE) eat like a madman…like I said we had awesome gains from that in highschool.
[quote]Professor X wrote:
That “not eating enough” will hold back the progress of most of these newbs. nce I was in college, that was the one thing I did NOT have a problem with…and needless to say, massive calories and tons of hard work beyond average can make up for a shit load of failures in other places.
There were YEARS that I didn’t get enough sleep, but my food intake and work ethic filled in the gaps even if I may have gained a little more body fat than I wanted.
The ends justify the means.[/quote]
How many hours did you typically get throughout undergrad and dental school?[/quote]
I guess that’s why I had no free time this year…too much sleep lol. But really that would give me another 20 or so hours per week. I did that for finals (least sleep I’ve gotten in years…maybe ever) and just took the week off (even if I could have worked out, which I couldn’t have, I felt it would have hurt more than helped with such a low amount of sleep). I’ll have to see how well I can progress with 5 hours or so per night in the fall…it would definitely help.
4-5 hours. Food intake and work ethic can compensate for quite a bit.[/quote]
1 Fat Phobia (after losing tons, and i mean tons of weight)
2 Being afraid of carbs after a workout (i know, i know, this is the time where they will not affect you)
3 Only Isolation exercises in the beginning
4 Not eating enough protein.
5 Under-Eating Substantially
6 Never working legs (Most dumb thing ever considering they grow faster than anything else)
7 Not doing any Squats or deadlifts up until last year (I feel i caught up well in this dept. considering im at 405 squat/deadlift, nothing spectacular, but for a years work, im pretty damn proud considering i have surpassed almost everyone i know)
8 Not being consistent (Diet or Training)
9 Starting too late
I have learned tons of things since the beginning of my training career, its all about looking towards the future and improving. Good luck to everyone.