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Doing the same workouts I had from my HS football team for YEARS afterwords.
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Fearing going to a big gym like Golds because of insecurity.
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Learning about nutrition and proper amounts of protein.
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Booze, Beer and more Booze.
[quote]its_just_me wrote:
[quote]RMorrison wrote:
-Doing Cardio while dieting
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Can you explain?[/quote]
When I do cardio while on a caloric defecit, my legs shrink incredibly fast. It’s different for everyone, but for me, it’s not worth it.
Too many to even count, and I’m probably doing some of them even still.
But my biggest bodybuilding fail would have to be lack of consistency. This is something that I’ve found to be so broadly overlooked, especially with beginners. If you tell a newbie that their routine doesn’t really matter, their exact diet doesn’t really matter, how much they sleep or what supplements they take doesn’t matter… they may say they get it, but this really goes in one ear and out the other.
If you consistently get into the gym often (every day or almost every day), and consistently eat enough food to grow, you will have twice the results you could have doing the best program and eating the best diet if you only followed those things once in a while.
It’s so simple that I think many newbs feel that it doesn’t make sense, or couldn’t be that obvious. A lot of guys make the mistake of believing that relying on “consistency” is the equivalent of trying to get a carrot on a stick tied to your head. Surely just walking after it forever can’t be the way to get it, you must have to use some kind of combat pyramid to MMA powerlifting I,BB kettlebell that fucking carrot down… when the reality is, there is no stick.
Listening to gurus like Paul Chek and Charles Poliquin.
Trying to train for athletic ability rather than muscular size and strenght.
Explosive lifting.
Being fat-phobic.
[quote]iflyboats wrote:
Listening to gurus like Paul Chek and Charles Poliquin.
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While we all have things that work/don’t work for us,… I think every coach has at least SOMEthing worthwhile to offer. With that said, how about:
-Thinking that any ONE coach knows it all and listening blindly at the expense of shunning other advice that may have been more suitable for what I wanted to achieve (I think this applies to a LOT of the younger guys I see arguing about BS on here)
S
[quote]RMorrison wrote:
[quote]its_just_me wrote:
[quote]RMorrison wrote:
-Doing Cardio while dieting
[/quote]
Can you explain?[/quote]
When I do cardio while on a caloric defecit, my legs shrink incredibly fast. It’s different for everyone, but for me, it’s not worth it.[/quote]
Ah I see. I was going to say that it depends on how low your calorie intake is…but since you say it’s just your legs, then that may be a different story - I think you’ll find this is the same for many lifters. Many lifters mistaken fat storage on their legs for muscle (other than midsection/bum, in many individuals the legs store quite a lot of fat)…so when getting to the proper lean stages (e.g. near 10% bodyfat or under), it starts to show quite a lot in the legs since they seem to be the last to properly lean up.
Not to mention the fact that leg muscle mass is one of the largest in the body, so when dieting you maintain less muscle glycogen and this would show most in the legs (flat muscles).
Many bodybuilders are quite disappointed with how much their legs seem to shrink when dieting…it’s only after shredding (and taking a photo…not just the mirror) that many realise how lagging behind their legs are 
[quote]The Mighty Stu wrote:
While we all have things that work/don’t work for us,… I think every coach has at least SOMEthing worthwhile to offer. With that said, how about:
-Thinking that any ONE coach knows it all and listening blindly at the expense of shunning other advice that may have been more suitable for what I wanted to achieve (I think this applies to a LOT of the younger guys I see arguing about BS on here)
S[/quote]
Can this thread be edited down to this lone post, locked, and stickied please?
[quote]countingbeans wrote:
[quote]The Mighty Stu wrote:
While we all have things that work/don’t work for us,… I think every coach has at least SOMEthing worthwhile to offer. With that said, how about:
-Thinking that any ONE coach knows it all and listening blindly at the expense of shunning other advice that may have been more suitable for what I wanted to achieve (I think this applies to a LOT of the younger guys I see arguing about BS on here)
S[/quote]
Can this thread be edited down to this lone post, locked, and stickied please?
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lol come on. I think this is a pretty good thread as a whole. Lots of people can benefit.
[quote]BONEZ217 wrote:
[quote]countingbeans wrote:
[quote]The Mighty Stu wrote:
While we all have things that work/don’t work for us,… I think every coach has at least SOMEthing worthwhile to offer. With that said, how about:
-Thinking that any ONE coach knows it all and listening blindly at the expense of shunning other advice that may have been more suitable for what I wanted to achieve (I think this applies to a LOT of the younger guys I see arguing about BS on here)
S[/quote]
Can this thread be edited down to this lone post, locked, and stickied please?
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lol come on. I think this is a pretty good thread as a whole. Lots of people can benefit.[/quote]
No doubt, and I’m not trying to take anything away from anyone else. I’m just exaggerating to make a point.
Doing exactly what my friend did in the gym for about 9 months. My friend, btw, was a competitive cyclist and rugby player who already had some of the freakiest quads i’d ever seen. He just needed to look at a weight and then grow. I, on the other hand, was (and still to an extent am) a human toothpick
Not hitting my back hard. When I trained my back hard, everything else started getting stronger.
[quote]mr popular wrote:
If you consistently get into the gym often (every day or almost every day), and consistently eat enough food to grow, you will have twice the results you could have doing the best program and eating the best diet if you only followed those things once in a while.
It’s so simple that I think many newbs feel that it doesn’t make sense, or couldn’t be that obvious. A lot of guys make the mistake of believing that relying on “consistency” is the equivalent of trying to get a carrot on a stick tied to your head. Surely just walking after it forever can’t be the way to get it, you must have to use some kind of combat pyramid to MMA powerlifting I,BB kettlebell that fucking carrot down… when the reality is, there is no stick.[/quote]
Well said.
Listening to coaches when they said “You don’t need to rains arms or shoulders.”
Fat phobia/not eating enough
Reading and believing articles, ignoring the greatest forums
Wasting my money on supplements instead of food.
[quote]hit the gym wrote:
Wasting my money on supplements instead of food.[/quote]
YES!
All beginners should stop thunking in terms of $ and start thinking in terms of eggs… If X supplement costs 50$, or 300 eggs depending on where you are, FOR THE LOVE OF GOD buy the eggs.
Also, understanding just how much energy it takes to build 1 kg of muscle. Is it 14.000 kcal?
Now, consider all supplements that promise ’ 1 kg of RAW muscle’, visualize 200 eggs. That is the amount of food needed to build that muscle, no, that is the SURPLUS needed to build that kg of muscle. Now look at X supplement. Do you think a gram or two of some wild herb powder is going to amount to the effect of 200 eggs?
Why would you quantify the energy it takes to build 1kg of muscle with an estimated number?
What can be told for certain is that the energy it takes to build 1kg of lbm varies. It’s multifactoral: setpoints, enough sleep, enough stimulation for growth, enough food, years of training, etc. etc.
KISS - Keep it simple and stupid, to get big you need enough calories for your body to swim in and grow.
[quote]Tatsu wrote:
Why would you quantify the energy it takes to build 1kg of muscle with an estimated number?
What can be told for certain is that the energy it takes to build 1kg of lbm varies. It’s multifactoral: setpoints, enough sleep, enough stimulation for growth, enough food, years of training, etc. etc.
KISS - Keep it simple and stupid, to get big you need enough calories for your body to swim in and grow.[/quote]
It is for perspective, not to be taken as fact. It takes that amount, I should have said, in controlled settings to create 1 kg of lean muscle tissue. What happens when that energy enters the body is a whole nother story never to be told 
- Ma huang: Appetite suppressant which eventually led to a minor eating disorder.
- Changing programs too frequently.
- Not writing down sets, reps, and weights.
- Protein bars instead of powders. They are full of filler junk and cost more.
- Thinking I could look like Arnold or Serge as a natural.
- Doing heavy oblique work while trying to streamline my waist.
- Slow moderate cardio after my workouts while trying to gain mass.
- Thinking “I know enough about bodybuilding”
- Trying to workout with a distal bicep tendon strain.
- Low carb diet. I was mad all day.
- Wearing “wife beaters” to the gym.
I did TBT and 2 cardio days/week for 8 weeks with no change in diet. Lost 5 lbs while retaining strength and losing a little muscle. My volume and intensity was a little higher than what Chad recommended. I was really happy with the results and it was a good change of pace from my split routine.
[quote]mr popular wrote:
Too many to even count, and I’m probably doing some of them even still.
But my biggest bodybuilding fail would have to be lack of consistency. This is something that I’ve found to be so broadly overlooked, especially with beginners. If you tell a newbie that their routine doesn’t really matter, their exact diet doesn’t really matter, how much they sleep or what supplements they take doesn’t matter… they may say they get it, but this really goes in one ear and out the other.
If you consistently get into the gym often (every day or almost every day), and consistently eat enough food to grow, you will have twice the results you could have doing the best program and eating the best diet if you only followed those things once in a while.
It’s so simple that I think many newbs feel that it doesn’t make sense, or couldn’t be that obvious. A lot of guys make the mistake of believing that relying on “consistency” is the equivalent of trying to get a carrot on a stick tied to your head. Surely just walking after it forever can’t be the way to get it, you must have to use some kind of combat pyramid to MMA powerlifting I,BB kettlebell that fucking carrot down… when the reality is, there is no stick.[/quote]
^ THIS
I got incredible results doing some absolutely stupid things. My training during my “transformation” from a super fat 285 to my avatar at 205 was all over the place. But I was in the gym 6 days a week, every week, and I recorded my food intake daily, consistently, for a long time.
[quote]AdamDrew wrote:
- Ma huang: Appetite suppressant which eventually led to a minor eating disorder.
- Changing programs too frequently.
- Not writing down sets, reps, and weights.
- Protein bars instead of powders. They are full of filler junk and cost more.
- Thinking I could look like Arnold or Serge as a natural.
- Doing heavy oblique work while trying to streamline my waist.
- Slow moderate cardio after my workouts while trying to gain mass.
- Thinking “I know enough about bodybuilding”
- Trying to workout with a distal bicep tendon strain.
- Low carb diet. I was mad all day.
- Wearing “wife beaters” to the gym.
I did TBT and 2 cardio days/week for 8 weeks with no change in diet. Lost 5 lbs while retaining strength and losing a little muscle. My volume and intensity was a little higher than what Chad recommended. I was really happy with the results and it was a good change of pace from my split routine. [/quote]
I didnt want to start a debate, but there is too things here i really dont like. Blaming ephedra for a eating disorder, sorry to say herbal stimulants dont cause eating disorders. Thats on you or whose ever pressure you were feeling on you to drop weight fast. Also saying a low carb diet made you mad. Maybe tired, but your diet made you mad?
Not taking care of my hip flexors. Their tension prevents me from squatting well.
Focusing on heavy lunges to gain leg size. It sure as shit worked, but my squat numbers are still terrible.
Not deadlifting for years.
Using straps too often. I forgot to bring them one day and it had no effect on my 1RM deadlift.
Being afraid to bench heavy without a spotter.
Not eating enough.
Not doing enough foam rolling on my own time.