Pff, I get sick sometimes and people in my social enviroment will relate it to my eating and will label it as unhealthy. No comprehension of something and people will try to fill in the gaps.
Eventually your parents will come over to your side when they see what a positive effect training has on your life.
My mom was the same when I started and just last month she asked me what kind of protein powder she should use 
Took a couple years but yeah.
[quote]trav123456 wrote:
Eventually your parents will come over to your side when they see what a positive effect training has on your life.
My mom was the same when I started and just last month she asked me what kind of protein powder she should use
Took a couple years but yeah.[/quote]
I was “lucky” in that my parents weren’t against my hobby, they just thought I was weird 
13: I forgot the biggest one of all…Starting my weightlifting with a pair of 3.6 kg dumbbells, doing hundreds of reps per set. My parents wouldn’t let me buy weights or go to a gym ( 16-18 year agelimit where I live) so that wasted a few years.
When i first started working out about 5 years ago
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Trying to lose fat and gain muscle at the same time VIA eating whatever i wanted and going to the gym 2 hours 5 days a week
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NEVER getting in enough protein
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Not Training legs
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Following Training routines from Muscle + Fitness
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Trying to get abs from doing about 7500 crunches a day and buying a roller pin ab wheel thingy
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Not doing cardio… ever…
More Recent:
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Talking to people at the gym who later reveal that they are swingers
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Getting 60% of daily cals after workouts instead of maybe 30%
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Eating more green Veggies
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Training calves ridiculously heavy (500lbs+)
Here’s one you don’t often see:
Muscle loss phobia - Eating a certain amount of food (because you’re too afraid to drop calories by much in case you lose muscle) and having to do more cardio to burn fat that would have quite easily “melted off” if calories were simply dropped some more (although not at the expense of protein intake - that’s kept high, especially on a diet).
^ This usually works well for those above a certain level of body fat. Obviously, dropping calories by too much in one go is not the way to go either.
Going to the gym for far too long without a clear plan or anything and just working out erratically.
- Immediate and careless bulking by using the ridiculous See-Food diet and not watching the muscle/fat gain ratio.
Then…
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After realizing how much fat has been gained from bulk BUT ignoring the fact that muscle has been added as well, PULL a complete 180 degree turn with an immediate and careless CUT that results in massive amounts of muscle and fat lost, dropping from 250 lbs to 210 lbs. Congrats, Channing Tatum level has been reached.
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Worrying and over complicating shit that doesn’t even matter in the end.
I know i’m not advanced yet but listening to people say “You can’t get that big”. Even if your motivation is a Mr.Olympia there is nothing wrong with thinking you can get that big. It will just make you work harder. The word can’t is demotivating in general.
Since I still consider myself a newb I know I’ll make many more mistakes, but I’ll just consider them lessons learned. But for me the big 3 are:
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Being Carb-phobic, I was an out of shape teen and hate the thought of ever getting that way again. It wasn’t until I really drilled the idea that with my new level of activity it most likely wasn’t going to happen that I got over my fear and put on a new focus on my daily nutrition
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Excessive supplement purchasing: Oddly enough I now work in a supplement store, but the knowledge I’ve gained here (my boss is a true guru) I know the good from the bad.
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Comparing myself to others: I’ve always been competitive, so even when I was first starting out I tried to put myself up against my fellow gym rats. I wasn’t so much concerned that I couldn’t lift as much as them or didn’t have the same physique, I always wanted to be able to get the same level of respect as they did. And in trying to get that, I failed miserably. Now I’ve learned to just do my thing, help others if they ask for it, and with that had come the respect I appreciate.
[quote]K-Man32 wrote:
I know i’m not advanced yet but listening to people say “You can’t get that big”. Even if your motivation is a Mr.Olympia there is nothing wrong with thinking you can get that big. It will just make you work harder. The word can’t is demotivating in general. [/quote]
Someone telling me i cant do something is essentially a catapult for my ambition. Words like Cant or Obsessed are terms the lazy use to describe the dedicated.
[quote]Akuma01 wrote:
[quote]K-Man32 wrote:
I know i’m not advanced yet but listening to people say “You can’t get that big”. Even if your motivation is a Mr.Olympia there is nothing wrong with thinking you can get that big. It will just make you work harder. The word can’t is demotivating in general. [/quote]
Someone telling me i cant do something is essentially a catapult for my ambition. Words like Cant or Obsessed are terms the lazy use to describe the dedicated.[/quote]
Thanks, ill be adding that one to the internal hard-drive (my brain).
Not starting sooner.