poll-how old were you when you started taking the bb lifestyle seriously???

[pintoca]

Bino wanted to ask where is the pole

 

[*The_West*]

pole? or poll? i have no idea how to make the poll thing at the top of the thread, so its not strictly a poll, more a thread for people to join in and share when they started training/using aas etc. am i going to face a lawsuit for misrepresentation now?

 

[pintoca]

there's your pole

 

[*The_West*]

wow, that was like magic! how did you do that? thank you

 

[conundrum]

i probably started bb around 15-16 and i thought i was serious for the longest time. my lack of education and experience about the finer points of dieting and training misled me. it wasnt until my middle 20's that all of those things came together and that is truly when i believe it took the lifestyle seriously.

I would agree....I'm 31 now and still learning everyday.

 

[javaguru]

I still haven't taken bodybuilding seriously.

 

[Sub-Zero]

i probably started bb around 15-16 and i thought i was serious for the longest time. my lack of education and experience about the finer points of dieting and training misled me. it wasnt until my middle 20's that all of those things came together and that is truly when i believe it took the lifestyle seriously.

give some examples of stuff you thought u knew but didnt, as a teen, and how u changed them. IMO thats the most informative type of bb advice

 

[javaguru]

give some examples of stuff you thought u knew but didnt, as a teen, and how u changed them. IMO thats the most informative type of bb advice

Always trying to gain an advantage without juicing...if you want to be a bodybuilder "juice" is always at the end of the road. I applaud your desire to get as big as you can natty.

 

[Sub-Zero]

Always trying to gain an advantage without juicing...if you want to be a bodybuilder "juice" is always at the end of the road. I applaud your desire to get as big as you can natty.

thanks man.

other than the good bros at this website, iv been instructed by people i respect very much to try and hold off untill im 25.

i think im going to wait till i have a stable income, so if i fuck my hormones up, i dont put it on my parents to finanically bail me out

 

[GUARDIAN]

give some examples of stuff you thought u knew but didnt, as a teen, and how u changed them. IMO thats the most informative type of bb advice

1) i followed routines of my favorite pros instead of experimenting with different rep ranges, sets, and exercises.

2) I remember I was working at McDonald's during high school and I thought if I ate their hamburgers it was an adequate protein source. I made some right decisions there eventually by only eating their grilled chicken.

3) Mind-Muscle connection: I either did whatever it took to complete the rep or i was simply moving the weight and not concentrating on making the muscle work.

4) I used that god awful Weight Gainer 5000 thinking that would pack on the muscle.

5) I bought these sugary "body building" energy drinks at the gym for workouts. I think they contained around the same nutritional content as a MT. Dew.

6) I missed meals.

7) I did not get adequate rest by way of sleep or with days off.

8) I didnt train certain body parts such as rear delts and hamstrings directly.

9) I wasnt keeping track of cals/protein/fat/carbs. I mean it wasnt super important that i knew those figures exactly at that stage but i would of had a better idea if i was eating enough to grow or taking in enough protein.

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