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Hiatussin
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I just started lifting again after a 2 year break. I´m 19 now.
I let the discussions get to me a bit too much in HS and i became kind of paranoid, you know, am i not wasting my time training x way... its very demotivating.
Then I saw all the pinheads who trained a certain way because of "what it does to your black blood cells and how it expands your ribcage and how which kind of curl brings out which part of the bicep" and other anti-medical crap. I´m a med student and would explain to them how these systems dont even exist and they´d mock me since they were bigger than me.
I guess what really kept me from succeeding was a lack of motivation itself.
There´s always some idiot with good genes and good motivation, who has the results that he accredits to some theory he can´t even spell.
My old gym was a hardcore gym. A few high level BB´ers there, getting trained by a woman who used to compete, a complete idiot. She´d worn her body out she had serious scoliosis, looked like a man or a eunuch of some sort and looked like a dry raisin at about 50. She wore one of these superstitious magnetic healing necklaces and took it very serious. She put these guys on no-fat diets and silly crap.
All this bullshit like should you move slow or fast, should you isolate or compound, should you be smooth or explosive, can you change the shape as well or only the size of a muscle... etc etc
each of these debates SUCKS and bugs me. I´m through paying any attention to them.
Compound explosive movements are the most fun and that will be what I stick by. I have a big build, I have shoe size 15, stand about 6"5. I didn´t touch a weight in 2 years, lived off pizza, candy bars and beer.
I can deadlift 320 lbs, bench the 55 lbs dumbbells for sets of 10 and do the seated lat pulldowns with 200 lbs. there´s lots of stories about freaks on forums like this but I think that´s good natural strength. Keep in mind I did not do any sports or lifting and ate poorly for 2 years. Thing is, I´m pessimist. I can see myself plateau-ing very soon again.
I just want to ask- Unless you´re a pro, eating down to the gram, never missing sleep, never drinking, never miss a workout- Does it really fucking matter if you do sets of 10 or 12 reps? Whether you do hammer curls or normal curls? What´s the point in philosophizing about these things. The most succesful lifters Ive seen have always been clueless idiots who do well because they don´t think about this stuff and just LIFT
end rant.
I let the discussions get to me a bit too much in HS and i became kind of paranoid, you know, am i not wasting my time training x way... its very demotivating.
Then I saw all the pinheads who trained a certain way because of "what it does to your black blood cells and how it expands your ribcage and how which kind of curl brings out which part of the bicep" and other anti-medical crap. I´m a med student and would explain to them how these systems dont even exist and they´d mock me since they were bigger than me.
I guess what really kept me from succeeding was a lack of motivation itself.
There´s always some idiot with good genes and good motivation, who has the results that he accredits to some theory he can´t even spell.
My old gym was a hardcore gym. A few high level BB´ers there, getting trained by a woman who used to compete, a complete idiot. She´d worn her body out she had serious scoliosis, looked like a man or a eunuch of some sort and looked like a dry raisin at about 50. She wore one of these superstitious magnetic healing necklaces and took it very serious. She put these guys on no-fat diets and silly crap.
All this bullshit like should you move slow or fast, should you isolate or compound, should you be smooth or explosive, can you change the shape as well or only the size of a muscle... etc etc
each of these debates SUCKS and bugs me. I´m through paying any attention to them.
Compound explosive movements are the most fun and that will be what I stick by. I have a big build, I have shoe size 15, stand about 6"5. I didn´t touch a weight in 2 years, lived off pizza, candy bars and beer.
I can deadlift 320 lbs, bench the 55 lbs dumbbells for sets of 10 and do the seated lat pulldowns with 200 lbs. there´s lots of stories about freaks on forums like this but I think that´s good natural strength. Keep in mind I did not do any sports or lifting and ate poorly for 2 years. Thing is, I´m pessimist. I can see myself plateau-ing very soon again.
I just want to ask- Unless you´re a pro, eating down to the gram, never missing sleep, never drinking, never miss a workout- Does it really fucking matter if you do sets of 10 or 12 reps? Whether you do hammer curls or normal curls? What´s the point in philosophizing about these things. The most succesful lifters Ive seen have always been clueless idiots who do well because they don´t think about this stuff and just LIFT
end rant.
Sorry, couldn't resist. 
