+ 5 Top 3 Excuses I Hear for not taking the Stage
3: I’ll have to use tren to be competitive and I don’t/can’t use it.
Sorry to burst your bubble here, but tren is not essential to win a comp. My cycle didn’t include any tren a or tren e and still mopped the floor with everyone. If your diet and conditioning are spot on then you will place. There are a multitude of compounds out there and tren is just one of them, but it is not an essential one. So that is no longer an excuse you can use.
2: I don’t have a trainer and don’t want to spend the money to get one.
With the multitude of resources out there available at your finger tips, you don’t need a personal trainer to set up your cycle, monitor your diet, set up a lifting routine for you and so on and so on. Granted it may be easier for someone to hold your hand the whole way, but if you know how to research it is unnecessary. My trainer was eroiods. If you need to know something ask and it will be answered and answered thouroughly. Everybody asked me who my trainer was at my competition and I told them I am self trained and their jaws hit the floor. There is a competition prep group right here on eroids. The knowledge available in that group is more than any single one trainer could provide you and the guys in there really know their stuff.
1: I am not big enough
I hear this way too often. As bodybuilders we are never satisfied with our size. We are always on a quest to become bigger. With this excuse you will never go on the stage because we are never satisfied that we are big enough. Reality check, you are not in the IFBB so you do know there are weight classes. You are competing against others in the same weight class. If you are a middleweight, you are not competing against someone who weighs 60 lbs heavier than you. That person is way off your radar in the superheavies, so don’t worry about it.
Another excuse that goes along with I am not big enough is that I want to come in on the top end of my weight class. That is what I tried to do also but it didn’t work out that way. I lost a lot more weight than I thought I would. I came in at the very bottom end of my weight class. A couple of pounds lighter and I would have been in the lightweights. Even at the bottom end of my weight class I still owned the stage. It all comes down to conditioning so don’t worry where you fall within your weight class.
Now that I have taken away all your excuses for not competing, it’s time for you to get out there and show them what you’ve got. You won’t regret it and you’ll have the time of your life doing it.
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To be honest for a "sport" that is supposed to be manly i find posing the least manly thing someone can do.
Never been called out so hard!
Even if you don't place the experience you gain from it all the way from doing an actual prep to stepping on stage will be invaluable.
There was a guy at the last show I spectated at that said that exact thing.
I'm feeling more and more like competing, but my main excuse...gyno. pre puberty shit so its been bothering me forever now. waiting til I have the shit removed and I'll have a much better confidence.
It's not the worst, and with enough adex and cold air Id probably go for it now.
I'm seeing it is kinda common in competitors and they don't seem to shy away from it but it bothers me to much.
My excuse isn't really an excuse but more or less being super self conscious. I lost a lot of weight in the past and it left me with loose skin and stretch marks on my Lower abs.. Today however it is significantly tighter then it was. Stretch marks are there but they are more noticeable only when I bend over but I've worked so hard over the years I figured fuck it! If they judge me on 1 area then so be it!! My goal is and was to try to be the most conditioned guy when I finally take that plunge in 4 1/2 weeks so the judges have more to look at then what I consider my biggest flaw!
AnonI have same problem bro... So many ups and downs over the years has left me with stretch marks... The loose skin is minimal though so I'm not too bad there but those stretch marks get on my nerves
And there's that self criticism trait manifesting itself lol!
You'll do great mate.
I can't help it but it does keep me pushing myself at least!! Lol !
Look into red light therapy for those stretch marks. It reallly seems to work and heals up scars and everything.
Like at the tan salon?
Yea. It is a bed you can lay down in just like a tanning bed but instead of tanning it heals your skin. I used everyday for 3 weeks straight before my comp and it really helped to tighten up my skin.
I'm doing it !!
Cool, let me know how it works out for you.
Yet another excellent post brother! I will even say with me I honestly have had no intention of ever competing but in the last 2.5 years hear my progression has been on a linear path and with just a cut in BF and a little more work on calves and forearms I think maybe, maybe I could one day do it. No excuses, it is all me.
Your own progression Makwa has been inspiring, if I recall we joined around the same time and you have took the ball and ran with it bro. Congrats on a job well done.
Thanks. It nice to be able to cross something off of your bucket list. Now I have got the bug for it.
I bet you would be surprised how good those calves and foreams look when they are all full veins no matter what size they are.
Viking has me doing calf raises every day, it has been about a month now and I am seeing progress but I can also see it is going to take awhile..
Calves need to be utterly hammered to grow. Way past the point when most people stop. Mine are crap too. Sometimes the fascia needs stretching to allow growth. You know where I'm going with this right?
Fascia stretching is definitely an area I have slacked on.
Do it all the time via site injections and immediate training of said site next day. Pain is temporary my friend.
Also deep tissue massages work wonders. With the dedication to both the sky is the limit.
Sounds painful but something that needs to be done.
My calves suck too. They are going to get blasted over the next year. I also thought my legs were a weak point, but once I got down to uber-low BF I was suprised how great they looked. They could always use more mass but I was impressed with what was there, especially the separation and vascularity. They looked in proportion with the rest of my body.
A lot of guys just do not have the mentality to put in the hard diet and cardio work to bring the full package to the stage and that's probably why they don't compete. I know that when I decide a show date, it really dials me in. I may feel like shit at times throughout my prep, but you have to work through it. I may wake up and not feel like doing my fast morning cardio some days, but again, the people with the right mindset will work through it.
Competing isn't for everyone, that's for sure. I have seen plenty of guys on stage that shouldn't be up there over the years. They have great physiques, but don't come in conditioned well enough for a show.
It is definitely a change in lifestyle for the months while prepping. You really need to grind it out and that definitely isn't going to work for everyone.
Here's a reality check, we all think that. Members here come from all walks of life, different places, different jobs, different likes and dislikes. We pretty much all have one thing in common in my experience. When we look in the mirror, all we see are the faults. "My chest is weak", "my calves are crap" etc.
The worst person to decide if your competition worthy is usually yourself. We are, by definition, highly self critical as a group of people. Why else would we put ourselves through what we do?
I think we all are like a bunch of teenage girls with an eating disorder, except ours is called muscle dysmorphia. lol
That sure is the truth. I hear it all the time from my girlfriend "you're never going to be satisified with how big you are", and she is right.
I think this applies to most members on this board.
It's both positive, in the sense that you're always critiquing yourself and improving upon yourself no matter how minute the detail, and negative, in the sense that the dissatisfaction can end up consuming you. It's quite the delicate balancing act you guys perform here, but from my short time on this board I think it's been mostly positive, as no matter how much you guys try to improve yourselves, you always take the time to pass the knowledge onto other members, and help them improve themselves along the way.
We're certainly "unique", that's for sure.
just copied that quote, that's how I see it also
I may not be the long post type of guy but I can cut to the chase with the best of us.
I can't stop eating :(
4 I don't want to wear those grape-smugglers
LOL Great post, thanks for sharing your experiences.
The grapes are more raisins after the prep cycle so there isn't much to smuggle.lol
Yay! And you get to show them off to everyone in the building. Wish they went back to the classic trunks instead of the ones guys wear now.
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