posted Thu, 04/04/2024 - 12:22
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+ 4 How Many Years Have you Been Training for in Total?
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This is the Total number of years you have been lifting weights for, it can include years during high school even if you then took a number of years off afterwards etc. Everything added up for the time you have spent lifting the Iron!
How Many Years Have you Been Training for in Total?
Up to 1 year
1 - 2 years
2 - 5 years
5 - 10 years (Boss Level 1 Bronze Bog roll Holder)
10 - 15 years (Boss Level 2 Silver Medal)
15 - 20 years (Boss Level 3 Gold Status)
20 years Plus (I AM INVINCIBLE!)
Total votes: 63
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I didn't know about Eroids yet. And I ordered an enanthate and deca test on an unknown website. and Tamox. Yes, I didn’t know a lot of things at all. But a week later I received a package with my order. My bench press went up 15kg. And libido soared into space. I didn't tell anyone about this and I didn't have a coach. I followed the path of trial and error. My only regret is that I didn’t order dbol then)))
25 years off and on. With bouts of crohns flares. Natty up until 25. Then fell in love with gear. Popped my cherry with test prop. Got upto 440 on the squat with titanium nails and bracket on right leg. 315 on the bench. Love using the Smith machine and the rope pull down.
I lost my Virginity on Test Prop too!!! I read some bad advice online and was convinced thats what you had to go with Lmao I will NEVER forget that first day bud that I injected. Gear arrived at lunchtime and I injected straight away, but of course with Prop there is a wait until bang 8 hours later that ester comes off and it hits the blood pretty much full force. Well all afternoon I'm thinking man this feels no different, whats the big deal about being on steroids lol??? I was heading out through town driving in my car sat at the traffic lights - when all of a sudden this incredible, euphoric absolutely awesome feeling runs through me!!! All 50mg's of my first ever Test prop synthetic testosterone experience, just couldn't believe how amazing it felt. Fresh receptors being hit with prop I will never forget, wish I could get that feeling again.
33 years off and on. With only self-sabotaging drug runs in between. Get huge, get smoked out, huge, smoked out. My friends used to call me the incredible shrinking man. I'd get jacked, then lose 80lbs on a tirade of heroin and benzos. Natty my whole life up until a year ago, with the exception of a short run of Andro back in the 90s while it was still on the GNC shelves. I do have great genetics for it, but I will say that building the foundation with my own generic capacity was the way to go. And I absolutely condone that for anybody that comes at me asking about gear. If you haven't began the journey naturally, I will be of no assistance to you, in terms of aiding you to obtain hormones of any kind. It's ignorant, lazy, and self destructive to do so and I won't have any part of it.
Another awesome poll Press!!! Appreciated as always brother!
LMAO 'The Incredible Shrinking Man!!! I use to be exactly like that mate when I was natty - one minute I'd be really into training with some good consistent lifting in me for a year or two, then the next I was back in drinking zone looking gaunt and washed out, hungover and just a general mess. I could see it in myself too and was forever just going round in circles. Hope you are Well buddy!!
Yes sir brother, I'm sure glad those days are over. I'm good bro! Things couldn't be much better to be honest. Just started my spring/summer cut. Feeling good, just ready to get my tan on and show off the hard work. Ya know? Hope everything is good with you brother!
Things are pretty good actually mate - Just started a proper Bench programme which I have never done before and already the results are way better, I use to go off feeling in the past and tried to go as heavy as possible all the time which in the end ends up making you burnt out and weaker. This is all properly calculated %'s - I'm excited mate! Was already stronger and more powerful just after 1 session of using it. Could be the start of a new era for me
That's right! Gotta shake it up sometimes. Can't be afraid to try something new either. Sometimes that's exactly what we need to get the gains we're shooting for. Good shit brother! Hope you get to where you're trying to go. Keep me posted on it.
Started at 16 and stole pro hormones from the local pharmacy. Went from benching 180 to 295 at 171lbs. We had a bench 100 over body weight club for football. Probably took some years off my liver with that stuff lol.
What Prohormones were you using buddy - Superdrol, M1T & things like that?
androstene and some others. I used one called trenedrol or something in college and that crap made me PR in bench in under 30 days. . Glad my liver still works after that.
I once tried one called Trenavar that was supposed to be a trenbolone prohormone, it did feel quite like it but obv there was no testosterone alongside it so you felt half asleep most of the time, did make you stronger though lol
Trenevar sounds familiar. Was it a bottle of 30 pills from ebay?
As long as life allows it. I would love to be put the time in to be INVINCIBLE! lol 37 now so around 52-53ish lol
Extra Bonus point if anyone can name the Film that line is from?!! Lol
AK80James Bond's Golden Eye. All we had in high school in the mid 90's was Twin Labs Ripped Fuel, some ATP from Walmart and creatine mixed with grapefruit juice. But somehow this sophomore with a full on beard was benching 405 and some skinny kid squatted low 500's. I made the 1,000 pound club @ 150lbs as a senior with a 300 bench, 360 squat and 340 dead lift.
YESSS!!! I didn't think anyone would get that - NATALIA!! You know I actually had some of the Twin Labs Ripped Fuel in the silver cylinder thing, I remember it was like yellow paste but didn't use much of it, can't even remember what it did now!! I always got great strength results from that Muscletech Celltech stuff that was so sweet it made you wanna puke! Seemed like it was crammed with caffeine too as it made you extremely edgy afterwards.
Actually seems crazy to me when I answer that, about 35 years. I blame Geoff Capes. Strongman for those more youthful that don’t know the name lol.
I know the name buddy! I must admit I was later to the game when I began watching WSM on TV, it was during the Pudzianowski years and then with the eruption of Eddie on it.
I started my gym journey in June 2013. I actually had a really fast progress since the day one, but chasing the big boy weights for the last decade has left me with so many injuries, the worst one is messed up AC joint (aka powerlifter shoulder). Still trying to fix it.
The first time I “went to the gym” was about 20 years ago when I was 15 but I didn’t include that because I didn’t know wtf I was doing and thought along the lines of “Yeah! As long as I show up 3x a week and do Todd bicep curl machine I’ll be looking like Arnold and swimming in pussy next year when I get my drivers license!!!”
Fast forward 5 years to when I was 20 and that’s when I started training consistently, learned how to diet, progressive overloads, linear strength training programs, etc.
That has me at 15 years of consistent, (realistic) goal oriented training with no more than a few months off here or there due to injury & life’s bullshit.
It’s funny now because I work in Sales and AT LEAST 3 clients a month ask me where I played college football and I tell them I didn’t start strength training until I was out of college.
Started when I was around 14-15 after watching a rocky movie with him training and the music lol , begged my mum for a weights set. Who remembers then shabby York benches with the leg raise and silly fly arms with the big foam pads on … yellow plastic weights full of plaster of Paris and you could hear the plaster rattling around after it’s got broken. The weights were fat horrible things , looked like you had crazy weight on the bar when in reality it’s was about 50kg. That’s where and when my obsession with weights and training began
Ohh Yes matey - I had one of those very York benches!! Mine was black with the red writing on the cushion with the lovely Butterfly attachment arms on Lmao I have to admit, when I first got into it i loved those attachments. If you hadn't trained before and didn't know about the dumbell flyes those pivoted arms felt awesome!! Got a right stretch across the chest with them, never liked the leg extension though as that truly did feel shit LOL Yeah I had the 32kg concrete weight set too - the 4.5kg Discs were massive weren't they. When you had all the discs lined across that thin bar and you could press it you felt like He-Man didn't you LMFAO Thats when you moved onto the black cast iron set that were less than half the size and all of a sudden you felt like a faggot as it looked like there was nothing on it again!!
I have my dads sears set from like 1960 lol. The weights are filled with sand I think. The bench is like 14 inches wide from bar to bar lol and it’s got the leg extension foam thing on the other end. All the weights on it is like maybe 75 pounds
Speaking of early training days, how many people here remember Ultimate Orange??
Oh my now that’s back in the day that shit was insane wasn’t it never had a pre workout like it since
Idk wtf was in it, but I swear if u drank too much you would be cooked! I prob had my highest heart rate ever on that stuff!
AK80Ephedrine. The new formula has DMHA/DMAA and Ephedra. Not quite as harsh, but still gets the job done. USP Labs Jack3d had a cult following until they took it off the shelves after 2008.
Jacked was amazing. Also the original no explode that had 20mg of protein per serving lol. The very last one I got that still had DHMA in it was Kraken and I still have a couple tubs but they're super soggy and clumped up.
I remember the name of it but never took it.
Started training at about 17 with not much direction or knowledge on doing it correctly as far as sticking to a fundamental program. Did this til about 21ish, partying started to take control, training faded off. Drank hard everyday for about 16 years. Stopped drinking, started picking up the weights again, here I am at 44 in the best physical shape of my adult life. Started dabbling in anabolics about 2 years ago.
Best in my opinion to hit the anabolics later in life around 40ish. The first cycle and results were the best from my remembrance
Shit our lives pretty much match each others apart from I began using AAS some years before you bud, I think we all wish we never got swayed by the bottle but some things you just gotta put down to a bad decision in life and move on from mate
That’s it brother. I’m not ashamed to talk about my shortcomings, although I’m ashamed of things I did during those years. The important thing is, those days are in the past and we have better days ahead!
Do worry about it chad lot of bodybuilders did gay for pay look at him with the grapefruit, your not alone lol
The thing that I find sad buddy is when I run into old friends/acquaintance's from those days and they are still all wrapped up in it now. Got out the car the other night and a guy I knew back then came up and started hugging me in the street and high fiving me lol I was stood thinking why is he sooo happy to see me but then I remembered he is probably drunk & he was - very. We had a laugh and he went on his way but I walked into my place feeling sad that the way things will clearly end for him is in drink and he can't see it, none of us could till we came out of it all.
Oh yea. It’s always crazy running into old friends that still party and have seen better days as far as physical prowess lol. Most of my old friends are fat and out of shape, I’ll always get a look when I see them like wtf man!! You were a fat raging drunk last time I saw you!!
I started drinking weigh gainer 2000 when I was 10. Got into forced calisthenics at the programs for wayward youth I attended as a teen. Started lifting the day I started my first cycle of deca only 300mg a week for 10 weeks. And I've been a juice monkey since. Out of the 20 years since I started, I probably only spent 10 lifting.
Thing with training is its consistency that makes all the difference, I've had people say to me yeah but you were lifting even when you were a late teenager - which is true, but at the end of the day if you then stop training for several years you are basically back to square one again. Really have to keep it up to be the best you can be, I personally don't believe in muscle memory as I have never regained strength more quickly due to me lifting in the past. What I believe in is the fact because you have lifted in the past, you know how to execute the exercise properly and how to progress it quicker in terms of loading weight. You know the rep ranges you should be hitting and how many sets, a newbie doesn't. You also know how to eat right, getting the right proteins and carbs in and how important rest and sleep are. So you can effectively fast track yourself with all that prior knowledge.
I agree with you brother but muscle memory actually does work for me. I stopped lifting after my surgery for my pec tear and turned into a scrawny girl. Just a week in the gym and my muscles filled right back up. Weird as hell. It's mostly shoulders, chest and arms for me that come back like I never stopped. Definitely harder to stay consistent but quitting rolling allowed me to get past all the injuries and get healthy so I can stay in the gym consistently. Way harder to stay motivated without at least trt. Good to hear that you never fall off though. I feel like a damn yoyo.
I was 13 when I started bouncing around the gym with my uncle who was a big time bench press power lifter. He hit 600 in his 30s. Then came middle school football and it really started rolling in highschool as we lifted every day unless it was a weekend. I’m 34 now and the knurl on a bar is instant gratification.
Man that must have been awesome having a mentor/family member like that guiding you and showing you the ropes in everything you have to do. A lot of the guys in the IPF have fathers who were successful powerlifters who have basically coached them from being small kids, must be brilliant.
Its funny. As good as my father was at lifting it was always one of those Father/Son kind of things. He would tell me to do this or that and Im like you are crazy old man. You have no idea what you are saying. Didn't matter he had all the gold medals hanging in our hallway. I always thought I knew better. At 81 he can still probably out snatch me and clean and jerk. I always took direction from other people better than my father despite his wealth of knowledge.
One of the first things he taught me was the "hook grip" I still use it for alot of bodybuilding lifts.
I get exactly where you are coming from - Because HE is telling you as your father you naturally reject the knowledge and help, where as if your uncle was saying it you'd probably listen LOL Mate the amount of times I've tried mastering Hook grip for deadlifts and in the end thought Sod that haha I Just do not get how that can be a more secure grip than having all of your fingers placed securely round the bar - it feels like my thumb tendons are going to sheer apart too!! I just get the figure 8's on in the end.
I never really caught on. I always had more “caveman strength” than go deadlift 500lbs. The two years I did strong man training (around 22-24) was a blast and I was an ox. Then I got married and the kid came along lol.
Are you going to take your child to the gym when they are old enough or buy them a set for home?
I’m about to start her in bjj. I hope to have a personal setup in the next 5 years.
That's a great move - I wish my parents had pushed me into martial arts when I was younger, nobody ever messes with the kids in high school who have done that kind of thing. Toughest guy in my year at school who everyone was scared shitless of was a Boxer.
Father was big into Olympic Lifting. Won Pana-American Games, National records, State records from teh time he was 16 yrs old and still lifts at 81yrs old. So I come form a lifting background. I started when I was roughly 14yrs old with Olympic Lifting. Then got a little more into Bodybuilding in college cause you know Girls! Im 45 now. So its been a solid 30yrs. And by 30 years I mean I never stopped or took a break. Christmas, Easter, Holidays. I don' tcare we went to the gym as a family.
Sounds brilliant buddy, even more so that he is still lifting at 81 years old. Its a pretty big thing over in the UK nowadays and everyone seems to be a member of a gym these days, but decades back lifting weights in your teenage years was definitely more of an American thing - it was quite rare over here and there were quite big scares about the fact that it could fuse your growth plates together if you started too young. Pretty tough to get into any gym if you were under 16 years old.