+ 4 Do you have what it takes to be a bodybuilder?
Lets start by saying this some guys run gear just to run it they like the look but then there's some guys than run gear to bring them to the next level in their lifestyle
Being a bodybuilder the ultimate goal is to become a pro its a lifestyle change it doesn't happen over night and might be the most dedicated thing you may ever accomplish or try!!
Lets start with the life you live now if it consists of drinking alcohol, eating what you want, and just doing what you feel like it changes sacrifices have to be made
- The diet aspect
Watching what you eat and eating healthy is good but how much do you really pay attention to what your eating??
Reading labels, counting carbs, protein ,sodium intake all the way to what you cook your food with remember everything counts your body is compared to people that eat, breathe and live diet control to get a certain
I can tell you now the sticking to your diet will be so hard not to have a chest day being my first time competing my trainers/friends who are both pros have me waking up at 4 am to eat and then fall back asleep to just ear agsin when i get up at 6 am EVERYDAY the food cost alone is hard to keep up with but when your not drinking in the bar there's your extra money to spend on food so manage it!!! Start a routine and stick to it DAY in and DAY out!!
There's some good diet information on this site of course everyone has their own to their goals so I won't post mine but mine was handed to me from two pros so its hard to keep up but definitely able to be done I changed my whole lifestyle no alcohol at all my fiancé loves it but hates the attention you get to your body jk!!! But it will happen trust me
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The training pushing yourself to another level or doing the extra cardio when you want to be sleeping or go home all I think about is being on that stage and you have to have a goal to make it happen otherwise you have a reason to stop!
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Learning how to pose with a trainer for me just doing it a few times there's some complication to do it and must be practiced
Being on gear is great to get the extra attention but wanting to do it for a lifestyle and having a site like this is great for guys that have no clue where to begin unfortunately for me I was pushed by my good friends because of my physique and dedication to everything I do!!!
Remember it's possible for anyone ask guys like vike and girls like Suzy it's a lifestyle full of dedication and hard work so if your goal is to do that start now! See how much you can push yourself!! This is just a small idea of how much hard work it is there's alot more but get the basics down and get going
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you guys are forgetting about how much genetics plays a huge role in how your body will turn out and what can be done even with hgh slin and gear
Greekmuscle1VIKING where ya at buddy it seems that most people think the gear does most of the work I promise it doesn't
Absolutely not bro!... i tell ya here and now we could all pin 50ml pr wk but without the diet and commitmant in place growth will be minimum.. trouble is with gear being in abundance these days and websites and forums pushing massive stacks to be the "norm" all the young uns want to be Mr O next year.
Let me give an example here.... when i was at my heaviest in the mid 90s (260+lbs) shit hit the fan in my personal life and i had to quit training completely (divorce, jail, house move etc ) but kept to my strict regime of eating correctly... no roids no training and it took 4yrs to lose 25lbs seriously!... that proves hard worked for well maintained muscle lasts for a long time... when training fired back up and just running a simple test cycle to get the body back used to roids the weight and strength shot back up in a matter of weeks.
Another example.. we all tend to use more compounds when on cutters or show prep!... growth tends to halt at this stage as we cut calories but use more roids?????.... this must help answer the question that more is not better and as soon as calories are raised again growth resumes.... BOOOM!... in a nutshell... its ALL about nutritional intake period.
I don't agree that it is THE most important part. Yes it is extremely important, but one won't work without the other.
You can train and take huge doses but if u don't eat u won't get results.
Then u can train and eat but not take steroids and you'll also get minimal results.
And then u can eat and take lots of steroids but if your training sucks then u won't get results.
Basically my point is that all three are just as important. You can't have one without the other.
You dont have to agree with me bro... what i am saying is that i can get massive without HGH or SLIN and dont have the HGH gut hanging out which looks fucking awful imo.... what you are trying say is that massive dosages are best!... you have yet to prove your own theory lol.. you are 185lbs right now and taking just about everything on the planet... why are you not massive bro???? how come with the gear you are running right now you are not tearing out of your clothes???.... fact is you must be doing something wrong.... my son is 24yrs old 6.2 and weighs 212 hard muscular and natural..... you need to pack a bigger punch before your argument stands up with me man.
Greekmuscle1I have to add in on this just because I also have a friend that is a few years older than your son who put on 35 pounds in one year with simply just diet EVERYONE thinks he is on juice I promise you he is not because he wouldn't know where to start!!
Well that's where genetics come in too, u can only put on so much size naturally, u took what i said wrong, i agree that diet is very important but i think if you're trying to be 300lbs u need to take big doses too, obviously it won't work without diet...
Greekmuscle1I'm not disagreeing with you I'm just saying everyone sees this huge amount of gear that PROS run but they don't realize that diet and genetics is a hugeeeee factor huge amounts of gear can make you look like a balloon but the physique is the main goal and how hard it is to get there...that's all I meant by this post
I didn't say that at all man, i just said they are all three just as important, and if u read my post again i said u can have all the gear u want but if training and diet sucks then u won't get results. I just don't think one is more important then the other. And as for me not being massive, gimme a few more months man i just started lol
Lol.. im waiting bro... dont forget about building quality size not just bloated watery fat!.... you will find the eating plans are the hardest thing of all to master and it must be 24/7 365.. this is were most stumble and fail bro... not being assed to pre/prep every night dont cut it.. prepping food must become a chore just like cleaning teeth every morning or wiping your ass... it just HAS to be done without fail or we stumble.. if we keep stumbling we fall down then we have to start at the beginning all over again... i treat bodybuilding as the most important thing in my life.. more important than work or family sometimes... you just have to be a selfish self centred bastard to achieve in this game.... my body is truely the only thing i really own.. everything else is just material gains... so it/i must always come first.
I know exactly what u mean bro, i'm literally always eating or making food and it's not fkn easy but i do it, my friends and family go crazy from it too, so i think i have what it takes man ill get back to u real soon with my massive results =)
I'm curious as to what your diet is now.
Greekmuscle1Pm me
Just for the looks and the boost of self esteem/confidence. After being the lil skinny bones kid(hectomorph) at 5"10 &130 pounds i decided to make a change and start lifting and got to 147 pounds in a few years. Later in life at 25 i decided to give aas a shoot and boom. Went to 182. Bodybuilding is a tough world, and even thought i love challenges i just dont think been a pro is my goal, more of looking for a good aesthetic look kinda like Frank Zane. The industry of Bodybuilding supplents is got to be one of the biggest scammers ever and nothing u can do about it. I spent thousands of dollars in supplements that would take me to the "next level" with minimal results. Diet is everything in this game. Good post thought....
I can definetly agree with you about it being a life style. When you body build to compete, you almost have to have OCD. You need to be meticulous and calculated with just about everything you do. Training, nutrition, sleep, supplementation (hormonal and non-hormonal); all these things have to be on point. A certain degree of mental toughness is needed too. During prep there are so many highs and lows, it can be an exhausting roller coaster ride for sure.
I competed for about 5 years. Most of my competitions took place while I was going to school and working full time. Looking back at it, I'm not really sure how I made it all work because I had absolutely no time to have a life what so ever. I think the structure of work, school and gym just seem to give me a good balance and routine at the time, so I kinda became robotic about it.
While I did do decent in competition, ultimately I decided that it wasn't for me and I needed a break. I always placed well at regional shows and qualified for nationals a couple of times. But the truth of the situation is that I'm 6ft tall and competed at 225lbs, that is not huge by any stretch in the world of bodybuilding. I had to take a step back and look at what was realistic for me and what I wanted. Truthfully, I didn't want to spend as much money on food and supplements and everything else that goes into competing. And for me to be competitive at the next level, I would have needed to be substantially larger at my height and ultimately this isn't a tall man's game. So, at 27 years old I have went back to training for myself instead of training to compete and it's a refreshing change.
Competing in bodybuilding is very rewarding. You can learn a lot about yourself going through contest prep and it's not something that everyone is able to do. Also it is one of the few things in life that gives you back exactly what you put into it. You can go to school, get a degree and may never get a good job. You can be an excellent employee at work but never get a promotion. If you are a good bodybuilder and consistent with the lifestyle, you will reap the rewards and your physique will show. Anyone who gives it a try and puts all of their effort into it will always get my respect, no matter where they place.
Nice post bro... Its all about DEDICATION plain and simple. =) +1
being an amature bodybuilder is one thing, but being a pro bodybuilder switches the game around where drugs are a major aspect of it. where HGH , AAS, and Insulin become a big part of it but of course the drugs wont work without diet, training , and drug knowledge.
plus i always hated how sites such as bodybuilding.com and pro bodybuilders cant admit that to be a pro body builder , u gotta take drugs..instead of advertising some test booster by muscle tech and some teenager go out to buy it not knowing what harm it could do or if its pure placebo pills
THink about you want them to admit to something that is illegal it wont happen
The sad thing is that's where the money is made :-( advertising "test boosters" especially with pros not guaranteeing a first second or third win at every single show. Now instead of a test booster legalize aas and have them advertising labs....think how much they would make then lol. Just a fun mind flip I'm not one of the "legalize" types but it would be cool lol. But your right being pro from my understanding is a whole other level of devotion and complex compounded cycles and diets.
Greekmuscle1I agree with you both of my boys use gh it's very expensive lifestyle but they are both pros and you are right but the diet is the most important part the gear does its extra work but there diets are crazy without that discipline their not at their level you competed you know how it pro level is a different ball game
The gear does A LOT of the work man, find me someone who takes 500mg test and eats the same diet as a pro, he won't come anywhere close in size, now add in some HGH, Slin, A couple grams of this, a gram of that and u have yourself a monster.
Greekmuscle1The gear does alot of work bud I agree but you can run all the gear you want to get big but the diet ultimately forms your ending physique like I said my two good friends are pro's and I also have friends that run grams of test, high doses of anything depending on cutting or bulking and I will tell you compare the bodies it's night and day
Ok look, neither is more important then other, it's like saying which one is more important carbs or protein and the answer is neither, u NEED both. If u want to be pro someday, u NEED high doses, obviously diet and training are very important but u can't say one is more important then the other. They all three work together, so diet is not THE most important part, it is ONE OF the most important parts.
aggreed, no doubt that the pros spend more than the average person's salary on gear each year.