Knowing what you know now. Would you have started working out earlier...

Knowing what you know now. Would you have started working out earlier? I would have started at middle school we even had a weight room we could have used.

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Maybe light lifting, but mostly eating more. I started as a 120 lb skelly at 5'9 kill myself. Life could have been so much better at a normal body weight.

started at 16, prefered at 15 but i cant complain

Frankly? Wouldn't have mattered all that much. I was bullied mercilessly when I was a kid. In high school I even had some small interest in the weight room, but not only was I not taken seriously, I was mocked and bullied mercilessly there, too, and being a combination of tall, quiet, and non-violent just made it that much worse. In retrospect it would have taken an adult authority figure (likely one of the coaches) who was respected by the other students, taking an interest in my development, to have gotten me involved in athletic things. But then there's other obstacles: there are certain foods that I seem to have problems with, that sap my energy and endurance, that back in the day nobody, and certainly not my parents, would have believed was real. Didn't find out about that until I was way into my adult years. Then there's my parents themselves, especially my mother. Anything athletic? She would have thrown a panicked fit over the idea, screaming and crying about how I was going to end up in the emergency room, or dead, or crippled for life or some such paranoid shit, and my father would have gone along with it just to shut her up, and that would have been the end of that; I would have been forbidden from whatever it was I wanted to do, no discussion. So between the social aspect (athletes at my highschool beating on me mercilessly, making me hate them and everything athletic in the end) and my own parents being clueless, when I was a kid it wouldn't have mattered.

I wanted to lift weights when I was seven, but was too afraid to ask. My dad was a lifter during his youth, but stopped just before my birth due to contracting a mosquito borne disease. When I started lifting as a teenager, he said he would have coached me when I was young and his body could handle it.

Now I'm just a terminally ill waste waiting to die. Lifting and being active instead of underweight and depressed would have saved me.

Some depressing posts up in here.

Nigga I know nothing and still haven't started lifting.

I would have started doing gear at like 16, not even joking, it would have pushed my natty peak to much much higher level

Knowing what I know now, I would order so GH

Would it have had a permanent good effect on your body and facial structure? e.g. thicker wrists, wider shoulder, bigger jaw, etc?

I dont think so. GH mostly affects length of bones

It would fuck your face up pretty fast. Huge head and shit.

The moment I stopped growing up (which was at 15) I would start lifting heavy as fuck.

hint: your cranium is bone tissue

Really? Lots of bodybuilders and pro athletes' frames have changed drastically. 4:17 of this vid John Cena admits to having acromegaly
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And if you compare pics of him from now to ten years ago, it's not just his muscles but frame too that have grown.

Lifting doesn't stunt your growth unless you go to snap city. And decompressing your spine by hanging by your hands off a rafter or something helps too.

Maybe, but what I really would have done is not stop lifting from 19-20 and then 21-22. I've had two years consecutively on lifting now. if I had just maintained even for those 20 months or so total I stopped I could be so further along.

I would hate it to stunt my growth so there would be finding thr balance but i would have loved to start at 14 as opposed to 16. Not because of the gains but the confidence etc.. like instead of spending all day eating doritos drinking pepsi while playing vidya i could have been playing sports which would help my mental health i'd overall be a better person. Maybe then i would have had some freinds and i could go out and enjoy the last 2 years of high school, partying and meeting girls.

I started lifting as soon as my voice dropped, lifting weights before that wouldn't have done much of anything, but I would have done some cardio before puberty hit just to get rid of excess body fat beforehand

Well, I know about that. Wouldn't want to risk anyway, lol. Still, it would require my current mindset, which is obviously different than when I was 15.

Look The incredibly strong kids. 3 year olds doing 20 muscle ups in a row. Jesus. I imagine how strong is be if I started

Yeah, I would've started lifting at the age of 16, adjusting my diet and all that kind of stuff.
I'd still be that super introverted kid at my class, but atleast I'd look good and not be as negative as I used to be back then.

Hey user, eat some healthy and tasty food (ethnic food usually has some nice veggies n protein that don't taste shitty) and then do some workouts. Whatever you want, man; lifting, cardio, bodyweight - whatever works for you. Best of luck bro.

I would tell my fat self to stop fucking eating so much shit food, start eating clean. socialise more with other kids so i'd have some experience in the futre. Also start taking care of my fucking hair when i was young, maybe that way i wouldn't end up 19 and already balding.

I would start lifting at 14 and then start crushing mad puss at 15 when I lost my virginity.

Had two friends in middle school and junior high that were High test and buff as fuck because they started out at 13-14.

Met them again recently, they haven't grown an inch in height since.

Testosterone seals the bone growth, no need to become a manlet. Lots of time to get buff at 18-21

>19 and balding

See this is why I come to Veeky Forums, it makes me feel way better about myself.

At least I'm not fat and balding at 19, thanks user!

I'm not fat anymore, and i'm saving for a hair transplant but you're welcome user. I too come to Veeky Forums to laugh at manlets.
>tfw your dad and brother are both 5'10
>tfw you are 6'2''
I'm pretty sure my mom must've cheated on my dad but fuck it. Thanks for fucking tall guy mom.

You would actually have to break a bone to stunt growth though, right?

I read somewhere that pull ups, chin ups and generally all kind of exercises that require you to hang help you stretch and therefore grow.(not much but still) is that true or is this the same kind of bullshit as spot reduction?

>Testosterone seals the bone growth

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Sometimes we fuck ourselves up. Hindsight is always 20/20, so don't worry about that too much.

>tfw I'm a manlet

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Literally me, except for the balding.