Things you wish you knew when you started lifting

>mfw with a proper diet and program I've made more progress in a month than in a year

EAT BIG TO GET BIG

don't underestimate the importance of post-workout stretching

>stretching
>ever
Why?

cardio is good

This. A healthy heart is the GOAT muscle

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No amount of lifting will cure your autism

Post work out stretching is an unscientific meme.
Do yoga on your off days instead.

i never stretch. sometimes i do assisted squat because i want to go deeper when doing squats.

should i stretch, why?

What if I don't have an off day

Follow a program do not make up your own shit you DO NOT have the knowledge for this. Also learn what periodization is.

or your depression for that matter
It can only make it a bit better.

>t. invisible melon courier

Macros are a meme. A lot of wasted time and money but now I move forward with that knowledge

Make sure you eat protein on your off days

nice dubs but this should be common knowledge, wtf

6 day PPLs are better than 3 day 5x5s.

Eat big to get big

Yeah diet is big, wish I would have realized that before.

This is such bullshit that people themselves after their noob gainz phase passes. You really just need good form and consistency with whatever you are doing. Sure, if you are competing or doing some type of specialised training then you really need to pay close attention to maximising and optimising your routine, but generally speaking you really just need to go to the gym, lift the heavy things (correctly), and make sure you are varying your workout and doing compound exercises.

Eating more on rest days, and less on training days.

Better to eat 4000 calories the night before a training day, then eat 2000 calories on the training day. This way you equal out to 3000, but you had 4000 calories of food in your system from the night before to train on in the morning, it makes your performance skyrocket. You don’t need the calories on training day because you have the next day off.


I eat big lots of calories on Sunday night, Tuesday night and Thursday night. Train full body on the Monday, Wednesday, Friday.

I go 200g protein on training days, with minimal fat/carbs. Stay within 2000 calories.

I go 100g protein on pre-training days and eat tons of carbs/fats. Eat roughly 4000 calories.

Is this true?
All people I know fallow a program, just me being the one who kind of runs from device to device doing everything randomly.

Don't know wether I should change.

FYI, one is huge, one skinny fat starting a week ago and one otter-mode starting a year ago.

Kek

>skelly
>lift for a full year in high school
>still eat at or below maintenance every day because don't know anything
I could have gotten so big

if skelly, just eat like a pig on your first year of lifting.

losing fat is way easier than you think

Your muscles will get tighter over time until you start to experience pain from it. Stretching helps with mobility too.

This. I was getting like 50g of protein while trying to get big

Not gonna make it

Calories too mang, don't forget

>don't stop running or doing other cardio, that shit keeps you sane and healthy
>don't stop stretching (see above)
>don't drink so much
>eat more
>eat more
>body dysmorphia sets in slowly and never goes away

>EAT BIG TO GET BIG

Daily reminder that it's all about FACE and it goes to shit if you get big (=fat)

Only people who can stuff their faces without consequences are juicers. For natties it's all about low body fat and you can't get that by bloatmaxing.

Food is fuel. Just shove it in your mouth. Lifting is not for epicureans.

>Protein powder, creatine and caffeine give great benefits for low cost. Literally every other supplement isn't worth it other than specific cases
>Rest days are fantastic and rest weeks are not bullshit but actually help greatly if you're lifting heavy for a longer time
>Warming up is pointless, military studies showed this 40 years ago but the rest of the world never caught up
>Gear causes tightness and high blood pressure, both of which take away from your agility

This. I think there's a trend of people lifting because they think it will remove or lessen the need to be social.

There's a middle ground. Most people will benefit from programs early on because most people are
>Inconsistent
>Not aware enough to make good choices on volume, muscle groups, etc

but at the same time any program is only as good as your investment and ultimately simply doing sensible lifts consistently is all that matters for most people

>just me being the one who kind of runs from device to device doing everything randomly.
Stick to anything for 6 months- program or not. Problem solved.

You can't achieve something without consistency

Delete your post or I will report to the FBI

>Literally everyone juices
>You can sit on your ass and juice and you will turn from a fatty into a semi fit blob
>you can buy it online and not worry because no one gives a shit and the DEA agents that would raid your house all juice too.

don't get memed into doing pseudo powerlifting for years

just train your upper body, stay shredded, and play a real sport

>Warming up is useless
W-what?

If there was just ONE thing I wish I knew back when I started, is the importance of compound lifts. The way your whole body transforms when you do the big 4 consistently is incredible. I would look so much better now.

>Literally everyone juices.
I've made great gains without it. In the past 7 weeks my deadlift's gone up 100 lbs, squats about 70, my bench about 35, and my ohp about 20. And I was only using proper technique and decent programming for the last 4 of those 7 weeks.

how big you eat big boy?

don't half rep jesus christ i wasted half a year at the gym

When you are fatass you have to lose weight first. Maintenance lifting is meme.

The thing here is everyone focuses on gains and shit. No one bothers to give advice on how to loose the fat or if someone wants to look like a biker or swimmer and not the rock.

>warming up is useless

Holy fuck you’re dumb
A general warm up starting with brief quick static stretches, progressing to dynamic stretches, a general warm up and then a specific warm up to that session is how you prevent injury you fucking retard.

Y-Yeah, common knowledge.