Today in one of the discussions about a newbie who asked for help and then turned down all the good advice just to go on doing what he wanted to do, i said that its probably an age thing. Meaning - i would not have done most of the stuff i do now, like 15 years back. I would listen to “me” giving me advice on what i now know that works, and would think “that old dude doesnt know shit and he isnt even that big to give advice at all”.
Maybe this will help someone, maybe it wont, but i wanted for everyone, who has some spare time, and is at least over 30 years of age, with at least some 10 years of experience, write a list of advice, that you now know is good, but you wouldnt have done that or listened to this advice when you were a kid/teen or a beginner.
My advice to me :
Strenght Train - bodybuilding at young age leads to nowhere unless you have those bodybuilding genetics. After 10-15 years you will wish you have done some 531 instead of curls and ab work. Being 30+ years old and not as strong as you could have been - hurts. Your muscles will grow if you will get stronger and later in life, strenght will matter in lots of what you do.
Dont complicate training - pick a proven program and go with it. Dont change exercises, dont change reps, dont change sets. Just do whats written and in 10 years you will be big and strong. It is much simpler than it looks now, but by program hopping and making changes in a program you will waste almost all of your training years with no progress.
Dont eat clean - dont push in tons of rice, you skinny fuck. Eat your protein and then add calories no matter how. Otherwise you will be miserable for years and still wont gain weight.
Stretch - find a stretching routine and do it. Doesnt matter how long - just do a full body routine at least once a week. I know you are young and flexible now and you dont even understand why do people warm up. I know you just start lifting with your top set, but listen to me - a few stretches here and there will save you lots of injury and pain.
B’n’C - dont cycle. Blast and cruise. Cruise on 200mgs of test. Dont blast anything more than 500g total, because you ARE NOT GAINING ANYTHING MORE when you increase dosages. You are wasting money. Lucky for us, since my last health checkups came back good, we did not fuck up our health but the money is gone forever and you know how hard it was to earn it in the first place. You would have saved thousands.
Supplements dont work - at least not for us… at least not as much as they cost. You can take a protein or a gainer. Take some fish oils. Go nuts on the pre-workout if you want, but dont waste thousands of euros you earned in manual labour as a teen, in some pills and powders that are advertised to give you epic gains.
Your genetics suck, deal with it - you will never be as good as you want, but you will be better than most people. Its okay. Really. You will get enough hot babes anyways, there is no need to obsess about rare genetic freaks and feel ashamed because you feel like a failure. There is lots of good that comes out of just being above average just like there is a lot of bad being the best at something.