BIGGESTs MYTH's/Lies of BODYBUILDING! Post! Lets hear ALL of them!

[Gladiola]

As Pete said,
-You'll get HUGE if you lift & put any effort into it

-You'll turn into a monster meat-head immediately & by accident (without trying to get there)
-Supplements are superior to real food & vital
-If you exercise, you can eat whatever you want
-If you eat healthy, you are just vain & uptight
-You always have to annihilate the muscle to the point of being incapacitated for the next week.... & this is healthy to do.
-Who cares about joints? Go ahead & do lat pulldowns behind the neck
-Flexibility & stretching are for gymnasts & yogi freaks only

 

[rgosit]

damn allot of this info i thought was the right thing to do..

NIKE-
if ur saying only have protein in the morning\post workout\befoe bed..wouldent those have to be huge amount each meal to equal a gram per pound of body wegith at least??

so post workout
immediatly-Protien
30 mins- high GI carb drink
60 mins-hole food meal??

I read one thing and then a completley diffrent thing..its crazy..

 

[SSAlexSS]

Re: Sorry..but

I know that sounds strange. Ill try to translate some things from finnish to english from the things ive found, heres a few:
(im sorry but i dont have a dictionary by me right now)

-the ideal situation with carbs is that the carbs eaten are stored as glycogen, which is then used in training(sets in this case). The normal energysource shoulb be fat. Of course the body doesnt work just like that, but it can be guided to that way. The biggest amount of carbs should be consumed right after exercise, when the production of glycogen is the most efficient. Another time is morning, when there has been a long time since the last meal. During another time "the ideal carb" absorbs slowly and keeps the insulin levels stable. The ideal source for these carbs are vegetables.

-The fat of the diet should be consumed on every meal execp right after exercise when fat is not good for glycogen production. Fat makes the lipolysis easier, which is also accelerated by the fats effect of slowing down the absorption of carbs. If protein is consumed before going to sleep some fat should be put along, which decreases the use of protein instead of carbs for energy.

The ideal situation for protein is ,as for carbs right after exercise. Another time, just like carbs, is the morning. Eating protein before bedtime is also useful. But consuming it every second or so hour isnt necessary.

Eating before exercise
A typical "gym-trainingsession" is very different from f.ex a one hour jog when looking at energy-metabolism. In a standard one-hour exercise the time spent for carryibg out the sets is only 6-10minutes and for each muscle only 3minutes. During the hours or so the heart rate is less than 100 30-50% of the time and 80-90% less than 120. The main-energysource in the actual sets an d reps is CP and after this the muscles glycogen. Blood glucose is almost useless as an energy source for musles during those sets. During the rests the body is at an aerobic , when the main energysources are fatty acids and lactic acid. The fatty acids are an ideal source at the aerobic state; when the glucose produces 32ATP molecules with oxygen, a fatty acid produces 129 ATP moilecules with oxygen.

And, something about post exercise-drinks:
The ideal thing is to consume quick digesting protein-only drink after exercise so that the bloodstream gets as much amimoacid as possible(carbs slow down the absorption of the drink and it wont be absorbed in so alrge amounts), 30mins later a carb drink and 30misn later food or a carb/protein drink(fruits are good also, because of fructose and kalium)

Good results can be achieved with good timing without "overloading" the body and making it only worse.

I, myself have tried this kinda eating. But for practical reasons(i eat in school, where they have the ususal carb-rich meals) and im trying to raise my fat% a bit, because it might be too low, i do it with my own style of eating: every meal has quite a lot of carbs, especially in the mornoin and after exercise, almost no carbs before bedtime.

Ill post more if you like....

Intersting. Small question.

Why eat only 3 times per day like you said? Can you explain that please?

thanx!!!

 

[aurelius]

Man, I totally agree with this statement. It is very annoying to have people think you are using these 'drugs' to get big. And that anyone who takes protein/creatine/glutamine/<insert other supplement name> will automatically be as big as you. They don't understand the training intensity and consistency that goes into it.

If someone accused me of using drugs to get my size I´d be flattered.

That individual would also be an idiot for thinking a man of my size is using.

 

[Nike]

Reply to SSAlexSS

Not all protein in 3 meals but 4 one is the post-exercise drink(s). I I myself eat 1-1,5h after exercise after those drinks i mentioned, doesnt feel bad at all for me.

But why to eat 3 times a day. Ive read about people who have stayed on this kinda eating i told you about. Actually you eat 4 times a day:
fex.
morning(high carb+protein. some fat)
lunch(low carbs)
postexercise drink(s)
before bedtime(very low-carb/no carbs)
or fex. (rest day-no drink)
morning
lunch(high carb)
dinner(low carbs)
before bedtime(very low carb or not at all)

The body gets adapted to this kinda system and starts to use fat as energy(and im not meaning going ketogenic at all) and you wont feel hungry for low bloodsugar every 2-3 hours.

 

[Robboe]

i take issue with #11.

i like hamburgers.....

hahaha!

I love threads like these. There's so many myths!

My favourite is the idea of isolating various parts of the chest in order to make that part grow. Always makes me laugh...

 

[bignate73]

side crunches burn love handles..............

speaking of love handles....i gotta go get a hamburger. hehe.

 

[DanielBishop]

I have a lot of trouble trying to get my sister to do some resistance exercise.... she's very body conscious, and diets like crazy.... but she's bony and un-toned.

But she's scared that if she does resistance training of any kind, she'll become like the women bodybuilders.

I try to tell her you can't get like that by accident.... in fact, most people can't get like that no matter how hard they try. She won't listen.

 

[reconnect]

heres mine nr1
all bodybuilders wants big muscles to compensate for there small dicks.......

 

[MarshallPenniford]

Probably one of the biggest myths involves uninformed ladies with their fear that if they lift weights, they will get big. What do you have to do or say to convince them that it's what you eat (or don't eat) that makes you grow?

It's their lack of testosterone that makes them not get big. Eating has nothing to do with it. If they are not planning on gaining muscle, why should they even bother lifting a weight in the first place????? No offense, but your post made no sense.