Some thoughts about the training forum

[needsize]

I would never advocate dissing the anabolic forum, I still spend a lot of time there absorbing knowlege from the experts there. But I'm kind of in the catagory that Joker mentioned, I am very happy with my training, and as much as I am happy to try new things and add variations, the odds are the core of my routine will remain the same, if it aint broke I aint fixin it. But at the same time, my experience and research leaves me with some knowlege to share, so that's one of the reasons I hang here. I wish some of the bro's from the anabolic board would come here to do the same, image having NPC competitors like quadsweep here helping guys with their training, where else could you find that?

 

[Doktor Bollix]

The anabolic board is not even the same thing. There's a greater degree of specifity in the human reaction to drugs than there is to training. So there is a greater consensus there on the right and wrong thing to do.

You can look at a guy in the gym and sometimes the biggest and strongest guy there has a bad diet, terrible form, poor exercise selection and so on. Genetics are a huge factor. The same guy probably has a brother at home damn near as big as him who doesn't even lift weights. Does that mean I should so the same as him?

So I can make a statement that I believe is true, for example leg extensions are completely useless unless you are involved in some sport where you kick while sitting down like wheelchair soccer or something. This will not be true for somebody else for whom it is a productive exercise.

So yeah, it would be great to hear from some of these guys, but it wouldn't really make much of a difference to me. I'd still have to figure out the individual requirements of my body and the appropriate responses. No-one else can do my thinking for me.

The cool thing about the training board is the people who are serious about sports conditioning and strength training and other athletic pursuits and the knowledge they have because they are really involved in results oriented endeavors. There's a lot of people who have achievements to their names and these people are helpful.

BTW most of the guys on roids I see in the gym look like absolute shit. Bloated, red, with the clown pants covering their chicken legs, prematurely aged faces. Anybody who thinks that drugs alone with no training knowledge will do it for them needs to see these guys.

 

[benchmonster]

Well, the guys who frequent the anabolics board are really there just to discuss performance enhancing drugs. But a few training discussions break out over there as well.

So many people on the training forum get there panties in a wad over steroids that it is hard for a person with knowledge of them to post an intelligent opinion without being ripped to pieces by the clean freaks.

Because of the antics of clean freaks, the users who, yes, often are the most knowlegeable people around are turned off, and would prefer hanging out with people who don't flame them for their choice to use performance enhancing substances.

This is just my opinion, but I think there is a lot to it. People tend to go where they are comfortable, and users are not treated well on this board particularly when compared with the treatment they get on the other boards.

Also, most of the guys on the anabolic board are hardcore bodybuilders, and are not generally particularly interested in increasing their ability to move heavy objects or compete in other sports, so much as they are to improve their ranking in the next meet. The ones over there who are not hardcore BBers are often aspiring to be so.

Just my 2 cents on the subject.

B.

 

[aurelius]

You can look at a guy in the gym and sometimes the biggest and strongest guy there has a bad diet, terrible form, poor exercise selection and so on.

THis is true in my gym except the biggest and strongest guys who don´t really know what they are doing got big and strong using steroids, not lifting.

Someone mentioned "clean freaks." Haven´t really noticed that many here myself.

 

[Thaibox]

There are several gear users on this board. This simply isn't the place to discuss the topic. The boards are topic specific. So, since there isn't gear discussions on the "training" board, it doesn't mean there aren't users here.

To the few that made the comments about steroid users......
those are the kind of close minded blanket comments that aren't welcome here. I'm not going to disrespect Needsize's thread by saying anything else about it



btw NS, good thread

 

[HansNZ]

I've been an EF user for some time now and I haven't spent much time on the training forum. I tend to discuss ny workouts with people face to face at my gym, so there is no real need to do so here.

In contrast I do not have the same freedom to discuss steroids at my gym. In general the guys who I know who use them don't know much about them. As a result I spend most of my time when on EF on the anabolic forum.

When I used to get tired of the same old posts on the anabolic forum I used to visit the chat forum. I don't go there now because I got hounded off by the idiots over there - the worst of whom don't even seem to go to the gym. The inmates have taken over the asylum it seems.

 

[b fold the truth]

HansNZ: Stick around man...if you aren't looking for training advice...we always appreciate getting some.

B True

 

[needsize]

HansNZ: Stick around man...if you aren't looking for training advice...we always appreciate getting some.

B True

Exactly, considering what goes on on the chat board, it's the biggest waste of bandwidth I've ever seen, stay here and help us out bro

 

[aurelius]

I've been an EF user for some time now and I haven't spent much time on the training forum. I tend to discuss ny workouts with people face to face at my gym, so there is no real need to do so here.

In contrast I do not have the same freedom to discuss steroids at my gym. In general the guys who I know who use them don't know much about them. As a result I spend most of my time when on EF on the anabolic forum.

When I used to get tired of the same old posts on the anabolic forum I used to visit the chat forum. I don't go there now because I got hounded off by the idiots over there - the worst of whom don't even seem to go to the gym. The inmates have taken over the asylum it seems.

Now now. Things get retarded over there but by all means keep dropping in. I need something to keep me interested.

take care

 

[nikkita]

I guess that an AS user will come here to discuss training not other related matters refering to AS because it is most likely that they don't even get the responses they are looking for. I enter various several boards women, diet, spanish, anabolic... and of course training... and every board is different in regard to the issues that concern us the most, the responses and of course the perspective and knowledge of people.