best piece of advice you've ever received

[ClintChiz2000]

What is the best piece of advice you've ever received regarding training?

1) I remember when I was starting to deadlift I always worried about messing up my back. This older guy at the gym came over and showed me to keep my feet wider since I'm taller. Guy looked like just some geezer in a sweatsuit. Turned out he was a pro BBer in the 70s....my back hasn't hurt deadlifting since and I still thank him everytime I see him.

2) This one's painfully simple....when I was in high school my coach told me to look up when I squat. It's amazing how many people you see at the gym that don't and end up leaning forward.



What about you guys??

[augerdog42]

Look twice before crossing the street

[MARTYUSA]

I don't do either...dead lifts or squats. Body says no!

After talking to certain sports ortho surgeons, I know what I should and what I shouldn't do. It's amazing what can replace those 2 exercises without ending up in a hospital bed or ending up doing out patient procedures.

Myself - no squats, dead lifts or leg extensions. Any pressing movements or simple lunges, knee never goes past the toes.

It's 100% about not how much you lift, but how you lift it. Good form and technique are everything.

[PB]

For me there are two simple keys. Eat big and lift big. Eating big doesn't mean eat 5k cals when your body can grow on 3800 or less. It means eating smart and the right portions. Lifting big doesn't mean pressing 500 lbs when you can't put up 185! It means lifting smart like Marty said but making sure you continue to train like there is no tomorrow.

This took me about over 10 years to figure this out.

[bino_5150]

"sign up over at Muscle Morphism, you'll find what you're looking for there..."

[deezy]

I don't do either...dead lifts or squats. Body says no!

After talking to certain sports ortho surgeons, I know what I should and what I shouldn't do. It's amazing what can replace those 2 exercises without ending up in a hospital bed or ending up doing out patient procedures.

Myself - no squats, dead lifts or leg extensions. Any pressing movements or simple lunges, knee never goes past the toes.

It's 100% about not how much you lift, but how you lift it. Good form and technique are everything.

Whaaaaaaatttttttt!!!!!!! no squats or deadlifts.Those are like the best exercises for getting huge...I would have no part of any routine that didnt use these movements. All the big boys do these....But then again the gym I train at is a little on the hardcore side.No tread mills everywhere no tv's no spas no guys in new matching gym suits. just big guys lifting big iron.So my philosophy is different. Well to each his own. LOL!!!!! Totally agree on keeping strick form though.

[576]

I don't do either...dead lifts or squats. Body says no!

It's amazing what can replace those 2 exercises

Yep, lazyness, weakness and a lacking physique... lolollol!

You can get a certain strength and/or look with isolation, but it will never compare to those who do dead and squat. These are core to all other strength in the whole body... period!

Must agree with the "form" thing though whether you're lifting heavy or light.

I think many doctors are conditioned to stear people away from certain things because the insurance people give'm perks to do so. Insurance companies want to eliminate "ALL" possibilities of "ANY' kind of insurable liability.

If your knees weren't meant to bend so far, they wouldn't. The argument could be made suggesting that "well your knees weren't made to bend that far with 500 lbs on them either...", but if that were true your body wouldn't grow to get strong enough to let you deep squat the same 500 lbs... but it does, so what do we conclude? I say for the greatest overall gains in strength and size, squat and dead lift, be concerned, be careful, go heavy and FREAK it!

[576]

If they can instil fear and doubt in people
about whether what they do is safe or not they're well on their way to keeping us in their giant money making cocoon. I can't stand corporate and political thinking, it makes me sick!

[Doug_N]

My advice came after a near fatal accident in the gym. NEVER palm grip a bar while benching. I had 225 come down on my chest and bounce on my neck! I got lucky that day!

[T-Bar]

My advice came after a near fatal accident in the gym. NEVER palm grip a bar while benching. I had 225 come down on my chest and bounce on my neck! I got lucky that day!

That's funny. I have always palm gripped while benching.

Best advice ever... "People don't have an excuse for not losing weight. I don't care what exercise you do. You could go into the gym and do jumping donkey kicks and leaping arm flaps. If you were consistent in this workout you would see results."

I may only like the advice because I'm the one that said it.