Stupid things you believed when you were a noob

What were some silly things you believed when you were a noob?

I'll start:
>Training more than 3 times per week would do nothing unless you were an experienced lifter
>Compounds are all you need to look like a bodybuilder and the people doing isolations/machines were idiots.
>Used to believe the number printed on a dumbbell applied to the single dumbbell only rather than the pair.
>cardio kills gains

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  1. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    >number on octogonal plate means it weighs the same as round plate with the same number
    its like I forgot all elemental geometry and physics

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Lol, forgetting to subtract the weight of the material removed to make the hole in the centre too

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Lol, forgetting to subtract the weight of the material removed to make the hole in the centre too

      wait...are you saying that they dont weight them as the finished product so they are actually significantly different weights despite what they are numbered? bah god wtf

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        The numbers are more reliable if used to determine the density of the starting material used. If I remember correctly, they start off with a square material that has a standardized weight. From there, they do israeli trickery to shave of as much metal as possible. In extreme cases, they create air pockets inside of them to make their final weight and density even lower.

  2. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Compounds are enough for abs and you don’t have to work them directly.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Why is this one regurgitated on this board so frequently anyway? Is it just the standard 4chin trolling or do people unironically think that squats alone will give you a six pack?

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        >squats alone will give you a six pack?

        I used to think that squats were plenty enough work for abs, but that getting a six pack started in the kitchen.

        Which it does for the most part, then I learned that your abs might look like shit if they're undeveloped, and that doing some rollouts is worth tacking on the end of leg day.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      I never do ab work and have visible abs. This one is true, maybe you're just fat.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        almost everyone who lifts is fat if you think an adult man weighing 130 pounds is normal

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          >almost everyone who lifts is fat

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          https://i.imgur.com/Q6U0DPh.gif

          >almost everyone who lifts is fat

          nvm I'm a moron who can't raed gud :DD

  3. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    >Used to believe the number printed on a dumbbell applied to the single dumbbell only rather than the pair.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      He's still a noob

  4. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    I don’t even know what I thought about when I was 16.

  5. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    But machines and isolation are stupid as a frick.
    Only dyels and roidtrannies do it.

  6. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    That I could become ultra fit by force of will alone. If I ignored all pain and sensibility. I would run a half marathon to work and another back. Then cycle 60 miles the day after. I would abuse amphetamines to get through the misery.
    Don’t get me wrong, I was super fit and I passed a special operations forces selection process on this basis. But there were people who were faster than me who didn’t work as hard as me.
    I unironically needed starting strength to reign me in.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      It sounds like you were right, you literally became ultra fit, so much so you were part able to pass a that meant for elites of the military.

      The issue is that you were over doing what was required for what you wanted and you adjusted.

  7. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    >Deadlifts are dangerous
    >Need to hit every muscle group with several exercises from different angles

  8. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    That the more I trained the more I'd grow/improve. Got to the point I was doing 3-a-days with no days off. Didn't grow that much, I couldn't eat enough to be anything but really skinny, lots of injuries, and I got overtraining syndrome that took about a year to fully recover from. Genuinely stupid to do

  9. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    >>Used to believe the number printed on a dumbbell applied to the single dumbbell only rather than the pair.

    OP, I...

  10. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    That I need upper and lower chest exercises. Biggest chest muscle is the pectoralis major, which is a two head muscle with one part attached to collarbone and the other to the chest bone. Can’t contract one head without contracting the other. Both heads contract whether you Bench Press flat or incline.

  11. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    You know what's really fricking amazing?

    The shit that dyel normies who don't practice an ounce of self-restraint, nor have ever lifted believe.

    >Oh you started lifting weights? You should use an ab-wheel so you can get a six-pack

    >Why are you watching what you eat, anon? Don't you work out? You can eat anything you want as long as you burn the calories later.

    >You shouldn't use machines, anon, I heard they aren't good for building muscle.

    >Isn't creatine dangerous? You shouldn't risk your health to get stronger, anon.

    >All those powders can't be healthy, anon.

    >What do you mean Arnold took steroids, anon? He looked that way because he spent all his free time in the gym. You'd look like him, too if you did it all day.

    >Steroids are illegal, anon, they can't legally give them to *insert unnaturally swole actor here*

    And the list goes on, and on

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Okay to all but how you you legally get steroids? (In England)

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        You make a great point, no one has ever been able to buy or consume illegal drugs. It's actually impossible to do, because the bobbies say so innit?

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          Wasn't making a point at all spreg i was literally asking a question dumb frick. Serious question, how moronic are you?

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            Oh sorry, I didn't realize you were posting about sourcing illegal drugs like an absolute fricking moron.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        Idk about England specifically but if you're friends with a urologist, he might be willing to prescribe TRT. It won't be the same as a full blast and I doubt he'd be willing to risk his job to prescribe you 500mg/ week. There's also a chance of getting prescribed HCG and HNG if you can get a doctor to say that you're infertile.

        But illegally there may or may not be places that you can find gear on the interwebz. Chances are that it won't be pharma-grade

  12. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    are all you need to look like a bodybuilder and the people doing isolations/machines were idiots.
    I had this thinking until now. I dropped most of the compound lifts except OHP. I now do split routines of machines and isolation lifts.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Pure isolations are also dumb as hell.
      Hit your compounds, structure the sets and rep ranges and weights to meet your goals (strength, explosiveness, starting a pump and forcing cloodflow, etc). Then switch to dumbbell work, cables, and machines.
      Compounds hit so many auxillary muscles and allow for progressive overload in a way that that most bodybuilders would call you stupid for removing them altogether.

  13. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    >roids don't make you moronic

  14. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    > you can get as big as possible with calisthenics
    > if a muscle group "is worked" (theoretically) in a compound, it's gonna grow even though you never fricking feel it ever
    > no need for lots of protein, 50g per day is fine
    > no need for having scheduled planned meals, you can just fricking improvise 4 times per day
    > no need to eat ASAP after you train
    > training a muscle group once a week for 2-3 sets is enough
    > nothing wrong with going over 30 reps, it still works well
    > never lock out

    basically all the shit from CC, unfortunately.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      gr8 b8 m8 i r8 it FRICKING ZERO

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        Time to grow up son. They lied to us.

  15. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    >bodyweight exercises can be just as good as weights
    >arching during benchpress is cheating
    >straps are bad
    >female bodies are hotter than male bodies
    >getting a head from a dude is gay

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      wait a minute i think you are gay

  16. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    >6 or 7 rep sets will still help you make gains
    9 years into lifting and my aversion to 7-rep sets just keeps growing, I'll literally do a drop set and do 2 more if I only hit 6

  17. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    CICO works

  18. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    That anybody on this shitfrick board knew a fricking thing.

  19. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Shit from fifteen years ago.
    >Anon you should eat as much brown rice rather than white rice and brown sugar rather than white sugar as you like because it's healthier for you.
    >Heaviest weights in the house were one of those giant plastic dumbbells filled with the plastic balls. It weighed 5kg. Which I thought was heavy at the time. Figured out of I just kept doing curls with it i'd get huge arms. Was doing 200 a day at one point.
    >I can go out for drinks with the boys every night after the gym, sleep is for the weak.
    >The more sore I am, the more gains.
    >lifting 6-7 reps offers up your reps to the void and your muscle will shrink away.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      So your saying my 10 kg dumbbells are not worth shit

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      >The more sore I am, the more gains
      Is this not how it works? I haven't had DOMs in weeks

  20. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Particularly in Highschool , from coaches , play through the injury. That mentality forms the ultimate competitor spirit for sure but god dam my wrists hurt now

  21. 2 years ago
    Anonymous
  22. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    >the number printed on a dumbbell applied to the single dumbbell only rather than the pair.
    Wait what

  23. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    >Ab exercises are meme exercises for instagram pilates hoes and they don't actually do anything.

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