Thanks for being honest...
What aspect change in your training helped you the most?
I cut the shit with thinking I could train like an "athlete" which meant that heavy weights were secondary to my performance on the field. I think the same goes for bodybuilding, to be honest. Look at a heavyweight boxer...they don't train for hypertrophy at all, they train to fight...and half of them look like they could be a month from winning a BB'ing contest. Same goes for MMA...their physiques are built with no bullshit workouts...they look better than almost everyone out there. All that shit about being a "freak" is garbage, IMHO. Most people (AAS users) don't compete. They're big and fat, or small...they look like garbage. That's because they train like garbage, and they don't technically even "train" because training implies you are "training" FOR SOMETHING. Most guys who use steroids workout. They lift the same weights every year, they never get much stronger. If they did, we'd all be benching 500lbs in our early 20's.
Granted, I train for performance, but all that swiss-ball, bosa-ball, wobble-board, wood-chopping, GPP/SPP, garbage is a load of bullshit. You need to lift heavy and do the things that suck...heavy box squats, thick bar benching, floor presses, etc...
I thought I was strong, and training hard. I was doing sets with 225 on good mornings. I never saw anyone do that in my gym, so I was (relatively) strong. Then I worked out with a 165lb (Elite) powerlifter. He did concentric-only sets of good mornings from a dead stop in the rack with 450lbs for a double. I can now do 405 for a double. My higher rep sets are never less than 225 and usually 315. The first day I worked out with him, I went to 315, just to not look like a pussy; but I coulda done it all the while, I just didn't know it...I already thought I was strong and working hard. So my training sucked...I wasn't working as hard as I could have, because I was strong for my gym. Now, I work out at a military academy...and it's upped my game.
My average client follows a routine similar to the one I'm on, and we get about 30lbs on their squat (for working sets) in about 3 leg workouts, and we get about 10 lbs on their bench in about the same time, without steroids.
Bottom line is that my training sucked. I tried everything, and it sucked. I thought I trained hard, and I sucked. And at 5'7", 220lbs, I'm bigger than most bodybuilders at the same height, but I don't train for hypertrophy at all, and I take less gear (100mgs of Prop EOD). So that means most bodybuilders have to work their way up to "terrible" training, before they get to the shitty level I was at, before they can get to the point I am at now, which is still garbage IMHO.
