Y'all ever read shit you posted on BB/PL/etc forums from when you were a newbie?

[JDLift]

Had me a good laugh going down my post history on Bodybuilding.com from ~2007ish, asking people about shit and saying wildly retarded opinions. I apparently at one point was wanting to get stronger and bigger but 'not necessarily as big as like Brock Lesnar or Triple H, I don't want that kinda look' aaaaaand flash forward to 2023 and years of gear cycles and I've been built like a damn WWF wrestler for a few years now lol. People in the thread back then were telling me I'd never get that big anyway and not to worry about it, it's funny now to look back on it and realize I proved people wrong. Some gold medal retarded shit I said, paraphrased so you can't just pop it into Google and dox me:

"I hate squatting can I just do leg press and leg extensions/curls a bunch instead for my legs?"
"Do I REALLY need to lift heavy all the time?"
"I don't wanna get bigger but I wanna turn the fat I have into muscle, how do I do it?"
"I can't gain weight I've tried everything" (I definitely had not lmao)

Good shit, funny to see how much of a retarded newbie I was at one point. Now I'm prepping to take a run at almost a 2k total in comp! Wish I could go back and tell that kid years ago that it would all work out some day and convince him to hop on gear sooner too lol.

 

[psauce]

I’ve always been a huge fucking nerd, so I went to the other extreme. I read absolutely everything I could for like a year, still doingn distance running and wrestling at 138… I had the best squat form of any twig you’d ever seen, and I had memorized what Louie Simmons had to say about everything, but I looked like a war refugee because I hadn’t committed to eating.

My most embarrassing thread was the first time I really went all in on food. Hamburger Helper and milk every day. I got so constipated I kept ripping my asshole every time I went to the bathroom for a couple of week, so I had to walk around with a wad of toilet paper shoved in there until the bleeding stopped. The fucking Russians never explained that in their god damn manuals.