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Originally Posted by CaptainBubba
Squats can do serious long term damage to skeletal structure and pose serious risk of severe tendon damage. There are safer excersises just as effective and far less blatently homo-erotic.
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Are you smoking crack? Maybe I'll give you that front squats or deadlifts are potentially less dangerous than standard on-the-back squats, but in the vast majority of cases, damage results from improper form. And squats as a whole are very effective and difficult to substitute - it's works so many muscle areas in the movement.
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Fuck programs. Save that shit for CPSC 110 motherfucker. Maxing out is another aspect of bodybuilding reserved for insecure homosexualites who post about weightlifiting online.
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That doesn't even make sense. Periodization of lifting programs and consistency within the period are practically necessities for today's pro athletes. That's why they are so much stronger and faster than they used to be.
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How long have you been lifting weights?
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Around 8 months now, I think.
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Is there any proof that their methods and nutritional suggestions have done anything for you?
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Well, I did gain a lot of muscle and strength.
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Do you know any gains you've made aren't due to the mere fact you're in perhaps your first year of serious muscular training of all the muscle groups?
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Calisthenics didn't work well for me.
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Have you tried anything different for a period of months?
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I'm lifting on my school's program now, which combines explosive plyo sets with heavy sets. At first I didn't like it because the volume was very high and I never finished the workout, but now it's growing on me since we dropped volume while upping the intensity. My only real complaint with it is exercise variation; I wish we would do more direct ham, arm, and middle back work. Of course, I never get to my supersets at the end, which are supposed to work these areas...
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Websites and magazines like bodybuilding.com (which is affiliated with about 1,000 supplement organizations) exist to perpetuate the myth that bodybuilding is a sport of gods that requires intense dedication in order to make people believe they need supplements. Try finding a scientist around who will back up "CREO-X PROTEIN NO2 POWDER MIX" SCIENTIST X's claims that you need to consume, well, what is it now? 1.5g of protein per lb of bodywieght? Yea you keep on truckin budy.
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That's simply not true. While bodybuilding.com certainly does have sponsors and sells products, many of it's articles are of decent quality. More importantly, the best source of info is from other bodybuilders themselves - which is why I used the site's forum and discovered Westside for Skinny Bastards.
There's no doubt that you can make gains without supplementation. All I use are a few sparing protein shakes and vitamins. However, from the vast majority of bodybuilders I've interacted with online, I have found that in their experience they made greater gains on certain programs, certain diets, and certain supps.