Gotta love people in the gym after new years

[Ruffdaddy]

Yes, I did it all myself. No surgery,no trainer, no drugs besides pot...Just pure dedication which everyone has but few can put to the test. I got alot of good advice from people like Tex, The Raven, and Grayhorse just to name a few.

I'd post pics but for some reason all my pics won't post on this new site..

Believe it or not, I don't really care lol. Most people who came from the old site have seen my pics and what I have come from. There's always an article thats proven that something-or-other is better-or-worse for you everywhere on the internet.

I found best to take advice from people who live the life rather then just reasearch and then post on a blog or something or believe random shit from the internet.

I really went from 400-197 and have been bulking snce then. Up from 197 @ 10% BF to 205-210 12% BF give or take depending on what I'm eating.

Sorry if I was sounding superrior to you but that attitude kills me because my whole family is huge.. I mean 400-475 kinda huge and they think the same which is soo not true..

It's not DIET it's LIFESTYLE CHANGE!!

Trust me...I know the lifestyle and have been living it. And I remember you from the old site. I just don't remember it only being a 2 year transformation. That's why I assumed if that was true you had a little more help than I thought.

You said yourself you have superior Genetics...that's what caught my eye for the first response. Sounds cocky

I have been working out consistently for about 12 years now...I would say 2 weeks is the longest I have ever taken off and that was only in extreme circumstances. I know the toll 7 day a weeks workouts take on the body...and it seems the only people I know that can do that are juice monkeys or someone on designer steroids. Or with some other sort of help.

Either way you have had good results. But you're preaching to the choir if you're telling me how to be fit.

[Silverback]

that's only 8 pounds a month, and i'm sure he had 10-20 pound months in the begining.

What's so hard to believe that once he got his diet in check, started lifting and doing cardio that he couldn't drop 190 pounds over two years.

I work with a guy who lost a little over 100 pounds in a year by doing pretty much the same thing. burning more calories than he actually consumed in a day via exercise. i.e. he'd eat 1500 calories a day, and burned close to 3000 in the gym a day.

[Ruffdaddy]

Maybe for a weak bodied minded person. I've been doing 7 days a week almost 2 years straight now...Came from 400 lbs to 210 @ 10% body fat. I'd reccomend 7 days to anyone with superior genetics and strong mental state to match.

If you dont feel welcome, keep going and you will. People warm up to you quite quick if you are every day guy. Everyone started talking to me about 6 months in. But you have to put in effort too. If you walk around in your own world no one will talk to you ether. Make EYE contact dont be scared. ASK questions!

Well mr superior...was that weight loss and muscle building all natural? If you did that all in 2 years and deny help then I'll have a hard time believing anything you say.

[Ruffdaddy]

Maybe for a weak bodied minded person. I've been doing 7 days a week almost 2 years straight now...Came from 400 lbs to 210 @ 10% body fat. I'd reccomend 7 days to anyone with superior genetics and strong mental state to match.

If you dont feel welcome, keep going and you will. People warm up to you quite quick if you are every day guy. Everyone started talking to me about 6 months in. But you have to put in effort too. If you walk around in your own world no one will talk to you ether. Make EYE contact dont be scared. ASK questions!

Well mr superior...was that weight loss and muscle building all natural? If you did that all in 2 years and deny help then I'll have a hard time believing anything you say.

[Silverback]

haha...thanks man and good catch!

<--ADD

Elvis and his dolls are OCD

[saleen449]

Yup, RIP...never met Mark, but from what I heard, he is who made Branch who he is today.
I have heard nothing but good things about Mark.

He also trained a very good friend of mine right after he won Mr. Kentucky back in his day at the old Stroud's:

I'm dating the woman(Rae) he was engaged to when he passed. She has told me alot about him and he seems like someone I would have liked to have known.

[tex]

Its proven that 7 day a week workouts is detrimental. Even the big dogs don't do that.

Depends on your goal. Performance might suffer in a competitive environment, but daily workouts/work have been done for centuries.

[Beej]

You also probably wouldn't like "people" that are in the gym for 7 days a week and work one body part a day either.

Its proven that 7 day a week workouts is detrimental. Even the big dogs don't do that.

Though what do I know, Im just a fat guy trying to use the gym, but I don't feel welcome.

[stangin4lyfe]

What are people doing in a gym lifting weights for 1.5-2 hours. If you were working efficiently you wouldnt need to be there that long, and you wouldnt need 20 sets.

You also probably wouldn't like "people" that are in the gym for 7 days a week and work one body part a day either.

[stangin4lyfe]

that's not ADD, it's OCD

haha...thanks man and good catch!

[Silverback]

that's not ADD, it's OCD

[Beej]

What are people doing in a gym lifting weights for 1.5-2 hours. If you were working efficiently you wouldnt need to be there that long, and you wouldnt need 20 sets.

[stangin4lyfe]

Yeah, that's what it appeared to be, but IMO taking up 3 machines at atleast 2 min. a pop really is overkill.
As far as messing with the man with ADD, I will never understand that. If that was one of your family members and you saw people do this just to stroke their ego and get a laugh out of it, would you still think it's funny?
And the manager should comp the guy for cleaning up you and your buddy's intentional mess?

Overkill?
Sometimes I am on machines for as much as 10-12 sets, which in turn can take 20-30 mins for one machine or a superset of machines.
Like I said, I do share...but I too pay my membership fee's and have been for years and years and I continually go day in and day out and give it my all each and every time that I go!
So for what you might say is overkill, might just be the norm for others bro.
Also, hence why I go on my lunchbreak(to avoid others).


I actually was very nice to him and gave him spots any time he would ask me for help.
I would not mess up the weights on purpose, it was mainly my training partners messing with him once they saw him going to work(cleaning up other people's messes).
He has since stopped coming into the gym(I know he was battling cancer) and we actually called him and left him a message on his answering machine wishing him a Merry Christmas and that we were thinking about him.
If you knew me, you would know that I have a heart for elderly people.

[Ruffdaddy]

I superset alot as well but never say anything if someone walks up to my stuff except maybe asking if I can work in. I hate it when jerks think they own the gym and cloud several machines at once. If you want to control 2-3 pieces of equipment then buy your own gym. I don't care how big Or small you are. We all pay the same dues.

And for whatever reason...if you're not a natural lifter...I have a mental block as to treating you like the rest of us.

[Up0n0ne]

Yeah, that's what it appeared to be, but IMO taking up 3 machines at atleast 2 min. a pop really is overkill.
As far as messing with the man with ADD, I will never understand that. If that was one of your family members and you saw people do this just to stroke their ego and get a laugh out of it, would you still think it's funny?
And the manager should comp the guy for cleaning up you and your buddy's intentional mess?