looking to learn from someone else like me.
I’d like to meet a successful bodybuilder that has similar genetics & background as me & learn from him. Every good bodybuilder I meet, is either much younger than me, or got started as a teen ager. Is there any successful bodybuilder that waited till he was in his 30’s to start w/out any prior athletic back ground ? I’m just wondering if my goals are just simply unattainable now.I was never an athlete, nor even lifted any weights till I was 25 & started going to a gym to lose my gut. I was intimidated by the power lifters so I didn’t do much in the weight room b/c I just felt stupid trying, but when no one was around, I’d hit the weights, but it wasn’t till 5 years later, that I learned that working out 2 or 3 times a week & having a fast food diet, will get you absolutely zero results. At the age of 30, I started to try to get it right, I followed all sorts of bad advice & spent the next 2 years spinning my wheels, until I finally found out how to get my body to grow lean muscle & keep it. I spent one year gaining about 6 lbs of lean muscle only to lose it all in 3 months by doing to much cardio & had to start all back over again. For the past decade I’ve continued to fail at this sport, but every time I get up, w/ another lesson learned on what doesn’t work for me.
Anyway… my goal now is to get as lean & shredded as possible, but I don’t want to risk losing solid muscle trying to do so….. So if you are anything like me, chances are whatever worked for you, could work for me to. I’m open to suggestions.
December 18, 2008 at 2:29 pm
are you eating clean now? If your diet is good, and you are building muscle that is most of the battle. most bodybuilders, men especially seem to carry a lot of extra weight when they are not competing, and only lean out for comp time. are you getting close to a competition?
December 18, 2008 at 2:40 pm
Yes, my diet now is clean for the most part, you know your basics, lean meat, egg whites, oatmeal, etc… , but there is a competition in March that I want to do. It will be my first one. I’m not going to do it, unless I know I have what the judges want to see & my biggest problem has always been leaning out w/ out losing all the muscle. There has to be a perfect balance of carbs & cardio, that I haven’t figured out yet.
thanks for responding to my blog, smorgan.