Comments on: 5 Mistakes I Made When I Started Bodybuilding. Here’s What NOT To Do…

By: Mark McManus

Mark McManus — Tue, 14 Jul 2015 12:01:21 +0000

@Darshan. Yep. The only motivation those guys have is financial. People should just stay away from such publications.

By: Mark McManus

Mark McManus — Tue, 14 Jul 2015 12:00:27 +0000

@Kizhedath @Tina THANK YOU!

By: Mark McManus

Mark McManus — Tue, 14 Jul 2015 12:00:02 +0000

@Tasos. Wow, that gym guy is a weirdo. Keep doing what you’re doing 😀

By: Mark McManus

Mark McManus — Tue, 14 Jul 2015 11:58:20 +0000

@Yohann. Well I’m also so glad you found MuscleHack, buddy 😀

By: Darshan Weerasinghe

Darshan Weerasinghe — Tue, 14 Jul 2015 04:23:55 +0000

Biggest mistake I made…and I know I speak on behalf of millions of well intentioned lifters….reading Muscle and Fitness and Flex magazines. The garbage written by Joe Weider and his chemical ”champs” robbed me of 10 years of my life. Publications like this are evil beyond measure

By: tina

tina — Mon, 13 Jul 2015 22:50:29 +0000

Excellent article. I’ve been preaching all of this for years, long before I stumbled across your awesome website. Thanks for helping us attain our goals!

By: Kizhedath Suresh Kumar

Kizhedath Suresh Kumar — Mon, 13 Jul 2015 14:25:08 +0000

Thanks a lot. You are giving us so much information. Very useful.

By: Tasos

Tasos — Mon, 13 Jul 2015 13:56:00 +0000

Mark
first of all great thanks for sharing your knowledge with us selflessly. I was trying to be muscular since I was a teenager. I was listening to any muscle freak I met in the gym but without results. I have done everything in my life but without results. Now in my 40’s I realized that I have not done everything. The most important tool that I was missing for years is the ability to listen to my muscles during the movements. I was listening to the weights and not to my muscles. Now I am listening to my muscles and to my body. My body guides me about what to do what to keep what to reject how to do and how much. A gym dianabol freak at the gym told me that I have a “gay” body cause my body responds positively in methods which are abnormal for him. For example my muscles want me to move weights slowly and to stay for 5sec at the highest point of the movement where muscle contraction is maximum something abnormal for that guy. The weird thing for him is my body transformation with my abnormal methods 🙂 and that’s why he called my body “gay” and my advice to anyone when asked is listen to your muscles and to your body and to Mark McManus if you want.
Great thanks again Mark for your assistance.

Kind regards
Tasos from Greece

P. S. Your knowledge has been rejected as sissy methods by that gym dianabol freak when I gave him your links. These guys’ university kept me away from being muscular.

By: Yohann

Yohann — Mon, 13 Jul 2015 12:20:42 +0000

In 2010 when my journey started i had no clue about nutrition and the way it worked. I lost 80 pounds in 11 months doing 2 to 3 hours of cardio a day, barely lifting any weights and eating between 800 and 1500 calories a day, no macros counted, spending way too much on supplements. When i got down to a weight i wanted i told myself, i’m small enough now, let’s muscle up and i started reading on how to acheive muscle growth that’s how i found musclehack, and reading it was just a big facepalm for me…How much muscle did i loose in those 11 months, how much money and time did i loose, i was still fat, just weight less, was probably still around 25% BF (5’9 28yo 160 pound man, adds up to not that much muscle left!) Wich i had found musclehack before i started all this.

By: Paul

Paul — Mon, 13 Jul 2015 11:57:20 +0000

Man I also wish I had known about point 1. I’ve still got that fat gut and I find it hard to get rid of it 🙁